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Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa: A legend in his own lifetime among novelists —2

[Continued from yesterday] We the readers of this book ‘Namma Bhyrappanavaru’ get to know what were the benefits derived by Dr. Bhyrappa’s readers, who had suffered the same kind of poverty, hardship,…

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Published September 29, 2020 · 6 min read
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We the readers of this book ‘Namma Bhyrappanavaru’ get to know what were the benefits derived by Dr. Bhyrappa’s readers, who had suffered the same kind of poverty, hardship, personal deprivations and humiliations like the characters in the story. ‘Bitthi’ was his autobiography and too melancholic to begin with and yet that ‘miserable creature’ the protagonist (here Bhyrappa himself) surmounts all the hurdles and succeeds in life, succeeds in a very big way to become a legend in his own lifetime, now at 90. He is indeed a role-model to those who blame their situation of birth, family and FATE for their failures in life. After all as Leo Tolstoy says, “All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” There could be persons whose situations in life were worse than Bhyrappa’s.

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