Techie’s start-up aims to reach out to 1 lakh non-Kannadigas A techie has lined up a plan to teach Kannada to 1 lakh non-Kannadigas over the next five months. With the help of videos of 2 to 3 minute ...

BASAVANAGUDI: Kannada is the 30th most widely spoken language in the world, and is growing in the age of computers and the Internet, celebrated lexicographer Prof G Venkatasubbaiah has said.

Every once in a while, a debate about giving up certain derogatory terms or words in Kannada takes new life. Enlightened intellectuals argue that terms like ‘soole’, (prostitute) ‘banje’, (barren) ...

The 800-page compilation of synonyms and antonyms, Padanidhi (Treasure of Words) has words based on concepts as against alphabets, the basis of a conventional thesaurus. BANGALORE: It’s a mammoth ...

Gulshan Devaiah addresses recent remarks about how reporters pronounce 'Kannada' and 'Kantara', encourages acceptance of ...

A couple of years ago, when there was talk of politician ND Tiwari and the result of a certain DNA test, a Kannada newspaper reporting the story found itself unable to come up with a term for ...

Regional Censor Officer Nagendra Swamy said, “Till now, there were only guidelines and no words or phrases were specifically forbidden from being used. But since the new list has come, we are planning ...