Kannada Sahitya Parishat will complete the project of translating about 50 Nepalese poems into Kannada by March next, according to parishat president Manu Baligar.
Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, he said that simultaneously about 50 Kannada poems are also being translated into Nepalese now.
The “give and take project” involves translation of already available English versions of those Kannada and Nepalese poems in Kannada and Nepalese.
The Nepalese version of Kannada poems are also expected to be ready by March-end. Among the Kannada poems being translated into Nepalese included one by late Gopalakrishna Adiga.
Mr. Baligar said that the “Shatamanotsava Bhavan” of the parishat in Bengaluru would be inaugurated next month. The government has provided ₹ 3.50 crore to it.
The next “Horanada Kannadigara Samavesha” is likely to be conducted in Mumbai on February 10 and 11, 2018.
He said that the parishat would arrange for financial grant if anybody donated land for building Kannada Bhavans in gram panchayat centres. The bhavans would be built after land donated is registered in the name of the parishat. The bhavans could be named after the donor or the village itself. Of the 14 such proposals received now, the parishat has sent seven of them to the government for approval.
H.K. Patil, Minister for Panchayatraj and Rural Development, has promised that the government would sanction ₹ 15 lakh for each such building. The fund could be arranged from other government sources.
He said that under the Bharatavani Project of the Union government, 150 books published by the parishat were being digitised now.
The 101st annual general body and executive committee meeting of the parishat would start here on Monday.
