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{{short description|Kannada Poet, writer and professor}}
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{{Infobox writer
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| honorific suffix =
| name = V. Seetharamaiah
| birth_name = Venkataramaiah Seetharamaiah (ವೆಂಕಟರಾಮಯ್ಯ ಸೀತಾರಾಮಯ್ಯ)
| pseudonym = Vee. See. (ವಿ. ಸೀ.)
| native_name_lang = kn
| image = Portrait Photograph of V. Seetharamaiah (1978).jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|10|02|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Budhigere village, [[Devanahalli]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|09|04|1899|10|02|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]].
| resting_place =
| alma_mater = [[Maharaja's College, Mysore|Maharaja College]], Mysore (University of Mysore)
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Kannada poet
* writer
* essayist
* critic
* editor
* lecturer
}}
| language = [[Kannada language|Kannada]], [[English language|English]]
| nationality = Indian
| period =
| movement = Navodaya
| notableworks = ''Krishnacharithra'',<ref name="Mahābhāratada Kr̥ṣṇa cāritra">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Mahābhāratada Kr̥ṣṇa cāritra |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/mahabharatada-krsna-caritra/oclc/8667292&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Śubha Prakāśana |access-date=18 October 2020 |language=kn |date=1978|oclc=8667292 }}</ref> ''Aralu Baralu'', ''Mahaniyaru'', ''Geetegalu'',<ref name="Gītagaḷu">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Gītagaḷu |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/gitagalu/oclc/43102444&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Karṇāṭaka Sāhitya Prakaṭaṇa Mandira |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1931|oclc=43102444 }}</ref> ''Deepagalu'', ''Pampa Yatre'',<ref name="Pampayatre: an excursion to Hampi">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |last2=Ramaswamy |first2=S |last3=Karkala Sahitya Sangha (Kārkal |first3=India) |title=Pampayatre: an excursion to Hampi |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/pampayatre-an-excursion-to-hampi/oclc/963575179&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |access-date=18 October 2020 |language=en |date=2013|oclc=963575179 }}</ref> ''College Dinagalu''<ref name="Kalej dinagalu." />
| spouse = Sarojamma
| children =
| relatives =
| awards = ''Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award'', ''Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award'', ''D. Litt'' (Doctorate)(1976)
| signature = V._Seetharamaiah's_Signature.svg
| signature_alt = V. Seetharamaiah's Signature (pen name - Vi. Si.)
| website = [https://www.srikanta-sastri.org/v-seetharamaiah/4595081336 V. Seetharamaiah]
}}

'''Venkataramaiah Seetharamaiah''' (02 October 1899 - 04 September 1983)<ref name='"Vi. Sītārāmayya" by Rāmacandra'>{{cite book |last1=Rāmacandra |first1=Em |title=Vi. Sītārāmayya |publisher=Navakarnāṭaka Prakāśana |isbn=978-81-7302-866-3 |page=16 |oclc=123027431 |edition=1 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/vi-sitaramayya/oclc/123027431&referer=brief_results |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref> commonly known as '''Vee See''', was a [[Kannada]] poet, writer, essayist, critic, editor and teacher who taught Kannada literature at University of Mysore between 1928 to 1955.<ref name="V. Seetharamaiah - A Brief Biography">{{cite web |last1=Seetharamaiah |first1=V |title=V. Seetharamaiah – A Brief Biography |url=https://www.srikanta-sastri.org/v-seetharamaiah/4595081336 |website=www.srikanta-sastri.org |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="V. Seetharamaiah – Biography by G. Venkatasubbiah">{{cite web |last1=Seetharamaiah |first1=V |title=V. Seetharamaiah – Biography by G. Venkatasubbiah |url=http://www.karnatakasahithyaacademy.org/downloads/Lekhana_Vee.See.pdf |website=www.karnatakasahityaacademy.org |publisher=Govt. of Karnataka |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="ಆಚಾರ್ಯ ವಿ.ಸೀ ಗೆ ನಮೋ ನಮ:">{{cite web |last1=ಸೀ |first1=ವಿ. |title=ಆಚಾರ್ಯ ವಿ.ಸೀ ಗೆ ನಮೋ ನಮ |url=https://kannada.oneindia.com/literature/people/2009/1002-tribute-to-kannada-writer-v-seetharamaiah.html |access-date=18 October 2020 |language=kn |date=2 October 2009}}</ref> He is a recipient of the [[Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry|Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award]] (1973),<ref name="ಆಚಾರ್ಯ ವಿ.ಸೀ ಗೆ ನಮೋ ನಮ:" /> Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award and a Honorary Doctorate ([[D. Litt]]) from [[University of Mysore]] in 1976.<ref name="Vi. Si. - Centenary Commemoration Volume">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |last2=Seshagiri Rao |first2=L. S |title=ವಿ. ಸೀ. - ನೂರರ ನೆನಪು |publisher=Vi. Sī. Sampada, Vi. Sī. Saṃsmaraṇa Vēdike |page=152 |oclc=43657691 |edition=1 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/vi-si-nurara-nenapu-janmasatabdi-smarane/oclc/43657691&referer=brief_results |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref> He presided over the 36th [[Kannada Sahitya Sammelana]] (Kannada Literary Conference) at [[Kumta]] in 1954.<ref name="ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಮ್ಮೇಳನ-೩೬ – ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು">{{cite web |last1=ಸೀ |first1=ವಿ. |title=ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಮ್ಮೇಳನ-೩೬ – ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು |url=https://kannadasahithyaparishattu.in/?p=550 |website=Kannadasahityaparishattu.in |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref>

