<p class="title">Ibrahim Sutar, known as Kannada Kabir, 77, is known for spreading social and communal harmony through his songs and bajanas for the last 40 years in Karnataka and neighbouring states.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Born at Mahalingapura in Mudhol taluk in Bagalkot district in 1940 in a poor family, Sutar set up Harmony Folk Music Mela (team of artists) in 1970.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He used funds collected at his performances and organised social welfare programmes including yoga sessions, set up water tanks in villages and built class rooms to government schools.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A weaver by profession, Sutar studied till Class 3. Sutar and his team members staged performances singing devotional songs in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Goa, Odisha and Rajasthan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He is popular among masses in North Karnataka region for his spiritual discourses. He is married to Marembi and has three children.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The famous midwife from Tumakuru district Sulagatti Narasamma, 97, started performing traditional deliveries when she just a 16-year-old girl.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A a resident of Krishnapura village of Pavagada taluk, Narasamma, has performed over 1,500 deliveries over the last 70 years, without failed evence once.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An illiterate Narasamma learnt midwifery from her grandmother Marigamma. She was married to Anjinappa, at the age of 12.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She performed traditional deliveries not only Karnataka, but also in neighbrouing Andhra Pradesh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She also provides neonatal care for about nine days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 2013 she was chosen for a national award recognising her contribution to the women's health by performing out such a large number of deliveries among poor families in remote rural areas.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Such is her popularity that there are instances when people from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh have taken her to their villages for deliveries.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She is a recipient of Rajyotsava award. Tumkur university has conferred an honorary doctorate degree on her. A lesson on her life has been prescribed in Class 9th text book.</p>
<p class="title">Ibrahim Sutar, known as Kannada Kabir, 77, is known for spreading social and communal harmony through his songs and bajanas for the last 40 years in Karnataka and neighbouring states.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Born at Mahalingapura in Mudhol taluk in Bagalkot district in 1940 in a poor family, Sutar set up Harmony Folk Music Mela (team of artists) in 1970.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He used funds collected at his performances and organised social welfare programmes including yoga sessions, set up water tanks in villages and built class rooms to government schools.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A weaver by profession, Sutar studied till Class 3. Sutar and his team members staged performances singing devotional songs in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Goa, Odisha and Rajasthan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He is popular among masses in North Karnataka region for his spiritual discourses. He is married to Marembi and has three children.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The famous midwife from Tumakuru district Sulagatti Narasamma, 97, started performing traditional deliveries when she just a 16-year-old girl.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A a resident of Krishnapura village of Pavagada taluk, Narasamma, has performed over 1,500 deliveries over the last 70 years, without failed evence once.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An illiterate Narasamma learnt midwifery from her grandmother Marigamma. She was married to Anjinappa, at the age of 12.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She performed traditional deliveries not only Karnataka, but also in neighbrouing Andhra Pradesh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She also provides neonatal care for about nine days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 2013 she was chosen for a national award recognising her contribution to the women's health by performing out such a large number of deliveries among poor families in remote rural areas.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Such is her popularity that there are instances when people from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh have taken her to their villages for deliveries.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She is a recipient of Rajyotsava award. Tumkur university has conferred an honorary doctorate degree on her. A lesson on her life has been prescribed in Class 9th text book.</p>