Narendra Luther (23 March 1932 – 19 January 2021) was a writer,

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

, author and columnist. He died on the morning of Tuesday, 19 January 2021 in

Hyderabad, Telangana State Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. He worked on the history and culture of erstwhile

Hyderabad state Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...

and its rulers. He was President of the Society to Save Rocks,

Hyderabad, India Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the '' de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern In ...

.''Society to Save Rocks'' - ''The Society''
/ref> Noted Academician, Sachidananda Mohanty writes, Current

Chief Minister of Telangana The chief minister of Telangana is the head of government, chief executive of the Indian state of Telangana. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the Governors of states of India, governor is a state's ''de jure'' head, but ''de facto' ...

, Sri

K. Chandrashekar Rao Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 17 February 1954), often referred to by his initials KCR, is an Indian politician serving as the first and current Chief Minister of Telangana since 2 June 2014. He is the founder and leader of the Bharat Ras ...

recalled the contribution of Narendra Luther on his death and expressed his condolences, ''CM KCR condoles demise of writer Narendra Luther'', ''Telangana Today'', 19 January 202

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* http://www.narendraluther.in/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Luther, Narendra 1932 births 2021 deaths Writers from Hyderabad, India 20th-century Indian writers 20th-century Indian male writers