Spanish is not the only language in spain man, what do you think ??!!
0 comments Posted by Akshaya at 2:51 PMI was in Paris and Barcelona recently and when myself and my friend retired to the camping, rested a while and started expressing our views and what we felt when I asked a spanish friend of mine why is every sign post or hoarding displayed in two languages, spanish and the other ? and which is that other language ?
He started with "Hmmm" and continued look, we have our own language and dont think that we belong to spain. We are catalonians rather. got it ?.
My next question was "what is Catalonia though?
Catalonia is a state in north eastern part of spain and is autonomous and federal is many aspects. Main language spoken is CATALAN. Similarly there are different regions in Spain that does not speak Spanish like Valentia where it is Valentiano, EUSKERA in Pais Vasco, GALLEGO in Gallicia, ARAGONESE, BASQUE, ASTURIAN and other dialects of Spanish. They soon diminished due to suppression of Spanish rulers but now due to UNESCO and laws concerning language and rights, they have their right and they have the authority to say " go away freaking spanish or speak our language ".
Before we revolutionised bangalore, benda-kalooru became "bangalore" what we see at present- pathetic, desperate, longing for our own place back from bullies, being forced or enticed into learning or speaking in another language other than kannada, making a few people think that kannada is not as cool as english or hindi or any other language and in addition to the fore-mentioned ordeal, taking criticisms from annoying bullies and freaks.
When are we going to realise that our personal space has been breached and we have been taken as granted. I was thinking why do Karnataka have Karnataka Rakshana Vedike and tamilnadu does not have anything like Tamil Nadu protection forum. THINK !!!... Did we really need "Karnataka Rakshana Vedike" if we were strong enough ?
Development is essential and every human thinking is obviously directed one way or the other towards development of his own or the society. Tamil Nadu generates twice as much revenue per year than Karnataka and Chennai is one of the four metro-politan cities in India. In that respect, chennai should have been more contaminated than Bangalore.
I wish Kannadigas should be stronger than tamilians in language matters. But when did "we" become soft-target ????
like Master Hirannayya says in a play of his "Paschaataapa", we dont bother about emigrants from other states and we will keep sheltering them. one of the reasons for the above questions. one of the most influential languages in India, that influenced marathi, gujarathi, tamil, malayalam and mother of telugu was put at stake when the germ of globalisation infected kannadigas and pre-occupied their minds like a parasite adding to the damage that was done by Old british to our language. Let me give an instance of Ireland (Eire) which was ruled by british as well taking over lands from irish farmers. land lord system existed just like in India but the aura created by british to make irish people feel that they are superior of other if they know english was over powering and today its an english speaking country and you hardly get to see people speaking irish. So is the case with most of the celtic languages like scottish gaelic and welsh. So its now or never kind of situation. If you dont realise the loss, YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE YOUR IDENTITY !!!
Ufffff............... at last
CLASSICAL LANGUAGE KANNADA
It has gotten much easier now and years of "struggle of independence" in terms of language has paid off. It must be remembered that it did not come handy.
BUT
Time to rejoice my friends !!!!!
Adding to the happiness it has come at a good time !
There is more to it than just the declaration
Central government is going to prepare an online course for kannada and is going to announce quotas in engineering and medical colleges according to a post from government of India.
Jai karnataka, Jai kannada
Freedom from Old british rule did not really free each state in India. It did not give enough movement for the languages as political system was completely taken over by moronic hindi belt. India can be compared to europe where each state in India represents each country in Europe. Only difference is there is enough freedom for every language. European union unlike Indian government is not enforcing a single language though english speakers are a majority. Just like that India is not a single country but bunch of small countries like Karnataka, Maharashtra and the rest. "Hindians" on the other hand are imposing hindi on other states. Non - Hindi speakers are keeping themselves oblivious of injustice happenening almost everyday to them. They have proved that by giving options of two languages Hindi and English, whilst both are alien languages for non - Hindi speaking belt; when it comes to most of the entrance exams in the governmental sectors although the educated and talented manpower is in the south. This is giving undue advantage to Hindians. political maneuvering is the trick that "hindians" are following. During the late 1980s the fledging Janata Party, a contender for taking control of the Indian Government in the next election, was about to elect its President. Karnataka Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde was a leading candidate. A powerful politician like Hegde with proven administrative experience as chief minister would naturally be the choice for Prime Minister if he were to become Janata Party President and the Party were to form the Indian Government. This idea soured Hindi politicians of the party. They went on a covert campaign to besmirch Hegde and succeeded Seldom do leaders of one party smirch the name of another leader of the party; Hegde's case was a rare exception. This goes to show the extent Hindians would go to keep non-Hindians out of real power.
