: 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

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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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