# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shatavadhani-ganesh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:24:17.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shatavadhani-ganesh"
name: "Shatavadhani Ganesh"
slug: "shatavadhani-ganesh"
description: "R. Ganesh is a practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Sanskrit and Kannada and an extempore poet in multiple languages. He has performed more than 1300 avadhanas, in Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu and Prakrit. He is known for extempore composition of poetry (āśukavita) during these performances, and even of chitrakavya. He is the only Śatāvadhāni from Karnataka. He once set a record by composing poetry for twenty-four hours continuously. From 30 November 2012 to 2 December 2012, he performed the first ever Shatavadhana entirely in Kannada. On 16 February 2014, in Bangalore, he performed his 1000th avadhāna."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/R_Ganesh%2C_Shathavadhani.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-12-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.59862974593206
  historical:           6.346268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump