Will return awards, says family of Anubhava Mantapa painting artist

UPSET with the failure to unveil the portrait of Anubhava Mantapa painted by his father J. S. Khanderao, who is a noted artist and recipient of Nadoja Award and Varna Shilpi Venkatappa Award, in the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, the artist's family is planning to return the awards to the government.

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Senior architect Basavaraj Khanderao, who is the son of J. S. Khanderao, addressed a press conference along with other senior artists here on Wednesday and said that his father had put all his efforts for two years to make a portrait of the Anubhava Mantapa with oil paint and it was ready in the year 2019. He toured many places and interacted with religious heads and historians before giving the final touches to the painting, Basavaraj said. The masterpiece of his father was to get a place in the Parliament if everything went as per the plan, but this could not happen. Now the govern