Gandhiclassu... A must read.

Last month I read autobigraphy of kannada writer Kumvi's "Gandhiclassu", thought of writing about this autobiography last month itself but my laziness didnt allowed to post new blog. So now writing about this gud autobiography.
The guys who studied kannada as language in thier PUC ( plus 12) doesnt forget the chapter "Devara Hena" worte by Kumbar Veerabhadrappa ( Kumvi is his pen name) because that chapter is full of fun and illustaration of scarcity of food.Story happens a village backdrop. The story deals about an ox which is died in the house of village head and the attempts by Tonni ( a poor dalit) who attempts to get the body of dead ox to eat.
I know only kumvi's by his Devara Hena (God's corpse) and after joining BE , I became a bookworm started reading plenty of books ( almost i haev read few hundreds). One day after sternous work I felt like raeding some gud books, went to Sapna bookhouse, mysore. While hoping from shelfs to shelfs the coverpage of this book catched my eyesight. Took this book and read the epilogue written on the back side of the book by Mr. Ramachandra roa. After readinng the epilogue I thought of buying the book as it was 225 rs.
Started reading this autobiography as soon as I reached home , as most of the autobiographies this also started with the childhood days of the author. This book haunted me like a fever for few days because of its content and narration style. In this novel we will meet funny characters and also factionists of Andrapradesh.
Kuvmi gets job as kannada teacher for primary school in Andrapradesh and simply he goes Vandavagili village in Andra to get his bread and butter. His lifestory becomes colorfull (for readers) from his entry as teacher to vagili village. This village is a remote village in the border of Andra and Karnataka where basic aminities are too far. Teh home he gets for rent in this village is a palace of scorpios, Kumvi lives with them and starts mantoring the students.When he tries lure dalits students to his schools get threats from the upper castes but he doesnt gives up and educates plety of students.
The author witneeses many faction murders, meets factionists when he gets transferred to Gulyam village in Andra. Escapes from the bomb blasts which happens when he is on election duty in one of the village in Andra. On the way to Mantralayam from Bellary theer is village by name Agri, which is infamous by its brutal murderers, when I was kid the police use to escort the vehicle with loaded guns through this village. The villages in whihc the author has worked as a teacher are also comes in the same region. Atleast one person from ecah family was convicted by court. ( The people were ready to kill a person just for few hundred bucks, the continous famine, drought and need of money made them to do these).
"Kotreshi kannasu" film which got national award and "Mana mecdhida hudgi" are based on the story written by kumvi. He wirtes about the cheating of the film industry people. Kumvi writes a 600 pages novel "Shamanna" afetr getting advance mnoney from the publisher within one month. I was stunned by his confidence by which he creates Shamanna. The second half of the autobiography makesthe reader to feel that they are reading script of RGV's Rakthcharithra.
This book is a must read because it gives a some relief to the minds and soul of the people who feels that they have big problems and after reading this autobiography one will get a new perception about life and fistfull of confidence to lead the life.
Kudos to Kumvi who worte candid account of his lifestory.

Feels gud...

Started blogging from last october. Posted some posts and got comments both positive and negative. After started blogging i really read some gud stuffs in this blogging world. I was boggled by the quality and quantity of the kannada blogs. Some many beautifull blogs are there in Kannda too. Many bloggers in kannada have written stories, poems, and thier travelling experiences very beautifully.
I saw the gadgets in many blogs which were showing how many peoples are reading the same blog which am reading, place of the visitors, hits et al. I also added a gadget to my blog which shows the place from which people have accessed my blog. And its a great feeling that share with you guys that my blog was visited from Malaysia, California, Scotland,Canada etc. When I look back my previous post I feel "I have to improve a lot in writing" and I notice the grammitical mistakes  and lots more. But something is better than nothing , so still blogging hope to write more and more gud stuff...

