Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq highlights stories of resistance and resilience

The discussion, moderated by Dr. Chitta Raghavan and bearing the title ‘Women’s Lives, Identity and Resistance’, centred on Mushtaq’s role as an author, legal professional, and campaigner originating from Karnataka, India. She observed, ‘Through my identities only I have been recognised,’ further stating, ‘As a Muslim woman writer of Kannada, as an advocate, as a social activist, as a journalist. All these roles have a common thread: they are pro-people.’