In mainstream Indian literature, Muslim women are often flattened into metaphors — silent sufferers or tropes in someone else ...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, Banu Mushtaq’s collection of short stories is full of dark humour and ...

Kannada author Banu Mushtaq, shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize, reflects on 50+ years of writing about ...

Heart Lamp' by Banu Mushtaq becomes the first Kannada book to be shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize, a ...

Heart Lamp by Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq, translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, has been shortlisted for the GBP 50,000 ...

Banu Mushtaq's short story collection, "Heart Lamp," translated from Kannada, has been shortlisted for the 2025 International ...

‘Heart Lamp’ by Banu Mushtaq brings 12 thought-provoking short stories over three decades, from 1990 to 2023.

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An interview with Deepa Bhasthi, whose translation of Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’ is the first Kannada – and second Indian – ...

An anthology of short stories exploring the everyday lives of women in Muslim communities in Southern India has been ...

LONDON: Karnataka-based writer, activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq’s short story collection ‘Heart Lamp’, translated from ...

Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer from Karnataka. 'Heart Lamp' is a collection of 12 short stories depicting the ...