Dr. K S Narayanacharya

Born in 1933 and educated at Mysore (Maharaja’s College and  Yuvaraja’s College), Sri K S Narayanacharya, popularly known as Ramayanacharya, is a B.Sc (P.C.M), B.A. (Hons) English, and M.A (Modern English Literature) coming from an orthodox and devout family of Vedic scholars. His Doctoral thesis is on “The Influence of Indian thought on the poetry of W.B Yeats and T.S Eliot”.

           He has studied the Krishna Yajurveda under the guidance of great masters like the late Dandavati Siva Dixit Somayaji of Dharwad, where he has worked as Professor and Principal of the famed Karnataka Arts College, Karnatak University, for over 32 years as a teacher of English literature. He is the author of over seventy works in Kannada and English on varied subjects like the  Vedas, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata, the Hymns of the Alwars, Vedanta, Haridasa Literature, D R Bendre, and Kautilya.

            Sri Acharya is a recipient of several state awards like Sangeetha Nritya Academy’s “Karnataka Kalasri”, the Sahitya Academy Prize, “Gamaka Rathnakara” from the state government, and titles from religious heads like Veda Bhushana, Valmiki Hridayajna, Pravachana Kalanidhi and so on. Music, Indology, poetry, discourses, lecture tours are among the abounding interests of the Acharya. He is an indomitable debater and a passionate advocate of Hindu values as lasting solutions for the maladies of our society. He is a novelist too, turning our epics into popular moulds of fiction.  His serials in the Kannada weeklies like Taranga and Karmaveera are very popular and run for months at a stretch. The Acharya is a master of English, Kannada, Sanskrit and Tamil and has lectured all over the country.

           For his services to Indian literature and spirituality through works, the Karnataka State Open University, Mysore has awarded him recently an Hon. D.Litt Degree. 

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