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Kṣemendra’s Advice to Budding Poets

The Bangalore Ganapati Clashes Set the Stage for DVG's Advocacy for Responsible Government

Pāśampalli Ādèppa

When I was young, I aspired to become a paṭela (village headman, chief of a town). Not because the position would provide a lot of money. But because a paṭela i...

Kathāpīṭhalambaka - 3 - The Story of the City of Pāṭalīputra

There is a sacred tīrtha called Kanakhala near Gaṅgādvāra. In the past, a divine elephant called Kāñcanapāta broke open a mountain and let the Gaṅgā flow into t...

Art Experience (Part 2)

3. Kāvya This has three stages too. 1. Manaḥ-prasāda – The nāndī-padyas in a kāvya, the description of city, country, mountains, forests, rivers, forts, palac...

Caturvidhābhinaya in the Kumārasambhava - Part 6 - Indra and Manmatha

Indra, who cannot think beyond the obvious and who knows only material luxuries and pleasures of the flesh, jumps to the conclusion that it is only the embodied...

ವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿಮುನಿಗಳ ವಾಗ್ವಿಲಾಸ - 6

DVG: The Indefatigable Champion of Responsible Government

DVG as the Ideal Legislator: A Legacy of 14 Years as Member of the Mysore Legislative Council

Kathāpīṭhalambaka - 2 - The Story of Vararuci

The Story of Vararuci In Kauśāmbi, there lived a brāhmaṇa named Somadatta; his wife was called Vasudattā; I am their son. Having lost my father when I was stil...

Art Experience (Part 1)

Art—kalā—is an adroit phenomenon[1] that gives our mind the experience of some beauty or some grandeur or some profound thought through our eyes, ears, and othe...

Caturvidhābhinaya in the Kumārasambhava - Part 5 - Devas and Brahmā

As the devatas had even lost their voice to give words to their trouble, Indra, their leader gets into action; and his action is merely to reverentially pass on...