- Kannada lexicographer Professor Ganjam Venkatasubbaiah passed away in Bengaluru on 19 April 2021. He was 107.
Venkatasubbiah was conferred with the Pdma Shri award in 2017. He had received the various prestigeous awards such as Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award, the Pampa Award.
He had compiled 12 dictionaries, which included three volumes of Igo Kannada (A Socio-Linguistic Dictionary of Kannada). He also authored four seminal works on dictionary science in Kannada, edited over sixty books, and published several papers.
He was best known for his work on Kannada dictionary science titled ‘Kannada Nighantu Shastra Parichaya’.
In the literary circles, Venkatasubbaiah was commonly known as a walking encyclopedia of Kannada language and culture.