Kannada Poetry

Essays

A Survey of D.V. Gundappa as a Renunciate Poet

A Survey of D.V. Gundappa as a Renunciate Poet

First episode of a series surveying the contributions of D.V. Gundappa to the poetic genre that can be called Virakta Kāvya or Renunciate Poetry

The Song of the Wayfarers

The Song of the Wayfarers

This is an English translation of DVG's evocative Kannada poem, Daarigara Haadu or the Song of the Wayfarers

Svatantra-Bhārata Abhinandanā-Stava: DVG’s Hymn to an Independent Bharatavarsha

Svatantra-Bhārata Abhinandanā-Stava: DVG’s Hymn to an Independent Bharatavarsha

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.