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The Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Award (or Attimabbe Prashasti) is a literary award dedicated for woman writers in the Indian state of Karnataka. [ 1] The award was established in 1995 by the government of Karnataka. It is the highest literary honour for woman writers [ 2] conferred by the Department of Kannada and Culture, Government of ...
The Kannada script (IAST: Kannaḍa lipi; obsolete: Kanarese or Canarese script in English) is an abugida of the Brahmic family, [4] used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. Kannada script is also widely used for writing ...
In Kittel's Kannada-English dictionary book, authored by Rev. F. Kittel and published in the year A.D. 1894, on page 805, the word 'Devadiga' is defined as "dēva-aḍiga.
Devanahalli Venkataramanaiah Gundappa (17 March 1887 – 7 October 1975), popularly known as DVG, was an Indian writer, poet and philosopher in Kannada -language. He is one of the stalwarts of modern Kannada literature. His most notable work is the Mankuthimmana Kagga ("Dull Thimma's Rigmarole", 1943), which is similar to the wisdom poems of ...
Telugu, Kannada. Religion. Hinduism. Edigas or Idigas is a Hindu toddy tapper community in Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. [1] The traditional occupation of Idiga people was that of toddy tapping. [2] They are mostly concentrated in the Malenadu and Shivamogga districts. Similar but culturally distinct toddy tapping ...
Kannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script. [1] Attestations in literature span one and a half millennia, [2][3][4][5][6] with some specific literary works surviving in rich manuscript traditions, extending from the 9th century to ...
Devanoora Mahadeva is an Indian writer who writes in Kannada language. The Government of India conferred upon him the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award. [1] Known among literary circles to be a rebel, Mahadeva rejected the Nrupatunga Award (carrying a purse of Rs 5,01,000) in 2010. [2] Devanura's rejection of the award was ...
Kannada (/ ˈkɑːnədə, ˈkæn -/; [5][6] ಕನ್ನಡ, IPA: [ˈkɐnːɐɖa]), formerly also known as Canarese, [7] is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in south western India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third ...