“In me is the sky, in me lies the earth.”

— Kuvempu

A couplet he wrote in Kannada, before writing his first full poem in the language.
Poet, nature lover and humanist (2004)

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Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker 1904–1994

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