Mysuru: Senior Researcher of the University of Mysore’s Oriental Research Institute (ORI) and noted Sanskrit Scholar Dr. H.V. Nagaraja Rao, has been appointed as the new President of Mysuru-based Karnataka Muktaka Sahitya Academy while Kiran Sidlehalli, a teacher at Devalapura Government Lower Primary School in H.D. Kote taluk, has been appointed as General Secretary of the Academy, according to a press release.