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.

Seetharamaiah chose political science, philosophy and economics for his bachelor's degree at the university.

[citation needed] For his master's degree, Seetharamaiah chose economics as his favoured subject.

Rao was trained in economics at Cambridge University along with his classmate J. M. Keynes under the eminent Economist Alfred Marshall.

[16] Seetharamaiah returned to Mysore in 1923 and took up a teaching tenure at Sarada Vilas High School till 1928.

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.

[citation needed] In 1943, V. Seetharamaiah was promoted and transferred back to Maharaja College, Mysore.

From 1950 till 1955 (until his retirement), he headed the Department of Kannada Studies at Central College, Bangalore.

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.

[18] V. Seetharamaiah published his first poem as well his first work of prose (Pampa Yatra) in "Prabhuddha Karnataka" in 1922.

[12] V. Seetharamaiah chaired the Poetry division of the 17th Kannada Sahitya Sammelana at Karwar.

[11] 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.

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