Raamesh Gowri Raghavan first encountered the Brahmi script back in the 1990s. “These were Ashokan inscriptions,” says the Mumbai-based writer, epigraphist, digital marketer and scientist. Wanting to ...

What are the basics of storytelling? Filmmaker D. Satya Prakash (Rama Rama Re..., Ondalla Eradalla fame), who ran a script-writing class for youngsters for a couple of years, has an answer. “Evoking ...

A five-day workshop of Konkani language experts will set in motion the process of creation of Kannada script text corpus for digital language lab (DLL) software installed in Konkani Language ...

The antiquity of Kannada has been a matter of serious study for over a century now, and historians and palaeographers widely believe that the first written inscription in the language dates back to ...

The earliest known inscriptions in Kannada date back to the 4th century BC. By 400 A.D., however, the Sangam era, which flourished from about 300 BC, made little or no reference to Kannada as a ...

Y V Rao’s film Sati Sulochana in 1934 marked the emergence of the Kannada film industry, and what followed was discoveries of big stars like Dr Raj Kumar over the next few decades. A still from the ...

MYSURU: A school going boy with curiosity leaned closer to a monitor, trying to decipher an ancient Kannada script displayed on the screen. Beside him, his friends lined up eagerly pointed out the ...

Court directs HRD ministry to make a ‘reasoned and speaking order’ about use of various scripts for Konkani After dismissing a petition earlier this year regarding the use of Kannada and other scripts ...

The Karnataka Cabinet had on January 5, given its approval to an ordinance to amend the Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Act that mandates 60 per cent use of the state's language in signages ...