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Noted Kannada lexicographer Prof G Venkatasubbaiah passes away in Bengaluru


Noted Kannada lexicographer Prof G Venkatasubbaiah passes away in Bengaluru
He was awarded the prestigious Padmashri, Pampa award and also  Kendra Sahitya Akademi’s literary honour ‘Basha Sanman’ for south zone. 
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By Express News Service
BENGALURU: Professor G Venkatasubbaiah, lexicographer passed away at a Bengaluru private hospital early on Monday. He was 107.
It took him 60 years to develop eight volumes of the dictionary, which is the most for any Indian language dictionary. While the first volume of the dictionary was printed in 1970, the eighth and final volume appeared in 1995.
The eight volumes of the Kannada dictionary is about 10,000 pages long. Prof G Venkatasubbiah along with other experts developed it on par with the Oxford dictionary.  ....

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