Mysuru: There are plans to convert the 80-year-old house of Poet Laureate and Jnanpith awardee Kuvempu (K.V. Puttappa) in city into a Museum. Talks are going on between the officials of the Kannada and Culture Department and the family members of Kuvempu 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). Rashtrakavi Kuvempu’s daughter Tarini Chidananda and son-in-law Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University, live here. Speaking to Star of Mysore, Prof. Chidananda Gowda said that the talk of converting the residence into a museum has been going on for quite some time. “If the government comes forward and takes over the house and convert it into a museum, we have no objection. But we will not use any influence on our own to do it,” he said.
