Kadamba

The other day one of my friends who happens to be from Karnataka and claims to be a Kannadiga casually was telling an other friend that Kannada will be extinct by 2160, crap , utter crap I thought and did not agree with him, how can someone claim a language will be extinct in another 150 yrs when it has survived for 2000 yrs and probably the 2nd oldest surviving Dravidian language after Tamil.
His arguement was that as more and more people learn English , Kannada will be lost as a spoken language and will only be in texts as Greek, Latin and Sanskrit are. Probably he does not know the story of Mayura Varma, the founder of Kadamba Kingdom, Famously protrayed by Dr Rajkumar in the movie 'Mayura' and the famous song ನಾನ್ ಇರುವುದೇ ನಿಮಗಾಗಿ ನಾಡು ಇರುವುದು ನಮಗಾಗಿ.
The great Kadamba was humiliated by the Tamil Pallava king as he was from Kannada speaking region and that humiliation of his language and land prompted Mayura to build a kingdom a Kannada kingdom, probably the only in the history of the world which was established to protect the pride of a language and land. Kannada of such greatness will survive till the end of the world.

Breathing Time

We have got a little breathing time, little time to recover fro years of abuse and onslaught by barbarians from the west, there is no deniying that we have gone back a 1000 yrs in terms of our civilisational achievements, and even though in this breathing time since Indian independence we are progressing a lot, but I am worried about the future we seem to have not learnt a single lesson from our past.

Mahadeshwara

Was listening to the song 'ನಿನ್ನ ಪೂಜೆಗೆ ಬಂದೆ ಮಹದೇಶ್ವರ' from the movie Psycho , it is a really good song, I congrats to the music director for bringing such a lovely song, fusion of western and kannada music, this is what the youngsters of Karnataka and bangalore in particular need, not just blindly follow the western habits and ideas, know your roots first, if it is strong you can grow if it is week then god save you and our culture.