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Kotiganahalli Ramaiah, a Dalit activist, poet and playwright, can be honoured with the lifetime achievement award for the yr 2024-25.
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The Karnataka Nataka Academy introduced its checklist of awardees for the years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 on August 8. A complete of 93 awards have been introduced beneath the classes of lifetime achievement award, annual award, and 5 different classes.
Stage and cine actor Umashree has been chosen for lifetime achievement award for the yr 2022-23, poet and playwright H. S. Shivaprakash for 2023-24 and Dalit activist, poet and playwright Kotiganahalli Ramaiah for 2024-25.
The announcement of the awards comes after a controversy throughout the earlier BJP regime in 2020. The academy had cancelled the checklist of awardees introduced in 2019 and had issued a contemporary checklist, denying an award to former Congress minister and actor Umashree again then.
