Culture

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 the compound wall of Bangalore’s Janopakari Doddanna Shettaru convention hall was one such similar incident. There arose a lot of opposition to this event too.  People felt that the government had targeted Doddanna Shetty charitable trust because D Venkataramayya was its trustee and a patron. Overall, V P Madhava Rao’s tenure was unnecessarily an era of commotion.

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 where he once ran the Hindu Coffee Club. In that place, we instituted the Sri Ramakrishna Seva Sangha and set up a reading room and library. That was around the time of Navaratri. I vividly remember the day when Krishna Iyer and I toiled to move the tables and benches. The reading room ran for about a year.

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 Mysore. Such efforts had already taken place in the State of Madras by 1852-53. Even before the Sepoy Mutiny (also known as The First War of Indian Independence) of 1857, an organization called the Madras Native Association had been formed. Gajalu Lakshminarasu Chetty, G Purushotthama Naidu, and a few other public luminaries were its leaders.

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. Śrīkṛṣṇasūkti was a monthly journal; Kerodi Subba Rao and Rajagopalakrishna Rao were its editors. Though I am not acquainted with Kerodi Subbarao, I have seen him from a distance. I have met a few of his friends and have spoken to them.  It seems that Subba Rao is a student of Bangalore's Central College. For a brief period he lived in Madras too.

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 he was eleven years old, impressed by his poetic prowess, scholars in Ettayapuram awarded him the title ‘Bharathi.’

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 ಬಗೆಯಾಗಿ ಈ ಸಂಬಂಧವು ಬೆಳೆದಿದೆ. ಆದರೆ ಸನಾತನಧರ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಇದು ನಿರುಪಮವಾಗಿ ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದೆ.