Monday, February 2, 2009

About Mirji Annaraya.......2

An other writer to chronicle the early forties is Mirji Annaraya, an author of great distinction. He shot into prominence by his prize winning novel of Jain life in Karnataka called Nisarga, which is a story of frustrated love. Mirji Annaraya too, like Karantha, has tried to describe a village school master's life and his Ramanna Mastaru is an unique study by itself. In Prati Sarkar, Annaraya studied the Satara revolutionary upsurge of 1942 but his best contemporary study is Ashoka-Chakra, which tells the tragic story of an agriculturist against the given and sordid back-ground of rural indebtedness.

by M.V.Kamat

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