It was on the bluish screen of a smartphone over an internet video call to her home in Rome that author Jhumpa Lahiri accepted the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature here on Day Two of the Jaipur Literature festival at Diggi Palace.
The Lowland won the award over a formidable line-up of short listed authors – noted Indian Urdu critic and writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (The Mirror of Beauty), Pakistani author Bilal Tanweer (The Scatter Here is Too Great), British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie (A God in Every Stone) and Sri Lankan author Romesh Gunesekera (Noontide Toll).

From Rome with love: Actor Dalip Tahil, holds the mike for Jhumpa Lahiri as she spoke about her book to the audience at Jaipur Literature Festival