The Man With an Iron Hand – Hon. Justice Venkatachala
Nanje Gowda Venkatachalla is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. Perhaps his most significant achievement to date has been his tenure in the Karnataka Lokayukta.
Nanje Gowda Venkatachalla is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. Perhaps his most significant achievement to date has been his tenure in the Karnataka Lokayukta.
H S Shivaprakash is an acclaimed poet and playwright from Karnataka. He writes in Kannada, but many of his works have been translated into English and other Indian regional languages.
Kannada theatre owes much to Gubbi Veeranna, the man who founded the drama company that’s popularly known as ‘Gubbi Veeranna Nataka Company’. He was a drama producer, director and an artiste.
Dr. Kadri Gopalnath is one of India’s most famous saxophonists. He is known the world over for playing classical Carnatic music on the Saxophone.
Adya Rangacharya, a novelist, scholar, actor, dramatist, director and a renowned scholar contributed his entire life to Kannada theatre, becoming a cultural icon of his times.
A. V. Varadachar, a contemporary of Bellave Narahari Sastri, was one of the foremost playwrights in the gestation period of Kannada literature. His Early
Vishnuvardhan, initially called Sampath Kumar, was a popular actor in the Kannada film industry. He acted in some Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil movies.
U R Ananthamurthy is one of the pioneers of the Navya literary movement in contemporary Kannada literature. He is a Jnanpith award winner and
Tirumakudalu Chowdiah, who’s also known as T. Chowdiah, was a gifted violinist and was considered as a legend in the realm of Carnatic music.
Sami Venkatadri Iyer, popular called Samasa, was a novelist, poet and dramatist of the classical Kannada school of literature. The language used in his