Saturday, April 30, 2011

Scribbles - 30-04-2011

Today it was around 6:30 PM..i was near koramanagala first block citi bank ATM. there was no crowd in the streets..reason could be evening rain or IPL cricket match.. ..already the salary credited to my account..was busy in collecting the cash..the meantime one grandpaa entered in to ATM. very .carefully inserted the one envelop in the cheque deposit box .. later he quired in kannada to  the ATM security about the cheque collection time..security could not able to understand kannada..:(  this time grandpa queried in hindi..security replied tommorow morning 8'o clock..some aggression in grandpa's face.
.you work in karnataka dont you know kannada?? okie what is your native place..
orissa


i thought things getting worse just intervened..grandpa asked me in english where are you from ?? UP or Punjab? i replied to him in kannada..i am from tamilnadu...Grandpaa slightly got relaxed now..he continued....i asked the security only to make awareness ,like we old people suffer a lot because of this language communication..i said yes..the rain started at mean time..grandpaa could not able to move...i offered lift to him in my car..intially he did not accepted but heavy rain would have forced him to join with me..

i played kannda songs from the movie 'Super' in my car...i was able to see relaxed sensations from his face now..finally he said bye bye ..i

while coming back to home lot of thoughts were going around !! there is no chance of this kind of conversations either in Chennai or in Mumbai or in Hyderabad.. in chennai without having the knowledge of tamil no one can survive.same applicable to other metro's as well.. but in karnataka without learning their language without respecting their culture anyone can survive !! what a pity is this ??? the outsiders like us taking over advantage of the the kannadiga's..
i mingled with various sections of the society.. different ethinity but i never seen such a wonderfull people like kannadiga's ..always cool..always respectfull..hightly patient group..

there is always an negative image portrayed about kannadiag's ..but its totally wrong..i live bangalore for long time.. traveled across so many places in karnataka..i never witnessed any negative aspect from them.. i have more kannadiga's friends when compared to my tamil circle. hmm finally to say..the kannada language speaking group is diminishing in bangalore..its not a good sign .. we should not ignore the original inhabitants of this land..



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