mangaluru just like science there is truth in cultural life too by overcoming the corruption among artists and audiences we should protect the sanctity and truth of culture and art forms said m mohan alva chairman alvas education foundation moodbidrihe was addressing the gathering after releasing the cultural policy of mangalore university mu on the occasion of the dr p dayananda pai and sathish pai yakshagana centre decennial awards and yakshamangala award ceremony held at the mangalagangothri campus konaje on saturdayhe said having sports and cultural policies is the pride of mangalore university these two are like the eyes of the organisation he said sri sachchidananda bharathi swamiji of edneer mutt said that as long as educational institutions support art and culture it can be passed on to the next generation mu which has formulated a cultural policy can be a model for other institutionsin his presidential address mu vicechancellor p subrahmanya yadapadithaya said that the yakshagana centre is imparting academic discipline to yakshagana and conveying the message that yakshagana is ever relevant the new national education policy stresses on comprehensive education for a student the cultural policy will help to achieve this he saidretired english professor and a member of the cultural policy formulation committee ravi shankar said that the policy is inspired by the achievements of individuals and institutionsawards conferredsenior yakshagana artistes puttige raghurama holla dinesh ammannaya subrahmanya dhareshwar kuriya ganapathy bhat padyana shankaranarayan bhat harinarayana baipadithaya aruva koragappa shetty shivaram jogi kumble sridhara rao argodu mohan das shenoy petri madhava naika balkooru krishna yaji mukhyaprana kinnigoli ubaradka umesh shetty pookala lakshminarayan bhat uppangala shankaranarayan bhat and chandrashekhara damle received the decennial awards senior artistes pundarikaksha upadhyay and dayananda nagooru received the yakshamangala award for the year 202122 d sadashiva bhatta won the yakshamangala kriti award for his shrikrishna charita yakshagana epic yakshagana performance mahishavadhe was performed by the senior artists of the yakshamangala troupedirector of yakshagana study centre sripati kalluraya said that in the last 13 years about 13 books have been printed and more than 100 promotional lectures have been carried outfoundation stone laiddr m mohan alva laid the foundation stone for the yakshagana stage in addition guests released two books yakshahasya and shediguppe vasudeva bhattas lavanya lakshmi mantharopakhyana