Mysuru: Gramanthara Buddhi Jeevigala Balaga, K.R. Nagar, marking its 34th anniversary had organised a State-level ‘Sahityotsava’ in memory of Premakavi K.S. Narasimhaswamy (KSN) at Rotary Hall on JLB Road on Sunday.

Inaugurating the programme, Poetess Dr. Latha Rajashekar opined that poets have the ability to throw light on the darkness that cover minds of people. She commended KSN in achieving that feat long back.

She observed that obscured mind coupled with skewed thoughts propagate hatred and jealousy among people. The Poetess contended that a good thought-provoking poem would surely help people to introspect their behaviour.

Books ‘Premakavi KSN-105’ edited by Bherya Ramkumar, ‘Daarikanadagide’ by Dr. G.D. Joshi, ‘Karnatakada Pakshidhamagalu’ by Vid. M.D. Aiyyappa and ‘Kavya Lahari-Bhava Lahari’ by Gangalahari were released on the occasion.

KSN Kavya Puraskar was presented to Srinivasa Panakahalli of Tamil Nadu, Yetkada Narasimha Bhat of Kasargod, Lakshmi Satish Shetty of Mumbai, Sugandhi Marade Moolay of Kasargod, S. Shivaranjani of Mysuru, Shuba Sriprasad of Mandya, Ashwini Kodibail of Dakshina Kannada, Vijayalakshmi of Bengaluru, Bhagyalakshmi of Mandya, Diwakar Nadiger of Shivamogga, Prakash Jahagirdar of Vijayapura, T.S. Rajendraprasad of Mysuru, Manjunath Haluvagilu of Bengaluru, Kodathur Balakrishna Udupa of Dakshina Kannada, BEML Ramesh Shetty of Mysuru and S.K. Eshwari of Kodagu under the Specially-abled category.

Writers Dr. G.D. Joshi, Dr. A. Pushpa Iyengar, Champavathi and A. Hemaganga were feted.

Retired High Court Judge Arali Nagaraj, Mahesh Joshi, formerly of DD Chandana, Educationist Dr. Y.M. Reddy, writer Revanna Ballari, Scholar Dr. L.R. Ramesh Babu, writers Dr. Bherya Ramkumar, K.N. Mahabala and others were present.