Jaggesh-- An Actor

"Yescape", "kage harisu", "touching.touching...touching".
These are the words which will be known to etymologists of kannada , if they have not watched Jaggesh's kannada films. Because these are the words coined by none other than JAGGESH--The NAVARASA NAYAKA. Jaggesh's original name is Eshwar, today he is celebrating his birthday,so being an ardent fan of him i thought of writing about this versatile actor.
Eventhough his native is as he tells 'JMS' ( Jade MayaSandra) in one of the films.He was brought up by his parents in Sriramapura of Bangalore.He have numerous number of fans in karnataka. He is favourite for the producers of the films because the investment of his films are less compared to films of other heroes in kannada film industry. He is a minimum guarentee actor for a producer. Only big investment for the producers who produce Jaggesh's films is Jaggesh's payment only. No high paid heriones, musicains, and technicians required as many of his films are shooted in village backdrop.
He started his career in the early years of 1980 by doing small roles ( remember his role in Ravichadaran's box office hit 'Ranadheera') and negative roles ( In Ambarish's 'Rowdy MLA' and Ravichandran's 'Yuddha kaanda'), he came to limelght as a hero by palying protaganist role in Upendra's 'Tarle nan maga' which is famous till today as the one of the most hilarious film of kannada. Day by day his acting skills and capabilities are maturing which can be seen in his recent films like 'Yeddelu Manjunatha' and 'Lift kodla'.
He is married to Parimala whom he loved in his salad days at srirampura. His marraige dispute was the first case to appear from south  India to appear in Supreme court of India . This went to court because his wife now was underage then , there Justice. Bagawathi gave the decision in favor of Jaggesh based on the ground of humanity. They have led a wonderfull life together and has two sons.
The role model for Jaggesh is Dr.Raj and Jerry Lewis. His mannersims, body language has its root in Jerry Lewis's acting.
He is well versed in making mimicry of other personalities and famous for his pranks. His programme "Talk of the town" which is hosted for kasturi channel was a big hit, in which mimicry and palying pranks were exhibited to maximum extent.
He entered politics through congress party and lost his debut assembly election in Turuvekere Vidhanasabha constituency. Won in 2008 elections and joined BJP, now he is vice chairman of KSRTC. Whatever may be his political moves and ideologies, kannadugas love him more as an actor and jsut as an actor.
He is a disciple of Sri Guru Raghavendra Swamy , now he sport a tatoo of Raghavendra swamy on his right sholuder and his mother's image as a tatoo on his left shoulder.
Happy birthday to this great actor and may god bless him with gud helath wealth and prosperity throughout his lifetime.

 

The guy with bat and ball had more than one life

The boy who has got bat usually didnt agree with his peers when i was bowled out. Its very commonsense that the play wont be continued if he runs away to his home with his bat. So everyone used to curse the boy who has got bat and used to let him play even when they have bowled him out. The guy who got the ball was given less priority because many of us cricket balls as thay are cheap compared to bats. This tendency of arguing with peers to bat agian was there, is there and wiil be there. Everyone likes batting more than bowling(thats team INDIA's batting lineup is very gud,contrast to bowling..LOL). The first ever playground where we played cricket was a temple courtyard in front of temple near my house. The balls were made up of plastics and rubber we used to play. I dont why but we used call rubber ball as KMS ball. Each team consisted of half of the number of people who had came to play, if anyone is extra then i was made as joker(used to get bat on both sides,no bowling was allowed). Probably this concept as its root in playing cards where we use joker , the card which can be placed with any cards. The distance between the wikcets was around 15-25 feets and that was called as short pitch cricket. Bowling was not allowed as they do in international cricket. The bowler has to stand and jsut throw the ball at the batsmen. Even though it looks simple to play this short pitch cricket , it get complicated when you just get into bat. Some many fielders will be there and some more restrictions will also be there. For eg: If the ball falls after certian marking then it was regarded as out. And even if the ball its the wall and catch by a fielder was considered as out. This cricket was going to the extreme conditions during summer and dasara holidays. In rainy season, cricket was played inside house that in hall or portico , that style of cricket was called was "pitch catch cricket", There will be around 5-7 feet distance between the bowler and batsmen, and 2-3 guys will be fielders. Wickets was not required for this pattern, the only way to get the batsmen out was by cacthing the ball which hasd pitched only once from the ground or a direct catch has to be taken. Lot of patience and tenacity is required play this pattern of cricket.
To be continued...
(Next Post : Bully is the captian)

