When I learnt of Prof G Venkatasubbaiah’s death, my first reaction was that of surprise. Looking back, I see that I first “met” GV when I began teaching myself to read Kannada properly several years ago. My greatest aid at the time was the Kannada Ratnakōsha, a pocket-sized Kannada-Kannada dictionary first brought out in 1973 by the Kannada Sāhitya Parishat, …
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