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Detailed explanation-1: -Jharkhand girl Kritika Pandey, a Pushcart-nominated writer and a graduate of the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, brought pride for every literature lover by winning the overall 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story The Great Indian Tee and Snakes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kritika Pandey was announced as the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is a story of forbidden, ill-fated love set in small-town India. It is also a bildungsroman of sorts; a young girl’s sudden moral awakening, when confronted with the reality of her country’s politics. In either case, the story will take you through a roller-coaster of emotions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Eswatini writer Ntsika Kota has been named the overall winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘and the earth drank deep’. Kota’s story centres on a group of villagers in a hunter-gatherer society in the distant past of our species.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2, 000–5, 000 words). Regional winners each receive £2, 500 and the overall winner receives £5, 000.