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 ...

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

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 ...

Joy in India as writer Banu Mushtaq wins a major literary award for her short stories that she wrote over 3 decades in a regional language.

Bengaluru: Eminent Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq, who spread the fragrance of Kannada literature at international arena, with ...

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For three decades at Columbia Journalism School, Sam Freedman has encouraged students to try long-form narratives. His brand ...

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 ...