L. Hanumanthaiah

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{{Short description|Indian politician and Poet}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = L. Hanumanthaiah
| office = Member of [[Karnataka Legislative Council]]
| term_start =
| predecessor = [[Basavaraj Patil Sedam]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| party = [[File:Hand INC.svg|25px]][[Indian National Congress]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|6|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rameshwar,<br/>[[Doddaballapura]]
| profession = Writer, Agriculturist
| term1 = 2001 - 2007
| term2 = 3 April 2018
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha]]
| spouse = Shrimati Vijayambaike H.
| alma_mater = Bangalore University and Mysore University
| education = B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.
| children = One son and one daughter
| parents = Lankappa (father) Shrimati Channamma (mother)
| office3 = Member, Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture
| term3 = June 2018 - May 2019
| office4 = Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
| term4 = June 2018 - May 2019 and
Oct. 2019 onwards
| office5 = Member, Committee on Health and Family Welfare
| term5 = Sept. 2019 onwards
| office6 = Member, Governing Body of the Indian Council of Medical Research
| term6 = March 2020 onwards
| office7 = Member, Committee on Petitions
| term7 = July 2020 onwards
| office8 = Member, General Purposes Committee
| term8 = Aug. 2020 onwards
| office9 = Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
| term9 = Sept. 2020 - April 2021
| image =
| native_name = ಎಲ್. ಹನುಮಂತಯ್ಯ
| website = https://www.drlhanumanthaiah.info/
| awards = 1. Visweswaraiah Puraskar (1988) 2. Saranga Mutt Prize for Poetry (1995) 3. Sahithya Parishat Endowment Prize for Poetry (1995) 4. Ambedkar Award from Attimabbe Trust for social and literary (1999) 5. Naadachetana Award (2000) 6. Katharangam Award (2001) 7. Sahitya Parishat Endowment Prize for Poetry (2001) 8. Ambedkar Award of Govt. of Karnataka (2001) 9. Sahithya Academy Award for best book of the year (2008) 10. Sahithya Academy Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature (2015) 11. Kuvempu Award for Literature and Social Work (2015)
}}

'''Lankappa Hanumanthaiah''' is an Indian [[Dalit]] poet, [[India|Indian]] politician, of [[Indian National Congress]] and a Member of the upper house of the [[Parliament of India|Indian Parliament]], the [[Rajya Sabha]], from the state of [[Karnataka]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/karnataka-rajya-sabha-elections-2018-results-congress-wins-3-bjp-gets-1/1109304/|title=Karnataka Rajya Sabha Elections 2018 Results: Congress wins 3, BJP gets 1|date=23 March 2018|publisher=}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Dr. L. Hanumanthaiah{{!}} National Portal of India|url=https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/indian-parliament/dr-l-hanumanthaiah|access-date=2021-11-02|website=www.india.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-25|title=Karnataka MP L Hanumanthaiah in Rajya Sabha panel of Vice-Chairmen|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/karnataka-mp-l-hanumanthaiah-in-rajya-sabha-panel-of-vice-chairmen-865580.html|access-date=2021-11-02|website=Deccan Herald|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-05|title='Dr. Jagjivan Ram was a frontline Dalit leader in freedom movement'|url=https://starofmysore.com/dr-jagjivan-ram-was-a-frontline-dalit-leader-in-freedom-movement/|access-date=2021-11-02|website=Star of Mysore|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Hanumanthaiah L|url=http://www.kla.kar.nic.in/council/members/EXMEMBERS/HanumanthaiahL.htm|access-date=2021-11-02|website=www.kla.kar.nic.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Akademi|first=Sahitya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtGCq3aO9woC&q=L.+Hanumanthaiah|title=General Information as on ...|date=2008|publisher=The Akademi|language=en}}</ref>

== Early life and background ==
Lankappa Hanumanthaiah was born to Lankappa and Shrimati Channamma on 10 June 1958.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Error Page|url=https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/member_site/ErrorPage.aspx|access-date=2021-11-02|website=rajyasabha.nic.in}}</ref>

