Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (born December 21, 1932) is a contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language and is considered as one of the pioneers of the Navya movement. He is well known among Indian authors. He is the sixth person among eight recipients of theJnanpith Award for the Kannada language, the highest literary honour conferred in India. In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from theGovernment of India. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala during the late 1980s.
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Opposition against Narendra Modi aspiring to the position of prime minister of India appears to be building up among the country’s intelligentsia. After Amitav Ghosh, Jnanpeeth award winning Kannada author U R Ananthamurthy has now expressed apprehensions about Modi assuming the high office after the BJP declared him their PM candidate. “Modi can neither reflect ancient India nor can he build a model India. I will have no belongingness to India represented by Modi. I, in fact, will not like to live in India during that period,” Ananthamurthy has been quoted as saying in this report. He said this at a book release function in Bangalore on Sunday.
Under Modi, India can never be the India that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawahar Lal Nehru dreamt of, he said. Nobody with social consciousness and responsibility would want Modi as the prime minister. If Modi becomes the prime minister, nobody who has read Nehru’s Discovery of India would want to live in India, Ananthamurthy was quoted as saying this report in a Malayalam daily. The media is trying to project one face of Modi and conceal the other one. This is detrimental to the country, Ananthamurthy said.
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