ENARADA, Mysore, October 10, 2013:
Well known writer and former Karnnada Sahtiya Parishat president Chandrasekhar Patil today came down heavily on the religious leader’s adda pallaki utsav (religious leader sitting in a palanquin which will be carried by their disciples on their shoulders) in the state.
Inaugurating the kavi sammelana (Poet’s Conference) as part of the dasara festivites here he said the religious leader’s adda pallakki utsav is a social evil. “While the scion of Mysore royal family have stopped travelling on elephants, a tradition during dasara jamboo savari, some religious leaders still want to sit on pallaki,” he said sarcastically.
He expressed his happiness about the continuation of the literacy tradition in Mysore dasara festivites and people of the state has great respect towards literary personalities and abide to the stand taken by intellectuals with regard to socially relevant issues.
The Karnataka has been a good number of creative poets with their good works. He also recited poems on the occasion.
However, the response was very poor in terms of crowd to the event. MLA Vasu presided over the function.
