Mangaluru : Former president of Kannada Sahitya Parishat Harikrishna Punarooru has called upon Tulu speaking community to come forward to fight for ‘Tulurajya’. Punarooru said Tuluvas need to wake up and fight for their mother tongue. Even as people of north Karnataka have been raising the demand for a separate statehood. “People in North Karnataka […]

Mangalore:  There is more than a month to go, as the Kannada Sahitya Parishat district unit president will be chosen only on April 29, at the local Taluk Tahsildar’s office used as a vote booth. The outgoing president since 10 years is Pradeep K. Kalkura, who has a foundation in his name, and is an […]

Udupi: Is the Madhwacharya – created Ashta Math system in temple town of Udupi, falling apart? As the Paryaya Peetha Changeover draws nearer and the incoming Paryaya throne ascender of Sode Mutt has made an entry into Udupi with all pomp and fanfare, there is a fresh controversy raging like fire in Puttige Math, where […]

Mangalore: A singing, acting, story-telling session in Kannada, to mark the 50th programmed of such collective activity to save and develop Kannada, by Dakshina Kannada district children’s Literary Forum, is arranged at Sharada Vidyalaya in Kodialbail in city-heart as on Dec 31, the last day of 2011, at 10 AM. Resource person Savitri S. Rao, […]

Mangalore : St. Aloysius Pre University College of Mangalore, the Mangalore Taluk Kannada Sahithya Parishad, and the Kannada and Cultural Department of Mangalore jointly organized “Nammadu,” a state-level literary and cultural convention in Loyola Hall of St. Aloysius College on Jan 22, Saturday. MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik, inaugurated the event and said that, the education […]

Mangalore: The “Kambala” or trained Buffaloes (single and double on a yoke) goes back to several centuries in Kadri at Mangalore where a whole road is named after it and concretized recently. Buffalo pairs come from talukas and country houses (Guthu) which breed then round the year and train them to run hard in slushy […]

Mangalore: A CD book was published here at the Town Hall on Saturday relating to reminiscences of Keremane Shambhu Hegde, the great Yakshagana artiste who was also the first President of the Yaksha Academy of the state. Rich tributes to his memory were paid by Pradeep Kalkura, Harikrishna Punarooru (former President of state KSP), Dr. […]

Mangalore : The book release of ‘Thulunadige Dharmasthalada Kodugegalu’, authored by Abdul Azeez Haque, Chief Secretary of All India Beary Parishath was held at NGO Hall near Government College Mangalore on August 6, Friday. Speaking after releasing the book, Harikrishna Punarooru, former president of Karnataka Sahithya Parishath said that, writing a book on Dharmastala and […]