Mysore/Mysuru: With Poet Laureate Kuvempu scripted ‘Kannada Nadageethe’ having completed 100 years in 2024, the University of Mysore(UoM), in association with Dasara Kavigoshti Sub-Committee, will be holding ‘Nadageethe-100 Sambhrama’ at a programme to take place at the Open Air Theatre in Manasagangothri campus at 9.30 am on Sept. 23.
Announcing this at a press meet at the Open Air Theatre here this morning, UoM Registrar M.K. Savitha said that Rashtrakavi Kuvempu had written Nadageethe (Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujathe, Jayahe Karnataka Mathe...) in 1924 itself when he was 20 years old under his then pen-name ‘Kishora Chandravani.’ This Nadageethe was endorsed by Kannada Sahitya Parishat in 1971 and officially adopted as the State Anthem in 2004, marking the birth centenary celebrations of the Poet Laureate, she said.
