The autocrats in Moscow and Beijing believe that the west is divided, decadent and in decline. They have to be proved wrong. Otherwise, all the rhetoric about freedom is merely noise before defeat. (Andrew Rawnsley in The Guardian)
“If you don’t say what you think, then you kill your unborn self.” (Jordan Peterson)
The opinions that are expressed on these pages do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the LMU Munich (but I do not wish to kill my unborn self, so here they are).
[Update: September 11, 2026]
Click here for a version of this page in German.
The institute page of Prof. Zydenbos at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institute for Indology and Tibetology) can be found here.
Prof. Zydenbos retired in October 2023. New course offerings have not (yet) been planned.
Kannada / ಕನ್ನಡ:
A Manual of Modern Kannada, which was developed for and used in the courses at the LMU, is available in book form as well as in downloadable PDF format as an Open Access publication: see https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/736 and https://doi.org/10.11588/xabooks.736
(A book review has appeared in the Kannada-language newspaper Vijaya Karnataka Vijaya Karnataka of 28-I-2021.)
Please also see the list of corrigenda.
How to write Kannada on a Computer (information in German) (dated: 22-X-2021) –
Das Schreiben von Kannada auf dem Computer
Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen auf verschiedenen Computersystemen
Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen unter macOS (Stand: 22.10.2021)
Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen unter Windows™ (Stand: 22.10.2021)
Installieren einer Kannada-Tastaturbelegung unter Linux (Beispiel anhand von Linux Mint)
Prof. Zydenbos’ list of publications (not entirely complete, updated 4-IX-2023) can be read here as a PDF file.
‘Gender language’ (in German): a few web pages about what it is, and why you should not have anything to do with it – click here: https://zydenbos.userweb.mwn.de/gendersprache. An investigation of the linguistic aspects of the phenomenon and of the unscientific, authoritarian, anti-egalitarian, discriminatory, pseudo-liberal politics behind it.
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos (retd.)
Department für Asienstudien
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
Universität München
Germany