Composer · Lyricist

Poornachandra Tejaswi

के. पी. पूर्णचंद्र तेजस्वी

b. 8 September 1938, Kuppalli · also credited as Poochante

Kuppali Puttappa Poornachandra Tejaswi (8 September 1938 – 5 April 2007) was a prominent Indian writer and novelist in Kannada. He also worked as a photographer, publisher, painter, naturalist, and environmentalist. He made a great impression in the Navya ("new") period of Kannada literature and inaugurated the Bandaaya Saahitya genre of protest literature with his short-story collection Abachoorina Post Offisu.