If you are not from coastal Karnataka, you may not have heard of the Bearys. Well, they figure here as after a more than a decade long struggle, they have Karnataka State Beary Sahitya Academy.
M D Abdul Rehman, an advocate, is the first president of the Academy, which is based in Mangalore, recently in national news for the activities of the Sri Ram Sene. "Beary" is Tulu for "trader" or "businessman".
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