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Janaki M Brahmavar

The 7th and first women president for Tulu Sahitya academy since its inception in 1994-95.

Born in Murukudru of Udupi District. Worked as Lecturer at st.Mary Syrian pre univeristy college,Brahmvar, retiring from service in 2008.

She has authored 2 tulu plays, Amar Baideri and tulunadu bollilu, both has been converted as stage play by troupes sumanasa kodavuru and karavali kalavider

Janaki brahmavar has also translated Tulu Novel to English which is titled "Islet’s screw pine".Her renowed works also includes transalation of Kuvempu's work "Raktakshi" into Tulu. Her Tulu novel, Kuduruda Kedage, has been translated into English by Siddalinga Pattana Shetty. This novel has been transformed into a Tulu play with the title, Court Martial. Ms. Janaki has translated the Kannada version of Court Martial play to Tulu.

Janaki is a member of Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy.She has received several honours, including Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy honour and Paniyadi Tulu Kadambari Prashasti. She has been choosed to receive annual vishukumar award 2016.

She also initiated several activities in the language propagation

M Janaki Brahmavar being president of Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy has favoured to move to opening Tulu associations in schools and colleges.

She also initiated publishing etymological dictionary that connect major South Indian languages.The dictionary will have meaning of Tulu words in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Kodava, Beary and Sali languages.

Tulu academy to publish book on history of Barakuru.

Tulu language will be the third subject in schools in the coastal area after trying from three years, Puttur center has implement it.".

She said that once the university offered these courses it would create human resource (teachers) to teach Tulu in schools which has been introduced as the third optional language.

Ms. Brahmavar said that the academy was making documentaries on 15 Tulu personalities through outsourcing. Each of them was of 25 minutes duration.

It published 19 works during 2014-15, she added.