The Congress government in Karnataka has decided to revise textbooks across the state by reintroducing works from several “progressive” writers in Kannada textbooks from the 2024-25 academic year onwards. A recent report submitted by the Textbooks Revision Committee suggested bringing back lessons on social reformers including Savitribai Phule and Periyar, and undoing the deletions made by the previous Bharatiya Janata …
WHEN Girish Karnad passed away in his sleep in the early hours of June 10 at his home in central Bengaluru’s Lavelle Road, an era came to an end. ‘Muscle power’, ‘streams of blood’, ‘destroying the enemy’.Is this even Kannada?” Gauri Lankesh writes that Karnad further said: “Datta Jayanti or Datta Mala are not our tradition at all. In a …
