Linguist and Critic K.V. Narayana passes away at 79

Linguist and critic K.V. Narayana (79) passed away on Friday. He was a resident of Yelahanka, and doctors declared he had succumbed to a heart attack after collapsing at his nearby hospital. Narayana, who was born in Komalpapura, Mysore, in 1948, was a professor at National College, Bengaluru, and later taught linguistics and literary criticism at the Kannada Studies Centre of Bengaluru University. He received the Central Sahitya Academy Award for his work 'Nudigala Alivu' in 2024.