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‘The inner emotions of legal practice serve as raw, real-life material for my writing’: Banu Mushtaq
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scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
Banu Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in Karnataka in the 1970s and 1980s. The Bandaya Sahitya movement gave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women. In her long literary career, Mushtaq has published six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection.
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1 week ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
“Shouldn’t his capacity for love, which was the essence of Christ’s gospel, have earned him a modicum of credit with god?”What does god have to do with a person’s capacity for love? Everything, suggests Jonathan Franzen in his 2021 novel Crossroads. It is not always devotion that opens up a believer’s heart to love, but also the fear of god’s anger and damnation. It concocts a curious mix where base desires are pitted against the higher, nobler expectations of faith.
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1 week ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
I was introduced to Bhavika Govil’s fiction in 2022 through the short story “Eggs Keep Falling from the Fourth Floor” in A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers (published by Aleph Book Company). Back then, I had called it a “marvellous portrait of a deeply disturbed brain that forces the reader to confront the stigmas attached to mental health in our society.” It indeed was.
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2 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
“If I’d told them that I was writing stories and dreamt of becoming a writer, they would doubtless have thought, I have a screw loose. And if I’d told them about my romance with a divorcée, who was not my mistress but my sweetheart, my enamorada, they would have taken me a cojudo a la vela – an ass under full sail.”Eighteen-year-old Mario’s life is anchored by two desires – to become a writer and to be taken seriously as his 32-year-old Aunt Julia’s romantic partner.
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2 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
Devangana Dash is a book designer, art director and educator, and the most recent winner of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. She won the prize for designing Conversations with Aurangzeb, written by Charu Nivedita and translated from the Tamil by Nandini Krishnan.
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