Recently 82nd Kannada Sahitya Sammelana was successfully held in Raichur district of Karnataka. Raichur is predominantly Telugu speaking region of Karnataka. Beauty of Karnataka is we have all language speaking regions integrated with AKANDA-Karnataka a.k.a Unified Karnataka. Geographically Karnataka is surrounded by Tamilnadu in south east, Andhra Pradesh in North-east, Kerala in South-West, Maharashtra and Goa in North-West. Interestingly Literary works in Kannada are carried out by giants with Tamil, Telugu,Marathi, Konkani,Malayalam, Urdu mother tongue. Da Ra Bendre, D.V. G, Masti Venkatesh Iyengar, G.P Rajaratnam, T P Kailasam, Girish Karnad, Govinda Pai, Nissar Ahmed and many literary giants with different mother tongue have enriched Kannada literature. Such is the Soluble power of Solvent called Kannada!
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| Kannada Sammelana Raichur-Pic courtesy Prajavani |
Recently concluded Kannada Sahitya Sammelana was not an exception with people belonging to various community contributing their bit to its success. Interestingly new addition to this list of neighboring state supporters, citizens from North India and Western India like Gujarati and Marvari community have also significantly supported in moving the Mother Bhuvaneshwari's Chariot.
Raichur Sammelana has witnessed huge support from Telugu speaking community and from Muslim community of the region. Rice mill owners association of this Telugu dominated area have contributed 10 Lakhs for Kannada Sammelana, which is a remarkable gesture.
According to sources from Kannada Daily Newspapers the entire food department was managed by non-Kannada speaking communities, that too Muslim community upheld the cause of Kannada by distributing KADAK-ROTIS prepared at their homes. read more.....
While caste and religion are two barriers for the unification of people of this country, Language which is integral part of human communication is playing unifying act, which has no barrier that religions create like HINDU, MUSLIM, CHRIST, SIKH etc.
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| Ambulance Driver Cum Kannada Activist selling Flags: Pic Courtesy-Prajavani |
One more interesting aspect of this Sammelana/Conference is an Ambulance driver from Bengaluru by name Shankar opining that "Non-Kannadigas purchase Badges and flags without bargaining, while actual Kannadigas bargain a lot" depicts the other side of story why Kannada is given step-motherly treatment in her own land! read more....
Personally I have witnessed Friends of mine with Telugu, Tamil and Marathi mother tongue storming to streets during Kaveri disputes while actual Kannada speaking brethren relaxing at home! I have witnessed Tamilians have the habit of purchasing one or the other Tamil Tabloid in addition to daily newspaper, Kannadigas will be happy borrowing News paper from neighbor in Buses and Trains to enrich their current affair knowledge. Now a days many Kannadigas are happy reading news paper online using their office internet facility, instead of purchasing hard copy for home. One more habit cultivated by native Kannada speaking people is to watch Kannada movies from Internet downloaded versions instead of visiting theater, which is 70 year old disease haunting Kannada community.
To conclude let us hope Kannadigas derive motivation from their non-kannada mother tongue brothers and sisters to uphold the cause of Karnataka and Kannada
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