I cultivated the habit of reading literature after addicting to Hi Bangalore kannada weekly. I came to know about many books, authors through Hi Bangalore only. Started reading the books of ravi belegere , then came Khuswanth singh, robin sharma, etc etc.. Till april 2007 I had just heard about Teajswi. On April 5 , 2007 Tejaswi died of heartattack. The scoop became cover story in Hi Bangalore with mast head " O Carvalho " , the papaer was filled with articles and memiors about Tejaswi written by others . I was impressed by the articles present in the paper. The next morning I purchased Carvalho of Tejaswi, finished the novel in one sitting . After reading Cravalho, I became an ardent fan of Tejaswi .
Started reading Tejaswi's novels, short stories, as of now I have read allmost all his writings. All of the Tejaswi's story had a malnad village backdrop, while readind his writings I have felt that I am at my native.
Tejaswi became morte and more closer to my heart and soul. Even today Carvalho and his other novels reach No.1 position in the bestseller list and stay over there for several weeks.
The characters like Mandanna, Biriyani Kariyappa, Carvalho, Kivi, Pyara have became immortals. Tejaswi was very clear with his thoughts and had his own vision about agriculture, ploitics and farmers. Tejaswi was the first person in India , who raised the topic of open market for coffee. He was the reason behind coffee getting open market.
After his masters degree in maharaja college at mysore, Tejaswi worked as lecturer for a while and then he went to do farming in Mudigere. Bought a land and made coffee plantation. I wonder how tejaswi created marvels by sitting in the sleepy town mudigere. Tejaswi other interests were painting, playing sitar, photography , fishing...... and many more. He was a disciplined man and he used to indullge 100 % in what he do. Because of that discipline onluy he excelled in what he did. He used to repair his car, scooter as good as a experienced mechanic. In his last years Tejaswi was fond of computer and he was on his way to develop kannada software. He had told many people that " we need to develop our own kannada software language, then only our language will survive ". He created Mayaloka novel using computer only.
Tejaswi became a living legend in and around mudigere by his unique activities. He was influenced by Rammanohar lohia's ideology and his works reflected the same. He was with Lankesh in his Pragathi Ranga and also he was active Farmer's movement (Raitha Chaluvali) with Prof.M.D.N.
Many of his short storie had became films in kannada. His novels Carvalho, Chidambara rahasya became teleserials. Now Chandana channel is retelecasting the Chidambara rahasya again, many are started watching ( Source : Facebook Updates).
Tejaswi was a mentor to an entire generation. He is the person who got celebtiry level being a writer. He is role model for many people and he created a awareness about the environment. He lived his life to its fullest from and he didnt cared about what other's feel about him.
His fans activities in Facebook and other social networking sites shows is influence on is readers. Mudigere's vismaya prathistana which was founded by the followers of Tejaswi to realise his dreams is very active which conducts trekkings, enviromental awareness to school students by organising exhibitions about flora and fuana ( http://tejaswivismaya.com/ ).
His depature had created a vaccum in kannada literature which is not filled and will not be filled. He remains evergreen and alive in his reader's heart forever.
Mrs.Rajeshwari Tejaswi had written some article in Kendasampige website, read those articles to get more information about Tejaswi. http://kendasampige.com/writer_profile.php?id=86 .
