As Mysore observes a spontaneous bandh, as plebs and celebs spill platitudes, as newspapers and TV channels plunge into panegyrics, Dr Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi of the department of history …
As the election scene hots up in Karnataka, the commentariat is swinging into action. Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi writes in the Indian Express: “Over the past decade, Karnataka has acquired …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: The 77th Kannada sahitya sammelana ended in Bangalore on Sunday. Everything—the speeches, the controversies, the complaints, the compliments, the arrangements—has been seen, heard and watched. …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes from Bangalore: In his classic Jnapaka Chitrashale, D.V. Gundappa (more popularly known to all as DVG) reports on the 1922 Kannada sahitya sammelana in …
The hi-decibel war-of-swear-words between the governor of Karnataka, H.R. Bharadwaj, and the chief minister, B.S. Yediyurappa, over the issue of the former’s go-ahead for the latter’s prosecution on corruption charges, …
A new edition of The Flaming Feet, a collection of essays on and around B.R. Ambedkar by the late Bangalore University professor D.R. Nagaraj—“the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India’s non-English-speaking world”—has …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: Jayadev Gurumallaiah, a childhood friend from Mysore, who dabbles in real estate among other business interests, told me the following story. After drinking tea at …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: Yes, all the cliches you hear during a Test match or ODI commentary are true—“It was a fitting finale,” “The result did not matter,” “The …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: After lunch on day three of the Ranji Trophy finals here in Mysore, the Bombay batsmen rushed out with the umpires and reached the middle …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: Before play began on the first day of the Ranji Trophy finals on Monday, my old National Cricket Club (NCC) teammate Jagadish Kumar, now a …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: Ranganath Vinay Kumar doesn’t quite look like the prototypical fast bowler. At five feet eight inches, his physique doesn’t strike fear like his new-ball partner …
For most people, obbattu marks the high point of Ugadi, but allow me to strike a seriously contrarian note: It’s the mavinakayi chitranna that really gives the Kannada New Year …
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