The Song of the Wayfarers

This is an English translation of DVG's evocative Kannada poem, Daarigara Haadu or the Song of the Wayfarers

Translator’s Introduction

THE ENNOBLING BODY of D.V Gundappa’s creative literature spans all forms except short stories and novels as we’ve noted elsewhere on The Dharma Dispatch. Of these, poetry was his forte. The gamut of themes that he explored in his poetic oeuvre is as varied as it is sublime, evocative, pleasing, aesthetic and enduring, reminding …