He has authored about sixty works in Kannada with about eight anthologies of poems, thirty-six works of Kannada prose, ten translations from English to Kannada and ten biographical sketches written in English.<ref name="ವಿ. ಸೀ. - ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ, ಕಾವ್ಯ ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯ">{{cite book |last1=Seetharamaiah |first1=V. |title=ವಿ. ಸೀ. - ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ, ಕಾವ್ಯ ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯ |publisher=ವಿ. ಸೀ. ಸಂಪದ |location=Bangalore |page=11 |edition=2 |ref=ವಿ. ಸೀ. - ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ, ಕಾವ್ಯ ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯ}}</ref><ref name="V. Seetharamaiah - Bibliography">{{cite web |last1=Seetharamaiah |first1=V |title=V. Seetharamaiah – Bibliography |url=http://www.karnatakasahithyaacademy.org/downloads/Sahithyapatha_Vee.See.pdf |website=www.karnatakasahityaacademy.org |publisher=Govt. of Karnataka |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref> This corpus of writing spans fifty years of his academic career and includes nearly every conceivable genre and style of writing prevalent in his time. He mainly embodied the Navodaya movement in Kannada literature in the 1950s and 1960s. V. Seetharamaiah was an Economist by education and was trained under the tutelage of N. S. Subba Rao at Maharaja College, Mysore. N. S. Subba Rao studied Economics along with [[J. M. Keynes]] at [[Cambridge University]] in the early 1920s under the eminent Economist [[Alfred Marshall]].<ref name="Vi. Si. - 75th anniversary Volume">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |last2=Inamdar |first2=Venkat Madhurao |title=Vi. Sī.-75: sambhāvanā grantha |publisher=Vi. Sī. Satkāra Samitigāgi, Ai. Bi. Ec. Prakāśana |page=27 |oclc=12807986 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/vi-si-75-sambhavana-grantha/oclc/12807986&referer=brief_results |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref>
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==Early years==
[[File:Maharaja's College Group Photo 2.jpg|thumb|left|Maharaja College Group Photo: L - R (sitting on chairs): S. Srikanta Sastri, M. R. Varadachar, Pattankar Chandrashekhar Bhat, Lakshminarasimaiah, K. V. Puttappa, A. R. Krishna Sastry, Ralapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma, V. Seetharamaiah, ?, ?, S. V. Ratnam]]V. Seetharamaiah was born in Budhigere village, [[Devanahalli]], [[Bangalore]] on 02 October 1899.<ref name="V. Seetharamaiah - Important Dates">{{cite web |last1=ಸೀ |first1=ವಿ. |title=V. Seetharamaiah – Important Dates |url=http://www.karnatakasahithyaacademy.org/downloads/Jeevanapatha_Vee.See.pdf |website=www.karnatakasahityaacademy.org |publisher=Govt. of Karnataka |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref> His parents were Venkataramaiah (father) and Doddavenkamma (mother). Vi. Si. spent first six years of his childhood at Budhigere village in the care of his grandparents. His father was a priest officiating various Brahminical rituals at Bangalore. Vi. Si. lost his father at the age of eight years. Vi. Si. was sent to Bangalore to pursue his further schooling in 1906. He completed his schooling at Municipal School, Chamarajpet and then at Anglo-vernacular school. Some notable classmates of his here were [[K. V. Iyer]],<ref name="A poem coming alive">{{cite news |last1=Moona |first1=Suresh |title=Vi. Si. & Friends (T. P. Kailasam and K. V. Iyer) |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/a-poem-coming-alive/article32271422.ece |access-date=18 October 2020 |work=The Hindu |agency=The Hindu Newspaper Agency |publisher=The Hindu Newspaper Agency |date=4 August 2020 |language=en-IN}}</ref> [[T. P. Kailasam]] and [[C. S. Venkatachar]]. After completing his schooling, Vi. Si. sat for the University of Mysore entrance examination. He has the rare distinction of being in the very first batch of students in the nascent [[University of Mysore]] in 1917. Vi. Si. chose [[Political Science]], [[Philosophy]] and [[Economics]] for his Bachelor's degree at the University. His teachers in B. A. included [[S. Radhakrishnan]] and [[M. Hiriyanna]]. He was awarded the "Sir Seshadri" Gold Medal in Economics in 1920.

