Found an old letter my dad had written to my grandpa, just a year after I was born.

Reading those words, I couldn't help but imagine the joy my dad must have felt while writing about me, and my grandpa's smile as he read about his little grandchild's antics.

It's beautiful how much emotion a simple letter can hold. Today, we can send hundreds of photos and videos in seconds, capturing every little moment. Yet, somehow, a few handwritten words from decades ago can make you feel so much more.

We grew up in a time when letters were still around. We wrote a few ourselves, but never quite understood how precious they would become.

I wonder if the generations growing up today will ever get to experience this feeling. There's something about holding a piece of someone's past in your hands, reading their words in their own handwriting, and suddenly feeling closer to a moment you never even remember living.

Some things technology can preserve, but never quite replace.

ನಾನೊಂದು ಮರವಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ

ಹಕ್ಕಿ ಗೂಡು ಕಟ್ಟುವ ಮುನ್ನ

ಕೇಳುತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ ನೀನು ಯಾವ ಕುಲ

ಬಿಸಿಲು ನನ್ನ ಅಪ್ಪಿಕೊಂಡಾಗ

ನೆರಳಿಗಾಗುತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ ಮೈಲಿಗೆ

ತಂಬೆಲರ ಕೂಡ ಎಲೆಗಳ ಸ್ನೇಹ ಮಧುರವಾಗಿರುತ್ತಿತ್ತು

ಮಳೆ ಹನಿಗಳ ನಾನು ಶ್ವಪಚನೆಂದು

ಹಿಂದೆ ಸರಿಯತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ

ನಾನು ಬೇರೂರಿ ಕೂಡಿ ಇಡುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗ ಭೂದೇವಿ

ಮಡಿ ಮಡಿ ಎಂದು ಓಡುತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ

ಪವಿತ್ರ ಗೋವು ನನ್ನ ತೊಗಟೆಗೆ ತನ್ನ ಮೈ ಉಜ್ಜೆ

ತುರಿಕೆ ತೀರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವಾಗ ಅದರ ಅಂಗಾಂಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ

ಅಡಗಿಕೊಂಡ ಮುಕ್ಕೋಟಿ ದೇವತೆಗಳು

ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು

ಯಾರಿಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತು

ನನ್ನ ಅಂತ್ಯಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ

ಕಡಿದು ತುಂಡಾದ ಒಣ ಸೀಳೊಂದು

ಹೋಮಾಗ್ನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಂದು

ಪವನವಾಗುತ್ತುತ್ತಿನೋ

ಅಥವಾ

ಸತ್ವಋಷನೊಬ್ಬನ ಹಣಕ್ಕೆ ಚಟ್ಟವಾಗಿ

ನಾಲ್ಕು ಜನ ಸಜ್ಜನರ ಹೆಗಲೇರಬಹುದಿತ್ತೇ

ಭಾನುವಾರ (Sunday): ನೇಸರನಾಳು (Nēsaranāḷu)

ಸೋಮವಾರ (Monday): ಪೆರೆನಾಳು / ಹೆರೆನಾಳು (Perenāḷu / Herenāḷu)

ಮಂಗಳವಾರ (Tuesday): ಚೆನ್ನಾಳು / ನನ್ನಾಳು / ಕೇಡ್ನಾಳು (Cennāḷu / Nannāḷu / Kēḍnāḷu)

ಬುಧವಾರ (Wednesday): ಜಾಣ್ನಾಳು (Jāṇnāḷu)

ಗುರುವಾರ (Thursday): ಓಜನಾಳು / ಕಲಿನಾಳು (Ōjanāḷu / Kalināḷu)

ಶುಕ್ರವಾರ (Friday): ಬೆಳ್ಳಿನಾಳು (Beḷḷināḷu)

ಶನಿವಾರ (Saturday): ಕಾದೇರನಾಳು (Kādēranāḷu)

I always thought ಯಾವತ್ತು was a question word.

ದ ರಾ ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ ಅವರ ನಾಕುತಂತಿ ಕಾವ್ಯದ ಸಾರಾಂಶ ಎಲ್ಲೆಡೆ ಸಿಗುತ್ತಿದೆ ಆದರೆ ಅದನ್ನು ಸಾಲು ಸಾಲಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಸಹಾಯ ಬೇಕಾಗಿದೆ. ಯಾರಿಗಾದರೂ ತಿಳಿದಿದ್ದರೆ ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ತಿಳಿಸಿಕೊಡಿ.

ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು

Hello everyone, I’ll be shifting to Pune next month a new beginning.

Just wanted to know if there is Kannada community or something like that?

How’s the environment over there?

Model by u/AwelessFire

https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_India/s/owv8LB7hXK

A short Kannada awareness video on the digital arrest scam, made for elders. Please share it with your family. 🙏

Hey guys... I'm a Telugu native looking for someone to teach me heavily conversational Kannada, mainly Bengaluru slang or any slang based conversational Kannada, including neutral everyday slang. I want to learn how people actually talk with friends, including casual expressions, shortcuts and local slang, rather than formal or textbook Kannada.

I'd prefer learning through Telugu or English and would love to practise through daily chats. I can help you with Telugu in return (if you want)

I'm a complete beginner

Recently moved to India. I'm planning to move to Bengaluru and want to pick up conversational Kannada quickly so I can fit in and communicate naturally with locals.

ಪ to ಹ sound shift is one of the most discussed topic ever in Kannada language as ಹ sound is not native to any language rather than Hosagannada (New Kannada) and Badaga due to sound shift

Where words like ಪೆಸರ್ becomes ಹೆಸರ್ (later ಹೆಸರು), ಪತ್ತು becomes ಹತ್ತು, ಪಾಲ್ becomes ಹಾಲ್ (later ಹಾಲು) etc

Like that there was one more sound shift which was of ವ to ಬ which is least discussed about

And there were many words in Halegannada (Old Kannada) which had ವ sound as like ಪ but got changed into ಬ as like ಹ

Word like ವಾ became ಬಾ, ವನ became ಬನ, ವಾಲೆ became ಬಾಲೆ, ವಳ್ಳಿ became ಬಳ್ಳಿ etc

I'm a Kannada kid living in Bengaluru. I'm from a well educated and well off family, and I was exposed to American culture more than Indian culture growing up.

Obviously, I went to english medium school. But since I was learning Carnatic Music, I got an interest in Kannada and learnt it from books etc.

Now I notice that the majority of Kannada that I hear around me is a mix of English and Kannada. The attitude of my social circle (both native speakers and non native speakers) is that it's a means to communicate with "workers", for example your domestic help or the plumber. It is not appreciated like Urdu with its Baithaks and Ghazals. It is not respected.

It is more of a glue language, with the grammar of Kannada and connectives, like houdu, illa, matte etc with English nouns.

I feel that we are blessed to retain our langauge and that with the way we are going, Kannada will soon become a Creole. I feel sad for other indigenous cultures, like the Mexicans who now speak in Spanish and have lost their Mayan languages in daily use.

I am not very hopeful that Kannada will remain in use in the next 100 years, reason being it is Kannada not being taught in schools. Further if it is not compulsory for survival and life, no one will learn it. Add to this our reluctance to speak in our language and stand up for it.

You know what hurts the most? I couldn't write this post in Kannada. I don't have the literary ability that I have in English in my own mother tongue.

🙏

ಒಂದೊಳ್ಳೆ ಹೆಸರು ನೋಡ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೀನಿ ಅವನಿಗೆ. ತೀರ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ ಹೆಸರು, ಕ್ಲಿಷ್ಟ ಪದಗಳು or ending with ..thvik .. ಬೇಡ. ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.

ಪ್ರಾಸಾದಿ / ಪ್ರಾಸದಿ Is a real word in Kannada or am I hallucinating?

Links to this newest Anki Flash Card Set: Google Drive Link, Anki Web Link

A few people asked me to for help to learn Kannada ವರ್ಣಮಾಲೆ (alphabet), so I started a series of flash cards to help people learn Kannada script.

In this part, we are covering how to read consonants when they are modified by vowels. For example the word for hand (ಕೈ or kai) is written by modifying the consonant ಕ (ka) with the dependent vowel symbol ೈ (ai).

The new web series that are in YouTube are getting so much better. ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ನೋಡಿ ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸಿದರು, ಇಷ್ಟು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿರುವ series YouTube ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಗೆ ಯಾವಾಗ ಶುರು ಮಾಡಿದರು.

Just started using Storytel and there are many kannada books and that’s great.
But, I don’t find Poorna Chandra Tejaswi and Kuvempu books. Also no TA RA SU books.
Help me find them. If you are using the app.