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		<title>A Kannada Poem by S Manjunath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the street
 &#8211; S Manjunath

Rain began to lash out midway;
granny covered the infant in her arms
with the folds of her sari
I can&#8217;t hasten
to shelter them under my umbrella &#8211; yet
I can&#8217;t keep on under it unruffled.
I hurry
as if to cross the distance
between us;
an unknown twinge &#8211; as if piercing the heart
from the umbrella&#8217;s handle.
As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=454&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bhakti Expressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transmutations of Desire and Power in Bhakti Expressions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[H S Shivprakash is a brilliant poet who writes in Kannada. He has been a premier poet and dramatist in Kannada for decades running. A poet of unique voice, he beats no trodden path, or perhaps he retraces the lost paths. Persistent in his search for alternative traditions to the hegemonic ones, Shivprakash has not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=438&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kannada theatre and modernity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the significance of modernity in India? The question is quite old and has fostered diverse debates. But the answers have varied. A historical view of the debate on the status of modernity in India may trace various positions. For a long time the debate basically took a pro and anti stance. There were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=426&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dalit Poetry in Kannada III &#8211; Moodnaakadu Chinnaswamy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some excellent dalit poets writing in Kannada these days. I don&#8217;t have too good an access to the latest dalit poetry emerging in Kannada as my visits to Karnataka are not vary frequent. I try my best to get as much as my friends can send me. Continuing my earlier posts, here and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=397&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem about Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[






