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Profiles Jul 23, 2019

Who are the Rasikas? (Part 1)

It will be appropriate to explain the purpose behind reminiscing several musicians and rasikas.[1] The purpose is simply the lament that connoisseurship has dec...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Varuni KS

Profiles Jul 17, 2019

S G Bindu Rao (Part 3)

One of the stories of Sri Ramakrishna Whenever I remember Bindu Rao, a story that Bhagavān Ramakrishna Paramahamsa often narrated comes to my mind.  A sc...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Kiran Prasad

Profiles Jul 15, 2019

Bellave Venkatanaranappa - The Basavanagudi Club and his Last Days

Basavanagudi Club I've mentioned earlier that Venkatanaranappa was unassuming, disciplined, honest, dispassionate, and hard-working. There were, however, a cou...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Jul 09, 2019

S G Bindu Rao (Part 2)

Beginning of Bhārata-vācana This group of literary and musical connoisseurs made it a routine to take turns and meet in one of the houses every day after work,...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Kiran Prasad

Profiles Jul 08, 2019

Bellave Venkatanaranappa - Editing Texts, Purity of Language

Editing Texts Bellave Venkatanaranappa was overly enthusiastic about impossible tasks. One such task that he always thought of undertaking was ironing out the...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Jul 05, 2019

Rājadharmapravīṇa T R A Thumboo Chetty

After Sir K Seshadri Iyer, Rayalu Arokiaswamy Thumboo Chetty of Tiruchirapalli (Trichinopoly) became the Diwan of Mysore. His tenure as Diwan was for a mere sev...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jul 03, 2019

The Pioneering Efforts of Swami Vivekananda

Does the ancient Hindu religion have the life-essence to survive, giving answers to the questions posed by the new world? Does that hallowed and sacred culture...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jul 02, 2019

S G Bindu Rao (Part 1)

One day, at about three in the afternoon, Bindu Rao visited my house. I asked him, “When did you arrive?”  He said, “I left Chitradurga this morning and c...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Kiran Prasad

Profiles Jul 01, 2019

Bellave Venkatanaranappa - Associates, Dispute and Remuneration

Subbarayappa I would like to make a special mention of two of members of our (English-Kannada Dictionary) Committee – D C Subbarayappa and B Puttayya. The...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Jun 25, 2019

C Rajagopalachari (Part 3)

Literary Work In reality, Rajagopalachari’s first love was literature. He had deep interest in good books. Once on a visit to Bangalore when he was the Governo...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Jun 24, 2019

Bellave Venkatanaranappa - Popularizing Science and Preparing English-Kannada Dictionary

Visvesvaraya’s Library By the time (Sir M.) Visvesvaraya rose up to become a diwan, his acquaintance with Venkatanarappa had grown stronger. Visvesvaraya reque...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Jun 23, 2019

The Musician Kempe Gowda

I had the acquaintance of Sri Kempe Gowda for a really short time—about two or three hours. Sri Kempe Gowda hailed from the Coimbatore region. There was no one...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Sandeep Balakrishna