When we started palying CRICKET

Now its cricket fever everywhere, cricket is not jsut a game in INDIA , its a religion here. This blog is just to remember the euphoric days when i started palying cricket(though i am not a gud cricket player from my childhood :--))).
If i remember we started palying cricket when i was in first standard. In those we used prepare a ball to play cricket, that was very easy coz we used to throw lot of sheets(pages) of book irrespective of its contents. Teachers use to scold for tearing the papers from notebooks but we never stopped tearing them, especially last pages were the victims of this noble deed!! . Collect some trash papers and crush it up in hands and cover the whole mass of paper crushed with a cover you find around and then knot it with a rubber band,just as simple as that. The hard bing of a notebook is our bat for the ball we preapared. After the ball and bat is ready we used to search for brick piece or a charcoal to draw wickets on the nearby wall. Batsmen side only we had wickets and on the bowlers side we used to keep a big stone or a brick.
Cricket doesnot needs too much of money to start as any other games which were came to india from exotic places.

(To be continued.....)
(Next post --- " The guy with bat and ball had more than one life")

Maddur Vade

Some people enjoys travelling and some wont. My wandering mind allways love travelling. In India for every few kilometers the accent of the language, culture and even slangs also changes. During travelling we encounter various types of persons, strange places blah,blah. From last 6 months I am travelling from bangalore-mysore on weekends. Few days back while coming from bangalore in the dawn of monday i didnt got sleep.So i kept on looking out. As the bus entered Ramanagaram i saw welcome arch at the entrance of Ramanagaram on which the welcome note was " Welcome to silk city". Then came the Channapatna's turn , it has a welcome arch "Welcome to the land of toys".
I thought of the nicknames of the places, if you think about the route from Bangalore-Mysore you will find that each of the place we traverse from blore to mysore has nicknames. I thought of all the major towns/cities we traverse through this route and i came up with list of nicknames in a while.
  Bangalore         -    Silicon City
  Ramanagaram   -     Silk City
 Channapatna      -   Land of toys
  Maddur            -   ????
  Mandya           -    Sugar City
  Srirngapatna    -   Historical Town
  Mysore           -   Heritage City

No nicknames popped up from my mind when i thought about Maddur. Every nicknames are derived by the uniqueness of the place, so i thought of calling it as "Vada City" (as the place is famous for the special kind of vada prepared here). This vadas have a unique fragrance,taste and have a huge market.
When i discussed the same topic with my other colleagues they also agreed upon the same nickname Maddur- Vada City. The main why am calling Maddur as city is due to the presence of CCD there, LOL. Huge crowd comes to CCD,Maddur all the way from Bangalore,Mysore to spend some quality time in CCD. Long ride and a cup of coffee- a beautiful combination.

Maddur- The Vada City.
 

An Unforgettable SMS

From the day I got cell phone with me I have recieved thousands of messages and forwarded thousands. To be candid i have a habit of seeing the inbox,sent items of friends cellphones, its just for curiosity and moreover I used to chances to tease them if I find any messages they had sent or recieved from girls(girlfriends). One message still lingers in my mind if anyone asks about the best message i have came across. This message is like a shayari and I dont know who had wrote that but am damn sure that the person who has written this is romantic and epicurean. That message goes like this:

Peg par peg peene se kya fayada

Raath guzarthe he saari utharjayegi

Kisiki aankhon ka nasha pee lo

Sari Zindigi bhar nashe mein rehjaoge

Wah,what a meaningfull thought in above four lines. By the way i saw this messsage in my friend manojava (psycho)'s cellphone, and this was forwarded to him by my another friend sunil(idli),as soon as I saw this message I forwarded the same to my number. According to me this is the best SMS I have read.