KARVALO - kannada novel

Karvalo is novel written by Poorna Chandra Tejaswi one of the famous writer of kannada. His writings cover a wide range of topics, novels, short stories, non-fictions to transliterations.
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In Karvalo, the protagonist is a well educated farmer, who is also the narrator of the story. Inspite of his great interest in rural lifestyle, his unsuccessful agricultural work makes him think to quit everything and head towards the city. During this time he meets Karvalo, a middle aged scientist. Their first few meetings were made to discuss the agricultural difficulties which the protogonist had to share with the scientist. There is another interesting charecter Mandanna who makes his appearance in the initial stage of the novel. He is a local cowboy who is considered as a good-for-nothing fellow by the villagers and his friends.
The narrator of this story wonders when he finds that Mandanna and Karvalo are very close to each other. He wonders what is the thing which brings them to a common platform. What is that a scientist finds so special in a local cowboy?
As the story moves, we see the narrrator getting an explanation from the scientist himself as to the importance of Mandanna. Mandanna might have been labelled a dumb guy, but he too has some unique skills in his kitty which makes him a special aqquaintance of the scientist. Mandanna’s ‘observational skill’ is the thing which made Karvalo choose him as a person to help him with his research work. As Karvalo says, Mandanna is very good at identifying different creatures.
One fine day Karvalo reveals that his fellow ‘student’ Mandanna had seen an endangered reptile in the jungle, which was previously thought to have been extinct. It is a flying lizard which opens a wing-like organ when it has to fly from one place to another. Karvalo is now on a mission to spot the creature. Now he asks the narrator to join his team, which already includes the scientist, Mandanna, a camera man and a womaniser cook.
Their journey towards the lizard is the story of this novel. The series of discussions and revealations which happens in their expedition gives a philosophical touch to the story. The questions like ‘Do they find the flying lizard?’ become immaterial when you find that it is the truth of life what they were in search of.

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