Chandrashekhar Kambar is a modern Kannada novelist, dramatist and academician. He is a man of many talents, having ventured into film making and acting while pursuing his literary career. Kambar is a litterateur, poet and actor, and he was born in the year 1937 in Bangalore. He’s a winner of the Sangeet Natak Academy award, […]
Rayasam Bheemasena Rao – BeeChi
Rayasam Bheemasena Rao (1913-1980), popularly called BeeChi, was one of most prominent personalities in writing in Karnataka. A Look at the Personality He was often termed as the GB Shaw of Kannada literature. He wrote under the pen name BeeChi (which is also the name he preferred to go by in his daily life) and […]
The Rising Actor – Zulfi Syed
Zulfikar Syed or Zulfi Syed (as he is more popularly known) is a Bangalore based Indian model and actor. He’s fast rising up the ranks and has a few movies to his name. His Early Life and Initial Career Zulfi Syed was born in 1980 in Bangalore, India. He shot to fame after winning the […]
The Sensual Performer – Yasmin Ponnappa
Yasmin Ponnappa joins a long list of Kodava beauties, when it comes to leading ladies who have kicked up a storm in the silver screen. She is a model who debuted in a de-glamourized role in the Tamil movie ‘Aaranya Kaandam’. Bangalore has contributed its fair share of models to the modelling circuit. From Lara […]
A Real Life Hero – Squadron Leader Devayya
The tale of Squadron Leader Devayya Bopayya’s heroic deed might have been forever buried with his in Pakistani soil had not a strange set of events led to the investigation of what exactly happened on the fateful day when No.1 Tigers Squadron was assigned the task of taking down Sargodha, the Pakistani Air force’s main […]
The Freedom Fighter and Politician – SK Amin
SK Amin is a prominent politician and freedom fighter. Seetharam Koosayya Amin, born on the 6th of June, 1917, has been a luminary in the field of politics in the State of Karnataka. Having held the position of a vice president of the District Congress Committee, Amin made his way into the Karnataka State Legislative […]
Shyam Benegal – Indian Cinema’s Messiah of Sorts
Indian Cinema is more synonymous with Bollywood than the various other films that are made in the other languages that are popular in our country. This, however, has not stopped cinema from other languages and non-commercial cinema from blooming and carving their own niche. Many directors have brought such accolades to the country through parallel […]
Sarita Mandanna – The Life of the Budding Authoress
Indian literature has come a long way, since the days of R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, and many others like Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy, who have left a lasting mark in the culture of Indo-Anglican Literature. Among the new generation of modern and post modern writers, Sarita Mandanna is […]
Flying High in the Sky – Reeth Abraham
India has had its share of exceptional athletes and there have been some greats like P.T. Usha, but one name which shines on its own till date is that of Reeth Abraham. A national champion in long jump and heptathlon, Reeth Abraham is one of the most prominent athletes to have represented India. She was […]
The Style Guru – Prasad Bidappa
Prasad Bidappa is a fashion designer and consultant. He is a Bangalore based fashion designer, and is also a choreographer, fashion and image consultant and stylist. He is reputed to have a gift for spotting talent and he has picked and groomed top models who have gone on to make it big in the fashion […]
