Head (editor-in-chief) | Arun Hegde |
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Categories | Family interest |
Frequency | Monthly |
Format | Print (Paperback) |
Publisher | Samyukta Karnataka,[1][2] Karmaveera |
Founder | Loka Shikshana trust (established 27 April 1933) |
Founded | 1921[3] |
First issue | 1921 |
Company | Samyukta Karnataka, Karmaveera |
Country | India |
Based in | Bengaluru, Karnataka |
Language | Kannada |
Website | Publisher official website |
Kasthuri or Kasturi is a major Kannada monthly family-interest magazine[4] published in Karnataka, India, which has its headquarters in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It is also published from Mangaluru, Gulbarga, Davangere, and Hubli.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Kasthuri covers topics like society, Kannada poetry, science fiction, spirituality, health, travel, technology, cookery, book review, beauty. It publishes a large number of editorial cartoon, on politics and society.[11][12]
The magazine is subscribed in educational institutions like Tumkur University,[13] JSS College of Arts, Commerce & Science,[14] Kuvempu University,[15] Mysore University,[16][17] Mangalore University,[18] and Gulbarga University[19] etc.
Kasthuri (RNI:Reg.No.3633/1957)[20] was first published in 1921.[3] Ranganath Ramchandra Diwakar, an ex-president of the KPCC,[21] established the ′Loka Shikshana Trust′ (meaning: World Education Trust) [22] on 27 April 1933, which publishes Kasthuri and Karmaveera (a weekly Kannada magazine).[23]
Kannada writer and poet, P.V. Acharya,[24] was one among the many editors of Kasthuri,[22] including Radhakrishna Bhadti[25] and writer, journalist Nagesh Hegde[26]