"Do you know, sir, it is God who has planted such doubts in you. That is His way of putting you to the test"

"Ramu is our youngest child. He does not know how to write. The only thing he knows is to scribble on the slate. When …"

"Father of Kannada"

"One who has a gentle and profound insight into what lasts in India, and what elements inherent in human nature threat…"

"When you read Masti you realize that his stories and characters are a part of yourself and in them you see a world yo…"

"But in 1911, when Masti Venkatesh Iyengar published a few short stories, the discernible birth of Kannada short story…"

"Some people argue that Masti is not a novelist, and that he is only a short story writer. But there is no evidence th…"

"The clever folks who claim that we don’t want your temples and that our goodness alone is sufficient, prop up a non-e…"

"Regarding the natives, I have little to say. They are a stout-built, squat, big-legged hill tribe: the women in regar…"

"…[The] Kholees, or, as they are pretty generally called, Coolies,…form perhaps two-thirds of the population, and are …"