One of his sons, Naveed, had told the newspaper that his father had traveled to the U.S. She had worked as a teacher in a private school and the couple had two daughters and two sons together. Nandish Hanche described Ahmed’s works as eternal and said he was one of the century’s best poets.Īhemd’s wife, Shahnawaz Begum, died at the age of 77 last year, the Star of Mysore reported. The Times of India reported that Kannada Book Authority President M. Nine years later, he was granted the highest literary award in the state, the Pampa Award, for his contributions to Kannada literature, The Hindu reported he was also granted an honorary doctorate by Kuvempu University in 2010. In 2007, he chaired the annual Sahitya Sammelana, a gathering of writers and poets who celebrate the Kannada language, and he inaugurated the Dasara celebrations in 2007.Īhmed went on to receive the Padma Sri Award in 2008. Wikimedia Creative CommonsA Padma Sri award.Īhmed was awarded the Rajyotsava Award in 1981 and the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award in 1982 for his anthology of short poems, Anaamika Anglaru, the Deccan Herald reported. During the 1970s, he traveled to cities in the Malnad region, where he taught in Chitradurga and at the Sahyadri First Grade College in Shimoga, the Deccan Herald reported.ĭuring that time, he also wrote many of India’s most beloved poems, plays, short stories and novels in Kannada, a Dravidian language common in Southwest India. He moved from Gulbarga to Bengaluru and became a geology professor at the state-run college, as reported by a local Karnataka news site. Nithyotsava song was one of the best i have heard.Thank you for everything sir we will miss you? #NisarAhmed #poet /FDMLl39f5iĪfter earning a post-graduate degree in geology, Ahmed worked for the state government in the 1950s and ’60s in the Mysore Mines (also called the Kolar Gold Fields) and the geology department in Gulbarga. His contribution to kannada literature is commendable. One of the most celebrated Kannada poet Padmashri K.S.
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