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The People’s Poet
The Community Celebrates Dr. Siddalingaiah
Speakers
Speakers
Agrahara Krishnamurthy
Agrahara Krishnamurthy is a Kannada writer, columnist and critic. He worked as Secretary of the Sahitya Akademi between 2006 and 2013. His publications include the award winning novel, Neeru Mattu Preeti (“Water and Love”), Bahuvachana (2006), a collection of essays on literature and culture, a Kannada translation of Dara Shikoh’s Majma-ul-Bahrain (The Mingling of Two Oceans) and Samskriti Kathana (2002), the edited book of essays by D.R. Nagaraj.
Prasanna
Prasanna is theatre director, writer and co-founder of Charaka, a Women’s Handloom Cooperative in Heggodu. His published works include Moola Ramayana (2019) and Indian Method in Acting (2013)
Mogalli Ganesh
BL Shankar
BL Shankar is former Member of the Lok Sabha and former Chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council. He has co-authored The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Work (2011).
Mavalli Shankar
MS Asha Devi
Asha Devi is Associate Professor of Kannada at Maharani University, Bengaluru. Her publications include the works of literary criticism, Belakiginta Bellage (Whiter than Light, 2016) and Naduve Suliva Atma (The Moving Self Within, 2011).
Gopal Guru
Gopal Guru is editor of Economic and Political Weekly. He was formerly Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the co-author of Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social (2019) and The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (2012). He has also edited Humiliation: Claims and Context (2009).
MD Pallavi
MD Pallavi is a singer, actor and filmmaker based out of Bangalore.
Chandan Gowda
Chandan Gowda is Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. At present, he is completing a book on the cultural politics of development in modern Mysore. He is also a columnist with Deccan Herald.
