Profile of Prof M. Hiriyanna, the scholar-philosopher extraordinaire.
D.V. Gundappa's moving essay on Shivapicchai Mudaliar, an ordinary mason who showed how to live a truly spiritual life.
D.V. Gundappa's profile of the yesteryear Carnatic Classical Music great, Chintalapalli Venkataraya translated by Hari Ravikumar.
A profile sketch in Kannada of Sri Sacchidanandendra Saraswati, a foremost proponent and sage of Advaita Vedanta.
One day, sometime during 1905-06, at about 10 in the morning, my grandfather’s brother was sitting at the veranda of our house, chatting with someone. At that t...
Ananda Coomaraswamy is one of the little-known figures of India. Which is baffling because a vague estimate of his works runs into more than 15,000 pages. It is...
The scriptures declare "धर्मो विश्वस्य जगतः प्रतिष्ठा" (तैत्तिरीय-आरण्यकम् – IX-63). Dharma indeed is the foundation of the universe. Sri Vidyaranya saw that dh...
In 1906 or 1907 Swami Abhedananda honored Bangalore by his visit. He was one of the direct disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. During his visit to the Unites...
As we have seen so far, Sri Vidyaranya’s contributions towards nation building, politics, jurisprudence, agriculture and commerce were in no small measure. Howe...
The Vijayanagara Empire attained great success from an agricultural perspective under the reign of Chikka Kampana. The Vijayanagara administration gave great im...
Those familiar with Sanskrit–even an introductory course is sufficient–are sure to know Bhartrhari mainly via reading several shubashitas (noble sayings in vers...
A. R. Krishna Shastri, the great savant of Kannada literature, once took a young boy to meet D. V. Gundappa (DVG). The boy, by then, had some articles to his cr...