Consider the following statements about the book 'Being Indian' by Pavan K. Varma: 1) The book won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for exploring Indian identity and culture. 2) It received the Sahitya Akademi Award for its contributions to Indian English poetry. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Only statement 1 is correct
Statement 1: Pavan K. Varma's Being Indian: The Truth about why the Twenty-first Century Will be India's (2004) is a non-fiction work analysing Indian identity, culture and national psyche. It was honoured with the Crossword Book Award (later branded the Vodafone Crossword Book Award) in the non-fiction category. ✓
Statement 2: The book is a work of non-fiction prose, not poetry, and it was not awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Indian English poetry. ✗
Hence only statement 1 is correct.
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