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September 19, 2005 | By Robin Jeffrey
Of the major Indian languages, the newspaper industry in Kannada is perhaps the least recognised or discussed. The reasons help us to understand the complex, organic relationship between newspapers and the societies and governments in which they grow and on which they focus. Kannada newspapers for many years had an air of complacency: slow, steady circulation growth, satisfactory returns to existing newspapers but few innovations and no substantial new newspapers or editions. In the mid-1990s there are signs that the popularising and broadening-out processes, which have characterised newspapers in other languages, have begun to affect Kannada as well. ...cont´d
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