Basavaraj Naikar
26 books
This book brings together critical articles on all the English works of the brilliant Indian writer Nirad Chaudhuri-from his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian-up to his last work, The East is East and the West is West. Though these chapters are independent in their chronological order, they are interconnected thematically.
Nirad Chaudhuri happens to be an important prose writer in the tradition of Indian English prose writers like Jawaharlal Nehru, Sri ...
Basavaraj Naikar translated Prabhulin.ga Li–le by Camarasa into English as The Frolic Play of the Lord for the benefit of the non-Kannada readers, who are interested in Comparative Indian Literature, Comparative World Literature, Comparative Religious Literature and Multicultural Studies. In recent years Indians have realised the great need and importance of translation in the multilingual and multicultural context of our country. Such translations will ...
Play on the life of Basava, fl. 1160, founder of Virasaivism and social reformer.
Based on Sharif Saheb, 1819-1889, saint-poet from Karnataka, India.
The anthology presents perceptive articles on the major Indian English writers – including novelists, dramatists and poets who have enriched the realm of letters. The thematic concerns of these writers range from the mythical to the mundane; the colonial to the post-colonial; the social to the individual and the psychological to the satirical. The anthology is, therefore, polyphonic in nature. The third volume of the anthology contains articles on Ezekiel, ...
This anthology presents perceptive articles on the major Indian English writers including novelists, dramatists and poets who have enriched the realm of letters. The thematic concerns of these writers range from the mythical to the mundance; the colonical to the post-colonial; the social to the individual and the psychological to the satirical. The anthology is, therefore, polyphonic in nature. The writers studied in the fourth Volume of this anthology ...
The anthology presents perceptive articles on the major Indian English writers – including novelists, dramatists and poets who have enriched the realm of letters. The thematic concerns of these writers range from the mythical to the mundane; the colonial to the post-colonial; the social to the individual and the psychological to the satirical. The anthology is, therefore, polyphonic in nature.
Essays collected in this anthology offer glimpses of Indian response to Shakespeare, the myriad minded genius of the world. Shakespeare has influenced the Indian readers, researchers, translators, directors and actors very deeply. The Indian scholars with various cultural and linguistic backgrounds have tried to appropriate the beauty and meaning of Shakespearean in their own way like the five blind men in the Buddha’s story trying to ...
The Rebellious Rani of Belavadi and Other Stories contain twelve stories dealing with various aspects of South Indian life. The themes range from the historical to the contemporary; from the religious to the secular and from the elemental to the academic. These stories explore different aspects of human relationships against the cultural background of South India and are easily comparable to those of Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, Khushwant Singh and Manoj Das.
The Sun Behind the Cloud is a historical-political novel which deals with the colonial conflict between Bhaskararao Bhave of Peshwa dynasty, King of Naragund and the authorities of the East India Company around 1857. In this Indian war of independence, Bhaskararao Bhave fought against the British rulers, especially against the Disarmament bill and the doctrine of lapse introduced by Lord Dalhousie. He killed Manson, the political agent of South India and enraged ...
The anthology contains perceptive articles on the three major forms of Indian English Literature: poetry, fiction and drama. As usual fiction enjoys a lion’s share. The writers discussed in this anthology include poets like Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, A.K. Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel; novelists like R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Kamala Markandaya, Shantha Rama Rau, Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Anita Desai, Shobha De, Arundhati Roy, Amit Chaudhuri; ...
Perspectives on Commonwealth Literature contains articles on the major Commonwealth writers like Chinua Achebe, NGugi wa Thiang'O, Wole Soyinka, Obotunde Ijimire, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Laurence, Patrick White, Tom Gibson, Norman Partington, Simon Harvester, Taya Zinkin, G.V. Desani, Gurucharan Das, Manohar Malgonkar, Khushwant Singh, Chaman Nahal and Rabindranath Tagore. These articles will be useful to the scholar and the layman alike.
The authors discussed in Literary Vision include Sarvajna, Nirupama Borgohain, Rabindranath Tagore, Rao Bahaddur, Mohan Rakesh, Vijay Tendulkar, Shankar Mokashi-Punekar, G.S. Sarat Chandra, G.V. Desani, Khushwant Singh, Anita Desai, Sudhir Kakar, Nirad Chaudhuri, Bharata, Partington, Gibson, Simon Harvester, Taya Zinkin, O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthus Miller, H.D. Thoreau, Chamarasa, Jai Shankar Prasad, Basavaraj Kattimani, U.R. Anantamurty, Graham Greene, ...
This anthology deals with texts translated into English from ten Indian languages like Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu. It focuses on texts like Abhiyatri, Avadheswari, Cehmmeen, Earthen Lamps, Ghasiram Kotwal, Gramayana, Halfway House. I Take This Woman, Godan, Sakuntala, The Little Clay Cart, The Home and the World, Portrait of a Woman, Saksi, The Woman of Basrur, Jaratari Jagadguru, Samskara. The King of ...
In recent years, the Indian English literature has made conspicuous progress in all its forms, mainly in fiction and poetry. The articles on poets contained in this anthology acquaint the readers with the fluctuating scene of thematic concerns and technical experimentations in Indian English poetry. All other articles are also unique of its kind, reflecting the abovementioned author's treatment of their chosen literary genre. Since most of the authors included in ...