Bengaluru’s Basava Samithi collaborated with universities to translate 2,500 vachanas into six international languages by Jan 2025. Initiated by MM Kalburgi, the project includes translations into ...

Mallikarjun Khandammanavar, a 70-year-old activist from Gadag, celebrates Karnataka Rajyotsava every day by promoting Kannada language and culture. Discover his inspiring journey and dedication to ...

Vachanas of the Shiva Sharanas of the 11th and 12th centuries are regarded among Karnataka’s greatest contributions to Indian thought and literature. A few scholars have translated them from Kannada ...

As may be expected, reviews of Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka have focused on the vast and varied connections between life and literature, and state and society, that ...

The ‘vachana’ literature of the 12th and 13th centuries fulfilled one of the four criteria set by the Central government to grant the ‘classical language’ status to Kannada. ‘Vachana Sahitya’, as it ...

Bengaluru: FormerCM and MP Basavaraja Bommai said that today, Kannada is facing challenges both from Kannadigas themselves and from outsiders. Southern neighboring languages do not accept ...

Claiming that it has become a “fashion among some intellectuals to speak or write in demeaning terms about Hindu culture and Indian heritage”, Sangamesh Savadattimath, researcher and retired professor ...

BENGALURU: Bengaluru is gearing up for the 2024 annual Republic Day Flower Show at Lalbagh, as the main attraction in the upcoming flower show will be a floral replica of Lord Basaveshwara. The 11-day ...

Kalaburagi: Kalaburagi is set to witness the creation of ‘Vachana Mantapa,’ a landmark initiative dedicated to promoting the philosophy of 12th-century social reformer Basavanna. Designed as a hub for ...

NS Gundur has received a New Indian Foundation translation fellowship to translate DR Nagaraj’s Allamaprabhu Mattu Shaiva Pratibhe from the Kannada. Now for the task of the translator. Instead of ...

The Veerashaiva movement may have created one of the most prominent communities in the state — the Lingaayats, but in reality, it contributed so much more to the living arts and the culture of the ...

BENGALURU: The release of a book, Vachana Darshana, which has been supported by right wingers, has been challenged by many progressive Lingayat groups across the state. In Kalaburagi, around 50 ...