Mysuru: Days after BJP leader and former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna wrote to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar to take urgent measures to convert the 85-year-old house of Poet Laureate and Jnanpith awardee Kuvempu (K.V. Puttappa) in city into a Museum, Tourism, Ecology and Environment Minister C.P. Yogeeshwar visited Kuvempu’s house in VV Mohalla last evening to have a formal discussion with the family members.
The Minister met Kuvempu’s daughter Tarini and son-in-law Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda, former VC of Kuvempu University and held closed-door discussion in this regard. The house was built in Vani Vilas Mohalla in 1936. Kuvempu penned some of his best works in this house, which he named ‘Udayaravi’ (Rising Sun).
