Indian Kannada-language writer and critic (1932-2014)
U. R. Ananthamurthy | |
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| Born | Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (1932-12-21)21 December 1932 Melige, Thirthahalli, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India |
| Died | 22 Grand 2014(2014-08-22) (aged 81) Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Occupation | English Professor, Vice Chancellor, President Sahitya Akademi and National Book Trust |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Mysore University, University of Birmingham |
| Period | 1950-2014 |
| Genre | Story, Novel, Poesy and Criticism |
| Subject | Various Themes |
| Literary movement | Navya |
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December 1932 – 22 August 2014) was an Indian contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language. He was born in Thirtahalli Taluk and is considered one of the pioneers of the Navya movement.[1] In 1994, he became the sixth Kannada writer make be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary look conferred in India.[2][3] In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India.[4] He was the vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala during the late Decennium. He was one of the finalists of Man Booker Cosmopolitan Prize for the year 2013.[5] He remained a fervent critic of nationalistic political parties until his death from kidney neglect and cardiac arrest on 22 August 2014.[6]
Ananthamurthy was whelped into Kannada-speaking Brahmin family[7] in Melige, in Tirthahalli taluk acquit yourself the Shimoga District.[8] His education started in a traditional Indic school in Doorvasapura and continued in Tirthahalli and Mysore. Later receiving a Master of Arts degree from the University use up Mysore, U. R. Ananthamurthy taught in the English department use University of Mysore (pictured) for a while before embarking egg on England for further studies on a Commonwealth Scholarship. He attained his doctorate from the University of Birmingham in 1966 correspond to his dissertation thesis entitled "Politics and Fiction in the 1930s".[9][10]
Ananthamurthy started his career as a professor and instructor in 1970 in English department of University of Mysore. He was say publicly Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala from 1987 to 1991.[11] He served as the Chairman of National Paperback Trust India for the year 1992. In 1993 he was elected as the president of Sahitya Academy. He served despite the fact that a visiting professor in many Indian and foreign universities including Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Tübingen, University of Iowa, Tufts University and Shivaji University.[1] Ananthamurthy served twice as the President of the Film and Television Institute of India.[12] In 2012 he was appointed the first Chancellor of Central University stare Karnataka.[13] He was also a reason for the establishment support Humanities department of Manipal University. Later in 2012 he served as a visiting faculty at Manipal Centre for Philosophy have a word with Humanities, Manipal University for four months.[14]
Ananthamurthy has participated and make your mark lectures in numerous seminars as writer and orator both diminution and outside the country. He was the member of interpretation committee of Indian writers and visited countries like the State Union, Hungary, France and West Germany in 1990. He visited Moscow in 1989 as board member for a Soviet journal. Ananthamurthy was the leader for the committee of writers who visited China in 1993.
Ananthamurthy's works have been translated into several Indian and European languages and have been awarded with important literary prizes.[1] His main works include "Prashne", "Aakasha Mattu Bekku", Samskara, Bhava, Bharathipura, and Avasthe. He has backhand numerous short stories as well. Several of his novels station short fictions have been made into movies.
Most of Ananthamurthy's literary works deal with psychological aspects of people in divergent situations, times and circumstances. His writings supposedly analyse aspects allembracing from challenges and changes faced by Brahmin families of Mysore to bureaucrats dealing with politics influencing their work.
Most additional his novels are on reaction of individuals to situations put off are unusual and artificial. Results of influences of sociopolitical opinion economic changes on traditional Hindu societies of India and clashes due to such influences – between a father and a charm, husband and wife, father and daughter and finally, the supreme love that flows beneath all such clashes are portrayed overstep Ananthamurthy in his works. This is evident in his stories like Sooryana Kudure (The Sun's Horse)", Mouni (Silent Man)", "Karthika, "Ghatashraddha" etc. It does not mean that Ananthamurthy is reasonable clinging to portraying only such somewhat standard subjects of Soldier literature of his period. His novelette Bara (Drought) portrays rendering dynamics of a drought-stricken district of Karnataka and the challenges and dilemmas a bureaucrat may face in such situations.
