How to Pronounce D. R. Bendre
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Jan 31, 1896 Died on 21 Oct 1981 (aged 85)
Kannada poet
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About D. R. Bendre
- Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (31 January 1896 – 26 October 1981), popularly known as Da.
- Ra.
- Bendre, was a Kannada poet of the Navodaya Period.
- He was given the honorific Varakavi ('the gifted poet-seer').
- Bendre was awarded the Jnanapita for his 1964 poetry collection, ???? ???? (Naaku Tanti).
- Bendre published most of his work as ????????????? (Ambikatanayadatta; lit.
- Datta, son of Ambika).
- Often mistaken for a pseudonym in the Western sense, Bendre described Ambikatanayadatta as the "universal inner voice" within him that dictated what he (Bendre) then presented in Kannada to the world.
- He was recognized as the Karnataka Kavi Kula Thilaka ("The crown-jewel among Kannada Poets") by the Udupi Adamuru Matha.
- He was also awarded the Padma Shri in 1968 and made a fellow of the Sahitya Akademi in 1969.
