UR Ananthamurthy loves the finer things

It surprised even the unsurpisable diarist to discover that a man who was so much a part of the warp and weave of creativity in Bangalore had never been to the Rangoli Metro Art Centre on MG Road before Sunday.”This is my first visit,” said author U R Ananthamurthy who was at RAC with his wife Esther for the book exchange fair. More than the books, it seemed like the veteran writer was enthralled by the paintings, architecture and above all the greenery at RAC.“It reminds me of the old boulevard on MG Road of good old Bangalore,” he said. Many in the city still pine for that old boulevard. But then URA has always been a man who embraced change; after all he was one of the pioneers of the Navya movement in Karnataka, right?