Lekhika Sahitya Vedike, Bengaluru, has organised book release, prize distribution and interaction  at Suruchi Rangamane in Kuvempunagar, Mysuru, at 10.30 am on May 29. Noted Medical practitioner and writer Dr. Veena Bharathi will inaugurate the programme. Writer and ‘Sahitya Sakhi’ Editor  Shylaja Suresh of Bengaluru will preside. Writer Trishala Bramhaiah’s work ‘Samyak Deepti,’ Dr. M.R. Mandaravalli’s ‘Divya Chikitse – Aarogyakke Hebbagilu’ and  writer T.R. Usharani’s ‘Sakkare Mithai’ will be released by former Pathology Professor and Littérateur Dr. H.A. Parshvanath,  writer and ‘Profit Plus’ Editor Sudha Sharma Chavatti and Scholar Dr. Kabbinale Vasanth Bharadwaj  respectively.

‘Lekhika Book Award-2023’ will be conferred on Dr. Ganesh Amingad and Dr. Geetha Sitaram. Also, winners of Vani Family Story Writing Contest will be distributed prizes — Radhika Gujjar (1st prize), Suchitra Hegde (2nd prize) and Latha Hegde (3rd prize) and Jyothi Rajesh, Neeta Rao, N. Shankar Rao and Nagaveni Shekar (consolation). The programme will be follo-wed by an interaction with Vasumathi Udupa in which personalities such as Dr. S. Sunanda, Triveni Mitti, Usha Narasimhan, Sahana Kantabailu, A.S. Vani, B.K. Meenakshi, K.M. Lolakshi, Suchitra Hegde, Sujatha Ravish, Vidya Shirahatti and Savitha Nagesh will take part. [Mob: 99163-78955]