Source: Shyam Sundar Vattam At 81, Gowda Lives on Ragi Mudde on the Campaign Trail http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/At-81-Gowda-Lives-on-Ragi-Mudde-on-the-Campaign-Trail/2014/03/28/article2135490.ece#.UzU21qiSySo, The New Indian Express, 28 March 2014
Famous H. D. Deve Gowda Quotes
Source: Girja Kumar The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&pg=PA460&dq=Devegowda&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bJe6U8othJWTBe2mgLAD&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Devegowda&f=false, Har-Anand Publications, 01-Jan-1997
Source: R R Nair "The Rediff Election Interview/H D Deve Gowda"
His retort to Hegde’s remark that he was not fit to become Prime Minister and that he did not know the Map of India.
Source: Gopal K. Kadekodi, et al., "Development in Karnataka: Challenges of Governance, Equity, and Empowerment".
Source: R R Nair "The Rediff Election Interview/H D Deve Gowda"
On being compared with Hegde, a suave opponent
Source: Gopal K. Kadekodi, et al., Development in Karnataka: Challenges of Governance, Equity, and Empowerment http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YpjqJz_RbncC&pg=PA99&dq=Devegowda&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Lpy6U9fAJ4ejkwXp54DwDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Devegowda&f=false, Academic Foundation, 2008 P.98
H. D. Deve Gowda Quotes
Source: R R Nair The Rediff Election Interview/H D Deve Gowda http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/feb/02gowd.htm, rediff.com, 2 February 1998
Source: Gowda upset over seeing his sleeping photo http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Gowda-upset-over-seeing-his-sleeping-photo/articleshow/97258.cms, The Times of India, 27 July 2003
In the early nineties, he, who likes being called mannina maga (son of the soil), was persuaded by the then Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao to attend the World Economic Forum, in Devos. According to Deve Gowda Rao wanted a non-Congress non-BJP chief minister to attend as a representative to encourage foreign investment. In 1996, a year after the MOU was signed, he became the PM of India for 10 months, heading a coalition of regional parties.
Source: The Newsmakers http://books.google.co.in/books?id=csVfAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT49, Random House India, 22 April 2014, p. 94
Source: Shyam Sundar Vattam "Gowda Lives on Ragi Mudde on the Campaign Trail".
Girja Kumar, The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&pg=PA460&dq=Devegowda&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bJe6U8othJWTBe2mgLAD&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Devegowda&f=false, Har-Anand Publications, 1 January 1997
India Today in: "Sleeping Gowda' remains unruffled by critics"
S. Chandrashekar in: Past Prime Ministers: Those who came before:H D Deve Gowda http://news.in.msn.com/elections-2014/past-prime-ministers-those-who-came-before?page=12, MSN News. 26 May 2014
Profile in: Profile: Haradanahalli Dodde Deve Gowda http://www.indianpoliticians.com/profile/23/ 4 December 2008