Celebrating the glory of namma kannaDa naaDu

Kannada Rajyotsava 2010

Celebrating the glory of Karnataka @namma Bengaluru DC.

Kannada Rajyotsava- it is the day when the state Karnataka got its name and took birth (November 1st, 1973). Though this day falls on November 1st, the entire month of November is celebrated as a part of this utsava in the state of Karnataka.

On 15th and 16th of November, we celebrated the grand Karnataka Rajyotsava at our Infy Bengaluru DC. I had been a part of the volunteer group. We conducted games on both the days at the food courts, the games being rural games of Karnataka. The games which we conducted were- Goli aaTa, making as many Karnataka flags as possible with the colour papers given, tying the jade(as ladies tie their hair) with the lace given, identifying the various districts of Karnataka and few more. These games we conducted during the lunch hour. Lots of people- both Kannadigas and non-Kannadigas participated in these games and had fun in playing them. Apart from the games, there was also the Karnataka photography competition in which many pictures representing the culture of Karnataka were being displayed.

The main glorious event started on the 16th at 5:30 in the evening. The two anchors for the event, Sneha and Samhita, started off with the event. The guests lighted the lamp and the song "Hacchevu kannaDa deepa" was sung simultaneously.

The chief guest for this event was a great singer- Mrs. M D Pallavi Arun. She is a renowned singer who has sung lot of cultural songs, patriotic songs, bhaava geethegaLu and a few movie songs as well. She sung around 8-9 songs in the event, out of which I liked 4 of them the most-

1. Song from the “Jnaana-peeTa” awardee poet, Da Ra Bendre's kruti- "Naakutanti".

2. One of her own composition Saakshi, kannadada sakshi. AaNe, Kannadada aaNe.

3. Nodayya pyate lingave... a movie song

4. KannaDa uLisi, kannaDa beLesi, kannaDavanne baLasi...

She has sung many songs which replicates the fight for the angikarana(formation) of the Karnataka state.

Next was the performance of the “Laya-Taranga” group. This group has many performers including Arun on the drums, who is also the singer's husband. This program started with the playing the flute by another well known person, who, with his soft music, made the evening a pleasant one. Adding to the music of the flute were the various other instruments played, which made it even more wonderful. Individual performance of the various musical instruments followed it.

Now there was an unusual programme by the same group, which I saw for the first time in my life. All the group members played music without using the musical instruments. Yes, they did not use any instruments. All the sounds they performed with only the help of their mouth. There were 3 performers for that, who made various kind of music from their voice one after the other. The sound made by them was so very wonderful, that the audience stood up and gave a huge round of applause. I never ever had seen such an awesome performance. 

The way they used to make the sound, the speed at which they performed, the twists they made in their mouths was too good. Really enjoying performance from the “Laya-Taranga” group.

Next was the performance of a non-Kannadiga member, Maitri, who had learnt kannada by attending the Kannada-Kali classes conducted at our campus. The Kannada-Kali classes are conducted by a great professor, Mr. Raghavan. She sung a beautiful kannada track and another thing is that, if the anchors didn't inform the audience that she was a non-Kannadiga, nobody would have guessed, as the song sung by her was really good.

Next was the performance of the 'Step n Sync' team of Infosys. This performance started with the song "Krishna nee begane baaro", performed by group of ladies. The combination of blue and white costume wore by them was looking great.

The next mind-blasting performance was a duet song, "Aakasha neeli, neenondu goodu banteega preethi haari" from the movie 'Ambari'. The amazing thing in this performance is that the guy and the girl were handicapped(only in the songJ ). The guy didn't have a leg and the girl didn't have a hand. The emotion of love which they showed through that song was heart-touching. This song showed that true love is not based on the physical attraction, but on the inner mind and heart, which should be pure enough to understand the feelings of each other.

Next, there were a couple of dance performances by this team, with next 3 songs being the tracks from the Powerstar's movies- Jackie, Veera Kannadiga and Raam. There was one dance performance for each of these songs- Just Math Mathali, Jinke mari na with one final song being played- "HuTTidare kannaDa naaDalli huTTabeku".

It was indeed a great evening to celebrate the glory of Karnataka at namma Bengaluru DC. This programme wouldn't have been a great success without the help of the organizers like Siddu, Anantha, Balaji and all the volunteers who took active participation in all the activities. Hope we get to watch many more programmes like this one. J

Jai Karnataka maathe…!!!

Has anyone asked you for your password ??

What is your Password ?!?

This incident happened with one of my friend recently. He sits in a cubicle shared by his TL. Since both are localites, they make all official conversations in our local language : Kannada.

One evening, as usual, my friend finished all his work and left his cubicle to go home. He had not even travelled for about half an hour, he got a call from his TL. No, it was not that he had done some mistake in his work. His TL(a lady) had to deploy some code from his system and for that, she wanted his password. My friend was a bit embarrassed to share his password with her, as the password itself was embarrassing. He was in a dilemma whether to tell her or not. But since it was his TL who was asking for that, he decided to disclose it letter by letter. What was so embarrassing about it?? He had kept his password as “MuchkonDkelsamaaDu7#”. This password (leaving the number and the symbol) is slang in Kannada meaning “Shut up and do your work”. He was never used to keep such passwords earlier and now, when he was asked to reveal it, he was in a dilemma. He feared what the lady would think (since she also knew the language and moreover it was a woman whom he would be sharing his password with). But anyways, he told her his password letter by letter (this also twice !!! ) and cut the call.

           Next day, as usual, he came to office. She was looking as if she was in a bad mood that day. She didn’t speak to him in the way she used to speak to him everyday. He was tensed that she would shout at him. The first thing he did that day was to change his password. She didn’t ask him anything and he didn’t speak to her about it. From then, she has not asked him for his password.  :-)