Nearly three years ago, Bombay-based film-maker M. GONZOLA had posted this “weekend item” on churumuri, a chain-mail really that had been doing the round for months.
One Tam-Brahm = priest at the Vardarajaperumal temple.
Two Tam-Brahms = maths tuition class.
Three Tam-Brahms = queue outside the U.S consulate at 4 am.
Four Tam-Brahms = Thyagaraja music festival in Santa Clara.
And so on for Bengalis, Malayalees, Biharis, Punjabis, Bhaiyyas, Gujjus, Telugus, Marwaris, and the rest of the human species the world kindly calls “Indians”.
“Notice Kannadigas are missing from the list,” was Gonzola’s parting shot, inviting howls of protests from readers who decried the parochialism, the stereotyping, the “dumbing down”.
Wanderlust joins the debate with Gonzola and offers this suggestion for his her brethren and sistern:
One Kannadiga = Udupi Hotel in Singapore/ Seoul/ San Francisco
Two Kannadigas = Father-son political party
Three Kannadigas = Campus placements at Infy, scheduled to go to the US soon.
Four Kannadigas = Entire Kannada-speaking population of Koramangala and Indiranagar.
Also read: One, two, three, four Kannadigas equals…?
* For those who can’t take this, please note this post is marked under the “Naalige in Kenne” category
^ Repeat: this post is marked under the “Naalige in Kenne” category
churumuri 
Chennag helidri!
Adrallu, naalige in kenne, ha ha ha ha. Nelad mele urladta nagta idini.
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This is what we know as “Hitting the nail on its head” …. Rite timing ….
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HER bretheren. Wanderlust is a girl. Thanks for the pingback.
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koramanagala and indiranagar!
hahaha
total strength
for a while i’ve been wanting to start a “Koramanagala is not bangalore” orkut/facebook community. been putting NED though. let me know if one such exists
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Good one but K’taka has never had a father-son party(Karunakaran probably had one in Kerala with his DICK err… Democratic Indira Congress, Kerala).
Bangarappa and Kumar have never been in the same party other than the Congress.
Deve Gowda too has always had two of his buffalo sons together with other members of the party.
Yeddy and his son, no, not even a camp in BJP, as there’s always Shobha Karandlaje!
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Join “Kannadiga Professionals” group on linkedin.com
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1039957&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=.ana_1039957_1249147230570_3_1
The objectives for this group are
1. Network with like-minded professionals
2. Explore, share ideas, employment opportunities, investment opportunites
3. Seek, co-ordinate and facilitate charity / charitable activities
4. Encourage, patronize, share & learn about Kannada Art & Culture, Literature, Cuisine, etc
I invite ideas, feedback, inputs from all of you to make this forum LIVE & KICKING.
JAI KANNADA!
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I find myself wondering what the general run of Kannadigas, including me, do aside from complaining about the invasion of our naadu by non-Kannadas, the impending death of Kannada, and corrupt politicians and government officials in our midst.
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, Tamils, Telugus, Malayalis, and a host of other linguistic parties travelled to the West Indies, the Fiji Islands, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Guyana, and South Africa in search of indentured jobs. We stayed home, happily subsisting on anna saaru and taking long siestas.
We don’t want to work on coffee plantatations, we don’t like stone breaking, we don’t like construction work, we don’t want to be porters, and we don’t like those who do those things and at least have dignity if not wealth.
We watch dabba cinemas, get paid for taking part in demonstrations put up by one political party today and another tomorrow. There are enough of us to crowd any scene of accident. We intently watch a broken down car being fixed. Nothing makes us happier than organising bundhs, rokos, chalos, and destoying public property.
We are proud of what Hakka and Bukka accomplished. We are proud that seven of our writers are jnana peetha award winners, our ignorance about their works notwithstanding. We want Kuvempu to be given a posthumous Nobel, although such a thing has never been done before. We still have not overcome our grief over the death of our kanmani annavru. Getting his monument completed is one of our big worries.
Our politicians pollute our reservoirs by dumping “baaginas” in them.One of our chief ministers was number one in the whole country. Three of our statesmen are cabinet rank ministers in Dilli. We are the sixth most developed state in the country.
Sadaa nenevudenna manam karnatakadeshamam.
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Forgot to mention that we want “reservations,” not just for travel but everything.
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Also we should not forget thst Tamils created problems in Srilanka and Singapore and Malayalees detested in entire Middle East. As for Kannadigas we had wonderful Wodeyars like Krishnaraja and engineers like visweshwariah and a place like Mysore.
