| Authors | RAVINDRABABU A.S. & PROF RUDRAMUNI |
|---|---|
| Article Type | Research Article |
| Language | English |
| Journal | North Asian International Research Journal of Social Science & Humanities |
| ISSN | 2454-9827 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 72-78 |
| Publication Year | 2026 |
| Publication Date | May 01, 2026 |
| DOI URL | https://doiglobal.org/10.2026/NAIRJCSSH.022 |
The works of U.R. Anantha Murthy respond to moments of their time and reflect on the issues of people, society and culture. Literary endeavors of a writer, direct or indirect significations obviously address the ways of society-cultural issues and its contemporary conflicting realities. The social issues of cultural tradition are thematically grounded, per se, ‘caste’ as a major issue of cultural problematic in Bharathipura. Yet sympathetic is author’s treatment of the tradition as the protagonist of the West-turned young man is involved against caste; a construct of the culture of Brahminism. Jagannatha, the protagon is a person of his modern learning-is quite fed up with the society he saw in his native town. After five years in England, back in his native town, Jagannatha felt, everything he saw was unchanged and stagnant. As he walked streets, just surmised, if untouchables were to refuse to carry human waste! (p.6) He thought, “Brahmins and merchants have not produced a thing of beauty” (U.R.Ananthamurthy p.9) as artisans do. The narrative combining ‘epistolary’ and ‘stream of consciousness’ devices to express the present, often uses the flash back to present the past with the present; Gandhi had visited Bharathipura, had gone straight to the ghetto of untouchables –soon after, Gandhi had undergone the puriffication through the rite of panchagavya as Sripathi Rao had told to Jagannatha. The untouchables and ‘Gandhi’s Purification rite’ is indicative of the problematic in culture and a conflict present in Bharathipura. Sripathi Rao was an impact on Jagannatha’s mind; the person behind Jagannatha’s intellectual culture. Rao, a congress leader and freedom fighter-now keeps a Khadi store- had read books of Ingersoll, Bertrand Russell and Bernard Shaw,; had caused Jagannatha to be a skeptic, had made him go to England for studies. Rao also had kept Scot.’s novels, Oliver Goldmith’s Vicar of Wakefield and Herman Hesse. Rao’s reading of Harijan at his home is still green in Jagannatha’s mind. In England he championed the cause of individualism and liberal politics. His girl friend whom he wants to marry is in England when heis back in India.
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