Mukhyamantri Chandru, outgoing chairperson of the Kannada Development Authority (KDA), said that there should be a concerted effort to include Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, now that four MPs from the State became Union Ministers.
Railways Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Minister of State for Civial Aviation G.M. Siddeshwar, Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizer Ananth Kumar and Minister for Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu are from the State.
But he opposed the idea of a separate Tulu state and said that the State had taken measures to protect the language.
Mr. Chandru, who was addressing presspersons in the city on Monday, urged the members of Parliament from the State to take their oath in Kannada.
He also demanded for a uniform education policy which emphasised regional languages.
This would help balance out the teaching of English as well as the State language, in view of the recent Supreme Court order which prohibited making the mother tongue the mandatory medium of instruction in primary classes.
Characters of Mahabharatha in Old Kannada form
Eleven days of lectures conducted at Sullia last year on the select characters of the epic Mahabharatha during a series of Yakshagana presentation has been made into a 124-page booklet.
‘Mahabharathada Mahapaatragalu’, edited by Chandrashekhar Damle, records the depictions – as narrated in the original Old Kannada form – of characters such as Bhishma, Krishna, Draupadi among others at the series of Yakshagana programme hosted by Tenkuthittu Yakshagana Hitarakshana Vedike between October 17 and 27.
The book was released in the presence of Mukhyamantri Chandru, Chairperson of the Kannada Development Authority, here on Monday. He commended the effort to record and preserve the traditions of the Yakshagana.
