मशहूर साहित्यकार अनंतमूर्ति का निधन
Jnanpith award winner U R Ananthamurthy passes away
शुक्रवार, 22 अगस्त, 2014 को 18:48 IST तक के समाचार
ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार विजेता और प्रसिद्ध साहित्यकार उडुपी राजगोपालाचार्य अनंतमूर्ति का लंबी बीमारी के बाद बंगलौर में निधन हो गया. वे 82 वर्ष के थे.
उनके परिवार में पत्नी ईस्तर, पुत्री अनुराधा और पुत्र शरत हैं.
नव्या के प्रणेता
कन्नड़ भाषा के मशहूर लेखक अनंतमूर्ति की रचनाओं का अँगरेज़ी में अनुवाद हुआ और वह कन्नड़ साहित्य के नए आंदोलन 'नव्या' के प्रणेता रहे.
अनंतमूर्ति को 1994 में कन्नड़ साहित्य में उनके योगदान और आम आदमी के लिए लिखने की उनकी नई सोच के लिए साहित्य क्षेत्र के सर्वोच्च पुरस्कार ज्ञानपीठ से नवाजा गया.
1998 में भारत सरकार ने उन्हें नागरिक सम्मान पद्म भूषण से सम्मानित किया.
उनकी सबसे मशहूर और सबसे विवादित किताब 1970 के दशक में कन्नड़ में लिखी गई 'संस्कार' रही.
'संस्कार' से समाज पर चोट
उनका उपन्यास 'संस्कार' ब्राह्मणवादी मूल्यों और सामाजिक व्यवस्था की भर्त्सना करता है. उपन्यास में एक ब्राह्मण पुजारी की एक निचली जाति से संबंध रखने वाली वैश्या के घर में मौत हो जाती है. इस पर गांव में पुजारी के अंतिम क्रियाकर्म पर चलने वाली बहस से सामाजिक व्यवस्था को सामने लाया गया है.
'संस्कार' के लिए अनंतमूर्ति को ब्राह्मण समुदाय का भारी विरोध भी झेलना पड़ा. बाद में 'संस्कार' पर पट्टाभि रामा रेड्डी ने एक फ़िल्म भी बनाई, जिसने कई पुरस्कार जीते.
उनकी अन्य मशहूर कृतियों में भव, भारतीपुर, बारा और अवस्थ शामिल हैं. उन्होंने कई लघु कहानियाँ भी लिखीं.
अनंतमूर्ति पर किसी तरह की आलोचनाओं का कभी कोई असर नहीं हुआ. उनकी सोच समाजवादी और उदारवादी थी.
'तो देश छोड़ दूंगा'
हाल ही में वह नरेंद्र मोदी की आलोचना को लेकर सुर्खियों में रहे. उन्होंने धमकी दी थी कि अगर नरेंद्र मोदी प्रधानमंत्री बने तो वह देश छोड़ देंगे.
मोदी के समर्थकों और प्रशंसकों से उन्हें धमकियां भी मिलीं. कई ने तो उन्हें पाकिस्तान के टिकट तक भेज दिए थे. इन धमकियों को देखते हुए राज्य सरकार ने उन्हें पुलिस सुरक्षा भी दी थी.
उन्होंने तब बीबीसी से कहा था, "आप जानते हैं, मैं बहुत स्वाभिमानी व्यक्ति हूं. मेरा मज़ाक नहीं बनाया जा सकता."
अनंतमूर्ति 1980 के दशक में महात्मा गांधी विश्वविद्यालय तिरुवनंतपुरम के कुलपति रहे. इसके बाद वह केंद्रीय विश्वविद्यालय गुलबर्गा के कुलपति भी रहे.
उन्हें मैन बुकर अंतरराष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार के लिए भी नामित किया गया था.
(बीबीसी हिन्दी के एंड्रॉएड ऐप के लिए क्लिक करेंयहां क्लिक करें. आप हमें क्लिक करेंफ़ेसबुक और क्लिक करेंट्विटर पर भी फ़ॉलो कर सकते हैं.)
Jnanpith award winner U R Ananthamurthy passes away
Written by Johnson T A | Bangalore | August 22, 2014 9:00 pm
Former PM P V Narsimha Rao presenting Jnanpith award to prof. U R Ananthamurthy in 1995. (Source: Express Archives)
Ailing Jnanpith awardee and renowned Kannada writer U R Anantha Murthy, 82, who was in a critical condition since Thursday night following kidney failure died here at a private hospital at around 6 pm on Friday.
“The literary great is no more in our midst. At around 6 pm he suffered a cardiac arrest. Our best efforts to resuscitate him were not successful. He was suffering from a kidney ailment for several years. Last night he suffered kidney failure. He was on a ventilator. Unfortunately he did not respond to treatment. The decision on the final rites will be decided by his family,” Medical Director and Chairman of the Manipal Hospital H Sudarshan Ballal said on Friday evening.
Inspite of his kidney ailment, Murthy was very active both physically and mentally including extensive travelling and took up lot of assignments but in the last 10 to 15 days his condition worsened “to some extent”, Ballal said.
