At 6 am on 3 November, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant played the gumot at Mangaluru's Town Hall and a Guinness World Records attempt for the longest singing …
Changemakers
She started with music, a few food packets and a handful of volunteers. Three decades on, Corrine Rasquinha's White Doves runs a 200-bed home, a children's home and a nightly meal for people on Mangaluru's streets, and the state has named her a 2025 Rajyotsava awardee for social work.
Women of the Coast
Born in Kodagu, schooled in Mangaluru, and on top of the Asian Games podium again in September 2026, twelve years after her first Asian Games medals.
Pioneers
Born in Mangaluru's Kandak in 1945, he translated around 30 works from Urdu and Malayalam, wrote two much-reprinted books of his own, and ran the Kannada weekly Sanmarga from behind the desk.
Women of the Coast
From a quiet materials science lab at Srinivas University, Dr. U. Sandhya Shenoy has spent years chasing a question most people never think to ask — where does all that lost heat go, and could it power something instead?
Unsung Heroes
K. Narayana Naik retired from teaching in 2001. He has spent every year since riding to schools across Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, making sure no child's education ends the way his own nearly did
Changemakers
A 2023 Rajyotsava Award for social service, the honorary presidency of the Udupi District Muslim Okkuta, and a place on stages where communities meet
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