L. Hanumanthaiah

Lankappa Hanumanthaiah is an Indian poet, politician of the Indian National Congress and a member of the upper house of the Indian Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, from the state of Karnataka.

Early life and background
Lankappa Hanumanthaiah was born to Lankappa and Shrimati Channamma on 10 June 1958.

Hanumanthaiah studied at Government Science College, Bangalore, Post Graduate Studies in Kannada Literature at Bangalore University and Ph.D. from Mysore University.

Poetry

 * 1) Kappu Kannina Hudugi (Black-eyed Girl), 1990
 * 2) Avva (Mother), 1995
 * 3) Avvana Kavithe (Mother's Poem), (the poems have been translated and published in Bengali, Gujarati, English, Malayalam and Tamil languages),
 * 4) Akshara Aksharave (Oh' Letters! My Letters!), 2001
 * 5) Karna Raaga (Karna's Agony), 2008
 * 6) Harigolu (Hudder), 2012
 * 7) ಕಳ್ಳಿ ಹಾಲಿನ ಕಡಲು : Kalli Halina Kadalu - Published on 17 August 2020
 * 8) ಒಂಟಿ ಕಾಲಿನ ನಡಿಗೆ : Onti Kalina Nadige - Published on 3 September 2020


 * 1) Dalitha Lokada Olage (In the world of Dalits), 1989
 * 2) Ambedkar Mattu Samakaaleenathe (Ambedkar and Contemporary Times), 1993
 * 3) Kanakadasa (biography on saint poet of medieval Karnataka), 1995

Research thesis

 * 1) Katha Kathana (thesis on stories), 1999
 * 2) Ambedkar (a play), (the play has been staged at Bangalore, Bellary, Tumkur, Chitradurga and other parts of Karnataka), 1998; Autobiography - Ontikalina Nadige (walk in one leg)

Edited works

 * 1) Ambedkar Kavithegalu (An Anthology of Poems on Dr Ambedkar) for Karnataka Sahitya Academy
 * 2) Dalitha Kathegalu (An Anthology of Dalit Short Stories) for Karnataka Sahitya Academy
 * 3) Kelavargada Vachanakaararu (Saint poets from the lower strata of the society of 12th century Karnataka)
 * 4) Rangabhumi Antharanga: C.G.K. (a commemorative volume on a well-known theatre Director Sri C.G. Krishna Swamy) and (v) Suvarna Sanchaya ( An Anthology of Modern Kannada Poetry from the beginning of the 20th century) for Kannada Sahitya Parishad; Chairman, Committee for publishing Babu Jagjivan Ram’s works in Kannada