Mysore/Mysuru : ‘Kannada Nadageethe,’ scripted by Poet Laureate Kuvempu , rented the air at Open Air Theatre in Manasagangothri campus this morning, as nearly 25,000 college students and staff from various Departments sang ‘Nadageethe’ (Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujathe, Jayahe Karnataka Mathe…) in chorus in celebration of ‘Nadageethe-100 — Savira Swaragala Sambhrama.’

The event was organised by University of Mysore, in association with Dasara Kavigoshti Sub-Committee, in honour of Rashtrakavi Kuvempu, who had served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Varsity decades ago. Kuvempu had written Nadageethe in 1924 as a 20-year-old youth, under his then pen name ‘Kishora Chandravani.’ This was endorsed by Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Bengaluru, in 1971 and officially adopted as State Anthem (of two

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