Bengaluru: Chennu Mathad, a Delhi-based Kannadiga, has forwarded the following Facebook post: This morning, while I was standing in line at the Chigari bus stand in Vidyanagar, Hubballi, to attend the Dharwad District Kannada Literary Conference being held in Dharwad, I was surprised to see Prof. I. G. Sanadi—who had served three terms as a Member of Parliament and also as a member of the Legislative Council with distinction—standing right in front of me, buying a ticket like everyone else. Would have travelled in a luxurious car: If it had been any other politician who had held such high positions, they would have travelled in a luxurious car. But he was travelling by bus like an ordinary person—what else could this be if not a symbol of his simplicity? Shared his political journey, experiences... Not only that, since we couldn’t find seats together on the bus, we had to sit separately. However, unable to resist, he requested the person sitting next to me and came to sit beside me. ...
By Prakash Girimallannanavar Above Photo courtesy: K Venkatesh. Belagavi: Prof. C Mahadevappa. Prof. C Mahadevappa, a popular Kannada teacher cum research scholar in ancient literature who turned 100 years in July 2022, has come out with his latest publication, ‘Ekottara Shathasthala’, a rare commentary on the mystic Shiva Sharana-vachanas of olden times by Siddhalinga Swamiji, the head of Kattige Halli Lingayat Matha, a subsidiary of Chitadurga Muruga Matha. Strangely coincidental with his age 101 years completed: Though this was one of his earliest editing efforts in textual criticism based on deciphering various palm leaf manuscripts, (a method/skill of editing old texts popularly known as ‘Grantha Sampadane’), the content of the title is strangely coincidental with his age 101 years completed, with the 101 steps for salvation delineated by 12th century sharanas and their probable predecessors too. Into a family of a schoolteacher turned butter merchant: Born into a family of...