The State Budget announces the Havyaka Academy, funding for Kannada literature, and support for cultural events and historical projects.

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, ...

Bengaluru: The Kannada Sangha of Christ University marked its golden jubilee valedictory function on March 3, 2026, ...

HS Venkatesh Murthy, a celebrated Kannada writer, educator, and lyricist, passed away at 80 due to age-related ailments. He was a professor at St. Joseph's College of Commerce and authored over 100 ...

It is a crowning moment for Indian, especially Kannada, literature that Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the International Booker Prize 2025. This landmark achievement marks not only global ...

Banu Mushtaq, who recently brought global recognition to Kannada literature by winning the International Booker Prize, on Monday asserted that the language and its people are widely misunderstood ...

The International Booker Prize win for Heart Lamp, a collection of short stories that Banu Mushtaq wrote in Kannada and Deepa Bhasthi translated into English, seems to have unleashed in the Kannada ...

Local literature just got global exposure with writer-translator duo Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi’s short story collection Heart Lamp winning The International Booker Prize. Prominent Kannada ...