Leading Kannada activist and former minister B T Lalitha Naik came out wearing the traditional Lambani dress and read out her poems in Lambani.
Bangalore, Nov 21: Leading scholars, including Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Vice Chancellor Prof V N Rajashekharan Pillai, who participated in a programme for the opening of the first-ever IGNOU Tagore Chair for Indian Literature in Bangalore, have called for a balanced reappraisal of poet laureate Rabinadranath Tagore.
The inauguration of the IGNOU Tagore Chair with Jnanapith award winning Kannada writer Prof U R Ananthamurthy set up in the Kannada and Culture Department’s Kannada Bhavan building in the city had Tagore Professor at Vishwa Bharati University at Kolkata Prof Udaya Narayana Singh established by Rabindranath Tagore, Eminent social psychologist and political thinker Prof Ashis Nandy, Prof K Satchidanandan, Director of IGNOU’s School of Translation Studies & Training, Prof Rita Rani Paliwal, Director of IGNOU’s School of Humanities, IGNOU Pro-Vice Chancellor Latha Pillai, IGNOU Regional Director in Bangalore Dr B S Sudhindra and Kannada and Culture Department’s Director Manu Baligar as the main speakers.
A highlight of the poet’s meet was the recital of the Konkani poems by Melvyn Rodrigues, Tulu poems by Shashiraj Kavoor, Beary poems by Kasim Ullal U A and Kodava poems by Mandira Jaya Appanna. While Vivek Shanbagh read out Melvyn's translation, Na Damodar Shetty read Kavoor's translation in Kannada. Leading Kannada activist and former minister B T Lalitha Naik came out wearing the traditional Lambani dress and read out her poems in Lambani. Dr Ajay Kumar Singh, Karnataka’s Director General of Police, read out his poems in Hindi.
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