For his Master's degree, Vi. Si. chose Economics as his favoured subject. Here he came under the tutelage of Prof. N. S. Subba Rao. N. S. Subba Rao was trained in Economics at [[Cambridge University]] along with his classmate [[J. M. Keynes]] under the eminent Economist [[Alfred Marshall]]. N. S. Subba Rao would mould Vi. Si.'s interest and aptitude in Economics in a constructive manner. Vi. Si. has remembered memories of his college days at Maharaja College, Mysore in his later memoir "''College Dinagalu''".<ref name="Kalej dinagalu.">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Kalej dinagalu. (College Days: A Memoir) |publisher=ವಿ. ಸೀ. ಸಂಪದ |location=WorldCat |oclc=606826876 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/kalej-dinagalu/oclc/606826876&referer=brief_results |access-date=18 October 2020 |language=kn}}</ref> The Faculty at Maharaja College, Mysore included J. C. Rollo, [[B. M. Srikantaiah]] and Macintosh in Department of English, [[M. Hiriyanna]], [[S. Radhakrishnan]] and [[Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia|A. R. Wadia]] in Department of Philosophy, N. S. Subba Rao (Economics), Kanakanahalli Varadachar and B. Krishnappa in Department of Kannada and the Principal of the college was [[C. R. Reddy]].

After completing his M. A. in 1922, V. Seetharamaiah embarked for Bombay where he joined a course in Law (L.L.B.). Owing to a bout of malarial fever, he soon gave up the Law course and returned to Mysore. He would later reminisce his days in Bombay in his book "''Mumbayivāsa''" in 1976.<ref name="Mumbayivāsa.">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Mumbayivāsa. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/mumbayivasa/oclc/20302203&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1976|oclc=20302203 }}</ref>

==Academician==
[[File:Central College 'Karnataka Sangha', Bangalore.jpg|thumb|right|Central College 'Karnataka Sangha', Bangalore (1942) Legend: L - R (sitting on chairs): 1. K. S. Narasimha Swamy, 2. Asthan Vidwan Motaganahalli Subramanya Sastri, 3. D. L. Narasimhachar, 4. R. L. Narasimaiah, 5. S. Raja Ratnam, 6. S. V. Krishnamurthy Rao, 7. ?, 8. V. Seetharamaiah, 9. S. V. Srinivasa Rao, 10. T. S. Venkannayya 11. ?, 12. T. S. Shama Rao, 12. K. V. Iyer]]
Vi. Si. returned to Mysore in 1923 and took up a teaching tenure at Sarada Vilas High School till 1928. During these years, Vi. Si. began to pen poems in Kannada. These he would publish extensively in journals and periodicals like ''Prabuddha Karnataka'', ''Aruna'', ''Rashtra Bandhu'' and ''Artha Sadaka''. B. M. Srikantaiah, who was the Registrar of University of Mysore appointed V. Seetharamaiah as lecturer in 1928 at Central College, Bangalore. Even though Vi. Si. was trained in Economics, B. M. Srikantaiah reposed faith in his grasp and knowledge of Kannada language and literature and appointed him as a Kannada lecturer instead. V. Seetharamaiah taught at Central College and Intermediate Colleges at Bangalore till 1942. At Central College, Bangalore he was a member of the "''Karnataka Sangha''" - a band of Kannada literary enthusiasts who would pen poems, write novellas and often even stage them in amateur theatres in Bangalore.

