The International Booker Prize win for Heart Lamp, a collection of short stories that Banu Mushtaq wrote in Kannada and Deepa Bhasthi translated into English, seems to have unleashed in the Kannada ...

Some ‘good’ translations tell the stories effectively – the plot, structure, who the characters were, what they felt, what they did. Some flow and glide, whisper within you and sing songs of the times ...