Pragatishila ( kn, ಪ್ರಗತಿಶೀಲ is a form of literature in

Kannada language Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native sp ...

. It is one of the five forms of modern

Kannada literature Kannada literature is the Text corpus, corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, a member of the Dravidian language, Dravidian Language family, family spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script. A ...

, the other four being ''Navodaya'', ''Navya'', ''Dalita'' and ''Bandaya''. ''Pragatishila'' which literally means ''Progressive'', is a simplistic form of fiction literature meant for the common man. It gained the popularity for a short period of time.

Prominent writers

Some of the important writers in this form of literature were A.N. Krishna Rao (''A.Na.Kru''), Basavaraj Kattimani, T.R. Subba Rao (''Ta Ra Su'') and

Chaduranga Subramanyaraje Urs (1916 – 19 October 1998), known by his pseudonym Chaduranga, was an Indian writer in Kannada language. He wrote four novels—''Sarvamangala'', ''Uyyale'', ''Vaishakha'', and ''Hejjala''—and a few other short storie ...

Chaduranga
and Niranjana Kulakanda Shivaraya.

References

Kannada literature Literary genres {{Karnataka-stub