and why do you think the railway projects and other millions of dollars worth projects goes to hindi speaking belt and hardly any to south.
why is Indian government delaying according classical language status to Karnataka despite knowing it is an ancient language???
why did deve gowda had to step down and gujral assumed the position. what was his trick ?
Gowda during his regime took up dooradarshan project. it was destined to help farmers in India to improve by broadcasting several different programs in "hindi". How on earth can expect you expect farmers who are in 99.99 percent cases in india are uneducated to know and understand hindi. Devegowda made a slip and ordered the bulletins to be broadcasted in all local languages. This was outrageous for Hindians. There were only a small number of Hindians within the coalition but there were sizable numbers in Congress(I) which was supporting the coalition government from outside. They rallied enough support within a few months and in April 1997 Congress (I) gave an ultimatum that Gowda be ousted or they would withdraw support resulting in the collapse of the coalition government. They were not objecting to any of the government's major foreign or domestic policies, they were not objecting to any other minister in the cabinet, they were not asking for any ministerial position for Congress(I); their only demand was Deve Gowda out! They were willing to accept I. K. Gujral as Prime Minister. He was a light-weight politician from Hindi belt who had very few Members of Parliament from his party thus was never even considered for the Prime Minister position before. But he emerged as the only politician acceptable to the Hindian dominated Congress(I). They wanted to send a clear message to any non-Hindi politician who would dare to interfere in the Hindian hegemony of India. Gujral's selection sent the right message. The selection of Gujral to replace Gowda was a message no one could miss. Gowda wanted the government-controlled television to replace Hindi language agriculture bulletins by local language bulletins. Gujral used to be the Minister for Communications and Broadcasting in an earlier government. During his tenure in that position, he openly stated that television would be used to propagate Hindi, a differing view than Gowda's. For that "service" to Hindi he was now awarded the Prime Minister position and Gowda was "punished" for interfering in the use of government television to propagate and impose Hindi. The message was clear to all non-Hindi politicians aspiring for key posts in the Indian Government, "We (Hindians) may allow non-Hindian Prime Ministers if absolutely necessary but if he/she does anything against Hindian supremacy, we will depose him/her". The message was not lost on the formerly staunch opponent to Hindi imposition, the DMK Party of Tamil Nadu. During the past few years it has softened its stand on Hindi imposition; except for a few statements within Tamil Nadu it kept silent within the government. It is no accident that Maran, DMK President Karunanidhi's nephew and Minister for Industry, took his oath of office in English and not in Tamil while all Hindian ministers did so in Hindi. His ministry continues to base promotions and salary increments on the basis of passing Hindi examination. Karunanidhi, a one-time anti-Hindi stalwart, knows very well that if Maran or other DMK ministers interfere in the continued Hindi imposition in their ministries, their positions would not last for even a week.
The Deve Gowda episode demonstrates the extent of Hindian power in Indian politics and who really rules India. Narasimha rao of Andhra pradesh when he became the prime minister, Kamaraj, rajaji of tamil nadu were given the same treatment by not offering any positions despite knowing they were good bunch of leaders. so the law yet to written in Indian constitution is India has to be ruled by Hindians and not Indians.
I would like to share my experience of a bit of my travel across different places in south India. After looking at the plight of kannada in Bengaluru and few other big cities in Karnataka, I thought of passing on my thoughts and experiences to people to make them realise of their mistake !
