Chandan Gowda teaches at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has edited The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader, Navayana and DC Books, 2017 and Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan, HarperCollins, 2016. He has also translated U R Ananthamurthy’s novella Bara, Oxford University Press, 2016 and edited The Post Office of Abachooru, a book of short stories of Purnachandra Tejasvi (forthcoming, HarperCollins, 2018). A Life in the World, a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy will be published soon (HarperCollins, 2018). He writes regularly for newspapers, including a weekly column on culture and politics in Bangalore Mirror. He is presently completing a book on the cultural politics of development in old Mysore state.
