The next morning Satyavrata saw him and said, “Sir! I have thought of a plan for you to accomplish your desired objective. It is as follows: There is an island...
Commitment Pondering about his work in the press reminds me of a sad incident. Around 1902 or 1903 he lost his son. His daughter and son-in-law Dakshinamurthy...
Atop Narahari Rao’s Hillock Sitting in the eastern slope of Narahari Rao’s Hillock in Basavanagudi, Venkannayya, Srinivasamurthy, and I – with A R Krishna Shas...
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...
Scholar of Literature When Venkannayya lived in Mysore, his life was somewhat comfortable. He expected a spacious living room wherever he stayed. A soft blanke...
The Story of Aśokadatta and Kapālasphoṭaka Long ago, there lived a brāhmaṇa by name Govindasvāmī in an agrahāra on the banks of the river Kālindī. He had two s...
Elucidation of the Beauty of the Śāstras Sharma has helped us not only by unknotting difficult minutiae of vyākaraṇa, sāhitya, and vedānta śāstras but also by...
At this point, as an example of the severity of the result of one’s own experience, we can recollect the episode of the blind king Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Vyāsa offered to...
ಈ ಮಾತುಗಳು ಕಾವ್ಯದ ಸಂದರ್ಭಕ್ಕೆ ಎಷ್ಟು ಯುಕ್ತವಾಗಿವೆಯೋ ಕಾವ್ಯಮೀಮಾಂಸೆಯ ಸಂದರ್ಭಕ್ಕೂ ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಯುಕ್ತವಾಗಿವೆ. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರವಿಯು ತನ್ನ ಕಾವ್ಯಾಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯ ಆದರ್ಶವನ್ನೇ ಸೂಚಿಸಿರುವನೆಂದರೆ ತಪ್ಪಾ...
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...