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Hari Ravikumar — The year that was...
The year that was…
Dear Friends:
Season’s Greetings!
Another year has whizzed past. The time for review and reflection arrives amid reluctance. Some extra days (or months) to complete pending tasks might have helped. Much unfinished business remains. But that’s the way of the world, I suppose. I’m reminded of a song by the Tamil poet Kannadasan:
If every thought became reality
god wouldn’t be
If we brood over our history
peace wouldn’t be
A story finished doesn’t begin
in the book of god
A story begun doesn’t finish
in the house of man
From my earliest days, I’ve made grand plans for my life. In 2015, more so. There hasn’t been a week during which I have not had an idea that requires at least a few years to execute. Dreaming big may appear foolhardy in today’s world of S.M.A.R.T. goals but my experience has been different. Shooting for the stars has ensured that I don’t end up with a fistful of mud. Without these impossible ideas, I might have fallen short of even what I am fundamentally capable of (which is possibly why e. e. cummings said, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are”). I learnt that failures are red herrings, l
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Dr. Devanahalli Venkataramanayya Gundappa
D.V.Gundappa (DVG), born in 1889, was a matriculate who started working as a journalist at the age of 16. Two years later, he was publishing his own newspaper. He went on to become a titan of Kannada literature, writing on subjects that covered philosophy and literature, sociology and history
DVG obtained fundamental education in Kannada as well as English, while learning Sanskrit on his own. Although his formal education did not proceed beyond high school, his works have been serving as graduate study material. antahpura geetegaLu, baaLigondu nambike, jeevana dharma yoga, jnyaapaka chitra shaale, maruLa muniyana kagga, samskruti, umarana osage …. are some of his well known works, mankutimmana kagga is undoubtedly the crown jewel. It is not uncommon to find that there is hardly any aspect of life that this work does not touch. Hailed as the common man’s Bhagavad-Gita by many – for simplicity of language, vastness, greatness and poetic flow of content – scope and understanding of almost every verse from this work seems to grow richer and deeper with one’s own experience in life.
Mankuthimmana Kagga is one of the most famous and popular major literary works in Kannada, composed by Dr. D. V. Gundappa