Mangalore: 3 writers of Janapada literatures and traditions in Karnataka, Dr. Norbert D’Souza of Shimogga, Sharanappa Kanchani and Eleyara Geleya Muliya were honored at Alva’s Nudisiri-Virasat convention of 2013 on Dec.20 with a citation, mementos and Rs.25000 each at the end of a Janapada session held at Vidyagiri.

Dr. B A Vivek Rai the common president of the meet chaired the folk arts discussions and lectures.

Dr. Ambalike Hirianna vice chancellor of folk arts (Janapada) university in Bangalore speaking on the occasion told the audience that Indian farmer was a natural scientist for centuries producing 3 or more crops a year aided monsoon, long before our agricultural Universities sprang up in Hebbal (Bangalore) and Dharavad Karnataka.  Traditions he pointed out die hard all the same, the ancient systems of medicine like Ayurveda or Unani are dying out due to dose of modernization. He added that the Janapada or folk arts system similarly was facing extinction in view of modern methods of applying arts in TV cinema and even on stages that do not subscribe to any known Indian system that came down from generation to another generation.

Dr Vivek Rai at Janapada Siri session opined that the long living traditional folk art express in songs and dances in the bosom of nature by rural folks was facing its last days due to modernization of musical and dancing arts shown on stage or in cinemas or TV screens in recent days. The serials coming in TV regularly have replaced what was the venue of folk arts in rural areas. The remaining folk arts that we see during processions or parades by selected artists are only a fraction of what was much earlier a large resource of music, dialogs, dances, jokes and singing news songs in agricultural fields.

Dr. Vivek Rai was in Mangalore University, Hampi University and in Mysore, in responsible possessions of vice chancellor and the first president of Tulu Sahitya academy in Mangalore who rewrote tulunadu folk history and traditions and took Yakshagana a magical folk art on stage to Finland and parts of Europe like Germany or France. He should know if any one did, about whither Tulu folk arts and Kannada Janapada systems of tribes found in Karnataka, where going. There was a need now to protect, enlist and train youngsters to take up the dyeing fold traditions and arts in ruthless speeding modern electronic age.

There was a Nagari Mela by a troupe of 20 artistes from Mysore. The troupe members in the age group of 10 to 35 left the audience spell bound by beating the Adi Dravida Thamate and Nagari.