The government may have forgotten to mark the centenary of many literary and cultural personalities, but Bhagavataru, a cultural organisation, has decided to remember eight who have contributed to the fields of literature, film and theatre.
At an event scheduled to be held at Nayana Auditorium in the city on Sunday, Ashtadiggajaru , a volume on the contributions of the eight personalities, will be launched. It has been edited by N.S. Sridhara Murthy.
The book has essays on poet Gopalakrishna Adiga, prominent writers M.K. Indira, Vani, T. Sunandamma, D. Javare Gowda, film-makers G.V. Iyer and B.S. Ranga, and theatre personality B. Chandrashekar. The volume has articles by many people, including K.S. Nisar Ahmed, Rehmat Tarikere and K. Marulasiddappa. A seminar on the contributions of all these personalities will also be held.
Mr. Sridhara Murthy said Gopalakrishna Adiga was one of the greatest practitioners of modernist tradition (Navya) in Kannada literature and his chief poetic concern was the disillusionment in the post-Independence period.
M.K. Indira, on the other hand, was a prominent Kannada woman writer who started writing novels,when she was 45 and went on to write 100 novels. Her works, including Gejje Pooje and Phaniyamma , have been made into films.
T. Sunandamma’s forte was humour. B.S. Ranga is credited with many firsts in Kannada cinema.
He was the first person to open a black-and-white film processing laboratory in Karnataka, and the first to make a colour feature film in Kannada (‘Amarashilpi Jakanachari’). D. Javare Gowda wrote 34 biographies in Kannada.
