--- title: "The Essential U. R. Ananthamurthy" author: "N. Manu Chakravarthy" rating: 3 date_read: 2023/11/19 shelves: [] tags: [book, goodreads] status: "read" format: "" pages: 303 reviewed: True isbn: ="9789393852922"--- # The Essential U. R. Ananthamurthy **Author:** N. Manu Chakravarthy **Date Read:** 2023/11/19 **Rating:** 3/5 **Bookshelves:** ## My Review A rather mixed offering: the chapter extracts from his books are a bit tough without there being some summary/critique for those books; whereas the memoirs and essays are fantastic and give a sense of an author struggling with post-colonial thought and figuring out a new generation of Karnataka-Indian writing in English (at the time).