1909- . Indian writer, born at Hassan,
Karnataka. He studied at Montpellier and the
Sorbonne in France. He wrote about Indian
independence from the perspective of a
village in S India in Kanthapura 1938 and
later, in The Serpent and the Rope 1960,
about a young cosmopolitan intellectual
seeking enlightenment. Collections of stories
include The Cow of the Barricades 1947 and
The Policeman and the Rose 1978.