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Making a Leader -- Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw amaku - 18-AUG-2008
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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: |
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mcadambi - 6-AUG-2008Title sound latin to you? Well, thats because it is! It means "Ignorance of laws and procedures is not an excuse". |
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cvikash - 30-JUL-2008
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"Bangalore is New to the Kannada Experience" tsubba - 15-JUL-2008
Girish Karnad on his new play: “Bangalore is new to the Kannada experience, therefore, even-though you will find a rich Kannada tradition in writing, theatre, cinema and poetry until very recently you will find very little writing on Bangalore. Stories on the life in Bangalore — the stories of Jayanagar, RT Nagar and Indranagar are but stories not found on paper. Hence, I decided to base parts of the play in Bangalore to explore the conundrum”. |
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Do we have the right Civic Attitude? Namd0gma1 - 18-JUN-2008
Its just lacking, isn't it?. Come on, lets not run away from the fact anymore. Spending a couple of crores on something big for the good of the city and the country is no big deal anymore. The biggest let downs are either, we just dont know how to use what is given to use or we just dont care and carry on with the "Great Indian Civic attitude" that we have. I know some thoughts might have already got triggerred for some of you that. who is this guy, making such a big statement. Let me not isolate myself from it, but we just do not carry the fundamental civic attitide with us. |
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vivek_shankar153 - 13-MAY-2008
Hello Friends, Banking an integral part of our lives and we all use some or the other bank. but Banks in Bengaluru or for that matter Karnataka do not use Kannada to the extent it should be. the private banks dont use Kannada at all either in customer service, ATM's and so on by and large. |
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Soliciting calls from "outside" on the rise, Kannada usage declining? nijavaada - 29-APR-2008
Very recently I had an experience where in I received a soliciting call from one of the reputed Indian banks. The weirdest part of the call was when it began ringing. I noticed that it was from a number based in Chennai, in Tamilnadu. Unassumingly I picked up the call thinking it could be either a long-time-no-call friend of mine, or some wrong number! |
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Business placards and hoardings neglecting/insulting Kannada nijavaada - 21-APR-2008
There are several instances in Bengaluru nowadays wherein placards and huge hoardings put up by business establishments to advertise their product or shop are insulting the local language - Kannada - by printing Kannada characters on a miniscule scale, whereas English (sometimes even Hindi) characters rule the canvas and are larger than life itself.
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Some ideas on education in Karnataka tsubba - 18-APR-2008
At the outset this, has nothing to do with the civic life of bangalore as such, but as much as bangalore is tied to the rest of the state at the hip, and as much as the output of our schools is cru |