Kannada Gotila

Namashkaaraa!!!

A unique class for LKG.

All class has attendance formality. Here no attendance.

Generally we studied on weekdays. This class is on Sunday.

We studied to clear exams. Here exams are optional.

We have to pay fees. Here it is free.

Kids are attending LKG. Here we had all age groups from cute kids to respected elders.

Yes, Vivek Foundation is running this innovative language project for last about 20 years, in Banagalore

Banglore is cosmopolitan city. Here many languages co-exist. Local language is Kannada

Professions working here feel handicapped, if they do not know the regional language.

President of Vivek foundation, Mr. Rajendra Kathed faced difficulty, when he was new in Bangalore .

So he started this project. He found two very good teachers also. One for Hindi and one for Kannada.

Vivek Foundation is running free Kannada and Hindi classes every Sunday morning.

Mr. Rajendra Kathed addressed us that you all are LKG students.

LKG means obliviously lower kinder garden student.

He added two more meanings.

LKG means Learning Kannada @ Gandhinagar.

LKG means Learning Kannda from GnanaMurthy.

Yes, We got a good, co-operative, interactive faculty Mr. N. GnanaMurthy. He is B.Sc. M.A. M.A. Sahitya Ratna.

He started with good marketing.

First he told about Kannada language.

Kannada literature got 7 times prestigious GyanPith Award. It has very rich literature. Even few students wanted to learn Kannada to enjoy its literature. All kinds of professions. Banking, literature, DooDarshan officer, Businessmen, Management consultant, house wives and  Software Engineers like me. People wish to learn Kannada for day to day interactions with common man. Language makes people closer.

Then He also did marketing about his Kannada class. You have such a good environment,  school, classes, batches, facility, facility, at free of cost. In bangalore , this GandhiNagar area is at central of city. This is the only are where no parking problem. Etc. etc……

A press reporter photographer from Rajasthan Patrika came. He covered a short press note in 2^nd August Rajasthan Patrika. Even my photograph also appeared in it, as a student.

All sessions went with full of humor.

Here I have tried to capture few such humors moments of the class.

Enjoy MAADI. :)

·          “I won first prize in memory test.”

“Which prize?”

“That I forgot.” :)

·         One person came with his wife and kids. So my batch mate gave him name MBBS. MBBS means MIYA BIVI BACHCHO KE SAATH.

·         If we do more work, then we commit more mistakes,

If we do less work, then we commit less mistakes,

If we do no work, then we commit no mistake,

Then why to work?

So Do not work :)

·         I met with one student. He seemed very sincere. He concentrated too much in my class. He was sitting in first batch and starring at me. One day I appreciated him. He was wondering and he replied that, after so much practice, I have acquired skill to sleep with open eyes. :)

·         VYAKARAN KAA KYAA KARANAA?

·         Why goddess Laxmi is standing on lotus? Is she belongs to BJP? Students replied with different answers from Hindu mythology. He told, reason is quite obvious. Look at her SARI. So costly SARI. If she comes out from lotus, SARI will become dirty. :)

·         Kannada character also we draw a line on top of it. Like they are wearing turban on their head. The reason is simple. Our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is wearing turban on his head.

·         In Kannada we add GALU with any noun and it becomes plural. Exceptions are there. In our society there is no Husband GALU and wife GALU. :)

·         One gentleman introduced his wife ”sir this is my own wife. “ :)

·         Oh! Are you working on networking? Internet? Then what about outernet?

·         Oh! You are working in computer field. Software? Hardware? Or no where?

·         Mahatma Gandhi was very simple person. He believed in simplicity and wearing just DHOTI. However M. G. Road is the most costly area in every city, including Bangalore .

·         In Kannada also we have word for AAP (Hindi) = TAME (Gujarati) = TAAVU (Kannada). NENU (Kannada) is for TUM (Hindi), TU (Gujarati). However, when the work is over, the TAAVU becomes NENU :)

·         Bangalore was garden city now it is burden city.

·         We discussed colors in Kannada. Students listed out different colors. One gentlemen add peacock blue, other gentleman add lemon yellow. He replied Blue is NITI and Yellow is HALADI. Now you add, whatever you want to add. Peacock NITI, lemon HALADI, peacock HALADI, lemon NITI, etc. etc. :) Peacock NITI and lemon HALADI are possible colors. But I can not imagine peacock HALADI and lemon NITI colors.

·         I asked how to say in Kannada, I did not understand. OK you can tell your friends, I am learning Kannada for last so many weeks. What did you learn. Tell me one sentence. “GOTTAAGALILA” = I did not understand :)

·         All monkeys are imperfect men and all men are perfect monkeys.

·         One person joined irrelevant topics in a single SHAAYARI.

“SUJALAAM, SUFALAAM, SHASHYASHYAAMLAAM

SUJALAAM, SUFALAAM, SHASHYASHYAAMLAAM…………

ABDUL KALAAM KO MERAA SALAAM” :)

·         Please take your own time and hurry up. :)

·         You should be present here every Sunday, physically, mentally and dentally. :)

·         One person was always speaking SH in place of S. He was in department of National Savings Development. He delivered a wonderful speech about Savings. “Shaving is very important, in our life. Shaving has many advantages. I will tell you a story. There was a man, who had habit of weekly shavings. And there was a woman who had habit of  monthly shaving. They both got married. They faced financial crisis and…………..Now You all understood advantages of shavings. Now I will tell you, what to shave, how to shave and where to shave? ……”  Such type of officers are doing underdevelopment of National Shavings sorry National Savings instead of development. :)

OK Then

Bye

Regards

Keep Smiling and Enjoy MAADI

From

Manish Panchmatia

http://www.geocities.com/panchmatia_manish

 Censor Cut

In his introduction Mr. N. GnanaMurthy mentioned his mobile number as outdoor number and residence landline number as indoor number. Then he told his address as his door number 419.

My batch mate told me "it is just one less." :)