Tulu academy’s honorary awards presentation - Dec 19 Sat

Tulu academy’s honorary awards presentation - Dec 19 Sat

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Dec 19, 2015 :  Dist-in-charge Minister and Minister of Forests, Environment and Ecology B Ramanath Rai will present the   Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy for 2014 at a function at Tulu Bhawan, Urwa Stores, here on Dec 19,  Saturday at 3 p.m.   B.A. Vivek Rai, former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University, Hampi, and Karnataka State Open University, Mysuru, will deliver the keynote address. D. Veerendra Heggade, dharmadhikari, Dharmasthala, will be present on the occasion.

The honorary award comprises Rs. 10,000, a certificate and a memento. Writer Kanaradi Vadiraja Bhat, playwrite  M.K. Seetharama Kulal and film maker Ram Shetty will be presented the annual honorary award. 

A book titled Paadana written by Sharada A Anchan will be presented with the academy’s book award for 2014. It comprise Rs. 5,000 cash, a certificate and a memento. Ms. Anchan lived in Mumbai. She wrote in Kannada and Tulu. 

** Writer Kanaradi Vadiraja Bhat (aged 64) is the retired Kannada professor and principal of Sharada College, Basuru, Udupi. Jokle Padokulu I and Jokle Padokulu II, Jeevana Paadana, Mage Barau Kalte were some of his main works. He has made a   collection of Tulu folk stories.

** Play write  M.K. Seetharama Kulal  (75), who is a former president of the academy, has written 69 dramas in Kannada and Tulu.

His drama Mannda Magal Abbakka was popular. His first drama was Dasi Putra . He wrote about 350 songs both for Tulu and Kannada dramas.

 ** Film maker Ram Shetty (64), as a stunt master has acted in about 700 cinemas in various languages including Hindi, Tulu.