Don’t Stand in Front of a Palace or Behind a Horse Sub Title: An Illustrated Book of South Indian Proverbs

This is a collection of 251 proverbs (91 illustrated) from Kannada, a South Indian language with a 2000-

year literary history and cultural heritage.

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Tonse Narayana Krishna Raju, a pediatrician and a neonatologist, who was Professor of Pediatrics at the

University of Illinois in Chicago, has published five books of fiction and two translations in Kannada, a

classical Dravidian language from Karnataka, South India. In addition to his passion to study and teach

history of medicine, Dr. Raju is extremely fond of proverbs. He has studied and published articles about

Jewish, Arabic, Irish, and African proverbs. This is his first translation of South Indian proverbs into

English. He is currently working on another volume on the same topic. His published books in English

include: The Nobel Chronicles: A Handbook of Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine 1901-2024 (Second

edition) and The Importance of Having a Brain and Other Stories from the History of Medicine (Expanded

Second Edition), both published by Auctorem House, 2025; and Poems and a Novella by A.K. Ramanuja,

Tonse N.K. Raju (Translator) and Shouri Daniels-Ramanujan (Translator), published by Oxford University

Press, 2006.