# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-govinda-pai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:02:12.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-govinda-pai"
name: "M. Govinda Pai"
slug: "m-govinda-pai"
description: "Manjeshwar Govinda Pai, also known as Rastrakavi Govinda Pai, was an Indian Kannada-language poet. He was awarded the first Rashtrakavi title by the Madras Government. Rashtrakavi M. Govinda Pai was the one who put Manjeshwara(Karnataka) on the literary map of India."
tagline: "Kannada poet awarded the title Rashtrakavi; known for lyrical and devotional poetry (1883–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Govinda_Pai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1883-03-23"
deathDate: "1963-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ام. جوڤيندا پاى"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump