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Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts
Nadiad
I was aware about only college road, during my initial few years at Nadiad. Later on, I researched various reading materials and explored Nadiad. I came across many less known facts about Nadiad. I presented my speech about Nadiad as part of oral communication subject in MBA.
Nadiad Means...
N - Novel
A - Aspired
D - Divine
I - Impressive
A - Admired By All
D - Dignified
Nadiad is Known for:
- Its old name was નટીપ્રદ Natiadra / Natiprada and later on નટપુર Natpur.
- Once upon a time, Nadiad was known as city of scholars SAAKSHAR-BHOOMI. સાક્ષર ભૂમિ As Nadiad was the center of literary and cultural activities in Gujarat in the late 19th century.
- Center place of Charotar (Charotar literally means 'More Beautiful')
Key Facts
* First ST bus stop (known as old ST bus stop during 1990s).
* Vegetarian Puf was invented at Shreyas Bakery, Nadiad
* Mogul Azam movies's popular song "Mohe Nadhat Pe Nandlal" was written by Nadiad's Rasakavi Radhunath Brahmbhat
* 9 BHAAGOL : Entry/exit towards 9 different cities / villages. All BHAAGOL had gates
1. AMADAAVAADI અમદાવાદી ભાગોળ
2. MARIDAA મરીડા ભાગોળ
3. SALOON સલૂણ ભાગોળ
4. CHAKALAASHI ચકલાશી ભાગોળ
5. DOOMRAL ડુમરાલ ભાગોળ
6. PIJA પીજ ભાગોળ
7. DABHAAN ડભાણ ભાગોળ
8. KODI-VAADAA કોળી-વાડા ની ભાગોળ
9. BILODARAA બિલોદરા ભાગોળ
* 9 Lakes :
1. Kund કુંડ
2. SERA સેર
3. RATANA રતન
4. KHETAA ખેતા
5. MULESHWARA મૂળેશ્વર
6. OONDEVAAL ઊંડેવાળ
7. MALAAV મલાવ
8. NAANAA KAAMANAATH's SMASHAAN VAALU TALAAV નાના કામનાથ નું સ્મશાન વાળું તળાવ
9. KALAKAA MAATAA NI TALAAVADI કાળકા માતાની તળાવડી
* Birthplace of scholars in literature (SAAKSHAR સાક્ષર )
1. Govardhanram Tripathi ગોવર્ધનરામ ત્રિપાઠી. Author of Saraswati Chandra Novel. There is a Bollywood movie also based on this novel, with same name. Remember the song? FOOL TUMHE BHEJAA HAI KHAT ME...?
2. Manilal Dvivedi મણિલાલ દ્વિવેદી,
3. Balashankar Kanthariya બાલાશંકર કંથારીયા, ,
4. Manshukhram Tripathi મનસુખરામ ત્રિપાઠી,
6. Chhaanlal Pandya છગનલાલ પંડ્યા
7. Zaverilal Yagnik ઝવેરીલાલ યાજ્ઞિક
etc.
* Birthplace of
1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
2. Indulal Yagnik ઇન્દુલાલ યાજ્ઞિક
3. Ambalal Jani અંબાલાલ જાની
4. Chandrashankar Pandya ચંદ્રશંકર પંડ્યા
5. Bakul Tripathi બકુલ ત્રિપાઠી Gujarat's legendary comedian
6. Ex-CM of Gujarat Babubhai Jashbhai Patel
Places worth to visit
* A. Sau. Daahi Lakshmi Library (SAMADI CHAKALA) in memory of wife of Mana:Sukhram Tripathi. It has more than 46000 books and 1600 manuscripts since 12th century in Sanskrit, Magadhi, Hindi, Gujarati
* Santram Temple: Santram Maharj is incarnation of Lord Dattatray. The temple runs many social services. In 1990s, It was also providing change for Indian currency notes. Now, this is era of UPI and QR Code. Santram Maharaj is like DSP of Nadiad, as He imparts ethics and values in Nadiadi people. Here GuruPurnima , MAHAA month full moon day and many other festivals are celebrated. It has 11 large halls.
* Santram DERI/dERI. So many people visit it on every Thursday.
* Mai Temple. A big statue of Lord Shiva. Near the railway line. (Another branch of this temple is on college road.) YANTRA PUJAA is performed at only two places in entire India. This temple is one of them.
* Viththal Girls School: Training for becoming self dependent
* Hindu Anaathaashram. I visited this place, after returning from industrial visit to GE Lighting (SEEMA bulbs and Tubes).
* Baalakanji-Baari (BAALAKAANJI BAADI in Sindhi means VAADI of children)
* Hari Om Ashram by saint Pujya MOTAA. ( I did one week silence SAADHANAA here).
* MUKTI DHAAM crematorium
* Townhall. I visited it to attend (1) poets meet and (2) a program of MAAN માણ (musical instrument) playing
* Deaf and Dumb school
* Vedaant Bhavan (at Kansaraa Waad)
* Laakhi mosque ( at Vahora Waad)
* Shri Paisa VaaLaa Vaid NU DAVAAKHAANU
* Saradar Patel SMRUTI BHAVAN. It has 200 years old records
* Sports Complex
* Nadiad is famous for many hospitals, Industries, Colleges, Temples. I have not included all of them here. I am not sure, about present situation of above places also.
* Newly added attraction BAPS Swaminarayan Temple , at "Yogi Farm", PIPALAGA Road.
Reference:
* Abhiyaan Weekly Magazine. Issue 18th December 1995
* Charotar SarvaSangra. KHAND PAHELO, VIBHAAG BIJO.
Diwali Rangoli
Rangoli one of the most popular art forms in India. It is a form of sandpainting decoration that uses finely ground white powder and colors, and is used commonly outside homes in India.
I observed that @ South India daily people decorate the entrance with white powder Rangoli. @ my origin, Gujarat state, during Diwali festival, we all prepared colorful Rangolis at our entrance. It is welcoming to goddess of wealth - Lakshami.
At my native place Mithapur, we have competition for preparing the best Rangoli during Diwali festival. Today let me share photographs of last year Diwali 2015. You may also like previous article: http://layers7.blogspot.in/2008/11/rangoli-one-of-most-popular-art-forms.htmlhttp://layers7.blogspot.in/2008/11/rangoli-one-of-most-popular-art-forms.html
I observed that @ South India daily people decorate the entrance with white powder Rangoli. @ my origin, Gujarat state, during Diwali festival, we all prepared colorful Rangolis at our entrance. It is welcoming to goddess of wealth - Lakshami.
At my native place Mithapur, we have competition for preparing the best Rangoli during Diwali festival. Today let me share photographs of last year Diwali 2015. You may also like previous article: http://layers7.blogspot.in/2008/11/rangoli-one-of-most-popular-art-forms.htmlhttp://layers7.blogspot.in/2008/11/rangoli-one-of-most-popular-art-forms.html
Knowledge Gaining
Mahabharat and Ramayan are two great epics in Sanskrit. Both written by different scholars. Maharshi Veda Vyas wrote Mahabharat and Maharshi Valmiki wrote Ramayan. However, both scholars are listing almost identical tools/ways to get knowledge. All the students must read this list carefully. Let me share this similarity for the readers of this blog "Express YourSelf !". (courtesy : P N Namboodari)
As per Adhyatma Ramayan : Aranya Kand, 4th SARG, SLOKA 31st onward:
As per Bhagavad Gita (It belongs to Mahabharata epic) chapter 13
( भगवद्गीता १३ अद्ध्याय: क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञ्विभागयोग)
As per Adhyatma Ramayan : Aranya Kand, 4th SARG, SLOKA 31st onward:
अध्यात्मरामायणम्
(अरण्यकाण्डे ४ सर्गे श्लोकः ३१ आरभ्यः)
ज्ञानसाधनम् ----- (लक्ष्मणोपदेशे)
मानाभावस्तथादम्भ हिंसादिपरिवर्जनम् ॥ ३१
पराक्षेपादिसहनं सर्वत्रावक्रता तथा ।
मनोवाक्कायसद्भक्त्या सद्गुरोः परिसेवनम् ॥ ३२
बाह्याभ्यान्तरसशुद्धिः स्थिरता सत्क्रियादिषु ।
बाह्याभ्यान्तरसशुद्धिः स्थिरता सत्क्रियादिषु ।
मनोवाक्कायदण्डश्च विषयेषु निरीहता ॥ ३३
निरहङ्कारता जन्मजराद्यालोचनं तथा ।
असक्ति: स्नेहशून्यत्वं पुत्रदारधनादिषु ॥ ३४
इष्टानिष्टागमे नित्यं चित्तस्य समता तथा ।
मयि सर्वात्मके रामे ह्यनन्य विषया मतिः ॥ ३५
जनसंबाधरहितशुद्धदेशनिषेवणम् ।
प्राकृतैर्जनसङ्घैश्च ह्यरतिः सर्वदा भवेत् ॥ ३६
आत्मज्ञाने सदोद्योगो वेदान्तार्थावलोकनम् ।
उक्तैरेतैर्भवेर्ज्ञानं विपरीतैर्विपर्ययः ॥ ३८
अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम्
।
आचार्योपासनं शौचं
स्थैर्यमात्मविनिग्रहः ॥
इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च
।
जन्ममृत्यु जराव्याधिदुःखदोषानुदर्शनम्
॥
असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्ग: पुत्रदारगृहादिषु ।
नित्यं च
समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु ॥
मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी ।
विविक्त देशसेवित्वमरतिर्जनसंसदि ॥
अद्ध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं
तत्वज्ञानार्थ दर्शनम् ।
एतज्ज्ञानमिति प्रोक्तमज्ञानं
यततोन्यथा ॥
Yogiji Maharaj
Jai Swaminarayan
Today 5th June 2013. Today is YogiJayanti - Birthday of Param Pujya Yogiji Maharaj. He was the fourth spiritual successor to the lord Swaminarayan. So let's have a look to some live paintings of Yogiji Maharaj.
This slide show contains photograph from Yogi Smruti Mandir (temple) Gondal. Gondal was very dear to Yogiji Maharaj. After passing away in January 1971 in Bombay, his material body was transported to Gondal and his last rites performed here. At this spot, a marble shrine with a marle image of Yogiji Maharaj has been erected. Known as Yogi Smruti Mandir, a museum has also been set up, wherein the life of Yogiji Maharaj is depicted through an exhibition and his personal belongings preserved.
Gita - Ancient Indian Wisdom
On 15th Dec, 2012, I attended Geeta Jayanti celebration by Samskrita Bharati. Dr.B.Mahadevan, Professor of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore was president of the programme. Here are the key takeaway points from his speech.
Today the society and government (PMs, MLAs) both have undoubtedly understood importance of Bhagavad Gita. One should, read Bhagavad Gita, with full faith, sincerely and regularly.
He gave an example, suppose, you got a medicine that provide three fold benefits.
- Cure your decease
- Improve your immune system, resistance for that decease
- Also, eliminate need for medicine in future.
Bhagavad Gita is such medicine, that gives three fold benefits. Spiritual Religious and Practical for day to day life. Bhagavad Gita and entire literature about the Ancient Indian wisdom (that includes Bhagavad Gita, Purana, Upnishad etc) undoubtedly provides enormous ideas about spiritual life. Bhagvad Gita talked about Hindu religion philosophy, the concepts of God, Avatara. Here are some useful interpretation of Bhagavad Gita slokas, that provides a unique insight to applied that knowledge into our day to day life.
Equilibrium
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्।।7।।
yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata |
abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham || (4.7)
This Sloka has obvious religious meaning of Avatara, God. As being a management professor, he talked about management concept of equilibrium, that is famous in economy, management and even in science. We know about price determination by demand and supply curve in micro economics. A organisation should have feedback system for improvement. It is about restoring back to stability in any unstable system.
Innovation
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहायनवानि गृहणाति नरोऽपराणि।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा-न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही।।22।।
vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya navani grhnati naro 'parani |
tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany anyani samyati navani dehi || (2.22)
It has simple meaning that when shirt / dress is old, we remove that and put on new one. Same way, this soul finds new body when the present body is longer useful. It seems, it has only spiritual idea is about life, life after death etc.
It also explains very important principle called innovation. Innovation is buzz word, nowadays. The Management Gurus are talking about sustaining competitive advantage, how to become competitive / innovative etc. The basic principles for that are here in Bhagavad Gita. The basic requirement for innovation is we have to give up our old ideas. In Organisation context it is called mindset inertia.If one is willing to destroy this mindset inertia, then only progress can happen.
There are many such knowledge points in Bhagavad Gita about management, and day to day life. Our ancestors were so great and extra ordinary people, that they encapsulate multi-dimension in Ancient Indian Wisdom.
Benefits
From his own experience and observation, he found many changes in the people, who read Bhagavad Gita regularly. So he strongly recommend to read Bhagavad Gita regularly, sincerely with faith and devotion. Many ideas in Bhagavad Gita are very very important for the youngsters. Here are the three obvious and important changes in a person, who reads Bhagavd Gita regularly.
1. We will develop great character within ourselves, that is a great transformation. The below are characteristics of great character.
- Fearless:
यस्मान्नोद्विजते लोको लोकान्नोद्विजते च यः |
हर्षामर्षभयोद्वेगैर्मुक्तो यः स च मे प्रियः ||१२- १५||
हर्षामर्षभयोद्वेगैर्मुक्तो यः स च मे प्रियः ||१२- १५||
yasman nodvijate loko lokan nodvijate ca yah |
harsamarsa-bhayodvegair mukto yah sa ca me priyah || (12.15)
(He for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and distress, fear and anxiety, is very dear to Me.)
harsamarsa-bhayodvegair mukto yah sa ca me priyah || (12.15)
(He for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and distress, fear and anxiety, is very dear to Me.)
We will not be afraid of anyone and no body should be fear from us. We should not inculcate any kind of fear in anyone. That develops a very unique character. This characteristic is one of the hallmark of true character.
- Gentleness:
Deep faith and conviction in life, should be co-exist with broad mindedness. Both are equally important.
2. Sincere reading of Bhagavad Gita over longer period of time, helps us to develop enormous capacity to withstand non-sense in life.
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः |
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ||२- १४||
matra-sparsas tu kaunteya sitosna-sukha-duhkha-dah |
agamapayino 'nityas tams titiksasva bharata || (2.14)
It is surprising that, sometimes, we do not able to handle non-sense in life. Life is full of non-sense also, you can not run away from non-sense. Life is like a roller coaster ride. Sometime, we lack that kind of perspective about life. That is the reason, even teenager sometime commit suicide for trivial matter. In this country India one third of population does not have proper food to eat. The strength to withstand such misery is still resident in Indians, so those people are not committing suicide due to hunger. They are much more stronger. We are the blessed one, that we get timely proper meals. Our Youngster will get such Titiksha to withstand against small, trivial matter, when they will read Bhagavad Gita.
3. We will build enormous faith in life. The faith is essential to progress, whether it is materialistic progress, religious progress or spiritual progress.
श्रद्धावाँल्लभते ज्ञानं तत्परः संयतेन्द्रियः |
ज्ञानं लब्ध्वा परां शान्तिमचिरेणाधिगच्छति ||४- ३९||
अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति |
नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः ||४- ४०||
sraddhaval labhate jnanam tat-parah samyatendriyah |
jnanam labdhva param santim acirenadhigacchati || (4.39)
ajnas casraddadhanas ca samsayatma vinasyati |
nayam loko 'sti na paro na sukham samsayatmanah || (4.40)
Faith is extremely important, for anything that we do in our life.The faith and devotion are the greatest benefits, that one achieve by reading Bhagavad Gita genuinely and seriously.
Cardinal Principals
Bhagavad Gita has lots of cardinal, important principles, that never go wrongs. If one understands those principles then faith will go several folds. Few of them are here:
- Every student must understand this sloka very well.
न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते |
तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ||४- ३८||
na hi jnanena sadrsam pavitram iha vidyate |
tat svayam yoga-samsiddhah kalenatmani vindati || (4.38)
If a student contemplate on this sloka, he can definitely progress in education.
- Do Good things.
पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते |
न हि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद् दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति ||६- ४०||
sri-bhagavan uvaca partha naiveha namutra vinasas tasya vidyate |
na hi kalyana-krt kascid durgatim tata gacchati || (6.40)
na hi kalyana-krt kascid durgatim tata gacchati || (6.40)
(The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Son of Pṛthā,
a transcendentalist engaged in auspicious activities does not meet with
destruction either in this world or in the spiritual world; one who
does good, My friend, is never overcome by evil.)
Even though all principles are important we have to believe in this principle particularly. The good that we do, nothing goes waste. This is the greatest strength on which you can lead your life. Today people wants quick return. Our education system is also may be teaching this. One should not have that kind of expectation for quick fruits for good work. Please contemplate on this sloka
- Law of conservation of divinity.
मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय |
मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ||७- ७||
mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya |
mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva || (7.7)
Divinity can neither be created nor can be destroyed. Divinity can only be transformed from one form to another form. The latest research in particle physics about God Particle also, describe this same principle.
- Faith
बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते |
वासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः ||७- १९||
bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate |
vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma su-durlabhah || (7.19)
Bhagavad Gita is highway towards supreme divine. Just give up, all your doubts, questions, thoughts. Just have faith.
- Devotee never perishes
क्षिप्रं भवति धर्मात्मा शश्वच्छान्तिं निगच्छति |
कौन्तेय प्रतिजानीहि न मे भक्तः प्रणश्यति ||९- ३१||
ksipram bhavati dharmatma sasvac-chantim nigacchati |
kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati || (9.31)
(He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.)
Summary
Bhagavad Gita is all about bringing faith. The faith is the greatest motive force not only for spiritual matter but also even in our material life. So far lot's of great people have attracted by Bhagavad Gita. Dr. B. Mahadevan concluded with just two quotes.
"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible or invisible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita "
The Gita was preached as a preparatory lesson for living worldly life with an eye to Release, Nirvana. My last prayer to everyone, therefore, is that one should not fail to thoroughly understand this ancient science of worldly life as early as possible in one’s life.
At the end, Dr. B. Mahadevan suggested that if such great people are benefited by Bhagavad Gita, then we should also follow that path of Ancient Indian Wisdom.
Declaimer: This blog article is not verbatim of speech by B. Mahadevan. I have put my best effort to capture the essence as per my understanding, my interpretation. Any corrections, comments, suggestions are welcome.
Here are photographs of the events. Click Here
Geeta Jayanti
Dear all,Once again I wish to invite you all for Geeta Jayanti celebration. Please join at Raghevndra Swami Math. It is off CMH read. Near KFC signal. Opposite to A2B. We will have a wonderful evening together. The even it organized by Ulsoor division of Samskrit Bharati - an NGO working to promote Sanskrit/Samskrit.
This time Dr. B.Mahadevan Professor from IIM-Bangalore is the president. Dr. Vishwas is a key speaker. He is chief mentor at Samskrit Bharati.
So see you all there on 15th December, 3:30 PM.
Diwali
Since our school days, we used to write assay about Diwali. This Diwali, I come across a nice picture, that I am sharing with readers of this blog. A picture is worth 100 words. This is satellite image of India on Diwali night.
Wishing you all, the light, wisdom, knowledge in your life forever on this occasion.
Wishing you all, the light, wisdom, knowledge in your life forever on this occasion.
Can you read Kannada?
Are you able to read Kannada? Yes? No?
