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Bengaluru: Octogenarian, Padma Bhushan Jatin Das(85) is a renowned painter, sculptor and muralist, regarded as the leading contemporary artist of the country. He has a unique distinction of painting for almost seven decades! Even the more than 70 one-man exhibitions within the country and elsewhere across the globe are also rated as an amazing feat in any artist's life. Irrespective of his advanced age, Jatin Das continues to remain vocal and candid in matters related to the art world and doesn't mince words in airing his opinion on the present circumstances. Apart from paying glowing tributes to the greatness of the nation, Jatin Das, plainly admits that 'India is a great country, but Indians have become very vulgar'! From a one-month camp to three days art camp! Jatin Das was recently in Bengaluru to participate in the art camp organised by the Krishna Setty Foundation. During an informal interaction, he suddenly became furious over the time frame of the art camps ...

Bengaluru: B. A. Sudath Abeysekera is from Sri Lanka, having started his art journey in his hometown of Galle. Galle is in the southernmost region of the country. However, he has been living in Colombo, the nation's capital city, along with Achala Gunawardena, his artist wife. The couple were in Bengaluru recently to participate in the three-day national and international artists camp hosted by the Krishna Setti Foundation. Advertising company, owns Art Way gallery: B. A. Sudath Abeysekera did his initial studies at Galle's Nagoda Royal College. Later, he completed formal education at the Visual and Fine Arts University in Colombo. Then began his journey to quench his urge to immerse himself in the art of painting, which proved short-lived. That was when he got associated with a leading advertising company to make a living. The stint at the first company enabled him to start his own company and also gave him the impetus to pursue art activities in a full-fledged manner in Col...

Bengaluru: Thanks to the ongoing war between the United States, Israel against Iran and the after-effects in the way of transporting crude oil and natural gases, a panic-like situation has been prevailing in parts of the country. This has been the predicament, despite government authorities assuring the countrymen from time to time that there are sufficient stocks and no need to raise an alarm! Hotels declare closure: No sooner did reports of the war's impact hit the headlines than they sparked a variety of repercussions on the ground. The hoteliers were the first to make a hullabaloo by issuing statements about the shortage of commercial LPG cylinders, while many other hotel owners were in a hurry to raise the prices of eatables and beverages. Some big hotels even went so far as to declare a closure, citing an inadequate supply of commercial gas cylinders. Hoarding of petrol and diesel: Strangely, the paucity of LPG, CNG gases, domestic and commercial LPG cylinders was felt only ...

Bengaluru: Chennu Mathad, a Delhi-based Kannadiga, has forwarded the following Facebook post: This morning, while I was standing in line at the Chigari bus stand in Vidyanagar, Hubballi, to attend the Dharwad District Kannada Literary Conference being held in Dharwad, I was surprised to see Prof. I. G. Sanadi who had served three terms as a Member of Parliament and also as a member of the Legislative Council with distinction standing right in front of me, buying a ticket like everyone else. Would have travelled in a luxurious car: If it had been any other politician who had held such high positions, they would have travelled in a luxurious car. But he was travelling by bus like an ordinary person, what else could this be if not a symbol of his simplicity? Shared his political journey, experiences...Not only that, since we couldn’t find seats together on the bus, we had to sit separately. However, unable to resist, he requested the person sitting next to me and came to sit beside me. D...

By Prakash Girimallannanavar Above Photo courtesy: K Venkatesh. Belagavi: Prof. C Mahadevappa. Prof. C Mahadevappa, a popular Kannada teacher cum research scholar in ancient literature who turned 100 years in July 2022, has come out with his latest publication, ‘Ekottara Shathasthala’, a rare commentary on the mystic Shiva Sharana-vachanas of olden times by Siddhalinga Swamiji, the head of Kattige Halli Lingayat Matha, a subsidiary of Chitadurga Muruga Matha. Strangely coincidental with his age 101 years completed: Though this was one of his earliest editing efforts in textual criticism based on deciphering various palm leaf manuscripts, (a method/skill of editing old texts popularly known as ‘Grantha Sampadane’), the content of the title is strangely coincidental with his age 101 years completed, with the 101 steps for salvation delineated by 12th century sharanas and their probable predecessors too. Into a family of a schoolteacher turned butter merchant: Born into a family of...