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January 30, 2021 23:27 IST
It is the great Da. Ra. Bendre’s 125th birth anniversary today. Bendre played a huge role in reviving the Kannada cultural life, it may, in fact, open up paths for us today
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It is the great Da. Ra. Bendre’s 125th birth anniversary today. Bendre played a huge role in reviving the Kannada cultural life, it may, in fact, open up paths for us today
This year it is 125th birth anniversary of our gifted poet Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, who was born in Dharwad on 31.01.1896. Bendre himself made a distinction between the poet and the man in him. For the literary convention, ‘Ambikatanayadatta’ has been his pen name, but for Bendre himself, it was his poetic self. He believed that ‘Ambikatanayadatta’ would dictate him verses. If the private self of Bendre produced an extraordinary range of poetry, the historical figure in him engaged with the public culture of his time by actively partici