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Poornachandra Tejaswi

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Here is what I always found impressive about K. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi.
Being Kuvempu’s son wasn’t a burden. He was that rare famous son, who forged his own personality and strode the Kannada literary and cultural world as a giant in his own right. He could and did easily say no to worldly positions - from [...]

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Buying Kannada books - 1

Friday, January 5, 2007

Me and Chandru (well known journalist and innovative farmer Chandrashekar Belagere) went to Sapna Bookstall this morning. I hadn’t been to the new showroom and it is quite impressive. I will reserve my frustrations with Kannada booksellers for another occasion but today I wanted to note something both me and Chandru felt: all the books [...]

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Suvarna Karnataka

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Fifty years ago, Karnataka (then still known by its old name, Mysore) came into existence. Golden jubilee celebrations began yesterday in Bangalore and allover Karnataka, but a nagging feeling that we probably are clueless about the challenges facing us, Kannadigas, never leaves me. I want to spend the next several weeks and months writing [...]

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On Samsa

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

1. What would make an author choose Kamsa as his pen name?
When Samsa wrote his best play, Vigada Vikramaraya, it was published in 1925 in Mysore University’s new and prestigious journal, Prabuddha Karnataka. It was a major honor for a ‘matric fail’, who had educated himself and come to hate passionately university scholars and palace [...]

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Samsa

Sunday, June 18, 2006

I have been reading Samsa again for a few months now. This Kannada playwright, who wrote six (published) plays on the history of Mysore has been a favorite of mine for long. I read KIRAM’s wonderful play, Nigikonda Samsa recently. Samsa’s nephew A. N. Subramanyam has a very insightful small book called Samsasmarane (Remembering Samsa).
Honestly, [...]

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Kannada blogs and podcasts

Monday, May 15, 2006

Of course, Sanjevani has been podcasting for a while. That’s no surprise, given its history as perhaps the most responsive and innovative of all the Indian newspapers (yes, both English and Indian languages included) to technology. News coverage, though, is another matter.
But tonight, while visiting Sampada after some time, I was pleasantly surprised to see [...]

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