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pulikeshi, channagi helidri,
sadaa adilla idilla antha koragodralle idive vinaha, sakarathmaka chinthane ne illa nammalli bahalastu mandhige…
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@PTL you have raised some valid points but I have to disagree about some things here. The people from the regions you mentioned did not travel out of their own accord but were forcibly sent to those countries as indentured labor from some of the areas where Britishers ruled such as the Madras State (which included TN, parts of AP, Kerala and Karnataka) , the Bengal state (which included Bihar) and so on.
I agree with you that we do not need to complain but I believe our people are second to none as far as hard work is concerned. A case in point is the success story of people from South Canara or the back breaking work of the construction laborers from Uttara Karnataka.
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A retarded chain mail on stereotypes!
Regard the 1st sample set:
One Tam-Brahm = priest at the Vardarajaperumal temple.
Two Tam-Brahms = maths tuition class.
Three Tam-Brahms = queue outside the U.S consulate at 4 am.
Four Tam-Brahms = Thyagaraja music festival in Santa Clara.
Why do you need two Tam-Brahms to start a Maths Tuition class??!!
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Talking of stereotypes watch this witty interview by Suma.
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If what PTL says is wholly true then we are laden with all the signs of a dying if not dead, race.
On the other hand, is this not what we asked for with both hands on our breasts? We have always been proud of our liberal and open attitude. Our tolerance and “accepting” of different cultures. Of our open doors and windows.
With so much goodness, was any other outcome expected at all? We should not crib.
I also agree with Faldo on the point of “laziness”.
Perhaps we might benefit from doing a study on what kind of Kannadigas are dying out? The “open borders” type or the “narrow minded” type?
There is hope after all.
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churumuri,
yaake hits kammi aagidya?? tiruvalluvar murthi vishya bisi idey anta intadondu post haakida haagide :)
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well on a weekend, we can see more Kannadigas roaming the streets in NYC or a temple in Bay area than in Kormangala/Indranagar!?
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Watching–
How did we “ask” for a gradual genocide of Kannadas?
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PTL, we didn’t have to. Our actions spoke louder than words.
That’s my point about our liberal open-ness.
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Watching–
Now our useless words scream louder than actions. A few years ago the Supreme Court scolded us for being greedy on the Kaveri issue and Veerappan and told us that we were nothing but a bunch of querulous lucchaas. Now the Karnataka High Court becomes an adjudicator of our societal behaviour and commands us to learn to be decent and not stir up trouble. The chief minister repeats that diktat wherever he goes as if it were his own coinage and in his usual crass way says that the unmasking (I mean it) of Thiruvalluvar will put an end to the decades or centuries long bad blood between the cousins on the either side of the Kaveri. It also appears that he has studied both Sarvajna and Thiruvalluvar in scholarly detail, for he can tell us about the value of their work to us and the world at large. I bet almost every Tamil was present for the anaavaraNa in Halasooru, which he or she still pronounces as “Alasoor.” If we cannot get them to make a minor adjustment in pronoucing the name of an area, I wonder how we can persuade them to be fair in matters involving billions of litres of water and thousands of acres of land.
While on the topic of how we invite invasion, exploitation, and ridicule on ourselves, we perhaps should wonder about the way our writer folk are supporting the government’s appeasement policy in the battle of the statues. Generally our social issues are spawned by caste, but in this matter we are looking at a people riven by class. The M.A.’s and the Ph.D’s have gone along with the “cheddi” sarakaara/samskaara they condemn every minute, while those who oppose the installation of the statue to a man belong to the non-academic, no degree-stringed faction, and it is clearly the latter who I support because they or their followers are the ones who have to deal with the disappearance of their land and drying up of their share of water. Has there ever been a problem in the state that directly affected the abilities of the comfortably retired M.A.’s, the Ph.D’s, the jnaanis to earn a living or their offspring’s search for knowledge because the lights went out the night before the exams?
The upshot is that the Tamil population among us will now at least think of an alternative to the JDS and the Congress while the poor Kannadas will continue to perish in their marasmic swamps.
I know that my jeremiads on the topic of our land and language have been long and many. Is there a Narayanamurthy, Neelekani, or a Visweshwaraaya who can steer us towards obtaining a quick and equitable solution?
What viable alternatives do we have?
Incidentally, it is not a good thing for the Kannada cause to be identified with those for whom it is no more than a cash cow.
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PTL – Have the moneyed Kannadas said anything wrt the current issue? Nothing right?
Like I said before, we want to berate our ruffians in the name of civility when they rough up outsiders. Then we cry at such situations.
Disgusting! If we don’t deserve all this then the Earth is without gravity.
Know what I mean?
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Watching–
You are absolutely right. The price of integration has meant selling the state of Karnataka not by inches or feet, but by the hectare.
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