*Dharwad: Renowned lingayat scholar M M Kalburgi shot dead*
Dharwad, Aug 30: Senior researcher, academic and scholar M M Kalburgi was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his residence here on Sunday August 30. He was 70. Sources said that at around 8.40 am, unidentified persons barged into his residence at Kalyana Nagar in Dharwad and opened two rounds of fire. Kalburgi who was critically injured on his chest and forehead was rushed to hospital, where he was declared dead. His daughter told the media that the family was having breakfast when the miscreants entered the house and opened fire. Senior police officials visited the hospital. Born in 1938 at Yargall village of Sindgi taluk of Vijayapura, M M Kalburgi served as the vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. He was awarded the National Sahitya Akademi award in 2006 for 'Marga 4', a collection of hundred of his research articles. He was a noted Kannada epigraphist and a renowned scholar of the Vachana literature. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
