On September 1 this year, an Instagram post by Anusha Kumar, a second-generation Indian American who had just received a PhD in clinical psychology on her late grandmother’s birthday, went viral on social media. The post went viral because the grandmother she was referencing was the cult Kannada novelist Triveni, many of whose books, written in the 1950s, are a …
Writer and trade union leader K.S. Sharma has emphasised the need for literature that creates awareness among people about social maladies and inspires them to fight such evils and exploitation. Delivering his speech as the Sammelan Sarvadhyaksha at the 16th Dharwad Zilla Kannada Sahitya Sammelan in Dharwad on Wednesday, Prof. Sharma minced no words while expressing displeasure over those writers …
There is a way in which we take for granted the need for both space and solitude as preconditions to writing. However, there is the danger of taking her too literally, of assuming that without independent means, without a room of one’s own, women cannot aspire to a writing life. In a piece titled ‘About My Writing’, translated from Kannada …
