''Om Namo'' is a book written by

Shantinath Desai Shantinath Desai (ಶಾಂತಿನಾಥ ದೇಸಾಯಿ, 1929–1998) was one of the leading modern authors of the Navya (modernist) movement in Kannada Literature. In most of his novels, short stories, and essays, Desai explores the chal ...

. Author received 2000's

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

posthumously for this work. This book translated to Hindi by Dharenendra Kurakuri and to English by G. S. Amur. This work has his study of Jainism in Karnataka. ''Om Namho'' tells two interrelated stories. The first of these which is a love story of two young British citizens, Adam Desai and Ann Eagleton, who come to India to conduct research in social anthropology. The second related to an old family belonging to Krishnapur located in the northern parts of Karnataka. This family undergoes modernization because of English exposure during India's twentieth century social changes.

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1999 Indian novels Novels in Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award-winning works {{1990s-hist-novel-stub