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Rajeev Taranath

Rajeev Taranath (born 17 October 1932) is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod.
Taranath is a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan. Rajeev Taranath was born in Bangalore on 17 October
1932. He received his initial training in vocal music from his father Pandit Taranath. He gave his
first public vocal performance when he was nine years old. Rajeev was singing for the All India
Radiobefore he was twenty. Although Rajeev held a PhD in literature, he decided to give up his
career as a Professor and Head of English Literature at Regional Engineering College,
Tiruchirappalli (REC-T) which was later renamed as National Institute of Technology,
Tiruchirappalli (NIT-T) and then went to Calcutta, where he began his musical training under the
tutelage of Ali Akbar Khan. Rajeev continued to learn from his Guru till Khan's demise in 2009.
He has also had guidance from Ravi Shankar, Annapurna Devi, Nikhil Banerjee and Aashish
Khan. In 1999–2000 he received the Indian's government's highest award in the arts from
the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He researched and published the Teaching Techniques of the
Maihar-Allauddin Gharana, as a Ford Foundation scholar (1989 to 1992).

He is respected for his in-depth understanding as he unfolds the raga, the tonal quality and power
of his strokes. His distinctive style shows technical excellence, imaginative power and emotional
range. According to the New York Times, "RAJEEV TARANATH'S sarod improvisations
Sunday at Soundscape mixed the spiritual and the spirited". Rajeev performs extensively in India
and the world. He has toured Australia, Europe, Yemen, the United States, and Canada. He has
composed the music for many internationally acclaimed Indian films including Samskara,
Kanchana Sita and Kadavu. He has also served as the head of the Indian music program at the
World Music Department of the California Institute of the Arts from 1995 to 2005. He currently
lives and teaches in Mysore, Karnataka.Rajeev Taranth taught English literature at the University
of Aden in 1980s. He was the subject of a documentary made for the television in Aden entitled
"Fannan Min-Al-Hind" (Artist from India).

Awards and recognitions

o The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, 1999–2000
o Sangeetha Rathna Mysore T. Chowdiah Memorial Award 1998 (Government of
Karnataka, India)
o Sangeet Nritya Akademi Award, 1993
o Karnataka Rajya Prashasti, 1996
o Kempe Gowda Award, 2006
o Sangeet Kalaratna from the Gayana Samaja
o Jyothi Subramanya Award
o Brahmaramba N Nagaraja Rao Gold Medal
o V T Srinivasan Memorial Award
o Kannada University 'Nadoja' Award
o Awarded Padma Sri, 2019
 Profile
Saalumarada Thimmakka
Saalumarada Thimmakka also known as Aalada Marada Timakka is an
Indian environmentalist from the state of Karnataka, noted for her work in planting and tending
to 385 banyan trees along a four-kilometre stretch of highway between Hulikal and Kudur. She
has also planted nearly 8000 other trees. Her story is that of grit and determination. She
reportedly wanted to commit suicide when she was in her 40s as she was unable to bear a
child.With the support of her husband, she found solace in planting trees.
She received no formal education and worked as a casual laborer in a nearby quarry. Her work
has been honoured with the National Citizen's Award of India. Her work was recognized by the
Government of India and she was conferred with Padma Shri in 2019.
A U.S. environmental organisation based in Los
Angeles and Oakland, California called Thimmakka's Resources for Environmental Education is
named after her.

Thimmakka was born in Gubbi Taluk, Tumukuru District in Karnataka. She was married to
Chikkaiah, a native of Hulikal village in the Magadi taluk of Ramanagardistrict in Karnataka.
She received no formal education and worked as a casual laborer in a nearby quarry. She was
married to Chikkaiah who was a laborer but they, unfortunately, could have no children. It is said
that Thimmakka started to plant banyan trees in lieu of children.[6] The name
word Saalumarada (row of trees in the Kannada language) is how she was referred to because of
her work.

Achievement
Ficus (banyan) trees were aplenty near Thimmakka's village. Thimakka and her husband started
grafting saplings from these trees. Ten saplings were grafted in the first year and they were
planted along a distance of 5 km near the neighboring village of Kudoor. 15 saplings were
planted in the second year and 20 in the third year.She used her own meager resources for
planting these trees.The couple used to carry four pails of water for a distance of four kilometers
to water the saplings. They were also protected from grazing cattle by fencing them with thorny
shrubs.

The saplings were planted mostly during monsoon season so that sufficient rainwater would be
available for them to grow. By the onset of the next monsoons, the saplings had invariably taken
root.In total, 384 trees were planted, and their asset value has been assessed at around 1.5
million rupees.The management of these trees have now been taken over by the Government of
Karnataka
 Obituary
The fearless journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh

"What are we going to fight over today?" a journalist friend of Gauri Lankesh would usually ask
her whenever she made an early morning call to him. "What's your grudge?"
In her breathless, high-pitched voice, Lankesh would usually ask her editor friend why his
newspaper hadn't taken a stronger stand on an issue close to her heart. "If you big guys can't take
a more robust stand, how are we going to do it?"

