Profiles

Vākyajño vākyakuśalaḥ maunamupāgamat: The Twilight Years of the Titan

How our Legislators Look After Themselves: DVG's Answer

Vīrakesari Sitarama Shastri: Treason case and Sharda act - Part 4

The Case The government filed a case against Sitarama Shastri and Ashvatthanarayana Rao, accusing the article published in Navajīvana to be treasonous. Shastr...

Vīrakesari Sitarama Shastri: Journalism and Treason - Part 3

Journalist Right from his childhood days, Sitarama Shastri was interested in writing. Observing this, Krishna Shastri sent him to M Venkatakrishnayya in Mysore...

V Si - A Tender Hearted Teacher

V Si.'s Skill at Teaching and Affection for Students Irrespective of the weather conditions and his own state of health, V Si. never missed a class. He always...

V Sitaramaiah - The Ideal Teacher

At the Sarada Vilas School, Mysore Students today might find it difficult to believe the state of Sarada Vilas School when V Si. joined as a teacher, in his fi...

DVG's Critique of the Congress High Command and Nehru's Five-year Plans

Vīrakesari Sitarama Shastri: childhood, education, politics - Part 2

Childhood and Education During his childhood he lost eyesight in one of his eyes while playing gilli-daṇḍa[1]. By 1947 he lost eyesight in the other eye too. T...

Two Seminal Essays of DVG on the Downfall of the Congress

Sir P. N. Krishnamurti (Part 2)

Unspirited Functioning Despite all this, the administration showed no increase in its spirit and enthusiasm. I have thought about its reason. In my view, it wa...

DVG's Unsleeping Inner Eye saw through the Facade of Western Secularism

Vīrakesari Sitarama Shastri: A Feisty Lion - Part 1

Political acumen, rights and duties of the citizens, answerability of the government, the role of newspapers in protecting the welfare of the people – these thi...