Noted Kannada poet, critic K V Thirumalesh no more

Noted veteran poet and literary critic K V Thirumalesh breathed his last in Hyderabad on Monday, January 30 sources close to the family said. He was 80.

Thirumalesh, a native of Karadka in Kasaragod had served as a professor at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad. Upon his retirement, he worked in Yemen teaching English. He had spent his retirement life at his residence in Hyderabad.