Navakarnataka Publications

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A Bangalore publisher of progressive literature founded in 1960, which aimed to bring such writing into every household in Karnataka. It has published more than 6,000 titles — most in Kannada, some 400 in English — and runs its own shops in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru and Kalaburagi. It remains active.

Years: 1960–present
Location: Bangalore, India
Also known as: Navakarnataka Prakashana · ನವಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಪ್ರಕಾಶನ
Languages: Kannada, English
Website: https://navakarnataka.com/
Sources: Navakarnataka Publications — About us

Backlist

Titles of Navakarnataka Publications by year: 111 dated titles, 1963–2022, most in 2012 (15); 1 undated. Lines mark founded 1960.

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
1960s	2
1980s	8
1990s	30
2000s	35
2010s	33
2020s	3

Year	Title	Author(s)	Language
1963	Puravani Samputa	Niranjana	Kannada
1967	October Kratiya Itihasa	P. N. Sobolev	Kannada
1980	Boodu Bannada Kangaroo	Niranjana	Kannada
1980	Kadinalli Beladingalu	Niranjana	Kannada
1980	Motor Car Mechanism	K. P. Swamy	Kannada
1980	Subhaashini	Niranjana	Kannada
1982	Ibbaru Geleyaru Vol. 25	Niranjana (Editors)	Kannada
1982	Taatana Huttu Habba Vol.17	Niranjana	Kannada
1986	Kannaḍa Sāhitya✓	C. Vīraṇṇa	Kannada
1986	Śatamānagaḷa bāyārike✓ — Yuddhada viruddha śāntiya dani	Ci Śrīnivāsarāju	Kannada
1990	Global Philosophy for Everyman✓	Mrinal Kanti Gangopadhyaya	English
1990	Philosophy in India✓ Global Philosophy for Everyman; 3	Mrinalkanti Gangopadhyaya	English
1990	The Problem of Hindu-Muslim Conflicts✓	S. R. Bhat	English
1990	Tradition, Science and Society✓	Shirali Balachandra Rao	English
1991	Adolescent Mind	Chandrashekar C. R.	English
1991	Bhoogarbha Yathre	T. R. Anantharamu	Not recorded
1991	Gods, Ghosts, Witchcraft, and the Mind✓	Si. Ār Candraśēkhar	English
1991	N P sankaranaaraayana rav	N. P. sankaranaaraayana rav	Kannada
1991	Philosophy and the Future✓ Global Philosophy for Everyman	Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya	English
1991	Twentieth Century Philosophy✓ Globalphilosophy for Everyman -- 7	Suman Gupta	English
1992	Gida Tarakarigalu	P. Narayanaswamy	Not recorded
1992	Haaratada Kathe	N. Shankarappa	Not recorded
1992	Prathama Chikitse (Ed 2)	Satyanarayan m	Kannada
1992	Trikala — Katha sangraha	Vyasaraya Ballala	Not recorded
1992	Vishwa Vikhyatha Vaidya Vijnanigalu	H. D. Chandrappa Gowda	Kannada
1992	ವಿಶ್ವ ವಿಖ್ಯಾತ ನೈಸರ್ಗಿಕ ವಿಕೋಪಗಳು	T. R. Anantaramu (ಟಿ.ಆರ್. ಅನಂತರಾಮು)	Kannada
1993	Aahara, parisara mattu arogya — Prathamika shalaa shikshakarige mattu tande taayigalige ondu marghadarshi	C. R. Chandrashekhar	Kannada
1993	Namma Adige Pathyada Oota	M. Sivaram	Kannada
1993	Srinivasa Ramanujan	G. T. Narayana Rao	Not recorded
1993	The Dunkel Draft✓ — Design for Disaster	B. K. Chandrashekar	English
1993	Vijnana Prapancha Swarasya Sangatigalu	Kaivara Gopinath	Not recorded
1993	Vijnanigalodane Rasanimishagalu	J. R. Lakshmana Rao	Not recorded
1994	Stanyapaana	Anna Purnamma C.	Kannada
1995	Chakra	R. Lakshmana Rao	Kannada
1995	Mind Your Mind. 3rd Edn	C. R. Chandrashekar	English
1996	Mahile - Bidugadeya Hadiyalli	N. Gayathri	Not recorded