In 1943, V. Seetharamaiah was promoted and transferred back to Maharaja College, Mysore. Here he worked till 1948. For the next two years, he would head the Intermediate College at [[Chikamagalur]] first as Superintendent and then as Principal. From 1950 till 1955 (till his retirement), he headed the Department of Kannada Studies at Central College, Bangalore. [[File:H. S. K. with V. Seetharamaiah.jpg|thumb|left|V. Seetharamaiah with H. S. Krishnaswamy Iyengar]]His colleagues during these four decades were [[G. P. Rajarathnam]], [[A. R. Krishnashastry]], [[K. V. Puttappa]], [[T. N. Srikantaiah]], [[D. L. Narasimhachar]], [[M. V. Seetharamiah]] and [[S. Srikanta Sastri]]. His students were [[B. G. L. Swamy]], [[R. K. Laxman]], [[A. K. Ramanujan]], [[H. Y. Sharada Prasad]], S. V. Parameshwara Bhatta, [[H. M. Nayak]], [[G. S. Shivarudrappa]], [[L. S. Sheshagiri Rao]], H. M. Shankar Narayan Rao, J. Varadaraja Rao and Smt. [https://www.bookbrahma.com/author/chi-na-mangala C. N. Mangala].<ref name="V. Seetharamaiah - 75th Anniversary Festschrift Volume">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |last2=Bhat |first2=G. U |last3=Avadhāni |first3=Ji. Es |title=Vi. Sī. eppattondu |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/vi-si-eppattondu/oclc/39993751&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Sādhana Prakāśana |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1969|oclc=39993751 }}</ref>

After retirement, from 1956 till 1958, Vi. Si. worked with All India Radio - Bangalore Akashvani as producer for the "Spoken Word Professor" series. From 1964 till 1968, V. Seetharamaiah headed the Government Arts and Science First Grade College at [[Honnavar]], Karnataka as Principal. In 1968, he returned to Bangalore to assume Editorship of India Book House's (IBH) encyclopaedic project aimed at compiling all of Kannada poetry from ''Kaviraja Nayakara (Nrupatunga)'' to ''Navodaya’s Muddanna''. This vast work was successfully brought out by Vi. Si. under the title of “''Kannada Kavi Kavya Parampare''”.<ref name="Kavi kāvya parampare: vimarśe sampuṭa">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Kavi kāvya parampare: vimarśe sampuṭa |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/kavi-kavya-parampare-vimarse-samputa/oclc/57391727&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Vi. Sī. Sampada (Vi. Sī. Saṃsmaraṇa Vēdike) |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=2003|oclc=57391727 }}</ref>

==Works==
V. Seetharamaiah published his first poem as well his first work of prose (''Pampa Yatra'') in "''Prabhuddha Karnataka''" in 1922. [[A. R. Krishnashastry]] as Editor of this journal was instrumental in encouraging Vi. Si. to contribute consistently. It was [[A. R. Krishnashastry]] who shortened V. Seetharamaiah to Vi. Si. - this became his pen name going forth. He has authored about sixty works in Kannada with about eight anthologies of poems, thirty-six works of Kannada prose, ten translations from English to Kannada and ten biographical sketches written in English.<ref name="V. Seetharamaiah - Bibliography" />

