Tulu as optional subject in schools awaits CMs nod
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Mangalore Dec 16
"All the procedure required to introduce Tulu as an optional subject from 6th standard has been taken up. It just awaits the CM’s signature," said Karnataka Tulu Sahithya Academy President Dr Palthadi Ramakrishna Achar.
Dr Achar was addressing the gathering after accepting the felicitation from undivided Dakshina Kannada district Vishwakarma Federation on Sunday. Dr Palthadi said that if Tulu is introduced as a subject in the academics, then the struggle for bringing Tulu in the 8th schedule of the constitution will be a bit easier.
"Tulu literature has a history of 2,000 years and hence there has to be efforts to uphold the glory of rich Tulu," he said. MLC Ganesh Karnik said that the problems that India faced over the past 30 years are so intense that it cannot be compared to the problems faced by other nations. Naxal menace, terror attacks have been tearing the nation apart. All in all India is not healthy at present. Mangalore University Nation Service Scheme Co-ordinator Dr Gananath Yekkar addressing the gathering on ‘Dr Palthadi’s literature and folkart research’, said that research should always compliment the society. "There is nothing wrong in bringing complex folkarts on stage but while doing so one has to remember that he should not insult the original form of the art," he said.
Vishwakarma Okkoota President S V Achar presided over the programme and said that there is a responsibility to take Tulu at a larger platform mainly because Tulu is losing identity in wake of globalisation.
Felicitation Committee Honorary President G Ramakrishna Achar, P Shivaram Achar, Vice-President Alevoor Yogish Achar, Secretary Dinesh Padubidri and others were present.
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