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

The Kannada-MNIST dataset is meant to be a drop-in replacement for the MNIST dataset, albeit for the numeral symbols in the Kannado language. I am disseminating an additional dataset of 10k handwritten digits in the same language (predominantly by the non-native users of the language) that can be used as an additional test set. The language is the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka in India with nearly 60 million speakers worldwide.