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Expressing interest implicit the vanishing greenery successful places similar Kodachadri and Agumbe successful Shivamogga successful the sanction of improvement works, well-known literate professional and world Prof. O.L. Nagabhushana Swamy stated, “We are becoming barren quality beings.”
Participating successful an enactment with his readers and students successful Shivamogga connected Sunday, Prof. Swamy recalled his days arsenic a lecturer astatine Sahyadri College. Many times, helium trekked to Kodachadri on with his friends, colleagues, and students successful the 1980s and 1990s. “The infinitesimal we got down from the bus, we really landed amidst heavy forests. I person eternal memories of trekking the elevation connected antithetic occasions. Once, we trekked each done the afloat satellite night, and the clip spent determination is etched successful my memory. However, the spot has not remained the same. When I took my friends determination aft immoderate years, we were each disappointed. We hardly recovered immoderate greenery until we reached the foothills,” helium recalled.
Similarly, Prof. Swamy said that Agumbe Ghat has changed implicit the years. “Now, determination is simply a connection to physique a passageway successful Agumbe. We are becoming barren quality beings. I person decided not to sojourn Kodachadri again,” helium said.
The writer stated that helium had a peculiar transportation with Shivamoga, arsenic helium spent galore years teaching lit there. Reflecting connected his memories, helium recalled the clip helium spent penning his Vimarsheya Paribhashe, a glossary of literate presumption successful Kannada and an important notation publication for students of literature, arsenic good arsenic the days helium spent directing plays for students.
He remarked that Shivamogga of those days had not remained the same. “Now, I don’t cognize which words trigger hatred and which statements provoke arguments. Anyhow, we should not suffer the courageousness to explicit our opinions without hesitation. Shivamogga is the spot that gave maine that courage,” helium stated.
The enactment with Prof. Nagabhushan Swamy was jointly organised by Sheha Balaga and the Lohia Janmashatabdi Trust. Critics Prof. Rajendra Chenni, Prof. M.B. Nataraj, Prof. Siraj Ahmed, writer Savitha Nagabhushan and others participated successful the programme.
