Dharwad hosts discussion on ‘Gopalakrishna Adiga and T. S. Eliot: Tradition and Modernity’

Writer Mahantappa Nandur said that Gopalakrishna Adiga’s poesy continues to pull readers due to the fact that of its thematic distinctiveness, subtlety, innovation and modern sensibility.

Delivering a peculiar speech connected ‘Gopalakrishna Adiga and T. S. Eliot: Tradition and Modernity’ organised by Dharwad Katte connected February 22 successful Dharward, helium said P. Lankesh’s remark that Adiga ‘opened the eyes of a generation’ was apt. However, helium expressed the presumption that Adiga’s Vedic consciousness imposed definite limitations connected his poetry.

Writer V. T. Nayak noted that Eliot infused English poesy with modernity, revitalised verse drama, and provided a beardown accepted instauration for literate criticism. Eliot, helium said, possessed a wide model regarding his religious, governmental and literate commitments, and addressed galore important problems of the modern satellite done his poesy and plays.

Presiding implicit the programme, Professor Basavaraj Donur stated that Adiga was among the foremost modernist poets successful Kannada, and that nary different Kannada writer engaged with modernity arsenic efficaciously arsenic helium did.

Responding to the disapproval regarding Adiga’s Vedic consciousness, Donur said it was not a limitation, but an integral portion of his poetic sensibility. Just arsenic Eliot had a Catholic consciousness, and writers similar Shakespeare and Tolstoy reflected Christian consciousness successful their work, Adiga’s Vedic consciousness was earthy to his taste context. However, helium noted that specified consciousness indispensable attain universality.

Donur further observed that Eliot addressed Europe’s taste and spiritual crises successful his poetry, and adjacent turned to the Upanishads portion seeking philosophical resolutions. Eliot’s influence, helium said, was global, including connected Adiga. Yet, Adiga transformed that power into his ain distinctive poetic voice. He suggested that a comparative survey could beryllium made betwixt Adiga’s Bhoomigeeta and Eliot’s The Waste Land.