Profiles

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 12) - Love for Scholarship and Regard for Hiriyanna

Meetings and Hospitality Every evening about seven to eight of us met at Srinivasa Sastri's house in Bangalore. Dr. B K Narayana Rao, M S Ramachandra Rao, N N...

Selected Portraits of DVG's Deep Friendships

Unsung Poetry (Part 1)

Here poetry isn’t the proverbial tough nut to crack. One need not raise their eyebrows remembering illustrious poets like Pampa, Ranna, Ṣaḍakṣarī, Harihara, Rud...

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 11) - Tradition and Contemporary Science

Tradition and Contemporary Science Though Srinivasa Sastri had great respect for our śāstra-s and tradition, people who knew him thought that he had some disda...

The Making of Jnapakachitrashale and DVG's Foreign Visitors

A Few Distinguished Dancers (Part 2)

Venkaṭalakṣmāsānī Among the popular dancers of my village, Bairakūru Venkaṭalakṣmāsānī’s dance and histrionics[1] became famous. Apart from the know...

The Making of Mankutimmana Kagga

M R Srinivasamurthy: Littérateur and Connoisseur

Although he was sixty years old, he was like a thirty-year-old in mind and body – my dear friend, Srinivasamurthy.[1] Even now, whenever I reminisce about him,...

A Few Distinguished Dancers (Part 1)

There once lived an elderly veśyā who went by the name Sītakka in the Guniguntipalya area of Mulubagilu town. She had a foster daughter. I remember her name...

Maharshi Vidyaranya, Kanchi Paramacharya and DVG

DVG’s Sri Ramaparikshanam has attempted to examine and analyse the various strands of difficult questions related to Dharma by creating imaginary conversations...

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 10) - The Epic Poet and his Influence on Sastri

A Request Once when Srinivasa Sastri was serving as the Vice Chancellor of the Annamalai University, he visited Bangalore to spend his summer in the city. Dr....

The Sprawling World of DVG's Literature

Honours and Felicitations For years on end, DVG kept refusing the requests from the public and government for honouring and felicitating him. Without waiting f...