Newskarnataka-Moodbidri
Moodbidri: Dr. B.A. Viveka Rai has been nominated as the President of Alva’s Vishwa Nudisiri Virasat. Dr. B.A. Viveka Rai is a veteran scholar, researcher and writer and has been the former Vice- Chancellor of Hampi Kannada University and Mysore Open University. The four day international festival and symposium on Kannada language, state and culture will be held from 19th Dec to 22nd Dec 2013 at the Vidyagiri campus, Moodbidri by Alva’s Education Foundation, Moodbidri. Dr. Rai’s name as the President was chosen with consensus. This was informed by Dr.M. Mohan Alva, Chairman, Alva’s Education Foundation, Moodbidri at a press conference today.
There would be a grand procession depicting the rich and vivid culture of Karnataka and an inauguration ceremony on 19th December evening. There would be an inaugural function, key note address by the President of the Sammelan, and honouring of the erstwhile Presidents of previous Nudisiris.
The event will have an audience of over 2 lakh literature patrons and over 10 lakh are expected to attend the event. Conferences on Literature, Folk culture, Students and Agriculture would be held parallelly across 4 venues and cultural programmes will be held at 10 different venues in the evenings.
Dr B.A. Viveka Rai- A profile
Dr. Rai hails from the Punacha village of Puttur in Dakshina Kannada District and has completed his Masters degree in Kannada from Mangalore University and Ph.D from Mysore University. He has served Mangalore University as Lecturer, Reader, Professor and Head of the Department for about 34 years in teaching and research of Kannada. Currently he is serving as a Guest Professor, Dept.of Indology, University of Wurzburg, Germany.
He has served as the Vice Chancellor of Hampi Kannada University and Karnataka State University, Mysore. He is also the founder president of Tulu Sahitya Academy. He has honorary membership at
Folklore Fellows, Finland, Central Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Folk and Yakshagana Academy, Governing Committee of Central Kannada Sahithya Parishath, Udupi regional
folk arts research centre at Udupi, and Pilikula Nisarga dhama trust, Mangalore. He has been conferred upon with Karnataka Rajyotsava Award, Muliya Thimmapayya Award, Presidentship of the Karnataka folk literature conference, Karnataka Culture Conference, Karnataka Desi Conference, World Tulu Sammelan held at Dubai.
Tulu Proverbs, Tulu riddles, Tulu culture, Tulu folk literature, Indian traditions, riddles in literature, Gilisoove, Irula Kannu, Hindana hejje, Rangadolagana Bahiranga, Bagilanu teredu, Inside Germany,
Kannada linguistic writings, Nettara Maduve, Siri Epic as performed by Gopala Naika, along with 15 more works have been compiled by Dr. Rai. He has also been the Chief Editor of History of Tulu literature and the Kannada Jain Samputa.
He has undertaken research in countries like Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Japan, America, England, Austria, France, Dubai, Abudhabi, Sharjah and has guided 16 Ph.D researchers and 10 M.Phil researchers.
Currently he is creating and maintaining the “Samskrithi Grama” or Culture village at Pilikula Nisargadhama and is also undertaking the translation of Kannada literature into German language.
