BOOK REVIEW: Heart Lamp (Selected Stories)
By Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. Published by And Other Stories (UK), Penguin Random House India (India). India: Paperback/Hardback, 224 pp, INR ₹399 (paperback, Penguin India)
By: Majid Maqbool
Indian writer, activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq’s short story collection Heart Lamp brings together 12 selected stories that explore the everyday lives and struggles of women and girls in the Muslim communities of southern India, particularly from her home state of Karnataka, and which recently made history by becoming the first short s…
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