Vasudhendra is an Indian author in

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known for his short stories and personal essays.

Personal life

Vasudhendra was born at Sandur in the

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. He graduated with a

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degree from the

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. He then did his

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from

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. He had been a software professional since 20 years. He was also the Vice President at Genisys Software. Vasudhendra came out as gay in the interviews with prajavani and other media houses.

Short stories

# Maneeshe (1998) # Ugadi (2004) # Chelu (2006) # Hampi Express (2008) # Mohanaswamy (2013) # Vishama Bhinnaraashi (2017)

Collection of Essays

# Kothigalu (2004) # Nammamma Andre Nangishta (2006) # Rakshaka Annatha (2010) # Varnamaya (2012) # Aidu Paise Vardakshine (2016)

Novel

# Harichitta Satya (2010) # Tejo-Tungabhadra (2019) # Reshme Batte (Oct. 2024)

Translations

# Mithuna (2004) (Translation of Sri Ramana's Short Stories from

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) # Everest (2015) (Translation of

Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—'' Into the Wild''; '' Into Thin Air''; '' Under the Banner of Heaven''; and '' Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pa ...

's Everest Mountaineering Disaster

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)

Science

# E-Commerce

In Braille language

# Adrushya kaavya (2006) (collection of essays)

Books in English

# Mohanaswamy (Harper Perennial, Nov 2016) # The unforgiving city and other stories (Penguin India, Step 2021)

Awards and recognitions

# Karnataka Sahitya Academy Sahityasri Award # Karnataka Sahitya Academy Book Prize # Galaganaatha Award # Da Raa Bendre Story Award # Masti Katha Award # U. R. Ananthamurthy Award # Besagarahalli Ramanna Award # Vasudheva Bhoopalam Award # Vardhamana Udayonmukha Award # Amma Award from Sadem # Katharangam Award

Publication

He has started his own publication house called the Chanda Pustaka. Through this he has given encouragement to many upcoming writers of Kannada. It has published around 100 books till date and these books have won more than 100 prestigious awards. He has instituted an award 'Chanda Pustaka Bahumana', which will be given to a fresh and young short story writer every year by publishing his first anthology along with a cash prize. He publishes all his books through this publication house and he looks after sales and marketing of his publications.

Other interests

being a hiker, he has trekked across Western Ghats. He has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro of Tanzania and trekked to Kailash & Mansarovar of Tibet. He is a regular squash player. World Cinema, Mahabharata and Indian classical music are his other passions. He decided not to watch television 12 years back and he follows this till date. Vasudendra has also done a professional course in counseling and spends most of his time these days in counseling his clients ef:Hindu Article He is also a visiting faculty in Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering where he is respected and revered by his students.

LGBT Activism

Vasudhendra is also associated with a local support group for LGBT individuals, called GoodAsYou. He has been doing a lot of activism for gay rights in Karnataka and in his latest interview with vishwavani, he argued that most people do not have sex just for procreation but also for recreation and oppression against gays is similar to that against dalits and made references to early Hindu texts.

References

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