How Sir M. Visvesvarayya Earned the Annadaata Honour from the People of Karnataka
In the concluding part of this series, Masti Venkatesha Iyengar movingly describes how Sir M. Visvesvarayya literally became the Annadaata of the Kannada people: the giver of food.
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AS I HAD NO DEFINITE WORK, I did not always know when Sir Visvesvaraya sent for me or for what. When I walked in on one of these occasions he said, “Please take this down.” As I had not brought my notebook and pencil with me I said, “I shall bring my notebook, Sir,” and ran back and returned quite quickly and stood ready to take…