"Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones" is an Indian poem by the Indian English writer and translator Shahnaz Habib.
The poem won First Prize in the Ninth All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 2000.
[1] The poem has received critical acclaim since its first publication in 2000 in the book Emerging Voices[2] and has since been widely anthologised.
[3] The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English poetry.
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