Mysore/Mysuru, Sept. 26 -- Hundreds of dignitaries, fans, admirers of novelist Dr.S.L. Bhyrappa (94), who passed away in Bengaluru on Wednesday, paid their last respects to the mortal remains of the latter, kept near Kindarajogi statue in Kalamandira on Hunsur Road in city yesterday.

The body of Bhyrappa, was brought in an ambulance of Jayadeva Memorial Rashtrotthana Hospital and Research Centre, Bengaluru, to Kalamandira at about 3.40 pm. The family members of Bhyrappa, former Mysuru-Kodagu MP Prathap Simha, senior journalist Vishweshwar Bhat and others accompanied the mortal remains.

Prior to the arrival of the body, the District Administration had made elaborate arrangements at Kalamandira, to enable the public to pay their last resp...