Rare photograph showing Pandit Nehru along with Professor Satyan Bose (the Einstein-Bose Theory of Statistics fame) who was Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati. Other promiment person in the photo is Professor Tan Yun Shan, founder of Cheena Bhawan. Isvarmurti (third from left front row) is standing next to Prof Bose.
Category: People
With Dom Moraes – around 1985
Dom Moraes – one year senior to V.Isvarmurti at Oxford- won fame as a young poet in English language at the age of 19. His friendship with Isvarmurti started from those days and continued in India.
Meet K.K.S. Murthy : The celebrated antiquarian bookseller
Mr.K.K.S. Murthy who runs his merchandise from an obscure lane off the busy Brigade Road. I had bought so many books from Select,in fact, I now regularly buy from Murthy from Encyclopaedia Brittannica to Will Durant”s History of the Civilization volumes to any topics you can imagine. I buy books for their value besides my…
Chennai-born, Yale-educated Indira Nooyi
Pepsico President and CFO Till the other day she was called the poster girl for all aspiring Indian executives. Both men and women! Not any more, it seems. She did what we in India might consider the most harmless thing of giving a speech to the Colombia University B-school graduation ceremony. She just pointed out…
Indian Renaissance : Rammohun Roy
When Indians think of nationalism, cultural identity, one Indian name seems the starting print. What is his relevance today? We go back to Raja Rammohun Roy, who died this month 164 years ago, as he is the originator of modern India. Along with him came modern education. An assessment of the great man and his…
Open letter to Vajpayee
Thoughts for ex PM! This is not a charge sheet. Nor a balance sheet. It is a tribute to a leader who raised the image of India in the world. The 2004 elections are variously called as a great historic turnaround for the country. The BJP which contested the elections on a very confident note…
Life of Thyagaraja
Classical music must innovate and draw young listeners. Indian’s weakness for myth-making, forgetting history, making heroes of saint, politicians, plain villains! In the West, much new, innovative music created and much new style of music writing. I was reading through, for the second time, of a life of the Carnatic music legend, Tyagaraj, because a…
Nostalgia for the old Bangalore!
Nijalingappa, Ramakrishna Hegde, Deve Gowda Savitri Devi, P.Lankesh, Rajiv Tharanath Ravi Kirloskar, T.A.Pai, Sunder Ram Shetty, Shankar Hegde, Narayanamurty There is in Bangalore a core group of people who would do anything in their power to care for the old Bangalore and its ethos. Bangalore evokes such a deeply-felt nostalgia. There are so many reasons,…