Kannada Poet Chandrashekhar Patil Passes Away

Noted Kannada poet Chandrashekar Patil popularly known as "Champa" has passed away on 10 January 2022.
He was considered one of the foremost voices of the progressive literary Bandaya movement that sought to make poetry a weapon against social and economic injustice.
Patil was a recipient of the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in 1989 and the Karnataka state government's Pampa Award in 2009.