November 2020
‘Hṛdayavanta’—a person of good heart, one with refined taste—is perhaps the best way one can capture the personality of V Sitaramaiah (V Si) in a single word. It is hard to conceive of a person who has a heart better than his.
In 1970, a public thanksgiving ceremony was organized for V Si. Several littérateurs of eminence occupied the stage. The Town Hall (in Bangalore) was filled with the fans and students of V Si. One of the speakers said the...
What do we get from the Gītā?
What can we expect from the Bhagavad-gītā?
We normally expect something special from any book we choose. If it is a story, we expect interesting accounts of human character; in a play – a range of passions and emotions; in a song or a poem – an echo of our caprices and anxieties; in a historical account – narratives about different countries and nations; in a manual of astronomy – a description of stellar and...
[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. Starting from 1949 until his death in 1975, DVG regularly conducted a 'study circle' every Sunday at the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs, Bangalore. This group consisted of around fifteen people including S R Ramaswamy, D R Venkataramanan, and T S Padmanabhan in the early days and...
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