Event Type: Conversations
Date
October 2, 2024
Location
2nd Floor, Knox Hall
Time
6:15 pm – 7:30 pm
Event Organizer
Ambedkar Initiative at ICLS, South Asia Institute
Event Sponsor
Event Co-Sponsor(s)
Chandan Gowda in conversation with Anupama Rao.
Please join us for a discussion with Chandan Gowda, author of Another India for a broad-ranging discussion about Kannada literary culture, contemporary politics, the history of the social sciences in India, and more.
Venue: Knox, 2nd floor
Day/Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Time: 6:10- 7:30PM
Chandan Gowda is Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. He has edited Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan (2016), The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader (2018) which later saw Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil translations, and A Life in the World (2019), a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy. His translation of UR Ananthamurthy’s novella Bara (2016) was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award for Translations, 2017. He has recently completed a book on the origins of development thought in colonial India with a focus on the old Mysore state. At present, he is currently co-translating and editing Daredevil Mustafa, a short fiction anthology by Purnachandra Tejasvi, and The Greatest Kannada Short Stories Ever Told and co-editing The Rammanohar Lohia Reader.
