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

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

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has won the International Booker Prize, the first collection of short fiction to do so.

Kannada writer, lawyer, and activist Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi on Wednesday scripted history by winning the ...

Banu Mushtaq wins the International Booker for 'Heart Lamp', marking a first for Kannada literature with stories that ...

Heart Lamp won the International Booker Prize, making Mushtaq the first Kannada writer to receive this honour.

It is the first time that the award has been given to a collection of short stories. "Heart Lamp" is the first book written ...

The stories portray Muslim women’s griefs and sanities, their material and immaterial assets and threats, and the ...

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Wins International Booker Prize 2025. In a time of homogenising narratives, Banu’s Heart Lamp glows quietly, reminding us that the most profound stories often come ...

Now, when schadenfreude is the commonest mode of wishful thinking — yaniki, our yearnings are dedicated to the failures of ...

In the pre-dawn hours, while most of India lay asleep, a quiet yet profound history was being made on the global stage. At ...