I desperately wanted to know if it is really the curse of the old british or Kannadigas are really infatuated with other languages. Bangalore is the one worst affected place in karnataka where others presume of making it their home without learning the regional language. One of the reasons that can be ascribed to this effect is the importance given to English and Hindi. Regrettably the administrative language is not completely kannada in karnataka politics. How annoying is that !
Most hurting of all is, works of great poets and Kannada laureate's are forgotten and not taught in schools. Instead of teaching works of Poet pampa, Kalidasa, Kuvempu and other such who fall in the list, taught are "twinkle twinkle little star", "Ba ba black sheep" and we have many inborn scientists, environmentalists. Instead of advocating "vachana's of Sarvagna", morals in "Mankutimmana Kagga" lads are taught "works of shakespeare, works of william wordsworth. Its quite astonishing to see that encouragement from a very important source (Government of Karnataka) is not available to kannada sons.
Secondly, I see it as a good place of putting my experience talking to Non-Kannadigas. A young man who studied in Mangaluru says "people there speak very good hindi, so I did not have to learn kannada; all I know in kannada is - ninna hesru gottilla". A complacent reply with a grin on his face which drove me nuts. Another lad who has worked in Bangalore for a couple of years says upon my introduction to him as one from Karnataka "r u from Bangalore ???". Reply from me was a yes. He says "you must be knowing Telugu or Tamil, people speak very good there. I did not have to learn kannada as they speak to me in English or a language I know". Now, this was ridiculous and my patience was wearing thin. I said to myself, "could this be an obsession ??". Instead of enforcing Kannada on them, their language is spoken. Capital does not necessarily need to be contaminated with other languages nevertheless the development taking place. I would like to quote examples of capitals where you cannot actually get along if you cannot speak the regional language and chennai would be a place which fits to the explanation. For any language to grow and influence and obviously impress people, encouragement for the people itself is a filip. Kannada has influenced many a great people to such an extent, that they have called Kannada as "mother". The same mother is being insulted in couple of occassions; software industries like Sasken to mention here. If you do not take care of your mother, who else will ? question this to yourself and try to find an answer. Learning a language is not a bad thing but developing a inclination to such an extent that you start speaking to him in his own language despite he knowing your language is bad, which i've seen in the past. We dont need any Vedike's to fight in favour of kannada or kannadiga's if people are right and realise about the importance of their language. This infection of "Infatuation" has to be cured and can only be cured with realisation of the importance of kannada. Had it been the curse of old british, it would have affected neighbouring states as much as it has affected us. It is interesting enough to know that the first translation of kannada language to english is done by a German missionary named Kittel. So it cannot be a curse of any of nations who colonised us. Its all in our mind. Goddamn mindset. change it ! for a good cause, for the betterment of Kannada.
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