Poet Jaraganahalli Shivshankar dies of COVID
Bengaluru: Famous regional poet, thinker, vice president of the Sharana Sahitya Parishad, Jaraganahalli Shivshanker (72), passed away on Wednesday morning. He had contracted COVID a few days ago and was receiving treatment in hospital, it is learned. However, the treatment proved to be ineffective, as he passed away from the disease.
Shivshanker who was born on September 8th of 1949 in Jaraganahalli, had obtained a degree in commerce. Literature was his loved field. Due to this very reason, he had opted for voluntary retirement from his work as a bank employee and busied himself in literary activities. While serving as the Honorary Secretary of the Kannada Sahitya Parishad, he has written and published more than 1000 micro poems.
His anthologies of poems like ‘Male’, ‘Aalikallu’, and ‘Devara Neralu’ are the fruits of his literary labour. The anthology of his micro poems, ‘Shubhangi Jhari’, has been translated to Urdu, English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Gujarati languages.
He has received various awards and accolades for his literary work including Karnataka Rajyotsava Award, Dinakara Desai Literary Award, and Suvarna Karnataka Bhushan Award among many others.
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Hindus have consolidated, BJP will cross 135 seats in WB: Suvendu Adhikari after early trends
Kolkata: Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said he was confident that the Bharatiya Janata Party would form the government in West Bengal as early counting trends began to emerge.
Speaking after initial trends in the ongoing vote counting, Adhikari said the party was expecting to win more than 135 seats in the state.
He also claimed that Hindu votes had consolidated in favour of the BJP, which, according to him, would translate into victory for the party.
Counting of votes is currently underway, and official results are awaited.
