Kannada litterateur Kulyadi Madhava Pai is no more

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Feb 10: Kulyadi Madhava Pai, the renowned cloth merchant, died at the age of 75 in his house at Urwa Marigudi on Feb 9, Wednesday. Besides being a writer, Pai was a staunch support of Kannada language, culture, and literature. He is survived by 3 sons.

He had also served as the secretary of the Dakshina Kannada district unit of the Kannada Sahitya Parishad and as the president of the Vardhamana Chair of Kantavara Kannada Sangha.

Born in Mulky on Oct 20, 1936, Pai completed his degree education in St. Aloysius College and established his cloth business in 1958. Although his business kept him busy, he did not stop writing and delivering speeches in Kannada. He worked in close collaboration with Keekana Ramachandra and B. M. Idinabba and was a great admirer of DVG’s work “Mankutimmana Kagga.” He specially studied this work, spread awareness of its spiritual contents, wrote several articles on it, and delivered a number of speeches regarding it.

DK Sahitya Parishad President Pradeep Kumar Kalkura, Harikrishna Punaroor, Dr. M. Prabhakar Joshi, Bhuvanabhirama Udupa, Prof. Amrit Someshwara, Shrikar Prabhu, Dr. Na Mogasale, and others have expressed their heartfelt condolences.