Bangalore, Aug. 25

President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Jnanpith awardee Dr. U.R. Anan-thamurthy (URA) as the first Chancellor of Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, for five years.

The 80-year-old litterateur earlier served as Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala. He was also the President of Sahitya Akademi and Chairman of National Book Trust of India, New Delhi.

Born in 1932 at Melige village in Shimoga, URA started his career in the Department of English in the University of Mysore.

source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / Home> General News / August 25th, 2012