Gundmi Bhaskar Maiya no more

Team Udayavani, May 6, 2021, 9:10 AM IST

Kota: Sahitya Akademi awardee Gundmi Bhaskar Maiya passed away due to a heart attack on Thursday, May 6. He was 70.

Bhaskar Maiya was suffering from age-related ailments.

He is an academic author, scholar, literary translator, and exponent of literature, textual criticism, and philosophy. He has authored 52 books: 20 are in Hindi and the rest are in Kannada.

Bhaskar’s academic research ranges across four languages: Kannada, Hindi, English, and Sanskrit. He was a National Awardee in 2002, awarded by the Prime Minister of India at the time, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Bhaskara Maiya was a Kannada pandith at Sri Mookambika Temple High School, Kollur in 1971. From 1972 to 1977, he worked as a graduate assistant in Jyothi High School, Ajekar. The following 11 years, he worked as a professor of Hindi and Sanskrit at Bhandarkars’ college, Kundapur. For 21 years after that, he was the HOD, Head of Department of Hindi for the same institution and from 2010 to 2012 continued this position at Vijaya College, Mulki.