Samatala (Chikkamagaluru District) KARNATAKA :
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Chikkamagaluru, Senior litterateur of the district, Rahmat Tarikere, has been awarded the 2025 Rajyotsava Award. Born in 1959 in Samatala, Chikkamagaluru district, Rahmat Tarikere did his primary education in Samatala, Tarikere, Shivamogga, and Mysore.
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Kannada Prabha News, Chikkamagaluru
Senior writer of the district, Rahmat Tarikere, has been awarded the 2025 Rajyotsava Award.
Born in 1959 in Samatala, Chikkamagaluru district, Rahmat Tarikere completed his primary education in Samatala and later studied in Tarikere, Shivamogga, and Mysore.He secured first position in BA and received the Teenamsree Gold Medal, M.A. First rank and 7 gold medals. He pursued a teaching career and worked at Sahyadri and DVS College in Shivamogga, and Kannada Universities in Hampi from around 1984 to 2021.
He also served as a visiting professor at Stanford University, California (2023); and the University of Mysore. He has published several publications including Counterculture, The Path of the Sword, The Bloody Sutaka, Doormat, and Thought Path.
He has written research works on literary criticism, metaphysics, and cultural studies such as Karnataka Sufis, Karnataka Nath Panth, Karnataka Shakta Panth, Karnataka Moharram, Rajdharma, and Karnataka Guru Panth.
Apart from this, Rehmat Tarikere, who is a skilled craftsman in many genres such as Anuva and travelogue, has written Marudhogna Kicchu, Dharmaparikshe, Bahutva Karnataka (Thoughts); Andaman Dream, Kadali Hokku Bande, Jerusalem (Travelogue); Kadatsattu Nadu, Sanasangati, Hasuhokku (Column); With the Worldly Opponents, With the Law-abiding (Interview); Hitalajagattu (Essay); Furnace (Autobiography); Amirbai Karnataka (Biography): Colonial Consciousness and Liberation (Googi Thiango’s ”
For his literary cultivation, from Karnataka Sahitya Akademi, Kendra Sahitya Akademi (2010), GS Shivrudrappa, Hama Nayaka, P. Lankesh, Vasudeva Bhupalam, Sunithishetti, Veechikkaweeraiah, SG Sannaguddaiah, Kukke Subrahmanyashastri, Pradeep, Sandesh, Patil Puttappa, Prof. Karimuddin Memorial Awards.
He has created excellent works of travel in many places. Among them, his travels to Palestine, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Germany, Croatia, Estonia, Netherlands, Italy, Bhutan, Nepal, America, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are notable.
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I am very happy to have received the award. This award came with the cooperation of everyone, and this honor goes to Tarikere – Rahmat Tarikere
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source: http://www.kannadaprabha.in / Kannada Prabha / Home> Karnataka News / by Kannada Prabha News Network / October 31st, 2025