Recipient of Vagdevi Award
2024 – Recipient of prestigious Vagdevi Award conferred by Akhila Bharatiya Sahitya Parishadh Karnataka (R)
President Of India Award
2018 – President Of India Award, Maharshi Badarayana Vyasa Samman, for original contribution to Classical Kannada language.
Karnataka Sahitya Academy best book award
2014- Book on the intellectual biography of Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy received the Karnataka Sahitya Akademy best book award for 2014.
W.H.Hanumantappa Endowment lecture on ‘Hind Swaraj’ of Mahatma Gandhi
2013-Has delivered W.H.Hanumantappa Endowment lecture on ‘Hind Swaraj’ of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Peace foundation, Kumara Park East, Bengaluru.
Rao Bahadur R Narasimhachar endowment Lecture at the Mythic Society
2011-Has given Rao Bahadur R Narasimhachar endowment Lecture at the Mythic Society Bangalore.
Chairperson for Karnataka Women University
2011- Chairperson for PG and UG Kannada & English program of study committee of Karnataka Women University Bijapur, Karnataka, India.
Member of book selection – Directorate of Education
2011-Member of book selection committee for primary and High schools, Directorate of Education, Govt of Karnataka, Bangalore.
Felicitation as a young research scholar
May 2009-Felicitation as a young research scholar from Mythic Society, Bangalore.
Academic committees
- 2021 – Pampa Award selection committee Chairman nominated by Government of Karnataka.
- 2021 – Selection committee member for best translation works from English to Kannada by Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Pradhikara (Kuvempu Institute for Translation Studies), Bengaluru.
- 2019 -Writing on Zen Buddhism is selected as a chapter for BBM 4 semester Kannada Text book, University of Mangalore, Karnataka.
- 2017 – Subject expert for the Board of Studies of the Department of Languages, Christ University, Bengaluru, 27 January 2017.
Academic Appointments
- 2018-2021 : Appointed by Indian Council for Cultural Relations as Director and First Secretary, Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre, Embassy of India, Hanoi, Republic of Vietnam. (between August 2018- July 2021).
- 2015 June to November: Worked in team of editors in preparing Pali-Kannada Dictionary for International Pali research Institute, Gulbarga, Karnataka.
- 2014 Feb 17 to 2015 April 5 : Chief Sub Editor, Prajavani , reputed Kananda daily newspaper.(Bengaluru)
- 2011-2017: Worked as full time writer and translator.
- During this period edited complete works of Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya in to Kannada for Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Pradhikara.(8 volumes)
- Edited complete works of Dr. Shankar Mokashi Punekar in 4 volumes for Abhinava Publication.
- Edited the complete poems of M.V.Seetaramah for Department of Kannada and Culture.