Celebrating a bicentenary
From another time and culture, a proselytiser and Kannada litterateur

One-hundred-and-seventy-five years ago a diminutive German arrived on the shores of Mangalore armed with the Bible, seeking to spread the message of the Gospel.
Seven years later, in 1843, the Christian missionary had mastered Kannada well enough to launch Karnataka’s first vernacular newspaper Mangalura Samachara.  read more »