Elements of Literature and Creative Communication

Dr H S Komalesha is Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur. He has 7 books and more than 50 research articles and translations to his credit. Routledge (London & New York: 2021) has published Veneration to the Elders – English translation of the earliest extant Kannada prose work written circa 940 CE that he translated along with a team of experts in Kannada and Jain Literature (Manohar Publishers for the South-Asian Edition). Peter Lang, Oxford has published his critical book, Issues of Identity in Indian English Fiction: A Close Reading of Canonical Indian English Novels. and (New Delhi: Manohar Books, 2020). The Central Sahitya Akademi – the National Academy of Letters in India (New Delhi) has published three of his book-length translations: Adoration of the Ancients (2022); Rashtrakavi Kuvempu (2014) and Anupama Niranjana (2008). He has also translated and published Sankranti (Sampark Publishers, Kolkata: 2011), an iconic modernist play written by a maverick Kannada writer, P Lankesh. He works broadly in the penumbral spaces of Poetry, Translation, Gender and Culture Studies.