Deccan Herald is a leading English-language daily newspaper distributed in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is published by the Printers (Mysore) Private Limited and has a number of editions in Delhi, Bangalore, Hubli, Mysore, Mangalore and Gulbarga.^{[citation needed]}

Deccan Herald was started in 1948, with the famous journalist Pothan Joseph as founding editor. Its sister publications are the Prajavani daily newspaper, the weekly magazine Sudha and the monthly magazine Mayura, all of which are published in Kannada. The head office of the Deccan Herald is on MG Road, Bangalore.

For the first quarter (Q1) of 2011, according to the Indian Readership Survey, Deccan Herald recorded an average daily readership of 423,000 (based on whether the respondent had read the newspaper the previous day). The ABC certified figures for the first half of 2009 put the daily paid circulation (number of bought copies as opposed to number of copies read) at 214,797.

The launch of its Delhi edition in December 2011 marked Deccan Herald's first venture outside of Karnataka, though the paper admits that it will find it very hard to compete in what is India's most competitive newspaper market with 15 newspapers on the market already. Deccan Herald was published from Hyderabad many years ago but stopped owing to dwindling circulation figures.

Sarekoppa Kumar Bangarappa(b.1963) is a Kannada film actor and politician - former minister in S.M. Krishna cabinet.

Born to S. Bangarappa, former Chief Minister, and Shakuntala. He married Vidyullatha and had a son - Arjun, and daughter - Lavayna.

He entered politics dramatically in 1996 after a brief stint as a film actor donning lead roles in many Kannada films, when he was asked to contest the byelection to fill the vacancy in the Sorab constituency of Shimoga district - which his father represented from 1967 to 1994 - seven times in a row - till he got elected to Loksabha, making way for his sons. He was elected to Legislative Assembly of Karnataka on Karnataka Congress Party, a regional political party founded by his father in 1994 after he was asked to resign as Chief Minister.

He was again elected from same assembly constituency in 1999 as a Congress candidate after the merger of Karnataka Congress Party with Congress for second-term. He won as MLA from Sorab constituency on INC for third-term successively in 2004 election. He was inducted into S.M. Krishna government as minister of state for Municipal Administration (Independent Charge). Prior to that, he also worked as Minister of State for Minor Irrigation. For few days, he resigned Indian National Congress party and joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 20 days to revert Congress again.

Amish Tripathi (born 18 October 1974) is an author from Mumbai, India. Tripathi's debut work The Immortals of Meluha was a surprise bestseller, breaking into the top seller charts within a week of its launch. The Immortals of Meluha was the first in the Shiva Trilogy. The trilogy is a fantasy re-imagining the Indian deity Shiva's life and adventures. It narrates how Shiva was 'just a man, 4000 years ago but is today remembered as the Mahadev (the God of Gods). The second book in the trilogy The Secret of the Nagas was released on 12 August 2011 and was a bestseller.

Tripathi worked in financial service industry for nearly 14 years before turning to writing. Although he originally wanted to be a historian, he chose a career in finance because he couldn't afford the former.

Immortals of Meluha, the first volume of the Shiva trilogy, had sold 175,000 copies by August 2011, when The Secret of the Nagas was released with 100,000 copies out of which 80,000 copies were pre-ordered. The second edition of the book was already in print, even before the first edition of the book which was released on August 12. The immortals of meluha is soon to be a turned a motion picture with dharma productions purchasing the rights of the book.