Chandan Gowda

Chandan Gowda

Social Researcher, Writer and Critic, Bengaluru

Bio

Chandan Gowda is a Professor of Sociology at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has translated UR Ananthamurthy’s story, Bara and edited, The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader and Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan. A Life in the World, a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy will be published later this year. He is presently completing a book on the cultural politics of development in old Mysore state. He is also co-translating and editing, The Post Office of Abachooru, a book of short stories of the Kannada writer, Purnachandra Tejasvi. He writes a weekly column on culture and politics in Bangalore Mirror.”