Study of Vaishnava devotional literature in six Vaishnava temples of South India; includes philosophy of Rāmānuja, 1017-1137.

A Collection Of Folk Legends About Venkateshwara, The Sacred Tirumala Hills, His Miracles And The Rituals And Festivals Associated With Him-A Manifestation Of Vishnu. Contains Rare Photographs.

Ooru (Uru): A Village, A Town. All Non-Dalit Castes-From The Brahmins And The Land-Owning Castes To The Service Castes Like The Barbers-Live In The Ooru, And It Contains The SettlementýS Main Temples. Keri(Kýri): Keri Is The Ward Where The Dalits Live; It Is Separate From The Main Body Of The Village. Keri Also Means A Street. This Book Attempts A New Imaging Of The Dalit Personality.

Considered to be the father of the Kannada short story, Masti s direct narration and sympathetic understanding of human nature make his stories evergreen. U R Anantha Murthy describes this Sahitya Akademi Awardee as one who has a gentle and profound insight into what lasts in India, and what elements inherent in human nature threaten it ... the best in traditions of the East and the West have gone into the making of his liberal humanist philosophy.

On the works of Bi. Putṭạsvāmayya, b. 1897, Kannada author.

Basavanna (Basaveshwara) is called "Vishwaguru" because he is believed by his followers to have been the first ever to know the practicality of transcending to Godliness and demonstrating the technique of becoming God through around 800 Sharanas. Basavanna spread the concept of the path of becoming God through four levels of divinity that exists in one's own body- Unmanifest Chaitanya (Guru), Manifest Chaitanya-Shakti (Linga), Consciousness of the manifest chaitanya-shakti in Prana (Jangama), and the Individual consciousness (Jeevatma/Mind). Basavanna taught Sharanas, the technique of transcending the mind with one's own prana through a process of Ishtalinga, Pranalinga and Bhavalinga saadhana and that anybody in the world, irrespective of caste, creed, merit, nationality, etc., can transcend and become God by being in union with prana.