NAMAKARANA- SUCHITH

FEBRUARY 2013

Anil with his wife and new baby Suchith

It's Anil, who became father of a boy recently and the family wants to share their happiness with celebration of naming ceremony for the child,  The ceremony was in the mini hall of Dattatri Temple at Hosakerehalli, at Bangalore, and as we were invited, we were there for the function. The boy was named SUCHITH.

Grand lunch followed with several courses as usual in these case, with more than 100 people present for the function. There was holige, halwa, and some more sweets along with the other items.

Sunday 27th  Jan 2013

SPIC MACAY PROGRAM

JANUARY 2013

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND CULTURE AMONG YOUTH (SPIC MACAY)
The organization organised six-day workshop for school children at a school in Cholanayakana halli, Bangalore, from 17th Jan- 22nd Jan.2013. Several school children from all over the state participated in the program to learn and experience music, art and culture.

Saligrama Makkala Mela Team

78 year old Shri Sridhar Hande, Director of Makkala Yakshagana Mela, from Saligrama, along with two of elderly colleagues, attended the workshop as resource people to teach Yakshagana to school children. It was amazing to see the dedication and love for the art, at that age, ignoring the constraints and discomfort of staying in the school classroom and teaching the children, in the fourth floor of the school building.

However, there was show of Yakshagana Prasanga "VEERA VRASHASHENA" by the students of Saligrama makkala Mela on Sunday, 20th Jan 2013, in the hall crowded with children and few teachers and general public.

Sri Sujayeendra Hande, multi-talented yakshagana artist, (son of Sridhar Hande) explained the Navarasa, with presentation by a mature artist. They are Shringar (Erotic -delight), Hasya (Humorous- laughter), Karuna (Pathetic- sorrow), Roudra(Terrible -anger),  Veera (Heroic - heroism), Bhayanaka (Fearful - fear), Bibatsa (Odious -disgust), Adbutha (Wonderous- wonder), Shantha (Peaceful - peace)

The YAKSHAGANA presented by students of Saligrama Makkala Mela was excellent.

Sunday, 20 Jan 2013

ಚೋಮನ ದುಡಿ- ಡಾ. ಶಿವರಾಮ ಕಾರಂತ

The celebrated novel CHOMANA DUDI written by Dr. Kota Shivarama Karanth is 1931 is very heart touching and raises some serious in our society. Untouchable (Holeya), Conversion (Matantara), Landowner's cruel handling of workers (bonded labour), and his strong belief and faith in Hindu Gods. Though at one point he decides to convert and till his own land, he just could not move forward God's place (Pajurli Bhoota).

In "Chomana Dudi" Karanth writes the ambitions of Choma who has one burning wish in his life - to till a piece of land. Choma is an untouchable. Even among the untouchables he is from the group Mari, the lowest among the four groups of untouch-ables. His hut is on the outside of the small village, almost where the forest begins, away from every other house.

Choma is an untouchable bonded-labourer in a village who is working along with his family for a landlord, due to a paltry loan of twenty rupees borrowed from him years ago. Due to his social status, he is not allowed to till his own land, something that he desires most. Though he managed to rear a pair of bullocks that he found straying in the forest, he cannot use them to till the land. He comes in contact of Christian missionaries who try to convert him giving him the lure of the land, but Choma does not want to let go of his faith. He releases the fury that fate has beset on him, by beating his drum.

He has three sons and a daughter; two of his elder sons work in a distant coffee estate trying to pay off the debt. One of the sons dies of cholera and the other one converts to Christianity by marrying a Christian girl. His daughter, Belli works in the plantation and falls for the charm of Manvela, the estate-owner's writer. She is raped by the estate owner, who then writes off Choma's debt. She returns to Choma's home without telling him of the reality. His youngest son drowns in a river, with nobody coming to save him because of him being an untouchable. He then finds his daughter in an compromising position with Manvela. With anger, he beats her and kicks her out of the house. To defy his fate, he starts tilling a piece of land and then chases off his bullock into the forest. In the climax, Choma shuts himself in his house and starts playing the drum till he dies.

