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Karnataka Government |
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
B.S.Yeddyurappa: Cabinet affairs,DPAR,finance,Inteligence wing,urban development department(excluding BWSSB, municipalities and local bodies), Kannada and culture,Mines and geology,forests,ecology and enviroment,department of public enterprises.
S Suresh Kumar: Law,justice and human rights,parlimentary affairs,municipal administration
V.S Acharya: Home
K.S.Eshwarappa: Energy
R.Ashok: Transport
C.M.Udasi: Public works
Arvind Limbavali: Higher Education
Ramachandra Gowda: Medical Education
Vishweswra hegde Kageri: Primary and secondary education
Katta Subramanya Naidu: Exice,BWSSB,information,IT and BT,science and technology
G janardhana Reddy: Tourism and infrastructure development
G Karunakara Reddy: Revenue
S.K.Bellubbi: Horticulture |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
Karnataka state consists of 29 districts. On June 21, 2007 the Government announced the cabinet approval for the creation of two more districts: Ramanagara District and Chikballapur district. Ramanagara District and Chikballapura District are being formed by the bifurcation of Kolar District and Bangalore Rural Districts respectively.
1. Bangalore Urban
2. Bangalore Rural
3. Bagalakot
4. Belgaum
5. Bellary
6. Bidar
7. Bijapur
8. Chamarajanagar
9. Chikballapur
10. Chikkamaglur
11. Chitiradurga
12. Coorg
13. Dakshina Kannada (Mangalore)
14. Davanagere
15. Dharwad
16. Gulbarga
17. Gadag
18. Hassan
19. Haveri
20. Kolar
21. Koppal
22. Mandya
23. Mysore
24. Raichur
25. Ramanagra
26. Shimoga
27. Tumkur
28. Udupi
29. Uttara Kannada (Karwar) |
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Sir. M. Vishweshwariah |
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Saturday, 24 May 2008 |
Mokshagundam Vishweshwariah, popularly and afectionately known as Sir M.V., was born on September 15, 1860 in a village known as Muddenahalli in Chikballapur Taluk, Kolar District. His father died in Kurnool when Visvesvaraya was just 15 years old. Visvevaraya completed his lower secondary schooling in Chikballapur. After schooling he joined Central College in Bangalore for his graduation.
He lead a very simple life. He was a strict vegetarian and a teetotaller. He would go to sleep by 10 P.M. and wake up at 6 A.M. His diet included a very light breakfast, two slices of bread or chappatis,vegetables without spcices, rasam, curds, Nanjangud bannanas for lunch. He was known for his honesty and integrity. Before accepting the position of Dewan of Mysore, he invited all his relatives for dinner. He told them very clearly that he would accept the prestigous office on the condition that none of them would approach him for favours. Such things are unheard of these days.
Some of the job positions he held were
- Assistand Engineer, Bombay Government Service [in 1884]
- Chief Engineer, Hyderabad State [he served only for 7 months starting April 15, 1909]
- Chief Engineer in Mysore State [Nov 15, 1909]. He was also Secretary to the Railways.
- President of Education and Industrial Development committees in Mysore State
- Dewan of Mysore. [for six years starting 1912]
- Chairman, Bhadravati Iron Works
- Member of the Governing Council of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Member of the Governing Council of Tata Iron and Steel Company [TISCO]
- Member of Back Bay enquiry committee, London
- Member of a committee constituted in 1917 to make recommendations regarding the future of Indian States.
Sir M.V. retired in 1908 and Sri Krishnarajendra Wodeyar, Maharaja of Mysore, was eager to secure the services of Visvesvaraya to serve Mysore. He joined as Chief Engineer in Mysore because he wanted challenging opportunities. Sir M.V. had earned a reputation for his honesty, integrity, ability and intelligence. He had introduced compulsory education in the State which later was embodied as a fundamental right in the Constitution of independent India.
