Legal scholar Gautam Bhatia has won the Infosys Prize 2026 in Humanities and Social Sciences. A National Law School graduate who studied at Oxford and Yale, he has written five books on Indian law. “No, no, no,” says Gautam Bhatia. “That would be a disaster.” I’ve just asked him whether the futuristic city of Peruma in his new novel The Sentence (Westland) is a riff on Gurugram.