'Politicians must take pledges seriously or face voter backlash': Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut at Shillong Lit Fest

By Raymond Kharmujai Shillong, Nov 12 (UNI) Acclaimed South African author and Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut on Thursday said that while citizens largely accept that politicians break their word, certain unfulfilled pledges have a disastrous impact on people. Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the sixth Shillong Literary Festival, Galgut, who won the Booker Prize for his novel The Promise, noted that politicians worldwide often make extravagant pledges that are so hard to believe that voters soon realise they are unrealistic. "Politicians throw out those cheap promises all the time and they break those promises all the…