IPTA
An overall assessment of the trajectory, downfall and death of Progressive literature in India and the damage it has inflicted on the literary and cultural sensibilities of our people.
Communist Party of India
How Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Patronage for the All India Progressive Writers' Association led to a systematic takeover of all cultural institutions
Carnatic Classical Music
A brief episode from a Kannada novel featuring a heroic singer who defied Tipu Sultan's authority
Communist Betrayal of India
Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa recounts a personal anecdote of how his house was attacked by goons provoked by two eminent Marxist litterateurs
Mahabharata
By the time Girish Karnad wrote Agni Mattu Male (The Fire and The Rain) in the early 1990s, he had already pocketed the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the Padmashri, the Padmabhushan, and the Karnataka Sahitya Parishad Award…all of which he had amassed on the wreckage of Indian culture and
Communism
An obituary on the passing away of Girish Raghunath Karnad
Vedas
It will be an interesting topic in a study of literary history to trace the first book—fiction or non-fiction—for which a preface was written. It is a good practice that has thankfully sustained the roughs of time and taste without falling off the crag. In the hands of
Kannada Literature
IN THIS SERIES Part 1: The Murder of Gauri Lankesh: Lawlessness in Karnataka Part 2: The Gauri Lankesh Saga: Erasing the Line between Kannada Literature and Politics One of the phenomena that continues to puzzle me is why do even open and free societies with enduring democratic traditions allow Communist
Kannada Literature
Read Part 1: The Murder of Gauri Lankesh: Lawlessness in Karnataka When we trace the roots of Gauri Lankesh’s diehard love for Naxalism and Naxals, the journey takes us back in time to the world of Kannada literature located in the mid-1960s onwards. Known widely as the Navya (New)