H.C. Boralingaiah, Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University, Hampi, said on Saturday that it was essential to have scientific and analytical research for the study of folklore, folk arts and art forms of different parts of the State. He was speaking after presenting the annual Bannanje Babu Amin Folk Award to the scholar A.V. Navada and artiste Ananda Poojary here.
Prof. Boralingaiah said that researchers on folklore and folk artistes seldom get the respect and recognition they deserve. Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts were rich in folklores and folk art forms.
It was both these districts which had started doing serious and systematic study on folklore, folk arts and folk art forms.
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The study on Siri Padadana (epic poem of Siri) was done systematically here. But epic poems truly reflected the social and cultural history of the period. Normally, history focussed only kings or ruling classes and their achievements. But folk epics or ballads of different regions showed the condition in which the common lived in those periods. Hence a study of “padadanas” and folk epic poems was essential, Dr. Boralingaiah said.
A book ‘Sanskrithi Sampanne Siri’, a collection of folklores, by Bannanje Babu Amin was released on the occasion. Gananath Yekkar, president of Kemmalaje Janapada Prakashana, presided over the function. Dugappa Kajekar, member of award selection committee, Suryodaya Perampalli, actor, were present.
‘Researchers on folklore and folk artistes seldom get the respect and recognition they deserve’