Mangaluru: Kanhaiya Kumar, Amarjeet Kaur among scholars to attend B V Kakkilaya birth centenary
The two-day event will be held on Aug 10-11
Mangaluru: The centenary birth anniversary celebrations of former MP and CPI leader BV Kakkilaya will be held at Bishop Jathanna Auditorim, Sahodaya in Balmatta here in Mangaluru on August 10 and 11, wherein Dr. Kanhaiya Kumar is also expected to address the event.
The two-day event will be inaugurated by Amarjeet Kaur at 10.am on August 10. Kaur will also address the inaugural event 'Indian Freedom Struggle and role of the movements of the working classes in nation building'.
Popular scholar and youth leader Dr. Kanhaiya Kumar who contested the Lok Sabha Election from Begusarai in Bihar will also attend the event on first day and will speak on ‘Indian Youth in Crossroads’. Kanhaiya’s address is scheduled to begin at 11.am, soon after Kaur’s inaugural address.
Kalale Parthasarathy and Dinesh Amin Mattu would also address the event later in the day on ‘National Democratic Revolution’ followed by Kanhaiya’s and Prof. Anand Teltumbde’s interaction with audience on ‘Struggles of Oppressed: Theory to Practice’. The first of the two-day event is scheduled to conclude with cultural programs by IPTA, Karnataka.
On the second day, Dr. Siddanagouda Patil will address the event on ‘BV Kakkilaya – From Malabar to Karnataka Assembly (In Kannada). Prof. Muzaffar Assadi, Shridhar Prabhu, PV Lokesh and Kagodu Thimmappa will participated address the event on ‘Land reforms in Karnataka – Past, Present and future’ (in Kannada).
Dr Siddana Gouda Patil would speak on BV Kakkilaya: from Malabar to Vidhana Soudha on August 11 at 10 am. Prof Muzafer Assadi, Shridhar Prabhu, PV Lokesh would participate in a session on Land Reforms in Karnataka, chaired by former minister Kagodu Thimmappa.
Another session on ‘Writings on Philosophy, History and Economics in Kannada’ (in Kannada) will be held under the chairmanship of Dr. G Ramakrishna. TS Venugopal, Dr. Vijay Poonchcha Thambanda, Kalale Parthasarathy will also address the event during the session.
Before the valedictory event at 7.pm on the second day, TM Krishna, Noor Zaheer will interact with the audience on ‘Reshaping Art, Beyond Caste and Gender’.
The two-day event will conclude with a vocal concert by Vidwan TM Krishna, Violin by Vidushi Akkarai Shubhalakhsmi and Mrindangam by Vidwan KU Jayachandra Rao.
The organisers have urged people to turn up in large numbers to make the event a grand success.
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8 cheetahs from Africa to arrive at MP's Kuno National Park on Saturday
Sheopur (MP) (PTI): Eight more cheetahs will be airlifted from Africa and brought to Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday morning, an official said on Friday.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav will release the big cats into enclosures readied at the park under the ongoing cheetah revival programme in India via intercontinental translocations, he added.
The batch from Botswana, comprising six females and two males, will fly to Gwalior between 9 pm and 10 pm on an Indian Air Force aircraft, Cheetah Project Director Uttam Sharma told PTI.
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From Gwalior, two IAF helicopters will transport the cheetahs to Kuno National Park, where they are expected to arrive between 9 am and 10 am on Saturday. The flight duration from Botswana to Gwalior will be around nine to 10 hours, he said.
This will be the third batch of cheetahs arriving from Africa, following earlier introductions from Namibia and South Africa, he added.
With this, the number of cheetahs in India will rise to 46.
Sharma said enclosures have been prepared at the park, where the cheetahs will remain in quarantine for about a month.
The park has five helipads to facilitate their safe landing, he added.
Like the last time, the IAF will assist the cheetah revival programme by bringing them from Africa, just as it did when transporting the cursorial animal from SA in February 2023, Sharma said.
Earlier, eight cheetahs were brought from Namibia to Gwalior on a private jet in September 2022, after which IAF helicopters transported them to the park, he said.
"The arrival of more cheetahs will strengthen India's cheetah revival programme. With the support of the central government, we aim to increase the population to 50 as soon as possible," Sharma said.
Three big cats were later relocated to Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary, while 35 remain at Kuno National Park, he said.
According to officials, endangered animals are not kept in a single habitat due to the risk of disease outbreaks that can wipe out their entire population at one go.
The cheetah, the world's fastest land animal, became extinct in India nearly seven decades ago.
Last year, India saw the birth of 12 cubs, though six, including three cubs, did not survive. This year, between February 7 and February 18, eight cubs were born in two litters.
In all, 39 cubs have been born at KNP since 2023, of which 27 have survived.
Namibia-born Jwala and Aasha, South Africa-born Gamini, Veera and Nirva, and India-born Mukhi have all produced litters at KNP, officials said.
Three cheetahs have been moved to Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary in Mandsaur district, while 35 remain at KNP, they added.
