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Monday, January 5, 2026
TopicInternational Booker Prize

Topic: International Booker Prize

‘Pride of Karnataka’ no longer? Why Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq is in the eye of a storm

Bengaluru: When Banu Mushtaq won the 2025 Booker Prize, there was a barrage of congratulatory messages from all sections of Kannadigas. She was referred...

‘I want to tell all the women—don’t give up. Life’s bigger than today,’ says Banu Mushtaq

At a conversation hosted by IIC in New Delhi, Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi reflected on the power of language, resistance, and storytelling rooted in lived experience.

Banu Mushtaq was told to wear burqa, do chores. Her ‘Heart Lamp’ has now won International Booker

Heart Lamp’s win further cements the space that non-English Indian literature is carving out for itself on the global stage, coming soon after Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand.

British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story ‘Orbital’

Judges praised the ‘intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world’ in the novel, which the author wrote while stuck at home during the pandemic.

On Camera

Trump is tying his legacy to whatever happens in Venezuela

A bad turn in Venezuela would raise the same questions that have dogged the unlawful US strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean: Why now, and why at all?

Trump threatens India with fresh tariffs on Russian oil, calls PM Modi a ‘good guy’

The latest comment comes as New Delhi and Washington have yet to sign a trade agreement. India’s purchase of Russian oil has reduced, but Moscow remains top source for crude.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.