"I'm excited about getting on the Dylan Thomas long list. I think it a prize that is simply cool because it’s targeted at YOUNG writers from around the world," said Indian poet, author, and outspoken activist Meena Kandasamy, when we congratulated her about her Gypsy Goddess making it the prestigious list.

We wondered if this was the right to occasion to bring up her recent scrimmage with fellow writer Chetan Bhagat, against whom she’s been heard to vent recently’ ‘I just was very upset with what he said about Gaza. To simply reduce the Palestinian people into terrorists, to say that Israel’s actions are justified, all this is really repugnant.