 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A phenomenal prose writer Lankesh was not specially known for his poems except for his &#8216;Nilu&#8217; poems.  But this one has moved so many people. Earthy in its perception of the mother, the poem so well captures what most of the modernist Kannada writers were doing: indexing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=369&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary Kannada Poetry &#8211; Ashok Hegde</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Morning Picture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the translation of Ashok Hegde&#8217;s poem A Morning Picture.
A Morning Picture
* Ashok Hegde
A sleep-interrupted, tea-nauseated chilly morn,
patches of people all over the floor,
in the corner, like a crumpled shirt, a child,
an old woman scratching her dugs in residual drugged sleep,
a teen&#8217;s endless cough.
As folk, like the wick extinguished in midnight,
lose the world in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=328&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kannada Poetry &#8211; Alanahalli Krishna</title>
		<link>http://sotosay.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/kannada-poetry-alanahalli-krishna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His Kadu is the quintessential modernist novella. Yet, in his poetry he is very unlike the Kannada navya tradition of poetry. This is Shrikrishna Alanahalli who but for his early demise would have been by now known to everyone with any interest in Indian Literature. He has written enough to make him an icon in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=233&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abdul Rasheed &#8211; Kannada&#8217;s Basheer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rasheed is a rare poet. Believe me he will prove to be one among the best. His poems as well as his stories. His eyes see the unseeable obvious. His heart hears the the faintest of voices.
His story &#8216;Kirti Patake&#8217; (Rag Flag) is one of the best short stories I have read in the recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=214&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dalit Poetry in Kannada II</title>
		<link>http://sotosay.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/dalit-poetry-in-kannada-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the contemporary Kannada poets whose work I am amazed by is N K Hanumantayya. He has two collections so far: Himada Hejje (Snow Steps &#8211; 1998) and Chitrada Bennu (Picture&#8217;s Spine &#8211; 2006). There was an unnecessary controversy in Karnataka around 2004 about eating beef. At the time Hanumantayya wrote a poem titled: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=205&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary Kannada Poetry I</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manjunath S, sometime called &#8216;Hakkipalti Manjunath&#8217; after the title of his first collection, is now one of the leading Kannada poets. When I first met him in 1988 or thereabout he had come out with his first collection which was quite strongly in the manner of &#8216;navya&#8217;. I remember a long walk I took with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=163&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dalit Poetry in Kannada</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may not be an exaggeration to say that in the recent past much of the notable poetry in Kannada has been Dalit poetry. The modern dalit poetry in Kannada burst into limelight in the 70s and after with writers such as Siddalingayya. It was also the heydays of DSS (Dalit Sangharsh Samiti). Among the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=158&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kannada Novel by Ashok Hegde</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post I want to describe a novel by Ashok Hegde who writes stories and novels in Kannada. He is an important contemporary writer in Kannada. His story Darkness, translated here, is a very significant reflection over the IT urban culture. More about that in the next blog. Here goes Ashwamedha.
Ashwamedha means the &#8216;Horse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=150&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dalit Autobiography in Kannada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siddalingayya&#8217;s Ooru Keri is one of the most important dalit autobiographies in Kannada. Other notable ones include Arvind Malagatti&#8217;s Government Brahman, Ramayya&#8217;s MaNegara and Govindaraju&#8217;s Manavilladavara Madhye. I think Siddalingayya&#8217;s autobiography is important not only because he is an important dalit poets in Kannada. I think his book has a larger importance for dalit literature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=143&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jayant Kaikini &#8211; Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He can make you sit up and shake off complacency. Yes, Jayant Kaikini in some of his poems. I guess I have lived with this poem for a long time, now. There is no argument, no &#8216;tear floods&#8217;, no criticism, no irony. It merely comes to us as a series of images of urban life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=128&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U R Ananthamurthy, &#8220;Samskara&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sotosay.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/u-r-ananthamurthy-samskara/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard that when UR Ananthamurthy was a visiting prof at USA once, he used to have packed halls. This fame was due to his novel Samskara, apparently, whcih was translated into English by AK Ramanujan. Ericfromm commented on Ananthamurthy&#8217;s novel, whcih also contributed to his fame over in USA.
It seems that outside the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=113&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U R Ananthamurthy, the public intellectual</title>
		<link>http://sotosay.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/u-r-ananthmurthy-the-public-intellectual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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from: hindu.com
It is an interesting idea, the public intellectual. I guess the word may be challenged as to whether there can be an intellectual in a domain other than public. But, I guess the use of this expression to refer to Ananthamurthy has something to do with the fact that he takes it upon himself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=108&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jayant Kaikini&#8217;s poem Bobby</title>
		<link>http://sotosay.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/jayant-kaikinis-poem-bobby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that I am an unabashed fan of Jayant Kaikini who writes poetry and fiction in Kannada. He has such a fresh pair of eyes with which he sees so much that I can never see. Well, see his poem Bobby for example (in my translation). If my translation displeases you, do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=95&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nissim Ezekiel, U. R. Ananthmurthy and the insensitivity to the ‘Other’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excerpt from Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘The Railway Clerk’:

I am never neglecting my responsibility,
I am discharging it properly,
I am doing my duty,
but who is appreciating?
Nobody, I am telling you.
 
My desk is too small,
the fan is not repaired for two months,
three months.
I am living far off in Borivli,
my children are neglecting studies,
how long this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=86&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lankesh &#8211; A daring Kannada writer</title>
		<link>http://sotosay.wordpress.com/2006/09/10/lankesh-a-daring-kannada-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[P. Lankesh (1935 – 2000) is a major Kannada writer. He was a novelist, poet, film maker, journalist, part-time politician, publisher and much else. He was perhaps the most daring writer. He was rarely politically or poetically correct. During the peak of modernist poetry in Kannada he would write rhyming couplets. He took on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=68&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jayant: The Subtle Craftsman</title>
		<link>http://sotosay.wordpress.com/2006/09/07/60/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kamalakar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[M.S. Sriram calls Jayant Kaikini one of the evergreen poets in Kannada for being youthful in his work and in conduct. Ever since I started reading poetry I have been reading Jayant. In my friends circle I was notorious as Jayant’s advertiser. I am fond of his poems, his short stories and his prose. Once [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotosay.wordpress.com&blog=325032&post=60&subd=sotosay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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