===List of Works===

====Anthology of Kannada Poems====
* ''“Geetegalu”'' (1931) – 67 poems
* ''“Deepagalu”'' (1933) – 16 poems
* ''“Nelalu-Belaku”'' (1935)<ref name="Neḷalu beḷaku">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Neḷalu beḷaku |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/nelalu-belaku/oclc/690091753&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Gītā Buk Haus |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1968|oclc=690091753 }}</ref>
* ''“Drakshi-Dalimbe”'' (1948)
* ''“Hejjepadu”'' (1959)
* ''“Kadamba”'' (1970)
* ''“Aralu-Baralu”'' (1972) – Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award (1973)
* ''“Hagalu-Iralu”'' (1981)<ref name="Hagalu iruḷu.">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Hagalu iruḷu. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/hagalu-irulu/oclc/499743734&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Kannada Sangha |access-date=18 October 2020 |language=kn |date=1981|oclc=499743734 }}</ref>

====Works of Kannada Prose====
* ''“Pampa Yatre”'' (1927)
* ''“Sohrab Rustom”'' (1930)
* ''“Agraha”'' (1931)
* ''“Hana Prapancha”'' (1937)
* ''“Karnataka Kadambari”'' (1940)<ref name="Karnāṭaka kādambari">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Karnāṭaka kādambari |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/karnataka-kadambari/oclc/38509936&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Śrī Pañcācārya Elekṭrik Pres |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1940|oclc=38509936 }}</ref>
* ''“Bharatagala Sri Krishna”'' (1940) – Kumaravyasa Prashasthi
* ''“Abhijnana Shakuntala Nataka Vimarshe”'' (1943)
* ''“Ashwathaman”'' (1946)
* ''“Bharatada Rajyanga Rachane”'' (1947)
* ''“Vyavahara Dharma”'' (1949)
* ''“Bharatada Aivaru Manyaru”'' (1951)
* ''“Kavi Kavya Drishti”'' (1955)
* ''“Shivarama Karantharu”'' (1956)
* ''“Beladingalu”'' (1959)
* ''“Sri Shaila Shikara”'' (1960)
* ''“Sahitya Vimarshegalalli Artha mathu Moulya”'' (1961)
* ''“Bharatadalli Yojane”'' (1962)<ref name="ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಯೋಜನೆ">{{cite book |last1=ಸೀತಾರಾಮಯ್ಯ |first1=ವಿ |title=ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಯೋಜನೆ |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/bharatadalli-yojane/oclc/49897664&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1962|oclc=49897664 }}</ref>
* ''“Sahitya: Sampradaya mathu Hosa Marga”'' (1967)
* ''“Seekarane”'' (1970)
* ''“Chyavana''” (1970)
* ''“Mahaniyaru”'' (1970)
* ''“College Dinagalu”'' (1971)
* ''“Eradu Nataka: Chyavana mathu Agraha”'' (1971)
* ''“Satya mathu Moulya”'' (1972)<ref name="Satya mattu maulya">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Satya mattu maulya |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/satya-mattu-maulya/oclc/24020982&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Prakaṭaṇa Mattu Pracārōpanyāsa Vibhāga, Beṅgaḷūru Viśvavidyālaya |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1972|oclc=24020982 }}</ref>
* ''“Valmiki Ramayana”'' (1976)
* ''“Kalanubhava”'' (1976)<ref name="Kalānubhava">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Kalānubhava |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/kalanubhava/oclc/20256755&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Prakaṭaṇa Mattu Pracārōpanyāsa Vibhāga, Beṅgaḷūru Viśvavidyālaya |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1976|oclc=20256755 }}</ref>
* ''“Olleya Manushya, Olleya Baduku”'' (1976)
* ''“Mumbaivasa: Nenapugalu”'' (1976)
* ''“Mahakavi Pampa”'' (1976)
* ''“Mahabharata Krishnacharithra”'' (1978)
* ''“Pattabandha”'' (1979)
* ''“Sahityalokana”'' (1979)
* ''“Sarvajanika Jeevanadalli Adhikara, Shakthi, Prabhava Mandalagalu”'' (1979)
* ''“Hiriyaru Geleyaru”'' (1980)
* ''“Samvidhana mathu Kanunu”'' (1992)
* ''“Sahityaloka (Part II)”'' (unpublished)

