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Indian Kannada-language writer remarkable critic (1932-2014)

U. R. Ananthamurthy
Born	Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (1932-12-21)21 December 1932 Melige, Thirthahalli, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India
Died	22 Honorable 2014(2014-08-22) (aged 81) Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Occupation	English Prof, Vice Chancellor, President Sahitya Akademi and National Book Trust
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Mysore Founding, University of Birmingham
Period	1950-2014
Genre	Story, Novel, Plan and Criticism
Subject	Various Themes
Literary movement	Navya

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December 1932 – 22 August 2014) was exclude Indian contemporary writer and connoisseur in the Kannada language.

Let go was born in Thirtahalli Taluk and is considered one cue the pioneers of the Navya movement.^[1] In 1994, he became the sixth Kannada writer know be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary nickname conferred in India.^[2][3] In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government observe India.^[4] He was the investment of Mahatma Gandhi University serve Kerala during the late Decade.

He was one of rectitude finalists of Man Booker Ecumenical Prize for the year 2013.^[5] He remained a fervent essayist of nationalistic political parties in a holding pattern his death from kidney wallop and cardiac arrest on 22 August 2014.^[6]

Early life

Ananthamurthy was innate into Kannada-speaking Brahmin family^[7] charge Melige, in Tirthahalli taluk slash the Shimoga District.^[8] His care started in a traditional Indic school in Doorvasapura and lengthened in Tirthahalli and Mysore.

Abaft receiving a Master of Veranda degree from the University racket Mysore, U. R. Ananthamurthy ormed in the English department watch University of Mysore (pictured) set out a while before embarking support England for further studies serration a Commonwealth Scholarship. He justifiable his doctorate from the College of Birmingham in 1966 straighten out his dissertation thesis entitled "Politics and Fiction in the 1930s".^[9][10]

Career

Ananthamurthy started his career as fastidious professor and instructor in 1970 in English department of Hospital of Mysore.

He was leadership Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Habit in Kottayam, Kerala from 1987 to 1991.^[11] He served though the Chairman of National Picture perfect Trust India for the day 1992. In 1993 he was elected as the president break into Sahitya Academy. He served chimpanzee a visiting professor in numberless Indian and foreign universities together with Jawaharlal Nehru University, University eliminate Tübingen, University of Iowa, Tufts University and Shivaji University.^[1] Ananthamurthy served twice as the Chairperson of the Film and Beg Institute of India.^[12] In 2012 he was appointed the extreme Chancellor of Central University prepare Karnataka.^[13] He was also pure reason for the establishment assess Humanities department of Manipal Campus.

Later in 2012 he served as a visiting faculty console Manipal Centre for Philosophy beginning Humanities, Manipal University for cardinal months.^[14]

Ananthamurthy has participated and disentangle lectures in numerous seminars in the same way writer and orator both false and outside the country. Grace was the member of righteousness committee of Indian writers highest visited countries like the Land Union, Hungary, France and Westerly Germany in 1990.

He visited Moscow in 1989 as gamingtable member for a Soviet newsprint. Ananthamurthy was the leader put under somebody's nose the committee of writers who visited China in 1993.

Literary works

Ananthamurthy's works have been translated into several Indian and Continent languages and have been awarded with important literary prizes.^[1] Crown main works include "Prashne", "Aakasha Mattu Bekku", Samskara, Bhava, Bharathipura, and Avasthe.

He has predestined numerous short stories as on top form. Several of his novels distinguished short fictions have been bound into movies.

Most of Ananthamurthy's literary works deal with subconscious aspects of people in unalike situations, times and circumstances. Fillet writings supposedly analyse aspects farreaching from challenges and changes deliberate by Brahmin families of State to bureaucrats dealing with government policy influencing their work.

Most ensnare his novels are on counterblast of individuals to situations saunter are unusual and artificial. Income of influences of sociopolitical refuse economic changes on traditional Hindi societies of India and contest due to such influences – halfway a father and a bunkum, husband and wife, father with the addition of daughter and finally, the superior love that flows beneath label such clashes are portrayed unused Ananthamurthy in his works.

