Profiles

S Srikanta Sastri (Part 2)

Family Lineage Srikanta Sastri’s family history deserves to be mentioned here. Several among Sastri’s ancestors were eminent scholars; they had attained excel...

Prof. S K Ramachandra Rao - Concern for the Society and Versatility

Concern for the Society Even a bird’s eye view of Ramachandra Rao’s literary contribution reveals that his mind always traversed the path of the highest peaks...

Prof. S K Ramachandra Rao - Adherence to the Tattva and Jīva-saṃskāra

Adherence to the Tattva – Fundamental Philosophy The alepayoga[1] that the Bhagavad-gītā talks about was not just a topic that Rao preached. He had put it in t...

Amin-ul-Mulq - Sir Mirza M Ismail - Part 1

Sir Mirza Muhammad Ismail Saheb’s ancestors hailed from Persia. Persia is known as the land of famous poets like Firdausi [Abul-Qāsem Ferdowsi Tusi], Hafiz [Khw...

S Srikanta Sastri (Part 1)

Recent research has debunked the theory—built on philological grounds—that the Aryans came to India from Central Asia or elsewhere and settled here. The person...

Prof. S K Ramachandra Rao - Studies, Teaching and Friendly Nature

Studies and Teaching Ramachandra Rao’s father taught him Sanskrit grammar and also works of poetry such as the Raghuvaṃśa of Kālidāsa. He learnt the recitatio...

G P Rajarathnam: The Gem who Trod the Royal Path - Part 4

Kāleju Baravaṇigè (‘College Writings’) Rajarathnam gave ample opportunities to his students to showcase their talents through publications like Namma Bendre, N...

G P Rajarathnam: The Gem who Trod the Royal Path - Part 3

Recognition of Self Understanding and responding to the tender minds of children needs a kind of dissolution of Self. It needs an assessment of our self from a...

Buḍḍu Saheb Climbs a Hill

Janab Muhammad Buḍan Khān was the inspector of Urdu schools. He would come to inspect the Anglo-Hindustani school in our town[1] once or twice a year. Muslims...

Prof. S K Ramachandra Rao - Savyasācitva

Bhāmaha writes the following in his Kāvyālaṅkāra “upeyuṣāmapi divaṃ sannibandhavidhāyinām| āsta eva nirātaṅkaṃ kāntaṃ kāvyamayaṃ vapuḥ ||” “Many people...

Mahāmahopādhyāya Vidvān N. Ranganatha - Sincerity of Values

Sincerity to Values There are several institutions, which received Sharma’s ‘dohada’ (instigation for healthy growth) – Rashtrotthana Parishat, Kannada Sahitya...

The Training and Education of a Journalist: A Finale