Have never figured out why, but nine out of ten men of letters in Kannada, and that includes the women too, seem to take great pride in being caught in a time warp. Be they writers, poets, journalists, vicharavaadis, buddh jeevis, whatever, they are proud about being tech unsavvy, about not having an email ID, about not being able to switch on a compter, about not being able to operate a digital camera, whatever. So, things like starting a blog is a strict no-no to most if not all of them. But what happens when one of them can do all of that?
Sahitya Akademi award winner Abdul Rasheed, who works at All India Radio, Mysore, and has seen a bit of the world, is now exploring a bit of the world wide web. Check out The Mysore Post to see the heightened sensibilities a Kannada writer can bring to blogosphere.
http://mysorepost.wordpress.com
Also read: Abdul Rasheed’s interview with U.R. Anantha Murthy
churumuri 
In fact, Mr U.R.Ananthamurthy also has a blog, http:\\rujuvathu.sampada.net where his columns, writings and speeches can be found. Many writers like O.L.Nagabhushana Swamy, H.S.Raghavendra Rao, K.V.Narayana also blog at http:\\sampada.net
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Yes, but do URA & Co personally get their hands with modern technology? I doubt it. Most Kannada writers I know have somebody (usually an aware Kannada reader who is conversant with technology) do it for them and I won’t be surprised if somebody is helping Mr Abdul Rashid too.
Considering that the world wide web is largely an English thing maybe it is not such a bad idea for Kannada writers to stay away from it because it would influence their sensibilities, but Kannada journalists too?
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Obviously, you wouldn’t know about URA’s blog — http://rujuvathu.sampada.net/ :D
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He does use an antique laptop himself, so does poornachandra tejaswi.
Now stop speculating about their and read their blogs.
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There are quite a few tech savvy writers in Kannada. Visit: http://pichchar.wordpress.com. It is a good blog!
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The other day I saw on T.V all the Karnataka MLA’s were given a laptop at a whooping cost of 45lakhs . Many did not know how to use it or how to make use of it . they were curiously looking at some MLA’s who started exploring in the corridors .
There were some who were filled with pride of holding a laptop bag and few were thinking about giving to their KIDS . And of course the chelas were having other ideas about ‘HOW to’ Laptayis the LAPtop ? .
MLA’s should start thinking about donating their laptops to our sahithis or you may find the ‘Karnataka sarkaara’ laptops in a Burma bazaar selling the sarakaari laptop .
you will hear ..
‘Banni saami ..namdhooke hathra aaythae sarkaari laptop..belae(rate) heLi saami amele mundhakke oogi ‘
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Dear KP,
you owe for the incessant hits i am getting at my blog.
thank u for your attention. today was the best day so far. as far as the hits are concerned.
i owe you a nice drink[may b bye 2 tea]
one request
why dont v have a kannada churumuri from you
u owe it to the kannada naadu
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Rasheed,
I welcome your suggestion. KP must start a Kannada Churumuri soon. But for KP (and his Churumuri) I would not have become ‘blog-addict’.
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Dheerendra,
I would prefer to buy a second hand Lap Top of an MLA from Karnataka. I am sure it would be as good as a fresh one, being hardly used.
I wish the Government of Karnataka offer many more high tech goodies to its MLAs.
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