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...
The ‘untiring mother’ who learnt Kannada in her sixties and went on to translate the work known as ‘Kannada’s Bhagavad Gita’ into Tamil
Radha ajji never dreamed she would learn to read Kannada, let alone translate DVG’s 'Mankuthimmana Kagga' into Tamil. But destiny...
Aluru Venkata Rao, the Kulapurohita of Kannada
Hailed by Kannada speakers as the 'High Priest of the Kannada People', he was, without a doubt, the single-most important...
Obituary: Ambatanaya Mudradi, famed Yakshagana artist who renamed himself after a Goddess
Born Keshava Shettigar on 4 June 1935, he chose the name Ambatanaya (son of Amba) as a mark of his...
Obituary: Sahrudaya, poet, linguist, critic — The many faces of Prof Tirumalesh
The passing away of the Kannada poet-scholar on 30 January 2023 has received less attention than it deserves. Here is...
‘The churn and churning of the word brought forth a euphony’: Bhaavageeta by DR Bendre
Madhav Ajjampur has translated the celebrated Kannada poet's work on his birth anniversary for South First.
‘Bewitched by Kaama’s fragrant shafts, the mango tree has flowered forth’: Kannada New Year by DR Bendre
An excerpt from ‘The Pollen Waits on Tiptoe’, a book of the author's English translations of selected poems by DR...
