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about the Poet
siddalingaiah ( 1954 ), Professor
of Kannada in Bangalore University
is a major poet in Kannada literature.
He pioneered the Dalit voice in 1975.
The trend setting work on Dalit
literature in Kannada is
‘Holemaadigana Haadu’ (1975), a
collection of poems by Siddalingaiah.
His autobiography ‘Ooru Keri’ is translated into English
and many of his poems are translated to various Indian and
other languages.
Source: bavivekraiwordpress.com
dr sumathendra R nadig, born in 1935, is a prominent
modern poet. Nadig's Dampatya Gita has been translated into
English, Hindi, Bengali and other Indian languages.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the
lighting of a fire.
- W.B. Yeats
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