G.S. Amur, Lalitha Naik among those chosen for State awards

The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : G.S. Amur, Lalitha Naik among those chosen for State awards: "The noted literary critic G.S. Amur and the former Minister and writer B.T. Lalitha Naik are among the seven distinguished persons in the fields of art and music who have been selected for the awards instituted by the State Government.

The awards are for 2006 and they are the Pampa Award, the Dana Chintamani Award, the Venkatappa Award, the Jakanachari Award, the Janapada Award, the Kanaka-Purandara Award and the Santashishunala Sharief Award.

Karnataka Ratna Award on Siddaganga Math pontiff Shivakumara Mahaswami. Dr. Amur, who has written books related to Kannada literature, has been selected for the Pampa Award, named after the first Kannada poet laureate. The Dana Chintamani Award for women goes to Ms. Lalitha Naik. Ms. Naik, born in 1945, has many literary works to her credit. Balakrishna Karverappa Hubli, 85, of Belgaum has been selected for the Venkatappa Award for his contribution in the field of painting. He was a member of the Karnataka Lalithakala Academy between 1982 and 1990. He received the Kannada Rajyotsava Award in 1996.

The noted sculptor Bilikere Narayanachar Channappacharya, 71, of Mysore has been selected for the Jakanachari Award. Eighty-year-old folk artiste Eshwarappa Gurappa Angadi has been selected for the Janapada Award. He was a recipient of the Karnataka Janapada and Yakshagana Award in 1992. The Kanaka-Purandara Award goes to the nonagenarian classical singer V. Ramarathnam. The Santashishunala Sharief Award-winner is Sugama Sangeetha artiste C.K. Tara. She was born in 1933 in Chitradurga and won the Kannada Rajyotsava Award in 1997."