Though I read this novel years ago,  still reading now made it very refreshing.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

ಮಕರ ಸಂಕ್ರಾಂತಿ - ಜನವರಿ ೧೪

JANUARY 2013

Sankranti is a solar event. So while dates of all Hindu festivals keep changing as per the Gregorian calendar, the date of Makar Sankranti remains constant over a long term, 14 January. Makar Sankranti is celebrated in the Hindu Calendar month of Magha.

This is the Suggi or harvest festival for farmers of Kaveri basin of Karnataka. On this auspicious day, young females (kids & teenagers) wear new clothes to visit near and dear ones with a Sankranti offering in a plate, and exchange the same with other families. This ritual is called "Ellu Birodhu.. Here the plate would normally contain "Ellu" (white sesame seeds) mixed with fried groundnuts, neatly cut dry coconut & fine cut bella (Jaggery). The mixture is called "Ellu-Bella" (ಎಳ್ಳು ಬೆಲ್ಲ). The plate will also contain sugar candy molds of various shapes (Sakkare Acchu, ಸಕ್ಕರೆ ಅಚ್ಚು) with a piece of sugarcane.There is a saying in Kannada "ellu bella thindu olle maathadi" which translates to 'eat the mixture of sesame seeds and jaggery and speak only good.' This festival signifies the harvest of the season, since sugarcane is predominant in these parts.

The starts with usual activities of morning exercises, walk, watering plants........ and special day as mom prepared some Huggi (Pongal) both sweet and khara for breakfast.....

Monday, 14th January 2013

KITTU'S ANTIQUE COLLECTION

In front of Kittu's antique house

Krishamoorthy Bhat, nickname - Kittu, from Puttur, Udupi is my sister's son. He built a nice house in his own locality, property  acquired from his father Ramachandra Bhat. The place is just 4 km from Udupi on NH 17 highway to Kundapur.

Few of the collections

Collecting antiques and rare wooden items from old house is hobby  and interest for Kittu. He was working with a timber merchant for some years and recently he has been on own business.

Nalini appreciating the items

He built store houses for keeping old items and also as display. He is keen on safeguarding antique items and loves them a lot.
Monday, January 7, 2013

WEDDINGS AT UDUPI

JANUARY 2013

Children grow, finish college, working in US or India, reach marriageable age and time to celebrate WEDDING. Parents also feel that children should have female partner, of acceptable choice.

Reception at Kidiyoor Hotel

with Sudhakar, Latha, Vikas & Kamala nagaraj

First was the wedding of Onkar Bhat, son of Keshava-Vishala Bhat, who were close friends at Dubai-Abudhabi, those days and Onkar was small. He marries Aparna, daughter of Prabhakar-Arundhathi Upadhya, also were close friends at Dubai. Many friends from Dubai also came to attend the wedding. Wedding celebrations held at Vasuki Anantha Sabha Bhavana, Sagri, Udupi. Grand lunch followed and the reception was held at Shesha Sahayana hall at Kidiyoor Hotel, Udupi.

Shushma-Chandru with Nalini

Same day, wedding of Chandru, son of Udaya chandra-Ratna, distant relative, took place with Shushma, at Sri Krishna Sabha Bhavana, at Car-street, Udupi. Next day beegara outhana was held at Puttur temple where we had sumptous grand lunch.

With Madhwaraj, and his wife

For attending the function we took SEA-BIRD volvo multi-axle bus on Saturday, Jan 5th night. The bus did not stop at the scheduled stop at Yeshawanthpur, but we went up to Jalahalli Cross, where the bus was waiting for us.
For our return trip, we boarded DURGAMBA multi-axle volvo bus, at Udupi bus stand at 9 pm, on Jan 7, and reached Bangalore early morning at 5am and reached home by 6 pm.

That was a nice trip around, could visit Birthi house, did pooja for a day, also visited Manipal hospital to call on Abhilasha's mother, who is admitted and taking treatment. All these was possible as we had ALTO car belonging to Sujatha (Nalini's sister) of Udyavara.

Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013

WELCOME 2013 AND 2012

31ST DECEMBER 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013

Yet another year 2012 passed into annals of history....... with lots of happenings in the country and around....
Spent the year peacefully in the new house BIRTHI MANE...... used the ground floor house for tuition and ABACUS classes, organized a function for distribution of certificates. and usual get-together for Yugaadi, Navratri, went to ooru three times, in May, October and November.

Went to Shubha's house for New Year Get-together, pizza and cake had some fun and returned by 1.30am
Hoping to have a pleasant year 2013.....

 Wednesday, Jan 02, 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

 Birthimane, @ Bengaluru 31/12/2011

That was fun getting together to celebrate and Welcome New Year 2012

Celebrations continued upto 12 midnight, everyone in fresh mood....

Eating New Year cake, enjoying....

New Year Blog is updated....

For Memories......

Posted 5/1/2024

DABANGG 2 - HINDI MOVIE

DABANGG 2 glorifies the feel of DABANGG to another level, a meticulously composed album that tries to replicate/recreate the magic of its prequel with potential hit tracks. Lacking in novelty but still delivering bountiful in entertaining contents, Sajid-Wajid delivers a chartbusting album again. Unlike many recently released chartbusting albums that primarily targeted urbane-listeners, it targets a contemporary Bollywood listener and succeeds to great extent. The magic of romance continues to roll in tracks like 'Dagabaaz Re' and 'Saanson Re' while there is alluring massy catchiness in tracks likes 'Fevicol Se' and 'Pandeyjee Seeti'. DABANGG 2 opens big on expectations on box-office and music too delivers what it promises, a total 'paisa-vasool' entertainment that is going to add to the joyride. 

DABANGG 2 is a continuation of the amazing exploits of Chulbul 'Robin Hood' Pandey played by Salman Khan. The notable facets of the character include his nonchalance, his wry sense of humor and his tongue-in-cheek dialogues. 
This film begins with Chulbul (Now married to Rajjo- Sonkashi Sinha) moving on from being a local inspector in a small town Laalganj to becoming an Inspector-in-charge of Bajariya Thana, a police station in Kanpur, the largest and most populous city in Uttar Pradesh. After arriving in Kanpur, Chulbul immediately gets into action thus bringing him in conflict with Baccha Bhaiyya (Prakash Raj). 
It was Wednesday, 26 December 2012, Venue is ORION MALL at Bangalore,
afternoon show. Being holiday, quite a big crowd at PVR Cinemas in the mall.
The movie is entertaining, gives what is reuired for the audience. Hero, (Salman Khan) strong and with power,   entertains with his super power demolishing the bad guys and with little humour and dance.....
Wednesday 26th Dec 2012

DEVARAYANA DURGA

Devarayanadurga is a hill which is situated in Tumkur and has two popular temples, the Yoganarasimha and Bhoganarasimha and is a popular destination for the devotees.The place is a favorite with both pilgrims as well as mountain climbers. The hills with lush green trees on all sides make the climbing a lot enjoyable. 
The Bhoganarasimha is at the base of the hill while the Yoga Narasimha is perched at the top of the hill.

The place was originally known as Anebiddasari then as Jadakana Durga after a chief named Jadaka and finally as Devarayanadurga after its capture by Mysore king Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar.

Legend has it that a robber chief named Andhaka or Lingaka had his stronghold here, and he was subdued by Sumati, a prince, whose father, Hemachandra, was the king of Karnata and ruled from Yadupattana. After accomplishing the task, Sumathi is said to have established the city of Bhumandana near the present Nelamangala and taken up residence there for the protection of that part of his father’s kingdom.

Under the Hoysalas, there seems to have been, on the hill, a town called Anebiddasari or the cliff from where the elephant fell. An elephant, which the sthala purana describes as a Gandharva suddenly appeared before the town to the great dismay of the people and after doing considerable damage, tried to walk up the steep rock on the west; it slipped, fell back and was killed.

Under the Vijayanagara Kings, the use of the same name continued, and a large tank called Bukkasamudra, was formed from which the river Jayamangali has its source. Remains of the embankment and of the adjacent town can still be traced.

