DVG wrote his play, "Mahachunavane" (General Elections) in 1965. It depicts an unflattering picture of the first general elections in India held in 1951-52. There is a justified need for revisiting and re-analysing this play today.
DVG's Kannada play, Jack Cade was one of the earliest fictional portrayals of a newly-independent India in which the political class headed by the Congress Party was pushing India towards brazen demagoguery and anarchy.
D.V. Gundappa (DVG) was one of the accomplished litterateurs of India. This is the first episode of a new series that introduces his literary contributions.
The iconic D.V. Gundappa brings alive a highly evocative, moving and ennobling profile of a spotless Bhakta of Shiva eponymously named "Shiva Pooje" Naranappa.
On August 15, 1954, just seven years after India attained freedom, DVG delivered a deeply contemplative radio lecture, calling for a national introspection. It remains relevant till date.
In the concluding part of this essay series, we present several inspiring and ennobling anecdotes from Sir M. Visvesvarayya's life that remain eternal beacons of guidance
In the concluding episode, we garner significant insights into the downfall of the Indian political life and public discourse from DVG's letters to B.D. Jatti and G.B. Pant.
The first episode of an English prose translation of the complete "Svatantra-Bhārata Abhinandanā-Stava." This was DVG's immortal Kannada hymn to Bharatavarsha that he wrote on the midnight of August 15, 1947.
In the final episode of this series, DVG evocatively reminisces about the lifelong conviction or Sankalpa that our ancestors had just about a century ago. And contrasts it with the great downfall that occurred in his own lifetime.
In the second episode, DVG gives us a captivating and heartwarming portrait of the innate strength of a Hindu joint family system and characterises it as a government of the people in the real sense.
