Here is a tribute to the great U.R. Ananthamurthy who died recently. It is by Suketu Mehta, the author of the best selling Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. But wait a miinute. Before you read Suketu, let me get in my twenty five paisa worth. Anathamurthy faced opprobrium when he said that he would leave India if Narendra Modi were to come to power; he later said that it was said more out of emotion than anything else, but the damage had been done. URN shot to fame when his magnum opus Samskara, which was made into a film in 1970 went on to win the National Award for the Best Feature Film. I have just ordered the book (translation by no less a person than AK Ramanujan) which is available in Amazon for a measly Rs 200. Whatever little I have read ABOUT the book gives me to understand that Samskara is a searing analysis of the iniquity of the caste system in the Hindu society. The book was written even earlier, in 1965 when he was doing his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham - he was there on a Commonwealth Scholarship. He was a man who was richly honored in his lifetime - he got the highest literary award in India, the Jnanpith in 1994 and the Padma Bhushan in 1998. He was not only a towering literary figure, but also a public intellectual. He was a man who did not fear to speak his mind. Now read on.... scroll.in/article/675713/Kannada-writer-Ananthamurthy-loved-whiskey-and-a-good-argument
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 07:30:56 +0000
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