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Heart Lamp : Short stories by Banu Mushtaq WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the 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 at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious lit...

Collage Poetry PARENT'S HOUSE* By Khalil Gibran It's the only house where you can go to dozens of times without an invitation. The only house where you can put the key in the door and enter directly. The house that has loving eyes that stare at the door until they see you. The house which reminds you of your carefree days, stability and your happiness during your childhood. The house in which your presence and look at your mother’s and father’s faces are for you a bliss and your conversation with them is a reward. The house that if you do not go, the hearts of its owners will shrink. The house in which two candles were burnt to light up the world and fill your life with happiness and joy. The house where the dining table is pure for you and has no hypocrisy. The house that if the food time arrives and you don't eat, the hearts of its owners will be broken and annoyed. The house that offers you all the laughs and happiness. Oh Children, find out the value of the...

Book on my table The book on my table brought out by The Hindu Group in March 2025, priced Rs99 is a compilation of articles by experts from multiple countries, including some who have worked with or for USAID, claims to bring readers a unique glimpse into the role of this development organisation and illuminates why the act of crippling USAID will potentially impact millions of vulnerable individuals worldwide. US has come a long way from Kennedy days (when USAID was established) to the present day. The brief 12 articles in 64 pages could become the background notes for future research of a nation which was led by Lincoln to Obama. Warning signals are seldom noticed.

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On May Day, 2025 Friends This brief midweek edition is to recognise the significance of May Day and also to honour those torchbearers who keep the memories of sacrifices that have gone into the evolution of several rights we are enjoying. With Greetings M G Warrier A May Day 2025 https://news24online.com/trending/labour-day-2025-surprising-facts-and-hidden-history-you-probably-didnt-know/546971/ International Labour Day, also called International Worker’s Day. It’s a day to thank and honour workers for their hard work in all kinds of jobs. B Miles to go https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/29/chicago-may-day-rally-planned-trump-ramps-attacks-immigrants-sanctuary-cities#:~:text=May%201%20has%20come%20to,for%20an%20eight%2Dhour%20workday. Report from US May 1 has come to be known as International Workers’ Day and has strong ties to Chicago, where the first-ever May Day event was held in 1886 with thousands of workers protesting for an eight-...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, April 27, 2025 UPODGHATHAM https://youtu.be/Fnr9gif5xXY?si=wjbKdvo6pjJrI6ur NO ONE Could STOP CRYING: 98 YEAR OLD HIROSHIMA SURVIVORS VIOLIN & PIANO DUET SHATTERS EVERYONE He thought she had died. She thought he was gone forever. But after nearly 75 years apart, two survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing — Takeshi Nakamura (94) and Yuriko Sato (93) — reunite to finish the song they wrote together as teenagers, moments before the world around them was torn apart. This is not just a musical performance. It is a living memory — a lullaby for the children who never grew up, a final note for the love that was silenced by war, and a powerful prayer for peace. Their hands may tremble, but their hearts still remember every note, every word left unspoken. A Collage Editorial Friends "There's an old saying* which roughly means : Before doing anything, consider the positive and negative impacts, if you go ahead and t...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, April 20, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during the week ending Saturday April 26, 2025. Social media sources are overflowing with advice and suggestions about how you should live your life ❤️. I'm aware of the futility of adding to that by sharing links like the one below at A. In a way, as I said recently, many of us keep our thoughts to ourselves 🙏. We need not research for text book solutions to all our problems. But there is a need to interact and share. We may not be able to follow scriptures the way earlier generations did. But, by sharing thoughts, some new doors may open. M G Warrier A Oprah Winfrey Let go & take rest https://youtu.be/E7i5wcfT9x8?si=-JRS2HnWwKVkj4Gb B https://api-esp.piano.io/-c/585/26078/416717/10445058/882581/dcfaea85924a6ed749fb3bb49583c048/5891/289801944?attrs=0&order=0 The Hindu Frontline shared the above link with me. Hope this opens for you. Rememb...