Vedavyas M G

Profiles Mar 24, 2024

Venkatagiriyappa

In Chikkapete area of Bengaluru, near the garment shop belonging to Late Rajasevasakta Pamadi Subbaramashetty, on a lane to the east of the shop, was a large ho...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Dec 14, 2022

The Late Sri. T S Venkannayya - Part 3

He had a reasonable awareness of astrology; he had belief too in it; so he examined his horoscope and used to say that the time was a cruel phase for him. But n...

A R Krishna Sastri | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Nov 30, 2022

The Late Sri. T S Venkannayya - Part 2

One day, I quoted the following verse by poet Bhavabhūti to him. बहिः सर्वाकारप्रगुणरमणीयं व्यवहरन् पराभ्यूहस्थानान्यपि तनुतराणि स्थगयति जनं विद्वानेक...

A R Krishna Sastri | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Nov 20, 2022

The Late Sri. T S Venkannayya - Part 1

सन्तोषं जनयेत् प्राज्ञः तदेवेश्वरपूजनम् [The eminent should create joy for others, that is the same as the worship of Īśvara] The ancestors of the Late...

A R Krishna Sastri | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles May 18, 2022

Rājakārya-prasakta Dewan Bahadur Sir M N Krishna Rao - part 4

Five-year Plan After Krishna Rao retired from the Government of Mysore, at the time of announcement of the first Five-year Plan of the Indian Government, he wr...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles May 04, 2022

Rājakārya-prasakta Dewan Bahadur Sir M N Krishna Rao - part 3

During the early days when Krishna Rao became the Dewan, the British Resident wrote him a letter informing about his visit to see the Dewan and sought a suitabl...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Apr 27, 2022

Rājakārya-prasakta Dewan Bahadur Sir M N Krishna Rao - part 2

Seetharamiah’s Hospitality In the next week or ten days, I reached Delhi. Seetharamiah was waiting at the train station by the time the train reached. I asked...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Apr 13, 2022

Rājakārya-prasakta Dewan Bahadur Sir M N Krishna Rao - part 1

According to one set of friends, the letters “M N” in M N Krishna Rao’s name stand for Maḍi [orthodoxy, purity, conservatism, discipline, ritualism] and Niyama...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Sep 11, 2020

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...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Culture Aug 26, 2020

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...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Culture Aug 19, 2020

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...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Aug 12, 2020

‘Dharmaprakāśa’ Sajjan Rao (Part 2)

Gratification On the day the gopura work was completed, the kalaśa was established, and the samprokṣaṇā was done, one should have seen Sajjan Rao. He was the e...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Aug 07, 2020

Scholarly Connoisseurs of Elduru

Yeldur (Elduru) is an ordinary small town. But it was neat and pretty. The arterial road ran from east to west. On the western end was the Kodandaramaswamy Temp...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Aug 05, 2020

‘Dharmaprakāśa’ Sajjan Rao (Part 1)

Along with Mandi Hariyanna’s name, it is Dharmaprakāśa S Sajjan Rao’s name that comes to mind.[1] The two were always together, like the Aśvini-devatas. Every m...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Apr 03, 2020

Dr. T V Arumugam Mudaliar

Renowned as a doctor, a compassionate man, and an extremely capable surgeon in the old Mysore area, Rao Bahadur Dr. T V Arumugam Mudaliar was a contemporary of...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Oct 08, 2019

Magadi Karanika Krishnamurthy

Magadi Karanika Krishnamurthy is worthy of remembrance. He had a mind that was liberal, a heart that was generous, and an outlook that was progressive. The rewa...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Aug 27, 2019

Thiruvengadam Mudaliar

Thiruvengadam Mudaliar was Armugam Mudaliar[1]’s younger brother. He was a friend of the entire world. A man with no enemies. I was very close to Thiruvengadam...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Aug 16, 2019

Abbas Khan Sahib

Among the important citizens of Mysore state, based on their oratory skills and efficiency, I can say from the bottom of my heart, that Abbas Khan sahib belongs...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Jun 25, 2019

C Rajagopalachari (Part 3)

Literary Work In reality, Rajagopalachari’s first love was literature. He had deep interest in good books. Once on a visit to Bangalore when he was the Governo...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Jun 18, 2019

C Rajagopalachari (Part 2)

A Logical Intellect Rajaji was endowed with critical thinking, backed by sound logic. Whatever the topic, he first examined the sentence that communicates the...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Jun 11, 2019

C Rajagopalachari (Part 1)

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari always wore smoked glasses (i.e. dark glasses). This gave way to ridicule. It’s true that his eyesight was weak, just like several o...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Feb 12, 2019

Varadacharya’s Aesthetic Sense, Uprightness of Character (Part 2)

Varadacharya’s Proficiency in Art When we were watching Varadacharya’s plays at the theatre near Kichchetty’s Choultry, I remember what Rangaswamy Iyengar woul...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Profiles Feb 05, 2019

Varadacharya’s Aesthetic Sense, Uprightness of Character (Part 1)

I haven’t come across anyone who has described in detail the services rendered to Kannada literature by the doyen of drama, Nāṭaka Śiromaṇi A V Varada...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G

Literature Oct 05, 2018

The Concrete and the Abstract in Art

Among our youth and children, more than the study and research of ‘literature,’ it is the learning of music and dance that is considered as a symbol of culture....

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh | Trans: Vedavyas M G