Karnataka: Rationalist and scholar MM Kalburgi shot dead
  • 5 years ago
Left ideologue and former vice-chancellor of Hampi University, Prof MM Kalburgi, was shot dead on Sunday morning by an unidentified gunman at the doorstep of his home in Karnataka’s Dharwad city.

Like Maharashtra-based rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, who was killed in August 2013, 77-year-old Kalburgi too had his run-ins with right-wing Hindutva groups for his strong independent views on social and religious matters.



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