Bara
Seiten
2016
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-946940-6 (ISBN)
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-946940-6 (ISBN)
Written during the Indian Emergency, through a series of vivid encounters with local characters, Bara depicts the tortuous realities of Indian democracy, and captures the political and moral dilemmas of the educated middle class. Set in mofussil Karnataka, it grippingly narrates a civil servant's quest for an ethical life amidst desperate social circumstances.
Ajji, can I have some water? Just a few drops will do, Ajji.
With the searing sky above and the blistering earth below, like cactus the people of this parched terrain are determined to stay alive. Emaciated children scurry along, dejected farmers pawn their ploughs, weary women sleep on empty stomachsâ. Would those perishing now have died anyway? Or is hunger calling them away prematurely?
Filled with social concern, Satisha, the district commissioner, wants to help the afflicted. But he is caught between the politicians who are unwilling to declare the district drought-hit and the murky local realities where a religious outfit strives to protect cows, the desperate youth hold a deity responsible for the failed rains, and petty activists seek to secure their own interests.
Can the idealist Satisha win the game where corrupt politicians are rolling the dice and stand by his conviction to help the afflicted? Written during the Indian Emergency, Bara depicts the tortuous realities of Indian democracy, and captures the political and moral dilemmas of the educated middle class.
Ajji, can I have some water? Just a few drops will do, Ajji.
With the searing sky above and the blistering earth below, like cactus the people of this parched terrain are determined to stay alive. Emaciated children scurry along, dejected farmers pawn their ploughs, weary women sleep on empty stomachsâ. Would those perishing now have died anyway? Or is hunger calling them away prematurely?
Filled with social concern, Satisha, the district commissioner, wants to help the afflicted. But he is caught between the politicians who are unwilling to declare the district drought-hit and the murky local realities where a religious outfit strives to protect cows, the desperate youth hold a deity responsible for the failed rains, and petty activists seek to secure their own interests.
Can the idealist Satisha win the game where corrupt politicians are rolling the dice and stand by his conviction to help the afflicted? Written during the Indian Emergency, Bara depicts the tortuous realities of Indian democracy, and captures the political and moral dilemmas of the educated middle class.
Author: U.R. Ananthamurthy (1932-2014) was a distinguished Kannada writer and public intellectual. Samskara and Bharathipura are among his best known novels. He was honoured with the Jnanpith Award in 1994. Translator: Chandan Gowda teaches at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He is presently completing a book on the cultural politics of development in old Mysore state.
Author's Note; Translator's Note
; Bara
; Afterword; Interview with U.R. Ananthamurthy; About the Author and the Translator
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.08.2016 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Chandan Gowda |
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 133 x 195 mm |
| Gewicht | 296 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-946940-7 / 0199469407 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-946940-6 / 9780199469406 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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