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A postulation of abbreviated stories successful Kannada, “Halahalla – Stories of Two Decades”, authored by Head of the Department of English astatine Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, Basavaraj Donur, was released astatine a publication merchandise ceremonial successful Dharwad recently.
Releasing the publication published by Manohara Grantha Mala, Vice-Chancellor of Maharshi Valmiki University, Raichur, Shivanand Kelaginamani described the communicative postulation arsenic profoundly realistic. He said that the writer has captured the finer details of mundane beingness with clarity and philosophical depth.
Speaking astir the book, Prajna Mattihalli said that the stories are engaging and that they volition gully the readers into the author’s satellite erstwhile they statesman reading.
She noted that galore narratives person been inspired by tiny incidents from Dr. Donur’s life, portion others are fictionalized accounts that instrumentality readers backmost to puerility done simple, almighty storytelling.
Presiding implicit the function, Vinayak T. Nayak observed that 1 of the stories functions arsenic a governmental commentary, drafting inspiration from Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Reflecting connected the hardships of his childhood, Prof. Donur said that the stories person been shaped by lived experiences, memories and the joyousness recovered successful tiny moments of life.
H.V. Khakhandaki, Jayateerth Jahagirdar, Harsha Dambal, Srinivas Wadappi, D.M. Hiremath, Shashidhar Narendra and others were present.
