As many as 40 poets recited their poems at the Madikeri Dasara Kavi Goshti (poets’ meet) held at the Kaveri Kalakshetra here on Monday.
The poems on water, corruption, humanity, relationship, love tried to open the eyes of the society to the burning issues.
Additional DC M Sathish Kumar inaugurated the meet by writing “Idu bahubhasha kavighosti, egagale agide kavanagala srishti…” on a board. He said that poets play a vital role in transforming the society. The poems should make people introspect, Kumar felt.
Dasara Samithi president Kaveramma Somanna and others were present. Rekha Prakash, Leela Dayanand and Nagesh Kaloor were the invited poets.
Poets’ meet committee president Aithichanda Ramesh Uthappa said, “The committee had planned to hold the meet in a unique manner. However, due to the paucity of funds, we had to organise poets meet with limited resources. About 201 poems were received by the committee for the meet. The committee selected 40 poems for the meet.”
K P Sudarshan, Divya Mandeera, Krithajnana Besooru, Asha Prabhu, B R Ramachandra Rao, Asha Prabhu, Kasturi Govindammayya, Ranjitha Cariappa, A S Kavya, S A Anagha, Aparna, A B Manjunath, U R Akram, Sabalam, Bhojanna Reddy, Kadlera Jayalakshmi, Mohan Kumar, S K Ishwari, Shailaja Dinesh Barike, M K Nalinakshi, M S Inchara, Revathi Poovaiah, Kayapanda B Tata Changappa, Ranju Nanaiah, Mulivanda Nalini Bindu, Sunitha Vishwanath, M A Manoj, Kiggalu Girish, and Preetham recited poems.
Writer Kodagi B Appanna presided over the programme.
Today’s programme
Makkala Dasara, Makkala Santhe, Makkala Mantala, fancy dress, clay modelling, science modelling, Chennamane, Kallata and others will be held at Gandhi Maidan in Madikeri from 9 am onwards.
General Thimmaiah Public School, children from Kid Paradise will present dance, Ramayana dance ballet by Little Flower team and dance extravaganza by Bhargavi and team will be held as a part of cultural programmes at 6 pm.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> District / DH News Service, Madikeri / September 26th, 2017
