Carvalho is one of the most widely read and admired novels of Tejaswi. It is a novel which can be read at various levels as it presents many worlds: the dream world of science and mystery and the everyday world of ordinary but amazing men and women.
The novel explores the various facets of our complex civilisation like agriculture, law and politics. It is a novel which will appeal to readers of all ages. To children it will appeal as a story of adventure, mystery and thrill; grown-ups can enjoy it as a work which offers stimulating insights into the world of men and women and Nature, and connoisseurs of art can see in it a baffling and inviting vision of art and metaphysics and wisdom.
K.P. Purnachandra Tejaswi (b.1938-d 2007 the elder of the two sons of the legendary epic poet Kuvempu was a most distinguished short story writer and novelist in Kannada. Tejaswi while growing coffee on his estate, developed a lasting passion for Nature and non-literary pursuits like photography, environment and wildlife study, travel and science. A deep interest in philosophy and metaphysics characterises all his literary and political activities. He is a recipient of several awards and honours including the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Chidambara Rahasya.
D.A. Shanker is a poet, playwright and translator. Educated at the Universities of Mysore and Sheffield, U.K. he was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Mysore. His translations of Kanakadasa's devotional songs and of Ramadhanya Charite and Shunya Sampdane, a fourteenth century Kannada classic and Vachanas received a lot of critical acclaim in India and abroad. He has also translated Krishna's Flute (Poems of Pu.Ti.Na) and is a recipient of the Karnataka Rajyotsava award and many other awards from the Karnataka Sahitya and Anuvada Academies.
If in the early nineteen-sixties the much-celebrated Samskara of U.R. Ananthamurthy, and its equally celebrated translation under the same title by A.K. Ramanujan, set in motion a startlingly new kind of fiction writing; in the eighties it was Purnachandra Tejaswi's Carvalho which largely, silently eclipsed the Ananthamurthy kind of writing and introduced an indigenous mode of handling the novel form in Kannada. Rejecting the heavy imported load of Marxist and Existential thought of Samskara, Tejaswi deliberately chose an apparently light, casual, comic mode and incorporated into it a rational, socialist thinking along with an Upanishadic kind of mysticism, and made Carvalho a thoroughly enjoyable and profoundly moving novel. It is with this novel, it can safely be said now, that Kannada came to squarely face twentieth century modernity with the right kind of native resilience.
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