Profiles

Paṅktipāvana Venkatakrishnaiah - Part 5

Commitment Pondering about his work in the press reminds me of a sad incident. Around 1902 or 1903 he lost his son. His daughter and son-in-law Dakshinamurthy...

T S Venkannayya (Part 5)

Atop Narahari Rao’s Hillock Sitting in the eastern slope of Narahari Rao’s Hillock in Basavanagudi, Venkannayya, Srinivasamurthy, and I – with A R Krishna Shas...

Vruttapatrike: A Classic Tome on Journalism

T S Venkannayya (Part 4)

Scholar of Literature When Venkannayya lived in Mysore, his life was somewhat comfortable. He expected a spacious living room wherever he stayed. A soft blanke...

Mahāmahopādhyāya Vidvān N. Ranganatha - Elucidation of the Beauty of the Śāstras and Devotion to the Nation

Elucidation of the Beauty of the Śāstras Sharma has helped us not only by unknotting difficult minutiae of vyākaraṇa, sāhitya, and vedānta śāstras but also by...

The Karnataka, the Indian Review of Reviews and Aftermath

Paṅktipāvana Venkatakrishnaiah - Part 4

All-round capability Chikkamagalur’s coffee planter Sri Srinivasa Rao used to tease Venkatakrishnaiah affectionately. “If some troublemakers made an associatio...

T S Venkannayya (Part 3)

Joint Endeavours I have mentioned earlier about my first meeting with T S Venkannayya and A R Krishna Shastri. That was in 1915–16, just after the establishmen...

How DVG founded The Karnataka Biweekly

Mahāmahopādhyāya Vidvān N. Ranganatha - Empathy and Research Papers

Feeling of Oneness Sharma took interest in getting to know the progress in the life and career of the students who had graduated from the college with a vidvat...

DVG, Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, Karunakara Menon and the Triumph of an Ideal

Paṅktipāvana Venkatakrishnaiah - Part 3

Magnanimity of Seshadri Iyer But Seshadri Iyer was a great person. He wouldn’t bring the political animosity to the personal relations. He had accepted the gre...