• There is a front yard and back yard in humans’ lives, Banu Mushtaq added an inner courtyard to the same through her writings.
Banu Mushtaq-
• Patriarchy and politics borrow their powers from religion in order to exploit relations.
• During 1970-80s, there were groups including dalits, women, adivasis, muslims who were emerged and registered their voices through literature as writing became one such medium for them.
• I consider following reasons behind people loving these stories and my writings in particular:
- Emphasis given on my personal experiences.
- Gender.
- Incorporation of socio-cultural context.
- Inculcating my own language in other script as I used vernacular terminologies.
• There was a conscious attempt to divide people in religious lines but I would like to pose a question for Muslims elites that how much they have tried to fill these gaps between these two sections.
Banu Mushtaq is an Indian Kannada-language writer and won the International Booker Prize in 2025 for her book Heart Lamp, a collection of stories translated by Deepa Bhasthi.
Arfa Khanum Sherwani is an Indian journalist and the senior editor of The Wire.
The program was conducted by The Wire in collaboration with the Midland Books on 19-07-2025.
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