Ok, if you cannot read it, then you read this article. So at the end of it, you will realize, YES to learn Kannada is so.... easy. :) If you know Kannada then also continue reading. You will be amazed by knowing interesting aspects about your own language. Look at Kannada from my perspective. Let’s start first with scripts. At the end, we will see few aspects of spoken Kannada and a popular Kannada movie
1 Kannada Script
Kannada script has so many curves. Tamil is more of vertical and horizontal straight lines like symbol ‘L’. Kannada is totally different. So people say they are JALEBIs. JALEBI is a sweet with a spiral shape, a shape of round round round round and full stop in the middle.1.1 Omega
However, if you just carefully observe these JALEBIs, you will find one symbol is repeated again and again in almost all characters. Do you know what is that? Yes, correct it is ‘w’ (English lower case w) or Greek lower case Omega ω . Yes, Omega. This small Omega means angular velocity in physics. Add something to it, either at right hand side, left hand side, above it or below it, and you will find almost all Kannada characters. For example, just add English digit 7,2 or 9 at left hand side. ಬ It is ‘BA’. ब ‘BA’ for Bangalore. Sorry I mean Benglooru. You will find this symbol everywhere in our Benglooru. Now just add a Greek upper case Delta below it. Δ Delta is triangle. Even a vertical line will do, instead of triangle. ಭ Yes, now it is ‘BHA’ भ from ‘BA’. Put something at right hand side, ಚ you will get ‘CHA’. च Add vertical Omega to right hand side. Total two Omegas. ಡ It is DA. . ड Add Delta (vertical line) below it. ಢ So it become 'DHHA'. ढ Now remove the horizontal one, only one vertical omega. ತ It is ‘TA’ (‘THA’). त In north India, ‘TA’ is common for ‘TA’ (as in Kavita कविता ) and ‘TA’ (as in Rita रीता ). In South, people write ‘THA’ for the former one. Even instead of ‘Gujarati’ गुजराती , they write it as ‘Gujarathi’ गुजराथी. ‘Vinod’ is ‘Vinodh’ विनोध here. ‘Divya’ is here ‘Dhivya’!! धिव्या :)
Anyway, coming back to Omega. After adding, something in all directions, now let’s hang it. Like we hang clothes after washing them. You just hang it from middle. ಪ It is ‘PA’. प Add Delta (or vertical line) below it. ಫ Now it is ‘PHA’ or ‘FA’. फ Hang the Omega from both side. ದ It is ‘DA’ (‘DHA’). द Again add Delta. Where ? At bottom yaar. :) ಧ It is ‘dHA’ (‘dHHA’). ध Now, Let’s hang Omega from right hand side. ವ It is ‘VA’. व Add Delta? Nothing. :) Hang it from left hand side. Again nothing :) Ok so hanging business is over too. Now cover it from right hand side. ಎ It is ‘E’ .ए Now cover with Omega. ಐ Just observe them, it seems like the Omega looking at itself in the mirror located on top of it. They both Omegas are singing the famous Gazal of late Jagjit Singh.
"AAYANAA MUJA SE MERI PAHELI SI SURAT MAAGE
MERE APANE HONE KI NISAANI MAAGE."
It means even the mirror can not recognized me, It asking me for my old face and a proof that I am myself only. Understood? No. Yes Gazals are sometimes difficult to understand.
Coming back to this Kannada character. It is ‘AI’. ऐ So yes, thus few characters have two Omegas,e.g AI and DA. ಐ ಡ Still, Kannadiga like Omega so much they are not satisfied with just two Omegas. So ‘TA’ ट and ‘NA’ ण have total three Omega. Two verticals and one horizontal. For ‘TA’ ट the horizontal Omega is at bottom. ಟ The vertical omea is looking itself in the mirror and "AAYANA MUJA SE MERI....." :) Rotate this symbol, 180 degree ಣ and it becomes ‘NA’. ण
1.2 ‘U’ symbol (
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How about ‘MA’ म? ‘MA’ for me, Manish. Obviously, it contains…. Yes Omega (hung on right side). ಮ It is actually, ‘VU’. वु A symbol for vowel ‘u’, is added to ‘VA’. So it is ‘VU’. But no. In Kannada script, ‘VU’ is ‘MA’. Then how to write ‘VU’? Because, 'MA' has stolen symbol for 'VU'. Simple. Tweak little bit. Instead of right bottom corner, add ‘U’ symbol at bottom, middle to ‘VA’. ವು Yes, now it is ‘VU’. वु And this symbol for vowel ‘u’ is a real confusing. They add it to ‘YA’ य , still ‘YA’ remains ‘YA’ only not ‘YU’ यु !!! Here is Kannada YA ಯ For ‘YU’ यु it is added twice. ಯು For ‘ZA’ or ‘JHA’ झ, by default, it is twice. ಝ So how to write ‘ZHU’ झु ? Simple, a circle then keep on adding ‘u’ till you are satisfied. If you have added more ‘U’ symbol then, Kannadiga will do auto-correction while reading it. Simple. ಝು Try to write Zunzunwala in Kannada. What'e fun ! :) And yes, don't forget to add a delta (vertical line) below ZA/JHA झ.
Unlike Hindi, all Kannda vowels are three. Hindi we have two. like short 'U' and long 'OO'. Short 'I' and long 'EE'. Kannada has such vowels three. For third one they add '9' symbol . This symbol is added by that small kid of movie "Taare Zami Par". So it is vertically flipped. 
Once my friend did proof reading for my Kannada poem. He added vertically flipped '9' at many places. You too, after 'I' or 'U', if you feel and whenever you feel just add . Yes, now your Kannada script looks more like written by some Kannada literate person. :) So just Enjoy MAADI. And yes, Its width should be short. This same symbol you widen. ಲ So it is 'la'.ल Now put circle below it. ಳ It is 'LA' ळ.
Once my friend did proof reading for my Kannada poem. He added vertically flipped '9' at many places. You too, after 'I' or 'U', if you feel and whenever you feel just add . Yes, now your Kannada script looks more like written by some Kannada literate person. :) So just Enjoy MAADI. And yes, Its width should be short. This same symbol you widen. ಲ So it is 'la'.ल Now put circle below it. ಳ It is 'LA' ळ.1.3 Greek and Hindi
Not only Omega and Delta, Kannada script has few more Greek characters. Like ‘Pai’ π = 22/7 = 3.142. π It is ‘Ga’ ಗ in Kannada. Theta θ is ‘Th’ (‘Thha’) ಠ ठ.
