Profiles

Rāja-sevā-dhurīṇa Sardār M Kantaraj Urs

Sardār M Kantaraj Urs was related to the Royal family: he was the Queen Regent’s younger brother and son-in-law. However, this wasn’t—even remotely—the reason w...

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 7) - “No Anger, please”

“No Anger, please” Sastri was an advocate of patience and humility. He was, at times, ridiculed by his own friends because of the great emphasis he laid on the...

Two Harikathākāras (Part 1)

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri--Real-life Examples

Real-life Examples He used to give real-life examples to drive home the import of a scriptural tenet. This made his lessons entertaining—a feature common to le...

Polepalli Chinnaswamy Shetty

I have heard that Chinnaswamy Shetty is the son-in-law of a wealthy landlord of Polepalli[1]. I may have gotten to know him around 1910-11. I was in need of som...

The Evolution of DVG's Jivana Dharmayoga

The Mysore People’s Convention that convened in Bangalore in December 1919 under the aegis of the Mysore Representative Assembly was largely the result of DVG’s...

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri--Disseminating Dharma

Disseminating Dharma Once this rigorous study of the scriptures was complete, Śrī Śāstri engaged himself primarily with delivering discourses on the Purāṇas. H...

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 6) - Teaching Literature; Angst and Anxiety

DVG Brings Gandhi to Bangalore for the First Time

Organizer of Society One of the vows of DVG’s life was to infuse dynamism in society. He made one or the other attempt in this direction for about fifty or six...

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri

Śri Ḍoṅgre Vīreśvara Śāstri who hailed from Maharashtra was Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri’s classmate during one of the batches. In later years, he served in various i...

Mandi Hariyanna

Around 1914-1915, when Visvesvaraya was the Diwan, Hariyanna, who was a trader in the wholesale market (Mandi), was appointed by the government to the Legislati...

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 5)

Beauty in his Words Even if a minor grammatical mistake in the English language fell on Sastri’s ears, he would react as though he was gravely wounded on his b...