In the southern Indian city of Bangalore where she lived, Lankesh edited an eponymous weekly
tabloid she inherited from her father in the local Kannada language. Financed entirely by
subscriptions - part of an activist tabloid culture in the state of Karnataka, which shunned adverts
- Gauri Lankesh Patrike was known for its feisty leftist views. It also reflected the editor's view
and ideology.

Indian journalist shot dead in Bangalore

Gauri Lankesh in her own words

Lankesh was a trenchant critic of the Hindu right-wing. She believed religious and majoritarian
politics would tear India apart. When Malleshappa Kalburgi , a leading Indian scholar and a
well-known rationalist thinker, was shot dead at his home in Dharwad following death threats
from right-wing Hindu groups two years ago, she told a friend: "I don't care what happens to me,
they even called me a slut. But I really worry for the country. These guys will break it up."

She had other causes too. Lankesh was openly sympathetic to Maoist rebels who have long
waged war against the Indian government and she fought hard to bring them into the mainstream.
She also campaigned for the rights of Dalits, formerly known as untouchables.

She made no bones about her dislike for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Hindu
nationalist BJP either. Her Facebook posts often contained unflattering memes of the prime
minister. In a recent post she lauded India's stand-up comics for "successfully doing more than
most to destroy the Modi myth". Typically, she lent her support to them, saying "We are all with
you together and we shall reclaim our secular India."

Discarding impartiality, Lankesh's newspaper was often shrill and bristling with rhetoric.
Sometimes the stories would give short shrift to facts, discomforting many of her friends. To be
fair, Lankesh never concealed her choices: she introduced herself as "journalist-activist" in her
Twitter profile.

Not surprisingly, her paper attracted a raft of defamation cases. Last year she was convicted of
defamation for a report she published on local BJP leaders. The chief of the BJP's information
technology cell then sent out an ominous-sounding tweet hoping "other journalists take note" of
her conviction, prompting accusations of dog-whistle politics. This had not daunted Lankesh.
Despite falling circulation and revenues, her tabloid continued to take on formidable adversaries.
'Uncompromising'

Along with the tabloid, Lankesh possibly inherited her grit from her father P Lankesh, a versatile
cultural icon from Karnataka. He ran a lively, high-circulation tabloid, wrote award-winning
novels and made films, all infused with a vibrant cosmopolitan favour. He was also a fearless
activist.

Gauri Lankesh, the oldest of three siblings, had decided on a career in journalism early on. She
went to a journalism school in Delhi, where a classmate found her "tough, uncompromising and
radical". She worked with a leading newspaper, a now-defunct magazine and a fledgling English
news channel.

When her father died in 2000, she was initially reluctant to take over his 20-year-old newspaper.
Kannada, her friends said, was not her strongest point. But when she finally decided to take it
over, she turned completely political and began taking radical political positions.

Friends found Lankesh at once a belligerent and loving personality. She fought and made up
easily. She "adopted" two student leaders - one who belonged to the Dalit community, the other
charged with sedition - and invited them home. When she wanted to gift them T-shirts, she called
a male friend and asked: "What colours would they like, you think?"

In recent months, Lankesh wrote on rising attacks on the freedom of press, local politics and how
her city and India's info-tech capital had become unsafe for women. She wrote she was appalled
by rising domestic violence, dowry murders and acid attacks on women in what was once a
genteel pensioners paradise.

"What can women of Bangalore do to reclaim their rights to live the way they used to?" she
wrote in January.

In a way, it was a chillingly prescient thought. The motorcycle-borne gunmen who shot Lankesh
outside her home on Monday night probably killed her for her work.
 Obituary
Siddaganga Seer Shivakumara Swami Embodied Lingayat Dharma
While he stayed away from exercising political power, the Swamiji did voice his opinion on the
day that the Babri Masjid was demolished. Tumkur: Considered a ‘walking god’ by those who
follow him, or who admire his contribution to children across communities over the last eight
decades, the Lingayat seer Siddaganga Sri Shivakumara Swamiji passed away on January 21,
2019 – at the age, mutt officials says, of almost 112 years.

The Siddaganga mutt, under his guidance, educated and hosted lakhs of students from
economically deprived backgrounds.

His passing will leave Karnataka’s Lingayat community in mourning, along with others who
loved him for his service – from dasoha or anna dana (offering food) to vidya dana (offering
education) free of cost to generations of students.

