Kannada Actors Saddened By MM Kalburgi’s Death

Last Sunday, Dharwad was saddened after hearing tragic news about Professor ' M M Kalburgi Born on November 28, 1938, in Bombay Presidency, B >> Read More... ', a scholar of Vachana Sahitya and academic and the Vice-Chancellor of the Kannada University, who was shot dead on his house. The outspoken scholar has been receiving threats from the Hindu activists due to his alleged anti-religious assertions about the groups such as ABVP, VHP and the Bajrang Dal.

While the police were currently on the lookout to capture the murderer, a head of a Hindu fundamentalist group has apparently taken all the responsibility for murdering the professor; they even sent out threats to other radical thinkers.

People from Karnataka have been called to ask for their comments, but they declined to say anything about the killing of the late writer. But his fellow litterateur in Dharwad, ' Shashi Deshpande Born in 1938, Shashi Deshpande is an award-winning >> Read More... ' said, the news came as a shock and he doesn’t know what to say. He shared that he met Kalburgi who is a good scholar and very courteous. Dharwad was known to be a place where people voiced out when they have opinions. Deshpande adds that Kalburgi met him to talk about the manuscripts relating to his father during his term as a Vice-Chancellor.

The sudden death of the Sahitya Academy Award winner MM Kalburgi came as a shock to many Twitterati as well. Sandalwood actors and actresses took to their Twitter page to deprecate the murder and expressed their devastations.