Dr. G. N. Devy would deliver the first P.P.Gomathi Memorial Lecture We proudly announce that Dr. G.N. Devy has graciously accepted our invitation to deliver the inaugural lecture of P.P. Gomathi Memorial annual lecture series on Thursday, 16 th February 2017 in Mangaluru, hopefully at the University College Auditorium. The subject he would talk on is ‘The Question of Knowledge – how knowledge as an institution evolves, how it changes from century to century and how it is facing a crisis in our time’. It should give us, especially the students and the teachers, an idea of the intellectual and cultural challenges facing us, for they are the people who ought to keep the torch of knowledge burning. Needless to say, this question is the mother of all questions. Without knowing what knowledge is, we would end up knowing absolutely nothing. Instead of breaking into a conventional type of introduction, listing the positions Dr. Devy has occupied, books and papers he has already publish...