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K Krishnamoorthy (Part 5)
Profiles Mar 14, 2022

K Krishnamoorthy (Part 5)

On Bharata’s repeated use of ‘bhāva’ in words such as vibhāva, anubhāva and vyabhicāri-bhāva: It should be noted that Bharata has coined all these techn...

Shashi Kiran B N
ವಿದ್ವದ್ರಸಿಕ, ಸಹೃದಯ ಶ್ರೀ ಟಿ. ಎನ್. ಪದ್ಮನಾಭನ್
Profiles Mar 11, 2022

ವಿದ್ವದ್ರಸಿಕ, ಸಹೃದಯ ಶ್ರೀ ಟಿ. ಎನ್. ಪದ್ಮನಾಭನ್

“ಮೇಲೆ ನೋಡೆ ಕಣ್ಣ ತಣಿಪ ನೀಲಪಟದಿ ವಿವಿಧ ರೂಪಜಾಲಗಳನು ಬಣ್ಣಿಸಿರ್ಪ ಚಿತ್ರಚತುರನಾರ್?” ಎಂಬ ಪದ್ಯವನ್ನು ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಿಕ ಶಾಲೆಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಉರುಹೊಡೆದಾಗ ನನಗೆ ಪೂಜ್ಯ ಡಿ.ವಿ.ಜಿ. ಅವರ ಮತ್ತು ಅ...

B R Prabhakar
Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 3)
Profiles Mar 01, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 3)

We learn the following from a treatise authored by M Gopalakrishnayya, published by the Mysore Electrical Department in 1932 – apparently, during the last decad...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan
K Krishnamoorthy (Part 4)
Profiles Feb 28, 2022

K Krishnamoorthy (Part 4)

Krishnamoorthy has expounded on an English sonnet composed by Wilfred Owen using Indian literary principles.[1] His analysis of Thomas Gray’s famous poem Elegy...

Shashi Kiran B N
K Krishnamoorthy (Part 3)
Profiles Feb 21, 2022

K Krishnamoorthy (Part 3)

Translations form a major part of Krishnamoorthy’s oeuvre. His English translations of Sanskrit works include Dhvanyāloka, commentary by an anonymous author on...

Shashi Kiran B N
Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 2)
Profiles Feb 15, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 2)

Competence at Work Alongside his reputation for proficiency at work, there is another trait of Seshadri Iyer that needs to be mentioned as a corollary. He was...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan
Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 1)
Profiles Feb 12, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 1)

Sir K. Seshadri Iyer was a native of Madras. He hailed from the region of Palghat (Palakkad). He wasn’t, in fact, someone the British authorities had summoned....

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan
K Krishnamoorthy (Part 2)
Profiles Feb 11, 2022

K Krishnamoorthy (Part 2)

Krishnamoorthy joined the Sharada Vilas College in 1949 and worked there until 1952. During this time, at the behest of A R Krishna Shastri, he wrote an elabora...

Shashi Kiran B N
Prof. Sondekoppa Srikanta Sastri (Part 6)
Profiles Feb 01, 2022

Prof. Sondekoppa Srikanta Sastri (Part 6)

Just to illustrate with an example, let us take his paper titled, ‘A Note on the Date of Śaṃkara,’ which was published in The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic So...

Hari Ravikumar
K Krishnamoorthy (Part 1)
Profiles Jan 31, 2022

K Krishnamoorthy (Part 1)

Note: This is the transcript of a lecture delivered under the auspices of Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs and Prekshaa Pratishtana, as part of a lecture ser...

Shashi Kiran B N