![]() A scene from Mahachaitra by H. S. Shiva Prakash, Indian Theatre Personality, Out of his fourteen plays, Mahachaitra staged in 1985 and Manteswami Kathaprasanga or Manteswami's Scripted Story' in 1989 are important. In the first he boldly reassesses the complexities of the twelfth-century Kannada Bhakti movement and the life of its leader, Basaveswara. It became highly controversial, as the religious establishment perceived it a threat. They think it misrepresented Basaveswara's character. The text was withdrawn from university syllabi. Manteswami Kathaprasanga discusses the life and achievements of the folk saint belonging to the oppressed classes, and has seen more than 125 performances all over India. ![]() Poetry * Milarepa * Malebidda Neladalli * Anukshana Charite * Suryajala * Maleye Mantapa * Matte Matte * Mabbina Haage Kanive Haasi * Maruroopagalu (Kannada translation of poems from various languages) * Nanna Mainagara (Kannada translation of the Malayalam poems of K. Satchidanandan) * Navilu Nagara (songs from his plays) Plays * Mahachaitra * Sultan Tipu * Shakespeare Swapnanauke * Manteswamy Kathaprasanga * Madari Madayya * Madurekanda * Madhavi * Matrika * Makarachandra * Sati * Cassandra * Maduve Hennu * King Lear (Kannada translation of Shakespeare's play) * Maranayakana Drishtanta (Kannada adaptation of Macbeth) * Mallammana Mane Hotlu (Kannada adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife) Others * Sahitya mattu Rangabhoomi (a treatise on literature and theatre) * Modala Kattina Gadya (a collection of essays) * Yuganta (Kannada translation of Irawati Karve's book of the same name) * Batteesa Raaga (Spiritual autobiography) * Incredible India: Traditional Theatres Awards and Honours of H. S. Shiva Prakash * Four Kannada Sahitya Akademi awards * Sangeet Natak Akademi award for 1997 * Satyakama award for 2003 * Ministry of Human Resource Development fellowship for Kannada literature * Honorary Fellow of the School of Letters, University of Iowa, since 2000 * Karnataka Rajyotsava Prashasti, 2006 |