Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp wins International Booker Prize, showcasing the power of Kannada literature through translation.

Banu Mushtaq's Haseena Mattu Itara Kathegalu, an anthology in Kannada, was unknown to Indians, let alone readers across the ...

The stories in Heart Lamp are tight, clean and elegant. They manifest Mushtaq’s talent as a writer. The name, Heart Lamp, is also symbolic. It otherwise means a heart-shaped lamp used as a decorative ...

It’s a riposte to colonisation, where the coloniser’s language is owned and transformed by those from a former colony to win ...

Deepa Bhasthi, the winner of the prestigious International Booker Prize 2025, has etched her name in the books of literary ...

Kannada book 'Haseena Mattu Itara Kathegalu' by Banu Mushtaq sells out after winning International Booker Prize.

Lawyer Banu Mushtaq, from Karnataka (India), is the first to win this award. Her short story collection Heart Lamp is ...

From Leonora Carrington’s surreal ageing heroine to Banu Mushtaq’s bold feminist stories, two women writers defy patriarchy ...

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In his column in The New Indian Express, Anand Neelakantan critiques the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) for its limited success ...

While there were several women who were inspired by the literary and political landscape of the ’80s, Banu remains one of the ...