To name few of the many things he was responsible for:
- Architect of the Krishnarajasagara dam - or KRS or Brindavan gardens, One of the biggest dams in India which irrigates a hundred and twenty thousand acres of land.
- Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works - as its Chairman he rescued it from becoming extinct.
- Mysore Sandal Oil Factory and the Mysore soap factory
- Mysore University - Sir M.V.'s question was "If Australia and Canada could have universitites of their own for less than a million population, cannot Mysore with a population of not less that 60 lakhs have a University of its own?"
- State Bank of Mysore (it was first named The Bank of Mysore)
- Public libraries in Mysore and Bangalore
- Encouraging girls to attend school.
- Mysore Chamber of Commerce
- Kannada Sahitya Parishad or the Kannada Literary Academy
- Sri Jayachamarajendra Occupational Institute, Bangalore - funded by the ENTIRE money [Rs 2 lacs] he earned from rescuing Bhadravati Iron Works (Modern Politicians - please learn something from Sir M.V.)
Sir M.V. was never interested in fame or publicity. But they came to him on their own. Every university in India sought him out to confer honoris causa. The univs of Allahabad, Andhra, Bombay, Calcutta, Jadhavpur, Mysore, Patna and Varanasi. |
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Kuvempu |
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Saturday, 24 May 2008 |
Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (December 29, 1904 - November 11, 1994) is a Kannada writer, poet, widely regarded as the greatest poet of 20th century Kannada literature. He is the first among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada. Puttappa wrote all his literary works using the pen name Kuvempu. He is the second among Kannada poets to be revered as Rashtrakavi (after M. Govinda Pai). His work Sri Ramayana Darshanam, the rewriting of the great ancient Indian epic Ramayana in modern Kannada, is regarded as revival of the era of Mahakayva (Epic poetry) in a contemporary form and charm. He is immortalised by some of his phrases, and in particular for his contribution to Universal Humanism or in his own words Vishwa maanavataa Vaada. He was conferred Padma Bhushan by Government of India.
Early life and education
Kuvempu was born in Hirekodige, Koppa taluk, of Chikmagalur district to a native Kannada family. He was brought up in a place in the lush Malenadu region of Tirthahalli, called Kuppali, of Shivamogga district. His education began at his home by an appointed teacher from Dakshina Kannada. He joined Anglo Vernacular school in Tirthahalli to continue his middle school education. He lost his father Venkatappa Gowda at the early age of 12 due to ill health. Kuvempu finished his lower and secondary education in Kannada and English in Tirthahalli. He moved to Mysore for further education and completed his high school from Weslian high school. He pursued his college studies in from Maharaja College of Mysore and graduated in 1929 majoring in Kannada. He married Hemavathi on 30 April 1937.
Later life
He had two sons and two daughters. Poornachendra Tejasvi, Kokilodaya Chaitra, Indukala and Tharini. Tharini is married to K. Chidananda Gowda, the former Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University. He responded poetically to even mundane events. When he got a car, he is quoted to have said, "Chakracharanake swagatha!" - Welcome to wheel footed! He named his house as "Udayaravi", "Rising Sun", called the farmer "uluva Yogi" the "tilling Yogi", and called for egalatarian society in his message "Sarvarige samapaalu, sarvarige samabaalu" "Equal share for all, Equal life for all". His "Raso Vai Saha" is a famous work of "kavya mimamsa", the "Principles of literary criticism", in the Kannada thought of twentieth century. He is credited for giving Kannada hundreds of new words, phrases and terminologies with distinctly precise ideas; literary, social, phylosophical and spiritual. This led to common people asking him to suggest a name for their newborns, for decades, through postal correspondece, which he obliged!
Career
Kuvempu began his academic career as a lecturer of Kannada language at Maharaja College of Mysore in 1929. He served as an assistant professor in central college of Bangalore from 1936. He rejoined Maharaja college of Mysore in 1946 as a professor. He went on to become a principal of Maharaja college in 1955. Soon in 1956 he was elected as the Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University where he served till retirement in 1960. He was the first graduate from Mysore University to rise to that position.
