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Kannada literature has previously gained international recognition when renowned writer U.R. Ananthamurthy’s novel Samskara was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

Yet, of course, when, in 2005, I was invited to become a judge myself, I was flattered and accepted. At this time, the Man Booker Prize was in its heyday, its standing not yet squandered by the ...

But I am a fine one to talk. My own tiny excursion into the world of prize judging, the Man Booker of 2005, resulted in The Sea by John Banville winning, rather than the masterpiece Never Let Me Go.