Dr. Siddayya Puranik's memory

Kanive, Mar. 27: A symposium was organized by the Literary and Cultural Forum on the writer Dr. Siddayya Puranik.

The program held at Anugraha Degree College, Kushalnagar was inaugurated by bilingual writer B.R. Narayan by offering floral tributes to the portrait of Dr. Siddayya Puranik.

Speaking later, he said that Dr. Puranik, who was the Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu district in the 1967s, was a very simple, polite, polite, and gentle person. He was probably the first Deputy Commissioner to open his office and himself to the poor, oppressed, and downtrodden. Purani, who had a passionate interest in the field of literature, had brought out several works with a touch of Basavachinta. Narayan described that Dr. Puranik believed that if a person, be it a teacher or any other low-level employee, performs his work with disinterestedness and devotion, he can realize God through it.

Anugraha Degree College Principal Prof. H.B. Lingamurthy said that Puranika, who was known by the poetic name Kavyananda, had called for anything to happen, and he had said that he would do as he wished. He remembered him as a bold poet who celebrated that the Kannada lamp was lit and the heat of centuries had passed. K.S. Murthy, the convenor of the literary and cultural forum, said that it is always memorable that a block of land has been built in Kushalnagar in the name of Dr. Siddayya Puranika, who was an efficient officer of Kodagu district. Sahiti Leela Kumari Thodikana said that students should inculcate a taste for literature by remembering the literary achievers of the literary field. Lecturers Nusrat, Reshma, Seema, Meghana, Ashwini, Pawan, Hemanth were present. The students sang a lyrical song.

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