DVG – These three letters evoke an image of a wise old man laughing a toothless laugh in the minds of the Kannada-speaking people. We are so accustomed to this...
DVG was a person of the people. His spectrum of contacts extended between the extremes of traditional scholars and true-blue Marxists. Long-standing interaction...
DVG never lost an opportunity to express his views on public affairs. To this end, he contributed to the leading periodicals of the country for many decades. In...
DVG was deeply rooted in the philosophical tradition of India. Dharma as a concept was of absorbing interest to him. It engaged his energy throughout his life....
Volume Eight (1963–1967) Readers of these volumes would surely know that DVG looked upon life as an undivided whole. This worldview enabled him to celebrate th...
Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs, an organization DVG built and nurtured, has made quiet but sustained efforts to educate people in all matters of collective...
Book reviews were a constant feature in all the journals DVG edited and published. He either reviewed himself or, if he happened to spot a well-written piece, h...
Like all conscientious citizens endowed with intellectual integrity, DVG was a caustic critic of the Indira Gandhi Government. He repeatedly pointed out the uns...
An important segment in the present volume is a set of articles that narrates and analyses the political-reform movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan. In these es...
Volume Seven (1957–1960) DVG’s literary output in the 1950s—both in English and Kannada—was staggering. After retiring from active public life, he gave himself...
As with Visvesvaraya, DVG enjoyed close contact with another Dewan of Mysore, Sir Mirza Ismail. DVG’s writings on him, too, present a wealth of insight rarely a...
The problem of the Indian Native States occupied DVG’s mind for over three decades (1915 to 1945). Before independence, our country comprised two parts: 1. Brit...