In December 2018, the Swamiji underwent a liver transplant at a private hospital in Chennai. His
health hung in the balance until his passing on January 21.

Chief Minister of Karnataka, H. D. Kumaraswamy, announced that the final rites will take place
at 3pm on Tuesday, January 22. He will be present alongside his rival, BJP leader B. S.
Yeddyurappa – who was, until just the day before, attempting to break the Congress-JD(S)
alliance supporting the government in Karnataka. That effort was set aside, in part, due to the
news of the seer’s declining health.

A junior pontiff of the Siddaganga Mutt, Siddalinga Swamiji, is expected to take over the
leadership and continue the works initiated by Sri Shivakumara Swamiji. Guidance without
political ends

The Lingayat community is the largest in Karnataka, making the 600-year-old Siddaganga mutt a
centre of immense political power. Many a politician – both from the state and the Centre – have
arrived at its doorstep, in Tumkur, about 70 km from Bengaluru.

The seer welcomed every leader, but brushed off any request to endorse a single party.
The swami was born in Magadi taluk around Bengaluru (then in the kingdom of Mysuru), and
was inducted into the Siddaganga mutt in his early years. It is the stuff of modern legend in the
state, how a boy born into a family of agriculturists grew up to become a beloved name among
those whom he served and stood for.

The Swami took over the leadership of the Siddaganga mutt in 1930. The mutt was low on
resources in those days, but the swami had a clear vision of education as the community’s road to
emancipation.
As the mutt gained prominence and influence, he epitomised values that shaped the Lingayat
dharma: service to humankind, imparting education to create awareness, treating all as equal and
staying away from explicit political power.

The rare occasion on which the Siddaganga Swamiji did voice his opinion was the day the Babri
Masjid was demolished. While others weighed their options about speaking against volatile
sentiments, he condemned it in no uncertain words.

Even so, for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah, the Gandhis across
generations, former President Abdul Kalam and every Karnataka chief minister, it has been
mandatory to visit and seek an audience with the seer.

A long lifetime of service

Instead of using its influence on politics, the mutt has run numerous colleges – for engineering,
business management, nursing and pharmacy, teacher training and more – alongside Sanskrit and
Kannada schools, and scores of primary and high schools along with pre-university campuses
across the state.
History Kannada Magazine

Balamangalam
Balamangalam was first published in 1980.The publisher was Mangalam Publications (India)
Private Limited.The fortnightly magazine featured, along with the comic strips, children's stories,
rhymes and puzzles. Its target audience was children. The headquarters of the fortnightly was
in Kottayam.

In October 2012, Mangalam Publications, the owners of Balamangalam announced that they
would stop publication due to poor sales. The news created an outcry on social media websites
and prompted the publishers to clarify that "the closure is just temporary and Balamangalam may
return soon."Still, the magazine remained closed.

Main stories

o Dinkan (Artist: Baby)

o Saktimarunnu (Story: Manu, Artist: Baby)
o Kannada language

Balamangala was the Kannada language edition of Balamangalam, and circulated

in Karnataka, India. Along with comic strips, the magazine featured children's stories, rhymes,
puzzles and crosswords,including the fictional characters Dinga, Shaktimaddu, Kaadina Kitta,
Keraga, Pingala, Karingaada, Tuttu, Chenchu, Tiko, Chomu, Thangu Maama, Onti Salaga, and
Chippu Delu.

Harsha, a 15-year-old boy's first short story, "Mola Matthu Nari" (meaning: Rabbit and Fox) was
published in the magazine.

Publisher Balamangala Kannada(RNI:44741/1989) was published by Mangalam Publication

(India) Pvt. Ltd.[20] located in Kottayam, Kerala.

Dinkoism Based on the magazine's fictional character, Dinga (Malayalam: Dinkan), a parody
religion and a social movementcalled Dinkoism emerged and evolved on social
networks organized by independent welfare groups in Kerala, India.
Karmaveera
Karmaveera is a major Kannadaweekly family interest magazine, published in Karnataka, India,
which has its headquarters in Bengaluru, Karnataka.[6][7] It is also published
from Hubli, Davangere, Gulbarga and Mangalurudistricts of Karnataka.

History: Karmaveera was first published in 1921. Ranganath Ramchandra Diwakar, an ex-
president of the KPCC, established the ′Loka Shikshana Trust′ (meaning: World Education
Trust) on 27 April 1933, which publishes Kasthuriand Karmaveera.

Kannada writer and poet, P.V. Acharya, was one among the many editors of Karmaveera. Its
current Editor is G Anil Kumar.

Kasthuri
Kasthuri or Kasturi is a major Kannadamonthly family-interest magazine published in Karnataka,
India, which has its headquarters in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It is also published
from Mangaluru, Gulbarga, Davangere, and Hubli.

