Mysore/Mysuru: Renowned orator and cultural thinker Hiremagalur Kannan was conferred ‘Muddurama Prashasti’ and Chaupadi writer M. Muthuswamy was conferred ‘Muddurama Puraskara’ at a programme organised under the aegis of Muddurama Pratishtana at JSS Women’s College in Saraswathipuram here on Sunday.
Speaking after being conferred with the award, Kannan, who is famously known as ‘Kannadada Poojari’, said that initially, he did not agree for receiving Muddurama Prashasti.’ But he later accepted the award as a mark of respect for veteran writer K.C. Shivappa, when he said that he would not accept Rs. 50,000 cash prize that comes with the award. As said, he was donating Rs. 50,000 cash prize along with Rs. 2,000 as travel allowance (totally Rs. 52,000) to Mangaluru-based ‘Samskara Bharathi’ organisation (run by Chandrashekar Shetty), which is creating a sense of nationalism among the younger generation through dance dramas, he noted.
