01367    a2200145   4500008004100000020001800041100001700059245003400076260003300110300001100143520098500154650001201139650002101151650004901172250722b        ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d  a9780143464471  aBanu Mushtaq  aHeart lampb:Selected stories  aHaryana: bPenguin, c2025.   a216p.   aIn Heart Lamp In 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 years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it 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 most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.  aFiction  aSelected stories  aBhasthi, Deepa - Transalted from the Kannada