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Indian Kannada-language writer and critic ()

U. R. Ananthamurthy
Born	Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy ()21 December Melige, Thirthahalli, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India
Died	22 August () (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
Genre	Story, Novel, Poetry and Criticism
Subject	Various Themes
Literary movement	Navya

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December – 22 August ) 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 , he became the sixth Kannada writer to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.^[2][3] In , 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 s.

He was one of the finalists of Man Booker International Prize for the year ^[5] He remained a fervent critic of nationalistic political parties until his death from kidney failure and cardiac arrest on 22 August ^[6]

Early life

Ananthamurthy was born into Kannada-speaking Brahmin family^[7] in Melige, in Tirthahalli taluk in the Shimoga District.^[8] His education started in a traditional Sanskrit school in Doorvasapura and continued in Tirthahalli and Mysore.

After receiving a Master of Arts degree from the University of Mysore, U. R. Ananthamurthy taught in the English department at University of Mysore (pictured) for a while before embarking to England for further studies on a Commonwealth Scholarship. He earned his doctorate from the University of Birmingham in for his dissertation thesis entitled "Politics and Fiction in the s".^[9][10]

Career

Ananthamurthy started his career as a professor and instructor in in English department of University of Mysore.

He was the Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala from to ^[11] He served as the Chairman of National Book Trust India for the year In he was elected as the president of Sahitya Academy. He served as 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 Chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India.^[12] In he was appointed the first Chancellor of Central University of Karnataka.^[13] He was also a reason for the establishment of Humanities department of Manipal University.

Later in he served as a visiting faculty at Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University for four months.^[14]

Ananthamurthy has participated and delivered lectures in numerous seminars as writer and orator both in and outside the country. He was the member of the committee of Indian writers and visited countries like the Soviet Union, Hungary, France and West Germany in He visited Moscow in as board member for a Soviet newspaper.

Ananthamurthy was the leader for the committee of writers who visited China in

Literary works

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 written numerous short stories as well. Several of his novels and short fictions have been made into movies.

Most of Ananthamurthy's literary works deal with psychological aspects of people in different situations, times and circumstances. His writings supposedly analyse aspects ranging from challenges and changes faced by Brahmin families of Karnataka to bureaucrats dealing with politics influencing their work.

Most of his novels are on reaction of individuals to situations that are unusual and artificial. Results of influences of sociopolitical and economic changes on traditional Hindu societies of India and clashes due to such influences&#;– between a father and a son, husband and wife, father and daughter and finally, the fine love that flows beneath all such clashes are portrayed by 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 just clinging to portraying only such somewhat standard subjects of Indian literature of his period.

Anuradha ananthamurthy wikipedia in tamil

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December – 22 August ) 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].

His novelette Bara (Drought) portrays the 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 success in his life. However, he is a simpleton who does not take life's suffering to his heart too much. He likes to see life as living in the love of Amma (or mother-goddess). In all sufferings of life, he has the child-like curiosity about the smallest things in life like 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.

Personal life

U. R. Ananthamurthy met his wife Esther in and they were married in They had two children, Sharath and Anuradha.

He resided in Bangalore for most of his later life. His son in law Vivek Shanbhag also is a famous writer in Kannada.

Political career

U. R. Ananthamurthy made an unsuccessful run for the Lok Sabha in in which he stated that his prime ideological objective in opting to contest the elections was to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).^[15]

A Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Prime Minister of IndiaH.

D. Deve Gowda had made an offer for Murthy to contest for his party. However, after the Janata Dal (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 contested for the Rajya Sabha elections from state assembly in ^[17]

The idea proposed by Ananthamurthy to rename ten cities in Karnataka 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 celebrations of the formation of Karnataka.^[18]

Controversies

In June , Ananthamurthy declared that he would not take part in literary functions in future in the wake of strong criticism for his reaction on S.L.

Bhyrappa's controversial novel Aavarana that appeared in a section of the media.^[19]

In , Murthy's statement that there is a reference in the Mahabharata to Brahmin's consuming beef drew flak from Hindu religious leaders.

Anuradha ananthamurthy wikipedia in hindi ಉಡುಪಿ ರಾಜಗೋಪಾಲಾಚಾರ್ಯ ಅನಂತಮೂರ್ತಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಸಾಹಿತಿಗಳಲ್ಲೊಬ್ಬರು. ಅವರು ಚಿಂತಕರೂ ವಿಮರ್ಶಕರೂ ಆಗಿ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧರಾಗಿದ್ದವರು. ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷ್ ಪ್ರಾಧ್ಯಾಪಕರಾಗಿ ವೃತ್ತಿಜೀವನ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದ ಅವರು ಅನಂತರ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ಮುಂತಾದ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅನೇಕ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಹುದ್ದೆಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸಿದರು. ಅವರು ತೀರ್ಥಹಳ್ಳಿ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಜನಿಸಿದರು ಮತ್ತು ನವ ಚಳುವಳಿಯ ಪ್ರವರ್ತಕರಲ್ಲಿ ಒಬ್ಬರೆಂದು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

Vishwesha Teertha Swami of Pejawar Math commented that there was no reference to Brahmins consuming beef in the conversation between Bhishma and Yudhishtira or anywhere else in the Mahabharata and Murthy's statement came as a surprise to him.^[20]

