Madikeri :
A total of 83 persons were felicitated in recognition of their services to Kannada on the closing day of the 80th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana here yesterday.
Veteran litterateur Prof. Dejagow feted the dignitaries in the presence of Sammelana President Pundalika Halambi.
Those feted were: Shantalinga Mahaswami, Jayadev Kadadevaramath, Mugur Nanjundaswamy, V.G. Nayak, M. Doddamani, G.T. Veerappa, H.V. Jayaram, Dr. Shivananda Gaali, Vamadevaiah, Dr. G.K. Ramchandrappa, Dr. Sharanu Patil, Halmidi Kallol, Rajashekhar Hathagundi, B. Rangaswamy, M.B. Vishwanath, Jenukurubara Sannappa, Ganga Changappa, Siddappa Tallalli, L.S. Shashtri, Prof. K.H. Belura, D. Ganesh, M.B. Perla, Somanath Mudda, Gaddigayya Karikantamath, Dr. Shashikanth Sinnoor, Gowramma Basavegowda, Mahalingappa Itagi, E.V. Sathyanarayana, B.M. Patel Pandu, G. Guruprasad, Veeranna Charantimath, Shekharagouda Malipatil, Prof. Kodi Kushalappa Gowda, A.R. Nagarajcharya, Dr. Wooday P. Krishna, K. Sathyanarayan, B.M. Patil, B.K. Mathapati, Shivaranjan Bolannanavar, C.S. Bopaiah, B.R. Subba Rao, Puttichanda S. Ganapathy, Dr. S.D. Narasimhan, Mukkatira Chotu Appaiah, H. Sridhar Hande, Raviteja, Vishwanath Hoogar, S.V. Nagaraj Rao, Dr. M.B. Subhash Chandra, Dr. G.R. Basavarajan, G. Suresh Gowda, Mukunda Rao Lokunde, S.
R. Manavalli, K.B. Talageri, Gayatri Ramanna, T.A. Narayan Gowda, Gayatri Navada, Mavalli Shankar, T.A.P. Nagaraj, Maddikere Gopal, Prof, M.G. Chandrashekharaiah, Nataraj Swamiji, R. Vijaya Raghavan, Bhaskar Jois Hebri, B.K. Hongal, R. Shivanna, C.H. Naarival, Sunil Patil, Umesh Aradhya, C.V. Shankar, Nazir Ahmed, B.R. Satish, Chalavali Ramakrishna, Yalanadu Anjanappa, Dr. S. Shivarudraswamy, Babu Shivapujari, H. Dandappa, G.H. Paramashivaiah, A.G. Hari Gopal, Nagesh Boppanadu, N. Krishnamurthy, Veeranna Karabantanal and Virupakshappa Abbigeri.
Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Shivashankarmurthy, former BBMP opposition leader M. Nagaraj, Sammelana office-bearers Sangamesh Badavadagi, P. Mallikarjunappa and others were present on the occasion.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / January 10th, 2014
