Kuvempu College will likely be organizing a seminar on ‘Bhagavadgeeta and Prevention of Crime’, in affiliation with Swarnarashmi Belief of Shivamogga and Bhagavadgeeta Abhiyana Samiti of Shivamogga district at Shankar Ghatta on November 18.
Sonda Swarnavalli Mutt seer Gangadharendra Saraswati Swamy will ship the keynote deal with on the difficulty.
Retired choose of Karnataka Excessive Courtroom H. Billappa will inaugurate the seminar. The college Vice-Chancellor Sharath Ananthamurthy will preside over the programme. DS Arun, MLC, advocate and dealing president of Bhagavadgeeta Abhiyana Samiti Ashok G. Bhat will participate within the inaugural ceremony.
Psychiatrist KR Sridhar of Shivamogga, police officer Ramakrishna Muddepal, advocate Vikram Phadke, scholar Ramachandra Kotemane will ship talks on the event.
The group of the seminar on Kuvempu College campus has attracted criticism from many individuals.
Harshakumar Kugwe, a journalist and activist, posted an open letter to the Vice-Chancellor, elevating objection to permitting the seminar with a selected political and cultural agenda on the campus. He additionally raised questions on folks collaborating within the seminar to ship lectures. Senior author and scholar G. Ramakrishna, senior journalist Lakshman Kodase, and others supported Mr. Kugwe’s view on the difficulty.
The Vice-Chancellor, replying to the argument, opined that there was nothing fallacious in precept with a dialogue on the subject. Nonetheless, the dialogue mustn’t change into non secular propaganda. “A college ought to present house for all types of discussions, however a vital method ought to by no means be deserted,” he acknowledged.
Printed – November 16, 2025 07:05 pm IST