Sugata Srinivasaraju

24 JULY | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

JYOTHI HALL, Southern Star, Mysuru

Sugata Srinivasaraju is a bilingual journalist, author, and columnist. He has editorially led some of the leading print, television, and digital news organisations in the last decade. He was co-founder of The State and SouthWord, editorial director of Asianet News Network, and editor-in-chief of Kannada Prabha and Vijay Karnataka (Times Group), two major Kannada dailies. For nearly a decade, he was a senior editor with the national news magazine Outlook. He has also worked in prominent roles at Hindustan Times and Deccan Herald. He has been a Chevening Scholar in the UK, a Fellow of the Aspen Institute in the US, and is currently a Homi Bhabha Fellow.
Sugata’s books include Keeping Faith with the Mother Tongue: The Anxieties of a Local Culture (2008), Pickles from Home: The Worlds of a Bilingual (2012), and in Kannada, Kittale, Nerale, Perale: Avasarakke Yetukida Maatu Baraha (2016), for which he won the Vi.Chi literary prize. His book Phoneix and Four Other Mime Plays won him the translation prize of the Karnataka Sahitya Academy. His latest book is a biography of India’s eleventh Prime Minister: Furrows in a Field – The Unexplored Life of H.D. Deve Gowda.>