The Himalayan heights of Bendre’s ‘ಗಂಗಾವತರಣ (Gangavatarana)’
Kannada’s varakavi (heaven-touched poet), Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre or Da Ra Bendre, is one of the greatest lyric poets to have...
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Writer and translator. Arts and Culture Editor (Karnataka), South First. Author of 'The Pollen Waits on Tiptoe', a book of English translations of selected Kannada poems by Da Ra Bendre. My essays, poems, and translations have appeared in publications such as 'The Hindu', 'EKL Review', and 'Kyoto Journal'. Interested in the creation of a Kannada identity for Bengaluru.
Kannada’s varakavi (heaven-touched poet), Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre or Da Ra Bendre, is one of the greatest lyric poets to have...
Radha ajji never dreamed she would learn to read Kannada, let alone translate DVG’s 'Mankuthimmana Kagga' into Tamil. But destiny...
Hailed by Kannada speakers as the 'High Priest of the Kannada People', he was, without a doubt, the single-most important...
Born Keshava Shettigar on 4 June 1935, he chose the name Ambatanaya (son of Amba) as a mark of his...
The passing away of the Kannada poet-scholar on 30 January 2023 has received less attention than it deserves. Here is...
Madhav Ajjampur has translated the celebrated Kannada poet's work on his birth anniversary for South First.
An excerpt from ‘The Pollen Waits on Tiptoe’, a book of the author's English translations of selected poems by DR...
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