India, Sept. 30 -- This year, Vijayadashami, which commemorates the victory of the Goddess after nine relentless nights of fighting the demon Mahishashura, falls on October 2nd, a date that every Indian schoolchild associates with Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. Very few children, or adults, know that in another day in the same week, October 7th, marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of an extraordinary individual who most Kannadigas would agree fits Shakespeare's description of Julius Caesar - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about. That man was author, poet, journalist, philosopher, social reformer, freedom fighter, mentor, relentless and insightful chroni...