SHATAVADHANI: CONNECTING CLASSICAL WITH CONTEMPORARY

A PROLIFIC WRITER AND GREAT ORATOR, DR R GANESH HAS WRITTEN IN KANNADA, ENGLISH AND SANSKRIT LANGUAGES. HIS SEVENTY DIFFERENT WORKS HAVE FEATURED ARTS, LITERATURE, AESTHETICS, PROSODY, PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY AND CULTURE

India, for a long time, has had an extraordinarily rich and deep-rooted scholarships in all the domains. This has passed down in an academically sensitised set up. Unfortunately that class of scholarship is dwindling with generations passing by. Yet, we have a few exceptionally genuine scholars who have the scholarship in depth knowledge of the Bharatiya tradition. One such is Shatavadhani Dr R Ganesh.

CONNECTION WITH SOCIETY

On his recent eventful completion of 60 years, it is a good occasion to visit the extraordinary scholarship he has pursued in the Indic knowledge system. Dr Ganesh has managed to touch all the classes of society through his discourses, with an array of 10,000 hours’ worth of talks which have dealt as varied topics as Spirituality, Veda, Vedanga, Darshana, Agama, Purana, Dharma Shastra, Artha shastra, Sahithya, Natya shastra, Itihasa and Kavya traditions of India. He has the uncanny ability to make his talks penetrative to the masses through a sharp intellect and critical analysis with anecdotes and use of idioms and popular phrases. Thanks to his discourses, much is available now in the public space about Vyasa, Valmiki, Bhasa, Kalidasa, Sudraka, Vishnu Sharma, Bartru Hari, Bharavi, Magha, Bhavbhooti, Bana, Pampa, Ranna, Kumaravyasa, Vidhyaranya, modern scholars such as PV Kane, Prof Hiriyanna, DV Gundappa, Devudu, Kuvempu, SL Bhairappa to name a few.

FAITH IN BHARATIYA CULTURE