Vachanas of the Shiva Sharanas of the 11th and 12th centuries are regarded among Karnataka’s greatest contributions to Indian thought and literature. A few scholars have translated them from Kannada ...

As may be expected, reviews of Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka have focused on the vast and varied connections between life and literature, and state and society, that ...

Bengaluru’s Basava Samithi collaborated with universities to translate 2,500 vachanas into six international languages by Jan 2025. Initiated by MM Kalburgi, the project includes translations into ...

Vachana Darshana, a 230-page Kannada book, has stirred the theological cauldron in Karnataka over the past month for showing the Lingayat faith as a quintessential member of the Hindu landscape, ...

Claiming that it has become a “fashion among some intellectuals to speak or write in demeaning terms about Hindu culture and Indian heritage”, Sangamesh Savadattimath, researcher and retired professor ...

MYSURU: Kannada poet H S Shivaprakash on Saturday described that vachanas are handbooks for the spiritual enlightenment of people. He was speaking at the 300th series of special lectures organised by ...

BENGALURU: In a counter to the controversial Vachana Darshana, Lingayat groups have launched Vachana Nija Darshana, penned by Vachana scholar Dr Meenakshi Bali, to address what they call the ...

BENGALURU: Bengaluru is gearing up for the 2024 annual Republic Day Flower Show at Lalbagh, as the main attraction in the upcoming flower show will be a floral replica of Lord Basaveshwara. The 11-day ...

I read this interview (“‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan”) with mixed feelings. His observations on the plight of the immigrants in ...