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Caution Long Post... PS: These are the trhee Indian Beach trees (ಹೊಂಗೆ ಮರ) planted outside Kala Soudha by me for shadow at the foyre for peopel to sit and relax during day time.  Well the post clearly is not about it. First it was Ravindra Kalakshetra, where even after prolonged protests plus assurances nothing yet has happend.  Secondly Town Hall where the rent was reduced to 80K rom whooping 1.5 Lakhs & still no takers.  Third wicket was Kala Soudha & Fourth Nrityagram, finally now NSD premice at Guru Nanak Bhavan. One thing common in all these cases, Government has overruled Arts, taken all artists for a lovely ride and left us high and dry. I can speak very well for Kala Soudha, remaining cases can be googled, well it all starts as a moment gets media momentum and dies with promises from the Government/Authority side.  Same happened to Kala Soudha too, I am not sure of getting the place to run again, hopeful that who ever gets it will do justic...

Kannada Theatre Scene Ninth Century AD: King Nrupatunga wrote Kavirajamarga in the matured script of Kannada. It is the first recognised literary work by any author in Kannada history. Being a set of poems it was recited to people at numerous literary gatherings. Hence, we could also categorise it as the first script in Kannada literature. Kannada theatre has seen a huge wave of changes from the times of Jaina Works, Vachana Literature, Dasa Sahitya till today's Modern Kannada. When you go to the new look Ravindra Kalakshetra with improved interiors and exteriors and interact with the Kannada theatre activists, you get the same look and feel, as it was many years back. You still get to see the old scripts, which are, staged every week and meetings/readings going on in the Samsa Open Theatre. However, when you ask them the question of this article "what happened to the new age writers, why are we going back to the age of Shakespeare or of Karnard?" Everyone unanimously a...