A. N. Prahlada Rao (b. 24 July 1953) is a Kannada crossword writer. He has created 18,000 crosswords in Kannada language for various Kannada daily newspapers and periodicals. A.N. Prahlada Rao was born at Abbani in Kolar district of Karnataka in India. He started writing Kannada crosswords in 1984. A. N. Prahlada Rao is a crossword maker with highest number of crosswords in India. Kannada - aptly described as sirigannada (known to few as Kanarese) is one of the oldest Dravidian languages and is spoken in its various dialects by roughly 45 million people. ... A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square grid of black and white squares. ... Kolar ಕೋಲಾರ   is a district in Karnataka state of India. ... This article is about the Indian region. ...

A. N. Prahlada Rao is also an author of a book named Bangarada manushya which is the chronicle of Dr. Rajakumar, who is a popular Kannada film actor.

His second book Belliterey Belagidavaru (Gems of the Silver screen)— contains nuggets profiling 115 film stars who twinkled on the Kannada silver screen with a foreword by director Girish Kasaravalli, who is also profiled. Eminent Kannada film-maker Girish Kasaravalli started his career with Ghatashraddha in 1977. ...

The first-ever volumes of Kannada crossword puzzles compiled by A.N. Prahlad Rao has launched on 14.02.2008. Out of five Kannada crossword books three books are based on general knowledge, one on Kannada cinema and another one for children.

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