SUN | 18 NOV Of Figments of Imagination & Bold Canvases
– Literary Fiction & Non Fiction
12 PM – 1 PM Thangaali
Dr. Chandan Gowda
Session
Bio
Dr. Chandan Gowda is Professor, School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has edited ‘Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan’. Besides his academic writings, he has translated writings from Kannada into English including ‘Bara’, a novella by UR Ananthamurthy and edited ‘The Post Office of Abachooru’, a book of short stories of KP Purnachandra Tejasvi. He has also directed Sahitya Sahavasa (In the Company of Literature), a series of video lectures of UR Ananthamurthy. He writes a weekly column on culture and politics in Bangalore Mirror. He is presently completing a book on the cultural politics of development in old Mysore state.
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