B.M. Haneef

B.M. Haneef

B.M. Haneef was born on December 12, 1961 at Bellayaru village of Mangalore taluk in Dakshina Kannada. He completed his B.Com degree from Govindadas College, Surathkal and attained a degree in law from SDM Law College, Mangalore. He has also done a special course in commercial Journalism from the International Institute of Journalism, Germany.

B.M. Haneef joined veteran journalist Vaddarse Raghuram Shetty’s Mungaru daily as a sub-editor in 1984. He later became its senior sub-editor and also served as the assistant news editor. He started his career in Prajavani as a sub-editor in 1989 and later became the District Correspondent of Prajavani-Deccan Herald in Bijapur district. He gained experience as a field reporter in Bijapur, Bagalkote, Dharwad and Gulbarga. After being promoted as the senior sub-editor, he also worked as the head of commercial news section and commercial supplement of Prajavani. He was also the Mysore bureau chief for the daily. B.M. Haneef has also worked as the editor of ‘Beary Times’. He was promoted as an assistant editor in Bengaluru where he retired as the Chief Editor of Sudha weekly. After his retirement from Deccan Herald-Prajavani group, he has founded a media centre and keeps himself busy in media related activities.

Works:

  1. Ananya Samajavadi Lohia (about life and times of Ram Manohar Lohia)
  2. Ithihasa Mattu Islam (Translation of English Original by M N Roy)
  3. Kathalege Yava Banna (Anthology of poems)
  4. Mathe Mathu (Collection of Interviews with Major Kannada writers published in Sudha weekly)
  5. Bannada Buguri
  6. Sajjana Rajakarani M S Yahya (authored for Vidhana Mandala library)
  7. Kemparaja Arasu (published by Karnataka Film Commercial Board)
  8. Kanasu Kannadi (Collection of Columns written in Prajavani Cinema Puravani)
  9. Collaze (Collection of stories, poems, travelogue, interview and caricatures)
  10. Minority Complex (Articles on Sociopolitical and Cultural turmoils of Muslim community)
  11. Maanji Rava Fry (Anthology of Stories)

Edited works:

  1. Beary-English-Kannada Shabdakosha
  2. Maikala, a research work on Bearys by Ahmed Noori
  3. Navarasa Kavya (Collection of poems at the poetry convention in Navarasa Pura Utsava)
  4. Navarasa Nagu (Anthology of Poems)
  5. Muttumale (Collection of Beary Proverbs)
  6. Muslim India

Awards:

  1. Toulavashri Award by Bengaluru Tulu Koota
  2. Madhyama Mandara Award by Dambala Swamiji’s Samskruthika Prathistana, Gadag
  3. Karavali Siri Award by Karavali Okkoota, Bengaluru
  4. Karnataka Patrika Academy Award, 2013
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