A Life in the World: U.R. Ananthamurthy in Conversation with Chandan Gowda

A fascinating portrait of the life and ideas of the great Indian writer and public intellectual | U. R. Ananthamurthy. Between 2012 and 2013 | Ananthamurthy shared his personal experiences in a series of lively conversations with academic and writer Chandan Gowda | and reflected on issues that would preoccupy him until the end. Besides the vivid accounts of his childhood | friendships | the evolution of his intellectual life | and public involvements | his passionate ideas on tradition | on India's political culture | and on language and writing make the conversations an engaging and valuable document. A Life in the World -- perhaps the first exercise of its kind done with an Indian writer -- will enthral both general readers as well as admirers of Ananthamurthy's works.