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About Kannada |
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
Kannada is a south Indian language spoken in Karnataka.Kannada is originated from the Dravidian Language. Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam are the other South Indian Languages originated from Dravidian Language.It is also one of the official languages of the Republic of India. Kannada as a language has undergone modifications since BCs. It can be classified into four types-
Halegannada (from 10th Century to 12th Century)
Nadugannada (from 12th Century to 15th Century)
Hosagannada (from 15th Century)
Kannada has three chief dialects - classical, medieval and modern. Ancient Kannada (Hale Kannada) shows an extraordinary amount of polish and refinement. It has several works written by Jaina scholars and appears to have been in use for literary purposes from at least the 10th to the middle of the 13th century.
Medieval Kannada began to appear as contained in the poetry of Saiva and Lingayat authors. From about the 16th century, medieval Kannada gradually got its present day modern character.
Halegannada(Ancient Kannada)The early (pre 800AD) bits and pieces of Kannada literature are insufficient to lay claims to the literature’s origins. The oldest extant book is king Nripatunga’s literary critique Kavi Raja Marga (circa 840). Jainism being a popular religion at the time, there were some Jaina poets like Srivijaya and Guna Varman I. A new trend began with the ‘Three Gems’ of Kannada literature, Pampa, Ponna and Ranna in the 10th century, where prose and verse were mixed with the campu style. The three poets extensively wrote on episodes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata and Jain legends and biographies.
Starting with the Kavirajamarga (c. 850), and until the middle of the 12th century, literature in Kannada was almost exclusively composed by the Jains, who found eager patrons in the Chalukya, Ganga, Rashtrakuta and Hoysala kings.Although the Kavirajamarga authored during the reign of King Amoghavarsha, is the oldest extant literary work in the language, it has been postulated by some scholars that "prose", "verse" and "grammatical traditions" must have existed earlier.However, other scholars believe the literary tradition in Kannada to have begun with Kavirajamarga itself,and point to the absence of references before the ninth century in the early literary works such as the Sabdamanidarpana of Kesiraja.
Nadugannada(Middle kannada)After the decline of the Vijayanagara empire in the 16th century, Kannada literature was supported by the Wodeyar rulers of Mysore. Later, in the 19th century, the influence of English literature created new literary forms in Kannada, such as the prose narrative, the novel and the short story. Modern Kannada literature is now widely known and recognised: during the last half century, Kannada language authors have received seven Jnanpith awards and 51 Sahitya Akademi awards in India.
Hosagannada(Modern Kannada)This is the last phase of Kannada language and literature. The Kannada works that were produced at the end of the 19th century and also much later are categorized as Hosagannada or Modern Kannada. According to many scholars, however, this phase continued till the beginning of the 20th century. Few literary works in Kannada were produced at this time. Most distinguished among them are the works of renowned poet Muddana. His works may be depicted as the "Dawn of Modern Kannada". Broadly speaking, experts discovered that Indira Bai or Saddharma Vijayavu written by Gulvadi Venkata Raya as the primary literary works in Modern Kannada language development.
When we use the phrase "Modern Kannada Drama and Theatre" it is this period, 1857-1980, that we have in mind. This paper, however, does not present a complete survey of Modern Kannada Drama and Theatre of this period. It is only an attempt to hint at a few significant developments. I only hope that these notes offer some kind of introduction to Modern Kannada Drama and Theatre to non-kannada speakers.
Yakshagana of the Coastal districts, Doddata, Sannata, Krishna Parijatha of the northern districts and the Moodalapaya of the old Mysore area are some living examples of this great tradition. It is significant to note that whereas the Kathakkali of Kerala is predominantly a dance form, Yakshagana, Doddata and Sannata are essentially theatre forms. These Pre-Modern forms have been very mature in their concepts and are popular in Kannada even today. |
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