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Channappa Uttangi's Bust, At Last, Gets A Place!

Bengaluru: Reverend Channappa Uttangi is a well-known name and personality to all those interested in Kannada literature and more so with Sarvajna, renowned for his popular triplets in chaste Kannada. Interestingly, after much dilly-dallying for multiple years, his bust has at last found a venue to be unveiled. In a missionary school: According to Sudheendra S K, Head Master of the Sarvajna Sahiti Rev Channappa Uttangi Kannada Higher Primary School at Nirmalanagar in Dharwad, the bust will be most likely unveiled in the third or fourth week of coming August in the school premises. Bust sculpted by R Venkatachalapathy: The bust of Reverend Channappa Uttangi has been sculpted by the well-known sculptor R Venkatachalapathy based out of Bengaluru. He has also been the sculptor of the busts of Reverend Ferdinand Kittel, renowned for his Kannada to English Kittel Dictionary. Sudheendra S K informs-'R Venkatachalapathy is a very senior sculptor of the state and is an accomplished artist...