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March 15th, 2008 — Blogs, Karnataka
Pranathi publications has organized a Kannada bloggers meet in Bangalore on Sunday 16th of March. As for as i know this is supposed to be the first in it’s kind for the online Kannada writers or bloggers. With the increasing use of Internet & English, there is a greater need for the use of Kannada & other Indian languages in the online world to reach a wider number of geographically dispersed young population & to keep the stream of literature flowing. These kinds of events are sure to help the bloggers to meet & share their thoughts with other like minded people. This in turn can help the bloggers to take their blogs to the next level. I will also be attending this meet with same intention. Though, i don’t have a Kannada blog, some of my posts are related to Kannada & Karnataka.
Venue : Indian Institute Of World Culture, Basavangudi, Bangalore
Date: 16th March 2008
Time: 4 PM
BTW, i came to know about this meet from
OnebyTwo Mahesh Malnad. Thanks for the info Malnad.
Update:
The bloggers meet witnessed a pretty good turnout from the Kannada bloggers community in Bangalore. More than 100 bloggers took part in the meet. The event lasted for about 3 hours. There were talks by
Pavanaja,
Hariprasad Nadig,
Abdul Rashid &
Shamsunder about the use of Kannada in the Internet and some technical pros & cons associated with it. In particular, Pavanaja’s talk on how he started using the Kannada on the net way back in 1996 was very enlightening to the audience. For all don’t knows over here, Dr. Pavanaja is the person behind Vishwakannada.com which is supposed to be the first Kannada portal on the World Wide Web. The organizers from Pranathi gave an estimation that currently there are around 350 active Kannada Blog’s on the net. As I mentioned earlier,the most important part of the meet was networking, which helped the like minded bloggers to get to know each other. Pranathi deserves applauds for organizing this meet which was first of its kind for the Bangalore Kannada Bloggers.
September 4th, 2007 — Karnataka
Aviratha – a youthful social organization in association with Doordarshan Bangalore is conducting an inter-corporate quiz competition for the first time for IT/BT/ITES employees. This competition will be a special series of DD Chandana channel’s popular Kannada quiz program “that antha heli” which has so far completed a record breaking 750 episodes with top TRP ratings. More details about the quiz competition can be found in the Aviratha’s official web site http://www.aviratha.og/
April 12th, 2007 — Karnataka
Vishwa Gou Sammelana (World Cow Conference) will be held in Ramachandrapura math in Hosnagara taluk of Shimoga District from April 21 to 29 under the guidance of his holiness Sri Sri Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji, who is the 36th pontiff of the 1200 year old math established by Jagadguru Shankaracharya. The Gou Sammelana, which is supposed to be the first in its kind in the world aims to protect and promote the native i.e., the so called desi cow breeds, many of which are now on the verge of extinction. Amrutha Mahal, used by kings of mysore, Gharparker from Rajasthan, Ongole from Andhra and Vechur of kerala origin are just some of the rare breeds of cows to be showcased in the event.
Seminars and discussions have been organised to focus on environmental, economic, agricultural and spiritual benefits of rearing Indian breed cattle. Apart from seers from different part of the country, scientists, agriculturists, leaders and cow experts from various parts of the world will be participating in the event. Around 50 lakh people have been expected to witness this festival.
The event will be preceded by Kamadhenu Mahayajna for 121 days which commenced on 25 Dec 2006. The event includes the display of paintings and poems related to cow, a food festival to promote the rich variety of milk based Indian cow products and also Go-Thulabara i.e., offering precious items equivalent to the weight of the cow. People who have contributed to the well fare of the cow will be facilitated with the ‘Gopala Gowrava’ awards.
This once in a lifetime event with the theme ‘Vande Gomatharam‘ is all set to unite people from different casts and languages on the moral grounds of protecting and promoting Indian breed cattle.
