
International Booker Prize 2025: How Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp insists on dignity, witness and repair
On the day Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi win the 2025 International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp (Penguin), the first Kannada book and only the second Indian literary work to win the award, the Supreme Court of India spends over three hours hearing the …