Not only Greek, Kannda script borrowed few symbols from Hindi also. Hindi ‘YA’ य First the top vertical line, cap is removed. So now it is Gujarati 'YA'. ય Rotate it 90 degree, then it become Kannada ‘NA’. ನ Whenever I came across this symbol, first I read it as rotated Hindi ‘YA’. य Then I recall, Kannada ‘YA’ has circle (it is like a big tummy of a fat man) and it is actually ‘YU’. ಯ So this cannot be ‘YA’. Oh! Yes, it is ‘NA’. न. स ‘SA’ is simple. No confusion. Just rotate Hindi ‘Sa’ 90 degree. ಸ That’s it !! :) Hindi SHA ष has one inclined 45 degree (it is -45 degree, let me be more specific :) ). So Kannada SHA also has this inclined line. For Hindi we add it to symbol 'PA' प . For Kannada? Obiviously to Omega. Yes :) Look at it. ಷ . Hindi 'LA' ळ is also directly copy pasted to Kannada. However here it is not 'LA' ळ. In Kannada it is 'HA'. ಹ Anyway, Kannada 'LA' ಲ we just saw it, right? Add delta (vertical line) below HA. No sir. BEDAA. Everywhere this Delta logic is not applicable :) 
Wow !! This circle is a nice symbol. Let’s hang it. A death punishment. So now it is ‘KA’. ಕ Gift it to Ekta Kappor. :) It is also English symbol I and O written vertically. In the universe, we find everything in pair. Isn’t it? Happy and Sad. Man and Woman. In our IT industry, Hardware and Software, Zero and One. So why death punishment to only one circle? (Lucent only? ) Let’s hang two such circles.(Alcatel and Lucent 
) ಹ Now it is ‘HA’. ह 'HA' We have already visited as Hindi 'LA' ळ. Let’s put on a horizontal cap (line) on circle. ರ It is ‘RA’. र Now put a line in the middle of circle. It is Greek Theta θ ಠ means Kannada ‘THA’ (‘THHA’). 
Already covered. Let's extend this middle horizontal line on both side, add a hook to right hand side. This hook will prevent this line to come out from left hand side of the circle. :) ಈ This symbol is 'EE' ई
1.4 Lucent Technologies
So now borrowing business from Greek and Hindi is also over. All kinds of operation on Omega is over. Adding Delta is over. Still first character of alphabet, that is ‘KA’ क is pending. Right? ‘KA’ is for Kannada. And ‘KA’ is for….Yes, you all got it. Just for shake of Ekta Kapoor, all Kannadiga put sincere efforts to find suitable symbol for ‘KA’. Once they visited Lucent Technologies. Lucent is my ex-employer. They just gazed at the red circle.Wow !! This circle is a nice symbol. Let’s hang it. A death punishment. So now it is ‘KA’. ಕ Gift it to Ekta Kappor. :) It is also English symbol I and O written vertically. In the universe, we find everything in pair. Isn’t it? Happy and Sad. Man and Woman. In our IT industry, Hardware and Software, Zero and One. So why death punishment to only one circle? (Lucent only? ) Let’s hang two such circles.(Alcatel and Lucent ) ಹ Now it is ‘HA’. ह 'HA' We have already visited as Hindi 'LA' ळ. Let’s put on a horizontal cap (line) on circle. ರ It is ‘RA’. र Now put a line in the middle of circle. It is Greek Theta θ ಠ means Kannada ‘THA’ (‘THHA’). Already covered. Let's extend this middle horizontal line on both side, add a hook to right hand side. This hook will prevent this line to come out from left hand side of the circle. :) ಈ This symbol is 'EE' ई1.5 Practice MAADI
Now let’s read something. As you know, practices makes man perfect and women are born perfect. At least they believe so :) . So let’s read. ‘Benglooru’. No need to read individual character. You can remember it as single word’s single bitmap image. Where? Everywhere. At Railway station, airport, City-bus stop, etc. etc. So you can never forget how to write ‘BA’. Just Remember ‘Benglooru’. Add delta to 'BA' make it ‘BHA’. Ok, now other most popular symbol is ‘Shree’. Shree means wealth. Lakshmi, Goddess of wealth. In my parents’ time, kids were starting their study with this symbol. Hey, what is written behind auto-rickshaw? Without reading, say ‘Tande Tai Aashirwada’ (I mean ‘Thande Thai Ashirwadha’ ). 99 % of times, you are correct. It means blessings of parents. Even I found parent's blessing on Taxi too (a car with yellow number plate). Other vehicles? ‘Shree _________ Prasanna’. Now you know symbol for ‘Shree’. It is first word. Middle word, just read few characters and other assume it. The candidate Gods/Goddess for middle words are ‘Vinayaka’, ‘Manjunath’, 'Venkateshwar', 'Balaji' some xyz swami etc. Last one will be always ‘Prasanna’. OK now let’s read those yellow colors, low height address board. The number is already in English. So PARAVAH GILLA. Don't worry. After that, it can be either ‘main road’ or ‘cross road’. Why to read whole word? Just read first character. If it is ‘A’ then it is ‘Adda Rasthe’ means ‘Cross road’. If ‘MA’ then ‘Mukhya Rasthe’ means ‘main road’.Have you noticed? For SAMYUKTA characters, Kannadigas write half character as full and full character as half. Say for example, ...let me think. HINDUSTAAN (HINDUSTHAAN). In Hindi, Gujarati SA is half so it is S and TAA (THAA) is full. Here different. It is HINDUSAATHN (HINDUSAATHN). AA will be added to S. So it is SAA. At the right bottom corner, small TA (THA) will be added.
