{"id":30532,"date":"2018-07-16T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=30532"},"modified":"2018-07-16T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:31:12","slug":"kannada-poet-vyasa-rao-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=30532","title":{"rendered":"Kannada poet Vyasa Rao passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30536\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?attachment_id=30536\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/VyasaRaoBF16jul2018.jpg\" alt=\"M.N. Vyasa Rao. File  \" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/VyasaRaoBF16jul2018.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/VyasaRaoBF16jul2018-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M.N. Vyasa Rao. File<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Noted Kannada poet and film lyricist M.N. Vyasa Rao passed away at his residence in Bengaluru on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He was 73 and is survived by his wife, daughter and a son.<\/p>\n<p>Vyasa Rao collapsed after suffering a massive cardiac arrest while having his breakfast and died in his house, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>A bank employee by profession, Vyasa Rao entered Kannada film industry as a lyricist in 1975 in the hit film\u00a0<em>Shubhamangala<\/em>\u00a0directed by thespian Puttanna Kanagal. The songs he wrote for the film \u2014 \u201cSuryangu chandrangu bandare munisu\u201d and \u201cNakondla Naku\u201d \u2014 remain classics even today.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as a lyricist for many Puttanna Kanagal films and later expanded his repertoire. Many of his other poems are also known as \u2018bhaavageetes\u2019 (light music).<\/p>\n<p>Vyasa Rao was also a novelist and had authored several detective and literary novels in Kannada, apart from writing short stories.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a recipient of Karnataka Rajya Sahitya Academy award for his short story collection \u201cMaleyalli Neneda Maragalu\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home&gt; News&gt; States&gt; Karnataka \/ by K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj \/ Bengaluru &#8211; July 15th, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted Kannada poet and film lyricist M.N. Vyasa Rao passed away at his residence in Bengaluru on Sunday morning. He was 73 and is survived by his wife, daughter and a son. Vyasa Rao collapsed after suffering a massive cardiac arrest while having his breakfast and died in his house, sources said. A bank employee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=30532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kannada poet Vyasa Rao passes away<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-records-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30537,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions\/30537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}