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

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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

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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.

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