Background
Adiga was born in the coastal village of Mogeri, Udupi district, in state of Karnataka.
Adiga was born in the coastal village of Mogeri, Udupi district, in state of Karnataka.
After completing his primary education in Mogeri and Baindooru, he attended high school in Kundapur, 14 miles away from his village. After several minor jobs in Karnataka, Adiga worked at Sarada Vilas College in Mysore as lecturer in English from 1948 to 1952, during which time he completed a master’s degree from Nagpur University.
He is known as the "pioneer of New style" poetry. Thus, Adiga went to Mysore and earned his Bachelor (Honours) in English from Maharaja"s College, Mysore, University of Mysore. He also served at Saint Philomena College in Mysore for ten years.
In the mid 1960s, he became Principal at the newly created Lal Bahadur Shashtri College in Sagara, and later at Poorna Prajna College in Udupi.
As editor of Saakshi magazine he helped bring Kannada literature to the masses. Adiga"s wife, Lalita, currently lives in Bangalore.
"ಇರುವುದೆಲ್ಲವ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಇರದುದರೆಡೆಗೆ ತುಡಿವುದೆ ಜೀವನ" (Iruvudellava bittu iradudaredege tudivude jeevana)
Life is leaving everything we have and craving for things which we do not have. ಮೌನ ತಬ್ಬಿತು ನೆಲವ" (mouna tabbitu nelava).
Quotations:
"ಇರುವುದೆಲ್ಲವ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಇರದುದರೆಡೆಗೆ ತುಡಿವುದೆ ಜೀವನ" (Iruvudellava bittu iradudaredege tudivude jeevana)
Life is leaving everything we have and craving for things which we do not have.
ಮೌನ ತಬ್ಬಿತು ನೆಲವ" (mouna tabbitu nelava).