Kasthuri covers topics like society, Kannada poetry, science fiction, spirituality, health, travel,
technology, cookery, book review, beauty. It publishes a large number of editorial cartoon, on
politics and society.

The magazine is subscribed in educational institutions like Tumkur University, JSS College of
Arts, Commerce & Science, Kuvempu University, Mysore University,Mangalore
University, and Gulbarga University etc. Kasthuri (RNI:Reg.No.3633/1957)was first published
in 1921. Ranganath Ramchandra Diwakar, an ex-president of the KPCC, established the ′Loka
Shikshana Trust′ (meaning: World Education Trust) on 27 April 1933, which publishes Kasthuri
and Karmaveera (a weekly Kannada magazine).

Kannada writer and poet, P.V. Acharya, was one among the many editors of Kasthuri, including
Radhakrishna Bhadti and writer, journalist Nagesh Hegde

Mayura
Mayura is a major Kannada monthly literary magazine, published in Karnataka, India, which has
its headquarters in Mysuru, Karnataka.[2][3][4] It is also published
from Davangere, Gulbarga, Mangaluru, Hubli, Mumbai, New
Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad.[5][6][7]
The magazine includes novels, stories (detective, scientific and secular),[1]short stories, children
stories, comedy write ups, film reviews, celebrity interviews, serials/soaps and more.[8]Stories
translated from Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, English and other languages are
often published. Mayura was started in 1968 by The Printers, Mysore (estd. 1948).[1]

Past editors of the magazine include, P. Lankesh, K. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi, Goruru

Ramaswamy Iyengar, Anupama Niranjana, M. K. Indira, Jayanth Kaikini, Besagarahalli
Ramanna,[9] T. K. Rama Rao, Fakir Mohammad Katpadi,[10]Bolwar Mahammad
Kunhi, Veerabhadrappa, Baraguru Ramachandrappa, Beechi, Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar, M.H.
Nayak Baada,[11]Na D'Souza, Gopalakrishna Pai[1]

Taranga
Taranga or Tharangais a major Kannadaweekly family interest magazine, published in Karnataka,
India, which has its headquarters in Manipal, Karnataka.

Taranga covers topics such as short stories, poems, serialized

fiction, spirituality, health, travel and technology, cookery, fashion, beauty, film news, sports, cul
ture etc. It publishes cartoons too, on politicssociety.

For the past 15 years, Sandhya Pai has been the Managing editor, of the magazine.

History: Taranga was launched on trial on 28 November 1982 in Manipal, and had its official
launch on 2 January 1983. The inaugural price of the first edition was ₹1.50.

Tunturu
Tunturu is a major Kannada bi-monthly children's magazine, published in Karnataka, India,
which has its headquarters in Manipal, Karnataka. From past few years, Sandhya Pai[9] has been
the Managing editor, of the magazine.
The magazine was launched in January 2000, by Manipal Media Network Ltd. (MMNL).

Sister publications

Roopatara, a Kannada monthly film magazine

Taranga, a Kannada weekly family interest magazine

Tushara, a Kannada monthly literary magazine

Udayavani, a Kannada daily newspaper

Tushara
Tushara is a major Kannada monthly literary magazine, published in Karnataka, India, which has
its headquarters in Manipal, Karnataka.

The magazine includes columns such as ′Sarasa′ (meaning: Naughty), ′Mathininda Lekhanige′
(meaning: From speech to pen), ′Sahitya Avalokana′ (meaning: Literature overview), ′Kannada
Kathaloka′ (meanning: Kannada story world), ′Makkala Kathe′ (meaning: Children's
stories), ′Vishwa Kathe′ (meaning: World story) and ′Masadamathu′ (meaning: indestructible
words).

Sandhya Pai is the Managing editor, of the magazine.

The magazine, launched in April 1973, is the second publication of Manipal Media Network Ltd.
(MMNL).

Sudha
Sudha is a Kannadaweekly magazinepublished in Bangalore.

History and profile

Sudha was established in 1965. The first issue appeared on 11 January 1965. It is published by
The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd. The magazine covers articles on current affairs. As of January
2014, the magazine completed 50 years in publication.

Cartoonists: Sudha publishes a large number of cartoons, especially political cartoons. Some of
its cartoonists include GM Bomnalli, V.Gopal, Prakash Shetty, Devidas Suvarna, Kandikatla,
Indrali Guru, and Halambi etc. There are some cartoonists whose cartoons were printed in the
magazine for first time. One of them is Vasuki CG.

Roopatara is a major Kannada monthly film magazine, published in Karnataka, India, which has
its headquarters in Manipal, Karnataka.

Sandhya Pai is the managing editor of the magazine.