Sarabhinandana: programme to felicitate eminent Kannada writer Sara Aboobaker

Sarabhinandana: programme to felicitate eminent Kannada writer Sara Aboobaker

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Dec 18: The renowned Kannada writer Sara Aboobakar will be felicitated at a programme held in the University College on Sunday. 

During a press conference on Wednesday, M Mohan Alva, the president of the felicitation committee, said that the felicitation programme, which will be titled “Sarabhinandana,” will focus on her various literary contributions. B A Vivek, the academician; D K Chowta, the writer; B Jayashree, the stage artiste, and many others will participate in this progamme. “Chandragiri,” a felicitation volume, will be released during the occasion. 

Sara, who began writing when the Indian feminist movement was at its height during the year 1975, was the first woman writer to give the world a glimpse of the suppressed lives of Muslim women behind their purdahs. She wrote her first novel “Chandragiriya Teeradalli” based on how practices such as “talaq” made the lives of Muslim women miserable. This novel won several awards and made the writer famous. The novel has also been translated to other Indian languages, including English. Sara Aboobaker has also published an autobiography, “The Muslim Girl Studies at School.” 

Sara has written a number of novels, short stories, articles, travelogues, dramas for AIR, and so on. She has also translated the works of the eminent Malayalam writer Kamala Das. She is the winner of several prestigious awards such as the Karnataka Sahithya Academy Award and the Rajyothsava Award, to mention a few. The Mangalore University and the Kannada University Hampi have conferred an honorary doctorate and the Nadoja Award, respectively, on Sara Aboobaker.