Key Highlights
- The recognition has given a global platform to Mushtaq’s powerful and humane prose.
- The stories describe with warmth and humanity the everyday lives of Muslim women in south Karnataka.
- The language is colloquial and full of feeling, containing desire, ambition, the joys and sorrows of children, the implacable force of family.
- While rooted in its specific social setting, Mushtaq’s writing is universal and speaks against injustice.
- Fiction is only one dimension of her commitment to positive social change.
