International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq, renowned for capturing the lives of Indian women, views writing as essential as breathing. Her award-winning Kannada collection 'Heart Lamp' showcases ...

Over three decades spent chronicling the everyday lives of women in India, International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq ...

Inspired by encounters with women who came to her for help, each of Mushtaq’s stories introduces us to a different woman from a different family. What the women of Heart Lamp share is that their lives ...

whose collection of stories Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has found a place in the long list for the International Booker Prize, 2025. Heart Lamp is one among the 13 books chosen by the ...

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And this is what makes the award of the Booker Prize last week to Banu Mushtaq so important. Her collection of short stories ...

Players adopt the persona of Glaswegian electrician Cameron “Caz” McCleary. It’s Christmas and he’s dodging the police and an angry wife after a bar fight. To top it off he’s just been fired by the ...