The outspoken U R Anantha Murthy who was an ardent supporter of the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka is expected to receive a funeral with state honours. He was hospitalized 10 days ago and had until then been living a very active life.
(With PTI inputs)
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/veteran-kannada-writer-ananthamurthy-in-critical-condition/
U. R. Ananthamurthy
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| U. R. Ananthamurthy | |
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| Born | 21 December 1932 Melige, Tirthahalli taluk,Shimoga District, Kingdom of Mysore, British India |
| Died | 22 August 2014 (aged 81) Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Occupation | Professor, writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Genre | Fiction, literary criticism |
| Literary movement | Navya |
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (Kannada: ಉಡುಪಿ ರಾಜಗೋಪಾಲಾಚಾರ್ಯ ಅನಂತಮೂರ್ತಿ; 21 December 1932 - 22 August 2014) was a contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language and is considered as one of the pioneers of the Navya movement.[1] He is the sixth person among eight recipients of the Jnanpith Award for the Kannada language, the highest literary honour conferred in India.[2][3] In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India.[4] He was the Vice-Chancellor ofMahatma Gandhi University in Kerala during the late 1980s. He was one of the finalists of Man Booker International Prize for the year 2013.[5] He died of renal failure on 22 August 2014.
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Early life
Ananthamurthy was born in Melige, in Tirthahalli taluk in the Shimoga District. His education started in a traditional Sanskritschool in Doorvasapura and continued in Tirthahalli and Mysore. After receiving a Master of Arts degree from the University of Mysore, he went to England for further studies on a Commonwealth Scholarship. He earned his doctorate from theUniversity of Birmingham in 1966 for his dissertation thesis entitled "Politics and Fiction in the 1930s".[6][7]
Career
Ananthamurthy's career started as a professor and instructor in 1970 in English department of University of Mysore. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala from 1987 to 1991.[8] He served as the Chairman of National Book Trust India for the year 1992. In 1993 he was elected as the president of Sahitya Academy. He served as a visiting professor in many renowned Indian and foreign universities including Jawaharlal Nehru University, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, University of Iowa, Tufts University and Shivaji University.[1] Ananthamurthy served twice as the chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India.[9] In 2012 he was appointed the first Chancellor of Central University of Karnataka.[9]
Ananthamurthy has participated and delivered lectures in numerous seminarsas writer and orator both in and outside the country. He was the member of the committee of Indian writers and visited countries like the Soviet Union, Hungary, France and West Germany in 1990. He visited Moscow in 1989 as board member for a Soviet newspaper. Ananthamurthy was the leader for the committee of writers who visited China in 1993.
Literary works
Ananthamurthy's works have been translated into several Indian and European languages and have been awarded with important literary prizes.[1] His main works include Samskara, Bhava, Bharathi Pura, and Avasthe. He has written numerous short stories as well. Several of his novels and short fictions have been made into movies.
Most of Ananthamurthy's literary works deal with psychological aspects of people in different situations, times and circumstances. His writings supposedly analyse aspects ranging from challenges and changes faced by Brahminfamilies of Karnataka to bureaucrats dealing with politics influencing their work.
Most of his novels are on reaction of individuals to situations that are unusual and artificial. Results of influences of socio-political and economic changes on traditional Hindu societies of India and clashes due to such influences – between a father and a son, husband and wife, father and daughter and finally, the fine love that flows beneath all such clashes are portrayed by Ananthamurthy in his works. This is evident in his stories like Sooryana Kudure (The Grasshopper), Mowni (Silent Man), Karthika' etc. It does not mean that Ananthamurthy is just clinging to portraying only such somewhat standard subjects of Indian literature of his period. His novelette "Bara" (Drought) portrays the dynamics of a drought-stricken district of Karnataka and the challenges and dilemmas a bureaucrat may face in such situations.
The central figure of the novel Sooryana Kudure – Venkata is shunned by his son and wife for his easy-going attitude that does not take him anywhere. Venkata is a non-achiever who could not achieve any material or monetary success in his life. However, he is a simpleton that does not take life's suffering to his heart too much. He likes to see life as living in the love ofAmma (or mother-goddess). In all sufferings of life, he has the child-like curiosity about the smallest things in life – like agrasshopper (Sooryana Kudure). The evening after his son revolts and leaves the house, he would be engrossed in a sight in his yard – a grasshopper shining in the sun's light.
Personal life
U. R. Ananthamurthy is married to Esther Ananthamurthy whom he met in 1954 and has been married to since 1956 and has two children, Sharat and Anuradha. He currently resides in Bangalore.
