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Culture Sep 15, 2018

A Few Public Organizations (Part 4)

There were two major social conventions that took place within eight years spanning between 1920–28: (i) Prajamitra Mandali or the unrest in favour of non-brahm...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Kiran Prasad

Culture Sep 14, 2018

A Few Public Organizations (Part 3)

I’ve mentioned elsewhere about a couple of other incidents under the tenure of V P Madhava Rao[1] that stirred up people’s minds. The government bringing down t...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Kiran Prasad

Culture Sep 12, 2018

A Few Public Organizations: Book Clubs, Night Schools

K T Appanna encouraged us and supported us in many ways. After he set up his Hindu Restaurant at Ahmed Building, there was a vacant space available in Chikpet w...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Kiran Prasad

Culture Sep 11, 2018

A Few Public Organisations of the Mysore State: Citizens Representative Assembly

I haven’t found the means to determine the period that marks the commencement of efforts towards giving an integrated structure to public life in the State of M...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Kiran Prasad

Culture Aug 30, 2018

The Dharmashastra Roots of Cambodia: Puranic Traditions and Culture

Prevalence of Dharmaśāstra-Purāṇa–Itihāsa Traditions in Cambodia 7th Century CE There is ample evidence to show that the Hindu colonists in Kambuja set up an...

Arjun Bharadwaj

Culture Aug 29, 2018

The Dharmashastra Roots of Cambodia - Part 1

The current article is an enlarged version of a talk presented by Arjun Bharadwaj on 5th June 2018 at the National Seminar on Dharmashastra - Theory and Practis...

Arjun Bharadwaj

Culture Aug 17, 2018

Śrīkṛṣṇasūkti

While reflecting on the history of Kannada revival, one thing that I am most certainly reminded of, is the publication of Udupi’s Śrīkṛṣṇasūkti. Śrīkṛ...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture Aug 08, 2018

Scientific Inquisitiveness and Holistic Vision in the Poems of Subramania Bharati (Part 3)

Bharathiar on the Indian Education System In Ring out the Old, Ring in the New (போகின்ற பாரதமும்-வருகின்ற பாரதமும்)[1], Bharathi says that one must learn his na...

Sripriya Srinivasan

Culture Aug 07, 2018

Scientific Inquisitiveness and Holistic Vision in the Poems of Subramania Bharati (Part 2)

Bharathi’s Thoughts on the Nature of the Universe Bharathi uses allegory to refer to forces which brought the universe to action in In Praise of Maha Kali (மகாக...

Sripriya Srinivasan

Culture Aug 06, 2018

Scientific Inquisitiveness and Holistic Vision in the Poems of Subramania Bharati (Part 1)

Subramania Bharathi was born on 11th December 1882 in Ettayapuram Jameen to Sri.  Chinnasami Iyer and Smt. Lakshmi Ammal. His birth name was Subramanian. When h...

Sripriya Srinivasan

Culture Aug 01, 2018

ಭಗವತ್ಸಂಬಂಧ—ಒಂದು ಮಧುರಾಯಾಮ

ಭಗವಂತನು ಮಾನವನ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಯೋ ಮಾನವನು ಭಗವಂತನ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಯೋ ಎಂಬ ಚರ್ಚೆ ಚಿರಂತನ. ಆದರೆ, ಇವರಿಬ್ಬರ ನಡುವಣ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಮಾತ್ರ ಇಂಥ ಎಲ್ಲ ಚರ್ಚೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮೀರಿದ ಮಧುರಾನುಭೂತಿ. ಒಂದೊಂದು ಮತದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದೊಂದು...

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh

Culture Jul 04, 2018

I’m a Child of Chandamama

The name ‘Chandamama’ itself is so sweet. For all children, the Moon is like their lovely maternal uncle. This attractive word, although appears to be in the la...

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh | Trans: Arun Kumar Ramachandra