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UR Ananthamurthy: Who are the nude worshippers of Chandragutti? What do they tell us about faith?

An excerpt from ‘The Essential UR Ananthamurthy’, edited by N Manu Chakravarthy and Chandan Gowda.

UR Ananthamurthy
· May 17, 2023 · 09:15 am
UR Ananthamurthy’s seminal political novel ‘Avasthe’ is out in English translation at the right time

As a prime minister threatens to turn into a dictator, a revolutionary peasant leader looks back from his deathbed in this 1978 Kannada novel.

UR Ananthamurthy
· Dec 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm
When UR Ananthamurthy said: ‘Kannada can produce a Bertrand Russell, the language is good enough’

An excerpt from ‘A Life In The World: UR Ananthamurthy in conversation with Chandan Gowda’.

UR Ananthamurthy
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Chandan Gowda
· Dec 10, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘No play in Kannada comparable to Tughlaq’: UR Ananthamurthy on Girish Karnad’s masterpiece

The famous writer and scholar wrote an introduction to the English translation of the play – by Karnad himself – in 1971.

UR Ananthamurthy
· Jun 10, 2019 · 05:30 pm
‘We must experience intellectual suffering’: What UR Ananthamurthy wanted for himself and his peers

The legendary writer’s autobiography is now available in a new English translation.

UR Ananthamurthy
· Jan 23, 2018 · 08:30 am
Godse’s final speech should be compared with Modi’s fervent words of patriotism: UR Ananthamurthy

In his final book, a manifesto, one of India’s finest writers presents Gandhi’s ‘Hind Swaraj’ as the antidote to ‘Savarkar’s Hindutva’.

UR Ananthamurthy
· Apr 18, 2016 · 08:30 am

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UR Ananthamurthy: Who are the nude worshippers of Chandragutti? What do they tell us about faith?

An excerpt from ‘The Essential UR Ananthamurthy’, edited by N Manu Chakravarthy and Chandan Gowda.

UR Ananthamurthy · May 17, 2023 · 09:15 am

UR Ananthamurthy’s seminal political novel ‘Avasthe’ is out in English translation at the right time

As a prime minister threatens to turn into a dictator, a revolutionary peasant leader looks back from his deathbed in this 1978 Kannada novel.

UR Ananthamurthy · Dec 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

When UR Ananthamurthy said: ‘Kannada can produce a Bertrand Russell, the language is good enough’

An excerpt from ‘A Life In The World: UR Ananthamurthy in conversation with Chandan Gowda’.

UR Ananthamurthy & Chandan Gowda · Dec 10, 2019 · 08:30 am

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‘No play in Kannada comparable to Tughlaq’: UR Ananthamurthy on Girish Karnad’s masterpiece

The famous writer and scholar wrote an introduction to the English translation of the play – by Karnad himself – in 1971.

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The legendary writer’s autobiography is now available in a new English translation.

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Godse’s final speech should be compared with Modi’s fervent words of patriotism: UR Ananthamurthy

In his final book, a manifesto, one of India’s finest writers presents Gandhi’s ‘Hind Swaraj’ as the antidote to ‘Savarkar’s Hindutva’.

UR Ananthamurthy · Apr 18, 2016 · 08:30 am

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