‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan

‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan

[ad_1] As may be expected, reviews of Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka have focused on the vast and varied connections between life and literature, and state and society, that the book has aimed to chronicle. Karnataka, the home state of the author, is the playground for the ball game introduced to us … Read more

Reading Banu Mushtaq in Kannada for the context and themes of her ‘rebellion’ stories

Reading Banu Mushtaq in Kannada for the context and themes of her ‘rebellion’ stories

[ad_1] Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-winning short story collection Heart Lamp is littered with a gamut of affecting objects and people: callous husbands, self-serving mutawallis, loving children, and women of all stripes. These women are, by turns, sexy, demanding, abstruse, and suffering. Kate McLoughlin notes in the Times Literary Supplement: “here are wicked in-laws, bedazzled … Read more