Kasthuri covers topics like society, Kannada poetry, science fiction, spirituality, health, travel, technology, cookery, book review, beauty. It publishes a large number of editorial cartoon, on politics and society.[11][12]
Kasthuri (RNI:Reg.No.3633/1957)[20] was first published in 1921.[3] Ranganath Ramchandra Diwakar, an ex-president of the KPCC,[21] established the ′Loka Shikshana Trust′ (meaning: World Education Trust) [22] on 27 April 1933, which publishes Kasthuri and Karmaveera (a weekly Kannada magazine).[23]
Kannada writer and poet, P.V. Acharya,[24] was one among the many editors of Kasthuri,[22] including Radhakrishna Bhadti[25] and writer, journalist Nagesh Hegde[26]