Kuvempu: Man and Mission

12 AUGUST, 6.30 PM

INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, DELHI

This latest installment of the India International Centre’s “Celebrating Legendary Poets” series centred on the life and work of Kuvempu, considered the greatest Kannada poet of the past century. The eminent Kannada scholar Hampa Nagarajaiah, once a student of Kuvempu, opened the discussion with an affectionate meditation on the poet’s talents, personality and legacy. A short documentary, Remembering Rasarushi, was screened to introduce the audience to the dense Karnataka forests where the poet grew up. “When he entered,” Nagarajaiah noted of Kuvempu, “the desert of Kannada literature turned into a garden.”

~ by Ajay Mehta