The name Ugadi is a confluence of two words, namely, “Yuga” which means era in Sanskrit, and the word “Adi” which stands for beginning both in Kannada and Sanskrit. The festival is also popularly known as Chandramana Ugadi which stands for the new beginning of the New Year according ...
Ugadi is believed to have originated from the Sanskrit word Yugadi. The term Yugadi is the merger of two words,Yuga(meaning period or age) andAdi(meaning the beginning). So, Ugadi or Yugadi literally translates to ‘the commencement of a new period or new age’. Beliefs associated with ...
was whenan Indian journalist opened my eyes to the work Malayalam writer, MT Vasudevan Nair. So I was delighted to hear about the publication this year of a novel translated into English from the South Indian language of Kannada, which is still barely represented in the anglophone reading ...