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Book review: Shiva’s Drum by Chandrasekhar Kambar is a story of our times
The village novel is almost impossible to pull off. The characters risk coming across as dull-minded simpletons, the landscape too lush, the plot twists trite and the mood etching uprooted. Add to that a translation into an alien language with little common in culture and we usually have a disaster hiding between glossy covers.
Chandrasekhar Kambar, however, is a master at the genre and forms a fourth of my entire exposure to Kannada literature. His broad brushstrokes deftly bring to life an idyllic Shivapura that is slowly transitioning into the breakneck chaos of modernity, and from his minute etching spring characters that are deliciously contradictory – they give in to desires and live to regret it.
At its heart, Shiva’s Drum (Shivana Dangura) is a simple story. A village struggles to move on with the times and lurches ahead by the greed of its chief, only to discover the terrible cost of progress.
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Shiva's Drum
Born in , in Ghodgeri, northern Karnataka, 'Chandrasekhar Kambar' is acclaimed for the rich mythopoeic imagination that characterizes all his writing. A stalwart playwright, Kambar is also a well-known writer of poetry, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism in Kannada. He received the Jnanpith Award in The Government of India also honoured him with the Padmashree in Kambar's oeuvre of twenty-five plays comprises many well-known works including 'Jokumaraswami', 'Siri Sampige' and 'Mahamayi'. He has eleven poetry collections and six novels to his credit. From his earliest novel, 'Karimayi', to his later works like 'Chakori' and 'Shikharasoorya', Kambar roots himself in the folk and myth traditions of North Karnataka. His critical writing focuses majorly on folk theatre and folk literature. A man of many interests, Kambar has made five films and several documentaries. He has also composed th
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Chandrashekhara Kambara
Indian poet and playwright (Born: )
Chandrashekhara Basavanneppa Kambara (born 2 January ) is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, rulle director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi also president of the Sahitya Akademi, country's premier literary institution, after Vinayak Krishna Gokak () and U.R. Ananthamurthy ().[2] He is known for effective adaptation of the North Karnataka dialect of the Kannada language in his plays, and poems, in a similar style as in the works of D.R. Bendre.[3]
Kambara's plays mainly revolve around folk or mythology interlinked with contemporary issues,[4] inculcating modern lifestyle with his hard-hitting poems. He has become a pioneer of such literature.[5] His contribution as a playwright fryst vatten significant not only to Kannada theatre but also to the Indian theatre in general as he achieved a blend of the människor and the modern theat