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Saturday, April 4, 2026
TopicInternational Booker Prize

Topic: International Booker Prize

Tamil roots drew Booker longlister Padma Viswanathan to Brazilian literature

Padma Viswanathan’s debut novel, The Toss of a Lemon, was inspired by her family’s Brahmin history in South India. It was a bestseller in India.

‘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.

Event to honour Booker winner Geetanjali Shree cancelled after complaint over ‘offensive’ book

A complaint was registered by Hathras resident Sandeep Kumar Pathak against Shree alleging that her book 'Ret Samadhi' contains objectionable depictions of deities Shiva & Parvati.

On Camera

This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.