M.S. Bhatia

M. S. Bhatia lives in Australia. "Bitter Water Village" is his first serious venture to enter a short story for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, having abandoned five previous attempts. "When the grass was white" is a short story long-listed and subsequently published in Jump (Hawkeye Publishing, Sydney, 2022). He is a former academic and educator, and head of research at AsiaRisk, an economics consultancy. He has written for various media on political-economy. He immerses in good literary fiction and non-fiction, especially from non-Western countries, and protects his solitude.