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Jayant Kaikini's initial foray into lyricism for Kannada film industry includes movies like Girish Kasarvalli's Dweepa, Nagabarana's Chigurida Kanasu. Renowned Kannada film actor and singer Dr.Rajkumar sung his song "Bandhuve O Bandhuve", composed by V. Manohar. He is credited with revolutionising the Kannada cinematic vocabulary with new and ...
Current distribution of Dravidian languages.. This is a list of English words that are borrowed directly or ultimately from Dravidian languages.Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia.
K. K. Gangadharan (10 March 1949 - 19 January 2025) was a Malayalam-Kannada translator from Kerala, India. He has translated the works of many Malayalam writers into Kannada and has translated 235 of Madhavikutty's 243 stories into Kannada. In 2024, he received the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Kannada.
Ganjam Venkatasubbiah [2] (23 August 1913 – 19 April 2021), also known as G. V., was a Kannada writer, grammarian, editor, lexicographer, and critic who compiled over eight dictionaries, authored four seminal works on dictionary science in Kannada, edited over sixty books, and published several papers.
He is most famous for his studies of the Kannada language and for producing a Kannada-English dictionary of about 70,000 words in 1894. [1] [5] (Many Kannada-language dictionaries had existed at least since poet Ranna's 'Ranna Khanda' in the tenth century.) Kittel also composed numerous Kannada poems. [2]
The impetus to modern literature came from a Western-style education and the Christian missionaries who relied on the local language to propagate the gospel. The arrival of the printing press was a catalyst to this process. Among the several early Kannada publications, the first Kannada-English dictionary by Ferdinand Kittel (1894) is ...
This is a list of available epics in the Kannada language (also called purana, in prose or poem), a South Indian language. Based on his research, the Kannada scholar L.S. Sheshagiri Rao claims that starting with the earliest available epic Adipurana by Pampa (939 C.E), Kannada writers have created a rich and active epic tradition.
Ferdinand Kittel (1832–1903), Christian missionary and writer of Kannada-English dictionary. At the dawn of the 20th century, B. M. Srikantaiah ('B. M. Sri'), regarded as the "Father of modern Kannada literature", [136] called for a new era of writing original works in modern Kannada while moving away from archaic Kannada forms.