Category: Arts, Culture & Entertainment

** Cricketer Anil Kumble’s son releases book on wildlife photography in Bengaluru

This passion has passed on to his son, Mayas Kumble. A wildlife enthusiast, Mayas released his coffee table book on photography titled, ‘Safari Saga: Wild Encounters Of A Young Photographer’, at an event here on Tuesday. 

** Social worker gets award

For 40-year-old contractor-turned-philanthropist Ravi Kakkepadavu an incident of getting tied in a room for stealing and eating cashew apple during his childhood still remains afresh.

Mr. Kakkepadavu revealed a glimpse of his personality after receiving this year’s Mangaluru Press Club Award given away jointly by the Mangaluru Press Club, Dakshina Kannada Union of Working Journalists and Patrikabhavan Trust, here on Sunday.

** Karnataka Yakshagana Academy selects Kabbinale Vasanth Bharadwaj for Parthi Subba Award

The academy has chosen five other persons for its honorary award for 2021

Karnataka Yakshagana Academy has selected writer Kabbinale Vasanth Bharadwaj for its prestigious Parthi Subba Award for 2021. The award comes with a ₹1 lakh cash prize, a certificate, a citation, a shawl with a garland and a peta.

The academy has chosen five persons for its honorary award for 2021. They are Sathyanarayana Hasyagara, Muttappa Taniya Poojary, Narendra Kumar Jain, Moodalagiriyappa and N. T. Moorthacharya. The award carries a ₹50,000 cash prize, a certificate, a citation, a shawl with a garland and a peta.

The academy said that its annual Yaksha Siri award for 2021 will be presented to 10 persons. They are Haladi Jayarama Shetty, Gopala Ganiga Ajri, Bolar Subbaiah Shetty, Sethuru Ananthapadmanabha Rao, Kadathoka Lakshminarayana Shambu Bhagavatha, Rama Salian Mangalpady, Kokkada Ishwara Bhat, Adigona Bheeranna Naik, Bhadraiah and Basavarajappa. This award carries a ₹25,000 cash prize, a certificate, a garland and a peta.

** Mangalorean beauty with brains Veena Rodrigues is VPR Mrs India 2022 second runner-up

Veena Rodrigues has been adjudged the second runner-up in the VPR Mrs India 2022 contest.

Forty two year old Veena is a finance manager by profession. She is very passionate about makeup and fashion.

** The devadasi who wrote about dance

Venkatasundara Sani’s book is an extraordinary documentation of the Bengaluru-Kolar tradition of temple dance

The large pillared halls of the Ulsoor Someshwara temple, one of the oldest in Bengaluru, bustles with activity and hundreds of devotees. The Vijayanagara-style mandapa holds several stories — the most prominent of which is of a woman who shaped the Bengaluru temple paddhati of Bharatanatyam.

Though much of the city’s music and dance history has been lost in the sands of time, B.L. Rice’s Mysore Gazeteer is an important source of information. Published sometime after 1873, it mentions two temple dancers, Mariya Sani and her daughter Venkatasundara Sani, who were associated with the Ulsoor Someshwara temple.

Venkatasundara Sani was born into the hereditary dance community that performed in temples, and is believed to have lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

** Art Home: Sun-Bathed, Colour-Soaked Interiors

Experiencing art on the walls of a museum or gallery is one thing, but to witness it on the walls of homes is another, far rarer opportunity. This home reflects a character. A character of art and it is intriguing too if you make an attempt to read the mind of the artists who built this home.

For anyone who’s ever wanted to talk through a painting or move around seeing bold and bright colours, artistic designs, mural art and even a traditional ‘Thotti Mane’, a visit to ‘Rajathadri’ on R.T. Nagar 20th Main Road, 28th Cross Road near New Water Tank, is a must. And the proud owners are K. Sangeetha, an art teacher at G.B. Saragur Government High School in H.D. Kote taluk and her husband N. Rajesh, who runs  a Design & Event Management Studio in Kuvempunagar. The couple is blessed with two sons R. Sanshray, aged 14 and R. Samvatsar, aged 7.

A unique aspect of the house is the ‘Thotti Mane’ on the third floor. The floor has been structured around a sun-bathed courtyard and has an open-to-sky area used for multiple functional purposes besides offering scope for both natural light and ventilation to permeate the interiors.

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** Kalaburagi artist for Jordan

Kalaburagi-based artist Mohammed Ayazuddin Patel will participate in a three-day International Art Festival titled Colours of the World organised in collaboration with Amman Greater Municipality and SMD Foundation at Ras Al Ain Art Gallery, Amman in Jordan.

The festival will be inaugurated under the patronage of Anwar Halim, Ambassador of India in Oman, on Saturday.

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** Hilton Garden Inn launched in Bengaluru

As the markets are coming out of the clutches of the Covid-19 pandemic, the hospitality industry is looking forward to a bright future, said Navjit Ahluwalia, Senior Vice President and Country Head of Hilton in India.

“As we come out of the pandemic and look forward to a brighter future for the hospitality industry, our commitment to grow our estate in India remains on track,” Ahluwalia said on March 1 in connection with the opening of the first hotel property under the Hilton Garden Inn brand, a budget property, in Bengaluru at Embassy Manyata Business Park.

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** Mangaluru: Fr Ronald Serrao honoured with Victor Rodrigues Konkani Literary Award

“The contribution of the Catholic Church in the development of Konkani language in this region is commendable,” opined Dr Edward Nazareth, renowned Konkani literate and Professor of Orthopaedics at Srinivas Institute of Medical Sciences, while felicitating Fr Dr Ronald Serrao, Rector of St Joseph Seminary who was bestowed upon Victor Rodrigues Konkani literary award 2021.

The award ceremony was organized at ‘Matha-Kripa’ hall of Samanvaya at Grurpur-Kaikmaba on Sunday February 27. Fr Antony Lobo, parish priest of Gurpur-Kaikamba parish was the chief guest.

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