Guruvandana Programme, senior writer Dr. Pradeep Kumar Hebri presides, District Kannada Sahitya Parishat President Dr. Y.D. Rajanna chief guest, Guruvandana to Vidu. Dr. P.M. Chetana Radhakrishna (Director, Gurudeva Lalithakala Academy, Mandya and Mysuru), dance programme by students of Gejjenada Nritya Shale, District Kannada Sahitya Parishat Bhavan, No.1, Vijayanagar 1st Stage, 5 pm.

Pratibha Puraskar for Sri Mahalakshmi Sweets Employees’ Children and Students, felicitation to Chamarajanagar Deenabandhu Trust Hon. Secretary Prof. G.S. Jayadeva, Pandavapura Pusthakamane’s Ankegowda and progressive natural farmers M. Rechanna & Santosh Rayappa Kittur; Swami Athmajnanandaji graces the occasion, novelist Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa inaugurates, Star of Mysore and Mysooru Mithra Editor-in-Chief K.B. Ganapathy and MCC Commissioner…

Book release — Poet Mahesh Huyilalu’s ‘Geechu’ (a poetry collection) — by littérateur Dr. C.P. Krishna Kumar (CPK), Parishat Mysuru President Dr. Y.D. Rajanna presides, poet Dr. Jayappa Honnali speaks about the book, Excel Publi School Principal K.G. Mathew, Vighneshwara Prakashana Publisher Omkarappa and poet Mahesh Huyilalu chief guests, Maneyangala, Kalamandira premises, 4.30 pm.

Sauramana Ugadi celebrations, Sri Satyanarayana Puja, Prasadam Distribution, 4 pm; Prize Distribution to the winners of Talent Hunt Contest, 5 pm; Ugadi Fest Cultural Programme, Sri Krishnadhama, Saraswathipuram, 5.30 pm.

Staging of play ‘Chekmate’ by Rangayana, directed by Anup Joshi (Bunty), Bhoomigeeta, Rangayana premises, 6.30 pm.

Staging of play ‘Ondu Preetiya Kathe’ (based on Vijay Tendulkar’s Mitrachi Goshta), directed by Venkatesh Prasad, Mini Theatre, Kalamandira premises, 3.30 pm and 7 pm.

Discourse on ‘Srimad Bhagavatha Dashama Skanda’ by Sri Ganapathy Swamiji, Ashrama, Mysuru-Ooty Road, 7 pm.

Sri Ramanavami Cultural Programmes — Devotional songs by Vid. Krishnamurthy and troupe, Temple premises, 7 pm.

Sri Ramanavami Mahotsava, Cultural Programme, 6.30 pm; Dance feature ‘Hanuman Chalisa,’ Sri Rama Mandira premises, 8.30 pm.

103rd Ramanavami Music Festival, Veena recital by Dr. Suma Sudheendra from Bengaluru, accompanied by Vidu. Aditi Krishnaprakash on violin, Vid. H.L. Shivashankara Swamy on mridanga and Vid. M.R. Manjunath on ghata, Mandira premises, Devaraja Mohalla, 6.30 pm.