Travelling to Chennai, one of the 4 major metro's in India. Starting from boarding the bus from my home to KBS to Chennai bus station, the things that have happened were shocking for me. I was going there for a short term training. I boarded the local mass transport, got the ticket and a man standing next to me asking for a ticket "bus stand ka ek ticket dena conductor" and the conductor replied " kis bus stand jana hai aapko ?". I appreciated conductor's hindi language. Then switched to a local FM Radio and heard RJ yelling "This is radio Mirchi and next song coming up is rang de basanti from the hit movie rang de basanti" and he played quite a lot of hindi songs and he was talking in english with hardly a few kannada words in it. I was taken aback but kept myself calm and did not ignite any thinking about kannada in peril. I was in the bus stand waiting for the bus. I was about 20 minutes early to the terminus to make sure that I dont miss the bus caught in terrible traffic. I saw rickshaw drivers surrounding a bus that had just landed into the terminus from Tamil nadu, and impressing incoming people with their Tamil skills "sir, inga vaanga sir" . That was a bus from Tamil nadu transport system and name of the destination i.e., Bengaluru was in tamil. I was watching all the rickshaw drivers getting a good deal and going away with men. Few disappointed drivers starting running to another bus that had just landed from Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh and were trying to entice people alighting with their telugu skills and were pretty successful and the name of the destination of the bus was in Telugu. I then started thinking did I see any name in Kannada except in rare occassion in the city. Is this development or putting your identity in peril in the name of development?. I tried to keep thoughts aside and diverted my attention on the news daily I had at hand. I started reading it, turned to the page containing cinema and stuff. Oh dear God, completely occupied by success of tamil movies, telugu movies and hindi movies. Kannada movies ????
nowhere in the sight, and it was at the corner that I found about Kannada movies.
My bus arrived and I had to head on. Since it was KSRTC bus, I expected kannada in the bus and to my amazement, bus conductor presuming the travellers as tamilians was collecting fare from them communicating in Tamil. I spoke in Kannada and showed my reservation. The bus had hardly crossed Kolar district of Karnataka, that I was seeing the posters and sign boards in both the languages which should have been in Kannada alone instead. I expected the same in the tamil nadu border of Karnataka and I did not get to see one.
Finally Chennai, again the rickshaw drivers flocking but surprisingly they were not yelling in kannada. First Blow. It was hard for me to go the office in bus as no one spoke either hindi or english, on the first day. First meeting with my boss also surprised me when he told me that it is very much necessary to learn tamil. It was a sunday morning that I planned to head out for a movie and chips. I bought a daily and was going through the cinema section and Kannada movies are nowhere in the sight unlike in Kannada newspapers where other language movies hit your eye even if you dont want to read about them. Finally I found "Mungaru Male" in a luxurious theatre and I expected a cut out of Ganesh or a couple of posters across the road and I was taken aback to see none around the theatre or on my way to the theatre either unlike in Bangalore where you see Cut-out's of Rajini Kanth and Chiranjeevi almost everywhere near Majestic. 3 months of hard living in Chennai was nightmarish, which like I expected to be a multilingual like Bangalore turned out to be monolingual and a place difficult to be lived without tamil. It was the final day of training, day of bidding adieu to fellow trainees and the boss. Managed to travel to the bus stand and this time around it was a Tamil nadu state transport bus that I managed to get. I expected some kannada but was terribly disappointed to see that he did not speak it. That is when I realised how our own people are holding others high at the price of their self-respect, identity, bowing to pressures and selling their souls to impress upon migrating people and everything in the name of globalisation or socio-economic development. At the least 20 percent of tamilians intent to save their Language and culture should have been in Kannadigas, is what I feel. pity !!!
There was a man who defied changes, foresaw a debacle and protested. Man who saw and recognised the injustice happening to Kannadigas and tried to awaken people against it with the principle ""ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಂತರ್ಗತ ಭಾರತಮಾತೆ". It was none other than Sri Aluru Venkataraya, a man with a good foresight and a tuf man against the injustice that Hindi speaking belt has done injustice to us. He was the man who fought for a separate state of Karnataka. It is a natural reflex of a normal being to protest or defy changes especially the change is'nt bad and hurting like enforcing hindi by force and enticement unlike the present middle-aged or youth which is playing reluctant when Kannada really needs them.
A state of kannada should evolve - was his vision. He did not care for people calling him "jingoist" behind his back. The man's effort in the evolution of Karnataka and kannada and a kannadiga paid off as a result of which we have our own state and identity and still today his answers to "Jerks" finding out faults in working for kannada, karnataka and Kannadiga hold good.
