Kannada-MNIST:A new handwritten digits dataset in ML town

Kannada is the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka in India with nearly 60 million speakers worldwide. Also, as per articles 344(1) and 351 of the Indian Constitution, Kannada holds the status of being one of the 22 scheduled languages of India . The language is written using the official Kannada script, which is an abugida of the Brahmic family and traces its origins to the Kadamba script (325–550 AD).