The results of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 9

The results of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 9 are out. It is Teriya Magar who has taken home the trophy. The lovely teenager from Nepal defeated the likes of Salman Yusuff Khan and Shantanu Maheshwari to win this season. Teriya has won Dance India Dance before and had been putting in spectacular

performances since last few weeks. The girl is a master in modern dance forms and entered the show with the likes of Swasti Nitya, Spandan Chaturvedi and Gracy Goswami. Like Faisal Khan, Teriya is also a junior champion dancer. It really seems like Jhalak is no more the journey from a non-dancer to a dancer.The Jhalak prize was announced in February after the 2015 Writing the Future report found that the best chance of publication for writers of colour was to write literary fiction conforming to a stereotypical view of their communities, addressing topics such as “racism, colonialism or postcolonialism, as if these were the primary concerns of all BAME people”. At the time, the co-founder of the prize, the author Nikesh Shukla, said that “a perfect loop-de-loop of blame” existed in the industry, where publishers blamed agents for the lack of diversity, while agents blamed a lack of available talent and writers blamed publishers. Singh expects they will receive one or two dozen more by the time submissions close at the end of November, but said she is disappointed with the overall figure so far, and that the bulk of entries had come from independent and small presses. She estimated that 70% of submissions had come from small publishers such as Profile and Hope Road. -

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