Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru
Mangaluru, Dec 8: Dr Arunachalam Kumar, Ex-Professor of Anatomy of KMC Mangaluru and then a Dean at Nitte, passed away on Thursday, December 7.
He was an exceptionally talented man with multifaceted persona. He was a polymath, a polyglot, rationalist, ardent cricket lover, a student leader, bird watcher, lateral thinker, popular teacher, an artist, nature lover, cryptic crossword expert, a writer, blogger, author and a humanist.
He was 67. He had battled lung cancer for almost two years.
Son of an IAS Officer Dr Arunachalam who originally hailed from Chennai came to Mangaluru and Manipal for his education and later made Mangaluru his home.