By Shri Shrikant Joshi. Born and educated in Vijayapura, Industriialist in Nasik. The Teacher Who Could Pat Mao and Still Remain a Guru On 5 September 1888, in the small temple town of Tiruttani, was born a boy who would one day become one of India’s most distinguished philosophers, teachers and statesmen—Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. What is fascinating about Radhakrishnan is that, despite rising from a modest background to become a professor at Mysore and Calcutta, Vice-Chancellor, India’s first Vice-President and second President, he never quite lost the personality of the teacher. There was something almost theatrical about his appearance. He was invariably immaculate—spotless white dhoti, a long coat reaching almost to the knees, black shoes and, above all, his distinctive white turban. The turban became almost inseparable from his identity. Even when he travelled abroad and occupied the highest offices of the Republic, he retained this unmistakably Indian appearance. He carried h...
Dharwad: Prof Babu Jattakar, veteran artist, former Principal of the College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishat, Bengaluru, did a three-day programme featuring his exhibition of selected pen and ink drawings, lecture cum demonstration, slide show and interactive session with the students of the Government College of Fine Arts, here. First such initiative of the Chitrakala Shilpi Shri D V Halbhavi National Memorial Trust: Incidentally, this happened to be the first such initiative of the Chitrakala Shilpi Shri D V Halbhavi National Memorial Trust, under the aegis of the Department of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karnataka. Veteran artists grace the occasion: The three-day programme also turned out to be a meet the programme of stalwarts in the art field. Suresh Kulkarni, a household name in the art, education, philosophy and philanthropic circles turned up for the lecture cum demonstration programme. Shower of admiration: Se...