Vishwas Rao

Profiles Oct 23, 2020

My Ātma-guru: N Narasimha Murthy (Part 7)

Moral Values In those days, four or five of us met up every evening at the Century club in Sheshadri memorial club. We chatted, had discussions, and had light...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao

Profiles Oct 09, 2020

My Ātma-guru: N Narasimha Murthy (Part 6)

Fruits of Scholarship After a few weeks, that discourse was published in the magazine [Karnataka] . A person who was close to Murthy read that work and said: “...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao

Profiles Sep 29, 2020

My Ātma-guru: N Narasimha Murthy (Part 5)

Interesting puranic exposition Giriyamma came home after a discourse on Purāṇa. Murthy asked: Murthy: Giri, which story was the topic of the discourse today?...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao

Profiles Sep 22, 2020

My Ātma-guru: N Narasimha Murthy (Part 4)

Abode of Snacks Meeting with friends was among Murthy’s favorite pastimes. He was not the one to chitchat. Others needed to chitchat. He listened to them and l...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao

Profiles Sep 18, 2020

My Ātma-guru: N Narasimha Murthy (Part 3)

Amaldar[1] Sitaramayya Another instance. Both of us were walking on the 3rd cross road of Basavanagudi. We heard someone singing when we came near a house. We...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao

Profiles Aug 21, 2020

My Ātma-guru: N Narasimha Murthy (Part 2)

Guidance Most of the major works that I can claim to have read in the areas of political science and economics were suggested by Murthy. He lent his personal c...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao

Profiles Aug 11, 2020

My Ātma-guru: N Narasimha Murthy (Part 1)

My intention here is to write about my Ātma-gurus. Ātma-guru can mean several things: “The teacher of my choice”, “The teacher who taught me about the Ātman”, “...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao

Profiles Jul 14, 2020

Ramadasappa (Part 2)

After I entered high-school, I lived in the college hostel in Mysore. Belavadi Dasappa was the hostel warden. He was Ramadasappa’s friend. As per Ramadasappa’s...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao

Profiles Jul 07, 2020

Ramadasappa (Part 1)

Ramadasappa was my second teacher who taught me the English language. He was the first person to graduate with a BA degree from Mulbagal. I recall him coming th...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vishwas Rao