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20 august 1995 bangalore v. k. gokak , r. s. mugali ranebennur , haveri district , karnataka su ra ekkundi mangesh v. nadkarni , sundar nadkarni #b 0c4de sahitya soviet land award . akademi award , nation award for teachers , india 20 january 1923 kannada poetry s. r. ekkundi
 s. r. ekkundi poet and teacher
s. r. ekkundi

subbanna r. ekkundi -lrb- 1923 -- 1995 -rrb- was a recipient of sahitya akademi award , nation award for teacher and soviet land award .
ekkundi was born in ranebennur of haveri district in the year 1923 .
his father was rangacharya and mother was rajakka .
he was a student of literature at willingdon college , sangli .
at willingdon , v. k. gokak and r. s. mugali were ekkundi 's professors .
ekkundi and gangadhar v. chittal from hanehalli were classmates at willingdon .
after graduating with b.a. -lrb- hons . -rrb-
literature in the year 1944 , subbanna ekkundi joined the anandashram high school , bankikodla as a teacher and retired as head master of that institute in 1977 .
ekkundi was married to indira ekkundi from haveri .
in 1992 , ekkundi was given the sahitya akademi award for his outstanding poetical work `` bakulada hoovugalu '' in kannada .
his poem `` ladhak irali nepa irali '' which was written during the second indo-china war was well received .
his political sympathies were with the communist party .
after his retirement , he was given a national award for teaching .
he was the author of many works of poetry and short stories .
his work is described by an entry in the encyclopaedia of indian literature besides politics , his poetry deals primarily with traditional indian mythological and religious themes .
his `` ubhaya bharati , '' concerns the famous debate between the hindu philosophers adi shankara and mandana mishra .
in 1970 , ekkundi was given award from the land of the soviets .
kannada university at hampi conferred a ph.d. degree to a student on a thesis entitled `` s. r. ekkundi ... '' .
a collection of his poems was released in the year 2008 in a book titled `` bellaki hindu '' .