1996	Milestones in Science and Technology	Kaiwara Gopinath	English
1998	Navakarnataka Jnana Vijnana Kosha — 3	M. A. Sethu Rao	English
1998	Swaatantrakke Aivattu Varsha	G. Ramakrishna	Kannada
1998	Tradition, Science and Society	—	Not recorded
2002	Bhaya, Koopa, Dukha ivugala nivarane hege?	C. R. Chandrashekar	Kannada
2002	Neevu Arogyavaagi irabeke?	C. R. Chandrashekar	Kannada
2002	Nitya Jeevanadalli Kanoonu — Pustaka 3	S. R. Goutham	Kannada
2002	Samanya Daihika Novugalu	C. R. Chandrashekar	Kannada
2002	Ta. Rā. Su✓ Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakarā baduku-bareha	Na Prabhākar	Kannada
2003	Figures for Fun	Perelman	English
2004	All the Perfumes of Arabia Will Not, Dr Joshi	Aditya Narayan	English
2005	Hejje gurutu✓ — Kādambari	Vyāsarāya Ballāḷa	Kannada
2005	Hosatu vācike✓	—	Kannada
2005	Phoenix & Four Other Mime Plays✓ — From the Emergency Years	C. Śrīnivāsarāju	English
2005	SAMPRADAYA, VIJNANA mattu SAMAJA	—	Not recorded
2006	Cancer Yaarige Matthu Eke Baruttade	H. Ramachandraswamy	Kannada
2006	Guru Kalisida Patha	Kamala Ramaswamy	Kannada
2006	Navakarnāṭaka kiriyara kathāmāle✓ — Vividha lekhakara ayda uttama kathegalu	Vi Rāmacandra Śāstri	Kannada
2006	Rakta Cancer Mattu Adara Upachara	S. J. Nagalotimutt	Kannada
2006	Śāntinātha Dēsāyi✓ Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskṛta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha	Prīti Śubhacandra	Kannada
2006	Vrudhyapyavannu oppikolluvudu	C. R. Chandrashekar	Kannada
2007	Mēriya kate✓ — Kyānsar mattu saṃsāra saṅgharṣada kathana	Śāntārāma Sōmayāji	Kannada
2007	Suicide	N. Gopalakrishna	English
2008	A First Course in Marxist Economic Theory✓ — With an Appendix "Once Again on the Falling Rate of Profit"	Kishore Kumar Theckedath	English
2008	Astrology, Believe it or not?	S. Balachandra Rao	Not recorded
2008	Kalikeyalli Kale	Smt. Jane Sahi And Sri Roshan Sahi	Kannada
2008	Keeping Faith with the Mother Tongue✓ — The Anxieties of a Local Culture	Sugata Srinivasaraju	English
2008	Manasvi✓ — Ḍā. Si. Ār. Candraśēkhar avara 60 varṣagaḷa baduku-baraha	Nā Sōmēśvara	Kannada
2009	Cennavīra Kaṇavi✓ — Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada	Ji. Es Kāpase	Kannada
2009	Ḍi. Ār. Nāgarāja✓ Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha	Vi Candraśēkhara Naṅgali	Kannada
2009	Gītā Nāgabhūṣaṇa✓ — Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskṛta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha	N. Gayathri	Kannada
2009	Ji. Es. Āmūra✓ Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha	Bālasubrahmaṇya Kañjarpaṇe	Kannada
2009	Jivopanisat✓	Em. En Kesava Rav	Kannada
2009	Ke. Vi. Subbaṇṇa✓ Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha	Nā Dāmōdara Śeṭṭi	Kannada
2009	Sāmānyanige sāhitya caritre✓	—	Kannada
2009	Śaṅkara Bāḷadīkṣita Jōśi✓ Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha	Mallēpuraṃ Ji Veṅkaṭēśa	Kannada
2009	Śaṅkara Mokāśi Puṇēkara✓ Navakarnaṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha	Ji. En Upādhya	Kannada
2009	Sitakavya kathana✓	Em. En Kesava Rav	Kannada
2009	Śrīraṅga✓ Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada, Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha	Bi. En Sumitrābāyi	Kannada