====Works in English====
* “''Mahakavi Pampa''” (1967)<ref name="Mahākavi Pampa">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Mahākavi Pampa |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/mahakavi-pampa/oclc/22475035&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Kannaḍa Adhyayana Saṃsthe, Maisūru Viśvavidyānilaya, Mārāṭagāraru, Prasārāṅga |access-date=18 October 2020 |language=kn |date=1975|oclc=22475035 }}</ref>
* “''K. Venkatappa''” (1968)
* “''Purandaradasa''” (1971)
* “''M. Visveswaraiah''” (1971)<ref name="Ema. Viśveśvaraiyā.">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Ema. Viśveśvaraiyā. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ema-visvesvaraiya/oclc/499596574&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Prakāśana Vibhāga Sūcanā aura Prasāraṇa Mantrālaya Bhārata Sarakāra |access-date=18 October 2020 |language=hi |date=1985|oclc=499596574 }}</ref>
* “''Valmiki Ramayana''” (1972)
* “''D. V. Gundappa''” (1972)
* “''Panje Mangesha Rao''” (1978)
* “''Abhijnana Shakuntala Nataka Vimarshe''” (unpublished)
* “''Mahabharatada Krishnacharithra''” (unpublished)
* “''Manyaru''” (unpublished)

====Translations====
* “''Reserve Bank of India''” (1959)<ref name="Risarv byāṅk āph iṃḍiya">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Risarv byāṅk āph iṃḍiya |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/risarv-byank-aph-imdiya/oclc/782142680&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=Risarv Byāṅk Āph Iṇḍiyā |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=1959|oclc=782142680 }}</ref>
* “''Bharata Swatantraya Galisithu''” (1963)
* “''Pygmalion''” (1963)
* “''Bangali Sahitya Charithre''” (1966)
* “''Major Barbara''” (1968)
* “''Thyagaraja''” (1969)
* “''Purandara Dasa''” (1979)<ref name="Purandaradasa">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=Purandaradasa |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/purandaradasa/oclc/191885636&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |publisher=National Book Trust |access-date=18 October 2020 |language=en |date=1981|oclc=191885636 }}</ref>
* “''Moby Dic''k” (1982)
* “''Panje Mangesha Rao''” (1985)
* “''Mission with Mountbatten''” (unpublished)

====Collected works====
* “''Sneha Vishwasa''” (1990)
* “''Novu Nalivu''” (1990) (unpublished 59 works)
* “''Samagra Lalitha Prabhandha Samputa''” (1992)
* “''Samagra Nataka''” (1993)
* “''Vyakthi Chitra Samputa''” (Part I and II) (1993)
* “''Smrithi chitra Samputa''” (1997)
* “''Vimarshe Samputa – I – History & Poetry''” (1998)
* “''Vimarshe Samputa – II – Poetry & Drama''” (1998)

==Recognition==
[[File:V. Seetharamaiah delivering the inaugural address at Kannada Sahitya Sammelana.jpg|thumb|right|V. Seetharamaiah delivering the inaugural address at Kannada Sahitya Sammelana at Kumta (1954).jpg]]
V. Seetharamaiah chaired the Poetry division of the 17th [[Kannada Sahitya Sammelana]] at [[Karwar]]. He presided over the 36th [[Kannada Sahitya Sammelana]] at [[Kumta]] in 1954 (see photo). He chaired the “''Mumbai Prantha Bhasha Conference''” held at [[Gadag]]. Vi. Si. was a honorary member of “''P. E. N. Kendra Sahitya Akademi Prashasthi Committee''” as well as the “''Jnanapeeta Prashasthi Committee''”.<ref name="ವಿ. ಸೀ. - ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ, ಕಾವ್ಯ ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯ" /> His collection of character sketches “''Mahaniyaru''” and descriptive essay “''Krishnacharithra''” won him the Rajya Sahitya Akademi award. His anthology of poems “''Aralu Baralu''” received the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award. Festschrift volumes “''Rooparadhaka''”, “''Vi. Si.''” and “''Vi. Si. – 75''”<ref name="Vi. Si. - 75th anniversary Volume" /> were presented to him in recognition of a lifetime contribution to Kannada Language and Literature. His alma mater University of Mysore conferred on him a Honorary Doctorate (D. Litt) in 1976.<ref name="ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣ ಬರೆಹ ಸಂಪುಟ">{{cite book |last1=Sītārāmayya |first1=Vi |title=ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣ ಬರೆಹ ಸಂಪುಟ |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/sankirna-bareha-samputa/oclc/909026014&referer=brief_results |website=WorldCat |access-date=18 October 2020 |date=2013|oclc=909026014 }}</ref><ref name='"Vi. Sītārāmayya" by Rāmacandra' /><ref name="V. Seetharamaiah - A Brief Biography" /><ref name="Vi. Si. - Centenary Commemoration Volume" /><ref name="ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಮ್ಮೇಳನ-೩೬ – ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು" />

