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Nisar Ahmed
Outstanding Kannada poet Okay.S. Nisar Ahmed of India died Might Three from cancer-related sickness, the Occasions of India reported.
The poet was born Feb. 5 in the course of the 1930s on the northern outskirts of Devanahalli. He wrote lots of India’s most beloved poems, performs, brief tales and novels in Kannada, a Dravidian language frequent in Southwest India.
Political leaders from all events, together with the Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa, former Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda and former Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy, have made public feedback mourning his loss of life. Many others have taken to social media to rejoice his life and poetry.
Probably the most celebrated Kannada poet Padmashri Okay.S. #NissarAhmed is not any extra. His contribution to kannada literature is commendable.. An enormous loss to karnataka .Nithyotsava tune was among the finest i’ve heard.Thanks for all the pieces sir we are going to miss you🙏 #NisarAhmed #poet pic.twitter.com/FDMLl39f5i
— shaukat mohammed (@showkatmohdd) Might 3, 2020
One in all his most well-known works was Nithyotsava, a poem about Jog Falls, a waterfall on the Shravathi river positioned in Karnataka.
It was picked up by singers of Sugama Sangeeta, a type of gentle music, and shortly turned well-liked, main Ahmed to be affectionately known as, “Nityotsava Kavi” or The Nityotsava Poet.
At present l misplaced one in all my beloved Kannada poet Prof #NisarAhmed. He actually wrote poems with a powerful root in #IndianSensibility.His poems together with #benneKadda #nityotsava #masti #nimmolagiddu will stay afresh in our reminiscences. pic.twitter.com/LMcId4YsA0
— Dr. Harisha G.B. (@Harishagb) Might 3, 2020
Ahmed’s son, Naveed, informed the Occasions of India that his father had traveled to the U.S. for remedy in January of this yr.
“My father’s situation is dangerous. At the moment, he has gone to the U.S. for additional remedy. My sisters are within the U.S. As soon as he’s again, his remedy will proceed in Bengaluru. I’ve been recognized with mouth most cancers and I’m scheduled to get operated (on) subsequent Friday at Apollo Hospital on Bannerghatta Street.”
His son not too long ago died from most cancers, leaving Ahmed “shattered,” in response to experiences from the Deccan Herald.
The poet drew his final breath at his dwelling in Padmanabha Nagar lower than six months later.
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