{"id":87,"date":"2018-04-11T09:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T09:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=87"},"modified":"2021-02-11T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T14:58:50","slug":"bachamada-%e1%b8%8devaiah-ga%e1%b9%87apati-writer-scholar-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/bachamada-%e1%b8%8devaiah-ga%e1%b9%87apati-writer-scholar-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachamada \u1e0cevaiah Ga\u1e47apati Writer, Scholar &#038; Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bachamada \u1e0cevaiah Ga\u1e47apati was born in Besagoor village in Coorg in 1920, he was a <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/authors\/\">noted writer<\/a>, scholar, and <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/journalist-kodavas\/\">journalist<\/a> writing in English,&nbsp;Kannada&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kodava Takk, covering religion, anthropology and philosophy. He is noted for his coverage of the&nbsp;Kodagu and the&nbsp;Kodava&nbsp;ethnolinguistic group,&nbsp;He was a journalist for a newspaper in&nbsp;Karnataka&nbsp;state and author of several books on Kodavas and other subjects.<\/p>\n<h2>Career<\/h2>\n<p>During the Indian Independence Movement, he was the sub-editor of the&nbsp;Kodagu, a pro-Independence weekly Kannada newspaper founded by his father-in-law, in 1942 the British India authorities restricted the publication of the&nbsp;Kodagu&nbsp;weekly and had B. D. Ganapathy imprisoned along with his father-in-law.<\/p>\n<h2>Notable Works<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ganapathy&#8217;s most noted works are his 1967&nbsp;Kodavas, their customs and culture&nbsp;published by the Kodagu Ltd. also called the Coorg Company, which owned the&nbsp;Kodagu&nbsp;weekly.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;The Eternal Quest&nbsp;(1970),<\/li>\n<li>Na\u1e45ga Ko\u1e0dava&nbsp;(1973 in Kodava takk),<\/li>\n<li>Kodavas&nbsp;(1980) and<\/li>\n<li>Kanni <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/river-kaveri\/\">Kaveri<\/a>&nbsp;(1990 in Kodava Takk).<\/li>\n<li>Among his works two books are in the Kodava Language:&nbsp;Nanga Kodava&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kuttambolicha.<\/li>\n<li>His Kannada book on Kodava culture&nbsp;Kodagu Mattu Kodavaru&nbsp;has won him the State Academy Award.<\/li>\n<li>He wrote 11 works in 16 publications and in three languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Awards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He won the State Academy Award for a book on&nbsp;Kodava culture&nbsp;Kodagu Mattu Kodava.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recently, efforts are being made to foster Kodava literature and for the same purpose, the Kodava Thak Parishat was established in 1978. The first conference was presided over by B. D. Ganapathi.&nbsp;A book has been written about him in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bachamada \u1e0cevaiah Ga\u1e47apati was born in Besagoor village in Coorg in 1920, he was a noted writer, scholar, and journalist writing in English,&nbsp;Kannada&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kodava Takk, covering religion, anthropology and philosophy. 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