M M Kalburgi

Born on November 28, 1938, in Bombay Presidency, British India, Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi was an Indian Vachana Sahitya scholar in writing of Vachana and scholastic who filled in as vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. He is the son of Gowramma and Madivalappa, who were farmers.

Kalburgi completed his primary education from government schools in Sindagi and Yaragal and secondary schooling in Bijapur. He finished his graduation with a B.A degree in Bijapur College after which he obtained a post-graduate degree in Kannada dialect with a gold award from Karnataka University in Dharwad in 1962.

In the wake of finishing his M.A Kalburgi got a job at Karnataka University as a Kannada instructor for post-graduate understudies. He got the position of Professor in the Kannada Department in 1966. In 1982, he turned into the Head of the Department. He at that point became the director of the Basaveshwara Peetha.

He got a Ph.D. in Kannada for his theory titled "Kavirājamārgada Parisaradalli Kannaḍa Sāhitya" means Kannada writing in the environs of Kavirajamarga.

Kalburgi was a prominent Kannada epigraphist and a famous researcher of the Vachana literature. He turned into the editor of the far-reaching volumes of Vachana writing and engaged with interpreting them into 22 languages. He wrote 103 books and more than 400 articles.

He is famous for his Marga sequence of books. Despite the fact that Marga 1 confronted a few debates, Marga 4 got him the national Sahitya Academi Award and the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award in 2006. In his later years, he filled in as the vice-chancellor of the Kannada University in Hampi, before resigning from service. As the vice-chancellor, Kalburgi began a few research ventures including the one recording the history of ancient poets, Kaifiyats, Adil Shahi writing and lesser-known regal families.

His research additionally centered around the twelfth century Sharana movement. For his exploration on compositions, he went to London in Cambridge and Oxford universities.

Kalburgi was the chief editor of Samagra Vachana Samputa which was distributed by the Government of Karnataka. He had likewise functioned as the member of the advisory board in Kannada Sahitya Academy and administrator of the National Memorial Trust of Da Ra Bendre.

In 1989, Kalburgi was constrained by the Lingayat chiefs of the temple to abjure the supposedly censorious references to the originator of Veerashaivaism, it’s a worship centered on Hindu god Shiva as the universal god, and Basava, his better half and sister.

The contention was around two articles in his book Marga 1. At first, Kalburgi analyzed a few Vachanas (poem) composed by Basaveshwara's second spouse Neelambike and reasoned that her association with her better half might have been just non-romantic.

In the other article, he called attention to the jumbling by students of the history of the birth of Channabasava, another Virashaiva writer. Kalburgi, depending on verifiable records, contended that Channabasava could be the result of Basava's sister Nagalambike's marriage to Dohara Kakkaya, the shoemaker writer.

In June of 2014, keeping an eye on a course on Anti-superstition Bill, Kalburgi alluded to Bethale Puje Yake Kuradu book by U. R. Ananthamurthy of 1996, in which the essayist portrayed his youth experience of urinating on icons as an analysis to see whether there would be divine retribution.

These prompted dissents from the conservative gatherings, Sri Ram Sena, Vishva Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal against both the authors.

Having confronted death threats beforehand, Kalburgi had requested security from the Indian National Congress administration of Karnataka, yet not furnished with it at first.

On 30 August of 2015, two men on a bike went to the home of Kalburgi in the Kalyan Nagar of Dharwad and thumped at his entryway. Kalburgi's significant other Umadevi addressed the way to the two men, who acted like understudies of Kalburgi. She went inside to get coffee for them, however at 8:40 a.m. one man shot two rounds on Kalburgi's chest and temple, while the other held up outside keeping the bike running. Promptly following the shooting the professional killers fled the scene on the motorcycle.

An emergency vehicle came and endeavors were made to revive Kalburgi. First, they took him to a private healing center and after that to the Dharwad’s District Civil Hospital where the specialists pronounced that he had passed on en route. The funeral was 31 August in Dharwad.

On the day of the murder, the investigation started. An exceptional group of five inspectors, headed by an Assistant chief, was shaped by the Hubli– Dharwad Police. The inquiry extended to incorporate a property debate inside Kalburgi's nearby family circle which has settled after he had intervened. On 2 September, Karnataka Police discharged sketches of the two suspects to the press, in light of records by Umadevi, and someone else who had a look at them. The portrayals as distributed in The Hindu uncover the two countenances with a practically photographic clarity.