In the book Speaking of Shiva, AK Ramanujan writes about the Virashaiva poets – 11th and 12th CE Kannada poets with bhakti for Shiva such as Basavanna, Allammaprabhu and Mahadeviyakka – and ...

Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. H.S. Anupama of Thirthahalli in Shivamogga district has been selected for Sri Shivarathreeshwara Award (2022) for her book titled ‘Belaginolagu Mahadeviyakka.’ The Award, instituted ...

Mysuru’s favorite and largest circulated English evening daily has kept the citizens of Mysuru informed and entertained since 1978. Over the past 45 years, Star of Mysore has been the newspaper that ...

the scintillating Mahadeviyakka in the 12th century left her husband and even discarded her clothes; covered only by her tresses she had a remarkable dialogue on the basis of equality with ...

Bookmark stories for easy access on any device or the Swarajya app. This fine book gives us a peek into India’s vast stack of bhakti poems, and a sense of the elements that bring together its ...

Mahadeviyakka, Muddupalani, Manikkavacakar and Ravindranath Tagore to provide us the lyrical ecstasy, apart from the mandatory textual guidelines from Kama Sutra. Among the contemporary writers ...

recreated from the 3,000-year-old Rig Veda; the work of the Tamil Sangam poets, whose contemporary finesse belies their antiquity; Bhakti poets Antal and Mahadeviyakka, who describe women's fantasies ...

recreated from the 3,000-year-old Rig Veda; the work of the Tamil Sangam poets, whose contemporary finesse belies their antiquity; Bhakti poets Antal and Mahadeviyakka, who describe women's ...

recreated from the 3,000-year-old Rig Veda; the work of the Tamil Sangam poets, whose contemporary finesse belies their antiquity; Bhakti poets Antal and Mahadeviyakka, who describe women's fantasies ...