1.6 Language Discrimination
Before I forget, we need to add vertically flipped L (upper case English L) to all symbol. Like Hindi, all have cap, here all have cap + one vertical feather on top, left corner. The last character of any English word is exceptional. It has symbol 6 at top left corner, instead of vertical line. So just by looking any word written in Kannada, you can easily say, weather it is native Kannada or English. Now turn comes for Telugu people. They first remove this vertical feather from the top. Then they approve all such symbols. How? They just add one tick mark above to all of them, saying yes, this is correct, yes this is also correct. So now, after adding tick mark, all Kannada characters becomes Telugu characters. So Congratulations. You started reading this article to learn Kannada script. But, you learn to read Telugu also. One + One free. Just Enjoy MAADI.So now you learnt so much right? What to read and how to read by identifying minimum characters, consuming less CPU cycles. Wait. First, how you will identify, it is written in Kannada? If it does not have curves. Then Tamil. Else, if it has curves and tick mark above character then Telugu. You can read Telugu as Kannada, just ignore this turban or feather. And over the above all, if you can read it very fast, then it is not Kannada, Tamil or Telugu. Either it is English or it is your mother tongue language :) . Yes, nothing to laugh. It really happens with me :). Once , from the city bus window, I was struggling to decode all the boarding of shops, written in Kannada. Suddenly, I could able to read very fluently! Miracle ! Then I realize, it was written in Gujarati. :)
Once I had one more funny experience with Urdu language. I saw a name written in Urdu language at Airport road. I learnt Urdu with my own interest in my school days. It has total three alphabets. Character at the beginning of word has different symbol, same in the middle of word is different and at the end of word it is full like capital/upper case character. Still I can recall few characters. So coming back to Airport road. I tried to read that Urdu board. I read it from right to left. So first character was ALIF. Second, I could not decode. Third was NUN. So it is a four character name, start with A and one middle character is NA. What it can be? Confused. Then, after some time, I came across, same board. Oh! it was English only. I thought it is ALIF (first), it was I, last character. English is from left to right. So first is last and last is first. And the second (or third ?) character, that I thought NUN, it was U. It was written SUFI. :)
How nice it would be, if we have XML tags. All text should be enclosed with XML tag, to indicate its language. Like This is English .
2 Spoken Kannada
Anyway, so do you agree, Kannada script is simple? So you can read it. Yes. But what does it mean, that you are reading? Good question. Let me share with you, my experience.2.1 Basic rule
Before that, first rule, spoken Kannada is very slow or say lazy language. People fully pronounce each character. NIDHANAVAGI means slowly, peacefully. The last character ends with ‘Aa’, unless it is English. Like say, ‘Namaskar’ is in Hindi too. But in Kannada it is ‘Namaskara’. There is one recent musical Kannada movie hit is ‘Milan’ मिलन They write it as ‘Milan’ in Kannada. But read it as ‘Milana’ मिलना. Here people feel, if they do not end word with ‘aa’, then it is incomplete. Then what to do if already word ends with ‘aa’? Does it become ‘aaaaaaaa……..’ ? No it is reverse way. It becomes ‘a’ only!! Say for example, my एक्स employer name is ‘Airvana’ एरवाना It is written in Kannada as ‘Airvan’ एरवान , read as ‘Airvana’ एरवाना . :)2.2 Lessons from my mistakes
I tried to talk in Kannada. Once I told to driver that I was absent on first day. ‘Mungaru dine nanu Bandidilla’ (Mungaru dhine nany bandhidhilla). There is popular movie ‘Mungaru Male’ It means ‘The First Rain’ and Male means rain. So obviously, ‘Munagru’ means First. But no!! Mungaru is a type of rain. So by listening to my statement the driver was so confused. What does I mean by saying ‘rain day, I did not come’ !!! So in short, Mungaru word only comes with Male. One more such confusion happened. At the end of the day, evening time my colleague was living for the day to home, so told me ‘Bye’. I replied, in Kannada, with full enthusiasm. It is my Kannada. I told, ‘ok bye and Hogi Bartini’ (Hogi Barthini). My friend got confused. She corrected me that yes she is going and she will come back. While, I was not going or coming back, I was still in the office only. ‘Hogi Bartini’ means ‘I am going and I will be back’. I should tell her ‘Hogi Banni’ means ‘Go and come back’.2.3 My creation
All the time, I do not confuse people with my Kannada. Once I made a correct and innovative statement. Happy Birthday is simple. ‘HuTTu Habbada Shubhashay gaLu’. How to wish ‘Belated Happy Birthday’? Simple, ‘HuTTu Habbada Aadmele Nidhanvagi Shubhashay Galu’. I wrote a nice SuPrabhatam in Kannada." Bangalore Road Nalli Beligge Traffic Kammi Ide, Sarva Junction Nalli Hasiru Singnal Ide...
Uthishta Banglorian Bega Office Ge Drive Madi.
Nidhaanavagi Ellaakade Traffic Jam Suruvagide., Uthishta Traffic Police, Bangaluroo Ge Mangalam Kuru...
Sree Ellaru Banglaorians Ge Thava SUPRABHATAM."
It means
"At the morning, in the Bangalore , there is less traffic. All junctions have Green signal. So all Bangalorians wake up and drive towards office. Slowly, traffic jams start. Wake up traffic police and do welfare for Bangalore city. To all Bangalorians, Good Morning.!"
