caption movement death_date death_place birth_place influences nationality debut_works birth_date period genre image article_title name occupation
kamat 's potpourri navodaya 9 december 1997 manipal , udupi district , karnataka kota india , udupi , kingdom of mysore , british m.k. gandhi indian bettada jeeva 10 october 1902 1902 -- 1997 fiction dance-drama , popular science , literature for children , shivaramakaranth.jpg k. shivaram karanth
 k. ತ -rrb- shivarama karantha -lrb- ಶ ವರ ಮ ಕ ರ novelist , film director , journalist , yakshagana researcher and artist , , educationist playwright , poet , naturalist , environmentalist
k. shivaram karanth

kota shivaram karanth -lrb- ಶ ವರ ಮ ಕ ರ ತ -rrb- -lrb- 10 october 1902 -- 9 december 1997 -rrb- was a kannada writer , social activist , environmentalist , yakshagana artist , film maker and thinker .
he was described as the `` rabindranath tagore of modern india , who has been one of the finest novelists-activists since independence '' by critic ramachandra guha .
he was the third writer to be decorated with the jnanpith award for kannada , the highest literary honor conferred in india .
