Culture

National Unity, Truth and Justice

Virtuous Selfishness and the Five Purposes of National Congress

The Virtuous Person in Public Life

Undivided Family - Part 2

An Upper Bound for the Number of People in the Family It is not possible for anyone to argue that a joint family should remain intact for eternity. Division at...

Undivided Family - Part 1

Undivided Family Whenever I think of the lives of our ancestors, a kind of anxiety envelopes me. Is there any future for joint family system in our country? Is...

The Grāma-devatās of My Town - 2

Plague The Plague pandemic came to Mulbagal perhaps after all other places in the vicinity. When the news spread that Plague had broken out in Kolar and Bowri...

The Grāma-devatās of My Town

I have previously described the vaidikas[1], scholars, and connoisseurs of Mulbagal, in bits and pieces, in many series of articles. In the present essay I shal...

The System of Governance before Independence (Part 2)

The Beginning of Fragility This idea is now crippled. A few people opine that the pride of the local officer (i.e., the officer in charge) was first pricked du...

The System of Governance before Independence (Part 1)

According to the Hindu calendar, a span of sixty years is counted as a paryāya. From the start of the Prabhava saṃvatsara till the end of the Akṣaya saṃvatsara...

GIPA Study Circle: Booklist

[The legendary polymath D V Gundappa was not just a great littérateur, art critic, and connoisseur but an enthusiastic social worker and uplifter of the masses....

Drama Companies of Bellary (Part 2)

Kumbāra Guṇḍayya (Guṇḍayya, the Potter) In one of the plays – probably ‘Vijayanagara Patana’ – one of the characters is a potter. That day Raghavacharya beckon...

Drama Companies of Bellary (Part 1)

Circa 1909, the drama company Sumanorama Sabhā (or Suguṇavilāsa Sabhā) of Bellary arrived in Bangalore. Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao was the director of that drama...