About the book:

The book is an autobiography which includes frankly all the ups and downs of Karanth's life. He says that the book is not a success story, it is more a story of a failure who succeeded. The book starts with the place of his birth-a place called Kota ,north of South Kanara and goes on the describe his childhood, his college days, the freedom fighters story and then on to the sixty years of his life.
K S Karanth is a well known literary figure and the story of his life, penned by himself is interesting and lucid. One can imagine and visualize the incidents that took place in his life, so clearly has he written about them. References to the emergency, to the political calling, to films, to dramas, to yakshagana and others make the book interesting. Experiments in education, call of music, a dancing body for a dancing mind, uplift of villages, venture into journalism are some of the chapters included in the book.