Will leave India if Modi becomes PM: Kannada writer Ananthamurthy

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Jnanpith awardee and acclaimed Kannada writer Dr U R Ananthamurthy has said he will not live in a country with Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister, triggering angry reactions from BJP which said he was free to leave India.
As a controversy broke out over his strident anti-Modi remark, Ananthamurthy on Thursday stood his ground and said the Gujarat Chief Minister would create fear among people if he becomes Prime Minister.
"I would not want to live in a country where Modi is the Prime Minister," he said at an event here recently.
Against the backdrop of vitriolic attacks against him from the BJP and its sympathisers for his remarks, Ananthamurthy said, "He (Modi) will create fear and if a fearsome man is sitting there, people will just bow down to him because a bully creates cowards."

The country needs to build a citizenry who are not afraid and a governance where people do not follow a leader slavishly, he told reporters.

Indian_Express

I agree

The country needs to build a citizenry who are not afraid and a governance where people do not follow a leader slavishly,

, but the threat of leaving the country is empty, and against democracy.

 

[vgane]

Dr U.R.Ananthamurthy is a socialist of the Lohia type...But he supported Yeddyurappa...He has a knack of courting controversies...Just drama

 

[Brahmanyan]

Prof. U R Ananthamurthi, well known Kannada Author is not new to controversies. A Brahmin by birth he has highlighted the challenges faced by the changed situations by orthodox Brahmins of Karnataka in his writings. His famous Novel "Samskara" is the best example of his mindset. "Samskara" was taken as a Film and it got National Film Award for 1970. Unfortunately he has been utter failure in Politics.

 

[sarang]

Anantamurthy and Girish karnad are of the same type. The latter slammed VS Naipaul in a literary meet, when the topic of his speech was something else. These pseudo secularists will thrive only in india. Fortunately they cannot win any election.

Prof. U R Ananthamurthi, well known Kannada Author is not new to controversies. A Brahmin by birth he has highlighted the challenges faced by the changed situations by orthodox Brahmins of Karnataka in his writings. His famous Novel "Samskara" is the best example of his mindset. "Samskara" was taken as a Film and it got National Film Award for 1970. Unfortunately he has been utter failure in Politics.