Category: Kannada Literature
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Marali Mannige – An Epic Experience
Great novels often attempt to offer an experience close to life, but only a few elevate it into the realm of the larger than life. Marali Mannige (Return to Earth in English, Mannum Manitharum in Tamil), written by K. Shivarama Karanth and published in 1941, is one such work. Spanning…
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When Thunder Struck
How Akka Mahadevi’s Vachana freed me Six years ago, as I was approaching my 40s, I bought a house. My first house. Until 2019, I had never lived in a house owned by my family. It had became a lost luxury for three generations. Even on the day of registration…
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Sakina’s Kiss – A Review
In one of the interviews, Vivek Shanbhag said he doesn’t write ideas or ideologies, but narrates characters with rich details and stories which emulate life. As a reader, once we finish reading a literary work, our mind tends to simplify the work into a couple of lines and brand it…
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Vamsavriksha: Notes from a Reader
The novel Vamsavruksha by S.L. Bhyrappa may suggest, by its title, that it deals with the institution of family and the crises it undergoes through changing times. But it is not merely a story of familial and personal upheaval — it is a philosophical inquiry into identity, moral agency, the tension between…
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