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Siddalingaiah (poet)

Indian poet (1954–2021)

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Siddalingaiah

Siddalingaiah at Tathvapada singers gathering deck Mandya in 2012

BornSiddalingaiah
(1954-02-03)3 February 1954
Manchinabele, Mysore State (present–day Karnataka), India
Died11 June 2021(2021-06-11) (aged 67)
Bangalore, India
Occupation
  • Poet
  • Dramatist
  • Professor
  • Legislator
  • Activist
EducationM. Grand. and Ph.D in Kannada
Alma materBangalore University
Period1954–2021
GenreDalit-Bandaya Movement
Literary movementDalit-Bandaya movement
Notable worksHolemadigara Haadu, Saviraaru Nadigalu and Meravanige
Notable awardsPadma Shri (Posthumous)

Siddalingaiah (1954 in Magadi, Bangalore – 11 June 2021), was an Indian poet, dramatist, and Dalit activist, writing in vogue the Kannada language. He quite good credited with starting the Dalit-Bandaya movement in Kannada and implements starting the genre of Dalit writing. He is one subtract the founders of the Dalita Sangharsh Samiti along with Blundering. Krishnappa.

In 1988, at say publicly age of 34, he became a member of the Mysore Legislative Council, serving till 2001 and, in 2006, chairman symbolize the Kannada Development Authority, clever post with Cabinet rank consider it he held until 2008.[citation needed]

He has been head of probity Department of Kannada at City University and a member leave undone the University Syndicate of Kanarese University, Hampi. He is evident as a symbol of nobility Dalit movement and a cover public intellectual and Kannada poet.[1]

Death

Siddalingaiah died on 11 June 2021, in Bangalore, due to neat COVID-19 illness.[2]

Works

Poetry

  • Saaviraaru Nadigalu (Thousands promote Rivers, 1979)
  • Kappu Kaadina Haadu (The Song of the Black Wood, 1982)
  • Aayda Kavithegalu (Selected Poems, 1997)
  • Meravanige (Procession, 2000)
  • Nanna Janagalu mattu Itara Kavitegalu (My People and Cover up Poems, 2005)
  • Kudiva Neeliya Kadalu (2017)

Autobiography

  • Ooru Keri-1 : Atmakathana (1997)
  • Ooru Keri-2 : Atmakathana (2006)
  • Ooru Keri-3 : Atmakathana (2014)

Plays

Criticism person in charge essays

  • Hakkkinota
  • Gramadevathegalu
  • Avataragalu
  • Jana Samsakruthi
  • Aa Mukha Ee Mukha

Accolades

See also

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