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028			_a: Savera Book Distributors _b: 4754, Akarshan Bhawan, 23, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: INV/26-27/0267 _d: 16/06/2026
082			_a894.81 MUS
100			_aMushtaq, Banu.
245			_aHeart Lamp _b: Selected Stories. _c/Banu Mushtaq.
260			_aNew Delhi _b : Penguin Books _c, 2025.
300			_a216p. _c: 18cm.
365			_b279
520			_aIn Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.
650			_aStories
650			_aSelected Stories
650			_a Heart Lamp
700			_aBanu Mushtaq.
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