Early Life
Shivaram Karanth was born in Kota near Udupi in the Udupi district of Karnataka to a Kannada family. Being the fifth child of his parents Shesha Karantha and Lakshmamma, he completed his primary education in Kundapura and Mangalore. His older brother was K. R. Karanth, who served as minister in the Madras Presidency in the 1940s. Shivaram Karanth was influenced by Gandhi's principles and took part in Indian Independence movement while he was in college. He left his degree halfway through to participate in the Non-cooperation movement. He worked for khadi and swadeshi for five years until 1927. By that time Karanth had already started writing fiction-detective novels, to begin with — as well as plays. He married Leela Karanth when he was past thirty.
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