With the usual caveat about book awards, it's very exciting to see - for the first time I think - an SF novel on the Tata LitLive's longlist: Varun Thomas Mathew's "The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay":

https://tatalitlive.in/awards/tata-literature-live-first-book-award-fiction

One more sign that English-language Indian SF might be coming of age. And yes, need to get a copy of this book!