Date:26/10/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/10/26/stories/2007102653320800.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

‘Naanemba Maaye’ released

Special Correspondent

— Photo: Bhagya Prakash K.

Penchant for perfection: Sukanya Maruthi at her book release in Bangalore on Thursday. Chandrashekar Patil (left), President Kannada Sahitya Parishat, and I.M. Vittalmurthy, Secretary Kannada and Culture Department, are seen.

Bangalore: The Dharwad-based essayist and poet Sukanya Maruthi said that the process of creativity will not be complete without attaining a stoic state of mind and developing a penchant for perfection.

Ms. Maruthi was speaking after the release of her new collection of poems “Naanemba Maaye” here on Thursday.

Tracing the roots of her literary career, she said that she would have been a prolific writer had her father not developed a detachment towards literature despite his abilities to write and respond on a par with many famous writers of his generation. Although well-informed on several aspects of culture and literature, her father was not keen on practising creativity for various reasons, particularly owing to his philosophical bent of mind and “disinterested endeavour”, she said.

Quoting her poems and recalling her association with social movements such as the Gokak agitation, she said that her father’s attitude helped her withdraw and recoil herself in writing poems and essays.

Speaking on the mundane and metaphysical qualities of Ms. Maruthi’s poems, the Secretary to the Department of Kannada and Culture I.M. Vittalmurthy recited her recent poem “Nanagaaga Nalavattu”, which deals with several aspects of life in relation to aging mind and body.

The president of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat Chandrashekhara Patil was the chief guest.

Publisher Nitin Sha of the Swapna Book House was present.