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B. G. L. Swamy (1918–1980):A One-Man Institution


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1 DST Centre for Policy Research, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, India
2 School of Ecology and Conservation, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru 560 065, India
 

B. G. L. Swamy was an internationally acknowledged botanist, researcher, teacher, thinker, art historian, painter, cartoonist, music aficionado and above all, a gifted Kannada writer. Hence it is no exaggeration to say that he was less an individual and more a one-man institution. In this, the year of his birth centenary, we offer tribute to this truly multi-faceted personality of the last century who straddled the worlds of arts, sci-ence and literature.
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Authors

S. Natesh
DST Centre for Policy Research, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, India
K. N. Ganeshaiah
School of Ecology and Conservation, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru 560 065, India

Abstract


B. G. L. Swamy was an internationally acknowledged botanist, researcher, teacher, thinker, art historian, painter, cartoonist, music aficionado and above all, a gifted Kannada writer. Hence it is no exaggeration to say that he was less an individual and more a one-man institution. In this, the year of his birth centenary, we offer tribute to this truly multi-faceted personality of the last century who straddled the worlds of arts, sci-ence and literature.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv115%2Fi11%2F2168-2171