When I learnt of Prof G Venkatasubbaiah’s death, my first reaction was that of surprise. Looking back, I see that I first “met” GV when I began teaching myself to read Kannada properly several years ago. My greatest aid at the time was the Kannada Ratnakōsha, a pocket-sized Kannada-Kannada dictionary first brought out in 1973 by the Kannada Sāhitya Parishat, …
58, 31st Cross, 7th Block, Jayanagar, Bengaluru, is like a shrine to Kannada wordsmiths and a symbol of intellectual and linguistic virtuosity, for this is where Ganjam Venkatasubbaiah, the grand old man of Kannada language, resides. “No other Indian language has a lexicographer and linguistic scholar of GV’s stature,” says the Kannada writer Siddalingaiah. Recalling his father’s contribution to Kannada …
Jiao Yang, Party secretary of Fudan University, visits the exhibition featuring works of renowned lexicographer Lu Gusun on Nov 18. From critical reviews for the theater performance of Othello, to the working pages of the Chinese-English Dictionary and handwritten test papers for undergraduate students, the works of Lu Gusun, one of the most renowned lexicographers in contemporary China, are currently …
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