It is indeed a high moment for Kannada and Karnataka: Kannada literature finds itself on the global literary map, thanks to the labour of two women. Banu Mushtaq, a senior Kannada writer, has been ...
The stories that you get to read in Heart Lamp are from six different collections of Banu’s short stories in Kannada. They span a period of 33 years, starting from 1990 and going up to 2023. Her first ...
CHENNAI -- Global interest in literature written in Kannada and other Indian regional languages is likely to rise significantly following this year's International Booker Prize win for the English ...
Bengaluru: Making literary history, Hassan-based Kannada author Banu Mushtaq has won the International Booker Prize 2025 for her groundbreaking short story collection Heart Lamp (Hridaya Vilakku), ...
Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-winning short story collection Heart Lamp is littered with a gamut of affecting objects and people: callous husbands, self-serving mutawallis, loving children ...
With reference to the report Historian's study pushes earliest record of Kannada writing back by a century (March 10, BM). the unearthing of an inscription at Tagarthi in Shimoga district dating back ...
The wealth that is Kannada that is the meaning of the word '˜Sirigannada'. And it's the title of an anthology of contemporary Kannada writing in translation, edited by Vivek Shanbag (Tranquebar 2010).