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Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma-2
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Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma-2

June 13, 2023

By Dr. Bhagirath S. Naganath [Continued from June 11] Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma was 14 years of age when he composed his first Sanskrit composition. It was devoted to Goddess Lakshmi titled ‘Jalarashi Balelole.’ A compilation of his Sanskrit writings was published under the title of ‘Anantha Bharathi’ and had compositions like Sri Mahishura Rajyabhyudaya…

Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma-1
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Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma-1

June 11, 2023

Eminent Telugu litterateur, Music Composer, Instrumentalist and Sanskrit Scholar Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma was a Telugu lecturer at Maharaja’s College, Mysore, for nearly three decades. He was single-handedly responsible for discovering and putting to music many popular compositions by Annamacharya, Vemana and Kshetrayya, which had till then been all but forgotten. Many of these compositions…

T.S. Venkannayya: The Big Brother of Kannada Literary Pantheon – 1
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T.S. Venkannayya: The Big Brother of Kannada Literary Pantheon – 1

April 14, 2023

T. S. Venkannayya was University of Mysore’s first Kannada Professor. He was responsible for nurturing such future literary giants as K. V. Puttappa, D. L. Narasimhachar, M. V. Seetharamaiah, G. Venkatasubbiah and S. V. Parameshwara Bhatta. He was the very life of Maharaja’s College ‘Common Room.’ He was instrumental in laying the foundations for University…

Sarvajanika Subbanna
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Sarvajanika Subbanna

February 21, 2023

By Dr. Bhagirath S. Naganath [Continued from yesterday] Many of the students were from rural parts of Mysore. Subbanna realised that many of them would go back to their native villages after their schooling. With this in mind, he began to coach them in irrigation, harvesting and animal husbandry. Fortunately, around this time the Government…

Sirikanta Srikantaiah: Voice of Kannadigas
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Sirikanta Srikantaiah: Voice of Kannadigas

September 20, 2022

Ti. Nam. Shri, a grammarian par excellence T. N. Srikantaiah, known endearingly to a generation of readers as Ti. Nam. Shri, was a Kannada poet, writer, translator, teacher and grammarian par excellence. Groomed under the able guidance of M. Hiriyanna and B.M. Srikantaiah, he in turn would nurture and guide such scholars as S. Ananthanarayan…

AbhinavaVyasa Prof. A.R. Krishnashastry-2
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AbhinavaVyasa Prof. A.R. Krishnashastry-2

February 13, 2022

By Dr. Bhagirath S. Naganath [Continued from yesterday] A. R. Krishnashastry took his B.A. exam in 1912. Regrettably, he failed in his English paper by a mark! He rewrote his English paper in 1913 and then graduated with a B.A. degree. Following his B.A., he embarked upon completing his M.A. in Kannada and Sanskrit. Shastry…

Abhinava Vyasa Prof. A.R. Krishnashastry-1
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Abhinava Vyasa Prof. A.R. Krishnashastry-1

February 12, 2022

H. M. Nayak described him as Kannada Senani ! His rendition of Mahabharata titled ‘Vachana Bharata’ remains to this day one of the most widely read versions of the great epic in Kannada. He introduced the great writers of Bengal — Tagore and Bankim Chandra — to a generation of Kannada readers through his translations…

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