Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, widely known as D. R. Bendre, was a prominent Kannada poet and playwright. He was born on January 26, 1896 in Dharwad, Karnataka, India and died on August 31, 1981 in ...

Kannada language and literature acquired the status of being ‘modern’ just a hundred years ago, with milestones etched by prominent literary heroes. We recount the journey. When poetry was still being ...

Every culture finds ways of spreading its fragrance beyond its immediate environs. The mobility of cultural resources has marked many aspects of our social existence as much in the past as in the ...

The fourth anniversary celebration of ‘Nuditorana’, a literary and cultural forum dedicated to the preservation of Kannada ...

For the first time, a huge body of work – Seemateeta Kannada Sahitya Charitre (Beyond Frames: History of Kannada literature) – which looks at Kannada literature from the perspective of subaltern ...

Kannada novelist SL Bhyrappa, a Padma Bhushan recipient and influential voice in Indian literature, passed away at 94 in Bengaluru due to cardiac arrest. His six-decade career produced over 25 novels, ...

Cultural institutions play a crucial role in fostering the language and literature of a land. They harness the aspirations of people and offer a platform to share ideas and art, especially among the ...

BENGALURU: This Independence Day, a group of entrepreneurs have decided to come together to celebrate the linguistic heritage of Kannada by launching a website called BookBrahma. The website will ...

UPSC: UPSC offers Kannada as one of the optional literature subjects for the Civil Services Mains Exam. Candidates appearing in IAS Mains 2020 with this optional subject can check here the detailed ...

Sharing thoughts: Writers Vinaya Vakkund, Veena Sanakanagoudar, Malati Pattanshetti and Shanta Imrapur share a lighter moment at the Dharwad district Kannada Sahitya Sammelana at Karnataka ...

Candidates can go through the question paper of Literature of Kannada Language Paper I of UPSC IAS Civil Services Main Written Exam 2013 here. Literature of Kannada Language optional is one of the ...