[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”3330″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][title title=”Chandan Gowda” title_text=”” float=”text-left” style=”style-1″][vc_column_text]Social Researcher, Writer and Critic, Bengaluru[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Bio” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]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.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]