Rare footage of Pandit Kumar Gandharva (1924-92) singing as a ten year old. He was born Shivaputra Siddharamayya Komkalimath and in his early years was giv...
There was a certain amount of misrule and evil during the reign of the Nandas. A powerful force awoke that would destroy all that evil from the past. That was C...
VI वयमिदानीं संक्षिप्तेनापि रूपेण साम्प्रतिकसंस्कृतकवीनां पुरस्स्थितान् प्रतिकूलांशान् विलोकयामः। एते तु काव्यनिर्माणकोणेन काव्यप्रचुरणकोणेन च द्विधा भवन्ति। क...
Bhaja Govindam is a popular poem attributed to the scholar-saint Adi Shankara, one of the foremost advocates of the Advaita Vedanta School of philosophy. A shor...
The concluding part of DV Gundappa's profile of the prolific and erudite Sanskrit and Kannada scholar and grammarian, ‘Vaiyakarani’ Garani Krishnacharya.
In 1972, Satyajit Ray made a documentary film on Benode Behari Mukherjee, a painter who became blind in his fifties. The documentary features the life and works...
Through the ages, in the writings of great thinkers and social commentators, we find a certain weakness for nostalgia. We often find passages that bemoan the fa...
The etymology of the word ‘Raaga’: The word raaga has many meanings. Raaga means love, color (referring to red in particular), emotion, bliss, comfort, beauty,...
अभिमानदम्भादिकं त्याज्यम् । ६४ 64. Abandon pride, hypocrisy, etc. तदर्पिताखिलाचारः सन् कामक्रोधाभिमानादिकं तस्मिन्नेव करणीयम् । ६५ 65. Having offered all activi...
IV इदानीं पाण्डित्यपारम्यमात्रमेदुरं दर्शनध्वनिदूरं प्रदर्शनपर्याप्तवाच्यवैदुष्यं विद्वत्काव्यविषये किञ्चिदालोचयामः। तदिदं बहुधा श्रद्धाजडं, रूपगर्वितं, यातयामञ...
After casting aspersions on the authenticity of the Great War, Kosambi goes on to examine the ethics of the Gita as if the war happened exactly as narrated by t...
The concluding part of D.V. Gundappa’s profile of Prof. M Hiriyanna renowned for his scholarship, compassion and spotless conduct.