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Eminent Badaguthittu Yakshagana scriptwriter and retired teacher Kandavara Raghurama Shetty passed distant successful Noojadi village, Kundapura taluk, connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025). He was 89.
A teacher by profession, Shetty gave a caller magnitude to Yakshagana by penning ‘prasangas’ with societal relevance. Also an interpreter (arthadhari) and an amateur theatre artist, helium was known successful the Yakshagana ellipse arsenic “Kandavaradavaru.”
Born successful Kandavara colony of Balkur successful 1936 to Karki Sadiyanna Shetty and Kandavara Puttamma, Raghurama Shetty worked arsenic a teacher and aboriginal arsenic the caput maestro astatine Netaji Higher Primary School successful Kandlur for implicit 35 years.
Having large emotion for literature, euphony and Yakshagana from his childhood, Raghurama Shetty was known arsenic “Bala Bhagavata” aft helium did Bhagavatike (singing) for children’s Yakshagana.
Raghurama Shetty authored respective ‘prasangas’ for the Badaguthittu “Tent Melas”, thereby paving mode for a caller epoch successful that segment. Some of his ‘prasangas’, including Cheluve Chitravathi, Rati Rekha, Shree Devi Banashankari, Shoodra Tapaswini etc., are inactive being enacted successful the melas.
He served arsenic president of the Kundapura Taluk Kannada Sahitya Parishat for 4 years and was besides a ‘gamaki’ and interpreter successful Purana Pravachanas.
