In Karnataka, CM Siddaramaiah and even his predecessors post messages in Kannada on social media platforms to reach out to the citizens about the government's welfare schemes.

My earliest memories of stories are of my mother reading Asterix (as-tay-rix as she called it) to my sister and me in bed. We were a middle-class family with cultural capital that stood for “merit” in ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi bookended his speech with Kannada sentences in Bengaluru on Sunday. But most of his speech, delivered in chaste Hindi, was lost on a large section of people in the absence ...

In 2022, Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree’s novel Tomb of Sand won the International Booker Prize. And last week, Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated from the original Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, won the ...

The beginning of Kannada poetry is intertwined with the art of translation and rewriting. Pampa articulates the challenges inherent in this poetic pursuit, stating, “Kate Piridadodam Kateya ...

Meta has apologized to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah after its Kannada translation tool made a serious error. The tool inaccurately translated a condolence ...