Mangaluru: District in-charge Minister Ramanath Rai has promised to name a Circle in Dakshina Kannada district after Kanakadasa at the earliest. Speaking at the 530th Kanaka Jayanti programme here on Monday, the minister said that a site will also be allotted to the Kuruba Sangha as sought by it. Stating that saint poet Kanakadasa not only […]

Bangalore : The city’s garbage may not be reaching the landfills, but it certainly reached the Bangalore Literature Festival. Garbage on the city’s roads was a recurring topic during the discussion on “Bangalore/ Bengaluru: Multiple City?” at the literature festival here on Sunday. Author and columnist Shobhaa De, who was one of the panellists, even […]

Mangalore :  Prof. K Chinnappa Gowda, former registrar of Mangalore University and presently  Lecturer in the Department of Kannada  will be delivering a lecturer at the University of Wurzburg between November 14 to December 1 Under the A new Passage to India Programme, he  will be a senior guest lecturer at the Centre South Asia […]

Mangalore : Central Kannada Sahitya Parishath former president Harikrishna Punaroor released the book ‘Ajji Sakidha Pulli’, authored by novelist and Journalist Hamza Malar at Press Club on April 28, Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, Hariskrishna Punaroor said that the ‘Ajji Sakidha Pulli’ is a book which is to be cherished, since it reminds the conversation […]

Mangalore: Prof. M H Krishnaiah, president of Karnataka Sahithya Academy said that in  spite from being from different cultural background, Herman Moegling served immensely to Kannada literature. He was speaking at the valedictory of international seminar on ‘Herman Moegling-200th year of his commemoration’ organized by Karnataka Theological College in association with Karnataka Sahithya Academy and […]

Mangalore: Mangalore and (missionary) Moegling seem to have fast relationship since he came from Germany rejuvenate and spread Kannada literature to Europe, said B.A.Vivek  Rai, a visiting professor in Ideology to Germany’s Wolfsburg University, while inaugurating a two-day Indo-European conference on the 200th birth  anniversary of Dr.Hermann Moegling, at Jattanha auditorium in Mangalore (Balmatta). Karnataka […]