A Hero Remembered: Songs and Tales of the Kadu Golla Community
Thu, 04 Sept
|Bengaluru
By Mohan Kumar N
Time & Location
04 Sept 2025, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Bengaluru, 262, Kamaraj Rd, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560042, India
About the event
How do you create a song of resistance for your community? And what is its tune?
Mohan Kumar N, a folk singer of the Kadu Golla community in Karnataka, embarked on a project that looked at the discrepancies in the documented history of the lives of the local ruler King Ranabhaire Gowda and Veera Tammanna of the Kadu Golla community, considered a ‘Veeragara’ or a local hero. The personal project takes oral narratives sung by various community singers and addresses how various social forces have impacted the nature and character of these narratives over time.
During the course of the project, Mohan reimagined these stories in the form of songs, forming a new literature that acts as resistance to contemporary authoritarian ideas. We invite you to join us and witness these songs.
The performance by Mohan will be followed by a conversation with Krishnamurthy TN, Senior Programme Officer, Arts Education, IFA.
Veera Tammanna…