Ananthamurthy died at a Bangalore hospital on 22 August 2014. Murthy, who was admitted in the hospital for about 10 days for infection and fever, was undergoing treatment on multi-support system.[10]
Political career
U. R. Ananthamurthy made an unsuccessful run for the Lok Sabha in 2004 in which he stated that his prime ideological objective in opting to contest the elections was to fight the BJP.[11]
A Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda had made an offer for Murthy to contest for his party. However, after the Janata Dal (Secular) worked a power sharing agreement with the Bharatiya Janata PartyMurthy said
| “ | I will never forgive my friends in the Janata Dal (Secular) for joining hands with the BJP.[12] | ” |
Ananthamurthy also contested for the Rajya Sabha elections from state assembly in 2006.[13]
The idea proposed by Ananthamurthy to rename ten cities in Karnataka including Bengaluru from their colonial forms to actual native forms was accepted by Government of Karnataka and the cities were renamed on the occasion of golden jubilee celebrations of formation of Karnataka.[14]
Controversies
In June 2007 Ananthamurthy declared that he will not take part in literary functions in future in the wake of strong criticism for his reaction on S.L. Bhyrappa's controversial novel Aavarana.[15]
In 2013, Murthy's statement that there is a reference in the Mahabharata to Brahmins consuming beef drew flak from Hindu religious leaders. Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Pejawar Math commented that there was no reference to Brahmins consuming beef in the conservation between Bhishma and Yudhishtira or anywhere else in the Mahabharata and Murthy's statement came as a surprise to him.[16]
A vocal critic of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party/Jan Sangh for over 50 years, Murthy said in 2013 that he will not live in the country ruled by BJP leader Narendra Modi.[14] He later clarified that those remarks were made when he was "overcome by emotion" and said that he had no such plan, though he continues to oppose BJP.[17]Murthy was given special police protection after he began receiving threatening phone calls.[18] Later when Modi became the Prime Minister he was given a free ticket to Pakistan by a group of Modi supporters called "NaMo Brigade".[19]
Awards
- 1984: Rajyothsava Award
- 1994: Jnanpith Award[2]
- 1998: Padma Bhushan[4]
- 2004: Sahitya Akademi Fellowship[20]
- 2008: Nadoja Award by Kannada University[21]
- 2011: Shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize (Bharathipura)[22]
- 2012 D. Litt. Honoris Causa of the University of Calcutta[23]
- 2013: Nominated, Man Booker International Prize[5]
Bibliography
Short story collections
- Endendhigu Mugiyada Kathe
- Mouni
- Prashne
- Clip Joint
- Ghata Shradda
- Aakaasha mattu Bekku
- Eradu dashakada kategalu
- Aidu dashakada kategalu
Novels
- Samskara
- Bharathipura
- Avasthe
- Bhava
- Divya
Plays
- Avahane
Collection of poems
- 15 Padyagalu
- Mithuna
- Ajjana hegala sukkugalu
Literary criticism and essays
- Prajne mathu Parisara
- Sannivesha
- Sanamkshama
- Poorvapara
- Yugapallata
- Valmikiya Nevadalli
- Maatu Sotha Bharatha
- Sadya Mattu Shashvata
Journalism
- Editor – Rujuvathu
Footnotes
- ^ a b c "U.R. Ananthamurthy". International literature festival Berlin. Foundation for Art and Politics and the Berliner Festspiele, German UNESCO committee. Retrieved 28 June 2007.
- ^ a b "Jnanpith Laureates". Bharatiya Jnanpith. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Jnanapeeth Awards". Ekavi foundation. Ekavi. Retrieved 28 June 2007.
- ^ a b "Padma Bhushan Awardees". Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Lydia Davis wins the Man Booker International Prize 2013". Man Brooker Prize. 22 May 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ Prasad, A. N. and Kanupriya, ed. (2006). Indian Writing in English: Tradition and Modernity. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons. p. 78.ISBN 81-7625-717-6.
- ^ http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/news/ur-ananthamurthy-named-first-chancellor-cuk
- ^ "Mahatma Gandhi University: Milestones". Mahatma Gandhi University. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Ananthamurthy re-nominated FTII chief". Online webpage of The Hindu (Chennai, India: The Hindu). 2 September 2005. Retrieved 28 June 2007.
- ^ "Jnanpith Awardee U R Anantha Murthy Dead". The New Indian Express. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ Ananthamurthy awaiting Congress's response to his offer The Hindu – March 16, 2004
- ^ Ananthamurthy in favour of reservation The Hindu – May 21, 2006
- ^ "Kumaraswamy hits out at Ananthamurthy's candidature". Online webpage of The Hindu (Chennai, India: The Hindu). 20 March 2006. Retrieved 28 June 2007.
- ^ a b "More State cities and towns can be renamed, says Ananthamurthy". Online webpage of The Hindu (Chennai, India: The Hindu). 14 December 2005. Retrieved 28 June 2007.
- ^ "'Hounded' URA to give literary meets a go-by". Online webpage of Deccan Herald. Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ "Pejawar seer objects to Ananthamurthy's statement". The Hindu. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
- ^ "Kannada Writer Ananthamurthy Makes U-turn on Modi Remarks". The New Indian Express. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Noted Kannada Writer UR Ananthamurthy Targeted for Anti-Modi Views". NDTV. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Mangalore: NaMo Brigade books flight ticket to Pakistan for Ananthamurthy! If one is a self assumed scholar and thinker one need not maintain any correlation between talking and walking.".
- ^ "Sahitya Akademi Fellows". Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Bellary: 'Nadoja' Awards Announced". Daiji World. 25 December 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ^ "Shortlisted works for 2011 prize". The Hindu. 25 September 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Annual Convocation". University of Calcutta.
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