There was a folk dance festival in Bangalore and though I missed the event, I’m glad I didn’t miss these brilliant photos by Prashanth Reddy (thanks to Veena for this link! 🙂 )
Category: kannada
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jaanapada jaatre photos
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jaanapada jaatre in namma bengaLooru
Got this in a forwarded email… an interesting programme over the weekend…
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churning of the ocean
In some discussion on the new Kannada movie Amrutha Dhaare, the meaning of Amrutha came up, and it led to the mythological story of the churning of the ocean.
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the reluctant autorickshaw
The following is something I’d written a while ago in a “learn kannada” forum… Real life incidents though not exactly verbatim…
Auto-rickshaw drivers of Bangalore nowadays have become more selective than infy in ‘choosing’ their ‘projects’! They usually refuse to go wherever a passenger wants to go, and drive off, and one has to stop several autos before getting a ride 😈 All these are unrelated incidents…
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questioning conventional medicine
This isn’t really a post, but just an open question that was suggested by a reader as it came up as this issue was brought up in Muktha (a Kannada TV serial) recently.
Does the medical industry including drug manufacturers and doctors generate business by creating fear among people ?
This industry like any other has both good and bad aspects. There are all kinds of people from those who are committed to improve the standards of human life to those who would leave no stone unturned in order to generate business.
This is only a generic question to try and look at different perspectives. [Due to lack of time my own comments may be limited.]
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the irony of caste
[Though there are specifics here, my guess is that similar ideas are applicable to any caste]
Going through the” trauma” 😉 of arranged marriage reveals many things, among others, the role of caste in our modern urban highly developed Bangalore society. It is just unbelievable how many highly educated families are so closed knit about caste that they never ever want to venture to anybody outside their own community. “Why marry someone of some other caste when there are so many good boys/girls of our own caste?”
So let’s take a closer look at the Lingayat caste. Everyone belonging to this community puts up the photo of Basavanna in their houses, as he’s the founder. So his opinion should be worth considering here…
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a guest departs
A year or so ago, one of my uncles (not much in touch with him, mother’s cousin) had expired. My mother and me visited his family – there were a lot more people than I expected standing both outside and inside the house. In a room inside, where the body was placed, some elderly gentleman was sitting on a chair next to it, dressed in a pure white shirt and dhoti.
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new proverbs | ಹೊಸ ಗಾದೆಗಳà³
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new kannada keyboard
The Gesture-based Keyboard (GKB) is a pen-based technology that will allow Kannada and other vernacular scripts to be recorded and stored directly in the computer without the use of a conventional keyboard.
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press meet and a gathering of Kannada Wikipedians
A press meet and a gathering of Kannada Wikipedians (online for almost
2 years now) and all those who take interest in Kannada on the internet
will be held on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006, at
Nayana Auditorium, J C Road at 4 PM. There will be talks and
assistance to people on how to use Unicode, how to enable it on your system to
how to use and contribute to a Wiki.