India, April 5 -- * Title: Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka

* Author: Srikar Raghavan

* Year: 2025

* Pages: 598

* Price: Rs. 587

* Publisher: Context

By Ravi Joshi, Joint Secretary (Retd.), Cabinet Secretariat

The unusual title of the book hides a fascinating 'tour de force' of about 500 years of the cultural history of Karnataka and of Kannada literature. The book 'Rama Bhima Soma' is encyclopedic in its scope and includes a brief description of almost all the poets, writers and playwrights that have enriched the cultural ethos of the State.

Not only the author Srikar Raghavan's reading is so diverse and vast, but also his leaps of imagination from the local to the global and from the mundane to the ...