Love will never apologise, says Kamal Haasan amid language rowKamal Haasan clarified that his remarks about Kannada's origin from Tamil were made out of affection, emphasizing that "love will never apo...
29 May, 2025, 01.52 PM IST
PM Modi condoles Sanskrit scholar Govindacharya's demise"Vidyavachaspati Bannanje Govindacharya Ji will be remembered for his great contributions to literature. His passion towards Sanskrit and K...
13 Dec, 2020, 06.18 PM IST
OBIT: A Rhodes scholar & math graduate, Girish Karnad, found a way to express creativity with wordsThe author worked with Oxford University Press from 1963 to 1969.
10 Jun, 2019, 04.50 PM IST
Noted playwright-actor Girish Karnad passes away; PM Modi, President Kovind, Kamal Haasan pay tributeThe Jnanpith awardee died at his home in Bengaluru.
10 Jun, 2019, 03.38 PM IST
Why more than 100 scholars want Indic expert Sheldon Pollock out of Murty LibraryThe septuagenarian scholar has always worked with American universities but his work centered around India, its civilisation, traditions an...
04 Mar, 2016, 01.06 PM IST
Sheldon Pollock is central to the classical library project, says Rohan Murty'From our generation, there is going to be a real drought, where we are not replacing enough of these scholars of the previous generation.'
03 Mar, 2016, 04.00 PM IST
Making a rightful case for Sheldon PollockThe petition seeking the ouster of Sheldon Pollock from the Murty Classical Library is entirely without basis, one of India's best-known li...
02 Mar, 2016, 10.44 AM IST
Kannada writer T K Dayanand refuses to accept state award, citing intoleranceT K Dayanand refused to accept the award announced for his work Ratrinakshatra by the Karnataka Sahitya Academy, citing atmosphere of intol...
08 Jan, 2016, 04.22 PM IST
RSS reaches out to MM Kalburgi's family with condolencesThe Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has reached out to the family of Kannada scholar MM Kalburgi and expressed condolences over the killing.
01 Dec, 2015, 04.21 PM IST
Will return award if Akademi doesn't make a clear stand: Anita DesaiHer comments came after at least 34 writers handed over their Sahitya Akademi awards in the aftermath of the killing M M Kalburgi.
21 Oct, 2015, 12.37 PM IST
Kannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikeri returns Akademi awardKannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikeri has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar M M Kalburgi.
13 Oct, 2015, 01.28 PM IST
Sahitya Akademi resignations: Fair choice if quitting due to ideology, says Culture Minister Mahesh SharmaSharma felt this was not the right course to take, making the point that there were “other methods” to register a protest.
12 Oct, 2015, 06.08 AM IST
Karnataka government to recommend CBI probe into Kalburgi murder caseKalburgi was shot dead at point blank range by two unidentified men at his residence on August 30 with police yet clueless about the killer...
07 Sep, 2015, 10.53 PM IST
MM Kalburgi murder: Police detain Rama Sene head Prasad AttavarThe police detained the head of rightwing group Rama Sene in connection with the murder of Kannada scholar and researcher Prof MM Kalburgi ...
04 Sep, 2015, 10.36 AM IST
Land clause comes handy for government now after giving nod for English medium schoolsA new rule states that the schools under the city municipal corporation limits should own half an acre for classes 1-8 or a full acre for c...
02 Jun, 2015, 10.43 AM IST
They still don't know what Siddaramaiah did on November 1Nagaraj says the government should have honoured prominent activists and brought out a booklet on the historical importance of each of the ...
07 Nov, 2014, 12.34 PM IST
- Subramanian Swamy criticises protests over removal of Ramayana essay
Subramanian Swamy today termed as "ridiculous" the protests against removal of scholar A K Ramanujan's essay on Ramayana from the history s...
24 Oct, 2011, 02.51 PM IST