She was speaking at a programme held at Gandhi Bhavan in Bengaluru. This was her first programme after she returned from London, where her short story collection ‘Heart Lamp’ won the International ...

Hakhdaar tarse toh angaar ka nuuh barse…” ...

Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, winning the 2025 International Booker Prize — the first ever for a Kannada work, marks the ...

In an age of influencers, Mushtaq’s quiet stories reclaim literature’s moral ground ...