Mangalore, September 22: Veteran Kannada litterateur and poet Dr K S Nissar Ahmed will be the president of the ninth national Kannada literary convention 'Alva's Nudisiri' to be held at Moodabidri from November 16 to 18.
Announcing this at a media conference here on Saturday, Dr M. Mohan Alva, chairman, Alva's Education Foundation, the organiser, said that the reception committee of the convention had unanimously finalised the name of Mr. Ahmed.
He said that senior litterateur and thinker Prof U R Ananthamurthy would inaugurate the three-day literary convention with the theme: Kannada Manassu: Janapara Chaluvaligalu (Kannada mind: Pro-people Movements). More than 6000 students are expected to register for the annual literary meet this year, he said.
Scholar and lexicographer Prof G Venkata Subbaiah will be given a special felicitation in the convention, he said.
Mr Alva said that the ninth 'Alva's Nudisiri' would be a prelude to the 10th Alva's Nudisiri event which would be celebrated as a global Kannada literary convention in 2013.
As part of preparation for the upcoming global Nudisiri, several local units have been set up in different places across Karnataka including Tumkur, Dharwad, Mysore, Chikmagalur, Mandya, Theerthahalli, Mangalore, Kundapur, Puttur, Bantwal and Belthangady.
Inauguration of the local units will be held on the premises of Bapuji Dental College in Davangere, JSS College in Dharwad and Swami Vivekananda Auditorium in Gadag on September 28, 29 and 30 respectively, said Mr Alva.
Dr Dhananjaya Kumble, Venugopal Shetty and Harish Adoor were present at the press meet.
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