The Hindu : Government urged to set up translation academy

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Sunday, Jan 25, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka

Government urged to set up translation academy

By Our Staff Correspondent

ARKALGUD, (HASSAN DT.), JAN. 24. Hi. Shi. Ramachandre Gowda, President of the eighth Hassan district Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, has urged the State Government to set up a translation academy and publish a dictionary of rural Kannada for the development of the language.

Delivering the presidential address at the sammelan here on Saturday, he also appealed to the Government to take steps to publish the remaining volumes of folk literature and grant pension to folk artistes.

Mr. Gowda stressed the need for a strong cultural leadership to promote Kannada on the lines of N.T. Rama Rao of Andhra Pradesh, E.M.S. Namboodiripad of Kerala, and M. Karunanidhi of Tamil Nadu who promoted the language of their States. It was imperative to use Kannada in every walk of life. Kannada should become the administrative and cultural language of the State. Employment generation would be more in a State where its language occupied primacy in the administrative and the cultural spheres, he said.

Commending farmers and Dalits for their efforts to preserve the language and culture of the region, he said that in the true sense Kannada belonged to them and not to others who made use of it only when an identity crisis arose.

Describing those who were against the integrity of Karnataka as enemies, he accused politicians, officials, and police of encouraging such anti-Kannada elements. Because of the nexus between them, Kannada was facing a threat. The Kannada movement now was not pro-people as it was earlier and, because of this, people were not joining it. It should become a "movement in search of knowledge'' and leaders of the movement should lend credibility to it.

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