![]() In the other corner, is Bhyrappa and his supporters, the so-called knicker lobby, who take a vicarious delight in the characterisation of the book which leaves nothing to the imagination. “It’s a bad book,” says Chandrashekhar Kambar. He constructs the plot and selects characters only to suit his opinions and end up as a debater, rather than a creative writer.” He is only a debater,” says Anantha Murthy. ![]() ![]() “Bhyrappa does not know either Hindu religion or the art of story-telling. Murthy’s supporters, a band of people who freely slap themselves the label “progressive” to describe their every act and action, claim Aavarana dangerously advances the fundamentalist agenda by tilting at the windmills of history, and that it seeks to divide society on communal lines. Anantha Murthy, the Jnanpith Award-winning former chairman of the Sahitya Akademi. Bhyrappa‘s latest novel Aavarana has thrown a sharp barb into the incestuous cesspool that is Kannada literature.
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