Bangalore: The President of 77th Kannada Literacy Assembly now in Bangalore is a 98 year old, short, smiling man called G.Venkatasubbaiah, a lexicographer, also known as ‘Jeevy’ by his friends and fellow journalists. Jeevi (GV) wrote many books but they were not novels, but only dictionaries. Only an expert in a language can produce such […]

Bangalore: Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah has been unanimously and overwhelmingly favoured and elected as the new President of the 77th Bangalore Conference of Sahitya Parishad Convention to be held for 3 days in December (24 to 26) next.  GV, as he is known is 97 and profoundly committed to Kannada as a teacher and lexicographer for […]