Togere Venkatasubbasastry Venkatachala Sastry is a Kannada-language writer, grammarian, critic, editor and lexicographer. He has authored in excess of 100 books, translations and has edited collections of essays, biographical sketches and felicitation volumes. Recipient of the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award (honorary), Sastry is an authority on Kannada language grammar and its various facets ranging from the metre scale (Kannada: ಛoದಸ್ಸು) on which he has written extensively to the history of Kannada literature spanning two millennia.
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26 August 1933 (age 91) Kanakapura, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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