Winner of the International Booker Prize 2025, *Heart Lamp* by *Banu Mushtaq* exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to *Mushtaq*'s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women's rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.
Written in a style that is at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving, and e