Update – August 09, 2024 11:27 am IST
Published – August 09, 2024 10:50 am IST – Bengaluru
Dalit activist, poet and playwright Kotiganahalli Ramaiah will be honoured with the lifetime achievement award for the year 2024-25. | Photo courtesy: Special arrangement
The Karnataka Nataka Akademi announced the list of awardees for the years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 on August 8. A total of 93 awards have been announced under lifetime achievement awards, annual awards and five other categories.
Theatre and film actor Umashree has been selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2022-23, poet and playwright HS Shivaprakash for 2023-24 and Dalit activist, poet and playwright Kotiganahalli Ramaiah for 2024-25.
The awards have been announced following a controversy during the previous BJP government in 2020. The Academy had cancelled the list of award winners announced in 2019 and released a new list, in which former Congress minister and actor Umashree was denied the award at that time.
