Karnataka - Mangalore   

Three-day workshop on Tulu folklore, grammar, literature in September

MANGALORE: Palthadi Ramakrishna Achar, president of the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, has said that the academy, in association with the Mysore-based Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), will organise a three-day workshop on Tulu grammar, folklore and literature, in September here.

Mr. Achar said that the Dharmadhikari of Sri Manjunatheshwara Temple Trust D. Veerendra Heggade was planning to host the “Vishwa Tulu Sammelana” at Dharmasthala in December.

Speaking to The Hindu after a meeting with R. Subbukrishna, Research Officer, CIIL, to this effect on Saturday, he said that the workshop was aimed at reminding the Union Government about including Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. Linguists would be invited to the workshop to speak on Tulu, its history and importance, he added.

The deliberations of the workshop would be sent to the State Government and it would be urged to prevail upon the Union Government to include Tulu in the Eighth Schedule.

The State Government would also be urged to recognise Tulu as an important language of the State and to persuade Union Government in providing the facilities that were meant for the promotion of a minority language, he said. Mr. Subbukrishna suggested Tulu-speaking people to start correspondence with government departments in Tulu along with Kannada and Hindi.

While sending letters to government departments or filing applications, they could give copies of letters in Tulu. This would start attracting the attention of government authorities to the importance of the language, he said and added that Tulu was a rich language.

B.A. Vivek Rai, former president of the academy and Vice-Chancellor of the Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, said at a function here on Saturday that Tulu- speaking people should come out of their illusion that it was enough if they made efforts to include Tulu in the Eighth Schedule. They should get the support of non-Tulu speaking people, particularly MPs from other parts of the State and country, to speak for Tulu in Parliament.

The academy should make efforts to convince everyone that Tulu was an important language in the country. There was a need to bring out more publications in Tulu, he said.

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