2025 November 18
You replied to pranav
GREAT. PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.👍
👍indeed, GET MORE & MORE SUPPORT FROM EVERYONE, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY & THE WORLD
YES, we words or labels can be somewhat misleading, although legally correct, usually done for marketing purposes, so it becomes our responsibility to do better, that is, our = the rest of us, including govt, media, people etc all included, to make sure the facts, the truths, all factors are widely known, understood, appreciated, and not-compromised to favor falsehoods or wrong perceptions or diminish truth
2025 November 18
pranav, YES. and, in 1976, when I came back home from University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA to Mangalore for the first time, I was invited to speak to the students, the whole school; audience, they had requested me when I visited them to say hello, at Padua High School (near our home there) where I had studied, and the topic i focussed on in my talk was about the striking public cleanliness in USA compared to India. I had written out that two page speech in Kannada, talked in Kannada. I think I still have a written copy of it in my files here. Generally, everywhere there I made it a point to speak in Kannada language, similar to what I was always doing when I lived there. I did so successfully, not mixing English. And, once, many years later, a cousin relative of mine suggested that I make use of some talking in English also for an invited talk to their students so that they may not think that I speak in Kannada because my English is not that good (!!!). ha hha haaa....
2025 November 23
Me:
It was actually a good suggestion, from my cousin Vijayalakshmi Subrahmanya, working there as Librarian at the Sanskrit School and College started by our Haveeka Swamiji in Mujungavu near Kumbla in Kasaragod district where I was invited to speak to the students. She knew the audience much better than me of course, and situation then years ago in most parts of the country was like that only, now it is somewhat transformed. I think I may have used a bit of English but mostly spoke in good Kannada. I had decided to do it unannounced, stopping there on my way to my sister Usha Kiran's house near Mulleria, my youngest sister Sudha also with me (and they DID NOT LIKE my bringing Sudha there with me !!!!!!!! = looking back, it gave me important clues regarding the nature of the forces we were facing!!! It was done extempore, no written speech, mostly like answering questions perhaps (?). However, as years went by, because of not using it enough, my fluency with Kannada was getting affected, and I would use more of English words than during my India visits in the earlier decades of my living in USA.