Stories tagged “Dakshina Kannada”

Corrine Rasquinha, founder-president of White Doves in Mangaluru, turned a musician's fundraising idea into a home for destitute and mentally ill people, a children's home and a street-feeding routine. She is among the 2025 Karnataka Rajyotsava Award winners in social work.

At 83, K. Narayana Naik still leaves home at 8 am on an old Honda Dream motorbike, visiting schools across Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. Over 21 years of retirement, he has helped more than a lakh students secure scholarships worth roughly Rs 5 crore — a mission rooted in his own father once trying to pull him out of school after class 5.

Prabhakar Kamath — Mangaluru's beloved 'Pabba Maam' — taught himself to make ice cream at home and opened Ideal's first parlour on 1 May 1975 with 14 flavours. A story of quiet enterprise, coastal pride, and lasting sweetness.

Harekala Hajabba — Mangaluru's orange-selling 'Akshara Santa' — built a government school from scratch using daily earnings of Rs 60–150. A story of humility, grit, and Padma Shri glory.

Long before social justice became a national conversation, Kudmul Ranga Rao dedicated his life to uplifting the oppressed communities of Dakshina Kannada through education, dignity and reform. Known as the “Poor Man’s Lawyer,” he challenged caste discrimination and laid the foundation for one of coastal Karnataka’s earliest social reform movements.