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Muslim women protest against the hijab ban in Karnataka colleges in 2022. Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-winning short-story collection Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, offers a rare and unflinching look at the lives of Muslim women in Kannada society.
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The roots of Banu Mushtaq’s literary rebellion
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Meghna Rao
Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker-winning ‘Heart Lamp’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, marks many historic firsts for Kannada literature and offers an unflinching look at Muslim women’s lives in Karna ...
Virginia Woolf’s influence is not simply literary, it is architectural, foundational to modernism as we know it. But it is no small thing to have a white, upper-class Englishwoman as the voice in your head when you are a brown, middle-class girl in Karachi.
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Coming of age with Mrs Dalloway in Karachi
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Zehra Khan
A century on from the publication of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’, a young writer recounts how Clarissa Dalloway’s famous walk has spanned London and Karachi, and continues evermore
Graphic of Polayers Slave Caste
Culture
The forgotten history of caste slavery
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Sreyartha Krishna
How one Dalit woman's courage in 1841 challenged a centuries-old system of caste-based slavery and hastened the promise of freedom for millions
Two men grip the hump of a bull at a Jallikattu event, a bull-taming sport in Tamil Nadu. The background shows the ground of churned-up brown dirt. The men display intense focus and physical effort as they hold onto the charging bull, which is covered in patches of coloured powder.
Culture
Jallikattu, caste, and the pitfalls of adapting the Tamil classic ‘Vaadivaasal’
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Ashik Kahina
Perumal Murugan and Appupen’s graphic adaptation of C S Chellappa’s novella ‘Vaadivaasal’ fails to capture the essence of the original when trying to bring it to a new generation shaped in part by the ...
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