Dear Pattabhirama,
My name is Pramod and request to visit
www.vividlipi.com to read periodicals such as Koravanji and Aparanji. We are searching to source Prajamata, Raagasangama and Mallige to bring in digital form. If anyone has info to get these contents then please mail me on below mail id
pramo...@vividlipi.com
Regards
Pramod
On Thursday, March 26, 1998 at 8:00:00 AM UTC, Pattabhirama wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I visited the 'Taranga' website
> recently.(
http://www.udayavani.com/taranga/intro.htm). I was very sad to
> see that this popular Kannada weekly does not even have the "Least User
> Interface" in its website. Even after several months of time, it has
> remained in its 'very poor', 'ugly'(i am very sorry to use this term)
> state. The introductory message is 'several months' old. There are no
> articles in it. It is really "hard" to call it an Internet magazine. No
> body is maintaining it properly.
>
> At present, there is not even a single, proper Kannada magazine
> published in the Internet. The Prajavani, Sanjevani, Udayavani are only
> news papers. Though we have 'Vishwa
> Kannada'(
http://www.indianlanguages.com/kannada/current/index.htm) and
> 'sRujana'(
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/3673/), they are not
> regular issues.
>
> Then i went to (
http://www.mahesh.com/india/media/regional.html) to see
> what's happening in our neighbouring lanaguges. I found the following.
>
> Telugu = 4 Magazines-Newspapers
> Tamil = 13 Magazines-Newspapers(That's what i like in our 'kongati'
> brothers)
> Kannada = No magazine yet.(I don't want to mention 'Taranga' yet.)
> Malayalam = 2 Magazines-Newspapers.
>
> Most of these other language(Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)magazines that i
> visited are maintained very well. They have very good graphics, other
> than the regular news photographs. The Kannada Internet publications are
> far far behind, compared to our neighbouring languages.
>
> I am eagerly waiting to see our popular magazines 'Taranga', 'Sudha',
> 'Prajamatha'(?), 'Mayoora', 'Mallige', 'Roopa Thaara' e.t.c. on the
> Internet.
>
> At this time, i request all the kannadigas to atleast publish some
> kannada articles/news/stories e.t.c in their homepages, where ever it
> is possible.
>
> Regards
> Pattabhirama.