Hanumanthaiah studied at Government Science College, [[Bangalore]], Post Graduate Studies in Kannada Literature at [[Bangalore University]] and Ph.D. from [[University of Mysore|Mysore University]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />

== Books Published ==

=== Poetry<ref name=":0" /> ===

# Kappu Kannina Hudugi (Black-eyed Girl), 1990
# Avva (Mother), 1995
# Avvana Kavithe (Mother's Poem), (the poems have been translated and published in Bengali, Gujarati, English, Malayalam and Tamil languages),
# Akshara Aksharave (Oh' Letters! My Letters!), 2001
# Karna Raaga (Karna's Agony), 2008
# Harigolu (Hudder), 2012
#ಕಳ್ಳಿ ಹಾಲಿನ ಕಡಲು : Kalli Halina Kadalu - Published on 17 August 2020<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hanumanthaiah|first=ಡಾ ಎಲ್ ಹನುಮಂತಯ್ಯ, Dr L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xu73DwAAQBAJ&q=L.+Hanumanthaiah|title=ಕಳ್ಳಿ ಹಾಲಿನ ಕಡಲು Kalli Halina Kadalu: Kannada Poetry|date=2020-08-17|publisher=Chaarumathi prakashana|language=en}}</ref>
#ಒಂಟಿ ಕಾಲಿನ ನಡಿಗೆ : Onti Kalina Nadige - Published on 3 September 2020<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hanumanthaiah|first=ಡಾ ಎಲ್ ಹನುಮಂತಯ್ಯ : Dr L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uuj6DwAAQBAJ&q=L.+Hanumanthaiah|title=ಒಂಟಿ ಕಾಲಿನ ನಡಿಗೆ : Onti Kalina Nadige|date=2020-09-03|publisher=Chaarumathi prakashana|language=en}}</ref>

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

=== Research Thesis<ref name=":0" /> ===

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

=== Edited Works<ref name=":0" /> ===

# Ambedkar Kavithegalu (An Anthology of Poems on Dr. Ambedkar) for Karnataka Sahitya Academy
# Dalitha Kathegalu (An Anthology of Dalit Short Stories) for Karnataka Sahitya Academy
# Kelavargada Vachanakaararu (Saint poets from the lower strata of the society of 12th century Karnataka)
# 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

== Position held ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Description
|-
|1995 - 1996
|Member, Kannada Development Authority, Government of Karnataka
|-
|1996 - 1998
|Member, State Executive Committee, Kannada Sahitya Parishat
|-
|1998
|Jury Member, Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award
|-
|1998
|Member, Kannada Book Authority
|-
|1999 - 2000
|Member, Ambedkar Annual Award Committee, Government of Karnataka
|-
|2000
|Member, Script Approval Committee, Doordarshan Kendra, Bangalore
|-
|2001 - 2007
|Member, Karnataka Legislative Council
|-
|2002 - 2005
|Member, Academic Council, Bangalore University
|-
|2003 - 2007
|Member, Kannada Advisory Board, Central Sahitya Academy, New Delhi
|-
|2004
|Member, Kannada Advisory Board, National Book Trust, New Delhi
|-
|2015 - 2017
|Chairman, Kannada Development Authority
|-
|June 2018 - May 2019
|Member, Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture
|-
|June 2018 - May 2019 and
Oct. 2019 onwards
|Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
|-
|Sept. 2019 onwards
|Member, Committee on Health and Family Welfare
|-
|March 2020 onwards
|Member, Governing Body of the Indian Council of Medical Research
|-
|July 2020
|Nominated to the Panel of Vice-Chairmen, Rajya Sabha
|-
|July 2020 onwards
|Member, Committee on Petitions
|-
|Aug. 2020 onwards
|Member, General Purposes Committee
|-
|Sept. 2020 - April 2021
|Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
|}

== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EusRj_IH6Ms Interview with L. Hanumanthaiah] on [[Religion in India|religion]] and [[Indian poetry|poetry]] in India by [[Sahapedia]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka]]
[[Category:1958 births]]

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