THE GARDNER

1)The rivalry between Tammanna and Basavaiah keeps moving from the visible domain
to the invisible’ in
the story ‘The Gardener”. Comment.

P Lankesh was known as poet and a prolific prose writers of kannada

literature. The story ‘The Gardener’
provides the understanding of human nature. It has all variety and complexity human
greed in
universe.
There developed unhealthy rivalry between Tammanna and Basavaiah over the
possession of land. Both tried to
possess the land of the village. it looked like a healthy competition finally
reached to harsh situation. As a result there was
no land left in the village for people to buy, as all the land of the village
bought by either Thammanna or Basavaiah.As Tammanna owned thousand acres of land
and Basavaiah had owned eight hundred acres of land. Basavaiah couldn’t tolerate
it. He asked Tammanna to sell his two hundred acres of land.
When he didn’t want to sell it, Basavaiah forcibly acquired Tammann’s two hundred
acres of land.
Tammanna was advised by his supporters about the various means available for
getting back his land by the
court of law or to address the police. Even though he did not want that, his
supporters were
ready to attack Basavaiah. Such a war had become virtually inevitable. But Tammanna
was in search of a method
that he could annihilate Basavaiah completely.
He hit upon the idea of composing all his experiences in the form of
ballads and singing them. It brought him
immense name and fame which humiliated Basavaiah tremendously. So later Basavaiah
was attracked by some gold,
diamonds and other precious stones and he lived in a luxuary mansion. But the
visitors of his house insisted him
to buy Tammanna's book.Therefore he started inviting scholar's poet and musicians
to his place with the intention of
defeating Tammanna. Basavaiah got the news that Tammanna had fallen ill. This gave
him a full of hope that
he could defeate Tammanna easily.
After some days Tammanna decides to left his all properties and everything
and later settled in Chennarayapatana
and contemplated his death. As long as Tammanna was alive Basavaiah had a reason to
live. Basavaiah died because
he had no reason to live. Until then both Basavaiah and Tammanna indulged in
rivalry to win their ego.
Man needs wealth, education, art and many other things. He also suffers from
unbearable sorrowfulness and
greed and unhealthy competitive spirit which makes man mean, cruel and unkind. But
without these
vice people like Basavaiah has no reason for his existence. Rivalry between them
can be comparable to the rivalry
among the nations. It can be comparable to the cold war situation, lack of trust
and lack of belief and understanding
between America and Russia and between England and Germany. Each nation may try to
give the otherwise
impression of the neighbouring nation. One might try to give false propaganda of
other nation. Rivalry and
unhealthy competition continues not only between two people but also between two
nations.
 A nation like Russia told America that it was not it’s enemy and I have no
reason to go for war against you. One
can understand the agony & boredom of America. A nation like America is capable of
withstanding strains like this
but a human being cannot, such is the enigma of human nature. Human nature is so
complex and unpredictable that
till the day of one goes on living or confronting one challenges or the other.