Girish Karnad
1938–2019playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
yoga teacher and scholar (1918–2014)
B. K. S. Iyengar
1918–2014, born Bellur, writes in Kannada, English, writer
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar was an Indian teacher of yoga and author. He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise called “Iyengar Yoga”, and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world. He was the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Life. Iyengar was one of the earliest students of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who is often called “the father of modern yoga”. He has been credited with popularizing yoga, first in India and then around the world.
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On Open Library
Light on Yoga1965
Tree of Yoga1988
Light on prāṇāyāma1981
Yoga2001
Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali1993
Kumbhaka paddhati of Raghuvira2000Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.
Elsewhere
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Also writing in Kannada
Chandrashekhara Kambara
b. 1937writer
D. R. Bendre
1896–1981Kannada poet (1896–1981)
Devanur Mahadeva
b. 1948writer
K. Shivaram Karanth
1902–1997writer (1902-1997)
Kuvempu
1904–1994poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and prolific thinker (1904–1994)