By Dr. Padmavathi Narasimhan
Situated 22 kms away from Hassan, Gorur is a small sacred village known for its dam, its beautiful Hemavati River, Sri Yoganarasimha Temple, 1400-year-old Paravasudeva Temple and the big personalities it has produced — One of Karnataka’s foremost literary writers Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar and Captain G.R. Gopinath of Deccan Airlines, to name a few.






