Instituting an award is the best way of paying tribute, because readers get back to the author with a fresh outlook. Such is the case of Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, the grand old man of short stories in ...

Masti Venkatesh Iyengar was the fourth Kannada writer to be conferred the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour for his novel, Chikkaveera Rajendra. Renowned for his short stories, Masti wrote ...

Maasti is a very demanding Kannada film dialogue writer and always keeps the audience engaging with his punch dialogues. The writer is now patterning for a new film with Rishab Shetty in the lead role ...

BANGALORE: Kannada writer Prof L.S. Seshagiri Rao has been selected for the prestigious `Masti Award-2002' for his contributions to Kannada language and literature. bangalore: kannada writer prof l.s.

MYSORE: When a mahout says bhol, it means he is asking the elephant to blow its trumpet. Or when he says math, the elephant knows it means ‘come’. All that is changing slowly. With mahouts turning ...