: Revisiting mid-century Dharwad in Girish Karnad’s autobiography, interrogating the tug of nostalgia #IndiaNEWS In her delightfully bibliophilic 2018 memoir Listen to Me, the novelist Shashi Deshpande

Revisiting mid-century Dharwad in Girish Karnad’s autobiography, interrogating the tug of nostalgia #IndiaNEWS
In her delightfully bibliophilic 2018 memoir Listen to Me, the novelist Shashi Deshpande describes her family’s dispersal from the small college town where she had grown up: “We little knew that it was also the end of something. We would never come back to Dharwad again. Nor did I know that for me Dharwad was not over, that, even if I left Dharwad, it would never leave me.???Deshpande explains, “Through the years, suddenly and in the most unexpected places, I would come across someone who recognised me, a person who said s/he was from Dharwad too.??? She recalls an encounter at a Bangalore bus-stop, another at the airport in Tehran, and some “girl who shouted at me across the road in Mysore, in the midst of the Dasara Festival celebration???.There was Girish Karnad, “another Dharwad man, whom I met as a fellow writer in Bangalore??? and in London, “a very elegant and beautiful woman??? who proved to be [the author] “Aurora Figuerado [sic], now Maria Couto, an old friend from St. Joseph’s in Dharwad???. Later, in Lille, France, “during a literary festival, I was having lunch with other delegates when I heard a voice say, ‘My grandfather was a college teacher in a place...Read more

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