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This SuPrabhatam was broadcasted on Bangalore Radio City 91.9 FM at 'Bangalore Talkies' programme. Listen MAADI the edited conversation with R. J. Vasanthi. Presented the same at Hidi Kavi Samlen by 'Shabd Sahityik Sanstha' Wath MAADI
And yes, here is one more. "Din Huva Begin" - My poem translated in Kannada. Also read the orginal Gujarati version.
2.4 Simple tricks
So yes, with practices, you can speak better Kannada. You can attend weekend class at Hosmat Hospital. Contact Mr. Raghavan 9448878569 or Mr Natarajan 9845680958. You can organize Kannada class at your organization. Kannada Kali will provide all kind of help.Still, if you feel difficult, then let me share few simple tricks. Learn Kannada in five minutes :) . It is very very simple. Just Listen. Whatever they says, you reply, ‘Hauda(Haudha)…?’. They may reply back ‘Haudu(Haudhu)’ and continue. If some serious topic, you become serious and say ‘HAUDA…?’ If other party laughs, you also laugh and say ‘Hauda…? :)) ’ ‘Hauda’ means ‘Aisa Kya?’ in Hindi, ‘Is it so?’ in English and ‘Eppadiyo’ in Tamil.( Eppadiyo is famous word. It comes in ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye’ movie songs also) How long, you can manage with just saying ‘Hauda…?’ They may ask you something. Again simple. Only one answer for all the questions. ‘Ondu Nimisha’. Whatever they ask, give same reply. It is correct. It means. ‘Just please wait for one minute’. After one minute they may repeat the quesiton. No problem, you also repeat the same answer. "Ondu Nimisha". got it ? :) What'e fun!
So Happy learning Kannada. It is nice and rich language. Kannada literature has won maximum JyanpiThh award so far. (We write Gyanpith). And all Kannadigas are so sweet, so emotional and they love Kannada so much that if they know, you are learning Kannada, they will support you. They become your nice friends. And feel very happy, even if you put effort to make even one statement in Kannada. Even once Sonu Nigam spoke that, local people VJ Rubi Bhatiya feel very happy, when he speak anything in Kannada. He is a playback singer for 'Mungaru Male'
So enjoy learning Kannada.
3 Mungaru Male
Recently I watched a popular hit Kannada movie. "Mungaru Male". Enjoyed. It was copy of Hindi DDLJ. Except the end. Overall the movie was too good. Love Stories are simple to understand. No logic. Natural scene, waterfalls are too good, that you can enjoy only on the wide screen of cinema. The whole movie was with full fun by the Hero Ganesha (Pritam, Pritham).Starting was so simple. Heor's mother was asking "AAMELE?" means next? The hero was describing, how he met her, how he fall in gutter. "AAMELE?". She took out him out of gutter. Wow!! Kannada movie is so simple to understand. Just one word "AAMELE?" The whole movie was not so simple. In the whole movie, me and the father of heroine. ERADU ONDE. We both had same situation. He was using the hearing aids. The hero always removes it and says whatever he wants to say. The poor father cannot understand. I have limited Kannada vocabulary. So even I can hear, I cannot understand fully. He can not hear. I can not listen to. So we both were inferring from the facial expressions, tone, gestures etc, what others are talking.
The heroine's parents assigned responsibility for successful marriage of their daughter to hero Ganesha. And do you know, what? When the heroine slapped him twice, he was wrenching in rain, the heroine had an umbrella for her. Then she threw the umbrella and ran away. Instead of pick up it, the hero sat in VAJRAASAN.What was the need of doing such VAJRAASAN? at the time? in rain? when the free umbrella was lying down just next to him? ( If I could enter in the picture, I would have gone there, collected it and come back. :) )Her parents asked only for safe, successful marriage not asked for not take her umbrella, if she forget. But anyway, as I mentioned, love stories have no logic. Even to know her name, he put his 100% and catches her handkerchief. Fight with villain. Finally on the handkerchief, her name was written "Nandini" (Nandhini). In Bangalore, you just go to any street corner, you will find one milk selling outlet with this name: "Nandini". What was the need to catch that handkerchief, run behind it for such a common and popular name? Again the love stories have no logic. :)
The end fully disappointed me. The poor hero, twice took bath with gutter water, bitted by villain, his mother slapped him, the heroine slapped him. That too for twice. And after all these also, he could not marry her! So sad. :( At last, I was waiting, that he will get call on her mobile, he will return and marry her. But no. The end. "Priti Madhura, Tyaag Amar" ("Prithi Madhhura, Thyaag Amara"). (by the way, there was no mobile tower in that hilly area, where he was driving. No coverage. So if someone call him back then also, "This mobile is not reachable!" ) It was not DDLJ. And like almost all Hindi love story, there was no last moment running towards airport also. Like the movie 'Ashiqui' or 'Chalate Chalate' or many such movies.
My Kannada friend argued, how can you say the end is sad? Who knows in the movie Ganesha was not hero, but he who married with her was hero!! Lateral Thinking.
Disclaimer : All the thoughts and ideas presented in articles are author’s own. The sole purpose of writing this is just to have fun with learning. This is not written at all to hurt feelings of anyone, or to promote racism or any kind of discrimination based on language, caste, state or culture. Yet, if any reader feels hurt, then I am sorry for it. Please let me know any feedback, I will correct it.
