Kannada Writer Rajeshwari Tejaswi Passed Away At 84

Rajeshwari Tejaswi, the writer and wife of late Kannada litterateur Poornachandra Tejaswi passed away on December 14, in Bengaluru. She was 84 years old and suffered from low blood count and fever in the last few days. After the death of her husband, Rajeshwari Tejaswi was the one who continued his legacy. The couple has two daughters.

Tejaswi was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru, where she died of a heart attack. She had come to the city for medical treatment and was staying at her daughter's residence.

According to Udayavani.com, the family has decided to donate her body to a hospital as per her wishes and arrangements for a final darshan has been made at her daughter's residence.

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Born to a middle-class family in the year 1937 at Kalasipalyam in Bengaluru, she pursued a bachelor in arts degree at Mysuru University. This is where she met her husband Poornachandra Tejaswi, who used to fondly call her Rajesh.

Both of them did their Masters in Kannada and Philosophy from Mysuru University. After the completion of the course, Rajeshwari returned to Bengaluru. They continued their long-distance love story by writing each other letters. After six years, they married at Chitrakoota estate near Gonibeedu in Mudigere Taluk in 1966. It was an inter-caste marriage.

It was in Chitrakoota house that Poornachandra Tejaswi wrote Carvallo for ten years in the kerosene light as the house did not have electricity. Throughout that period, Rajeshwari played a role in shaping his writing.

In the coming years, they shifted to Niruttara estate near Mudigree and later had two daughters named - Susmita and Eeshanya, both of whom became engineers.

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Rajeshwari Tejaswi had written two books called Nanna Tejaswi and Namma Manega Bandaru Gandhiji. She only started writing in 2007 after the death of Poornachandra Tejaswi. Her first book Nanna Tejaswi was an account of their life together, the book went on to have over six reprints. Apart from writing, she was a gardener and a philatelist.