Join us for a very special conversation with Srikar Raghavan and Roopa Pai on Srikar’s book RAMA BHIMA SOMA.
Here are the details of the event -
DAY - Sunday
DATE - 23 March
TIME - 11:30 AM
Since seating is limited, we recommend you confirm your spot here.
About the book -
Rama Bhima Soma is an enterprise of translation and rediscovery, packed with stories and conversations. Marshalling a diverse range of literary and scholarly resources, framed through biographical sketches and immersive reportage, Srikar Raghavan’s genre-bending work of narrative non-fiction reanimates some pivotal moments in the making of modern Karnataka. The life and times of legends like Kuvempu and Shivaram Karanth; the fall of Socialism and the rise of the Hindu Right; the wildly popular television serials of T.N. Seetharam and the community-centred one-woman theatre shows of Du Saraswathi; a brief history of Naxalism in Karnataka and more, the book explores a dizzyingly wide sweep of Karnataka’s contemporary history, seeking, above all, to forge new connections and begin fresh conversations.
About the speakers -
Srikar Raghavan is an independent researcher and writer from Mysore. He received the New India Foundation Fellowship in 2021, which paved the way to his debut work of narrative nonfiction, Rama Bhima Soma, a socio-cultural history of modern Karnataka. An inveterate bookworm, Srikar also loves to trek, travel, and fiddle around on a guitar.
Roopa Pai is a children's author and journalist who has over 20 published books which include India's first fantasy-adventure series for children Taranauts and the national best seller The Gita for Children which also won the 2016 Crossword Award for children's writing.