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Substitute literary meets with anubhava mantapas: Sadashiva

BANGALORE: The Kannada Sahitya Parishat should contemplate on stopping the annual Kannada Sahitya Sammelans and instead have “anubhava mantapas” across the State, the former judge of Karnataka High Court A.J. Sadashiva felt here on Saturday.

Anubhava mantapa was a forum for intellectual discussions and exchange of ideas during the 12th century Sharana movement in Karnataka.

His suggestion on the sahitya sammelans, incidentally, came during a session on Bangalore held as part of the 77t {+h} Kannada Sahitya Sammelan at the National College Grounds here. He felt that the large-scale sammelans accounted for huge expenditure.

“Sahitya sammelans should be organised and work on the lines of anubhava mantapa. These Anubhava Mantapas should be organised at the district level every year, while the State-level sahitya sammelan should be held once in five or six years” the retired judge suggested.

In Maharashtra, he pointed out, Marathi sammelans were not big and they did not receive government funding.

Further, he said: “while issues should be discussed at the district-level, the State sammelans should deliberate on them and send the resolutions to the State Government.” Smaller sammelans are more effective, and the sahitya parishat should think on these lines, he felt.

Schools

Terming government Kannada schools as “worse than cow sheds”, Mr. Sadashiva said these schools had to be developed to attract students and parents. “Children are not inspired to join government schools. Crores of rupees are released for various things; why should it not be given to government schools?” he questioned.

Primary learning, he said, should be in Kannada, but the local language should also be made compulsory.

Earlier, freedom fighter H.S. Doreswamy, who shared his memories of Bangalore with the audience, felt that Kannada was at the receiving end even in courts due to the “wrong” policies of the Government. Though there were judges, who were willing to hear the arguments in Kannada, the Government was not keen on making the language compulsory. He also felt that a separate law was required to ensure that Kannada was used. Kannada could be popularised, he pointed out, not by blackening signboards or stone-pelting, but by awareness. Bangalore should be rid off gambling, horse racing, and dance bars and it should become a “Sarvodaya city”, he added.

Bangalore's history through the ages, the present and the future in the light of large-scale migration into the city, which had thrown up myriad problems for the city's planners, were deliberated by Principal Secretary (Industries and Commerce) V.P. Baligar, Deputy Director, Indian Council of Historical Research (Southern regional centre) S.K. Aruni, and the former Chief Secretary A. Ravindra.

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