==Later Years==
V. Seetharamaiah travelled widely in India and visited [[Rabindranath Tagore]]'s Shantiniketan. On his visit to [[London]], he suffered a debilitating stroke and he was hospitalised for nearly a fortnight in Britain. Vi Si. was married to Sarojamma. Many of his books are prescribed curricula both at University of Mysore and Bangalore University. V. Seetharamaiah died on 4 September 1983 at Bangalore aged 83 years. His numerous Kannada poems and works of prose remain popular in Karnataka. The noted [[Psychologist]] and [[Sanskrit]] scholar [[S. K. Ramachandra Rao]] described Vi. Si.'s writing thus:

{{quote|''When I read Homer, I feel as if I were twenty feet high” said Edmé Bouchardon - the sculptor who lived about two hundred years ago. Homer’s description of Gods, Demons are of a gigantic scale. Readers are given this impression of immensity that is awe inspiring. Such is the power of description in Homer’s writings. I find Vi. Si.’s writings in a similar vein and he not only ascends to great heights, he also takes us with him to give us a panoramic perspective from his beautiful vantage point. Such is his scope and depth of writing''|}}

==External links==
* [https://www.srikanta-sastri.org/v-seetharamaiah/4595081336 Official Webpage]

==Bibliography==
* [https://www.worldcat.org/title/vi-sitaramayya/oclc/123027431&referer=brief_results M. Ramachandra (2006). "V. Seetharamaiah" (ವಿ. ಸೀತಾರಾಮಯ್ಯ) - Biography - Kannada Book; 1st Edition (Beṅgaḷūru: Navakarnāṭaka Prakāśana)];
* [https://www.worldcat.org/title/vi-si-nurara-nenapu-janmasatabdi-smarane/oclc/43657691&referer=brief_results L. S. Seshagiri Rao (1999). ವಿ. ಸೀ. - ನೂರರ ನೆನಪು (1 ed.). Vi. Sī. Sampada, Vi. Sī. Saṃsmaraṇa Vēdike];
* P. V. Joshi, G. S. Shivarudrappa, Shivaram Karanth (1991). ವಿ. ಸೀ. - ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ, ಕಾವ್ಯ ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯ (2 ed.). Bangalore: ವಿ. ಸೀ. ಸಂಪದ.
* [http://www.karnatakasahithyaacademy.org/downloads/Lekhana_Vee.See.pdf G. Venkatasubbiah. ವಿ. ಸೀ. (Biographical Sketch for Karnataka Sahitya Academy). Bangalore; Govt. of Karnataka.]
* [http://www.karnatakasahithyaacademy.org/downloads/Sahithyapatha_Vee.See.pdf Govt. of Karnataka. Catalogue of works by V. Seetharamaiah - Karnataka Sahitya Academy];
* [http://www.karnatakasahithyaacademy.org/downloads/Jeevanapatha_Vee.See.pdf Govt. of Karnataka. List of Important Dates in the life of V. Seetharamaiah - Karnataka Sahitya Academy];
* [https://www.worldcat.org/title/vi-si-75-sambhavana-grantha/oclc/12807986&referer=brief_results Vi. Sītārāmayya; Venkat Madhurao Inamdar (1975). Vi. Sī.- 75: Sambhāvanā Grantha. Vi. Sī. Satkāra Samitigāgi; Ai. Bi. Ec. Prakāśana.]

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