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Vedanthangal was the Asia winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2006. She won a Charles Wallace Trust of India (CWIT) fellowship to the Royal Court Theatre's International Playwrights Programme in 2000. She was the CWIT Writing Fellow at the University of
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in London in 2007. It was revived at the Royal Court's main theatre in Summer 2008 and travelled to the
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