Kannada Rajyotsava

This post could irate some while many would like it. Let me tell you very frankly that I am not a fanatic but have some principles which I always follow. One of them is my love towards Kannada and Karnataka. I know Karnataka is a part of India but I do not know how it would result in dividing the country if people started loving, uniting people of Karnataka which has been a reasoning given when UNITED KARNATAKA is thought about / initiated. I have been harping on people relocating to Karnataka for whatever reasons (business, job, theft;-) or otherwise) learn the sweet language - Kannada. Reason is not that Kannada is the only sweetest language around but to say that when you learn it it helps you in communicating easily with people who do not understand your native language. I would advocate myself the same if I relocate to a place like Chennai, Trivandrum or Mumbai and would learn to communicate in Tamil , Malayalam, Marathi whichever the case may be. In case I learn Marathi probably my ancestors would be happy as it is supposed to be our native language too.

But the case is never that way. People moving to Bangalore/Karnataka have been teaching people here their language and making themselves comfortable. The justification they always have is "INDIA is a diverse country and what would one achieve in dividing the country" Let me remind you it does happen only here in Karnataka and nowhere else. Take the example of Andhra Pradesh fighting internally for a Telangana - Hyderabad separation, what is so wrong in Karnataka asking for a united karnataka.........

Be a Roman in Rome.
Instead of always complaining on the facilities Karnataka has (not) given why should not everyone involve free mindedly to the beautification and improvements here in our state???
Have love, affection for your state but do not develop hatred to the ones in the state where you live - Be it Karnataka, Andhra or Kerala.

Being in Bangalore we have been seeing this for a long time. We were always questioned if we knew Tamil or Telugu as we were in Bangalore and the percentage of kannada speaking population was way too low. As a minority Kannadiga when asked I always answered "I am a kannadiga and I need to know Kannada to survive my living in Karnataka and ones who came in should learn Kannada for their survival"


I now wish to recollect my first Kannada Rajyotsava which I organized on Nov 1st 2006. November 6th 2006 was a great day for 9 of us in KarMic - Kaveri, Nandini, Prashanth, Praveen, Saif, Saurabh, Shilpa, Suresh, Veda. We were completing one year in KarMic. Had fabulous plans of buying some good dress for ourselves and as gratitude also gifting Dr. Mahant and Mrs. Tasneem Mahant for their care during our days in KTC. It was the first travel to Mangalore for most of us(surprising but true) in the last week on October.
After we bought some shirts for us and dress material for the girls I also thought about a novel idea of celebrating Rajyotsava in KarMic, Manipal (My understanding says for the first time) and rushigly bought the flag and the rope for the hoist.

My special thanks should go to Mr. Satish Manipur and Mr. Harish who helped us in getting the flag post strongly built in HIG 79 - the Manipal famous volley ball court. :-) It was the 50th year celebration of the formation of Karnataka (then known as Mysore; renamed as Karnataka in 1972) and I wanted to do something different this time as it was my first Rajyotsava celebration and 50th year celebration for the state, For long had observed a very small population sticking on with Kannada news papers in the lobby to read them and thought it would be a great idea if people started reading kannada newspaper and at the same time started to love the language..... Along with distributing sweets which is always the case in any function I also had bought 50 prints of Vijay Karnataka kannada news paper and distributed it among the ones who were at office/function on Nov 1st 2006. Some did opine that my idea of distributing news paper was a lousy idea as people who attended function were kannadabhimaani and we had to target some who weren't :-)


The requirement in not to just speak Kannada but try to speak the language flawlessly. Sometimes it is pathetic to follow some programmes due to the quality of language the host uses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


PrAKoPa,
(Praveen Patavardhan)

Who is Patri ???

Someone asked me why I am called Patri and what my actual name was.

I have been called Praveen by my parents, relatives friends till I completed engineering. I do remember some funny funky names for me for identification in my school days but the reasoning for such a names when searched resulted a Zero.
Language sometimes is so peculiar for the Asian and Rest of the world names. To respect a guy (either due to his age or due to his wealth) in Kannada and his name happens to be praveen, kannada uses a suffix praveen avare, hindi probably uses Praveenji, telugu uses praveen gaaru japanese uses praveen san Mother of all languages Sanskrit adds a Prefix Hey Praveenaha......

Hoevever English, I suppose French and German too do not have this concept at all. Mister, Monsieur , Mistress, Mademoiselle will be sufficient as a prefix to ones' name.

I respect the girls/ladies more than our fellow gentlemen and I use a typical kannada suffix ree. (sometimes used as prefix too) I called my batchmate girls as ******ree and they deteriorated my name during my first week of work in KarMic. My name in all schooling records was Praveen K A and for some reason I wanted my surname also to be included with my call name. With lot of efforts we rushed to a notary paying him the fees and declaring in the gazette and my name was to Praveen Patavardhan. My dad was called Patavardhan by his collegues, friends and it seemed something fascinating for me when my cousins told that they were also called Patavardhan in their schools. Hmmm I was jealous.

The Girls - Kaveri, Nandini, Shilpa, Vedavathi from the KTC 15 batch reacted to my biggggggg name and said there needs some splicer somewhere and the splicer was after Pata of the second name Patavardhan and as I used to call 'em as *****ree and for some reason they wanted to return back the respect to me I became Pataree and after evolution Patri. people ask me even today if the reason for naming me Patri was analogous to Train Patri which is never ending and so is my speech/words.
I still remember few guys in the new batch had thought my real name was patri and they called me Patri sir for few days till they realised my name was Praveen.

Other derivative names when at KarMic- Pataresha, Pata Pata. Patti, Pattu, Patti Kutti (For ones who do not follow Malayalam, Patti means Dog and Patti kutti means a young dog)

I wanted to be more creative. I borrowed characters from my names Pr from Praveen A from Achuta Patavardhan (my dad) Ko from Kolavalli (my place name near to Tirthahalli) Pa from Patavardhan and renamed/pen nammed myself as PrAKoPa. :-)