A vocal critic of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/Jan Sangh for over 50 years, Murthy said in that he would not live in the country ruled by BJP leader Narendra Modi.^[21] He later clarified that those remarks were made when he was "overcome by emotion" and said that he had no such plan, though he continued to oppose BJP.^[22] Murthy was given special police protection after he began receiving threatening phone calls.^[23] Later when Modi became the Prime Minister he was given a free ticket to Pakistan by a group of Modi supporters called "NaMo Brigade".^[24] After Murthy's death was announced on 22 August , several BJP and Hindu Jagarana Vedike were booked for celebrating his death by bursting crackers at four places in Mangalore and one spot in Chikkamagaluru.^[25]

Awards

Karnataka State Film Awards

Death

Ananthamurthy died of cardiac arrest on 22 August at Manipal Hospital, in Bangalore, India, aged ^[31] He had been suffering from kidney related disease for some years, and was undergoing dialysis treatment with diabetes and heart problem.

He was admitted to Manipal Hospital on 13 August with an infection and fever, and underwent treatment on a multi-support system.^[32]

The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, paid his condolences in response to Ananathamurthy's death.^[33][34]

Bibliography

Below here is a selected list of his books.^[35][36]

Collection of stories

• Endendoo Mugiyada Kathe/ಎಂದೆಂದೂ ಮುಗಿಯದ ಕಥೆ
• Prashne/ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ
• Mouni/ಮೌನಿ
• Aakaasha Mattu Bekku/ಆಕಾಶ ಮತ್ತು ಬೆಕ್ಕು
• Sooryana Kudure/ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಕುದುರೆ
• Pachhe Resort/ಪಚ್ಚೆ ರೆಸಾರ್ಟ್
• Eppattara Dashakada Kathe/ಎಪ್ಪತ್ತರ ದಶಕದ ಕಥೆ
• Eradu Dashakada Kategalu/ಎರಡು ದಶಕದ ಕಥೆಗಳು
• Aidu Dashakada Kategalu/ಐದು ದಶಕದ ಕಥೆಗಳು
• Aayda Kathegalu/ಆಯ್ದ ಕಥೆಗಳು
• Samasta Kathegalu/ಸಮಸ್ತ ಕಥೆಗಳು

Novels

• Samskara/ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ
• Bhharathipura/ಭಾರತೀಪುರ
• Avasthe/ಅವಸ್ಥೆ
• Bhava/ಭವ
• Divya/ದಿವ್ಯ
• Preeti Mrithyu Bhaya/ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಮೃತ್ಯು ಭಯ

Plays

Collection of poems

• 15 Padyagalu/15 ಪದ್ಯಗಳು
• Mithuna/ಮಿಥುನ
• Ajjana Hegala Sukkugalu/ಅಜ್ಜನ ಹೆಗಲ ಸುಕ್ಕುಗಳು
• Illiyavaregina Kavithegalu/ಇಲ್ಲಿಯವರೆಗಿನ ಕವಿತೆಗಳು
• Abhava/ಅಭಾವ
• Samasta Kavya/ಸಮಸ್ತ ಕಾವ್ಯ

Literary criticism and essays

• Prajne Mattu Parisara/ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಿಸರ
• Sannivesha/ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶ
• Samakshama/ಸಮಕ್ಷಮ
• Poorvapara/ಪೂರ್ವಾಪರ
• Yugapallata/ಯುಗಪಲ್ಲಟ
• Navyaloka/ನವ್ಯಾಲೋಕ
• Bettale Pooje Yaake Koodadu?/ಬೆತ್ತಲೆ ಪೂಜೆ ಯಾಕೆ ಕೂಡದು?
• Valmikiya Nevadalli/ವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿಯ ನೆವದಲ್ಲಿ
• Maatu Sotha Bharatha/ಮಾತು ಸೋತ ಭಾರತ
• Sadya Mattu Shashvata/ಸದ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಶಾಶ್ವತ
• Rujuvathu/ಋಜುವಾತು
• Ruchikara Kahisathyagala Kaala/ರುಚಿಕರ ಕಹಿಸತ್ಯಗಳ ಕಾಲ
• Kalamaana/ಕಾಲಮಾನ
• Aacheeche/ಆಚೀಚೆ
• Nanna Sahithyada Aidu Dashakagalu/ನನ್ನ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಐದು ದಶಕಗಳು
• Bhishmaprajne/ಭೀಷ್ಮ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆ
• Hindutva athava Hind Swaraj/ಹಿಂದುತ್ವ ಅಥವಾ ಹಿಂದ್ ಸ್ವರಾಜ್
• Andininda Indinavarege/ಅಂದಿನಿಂದ ಇಂದಿನವರೆಗೆ
• Aayda Barahagalu/ಆಯ್ದ ಬರಹಗಳು

Autobiography

Journalism

• Editor – Rujuvaathu/ಋಜುವಾತು

Editor

• Kannada Kavya Sangraha/ಕನ್ನಡ ಕಾವ್ಯ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ -

Movies

Teleserial

• Bharathipura/ಭಾರತೀಪುರ (DD Chandana) Directed by Krishna Masadi

References

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