Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (MS)
Kundapur, May 6: Dr G Bhaskar Mayya, renowned ideological litterateur and Kendra Sahitya Academy awardee, died of Covid early in the morning on Thursday May 6. He was 70.
He was getting treated in a private hospital since four days. The hospital sources said that he died after he suffered a cardiac arrest.
Dr Mayya was expert in Hindi literature studies. He received Kendra Sahitya Academy award for his ideological work in 2004. Dr Mayya served as a Hindi professor at Bhandarkar’s College of the city for a long time.
The literary world has expressed deepest condolences on the demise of Dr Mayya, who had written more than 50 books on ideological and progressive literature.