Still find it hard to reconcile with change in Bengaluru: Anita Nair
The Hindu“I could hear the thud-thud-thud of his Bullet,” says Bengaluru-based author Anita Nair. She was talking about Borei Gowda, the protagonist of her book Hot Stage at the Lit for Life Dialogue in the city on Friday evening. Hot Stage is the third installment in Anita’s Inspector Gowda series and in talking about the protagonist, she reveals how he is very much a Bangalorean, shaped by the city we love and live in. In a manner of speaking, I use Gowda to talk about how the city has changed.” Anita’s candid confession that she was never a fan of the crime genre in books was a surprise considering she not only wrote Cut Like Wound, the first of the Gowda series, but also followed it up with two others. Among other topics Anita addresses in Hot Stage is the depiction of the elderly in society, something she herself admits “is the last thing one would expect in a crime novel.” Set in our city and populated by people we know, Hot Stage is a work most people will be able to relate to and whether one has read the books or not, it would seem Borei Gowda will be out and about solving crimes in Bengaluru for a little longer.
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