Kanakadasa Jayanthi
In tribute to the great saint, the Government of Karnataka has declared December 1 a state holiday. All the government offices, schools and colleges around the state celebrate the birth anniversary of Shri Kanaka Dasa.Famous Singers Like Puttur Narasimha Nayak and Vidyabhushana were popularising the songs of kanakadasa in modern age
Kannada's veteran actor Dr Rajkumar enacted as KankaDasa in the movie Bhakta Kanakadasa and the movie was a superhit
Film director and playwright Girish Karnad made a documentary film titled, Kanaka-Purandara (English, 1988) on the two medieval Bhakti poets of Karnataka.
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