 Poornachandra Tejaswi

Kuppali Puttappa Poornachandra Tejaswi (8 September 1938 – 5 April 2007) was a prominent Kannada writer, novelist, photographer, publisher, painter, naturalist, and environmentalist who made a great impression in the "Navya" ("new") period of Kannada literature and inaugurated the "Bandaaya Saahitya" genre of protest literature with his short-story collection "Abachoorina Post Offisu".He is the son of noted Kannada poet Kuvempu.