Laudable approach - kannada kali

murali772 - 3-NOV-2010

Under a state government-sponsored scheme, the Visvesvaraya Technological University will conduct functional Kannada classes for non-state students and lectures in culture for those from the state. "There are thousands of engineering students from other states in the state.

Don’t teach English to your children in Class I

murali772 - 31-JAN-2010

Global research shows that children should learn reading and writing in their mother tongue first. Only after they can read fluently at a minimum of 45-60 words per minute can they absorb what they are reading. Such fluency is most easily achieved in the mother tongue. Once that is established, learning a second language becomes much easier.

800 out of 4000 BMTC buses have bilingual destination boards

manjari - 23-SEP-2009

Only 800 BMTC buses have bilingual destination boards, while the remaining 4000-odd regular buses have Kannada only boards. It is the top political leadership that appears to be standing in the way.

Are linguistic states a costly mistake?

psaram42 - 22-JUL-2009

KRV and some recent media reports

bialterminal - 1-FEB-2009

Do we need any organization to "fight" or "stand up" for the rights of citizens, or for a "language" and other cultural issues in a democracy?

Law panel for continuation of English in higher judiciary

murali772 - 31-DEC-2008

The Law Commission of India has stated that it is not feasible to introduce Hindi as a compulsory language in the Supreme Court.

Practical governance - need of the hour!

nijavaada - 12-SEP-2008

We've all been evidence to this. All of us might have stumbled upon this at some point of time.

India is a union of linguistically formed states, and hence governance in India is a matter of managing people of different languages/identities. Even though these remain written truths, there're subtle ways in which our identities have been forcibly compromised with, and attempts to mask various identities under one off identity have been made almost everywhere in the past 61 years of India's existence.

Tatasky - Eng, Hindi, Tamil, ashtay!

swamy - 31-AUG-2008

Watch tatasky? Sit and watch cartoons with your children. Press green button on the remote. You can now select the audio in your favirote language. This option is not available most of the time. But whenever it is available, Engilsh, Hindi and Tamil, ashtay! No kannada, yaake?

Tatasky doesn't want to do good business in Karnataka?

Tatasky thinks only Tamil speaking population are demanding, baaki janaa not?

Tatasky has competetion from Sun, which is based in Tamilnadu, so care more for Tamil than Kannada, or Malayalam?

Unaided schools to teach kannada

swamy - 6-AUG-2008

How is everyone seeing this new move from Unaided schools. KUSMA (association of unaided schools) has made kannada teaching mandatory for ICSE/CBSE schools. Quoting from this newindpress article:

Why retain Kannada numerals?

murali772 - 4-JUL-2008

While the use of the Kannada script (but not on number-plates) does certainly contribute to the propagation of the language and thereby the culture, the numerals do not serve any such purpose at all. The regular 1,2,3 can as well be read ondu, eradu, mooru, so on, without in any way diluting the purity of the language, but in many ways simplifying life, particularly for the non-Kannadiga's who then have only to grapple with the jalebi's, the prospect of which is less intimidating.