Experiment 05 — Carrying Kannada prose across into English
Prose
Notebook entry — essays, lectures, novels and dramas that deserve a wider audience. Prose carries argument, memory and voice differently than poetry. These are longer experiments: sentences stretched across paragraphs, carrying thought and story from Kannada into English. Each piece asks what survives when a voice changes its clothes.
All prose
Sindhoora Lakshmana
G.R. Sangameshwara · from the Kannada original
A Kannada drama about Sindhoora Lakshmana, the revolutionary freedom fighter of North Karnataka — Scene 1.
Work in progress — to be completed.
Durgastamana
Ta Ra Su · from the Kannada original
The opening chapter of Ta Ra Su's Kannada historical novel Durgastamana, set in Chitradurga after the death of Kasturi Rangappa Nayaka, as the Queen Mother Obavva and the court wrestle with the question of succession.
Work in progress — to be completed.
Bendre & Science
Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Endowment Lecture, University of Mumbai, 2006
Dr. K. S. Sharma & Dr. Waman Bendre · from the Kannada original
A lecture on the lesser-known scientist in the Jnanapith poet: Bendre’s work on prime and perfect numbers, Pi, his own periodic table extending to element 127, and the cosmology hidden inside his poems.