About the Book: Rujuvathu: Selected Essays of U R Ananthamurthy
UK Ananthamuthys "Rujuvathu" (which in a broad philosophical sense means
"evidence /proof) is a collection of essays by an eminent creative writer, who,
as a fine thinker, places before his cultural community his views on individual
creativity, tradition, language, politics and social issues, unequivocally
foregrounding all the contradictions, dualities and paradoxes embedded in them.
The essays are essential# deep reflections on culture and society that come from
a "witness" who was an engaged and involved participant in the major issues of
his times. They are not the reports of an "objective observer" merely
chronicling the controversies and