Background
Gowramma was born in 1912 in Madikeri and married to B. T. Gopal Krishna of Gundugutti village of Somwarpet taluk in Kodagu, then known as Coorg, a province in British India.
Gowramma was born in 1912 in Madikeri and married to B. T. Gopal Krishna of Gundugutti village of Somwarpet taluk in Kodagu, then known as Coorg, a province in British India.
She had studied in a convent, played tennis and indulged in swimming even after her wedding, learnt Hindi in a remote town, corresponded with the important writers of her times, women as well as men, and she was deeply influenced by the independence movement.
She was also a feminist and a supporter of the Indian Freedom Movement. She invited Mahatma Gandhi to her family house, during his campaign in Coorg, and donated all her gold ornaments towards the Harijan (Dalit) Welfare Fund. She died young, while drowning in a whirlpool, aged 27, on April 13, 1939.
A volume of Gowramma"s stories were published as Mareyalagada Kathegalu and prefaced by yet another Kannada woman writer Vaidehi.
