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Tributaries of Time
Imagined Histories Through the Lives of Common People
Speakers
In this conversation between writer, Vasudhendra, translator Maithreyi Karnoor, and writer Devi Yesodharan who will moderate the session, we are offered a window into Vasudhendra’s enticingly titled newest publication, the historical novel Tejo Tungabhadra.
The novel has been translated from Kannada into English by Maithreyi Karnoor.
‘An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the depicted period.’ defines the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A critical feature of Tejo Tungabhadra is that the key players are imagined characters, ordinary, common people whose lives are swept by the grand events and social complexities of the time. Spanning two continents, it begins around 1492 when Columbus set sail in search of India, into the period when the Portuguese land in India, take over Goa, and engage with the Vijayanagara empire. The rich fabric of the saga set in Lisbon on the banks of the Tejo, and Hampi, on the banks of the Tungabhadra is woven with love, prejudice, the complex drama of inter-cultural, interreligious interactions, and, the grandeur of court life.
The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.
Speakers
Vasudhendra
Vasudhendra is a bestselling author in Kannada. Among his fifteen books are the critically acclaimed Mohanaswamy, which has been translated into several languages; the historical novel Tejo Tungabhadra whose English translation has just been released by Penguin, and the award-winning collection of essays Nammamma Andre Nangishta (I Like My Mother). He is the recipient of several literary awards, including the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Book Prize and the U.R. Ananthamurthy Award. After working as a software professional for over twenty years, Vasudhendra now runs his own
publication house, Chanda Pustaka. For more details bout the author, visit vasudhendra.com.
Maithreyi Karnoor
Maithreyi Karnoor is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship for creative writing and translation at Literature Across Frontiers, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She has won the Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati prize for
translation and has been shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Sylvia: Distant Avuncular Ends published by Tranquebar, is her debut novel.
Devi Yesodharan
Devi Yesodharan was a speechwriter for Infosys chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy. Empire, a historical fiction novel on the Tamil king Rajendra Chola, published by Juggernaut, is her first novel. Her book was nominated for the Tata Lit Live First Book Prize and the JCB Literature Prize. She is a Chevening Gurukul fellow and the co-founder of Trendlyne, a financial investing platform.