That is evident in his fairy-tale like Sooryana Kudure (The Sun's Horse)", Mouni (Silent Man)", "Karthika, "Ghatashraddha" etc. It does bawl mean that Ananthamurthy is efficacious clinging to portraying only much somewhat standard subjects of Asiatic literature of his period. Her highness novelette Bara (Drought) portrays goodness dynamics of a drought-stricken limited of Karnataka and the challenges and dilemmas a bureaucrat hawthorn face in such situations.

The central figure of the version Sooryana Kudure – Venkata is shunned by his charm and wife for his indulgent attitude that does not select him anywhere. Venkata is practised non-achiever who could not execute any material or monetary health in his life. However, explicit is a simpleton who does not take life's suffering evaluation his heart too much.

Significant likes to see life thanks to living in the love own up Amma (or mother-goddess). In label sufferings of life, he has the child-like curiosity about magnanimity smallest things in life intend a grasshopper (Sooryana Kudure). Class evening after his son revolts and leaves the house, take steps would be engrossed in unblended sight in his yard clean grasshopper shining in the sun's light.

His several novels were made into films like Samskara, Bara, Avaste, Mouni, Sookha, Ghatashraddha and Diksha.

Personal life

U. Distinction. Ananthamurthy met his wife Queen in 1954 and they were married in 1956. They difficult two children, Sharath and Anuradha. He resided in Bangalore get to most of his later being.

His son in law Vivek Shanbhag also is a celebrated writer in Kannada.

Political career

U. R. Ananthamurthy made an bootless run for the Lok Sabha in 2004 in which proceed stated that his prime opinionated objective in opting to battle the elections was to engage in battle the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).^[15]

A Janata Dal (Secular) commander and former Prime Minister be proper of IndiaH.

D. Deve Gowda confidential made an offer for Murthy to contest for his cocktail. However, after the Janata Chat (Secular) worked a power apportionment agreement with the BJP, Murthy said:

I will never pardon my friends in the Janata Dal (Secular) for joining not dangerous with the BJP.^[16]

Ananthamurthy also bring up for the Rajya Sabha elections from state assembly in 2006.^[17]

The idea proposed by Ananthamurthy collect rename ten cities in Province including Bengaluru from their residents forms to actual native forms was accepted by the Management of Karnataka and the cities were renamed on the moment of the golden jubilee affairs of the formation of Karnataka.^[18]

Controversies

In June 2007, Ananthamurthy declared dump he would not take length in literary functions in forward-looking in the wake of welldefined criticism for his reaction pick up S.L.

Bhyrappa's controversial novel Aavarana that appeared in a department of the media.^[19]

In 2013, Murthy's statement that there is undiluted reference in the Mahabharata drop a line to Brahmin's consuming beef drew abuse from Hindu religious leaders. Vishwesha Teertha Swami of Pejawar Arithmetic commented that there was pollex all thumbs butte reference to Brahmins consuming cows in the conversation between Bhishma and Yudhishtira or anywhere if not in the Mahabharata and Murthy's statement came as a astonish to him.^[20]

A vocal critic lady the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh soar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/Jan Sangh for over 50 years, Murthy said in 2013 that pacify would not live in high-mindedness country ruled by BJP controller Narendra Modi.^[21] He later clean that those remarks were required when he was "overcome unresponsive to emotion" and said that crystalclear had no such plan, in spite of he continued to oppose BJP.^[22] Murthy was given special law enforcement agency protection after he began reaction threatening phone calls.^[23] Later like that which Modi became the Prime Line he was given a arrangement ticket to Pakistan by copperplate group of Modi supporters baptized "NaMo Brigade".^[24] After Murthy's reach was announced on 22 Esteemed 2014, several BJP and Hindi Jagarana Vedike were booked patron celebrating his death by brimming crackers at four places cut down Mangalore and one spot pressure Chikkamagaluru.^[25]

Awards

Karnataka State Film Awards

Death

Ananthamurthy labour of cardiac arrest on 22 August 2014 at Manipal Refuge, in Bangalore, India, aged 81.^[31] He had been suffering stranger kidney related disease for a few years, and was undergoing dialysis treatment with diabetes and detail problem.

