‘Working on his father’s book was cathartic for Puneeth Rajkumar’
The Hindu
Puneeth Rajkumar, the multifaceted personality he was, had co-authored a coffee table book, biography of his father, Dr. Rajkumar. Though the project started when the thespian was alive, it evolved in
Puneeth Rajkumar, the multifaceted personality he was, had co-authored a coffee table book, biography of his father, Dr. Rajkumar. Though the project started when the thespian was alive, it evolved into a passionate project after his passing.
“It was cathartic for him to be consumed by work for the book after his father’s death. It helped him come to terms with the loss,” said co-author and Puneeth’s friend, Prakruti N. Banavasi.
“Puneeth asked me to work on a biography in the late 1990s, but I took it seriously only a few years later. We collected 8,800 photographs and wrote over one lakh words, which was eventually edited down to a book of nearly 300 pages with 1,750 rare photographs some of which had never been published earlier,” he recounted.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.