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

Banu Mushtaq is an Indian writer, women's rights activist and lawyer from Karnataka. The 77-year-old International Booker ...

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

Mushtaq's work appealed to the judges for its witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating style of capturing portraits ...

Banu Mushtaq's short story collection Hridaya Deepa (Heart Lamp) bagged the £50,000 award at a ceremony held at London’s Tate ...

Through 12 short stories published over three decades, the writer portrays the pain and suffering of Muslim women in south ...

Based in Kodagu, Karnataka, Deepa Bhasthi is a writer, essayist, and translator. Her previous work includes translations of Kota Shivarama Karanth and Kodagina Gouramma. With Heart Lamp, she curated ...

The Kannadiga literary sphere, which is celebrating Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi, hopes the International Booker Prize win ...

The paper Akari lamps by Japanese-American designer Isamu Noguchi have become modern classics that work in many different settings and interiors, as seen in our latest lookbook. Although first ...

Banu Mushtaq, a trailblazing writer, lawyer and activist from Karnataka, has become the first Kannada author to win the ...

Writer, activist, and lawyer Banu Mushtaq has won the prestigious International Booker Prize 2025 for her short story collection Heart Lamp, the first-ever Kann ...