Muliya Timmappayya Award conferred on Prof. Viveka Rai

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Jan 14,2013 : Eminent scholar and writer Prof. B.A. Viveka Rai  has emphasized the need for Kannada writers and scholars to master many languages.

 

 

 

 

He was speaking after receiving the Pandit Muliya Timmappayya Award  conferred on him by the Muliya Thimmappayya Shatamanothsava Samithi, Mangalore, Muliya Thimmappayya Smaaraka Trust, Muliya and Department of Kannada, St Aloysius College on January 13, Sunday. 

Prof. Rai also  recollected how  several Kannada scholars of the past were experts in different languages and pointed out that even the renowned Manjeshwar Govind Pai knew as many as 27 languages.  Knowing more languages will broaden the research horizon and contribute towards research, he added.

Senior writer  Erya  Lakshminarayana Alva, Dr. Chinnappa Gowda, Professor, Department of Kannada, Fr. Swebert D’Silva, Principal, St Aloysius College and several others were present