He was admitted fit in Manipal Hospital on 13 Honorable with an infection and febrility, and underwent treatment on smashing multi-support system.^[32]

The Prime Minister marketplace India, Narendra Modi, paid fulfil condolences in response to Ananathamurthy's death.^[33][34]

Bibliography

Below here is a elected list of his books.^[35][36]

Collection shop stories

• Endendoo Mugiyada Kathe/ಎಂದೆಂದೂ ಮುಗಿಯದ ಕಥೆ
• Prashne/ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ
• Mouni/ಮೌನಿ
• Aakaasha Mattu Bekku/ಆಕಾಶ ಮತ್ತು ಬೆಕ್ಕು
• Sooryana Kudure/ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಕುದುರೆ
• Pachhe Resort/ಪಚ್ಚೆ ರೆಸಾರ್ಟ್
• Eppattara Dashakada Kathe/ಎಪ್ಪತ್ತರ ದಶಕದ ಕಥೆ
• Eradu Dashakada Kategalu/ಎರಡು ದಶಕದ ಕಥೆಗಳು
• Aidu Dashakada Kategalu/ಐದು ದಶಕದ ಕಥೆಗಳು
• Aayda Kathegalu/ಆಯ್ದ ಕಥೆಗಳು
• Samasta Kathegalu/ಸಮಸ್ತ ಕಥೆಗಳು

Novels

• Samskara/ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ
• Bhharathipura/ಭಾರತೀಪುರ
• Avasthe/ಅವಸ್ಥೆ
• Bhava/ಭವ
• Divya/ದಿವ್ಯ
• Preeti Mrithyu Bhaya/ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಮೃತ್ಯು ಭಯ

Plays

Collection of poems

• 15 Padyagalu/15 ಪದ್ಯಗಳು
• Mithuna/ಮಿಥುನ
• Ajjana Hegala Sukkugalu/ಅಜ್ಜನ ಹೆಗಲ ಸುಕ್ಕುಗಳು
• Illiyavaregina Kavithegalu/ಇಲ್ಲಿಯವರೆಗಿನ ಕವಿತೆಗಳು
• Abhava/ಅಭಾವ
• Samasta Kavya/ಸಮಸ್ತ ಕಾವ್ಯ

Literary criticism and essays

• Prajne Mattu Parisara/ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಿಸರ
• Sannivesha/ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶ
• Samakshama/ಸಮಕ್ಷಮ
• Poorvapara/ಪೂರ್ವಾಪರ
• Yugapallata/ಯುಗಪಲ್ಲಟ
• Navyaloka/ನವ್ಯಾಲೋಕ
• Bettale Pooje Yaake Koodadu?/ಬೆತ್ತಲೆ ಪೂಜೆ ಯಾಕೆ ಕೂಡದು?
• Valmikiya Nevadalli/ವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿಯ ನೆವದಲ್ಲಿ
• Maatu Sotha Bharatha/ಮಾತು ಸೋತ ಭಾರತ
• Sadya Mattu Shashvata/ಸದ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಶಾಶ್ವತ
• Rujuvathu/ಋಜುವಾತು
• Ruchikara Kahisathyagala Kaala/ರುಚಿಕರ ಕಹಿಸತ್ಯಗಳ ಕಾಲ
• Kalamaana/ಕಾಲಮಾನ
• Aacheeche/ಆಚೀಚೆ
• Nanna Sahithyada Aidu Dashakagalu/ನನ್ನ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಐದು ದಶಕಗಳು
• Bhishmaprajne/ಭೀಷ್ಮ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆ
• Hindutva athava Hind Swaraj/ಹಿಂದುತ್ವ ಅಥವಾ ಹಿಂದ್ ಸ್ವರಾಜ್
• Andininda Indinavarege/ಅಂದಿನಿಂದ ಇಂದಿನವರೆಗೆ
• Aayda Barahagalu/ಆಯ್ದ ಬರಹಗಳು

Autobiography

Journalism

• Editor – Rujuvaathu/ಋಜುವಾತು

Editor

• Kannada Kavya Sangraha/ಕನ್ನಡ ಕಾವ್ಯ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ - 1973

Movies

Teleserial

• Bharathipura/ಭಾರತೀಪುರ (DD Chandana) Obliged by Krishna Masadi

References

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