K. Shivaram Karanth
K. Shivaram Karanth Biography
K. Shivaram Karanth was a noted writer from Udupi, Karnataka. He received Jnanpith award for Kannada work, Mookajjiya Kanasugalu in the year He was multi-facet personality. He was a writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. He is often regarded as ‘Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India’ by Ramachandra Guha for his contribution to novel category post independence. He is always regarded as one of the greatest novelists of Kannada literature. He returned his Padma Bhushan honor in protest against the Emergency, imposed by Indira Gandhi. Other awards and appreciations include - Sahitya Academy award in the year , Pampa Award, Swedish Academy award and Tulsi Samman. He has also received Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film) as a Writer in National awards.
Shivaram Karanth was born on 10 October in Udupi. He completed his primary education in Kundapura and Mangalore. During his college studies, he was attracted towards Gandhi’s principles and took part in freedom struggle movement. He did not complete his education and went to participate in the Non-
Kota Shivarama Karanth
He was Karnataka's renaissance man, reconciling science and art as few have done. Kota Shivarama Karanth wrote his first book in , completing eventually and winning the Jnanpith. Yet, above all else, he was a thorn in the flesh of orthodoxy. In Chomana Dudi, Karanth explored the plight of a Dalit. The rigidity of Brahminism was not for him and he put principle to practice by entering into an inter-caste marriage. The dissenting instinct was as sharp when he returned his Padma Bhushan in protest against the Emergency. Karanth's pen was formidable. He compiled an acclaimed encyclopedia on popular science for children. His treatise on Yakshagana, the folk art from his native Dakshina Kannada district, was commended by the Swedish Academy. It was also the rampant industrialisation of Dakshina Kannada which brought out the ecologist in Karanth, he who made heresy an art form.
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Dr. Kota Shivarama Karantha &#; Representative Genius
Dr K Shivarama Karanth ( &#; ), with his wide spectrum of activities, outstanding achievements and very special capacities and energy, can be considered as a representative of Kannada culture and a symbol of the dynamism and variety of the life of Coastal Karnataka. He was a novelist, science writer, essayist, travelogue writer, opera &#; ballet composer, critic, art expert, humourist, lexicographer, author of children’s literature and what not! He has also tried his hand at and made special mark in freedom struggle, politics, theatre, cultural organization, environmental movement, art organization, education and of course many more fields.
Yakshagana is one of the important areas of Karanth’s activities. He has given a lot of his time, mind and energy to this field. Attracted towards it from his boyhood, he made a deeper study of it since the s and started writing on it. His work ‘Yakshagana Bayalata’ (, Revised Edition ) is the first major work on the art. It created a new awareness and knowledge about the art. He wrote another book on Yakshagana in in English and in Kannada. Another of his work on Yakshagana came out in
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The parallels between the lives continue. Like Tagore, Karanth experienced acute personal sorrow—the death of a beloved child, the suffering of his wife from depression. Karanth too accepted honours from the state and, in a moment of principled anger, returned them. Tagore gave back his knighthood after the massacre at Jallianawala Bagh. Firty-six years later, Karanth returned his Padma Bhushan in protest against the imposition of the Emergency. As he wrote to the president of India,
In , I like many others, joined Gandhiji in the Non-Cooperation Movement in order to serve my motherland. I felt I was doing my bit in righting for the freedom of India.
We all felt happy when freedom came to India in and our land became a democracy. Its Constitution gave me joy. But k was not to last long. As years passed, the Fundamental Rights assured to the people were removed bit by bit, through amendments, negating the assurance given by the very leaders who took oaths to maintain them . . .
Today, at the age of 74, I hang my head in shame at the turn of events. I don’t believe that
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