Shortlisted books (2018-2023)

Amrita Sher-Gil: Rebel with a Paintbrush

The Dwarf, the Girl and the Holy Goat

The Curious Case of the Sweet and Spicy Sweetshop

The Cloudfarers

Painters Potters Cooks and Kings | NBA Honour

Jwala Kumar and the Gift of Fire: Adventures in Champak Bagh

Ahimsa 🏆

When Jiya Met Urmila 🏆

The Ammuchi Puchi | NBA Honour

The Adventures of Mooli and the Bully on Wheels

The Adventures of Tootsie and Lama

Petu Pumpkin Cheater Peter

Flying with Grandpa

Thukpa for All

The Tale of Babban Hajjam

The Clever Tailor

Sera Learns to Fly

Sadiq Wants to Stitch | NBA Honour

Neel on Wheels

Red

Machher Jhol 🏆

I Need to Pee

A Match Made in Mehendi

The Prince 🏆

The Lies We Tell

Being Gandhi

Grit: The Major Story

The Rise of the Midnight King

Nadya

Flyaway Boy

All of Me 🏆

Unlucky Chumki

Srinivasa Ramanujan: Friend of Numbers 🏆

The Girl Who Ironed Her Hair and Other Stories

Rattu and Poorie’s Adventures in History

Letters to Ammi

Hungry To Play

The Gular Flower

The Mountains of Mumbai 🏆

Lost and Found in a Mumbai Koliwada