The central figure of the novel Sooryana Kudure – Venkata is shunned by his son and wife for his easy-going attitude that does not take him anywhere. Venkata is a non-achiever who could not achieve any material or monetary premium in his life. However, he is a simpleton who does not take life's suffering to his heart too much. Good taste likes to see life as living in the love make public Amma (or mother-goddess). In all sufferings of life, he has the child-like curiosity about the smallest things in life come into sight a grasshopper (Sooryana Kudure). The evening after his son revolts and leaves the house, he would be engrossed in a sight in his yard a grasshopper shining in the sun's light.
His several novels were made into films like Samskara, Bara, Avaste, Mouni, Sookha, Ghatashraddha and Diksha.
U. R. Ananthamurthy met his wife Esther in 1954 and they were married in 1956. They had two children, Sharath and Anuradha. He resided in Bangalore for most of his later strength. His son in law Vivek Shanbhag also is a popular writer in Kannada.
U. R. Ananthamurthy made an inefficient run for the Lok Sabha in 2004 in which fiasco stated that his prime ideological objective in opting to championship the elections was to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).[15]
A Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Prime Minister translate IndiaH. D. Deve Gowda had made an offer for Murthy to contest for his party. However, after the Janata Chitchat (Secular) worked a power sharing agreement with the BJP, Murthy said:
I will never forgive my friends in the Janata Dal (Secular) for joining hands with the BJP.[16]
Ananthamurthy also oppose for the Rajya Sabha elections from state assembly in 2006.[17]
The idea proposed by Ananthamurthy to rename ten cities in Mysore including Bengaluru from their colonial forms to actual native forms was accepted by the Government of Karnataka and the cities were renamed on the occasion of the golden jubilee smash of the formation of Karnataka.[18]
In June 2007, Ananthamurthy declared make certain he would not take part in literary functions in tomorrow in the wake of strong criticism for his reaction fall S.L. Bhyrappa's controversial novel Aavarana that appeared in a branch of the media.[19]
In 2013, Murthy's statement that there is a reference in the Mahabharata to Brahmin's consuming beef drew censure from Hindu religious leaders. Vishwesha Teertha Swami of Pejawar Sums commented that there was no reference to Brahmins consuming cattle in the conversation between Bhishma and Yudhishtira or anywhere added in the Mahabharata and Murthy's statement came as a stagger to him.[20]
A vocal critic of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh captain Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/Jan Sangh for over 50 years, Murthy said in 2013 that he would not live in say publicly country ruled by BJP leader Narendra Modi.[21] He later clarified that those remarks were made when he was "overcome be oblivious to emotion" and said that he had no such plan, notwithstanding that he continued to oppose BJP.[22] Murthy was given special constabulary protection after he began receiving threatening phone calls.[23] Later when Modi became the Prime Minister he was given a at ease ticket to Pakistan by a group of Modi supporters commanded "NaMo Brigade".[24] After Murthy's death was announced on 22 Honorable 2014, several BJP and Hindu Jagarana Vedike were booked mind celebrating his death by bursting crackers at four places bother Mangalore and one spot in Chikkamagaluru.[25]
Ananthamurthy labour of cardiac arrest on 22 August 2014 at Manipal Sickbay, in Bangalore, India, aged 81.[31] He had been suffering put on the back burner kidney related disease for some years, and was undergoing dialysis treatment with diabetes and heart problem. He was admitted break into Manipal Hospital on 13 August with an infection and febricity, and underwent treatment on a multi-support system.[32]
The Prime Minister mock India, Narendra Modi, paid his condolences in response to Ananathamurthy's death.[33][34]
Below here is a selected list of his books.[35][36]
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship | |
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| 2001–present |
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| Honorary Fellows | |
| Premchand Fellowship | |
| Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship | |