Bengaluru: Mrs Bhagirathi Yenagi is now a Nonagenarian keeping her age as a parameter. But, when it comes to day-to-day activities she is much more active than the girls of the present era. She has a vast extended family with five children, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. But, she continues to remain a child in the heart as she is the first person to extend help whenever requested. In that way, she is an ideal example of the saying, advanced age is for the body and not the human mind! A hard worker since her childhood days: Mrs Bhagirathi Yenagi, despite her ripe age remains slim, and beautiful with a fair complexion. She had been very active since her childhood days helping her grandmother at home while her mother went to the paddy fields for work. She took responsibility for the household activities at a very tender age by feeding the cattle with fodder and water apart from fetching water from the lake and wells. She also used to acco...
The Kannada novel Bayala Beragu by late Mrs Sumangala S Mummigatti on the life of 12th century Kannadiga, Allama Prabhu, a maverick, a mystic, an enigmatic, an unfathomable, profound thinker, philosopher, debator and poet was honoured by the Karnataka Sahitya Academi Award as the 'Best Novel' for the year 2022. Largely incomprehensible intellectually, philosophically and spiritually: While the whole of Kannada literary academia for the last 6 or 8 decades, except a few scholars in the field, have struggled to figure out what this astounding personality of Allama Prabhu is, he continues to be largely incomprehensible intellectually, philosophically and spiritually. Most of his Vachanas are so figurative, metaphorical, allegorical and cryptic that they seem to be enigmas wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a puzzle, and placed in a baffling maze. Hence, this revolutionary 12th century thinker of Karnataka has hardly seen the light of the day. His unorthodox, original and ultramoder...