Mangaluru: The Mangalore University announced the Rank list in various branch i.e. arts, commerce and science for the current academic year. Artha Perla bagged first Rank in MA with Gold Medal. She is the daughter of writer and poet Dr Vasanth Kumar Perla, ASD and K Shaila Kumari.
Artha Perla also writes poems and articles in English and Kannada language. At present she is working at the Ist Grade college of NMAM, Nitte. She has performed Bharatanatyam Dance at the National Youth festival, Mysuru Dasara, Karavali Utsav, Chennai Kannada Sangha, Bengaluru, Hassan, Kerala etc., She completed Bharatanatyam Vidyut Examination in Ist class. At present she is studying for the Carnatic senior examination and doing her PG Diploma in English. She is also a Bangalore Doordarshan ‘B’Grade artiste and has performed classical dance.
Her ‘Nanna Putta tamma’ collection of poems, book was released by Minister Dr V S Acharya at the Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelan. Many of her stories and articles have been published in various magazines and broadcasted on All India Radio.