bengaluru bhagyalakshmi had no option to oblige her parents when asked her to get married immediately after her masters in sociology however she did not let her dream pursuing art die down easily year after marriage she wielded the paint brush again and now is a winner of many awards as a girl child my parent s priority was to get me married while painting was a hobby it was never something that i could with passion or do full a year after marriage the creative urge focus more on art became so intense that i took a call husband who believed that i had the talent encouraged me to go for classes paint learn the techniques types of art said bhagyalakshmi 36bhagyalakshmi was of the recipients of the state handicrafts award which were on thriving craftworks on during the golden jubilee celebrations of the state handicrafts development at ravindra kalakshetra on thursday sarojini n yeresheemi 47 who was software engineer in the us decided to veer off the beaten path she in love with art especially the tradition of hase chittara wall paintingspainting my since childhood i did be computer and mba and worked in the us for 16 years some friends and family seeing the did encouraged me to part in competitions and that s how it began when i got a fellowship from the culture to research on folk arts could be preserved for future generations i decided quit the corporate she winning laurels other awardees include arun narayan shetty vipin bhadauria n manjunath manohar p badiger b shivakumar mk shantha p kamalpurkar s manohar sarojini n b raghunathan ms ravikumar shafi asha bilagi abdul maruthi and bharathi dattatreya