Kikkeri Narayana

03.02.2010 We reached Mysore by 7.15 am on the 3rd of February 2010, a bit earlier than we expected. We were received by Prof.Kikkeri  Narayan and Rajiv.  At By 11.00 am we reached MYRADA Guest house in Hand Post, H.D. Kote in Prof.Narayan‘s car after having warm idlies and a hot cup of coffee at Chamundipuram . We freshened up at the guest house and  met Mr.Ksheerasagar who guided us to the digital archive office which was located 3km away. The office was constructed of three buildings, two guest rooms and the archive. We had a meeting with all the…

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By documenting and recording folklore, social scientists are hoping to preserve pieces of the traditional and oral cultures of some of the tribes and sects being pushed to India’s margins In 1974, when the Kabini dam was built across the river Kapila in the Heggada Devana Kote block of Mysore district, it displaced several thousand tribals, many of whom were forced to move out of the forest area they had lived in for generations. Among them were the people of…

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Tribals to train participants in folk arts during 10-day workshop Mysore, May 21 (SH)- A 10-day workshop on tribal culture, called ‘Kaadina Haadu’ was inaugurated yesterday in Fine Arts College here. The programme is an initiative by Bhoomigeetha Trust, headed by Music director V. Manohar, to promote tribal culture forms of the State that are gradually disappearing. Baragur Ramachandrappa, Hamsalekha, Mohan Alva, Amrit Someshwara and Kikkeri Narayan have lent support to the initiative. More than 30 people, with expertise in…

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Mamta Sagar (India, 1966)  Sunday 1 February 2009 Mamta Sagar is a Kannada poet, playwright and academic. She has published three collections of poetry and four plays. She teaches at the Centre for Kannada Studies, Bangalore University. Translated into various languages (including Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, English, Spanish and French), Sagar has been widely anthologised and has done readings of her work in various parts of the country, as well as in Colombia, South Africa and Cuba. She has…

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