He was the president of the 44th Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held in Siddganga, in the Tumkur district of Karnataka state, India.
Mugali was born in a Deshastha Madhva Brahmin family[1] in Hole Alur in the Ron Taluk of Gadag district, British India.
In 1933, he was appointed professor of Kannada at Willingdon College, Sangli.
Among his students at Willingdon were writers Subbanna Ekkundi and Gangadhar V. Chittal.
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