Bantwal: Renowned litterateur Erya Lakshminarayana Alva (94) passed away on Saturday, July 27. He is survived by wife and daughter. The deceased was suffering from age related illness since several days and suffered a mild heart attack at 8 pm on Saturday evening. He was immediately rushed to a private hospital where he breathed his […]
Udupi : Daivaradhane is a multifaceted art form and should not be exhibited, performing Daivaradhane (spirit worship) on stage for exhibition is inappropriate, folklore expert and writer Erya Lakshminarayana Alva said. He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the Udupi district unit of Karnataka Janapada Parishat at MGM College. “Daivaradhane is an art form for worship […]
Mangaluru : Litterateur Erya Lakshminarayana Alva lamented that children were subjected to a lot of discrimination over medium of instruction. He was speaking at a programme organised by Dakshina Kannada district Kannada Sahitya Parishat at Zilla Panchayat Hall in Mangaluru on Wednesday, in order to recognise and facilitate Kannada medium schools in the district that […]
Udupi : Senior writer Erya Lakshminarayana Alva said that there is a fera that Tulu folk wealth may be endangered if the proposed Niddodi thermal project became a reality. He was speaking at a programme organised by the District unit of Janapada Parishat and Karnataka Janapada Sarvekshana Kendra on ‘ Challenges of folk research’ at […]
Mangalore: Erya Lakshminarayana Alva, veteran writer, has urged the government to end the confusion over the medium of instruction in government schools and said there need to be a uniform policy of education. Speaking at a programme organized by the DK Kannada Sahitya Parishat in the city on June 14, Thursday, to gather public opinion […]
Mangalore : A Narasimha Bhat, renowned author conferred with the ‘Erya Award of the year 2011 at the auditorium of Canara College first Grade College on March 4, Friday. Sandhya Pai, Managing Editor of ‘Taranga’ released the book ‘Mirdhadana Mantra Pusthaka’, the Kannada translation of ‘The book of Mirdha’ authored by A Narasimha Bhat on […]
