Bengaluru: Poet Kannada, scriptwriter, Critic and Pro-Kannada Activist Chandrashekar Patil, known as ‘Champa’, died in a personal hospital in Bengaluru on Monday.
He is 82 years old.
He suffered from a disease that was related to age over the past few years and was hospitalized a few days ago.
Born on June 18, 1939 in Hattimathuru Village on what now Haveri District, Champa joined a professor of English at the University of Karnatak in 1969 after conducting his master at Leeds University.
His first collection of ‘Baanuli’ poetry was published in 1960.
Play first, the absurd ‘Kodegalu’, had a world of literary literature sitting and watching.
He followed him with an unreasonable great work like ‘Appa’ and ‘Kunta Kunta Kuravobhthhi’.
Immediately he played with folklore in ‘Tingara Buddanna’ and ‘Gokartada Gowdashaani’, the first mentioned the tyranny properties of Indira Gandhi and the second were comments sweeping about the interest of the Avant Garde theater for folklore as much as elitism and feudalism.
From Navya (modernist) to Bandaya, Patil exceeded the literary movement as a poet and scriptwriter with a large Elan.
As the editor of the Sankramana literary journal, he was at the forefront of a large debate that marked the evolution of Kannada literature.
“I am a language and rural expert,” he told toI in an interview in the early 1990s.
Some of the main works are Madhyabindu, Hathomblu Kavanagalu, at the other end, Kattala Rathri, Vandhi Magada, Shalmala Nanna Shalmala and Gandhi Gandhi.
Champa always believes that the author’s involvement with the world goes beyond the word.
He was in prison for 26 days to support the JP movement against emergencies.
His love for language as a tool in literature immediately saw him to take the causes of Kannada from the 1980s.
He is part of some social, literary, pro-Kannada agitation and plays an important role in gokack movements.
He was honored by the Pampa Award by the Government of Karnataka but he returned it in protest against the murder of the author and critics of Prof.
MM Kalurgi.
Champa is placed to rest with the honor of the country at Chamarajpet’s cemetery at night.
The Chairman of the Minister of Bukavaraj Bommai spent his death.