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MATADANA

Matadana reveals the caste and other dynamics that grip the democratic Institution of ballot box in India.

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MANDRA

Mandra depicts the world of Hindustani classical music. Its locale is Bombay, Delhi, Gwalior, Banaras, Malva and California. A minor character in the novel asks “While enjoying a work of art you experience heaven. But you see hell if you peep into the personal life of the artist.”

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KAVALU

Kavalu is a narrative of diverging family values in the contemporary Indian society. The plot mirrors the life of an urban middle class family in the backdrop of feminist ideology.

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JALAPAATA

Jalapaata is the novel of the life of a painter in Mumbai, whose life in the city drains his life and art. He decides to leave the metropolis and settle in his village, but finds the village poverty stricken. Surmising that the economic strings of rural India are controlled by the cities, he decides to […]

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GRIHABHANGA

Translated into All the fourteen Main Languages of INDIA Grihabhanga depicts rural India of the first half of the 20th century through the heroic struggle of a woman against her idiotic husband, vicious mother-in-law, superstitious neighbours and pervading poverty. This novel is considered an Indian classic and hence The National Book Trust, India, translated this […]

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GRAHANA

Grahana is the whelming of truth by untruth. A Sanyasi goes about apprising the people of the village that life should be found on values and not superstitions.

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DOORA SARIDARU

‘Moved apart’ is a novel Dr. S. L. Bhyrappa wrote at an early stage in his writing career. Doora Saridaru depicts two sets of young couples in their college campus with their psychological and social conflicts that prevent them from entering wedlock. There is just a fleeting mention of a third pair that is happily […]

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DHARMASHREE

Translated into Sanskrit Dharmashree depicts cultural and spiritual conflicts of a young man who is compelled to convert to Christianity to marry a Christian girl. The moment he accepts the new religion he suffers alienation from his cultural identity.

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Yaana

Can the anthropogenic Value system hold legitimacy beyond the solar system? Kavalu raises one such significant question while unraveling the story of a couple’s space odyssey. Though the Novel at the outset seem to fall under Sci-Fi genre, at the crux, it examines the conflicting human emotions and values.

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Bheemakaya

Life of a wrestler is equally adventurous and deadly. Often, the hardships a wrestler undertakes to achieve success goes unnoticed.  Bheemakaaya is one such attempt to paint the life of a wrestler. The novel is realistic yet artistic.

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ANCHU

Translated into Hindi and Marathi Anchu is a unique novel based on two characters: An educated woman who is deceived variously in life, and the man who loves her with honest dedication but is incessantly at the receiving end of all her anger and frustration. The novel concentrates on inner subtle psychological and emotional dynamics […]

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ANVESHANA

Translated into Hindi and Marathi Anveshana, which means ‘Exploration’, depicts the life of the son of the main woman character of his earlier novel Grihabhanga. He does not directly appear in the novel, but is seen through the experience of other characters. This technique is successful in bringing out the complexity of the central character.

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