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ವಿ. ಸೀತಾರಾಮಯ್ಯ

ಡಿ.ವಿ.ಜಿ.

ಡಿ.ವಿ.ಜಿ. ಅವರು ಹೇಗೆ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರಿಗೊಂದು ಮುಗಿಲೆತ್ತರದ ಮಾದರಿಯಾಗಿ ಬೆಳೆದಿದ್ದರೋ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಚಿತ್ರಲೇಖನಕ್ಕೆ ಆದರ್ಶವಾಗಿ ಬೆಳಗಿದ್ದರೋ ವೈದುಷ್ಯದ ಸಮಗ್ರತೆಗೆ ಸಂಕೇತವಾಗಿ ನಿಂತಿದ್ದರೋ ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಅವರ ಪ್ರಿಯಶಿಷ್ಯ ಎಸ್. ಆರ್. ರಾಮಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಅವರು ನಮ್ಮ ನಡುವೆ ನೆಲಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಕವಿತೆ, ರೂಪಕ, ವೇದಾಂತ ಮೊದಲಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಡಿ.ವಿ.ಜಿ. ಅವರಂತೆ ರಾಮಸ್ವಾಮಿಯವರು ಕೃತಿರಚನೆ ಮಾಡಿಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ ಅಂಥ ವಾಙ್ಮಯನಿರ್ಮಿತಿಗೆ ಬೇಕಾದ ಒಳ-ಹೊರಗಿನ ಸಿದ್ಧತೆಗಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡೇ ಇದ್ದವರು; ಅವುಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿ ಆಸ್ವಾದಿಸಿ ಅನುಸಂಧಾನಿಸುತ್ತ ಬಂದವರು. ಇದೇ ರೀತಿ ಡಿ.ವಿ.ಜಿ.

Sonnavadi is a small village. It might have originally been called Svarṇavāḍi. Head of that village was a man called Sonnegowda. People often talked about Bhissegowda being one of his ancestors. Bhissegowda was a pāḻegāra (i.e. chieftain).

Around that time, Sonnegowda was an affluent farmer. Though he never was a pāḻegāra officially, his behaviour was typical of one.

Naranappa’s household account

Thippadoddi is a village on the north-eastern border of the Mysore Princely State. Punganoor is about eight to nine miles from Thippadoddi. There resided about twenty to twenty five families - one family of śānubhoga (Village Accountant), fifteen families of Reddy-Vokkaligas, five to six families of what is called the Harijan caste and the rest of other castes. The houses were all made of mud walls, some with mud roofs and rest with local tiles. No house had any plastered flooring.

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 house. It was an enormous bungalow. Advocate Venkatagiriyappa lived there. Venkatagiriyappa was my father’s maternal grandfather. His era was the period that the British began ruling the Mysore province.

This two-part tribute was published in December 1970 and January 1971 on the pages of Public Affairs, a monthly journal published by the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs. —Editors

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