Namma Kannada hunduganige booker prashasthi banthu

 India’s first time novelist Aravind Adiga on Wednesday October 15 won the 50,000 pounds ($87,000) Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel, The White Tiger.

Young Indian writer Aravind Adiga is one of the two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker’s shortlist of six. The other is Australia’s Steve Toltz.

Only two other debut novelists have achieved this in the past – D B C Pierre in 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little and India’s Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things .

33-year-old Adiga, who wanted to be a novelist since he was a boy Aravind Adiga was born in Chennai in 1974. However, he hails from a family located in the coastal region. He studied in Canara School for two years before completing his SSLC in the year 1990 from St Aloysius College in Mangalore,The White Tiger is a “compelling, angry and darkly humorous” novel about a man’s journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by reviewers as an “unadorned portrait” of Indian scene “from the bottom of the heap”.

Adiga is the fourth Indian born-author to win the prize, joining compatriots Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai who won the prize in 1981, 1997 and 2006 respectively.

A fifth winner, V S Naipaul is of Indian ancestry. Adiga’s The White Tiger is the ninth winning novel to take its inspiration from India or Indian identity.

“The novel undertakes the extraordinarily difficult task of gaining and holding the reader’s sympathy…dealing with pressing social issues and significant global developments with astonishing humour.”

Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives 2,500 pounds (USD 4,357) and a designer-bound edition of their book.

The judging panel for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comprised: former MP and Cabinet minister Michael Portillo, editor of Granta Alex Clark; novelists Louise Doughty, founder of Ottakar’s bookshops James Heneage and Hardeep Singh Kohli, a TV and radio broadcaster.

WAY TO HAPPINESS

 

Are you truly happy? Do you even know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves. I live my life to maintain my own happiness while trying my best to not cause unhappiness to anyone else. If you want to be happy you need to understand that you can be happy and that you should be happy. Many people make the mistake of believing that they don’t deserve happiness and accept their unhappy state as their destiny. The truth of the matter is that happiness, like anything else in life, needs to be nurtured. The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

 

1. Understand what it is that will make you happy. Everyone has unique requirements for attaining happiness and what makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy. Revel in your individuality and do not worry about whether or not your desires are comparable to those of your peers.
2. Make a plan for attaining goals that you believe will make you happy. Your mood will very likely increase as your pursue your goal because you will feel better about yourself for going after something you value.
3. Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way. Conversely, if you are around people who are happy their emotional state will be infectious.
4. When something goes wrong try to figure out a solution instead of wallowing in self pity. Truly happy people don’t allow set backs to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.
5. Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy. These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continued happiness.
6. It’s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself. Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance you will be subconsciously putting yourself in a better mood.
7. Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. While there are times that require you to be serious, when it is appropriate, find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you unhappy.
8. Maintaining your health is another way to achieve happiness. Being overweight or not eating nutritious foods can have a negative effect on your mood. Additionally, exercise has been known to release endorphins that give you a feeling of happiness.
9. Finally, it is important to understand that you deserve happiness. Those who believe that they are not worthy of happiness may subconsciously sabotage their efforts to achieve happiness. If necessary, tell yourself each day that you deserve to be happy and remind yourself what steps you will take to achieve the happiness you desire.

Happiness is hard to define but most people are aware of whether they are happy or not. Many people believe that happiness is a form of luck and that some people are destined to be happy while others are destined to be unhappy. I try to incorporate the tips above into my life and have had great success in achieving happiness. The tips in this article are small but meaningful steps that you can take each day to lead you to true happiness.

KANNADA JOURNALISM

Kannada Kannada ha savigannada  Kannada ene Kivi nimiruvudu…     The Kannada press then operating from different areas but their goal was to achieve “Free India and unified Karnataka State”. It was the German missionaries of the Basel mission who devised Kannada types for the first time and started printing in Kannada. It was they who started the first Kannada news paper “Mangalore Samachar” with Moegling as Editor in 1843. Of course they did not indulge in political commentary then, but only reported events. Around 1870, in old Mysore a weekly Karnataka Prakasika started. Later a daily Suryodaya Prakasika began, but before long became a weekly. They started voicing criticism of Government policies. Later the Deshabhimani, a weekly, came in to conflict with the Government and had to stop due to their press being seized, in 1894. Another weekly Mysore Star faced many legal hurdles and stopped in 1906. Around 1885 it was a dedicated journalist M. Venkatakrishniah who started a series of newspapers where he set forth democratic ideals in an unequivocal manner and laid firm foundations of progressive journalists in Kannada. He was affectionately called the Tatiah (Grant old man) of journalism. People adored him and powers feared him. He ran papers both in Kannada and English they included Hitabodhini, Vedanta, Chintamani, Sampadabhyudaya, Sadhwi, Mysore Patriot, Mysore Herald, etc. He is indeed the pioneer of progressive and dynamic journalist in Kannada. On of his disciples Gopal Iyengar started the Mysore Standard and when he incurred the wrath of the Government of his press was confiscated and he was deported from the state under the Newspapers Regulations Act in 1908.             D.V. Gundappa a literary stalwart around 1907 started “Sumate“, later in 1913 he started “Karnataka” ran it for 14 years. He wielded a powerful pen and was critical of the Government but always added on constructive suggestions too. He built up tremendous influence by his frank and balanced approach to social and political problems and was respected greatly by people to the end of his life.