"I am a Kannadiga first, I am an Indian next"
Above quote was one of his famous quotes. This alone in my opinion would be enough to kindle the fire. come lets build KANNADA NADU.
Ask these questions to yourself and you will know why was Sri Venkataraya true
First ask yourself why is Hindi our national language ?. There are plenty of other languages. Kannada, Gujarathi, Bengali, Marathi. Decisions cannot be made with just the consideration of number of hindi speakers. Bengali speakers are nearly equal to hindi speaking. why this partiality ?. Why cant Kannada be the National Language ????
Because the governance was in the hands of hindi speaking Freaks during the time of independence. Others remained submissive until Tamil nadu realised the "Black" in the government but in vain. Why is this happening ?
English can be a common language. why Hindi?. Its false and unfair to say that every Kannadiga has to learn Hindi to impress north Indians or to get a central government job. It is giving scope to hindi speaking belt to get into Karnataka taking things as granted. It is like letting them live in your house without even him having to respect your mother and your culture. would you endure that ?. So is the case with other south Indian languages spoken in Bangalore, Mysore and Mangalore which endangers Kannada in the state and makes the migrants from other states feel that there is no need to learn Kannada and Karnataka culture. If you go to Tamil nadu or Orissa and talk to an ordinary man in Hindi and expect answer in Hindi, you are the extraordinary fool. No question of any other language !. You cant expect tamilian to speak in Kannada even if he knows kannada. He expects you to learn Tamil. Why dont we Kannadiga's understand ?
Why do you think the safety precautions in rails and on Gas cylinders are in Hindi ?.
My mother does not know hindi and cant read english either and what if she wants to know about safety instructions. why is this injustice done to Kannada and Kannadigas. Dont you think it has to be Kannada. Your own identity is lost everyday due to enforcement of hindi. See how, Ad's are in Hindi, Radio Mirchi (Mirchi = chilli in hindi), some quotes are also into kannada which is unbelievably ridiculous. Tamil Nadu is authoratitive enough to keep hindi at bay. In a directive released by the government, Tamil nadu has been excluded for imposition of Hindi. If that is the case, why us? we dont want Hindi either...
Railway recruitment board expects 10 grade pass student to speak hindi fluently and wants the documents in hindi. And now adding to all the problems is the military recruitment expecting documents in hindi with abuses to Local people. How on earth can you create one where the official language is some other. Hindi speaking "Jerks" have to be made known that we are a part of India and there is no India without Karnataka. it is one of the organ of a body and has to be respected and taken care of for the normal functioning.
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.
How did the state get the name karnataka ?
What is the meaning of it ?
What is the meaning of it ?
Here is something that I tried to find out and the fruit of the result. The German missionary Rev. F. Kittel during the old british rule writes about the term. Karnataka originated from the two old kannada words, "Kar" and "nadu" which means black and land which means the black cultivated country referring to the black soil or cotton soil.
The sanskrit name of the state is "karnata" which means the same. Kannada is the main language of the region. other languages that originate from the same ancestor are kodava, badaga, tulu, konkani and soliga.
Few other references also suggest that the word "karnataka" was derived from old kannada "karu nadu" which means elevated land which is probably due to the hilly areas and western ghats in the region. The word karnataka has been mentioned in bhagavadgeetha and in other puranas. The mentioning of the word "karnataka" is more importantly in "Halmidi" script which describes karnataka as the land between kaveri and godavari and calls as "kannada - desha".
I tried to find out why Karnataka has its own flag as well. Here is what i've found, di-colour flag with red patch and yellow patch has its origin from a political party called "kannada paksha" which did not survive but gave the flag which when on ahead to become the karnataka flag. This is something to cheer about for a Kannadiga. What a Language Kannada could be to influence many other languages in the south and in north as well. Many a great people wrote about kannada praising, singing Hacchevu kannadada deepa, cheluva kannada naadu, huttidare kannada naadalli huttabeku. Regrettably the beauty that the language has got has been forgotten by the young generation offering the lame excuse of economic and social growth and improvement of life in cities.
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