“The literary great is no more in our midst. At around 6 pm he
suffered a cardiac arrest. Our best efforts to resuscitate him were not
successful. He was suffering from a kidney ailment for several years.
Last night he suffered kidney failure. He was on a ventilator.
Unfortunately he did not respond to treatment. The decision on the final
rites will be decided by his family,” Medical Director and Chairman of
the Manipal Hospital H Sudarshan Ballal said on Friday evening.
Inspite of his kidney ailment, Murthy was very active both physically and mentally including extensive travelling and took up lot of assignments but in the last 10 to 15 days his condition worsened “to some extent”, Ballal said.
The outspoken U R Anantha Murthy who was an ardent supporter of the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka is expected to receive a funeral with state honours. He was hospitalized 10 days ago and had until then been living a very active life.
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He said that he will not live in the country if Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister of India and this statement drew lot of criticism in India. As its reverberation later when NDA alliance came to power he was given a free ticket to Pakistan.
During 2013, he said that Brahmin community used to eat beef as mentioned in Mahabharatha, but this was claimed as baseless by several prominent people like Pejavar seer, Vishwesha Thirtha Swami, Udupi. Pejavar seer also requested Ananthamurthy to reconsider his statement, as it hurt sentiments of a caste, but Ananthamurthy ignored his request. In June 2007 Ananthamurthy declared that he will not take part in literary functions in future in the wake of strong criticism for his reaction on S.L. Bhyrappa's controversial novel Aavarana.
U R Ananthamurthy has just celebrated his 80th birthday, having been born in the village of Melige in the Shimoga district of Karnataka on December 21st 1932. He is one of the most important representatives of the “Navya” or “New Movement” in the literature of the Kannada language, which is spoken by about 50 million people in India and elsewhere, including in Mauritius, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
Ananthamurthy grew up a “Gandhian socialist”. He read English literature at the University of Mysore and earned his doctorate from the University of Birmingham, England, with a thesis entitled, Politics and Fiction in the 1930s.
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He has published five novels, one play, eight short-story collections, three collections of poetry and eight more of essays, and his works have been translated into several Indian and European languages.
His work is known for its humanity and its courage in questioning cultural norms. Best known is his 1966 novel, Samskara, a story that asks: Can culture survive only if it is followed with blind fervour? Latest to be honoured was his novel, Bharatipura, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Hindu Literary prize and for last year’s DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Novelist and literary critic, Chandrahas Choudhury, writing in the Wall Street Journal that same year, said that the power of Ananthamurthy’s fiction “resides in the way its universal ideas are worked out through the frame of the local.”
Inspite of his kidney ailment, Murthy was very active both physically and mentally including extensive travelling and took up lot of assignments but in the last 10 to 15 days his condition worsened “to some extent”, Ballal said.
The outspoken U R Anantha Murthy who was an ardent supporter of the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka is expected to receive a funeral with state honours. He was hospitalized 10 days ago and had until then been living a very active life.
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He said that he will not live in the country if Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister of India and this statement drew lot of criticism in India. As its reverberation later when NDA alliance came to power he was given a free ticket to Pakistan.
During 2013, he said that Brahmin community used to eat beef as mentioned in Mahabharatha, but this was claimed as baseless by several prominent people like Pejavar seer, Vishwesha Thirtha Swami, Udupi. Pejavar seer also requested Ananthamurthy to reconsider his statement, as it hurt sentiments of a caste, but Ananthamurthy ignored his request. In June 2007 Ananthamurthy declared that he will not take part in literary functions in future in the wake of strong criticism for his reaction on S.L. Bhyrappa's controversial novel Aavarana.
U R Ananthamurthy has just celebrated his 80th birthday, having been born in the village of Melige in the Shimoga district of Karnataka on December 21st 1932. He is one of the most important representatives of the “Navya” or “New Movement” in the literature of the Kannada language, which is spoken by about 50 million people in India and elsewhere, including in Mauritius, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
Ananthamurthy grew up a “Gandhian socialist”. He read English literature at the University of Mysore and earned his doctorate from the University of Birmingham, England, with a thesis entitled, Politics and Fiction in the 1930s.
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He has published five novels, one play, eight short-story collections, three collections of poetry and eight more of essays, and his works have been translated into several Indian and European languages.
His work is known for its humanity and its courage in questioning cultural norms. Best known is his 1966 novel, Samskara, a story that asks: Can culture survive only if it is followed with blind fervour? Latest to be honoured was his novel, Bharatipura, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Hindu Literary prize and for last year’s DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Novelist and literary critic, Chandrahas Choudhury, writing in the Wall Street Journal that same year, said that the power of Ananthamurthy’s fiction “resides in the way its universal ideas are worked out through the frame of the local.”
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