Around 1929 the battle for establishment of responsible Government hotted up the intrepid editor of ‘Veerakesari‘ Sri Seetaram Sast by with Navjeevana editor Aswathnarayana Rao were sent to jail on sedition charges and the papers were banned. Another valiant fighter for the same cause started Viswakarnataka which gathered tremendous support and great popularity . Both Sastry and Sharma wrote flambuoyant prose and thundered across their columns and roused the people to join the freedom struggle. Along with there was “Tainadu” edited by P.R. Ramya though more moderate in style, yet established a stable tradition for a daily, it would keep people continuously informed and alert even when the other two editors where in jail or their papers had stopped by prohibitory orders. The battle was joined by another able fighter B.N.Gupta who started daily Janavani and weekly Prajamata. They also attend great popularity and influence and when Prajamata was banned in the state, Gupta published it from Hubli (then in Bombay province) which gave a tremendous boost to the struggle, the press waged for the freedom.           Hitechhu, Rajahamsa, Chandrodaya were the earliest Kannada papers published from Bombay Karnatak. It is “Karnatak Patra” of Mudiveedakar Krishnarao who was a dedicated freedom fighter and an eminent literary figure, that became very popular. He could be compared to Tatiah of Mysore. His writings roused the people and the strong advocacy for unification of Karnataka had created a great following. Then came Kannada Kesari, Sachitra Bharata and also Karmaveera which marched forward despite the arrest of editor Diwaker and Hukkerikar. Karmaveera is still carrying on with the Samyuktha Karnataka group. Samyuktha Karnataka is still a leading daily both at Hubli and Bangalore. Long struggle it has waged for freedom and unification of Karnatak from 1937, is still remembered by people.      In Mangalore area which gave us the first printed paper there were many weeklies and monthlies (Kantheerava, Navayuga, Swatantra Bharata, Rastrabandhu, Antharanga, etc.). In 1941 the daily Navayuga was started. The main Issue they fought was for joining an enlarged Karnataka State. The districts of Raichur, Gulbarga and Bidar then under Hyderabad Karnataka were all served by a powerful weekly “Sadhana” which carried on a long struggle for the formation of Karnataka and its dream was fulfilled in 1956, when the new state emerged and later took the name Karnataka. The Coorg area also had two papers Kodagu and Kodagu Vrittanta and their wishes too were fulfill in 1956 when the enlarged Karnataka State emerged.           With the advent of the enlarged state the Press too has enlarged to a very great extend, the readership has grown extensively and many more dailies and weeklies have started attracting the readers with the extensive coverage of many areas of economic, social and political aspects of society. The Deccan Herald Group of Papers which started after the advent of independence is a major one, established in Bangalore. They include two dailies Deccan Herald and Prajavani, a weekly Sudha and a monthly Mayura, and all of them are doing extremely well. There is the Samyuktha Karnataka Group with a weekly Karmaveera (operating both from Bangalore and Hubli) with the halo of having fought the freedom battle from pre-independance days. There is another group running from Manipal consisting of Udayavani, daily tied up with weekly Taranga and monthly Thushara. Again we have the Express Group with Indian Express, Kannada Prabha, their twin dailies. They have built up great influence and readership in a short time after they opened their Bangalore unit. The Hindu of Madras had been a paper which had formidable readership in Karnataka for a long time, but established their new Bangalore branch.The old lady of “Bori Bunder” – The Times of India though opened its editions in Bangalore recently, has gained enomous readership and has been responsible for many innovative ideas. Another national daily AsianAge very recently opened their unit in Bangalore and has surprisingly gathered enormous support. These are the major news papers and journals apart form many more weeklies who are tabloid in form but do a lot of investigative stories