Mangalore: A reputed Tulu stage and film personality, Macchendranath Pandeshwar, has been awarded the Tulushree prize given by Akshara Foundation of Alapadav, and it will be conferred on him at a function organized on Aug.7 at 3.00 PM at Rayee H.P.School, when DK-KSP chief, Pradeep K.Kalkura will be present to give away this Tulunad award. [...]

Mangalore : Vishnu Kamath Shevgoor popularly known as ‘Children’s teacher’ was born on June 16, 1951 to a Mangalore’s first commercial designer L Laxman Kamath Shevgoor and Laxmi Bai Shevgoor.  Shevgoor who hails from Urwa, started his career as an art teacher in the year 1967 in the name of Shevgoor Fine Arts in Carstreet [...]

Mangaluru artiste shines in Bengaluru The famous Mangalorean cine star Suresh Manglooru, was born on 14 March 1953 at Attavar. He who was appointed as the senior supervisor at the BSNL Company from 1973 to 2003 had shown interest towards acting. During the course of his profession, he acted in several dramas organized at the [...]

Bangalore: The President of 77th Kannada Literacy Assembly now in Bangalore is a 98 year old, short, smiling man called G.Venkatasubbaiah, a lexicographer, also known as ‘Jeevy’ by his friends and fellow journalists. Jeevi (GV) wrote many books but they were not novels, but only dictionaries. Only an expert in a language can produce such [...]

Tulunad’s Composer Mangalore : Manikanth Kadri, whose first steps in the field of music were guided by his father Padma Shree Kadri Gopalnath, the internationally acclaimed saxophone player, is now famous in his own rights as a composer of film music. Born in Mangalore on May 28, 1978, Manikanth studied in St. Lawrence Higher Secondary [...]

Radhika Pandit is a Rising star. Bangalore : Half Goanese (her mother being Goan) and half  Saraswat (her father Krishna Pandit is stage and film personality), born in Bangalore, Radhika Pandit is a young rising star coming after Ramya, she politely says she is even junior to Rakshita. With Radhika’s departure after marriage to producer [...]

A portrait of a star cricketer from India. Mumbai: E veryone likes to watch the play of “master blaster” Sachin Tendulkar as punishing batsman. He has been playing test, ODI and T-20 matches for the last 20 years, and is still there to represent India in any such game. He is a short man just [...]

New Delhi: This boy had won a bronze medal in Beijing Olympics for India from Haryana in 2009. Now he has established himself as the World Champion by beating a Russian in the finals by 3 to 1, thereby gaining a gold medal, on Sunday. So, Susheel is the first Pehalwan who has earned the [...]

In film world A is for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who at 37, is stunning to look at, and has come to the South to complete 2 versions (Hindi and Tamil) of a Maniratnam film (Ravan) successfully, and to join Rajnikant (the superstar of Tamil) as his heroine in ‘Robot’, a big budget picture to be [...]