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A welcome move, Mr Prasad.
Dear Krishna Prasad,
Good to see this blog. As a regular reader of your column in Deccan Herald, I really like the right amount of scepticism in your views and hope to see more of it here.
Just one comment would be that, while being Mysore-centric is fine, you need not confine this blog to only happenings in Mysore. One of the great things about Mysore is that nothing much interesting happens there (and may it remain so for ever!). Which is why we Mysoreans have developed this wonderful habit of sitting in our favourite katte’s and commenting on the happenings all over the world. In that sense, we have always been outward looking – looking at the world from typical Mysorean world-view – with the right mix of innocence and intelligence, scepticism/cynicism and idealism (think R.K. Laxman). One of my favourite childhood memories is these nightly katte sessions – dinner finished at 9, the men folk would come out one by one, in their white dhotis and banians, find one of the katte’s in front of a neighbour’s house, women will be watering the front part of the house for rangoli resulting in the wonderful smell of water mixing with the dust, AIR news will be on the transistor and these guys would sit there and discuss everthing under the sun. Reagan or Thatcher, Indira Gandhi or Morarji – there was no one too high or too mighty to escape the scrutiny of these simple folks. And ofcourse we continued this katte habit as we went to college – day would be incomplete without an hour’s cricket in the evening followed by a couple of hours of katte.
So, let churumuri be a virtual katte continuing this great tradition of Mysore.
Mohan
Bouquets first Mr. Krishna Prasad, some of us were mentioning on mymysore.com, GVK’s blog about Churmuri and why it should be made interactive. Nice to see that you have made it so. Thank you. Mr. Mohan’s suggestion is a fine one, I have along with my friend circle also indulged in this Katte talk while in PUC and then College. Who has’nt?
Absolutely, Capt. Murthy, absolutely. The whole idea behind Churumuri is to create a ‘katte’ atmosphere, where we can discuss issues and individuals with absolute candour and with our tongue firmly rolled a bit of ‘yele adike’. Unfortunately, there are no ‘jagalis’ of the kind you find in parts of Agrahara and Geetha Road left in Mysore but this can become a bit of an online jagali where we ‘kochch’ some ‘harate’ about everything under the moon and the satellite that follows.
RAVI BELAGERE writes from Bangalore: Your blog is amazing. Inthaddu nijakkoo saadhya annisiralilla maaraayre! Kannada-dalloo inthaddondu blog saadhyavaadare thumba chennaagiruththe. Congrats