Mangaluru : Students of St. Aloysius (Deemed to be university) presented a four-line “Chaupadi Charoli” (a type of poetic form) in 20 different Indian languages to convey the Christmas message written by Raymond D’cuna Taccode. The following students recited the poem in their respective languages: English: Anvitha D’cuna, Hindi: Ansylla Kero, Odia: Priyadarshini, Telugu: Anusha […]

Udupi: “Sanskrit is the base for many Indian languages and there is need to conserve and popularise Sanskrit. So, conserving and developing Sanskrit should be the top priority of governments,” said Union Human Resource Department Minster Prakash Javadekar. He was speaking at fifth All India Convention organised by Sanskrita Bharathi at Rajangana, Udupi on Sunday. […]

Mangaluru: Around eight years after its launch and in incubation, the Tulu Wikipedia has gone live with over 1,000 articles. It can be accessed athttp://tcy.wikipedia.org Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foundation, USA, made the announcement at the three-day Wikiconference India 2016, which began at Chandigarh on Friday. U.B. Pavanaja, program manager, Indian Languages, The Centre […]

Mangalore: The Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, the Centre for Classical Kannada, and Karnataka Theological Research Institute together, organised a 2-day national seminar on Foreign scholars Contribution towards Classical language of Kannada, at Sahodaya Hall on Tuesday and due on Wednesday(March 20-21). Dr. Venkatachala Shastri, a senior researcher inaugurated the seminar on Tuesday, March […]

New Delhi : Eminent Kannada author SL Bhyrappa was on Wednesday honoured with the Saraswati Samman in literature for his epic novel ‘Mandra’, his musical take on the question of art against morality and other philosophies of life. The Saraswati Samman is given away by the KK Birla Foundation to a work published in the […]