2010	A Window on the Wall✓ — Quit India Prison Diary of a 19-year-old	H. Y. Sharada Prasad	English
2010	Bi. Raṅganāyakaṃṃa✓ — Prathama mahiḷā ēronāṭikal iñjiniyar	Bi. Es Mayūra	Kannada
2010	Karnāṭaka kalādarśana✓ — Citrakale, śilpakale, karakuśalakale, vāstuśilpa, chāyācitra, raṅgabhūmi, saṅgīta, nr̥tya, calanacitra	Eṃ. Ec Kr̥ṣṇayya	Kannada
2010	Suphi mahileyaru✓	Phakīr Muhammad Kaṭpāḍi	Kannada
2011	Celuvu✓ — Maṅgōliya-Cīna-Japān-Koriya kathegaḷu Viśvakathākōśa -- v. 4	Ji. Es Sadāśiva	Kannada
2011	Ḍā. Es. El. Bhairappanavara kādambarigaḷoḍane dharma-karma jijñāse✓	K. L. Gōpālakrṣṇayya	Kannada
2011	Dharaṇimaṇḍala madhyadoḷage✓ — 22 Kannaḍa kathegaḷu Viśvakathākōśa v. 1	S. R. Bhat	Kannada
2011	Kāḍinoḷagondu jīva✓	Ke. Eṃ Ciṇṇappa	Kannada
2011	Lokpal✓ — The Law in the Making	Y. G. Muralidharan	English
2012	Bhaviṣyada bharavase✓ — Hasiru indhana	Ṭi. Es Gōpāl	Kannada
2012	Chintamani Ragoonatha Charry and Contemporary Indian Astronomy✓	B. S. Shylaja	English
2012	Dhīmatiyaru✓ Vanitā Cintana māle	Nāgamaṇi Es Rāv	Kannada
2012	Gōpālakr̥ṣṇa Pai✓ — Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada -- 55	Gītā Śeṇai	Kannada
2012	Haḷḷihādi✓ — 'Prajāvāṇi' aṅkaṇa lēkhanamāle	Ji. Es Jayadēva	Kannada
2012	Ji. Es. Śivarudrappa✓ Navakarnāṭaka Sāhitya Saṃpada -- 28	Hodigere Shanubhouge Venkatesha Murthy	Kannada
2012	Naḍedaṣṭu nāḍu✓ — Tirugāṭada kathanagaḷu	Rahamat Tarīkere	Kannada
2012	Pickles from Home✓ — The Worlds of a Bilingual	Sugata Srinivasaraju	English
2012	Rāghavēndra Pāṭīla✓ — Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha Navakarnāṭaka Sāhitya Saṃpada -- 49	Cintāmaṇi Koḍlekere	Kannada
2012	Saṃ. Śi. Bhūsanūramaṭha✓ — Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada -- 19	Śāntā Imrāpūra	Kannada
2012	Saṅkalpa✓	Prītīśa	Kannada
2012	Śrīnivāsa Vaidya✓ — Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada -- 52	Mālati Paṭṭaṇaśeṭṭi	Kannada
2012	Strīpatha✓ — Lēkhanagaḷa saṅgraha Vanitā Cintana māle	Nāgamaṇi Es Rāv	Kannada
2012	Sujanā✓ — Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada -- 49	Pradhān Gurudatta	Kannada
2012	Vaidēhi✓ — Kēndra Sāhitya Akāḍemi praśasti puraskr̥ta Kannaḍa lēkhakara baduku-bareha Navakarnāṭaka sāhitya sampada -- 53	Sa Uṣā	Kannada
2013	Alemāriya antaraṅga✓	Kuppe Nāgarāja	Kannada
2013	Corruption✓ — The Rot Within	Y. G. Muralidharan	English
2013	Kāḍu kalisuva pāṭha✓	Ṭi. Es Gōpāl	Kannada
2013	Nage navilu✓ — Laghulēkhana, haraṭe, nagebarahada saṅkalana	Jyotsna K. Kamat	Kannada
2013	Śāntigondu savālu✓ — Āyda prātinidhika kavanagaḷu	Bi. E. Sanadi	Kannada
2014	Mahiḷe mattu mauḍhya✓	Vasundharā Bhūpati	Kannada
2014	Nambike, mūḍhanambike vaijñānika manōvr̥tti✓	M. Abdul Rehman Pasha	Kannada
2015	Dvāpara✓ — Saṅkīrṇa Mahābharatakkondu vibhinna viślēṣaṇe	Kannāḍiga Nārāyaṇa	Kannada
2018	Bharatavannu Kuritu Marx	Karl Marx	Kannada
2021	ಮನರಂಜನೆಗಾಗಿ ಬೀಜಗಣಿತ (Algebra For Fun In Kannada)Free	Yakov Perelman (Yakov Perelman) (ಯಾಕೊವ್ ಪೆರೆಲ್ಮನ್ (Yakov Perelman))	Kannada
2022	Devanura Mahadeva - RSS Depth and Breadth / ಆರ್. ಎಸ್. ಎಸ್. - ಆಳ ಮತ್ತು ಅಗಲ ( Kannada 2022)Free	—	Kannada
2022	ಮೋಜಿನ ಗಣಿತ (Figures For Fun In Kannada)Free	Yakov Perelman (Yakov Perelman) (ಯಾಕೊವ್ ಪೆರೆಲ್ಮನ್ (Yakov Perelman))	Kannada
n.d.	Viśvakathākōśa	—	Not recorded