K.N. Ganeshaiah is an agricultural scientist and an Emeritus professor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He is also a novelist specializing in thrillers, and writes in the Kannada language.
Science publications.
Ganeshaiah is a prolific scientific author. He has
Fiction.
Ganeshaiah has also contributed to the literature of the Kannada language. He has published many novels and story collections, as well as having 12 of his short stories published in various magazines.
Novels:
Collection of Short/Long Stories:
Collection of Articles
He has written two volumes on his journey in Science and from there on to Literature
Other spinoffs from literature and media work
In total, Ganeshaiah has around 326 publications to his credit.
Controversies.
In March 2020, Prof. Ganeshiah was set to give a talk at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore titled "'Polygamy, Sexual Selection and Terrorism’," which argued in its abstract that polygamy and female foeticide created mate-deprived “bare branches” men, making them vulnerable to take up crime, terrorism and militancy. There was a strong objection by the students and citizens to the "Islamophobic and sexist" rhetoric in the abstract. which led to the cancellation of the talk. Prof. Ganeshiah argued that the talk was based on research by Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea den Boer in their book "Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population" published by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Prof Ganeshiah extends the argument in the book by stating that polygamy is also a contributing factor to the claims made in the research by the Hudson and den Boer and that polygamy is not limited to Islam alone
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