Mysore/Mysuru: City-based Samarpana Educational and Endowment Charitable Trust celebrated the 116th birth anniversary of well-known writer Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar here recently. 

Dr. K. Anantharamu, Retired Kannada Professor of Mysore University Maharaja  Evening College and writer, inaugurated the programme by offering floral tributes to the portrait of Gorur. 

Speaking on the occasion, he said that Gorur was called as Kannada’s Wordsworth. Rajendraprasad Honnalagere, Honorary Treasurer of the Trust, also spoke on Gorur. Hon. Secretary M.S. Balasubramanyam; Social workers Krishna Maharaj and N. Eshwar were present.