02461nam a22002537a 4500 20250628091555.0 250627b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789360456870 AL English 954.87 RAGR Srikar Raghavan 216408 Rama Bhima Soma : Cultural investigations into modern Karnataka Chennai Westland books 2025 587 p. HB 24x16 cm. KSCR-000225 ₹719.00 ₹ ₹899.00 20% 20-06-2025 Karnataka is one of India’s most diverse states, as rich in literary and cultural traditions as it is in democratic struggles and political churns. The twentieth century witnessed the birth of a modern Kannada renaissance, accompanied by the emergence of a powerful social conscience. One young man’s desire to explore this vibrant historical backyard, born out of a feeling of being linguistically unmoored, compounded by worries over an increasingly opaque political direction, leads to an ambitious—no, audacious—attempt to unpack the region’s social and cultural histories. Rama Bhima Soma is an enterprise of translation and rediscovery, packed with stories and conversations. The life and times of legends like Kuvempu and Shivaram Karanth; the fall of Socialism and the rise of the Hindu Right; the intellectual ruminations of U.R. Ananthamurthy, D.R. Nagaraj and M.M. Kalburgi; the wildly popular television serials of T.N. Seetharam and the community-centred one-woman theatre shows of Du Saraswathi; a brief history of Naxalism in Karnataka and glimpses of other complicated legacies of the 1970s’ Left—the book explores a dizzyingly wide sweep of Karnataka’s contemporary history, seeking, above all, to forge new connections and begin fresh conversations. Marshalling a diverse range of literary and scholarly resources, framed through biographical sketches and immersive reportage, Srikar Raghavan’s genre-bending work of narrative non-fiction reanimates some pivotal moments in the making of modern Karnataka. The result is a sizzling dish of ideas rescued from the deep freeze of historical amnesia. ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ Cultural Investigations 216311 History and Identity 216312 Focus on the 1970s and 80s 216313 Beyond Bengaluru 216314 New Connections and Conversations 216315 ddc BK 234554 234554 0 0 ddc 0 0 PS AL AL 2025-06-23 Navakarnataka Publications Pvt Ltd Mangaluru-575001 719.00 0 954.87 RAGR 077709 2025-06-27 12:00:57 899.00 2025-06-20 BK