Speaking Kannada In Bengalooru

I am a Sankethi and have noticed that Sankethis hesitate a lot to assert their identity and get blended with the society where ever they go. If Sankethis (especially the educated ones) stop speaking Sankethi to their own people as it is happening now, the future for our language appears bleak. We have to forego our mindless broad mindedness and assert our identity.I want to cite an example form my cousins experience in the US. I have seen in Sankethi sanghas where people gather with their own linguistic group rather than just with people from Sankethi community. We should unite first. Either Kaushika or Bettadapura, we should know that we are Sankethis firs.

Slowly but Surely a silent revolution is taking place. I do hear Sankethi in Marriages, religious functions nowadays. I always speak in Sankethi in temples (accompanied by 'sign language' even if the other person doesn;t understand Sankethi). There were many Sankethi language celebrations in many companies including mine.

To each person his language is superior. This does not mean other languages are inferior. After all language is a means of comunication nothing more ,nothing less.Any Sankethi can be justifiably proud of any other Sankethi so also other Kanandigas.

We are all Kannadigas, but we do need to preserve our rapidly vanishing linguistic identity as well...

Or in other words...

What is your point?

PS: I am not a Sankethi.

hello doctor,

i have this organizational issue that too many posts get created on same/ similar topics. so what happens is discussion get repeated or worst lost. some of us cant visit/check the site every day. and for us continutity is important. when we get time we should be able to continue from where we left off. for example, i am searching for a drainage thread i had posted on last week for the past half an hour. cant find it. it is frustrating.

long story short, can you please move your thread to one of the scores of posts dealing with this issue? please. thumba upyoga agutte. nanni.

side note: please donot assume that we have not discussed the issue before or are not concerned about the issues you cite or dont do anything about it. but, atleast for me, such 'civilizational' issues are too big to make actionable prescriptions. these are manasu gello type of issues. highly unquantifiable.

meanwhile neeru nalli type of issues exist. things about which i may or maynot something about, things much smaller and more importantly more well defined in scope and impact. little things that i can wrap my head around, in concrete quantifiable terms.

so as i age, and can do that much little with my time, i will try to focus on little things that i can do. you please carry on with what moves you. i just stated what my situation is. so if i dont respond to your post, it does not mean i dont understand your problem, or disagree with your solution.

i school i used to maintain notes, one for algebra, one for geometry one for kannada and so on...  then at home i used have buff sheets on which i would work out problems. organization for both used to be very different. and their usability was also very diffrent. all my learning used to happen in my buff sheets. notes dictated by teacher were just reference.

since i was not very organized, i never filed my buff sheets in order, so i could never use it again on a later date. they all used to be in a file folder, stuffed into it in an ad hoc manner. those pages that i gund soojied together found some use. others were just papers with my handwriting on it. not surprisingly i was not a good learner or student and barely passed bcoz i could not refresh my memory. to put hennessey and patterson to work, i never moved data from pages to ram or registers. so what could my 8086 do?

that habit continues to this day.

ps: i forget the name now, but in old systems there used to a dedicated part of the hard disk, which contained a table from where the 'computer' would know which file is stored where, how much size etc etc...

tag is like search. the output has no organization.

On this particular post, such pourings are relevant fit with praja.in only if someone has ideas to promote kannada, and is eventually willing to track or review state govt's language promotion efforts.

 

aha! you put a nice quantifiable measure on the problem. very nice. actually brilliant. now we have something tangible. first step to track this issue in a meaningful sense.

 I was surprised indeed. But it was a pleasant surprise. However my considered opinion is one need not be emotional on any issue. Be critical no problem. 

However I would like to make some comments. 

1.      I am a Kannadiga. I would learn a new language for my own selfish purpose of enriching my self economically, culturally, intellectually and socially. (need based)

2.      We kannadigas consider ourselves broad minded. ->))

3.      We consider sticking to Kannada as an inferiority complex.

4.      Mother tongue has many connotations.

5.      It is pointless make an issue out of ones own language ie mother tongue.

6.      What happens if a Tamil Ian marries a Bengali? Who learns whose language?

7.      Being multi lingual is an advantage

8.      The country has been divided on linguistic basis. So be it. All name plates on busses should be in Kannada. Why not? Official language in Karnataka is Kannada.

 Are these points enough? Saka Innu Beka. Welcome once again VKM sir!

@ psaram, ids, err,
 
Apprecaite the views expressed but before further discussions could take place and other good natured prajas could post, let us just have a look at the experience gained by such a cosmopolitan from Kerala, on her  post in  a print media:
 
The following is a post that appeared in Bangalore Mirror – Column: Bangalore Talking – My Stories on 22-11-2008 -
 
‘Speak only in Kannada’
Bharti Vishwanathan
Posted On Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 09:11:13 PM

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If the above is the attitude of certain set of so called cosmopital ‘Bharatiya’ people, what should the Kannadigas call them?   Want to know what she got? She got 23 posts - some for some against - u b the judge.
 
After all these posts, the Editor, Bangalore Mirror posted his own version to draw some sort of conclusion and now this post has raked up the same subject.
 
Should Kannadigas keep quiet?  Even an ant fights back when cornered and when my little boat is being rocked, why should i try to save a cosmopolitan ship?
 
- not to become emotional, blah, blah, blah is passe - all holistic and confusian theories. What is the reality?
 
- Vasanthkumar Mysoremath