Insects are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manikavel mythology Longlisted for The Women’s prize

Longlisted for The Women’s prize for Fiction 2023

and of the struggle to live morally in the intersecting spaces of our internal and external worlds

Ratnakaye will undoubtedly inspire Sri Lankans and other South Asians to consider this profession through her candid presentation of the challenges and rewards of pursuing a career in wildlife research

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And what will our world be like in the millennia to come

Insects are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manikavel mythology Longlisted for The Women’s prizeA centipede in a shoe, revelations in a shoebox, nosebleeds, exploding women, and a dead mouse named Miraculous populate this collection of thirty five short stories from one of India's most original young writers.