Sunday, July 11, 2010

Moily's Ramayana, an intense search for equality in democratic setup

Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, a lawyer by training, entered politics in the sixties, occupied important positions in his home state Karnataka rising to the office of Chief Minister in the nineties. He moved to the Centre to head the Administrative Reforms Commission and at present is the Minister of Law and Justice in the UPA Government.

Moily has dedicated himself to the cause of the exploited and the marginalized classes of our society throughout his career. Born in such a class himself, Moily has intimate knowledge of the problems faced by the marginalized classes. He has articulated their problems in many of his writings.

Moily is the author of two collections of poetry, four novels, and a collection of discursive essays in English -- and now-Ramayana Mahanveshanam, an epic in two volumes. His book on Ramayana was originally published in Kannada and now has been translated into English by Dr. CN Ramachandran, Mrs. Padma Sharma, Dr. Laxminarayana Bhat, C. Naganna and Dr. Vijay Sheshadri.

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