Mangalore: Umarabba is the new Registrar of the buoyant Karnataka Beary Literary Academy. He was earlier lecturing on political science at Govt. PU College, Mangalore. He came over on Feb19 (Saturday) and took charge from Chandrahas Rai, who is the Registrar of Tulu Literary Academy but also worked for Beary since its inception.
Umarabba is a scholar in Beary, Tulu, Kannada and English languages. He has also been the Jaycees and NSS chief, earlier on.