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Shivanand Kelaginamani, Vice-Chancellor of Aadikavi Sri Maharshi Valmiki University, Raichur, has said that Kannada lit explored taste exchanges for centuries, with poets reinterpreting classical texts and blending divers taste traditions.
He was speaking aft the inauguration of an planetary league ‘Civilization Literature: Texts, Traditions and Transcultural Dialogues Across Civilizations’, organised by Dharwad Katte successful collaboration with Aadikavi Sri Maharshi Valmiki University, Janata Shikshana Samiti and Peter Lang, Switzerland, astatine JSS College successful Dharwad connected Friday.
Prof. Kelaginamani said the agelong past of the Kannada connection tin beryllium traced done classical works specified arsenic Kavirajamarga. He noted that elements from Sanskrit were gradually incorporated into Kannada, which helped enrich the connection and signifier its literate tradition. “Cultural speech has ever been an important portion of Kannada lit and the connection has shown openness to enactment with different traditions,” helium pointed out.
V. R. Desai, manager of Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, inaugurated the two-day league and delivered a speech connected ‘Bhagavad Gita - Philosophy of Action and Devotion’. He quoted respective slokas from the Gita and elaborated connected however they stay applicable to the contiguous day. He besides spoke astir the value of civilisational literature.
Prof. Desai and different dignitaries released the work ‘Civilization Imagination successful Literature: Conference Abstracts’ and Dharwad Katte’s ‘Global South International Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Journal’.
S.M. Shivaprasad, prof astatine IIT Dharwad, and V.S. Katagihallimath, administrative serviceman astatine BVV Sangha Group of Education, addressed the gathering. Presiding implicit the inaugural session, Basavaraj Donur of Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, said that the nonsubjective of the seminar organisation was to make consciousness astir connecting with the past. He noted that Dharwad Katte is the lone organisation successful India conducting discussions connected the Shakespeare series.
Earlier successful the day, Mr. Shivaprasad delivered a keynote address, successful which helium highlighted the value of transcultural dialog successful today’s world. He compared it with technological discoveries and taste development. He besides referred to the Silk Road, saying it served not lone arsenic a commercialized way but a way for scholars and the speech of ideas betwixt universities.
