Nikita Kalra

On May 21st, author Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, a collection of twelve short stories, originally written in Kannada and later translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, won the coveted International Booker Prize, becoming the first ever Kannada book to do so. It came as a rebuke to India’s literary establishment.

Ashoka alum Nayantara Violet Alva’s (UG’19) debut novel, Liberal Hearts has already become a topic of conversation at Ashoka University.