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Profiles Feb 18, 2019

PS Shivaswami Iyer - Part 6

Thoughts on Politics Shivaswami Iyer sided with the Moderates in politics. This party was known as the ‘Liberals’. He did not like the extremists and did not a...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Feb 12, 2019

Varadacharya’s Aesthetic Sense, Uprightness of Character (Part 2)

Varadacharya’s Proficiency in Art When we were watching Varadacharya’s plays at the theatre near Kichchetty’s Choultry, I remember what Rangaswamy Iyengar woul...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Feb 11, 2019

PS Shivaswami Iyer - Part 5

My Introduction When this incident occurred, I was not yet formally acquainted with Shivaswami Iyer. I am speaking of a story that is 45 years old now. Shivasw...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Feb 05, 2019

Varadacharya’s Aesthetic Sense, Uprightness of Character (Part 1)

I haven’t come across anyone who has described in detail the services rendered to Kannada literature by the doyen of drama, Nāṭaka Śiromaṇi A V Varada...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Feb 04, 2019

PS Shivaswami Iyer - Part 4

Aristocracy PS Shivaswami Iyer's lifestyle and eating habits were largely aristocratic. He wanted to have a big house. It was not to have thresholds. The house...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Jan 30, 2019

DV Gundappa's Conception of an Ideal Statesman

The insights of the sort DVG possessed emanated precisely from this deep understanding of philosophy, or more accurately, his realization of Darshana. In other...

Sandeep Balakrishna

Profiles Jan 28, 2019

P S Shivaswami Iyer – Part 3

Dharma-dhvaja I recall an incident when Shivaswami Iyer once poked fun at a group of people, calling them ‘Dharma-dhvajas.’ This was during one of his lectures...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Jan 27, 2019

DVG and the Freedom Struggle

Writing just four years after India attained independence, DVG characterizes[1] our freedom from British rule as a “fruit” endowed with a “sour taste.” But more...

Sandeep Balakrishna

Profiles Jan 21, 2019

P S Shivaswami Iyer – Part 2

Shivaswami Iyer was a Sanskrit scholar. V Krishnaswami Iyer was his friend, colleague, and sometimes an opponent in his profession as a lawyer. Krishnaswami Iye...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Jan 20, 2019

Backdrop of DVG's Political Philosophy

But at the doctrinal level, this consequence is the direct outcome of imposing the selfsame untested theory of freedom, democracy, liberty and related ideas fas...

Sandeep Balakrishna

Profiles Jan 14, 2019

P. S. Shivaswami Iyer - Part 1

During 1934-35, during Sir Mirza Ismail's term as the Diwan of Mysore, there were many prominent men from Madras who would come to Bangalore to spend their summ...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Arjun Bharadwaj

Profiles Jan 13, 2019

D V Gundappa's Critique of Western Notions of Political Philosophy

At the individual level, the Bhagavad Gita’s dictum of uddharedAtmanAtmAnam (Let a person raise and purify himself by his own efforts) and its emphasis on Svadh...

Sandeep Balakrishna