Keremane Shivananda Hegde 0 login to like
Keremane Shivarama Hegde is is the founder of the troupe, Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali[1] which has given performances all over India and abroad. He is the first Yakshagana artist to receive the Rashtrapati Award (President's Award). He was given the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1970.
He was born in a remote place called "Keremane" of Gunavante, in the
Honnavar Taluk of Uttara Kannada District. Owing to the difficult times
he fully embraced the art, grew with it and helped to flourish.
In 1934,though there was severe financial crisis in his family, he
founded “Sri Idagunji Mahaganapati Yakshagana Mandali Keremane” out of
the money that he had saved from doing other works. The Troupe was named
after the family deity Lord Ganapati of Idagunji in whom he had a
strong devotion. His passion towards the art and the establishment of a
troupe of like minded people contributed a lot to the development of
Yakshagana.
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