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Dr. A. N. Krishna Rao (1908-1971)popularly known as Anakru, was one of Karnataka's famous novelist. He was popularly known as Kadambari Sarvabhouma (Emperor of Novels).

Anakru was born in Arakalagudu in Hassan District of Karnataka, India. His father was Narasingaraya and mother Annapurnamma.The period Anakru entered the literary world, was one when there was not Kannada readership, nor sale of books. From such shackles of literary traditionalism, Anakru liberated the Kannada reader. Through his first novel was Jeevana Yatre.Subsequently, he wrote Udayaraaga, Sandhyaaraagaa, Mangalasutra, Natasarvabhouma, Sahithyarathna, Taayiya Karulu, Grihalakshmi, Taayi Makkalu, Aasheervada and Anugraha which won him great popular name Kadambari Sarvabhouma.His literary output exceeded 80,000 pages.Then came the social reform when he wrote Nagna Sathya, Shani Santaana and Sanje Gaththalu, that threw light on the issues of prostitution, the traditionalists and protagonists of religion were shaken and called him a "vulgar writer" for writing on such a subject. "if telling the truth is vulgar, then I am a vulgar writer; if the act of covering with a cloth, a downtrodden, helpless, naked woman on the street is vulgar, then I am a vulgar writer" was Anakru's reply. It is an irony that the very same people who criticized Anakru, wrote on the same subject later.

Anakru’s contributed significantly to the growth of Kannada culture. He inspired an entire generation of Kannadigas and was the pioneer who instilled the Kannada reading habit and a value for Kannada. He also worked towards Integration of Karnataka. Once introducing him to an audience, one of Kannada's other major writer Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar said “I am a Tamil Kannadiga, Sir Mirza Ismail is a Muslim Kannadiga, and Anakru is a pure Kannadiga”. This tribute from a literary like Maasti mirrors of Kannada fervor Anakru was known for.

A. N. Krishna Rao acted as the president of the 43rd Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held in Manipal. Anakru was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Karnataka State award. Mysore University awarded Anakru a honorary doctorate in literature.
Based on Anakru's fiction Sadhyaraga, the Kannada movie Sandhyaraga released in 1966 was a hit movie.

The house, in Visvesvarapuram Bangalore of the first Kannada chaluvaligar, which had been a meeting place for writers during Anakru's lifetime is now being used as a footwear godown. Lot of people had urged the Government to convert this house into a memorial. But from almost 10 years this is still pending. Government said that the ownership of the building had to be ascertained before converting it into a memorial.

Some of his writings are ,

Sahitya and Kamprachodane
Sahitya mattu jeevan
Porake (Harate)
Kaman Billu
Nannannu nanekande
Maduveyo Manehalu
Raj Nartaki
Bannad Bisanike
Rasikagrani
Samra Sundari
Ran Vikram
Anna Tangi
Sandhyaraga

BeeChi, (1913-1980) was a well-known humorist in the Kannada language. His real name was Rayasam Bheemasena Rao. He preferred to write his pen name bilingually as ಬೀchi. He was also known as Karnataka's George Bernard Shaw..

Beechi was born in the year 1913 in Harapanahalli in the Davanagere district of Karnataka state, India. His father was Srinivas Rao and mother was Bharatamma. He discontinued studies after SSLC and joined a Government office as an attender.Having no formal exposure to Kannada or its literature, Beechi was motivated towards Kannada literature after reading A. N. Krishna Rao's novel Sandhyaraga on a long train journey. He considered A. N. Krishna Rao as his guru.

Beechi's writings were humour-based, and his first novel was Dasakoota, published when he was 32.His primary character was timma (ತಿಂಮ) (Used in Kannada to denote a man who is considered silly/crazy). Beechi released a lot of books with timma in the title. Churning out novels at a prolific rate, he wrote around 60 books in his lifetime.



His autobiography, entitled Nanna bhayagraphy, met with some controversy upon its release. References within the book to Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyyat' and how the great Kannada poet G. P. Rajaratnam seemed to have been inspired by it greatly sparked much anger in Rajaratnam and Rajaratnam is said to have written his 'Nirbhayagraphy' in protest.

His famous quotes...

ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ಗಂಡಸಿಗೂ ಮನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಹೆಂಡತಿ ಇರಲೇ ಬೇಕು...ಸ್ವನ್ಥದಾದಷ್ಟು ಒಳ್ಳೇದು...
Every guy needs a house and a wife - the more they are his own, the better...

ನಮಗೆ ಬೇಕಾದಾಗಲೆಲ್ಲ ದೇವರು ಪ್ರತ್ಯಕ್ಷವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಧಿಡೀರೆಂದು ದೇವರು ಪ್ರತ್ಯಕ್ಷವಾಗುವುದು ಕೇವಲ ತಮಿಳು ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ.
God does not appear before us whenever we want. He appears unexpectedly only in Tamil movies.

ನೀವು ಓದಿ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ್ ಆಗಿ, ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಆಗಿ, ಲಾಯರ್ ಆಗಿ ಅಥವ ಯಾವ ಕೆಲ್ಸನು ಸಿಗ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂದ್ರೆ, ಟೀಚರ್ ಆಗಿ. ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಆಗಬೇಡಿ. ಯಾಕೆಂದರೆ: ಪಾಲಿಟಿಕ್ಸ್ ಇಸ್ ದಿ ಲಾಸ್ಟ್ ರೆಸಾರ್ಟ್ ಆಫ್ ದಿ ವೊರ್ಸ್ಟ್ ಸ್ಕೌಂದ್ರೆಲ್!
You study and become an engineer, doctor or a lawyer or else at least become a teacher; but never become a politician. Because: Politics is the last resort of the worst scoundrel!

ಜೀವನದ ದುರಂತವಿದು, ಎಂದೋ ಬಯಸಿದುದು ಇಂದು ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ, ಅದು ಅವನಿಗೆ ಬೇಡವಾಗಿ ಪರರಿಗೆ ಉಪಯೋಗವಾಗುವಾಗ,
ಉದಾರಹಣೆಗೆ : ಮುಪ್ಪಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕಿರಿಯ ಹೆಂಡತಿ.
It's the irony of life. The wishes of yesteryears are fulfilled only today; only when they are no longer useful to oneself but useful only to others.
As an example: A young wife at an old age.


One of them who got inspired was B Pranesh also called as Gangavati Beechi..He is a person who knows something about BeeChi(original) and people say that he talks the way "Beechi" used to talk. So he is called Gangavati Beechi.