Women’s writing in Kannada has not received the recognition it deserves. Even most of the notable awards at the national ...

The renowned writer was honoured with the 58th Jnanpith award for the year 2023 at a warm, informal ceremony at his Pali hill ...

The first Kannada author to win the award, Mushtaq shares the honour and the £50,000 prize money with Bhasthi, the first ever ...

Multilingual Reach: While primarily writing in Kannada, her works have been translated into Urdu, Hindi ... Beyond translation, Bhasthi’s essays and cultural critiques have been featured ...

Banu Mushtaq, 77, becomes the first Kannada writer to win the International Booker Prize for her collection "Heart Lamp," showcasing Muslim women's lives.

an essay collection, and a poetry collection. Her journey began in a small Muslim neighborhood in Karnataka. Like many girls around her, she initially studied the Quran in Urdu. However, her father, a ...

The day is observed under Islamabad’s tutelage every year on February 5. It is usually centred in Islamabad, Pakistan’s ...

Listen to Cristín Leach's audio essay Dic a Door Dac, for Keywords Audio essays can be one of the most personal modes for creative non-fiction. The broadcast of Windows and Anchors, which I wrote ...

Author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi on ‘Heart Lamp’, the first short-story collection to win the award ...

Swami Sitaramananda. This Satsang was filmed during the Thanksgiving Yoga Psychology Symposium 2012 at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm in Grass Valley CA The reading is from Swami ...

The strangest thing about writing a series character for twenty years, is that you have to write about the same bloody person, FOR TWENTY YEARS! This is not easy. But publishers and readers love a ...