‘Poetry will be meaningful when it treads a newer path’
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Chairman of Karnataka Border Area Development Authority C. Somashekhar presenting the Ambikatanayadatta Award to poet H.S. Shivaprakash during the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of poet Da Ra Bendre in Dharwad.
“Poetry of imitation will not have an impact but it will only become meaningful when inspired by tradition and treads a newer path of writing,” Kannada poet and dramatist H.S. Shivaprakash said here on Sunday.
He was responding to the honour after the Ambikatanayadatta Award was conferred on him by Da Ra Bendre National Memorial Trust during the 125th birth anniversary of poet Da Ra Bendre in Dharwad.
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Da Ra Bendre National Memorial Trust has chosen writer and critic H.S. Shivaprakash for the prestigious Ambikatanayadatta National Award.
Speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday, Chairman of Bendre Memorial Trust D.M. Hiremath announced the decision and said that the award would be conferred on the writer at a function to be held on January 31.
He said that the trust was conducting a series of programmes to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of poet laureate Da Ra Bendre and the award will be presented during the function at Bendre Bhavan in Dharwad.
A three-member committee comprising Gurupad Mareguddi, Shivanand Kelaginamani and Tarini Shubhadayini had recommended Dr. Shivaprakash for the award which carries a purse of ₹ 1 lakh and a citation.