Yoga Narasimha Temple

Devarayanadurga is around 75 km from Bangalore and 15 km from Tumkur.

The trip was good, as we set out from home around 10.30 am and reached Devarayanadurga by 12.30 pm after having some eats at Kamat Hotel. First went to top of hill,Yoga Narasimha Temple climbing up nicely laid out steps. Lots of monkeys greeting you on the steps. After coming down, visited Bhoga Narasimha Temple and had free lunch as prasada.

Returned via Tumkur and paid little extra for Highway toll.

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

ತಬ್ಬಲಿಯು ನೀನಾದೆ ಮಗನೆ - ಎಸ್.ಎಲ್. ಭೈರಪ್ಪ

Dr S L Bhyrappa

Thabbaliyu Neenadhae Maganae - Kannada novel written by Dr S L Bhyarappa, way back in 1968, almost 44 years ago. The issue is making cow slaughter illegal. Even now politicians are politicizing the issue for vote bank. 

The author explores the cultural problems experienced by an American woman, newly married to an Indian, adjusting to Indian norms and customs. Since the beginning of Indian Civilization the cow was considered sacred and was treated as mother. This novel depicts a modern man who studies agriculture in the States, returns to India with an American wife with their different views .The theme is one alienation from the fellow human beings.


ಗೋವನ್ನು ಸರ್ವ ದೇವತೆಗಳ ಸ್ವರೂಪವೆಂದು ಪೂಜಿಸುವ ಕಾಲಿಂಗಜ್ಜ ಮತ್ತು ಅದು ಹಾಲು ಮತ್ತು ಮಾಂಸಗಳನ್ನು ಕೊಡುವ ಪ್ರಾಣಿ ಎಂದು ಭಾವಿಸುವ ಅಮೇರಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿದ ಅವನ ಮೊಮ್ಮಗ ಕಾಳಿಂಗ ಮತ್ತು ಅವನ ಬಿಳಿ ಹೆಂಡ್ತಿ ಹಿಲ್ಡ, ಇವರ ಮೌಲ್ಯ ಸಂವೇದನಗಳ ನಡುವೆ ನಡೆಯುವ ತಿಕ್ಕಾಟವೇ ಈ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯ ವಸ್ತು.
ಪ್ರಾಯಶ ಭಾರತದ ಎಲ್ಲ ಭಾಷೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಚಲಿತವಿರುವ ಗೋವಿನ ಹಾಡಿನ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆರಂಭವಾಗುವ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯು, ಭಾರತೀಯ ಸಂಸ್ಕ್ರ‍ತಿಯ ಮೂಲ ಬೇರುಗಳನ್ನು ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಈ ಕೃತಿಯನ್ನಾಧರಿಸಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ಹಿಂದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಿರುವ ಚಲನ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಹಾಗೂ ಅಂತರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಮನ್ನಣೆ ಪಡೆದಿದೆ. ಈ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯ ಹಿಂದೀ ಅನುವಾದವೂ ಅಪಾರವಾದ ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆ ಪಡೆದಿದೆ. 
ಇದೊಂದು ಉತ್ಕ್ರಷ್ಟ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಕೃತಿ ಎಂದು ಭಾವಿಸುವರಿರುವಂತೆ, ಪ್ರಗತಿವಿರೋಧಿ, ಪ್ರತಿಗಾಮಿ ಮೌಲ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದಿಸುವ ತೀರ ಕಳಪೆ ಎಂದು ದ್ವೇಷಿಸುವವರೂ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ. ಪ್ರೀತಿ ದ್ವೇಷಗಳೆರಡನ್ನೂ ಪ್ರಚೋದಿಸುವ ಈ ಗುಣವು ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯ ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ಗುರುತಾಗಿದೆ.  


Description of certain events in the novel is simply marvelous .... only Bhyrappa can narrate in such a way that it touches heart of the readers. Kalinga Gowda's son killed by tiger, slaughtering of buffallo's for "bali" to godess, Hilda slaughtering  cow for taking revenge on Poojari Venkatrama are simply hair raising. .....

Friday, 21 December 2012