Live
- Protect drying crops
- Devotees in shock over Tirupati laddu controversy
- 996 Arrested for Misconduct During Ganesh Festival in Hyderabad, Thanks to SHE Teams
- Husband Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Stabbing Wife to Death
- Paddy compact blocks attract Mexican team
- MLA ST Somashekhar turns against Munirathna
- Retired Telangana State Employee Wins Gold at National Powerlifting Competition
- Cyberabad Police Bust Major Drug Trafficking Operation, Seize 86 KGs of Dry Ganja
- 8 professors of Bangalore varsity in global list of top scientists
- Hyderabad: Class X student invents solar-powered agri machine
Kannada writer Kalburgi shot dead at his own residence
MM Kalburgia, reputed scholar and also the former vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi, was shot dead at his own residence on Sunday morning.
MM Kalburgia, reputed scholar and also the former vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi, was shot dead at his own residence on Sunday morning.
.jpg)
Kalburgi is an educationist, scholar and veteran researcher of Kannada literature known for his controversial writings was awarded a National Sahithya Academy award for Marga 4 in 2006, a collection of hundreds of his research articles.
He was killed on the early hours of Sunday (around 8:40 A.M) by unidentified persons. According to sources, the assailants came on a motorbike, his wife opened the door and the unidentified persons introduced themselves as the students and entered the house. This incident happened when his wife went to the kitchen to get coffee to the assailants.
After some time, she heard loud noises from the room and when she came to know what happened, Kalburgi was bleeding. With the help of the neighbours they took him to the hospital. There are different talks about his death mystery, most people feel that this was done by a group of people who doesn’t digest his views on caste and communalism.
By Abhiram
