Shatavadhani Ganesh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shatavadhani Ganesh

Indian writer

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1962

Place of Birth: Kolar district, Karnataka, India

Profession: writer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Shatavadhani R.
Ganesh (born 4 December 1962) is a practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Sanskrit and Kannada and an extempore poet in multiple languages.
He has performed more than 1000 avadhanas, in Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu and Prakrit.
He is known for extempore composition of poetry (asukavita) during these performances, and even of chitrakavya.
He is the only Satavadhani from Karnataka.
He once set a record by composing poetry for twenty-four hours continuously.
From 30 November 2012 to 2 December 2012, he performed the first ever Shatavadhana entirely in Kannada.
On 16 February 2014, in Bangalore, he performed his 1000th avadhana.