Kikkeri Narayana

Who says Kannada is dying? Experts vouch that in the next 20 years, Kannada speakers will outnumber many foreign languages speakers, including German and French. What makes the language so vibrant? “Kannada will survive and flourish for centuries to come. The reasons are many. It has 2,000 years of history and grand literature. It’s beautiful script and musical quality enamours people. It is a major language with a strong base,” says litterateur and lexicographer Prof G Venkatasubbaiah. “A language dies…

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Shri Kikkeri Narayan- He is the founder of Bilingual Transfer Model of Education for Tribals. He has done pioneering work in introducing post modern and post –structuralist literary criticism in Kannada. He has written text books in Junukuruba, a tribal language of Karnataka. His play Kitale Balli has been selected as Play of the Century by Karnataka Sahitya. Article Link:http://www.kritya.in/0406/hn/our_masters.html