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'''''Karvalo''''' is a [[novel]] written by [[Poornachandra Tejaswi]],<ref name=Rajan>Rajan, P. K. (1989). ''The Growth of the novel in India, 1950-1980.'' New Delhi:Abhinav Publications. p. 118. {{ISBN|81-7017-259-4}}</ref> a writer from [[Kannada]] whose works include [[novel]]s, [[short story|short stories]], [[non-fiction]] and [[poetry]].<ref name=Tejaswi>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20090903040013/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2007/04/13/stories/2007041301730100.htm "Flights of Fancy."]}} Online webpage of ''The Hindu.'' Retrieved 2007-07-12.</ref><br />
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Tejaswi won the "most creative novel of the year" for ''Karvalo'' in 1980 from the Sahitya Akademi.<ref>Sahitya Akademi. (1992) ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature''; vol 5. p. 4309.</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
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In ''Karvalo'', the protagonist is a well-educated farmer, who is also the narrator of the same story. In spite of his great interest in rural lifestyle, his unsuccessful agricultural work makes him consider ending his life as a farmer to move to the city.<ref>http://www.astroshiva.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/karvalo-in-search-of-universal-truth/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913150639/http://astroshiva.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/karvalo-in-search-of-universal-truth/ |date=13 September 2014 }} 6.</ref> During this time he meets Karvalo, a middle aged scientist in search of a rare lizard.<ref name=Rajan/> Their first few meetings were made to discuss the agricultural difficulties. A character named Mandanna, a local cowboy who is considered as a good-for-nothing fellow by the villagers and his friends, is very close to Karvalo. Karvalo tells the protagonist that Mandanna is his student in a way.<ref>Karvalo's conversation with the protagonist in the novel</ref><br />
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The farmer wonders why Mandanna and Karvalo become close and what the scientist finds so special in the local cowboy. As the story progresses, the farmer understands that the scientist finds that Mandanna possesses special skills of a Naturalist, such as ''observational skills'' to identify creatures. Karvalo often goes into the deep Jungle with Mandanna and this gets the small town talking about their relationship.<ref>Karvalo's week long absence along with Mandanna cited in the novel</ref><br />
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One day Karvalo reveals that the endangered flying Lizard Mandanna had seen, '''''[[Draco dussumieri]]''''' is an [[agamid]] [[Draco (genus)|"flying" lizard]] capable of gliding from tree to tree found in the Western Ghats and a relative of ''Draco blanfordii'' of [[China]] (SW [[Yunnan]]), E [[Thailand]], W [[Malaysia]], [[Myanmar]], [[Vietnam]], [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]].<ref>Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia. p. 112-113</ref> Karvalo is interested in finding the lizard, previously thought to have been extinct.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}<br />
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The journey of these characters, the protagonist, Manadanna, a camera man and cook along with Karvalo to find the elusive lizard is the story of this novel.<ref>Karvalo's expedition cited in the Novel</ref> The series of discussions and revelations during the expedition gives a philosophical touch to the story, particularly the search for the truth of life.<ref name=Rajan/><br />
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==References==<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
* Barts, M. & Wilms, T. 2003 Die Agamen der Welt. Draco 4 (14): 4-23<br />
* Blanford, W.T. 1878 Notes on some Reptilia from the Himalayas and Burma. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) xlvii: 125-131<br />
* Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.<br />
* McGuire, Jimmy A. & Heang, Kiew Bong 2001 Phylogenetic systematics of Southeast Asian flying lizards (Iguania: Agamidae: Draco) as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72: 203-229<br />
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