Film Director Parvathamma Rajkumar, veteran actor Ananth Nag, billiards champion Pankaj Advani, noted writer Srinivasraju and senior journalists T J S and Sarjoo Katkar are among 51 persons selected for this year’s Kannada Rajyotsava award.
And the list of names is, surprisingly, restricted to 51 only, unlike previous years when the number of awardees had crossed over 100. Urologist Dr K S Nagaraj, artist Perumal, film editor Suresh Urs, writer Dr Vijayamma and critic Dr C N Ramachandran, theatre persons Lad Sabh and Chandrakumar Singh, Make up artist Keshav, sportsperon B C Suresh and Dr Bhujanga Shetty of Narayana Netralaya are some of other awardees, according to official sources.
Names of other persons who are in the list were not available, as the Governor Rameshwar Thakur postponed the release of the list on Friday. He is likely to release it on Saturday, Raj Bhavan sources said. The awards will be presented by the Governor on November 1, Kannada Rajyotsava Day.