In his biography Bhava published in three volumes ... The family now runs a trust called Masti Venkatesh Iyengar Jeevana Karyalaya Trust at the 102-year-old house of the litterateur.

Masti Venkatesh Iyengar was the fourth Kannada writer to be conferred the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour for his novel, Chikkaveera Rajendra. Renowned for his short stories ...

Masti Venkatesh Iyengar (1861-1986), who is rightly acclaimed as the father of modern short stories in Kannada, published his first short story “Rangana Maduve” in 1910 and went on writing ...

BANGALORE: “To understand the problems of tribal, Maoists and naxals in a simple way, one can read the books written by veteran Kannada writer and Jnanpith awardee Masti Venkatesh Iyengar ...