Profiles

DVG: A Life of Expansiveness, Confidence, Heartiness, Fuss, Food and Poetry

The Taste of Gutter Pakora and DVG's Vogue Words

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 15) - Rajaji's Advice and Tour to Kerala

Rajaji’s words of advice It is a well known fact that at the end of the World War II, world leaders such as Churchill, Roosevelt, Clemenso and others put their...

D.V.G: The Incessant Experimenter of Language, Working Style and Food

Unsung Poetry (Part 4)

Sixty-seventy years ago, the erudite scholars of the era were blessed with an abundant vocabulary. Unfortunately, the themes on which this prowess was to be app...

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 14) - My Suggestions and our Trip to Hassan

My Suggestions Once, there was a certain shortcoming in the functioning of the Servants of India Society. Sastri was the head of the organization. The English...

The World of DVG's Impromptu Poetry and Dictation

V.S.Srinivasa Sastri (Part 13) - Thrifty by Nature - a Miser too?

Meeting Venkatakrishnayya Each time Sastri was in Mysore, he first visited M. Venkatakrishnayya at his house. He always informed Venkatakrishnayya well in adva...

DVG's Shiva Yajna: M.D. Ramanathan, M.S. Subbulakshmi and Love of Mirth

Unsung Poetry (Part 3)

The revered Sheshappa and Subba Rao Both Shri. Sheshappa and Shri. Subba Rao are older than me by a good number of years. Subba Rao also taught me during me sc...

DVG's Profound Devotion and Inseparable Attachment to Tyagaraja

Unsung Poetry (Part 2)

Subbanna the Musician Shri. Subbanna was the music teacher in the girls’ school. During those days, teachers were familiar with a bit of poetry. They were trai...