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Kannada Writer and Publisher Asha Raghu Dies by Suicide in Bengaluru

Officers reported she had struggled with depression following her husband's death two years earlier.

Overview

  • Police said she was found hanging inside a room at her Malleswaram residence.
  • Family members discovered her after breaking open a door when she did not respond.
  • An unnatural-death case has been registered, and investigators are conducting further inquiries.
  • Raghu, 46, was a noted novelist, playwright, and publisher whose works include Avarta, Gata, Maye, and Chittaranga.
  • She received several regional literary honours, including a Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award, and is survived by her daughter.