Shatavadhani R. Ganesh is a practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Sanskrit andKannada and an extempore poet in multiple languages. He has performed more than 1000 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 has so far written three books dealing with his Shatavadhanas, Shatavadhana Sharade, Shatavadhana Srividye and ” Sataavadhaana shaashvati” so as to groom future avadhanis, besides his D. Litt thesis The Art of Avadhana in Kannada and the forthcoming Avadhana Sahasra.
