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Profiles Apr 14, 2020

Ramanna’s discipline, affection (Part 4)

‘Urus’ In the southeast corner of Mulbagal stands a Dargah. A dargah is a grave of Muslim saints. It seems that a devotee named Haider Valli had performed pena...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Varuni KS

Profiles Apr 13, 2020

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 24) - Visit to Sringeri and the Sarda Bill

Our Visit to Sringeri Sri Chandrashekhara Bharati was the presiding Jagadguru during our visit to Sringeri back then. About a couple of weeks before Sastri’s v...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Apr 10, 2020

Two Venerable Individuals

1. Veeresalingam Pantulu The stature that belonged to R Narasimhacharya[1] in the history of Kannada literature was earned in Telugu literature by Kandakuri Ve...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Jayasimha K R

Profiles Apr 06, 2020

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 23) - Mysore Vasudevacharya's Singing and the Sringeri Jagadguru

Acharya’s Singing After a few months (since our stay at the Vasanta Mahal), Vidvān Mysore Vasudevacharya’s vocal concert was organised at the reseidence of Dr....

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Apr 03, 2020

Dr. T V Arumugam Mudaliar

Renowned as a doctor, a compassionate man, and an extremely capable surgeon in the old Mysore area, Rao Bahadur Dr. T V Arumugam Mudaliar was a contemporary of...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Mar 31, 2020

Ramanna’s discipline, affection (Part 3)

Introduction to books I have mentioned above that Ramanna made me read Kannada Rāmāyaṇa, Bhārata and other books regularly. Bhāgavata and Ranganātha-rāmāyaṇa -...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Varuni KS

Profiles Mar 23, 2020

Ramanna’s discipline, affection (Part 2)

Kāvyavācana[1]  Thanks to such readings and recitations, people from our neighbourhood used to come and gather at our place. Attikunte Sripatiraya, Lingap...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Varuni KS

Profiles Mar 17, 2020

Ramanna’s discipline, affection (Part 1)

Ramanna is my Cikka-tāta (grandfather’s younger brother). Sheikhdar Gundappa’s second son. I had briefly introduced him in my earlier writings. He initially wor...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Varuni KS

Profiles Mar 16, 2020

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 22) - The Days at the Vasanta Mahal

An Experience at the Vasanta Mahal On the evening of Deepavali in 1923, we, i.e., Sastri and his friends, reached Mysore. As per the directions of Sir Mirza Is...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Mar 09, 2020

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 21) - The Gentle Path

Benevolence Srinivasa Sastri possessed several characteristic traits that won people’s heart and gained him their appreciation. Scholarship, oratory skills, bo...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Mar 03, 2020

Sheenanna (Part 4)

Shamanna’s family Even I had moved to Eldooru. During those days, Shamanna’s wife Venkamma who was suffering from illness for a long time, passed away. Venkamm...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Varuni KS

Profiles Mar 02, 2020

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 20) - Sneha-rasa; John Morley and his Works

Meeting Once Again! That summer, Srinivasa Sastri had taken residence in a house named Seetaalaya in the B.P. Wadia Road in Basavanagudi. Sastri’s sixty-first...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj