Rajeshwari Poornachandra Tejaswi dies at 84
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Bengaluru: Rajeshwari Tejaswi wife of veteran Kannada novelist late K P Poornachandra Tejaswi passed away on Tuesday.
The 84 year old Rajeshwari who was ailing for sometime was admitted at Rajalakshmi hospital in Bengaluru three days ago. She breathed her last on Tuesday morning hours.
Rajeshwari was born in 1937 to a middle class family in Kalasipalya, Bengaluru. Rajeshwari who had come to University of Mysore for higher education had met Poornachandra Tejaswi. The two got married in 1966 and Rajeshwari became the daughter- in- law of Rashtrakavi Kuvempu.
After marriage, Tejaswi and Rajeshwari engaged in agriculture and developed a farm near Mudigere in Chikkamagaluru.
Rajeshwari was also the honarary chairperson of Tejaswi Foundation.
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