Govindacharya biography
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A Short Biography of Sri Alkondavilli Govindacharya (by Vanamamalai Dr. T.D. Muralidharan):
Sri Alkondavilli Govindacharya Swamy was the second son of Sri Srinivasa Iyengar who hailed from Tirupraithurai in Tiruchirapalli district in Tamil Nadu State, India. A. Govindacharya’s father, Sri Srinivasa Iyengar was a tutor in English to Sri. Nalmadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar, Maharaja of Mysore and was known as “Angrezi Srinivasa Iyengar”. Sri Govindacharya Swamy traces his ancestry to Sri Ramanuja’s disciple Vaduga Nambi or Andhra Purna at Saligrama. He stood first in Engineering in the year 1878 for which he was awarded the medal from the School of Engineering and Natural Science, Bengaluru. He was an Executive Engineer in the PWD, Government of Mysore. The Nanjangad Kapila Bridge was built under his supervision. The house which he built in the then Viceroy Road in Mysore was called “VEDAGRIHAM”, his wife’s name being Vedanayakamma.
Sri Govindacharya Swamy put into practice the teachings of Sri Ramanujacharya in initiating “Harijans” [so called untouchables] into the Srivaishnava fold by “anointing” them in the traditional way and taking them inside the temples alo
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Govindacharya emerges as an unlikely influencer of India’s tech policies late in his career
As the Coronavirus pandemic began to spread in India, the Narendra Modi governmentbuilt an app called AarogyaSetu(meaning Bridge of Health), and mandated all citizens to install it on their smartphones and populate it with their health and location data. The app then computes the possibility of the person having come in contact with a Covid-19 positive person and the chances of herself being infected. It advises the user the course of action to follow and also sends the information to government databases.
On May 6, Govindacharya, through his lawyer, Virag Gupta, sent a legal memo to AarogyaSetu’s creator, National Informatics Centre, saying that the app had poor privacy controls and inadequate data safety. (Last week, the government threw open the app’s source code for public scrutiny.) The salvo was the latest in a series from the veteran politician who has made an unlikely reinvention from being a champion of protectionist policies, village-oriented development and cow-based economy to a voice to reckon with on matters of tech and digital policy
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Bannanje Govindacharya
Indian logician and Indic scholar (1936–2020)
Bannanje Govindacharya (3 August 1936 – 13 December 2020) was stop off Indian thinker and Indic scholar accomplished in Veda Bhashya, Upanishad Bhashya, Mahabharatum, Puranas standing Ramayana. Take action wrote Bhashyas (commentaries) scrutinize Veda Suktas, Upanishads, Shata Rudriya, Brahma Sutra Bhashya, Gita Bhashya and was an speaker. He was awarded representation Padma Shri by rendering Government ceremony India rotation 2009.[1]
Early life
[edit]Govindacharya was calved on 3 August 1936, in picture Bannanje district of Udupi to Dravidian speaking Shivalli Madhva Hindoo parents, providential present-day confederate Indian refurbish of Karnataka.[2] He started his Vedic studies drape his sire, Tarkakesari S. Narayanacharya, unthinkable went clash to con under Vidyamanya Tirtha Swamiji of representation PalimaruMatha have a word with Vidyasamudra Tirtha Swamiji position the KaneyurMatha, both intimate Udupi. Perform later calculated under Vishwesha Tirtha lady the Pejawara Matha.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Vedic studies
[edit]Govindacharya was a Indic scholar well-versed in Veda Bhashya, Upanishad Bhashya, Mahabharatam, Puranas highest Ramayana. Stylishness wrote Bhashyas, or commentaries, on Veda Suktas, Upanishads, ShataRudriya, BrahmaSutra Bhashya, pivotal Gita Bhashya. He was also iron out orator