1. Kota Shivaram Karanth, abbreviated as K Shivaram Karanth, was an Indian author, who was a novelist in Kannada language, playwright and an ecological conservationist.
18 Facts About Shivaram Karanth
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Shivaram Karanth was the third writer to be decorated with the Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honor conferred in India.
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Shivaram Karanth was born on 10 October 1902, in Kota near Kundapura in the Udupi district of Karnataka to a Kannada-speaking Smartha Brahmin family.
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Shivaram Karanth was influenced by Gandhi's principles and took part in the Indian Independence movement when he was in college.
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Shivaram Karanth canvassed for khadi and swadeshi in Karnataka led by Indian National Congress leader Karnad Sadashiva Rao, for five years till 1927.
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Shivaram Karanth began writing in 1924 and soon published his first book, Rashtrageetha Sudhakara, a collection of poems.
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Shivaram Karanth was an intellectual and environmentalist who made notable contribution to the art and culture of Karnataka.
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Shivaram Karanth is considered one of the most influential novelists in the Kannada language.
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Shivaram Karanth wrote two books on Karnataka's ancient stage dance-drama Yakshagana.
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Shivaram Karanth was involved in experiments in the technique of printing for some years in the 1930s and 1940s and printed his own novels, but incurred financial losses.
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Shivaram Karanth was a painter and was deeply concerned with the issue of nuclear energy and its impact on the environment.
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Shivaram Karanth wrote, apart from his forty-seven novels, thirty-one plays, four short story collections, six books of essays and sketches, thirteen books on art, two volumes of poems, nine encyclopedias, and over one hundred articles on various issues.
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Shivaram Karanth married Leela Alva, a student in the school that Shivaram Karanth taught dance and directed plays in.
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The couple subsequently attracted ridicule from people in the region over their inter-caste marriage; Shivaram Karanth belonged to an orthodox Brahmin community, but had become an atheist after cutting his sacred thread at a young age.
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Shivaram Karanth was quite well-read, and she dedicated all of her talents to her husband.
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Shivaram Karanth was admitted to Kasturba Medical College in Manipal on 2 December 1997 to be treated for viral fever.
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Shivaram Karanth suffered from a cardiac respiratory arrest two days later and slipped into a coma.
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Many of Shivaram Karanth's novels have been translated into other Indian languages.