Why the BJP Govt – Usually Keen to Laud Indians' Feats – Is Silent on Shree's Booker Win https://thewire.in/politics/geetanjali-shree-booker-bjp-government The reason for this studied lack of response from the political dispensation is not hard to find. Shree, whose work on Premchand is well known, comes from a tradition of Hindi-Urdu progressive writers who have enriched the literary discourse for the last hundred years. Issues of partition, patriarchy and communalism that are so delicately yet sharply dealt with in her novels, bring her work