Mandra

S. Ramaswamy obtained his M.A. first class in English Literature and received Gold Medal from Mysore University in 1954. He was a Fulbright/Smith-Mundt scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1966 and earned an M.A. in American Literature and won the Phi Beta Kappa Award. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree for his thesis on Tennessee Williams by Bangalore University in 1973. He was a British Council scholar at Oxford and London, a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Indo-Canadian scholar at McGill University, Montreal. He has been widely published in the areas of American Literature, Comparative Literature and Indological Studies. He has studied Sanskrit traditionally, and is a Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University.

S.L. Bhyrappa retired Professor of Philosophy, is widely regarded as one of India’s foremost modern-day writers. Some of his novels have been translated into all Indian languages including Sanskrit and into English. His works focus on fundamental human predicaments, social structures and prevailing norms. He probes into human nature and analyses love, duty and fate within a matrix of different value systems. Bhyrappa has received all State Awards, and some of the National Awards for his works. Three of his novels made into successful films have received National Awards.