Kaa.Vee.Krishnadas,Pakshikere, Mangalore

You are Right Sadiq.Dr Veerendra Heggade looks All communities Equal.He is always thinking about Equality.Commenting On him is really Negative minded.I hope Janardhana Poojary Suggestion is not political Minded.But Let us take Poojary Suggestion as possitive.

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Suleman, Uchila,Udupi

I love tulu languages as equal as beary language. I strive to teach my kids even in staying in bangalore. Hope many of us doesn't have enough time or interest in popularizing this interesting and most lovely language. If Dr. Veerendra Heggade is doing a little bit for this language to live long. We all tulu speaking members shall support him whole heartedly. Jai 'Tulu'. Languge with tulu regional spirit.

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Mohan H Naik, Mangaluru

The motive behind such gatherings is to strengthen the cause. Here Dr.Virendra heggade has noble and novel cause of rejuvenating the lost glory of Tulu language and culture. By doing so, it does not mean the intention of the gathering / organizers is to divide or destabilize others, other language, and culture. Going through the few of comments, I feel we have failed to catch the spirit, vision of Dr. VH. Ours is a secular, democratic, multi-ethnic set up, where in our constitution has guaranteed equal right and opportunities to its entire citizen irrespective of faith, belief they practice. Unity in diversity is our strength.

The division of states on linguistic base is purely an administrative issue not at all to divide India as water tight blocks. Each language must get national attention, develop, prosper and contribute towards unity and nation building. I remember few beautiful lines of a song “Jai Bharata jananiya thanujaathe, jai hey Karnataka matee…..” Here the poet address Bharat mate as janani= mother, and Karnataka maate as her daughter ! What a noble thought.

I hope it sends clear signal to all those confused lot, who have made language an issue, leading to social unrest, violence, protest, public property damage. Its time to grow up, ignore the political statement of politicians and join hands with Dr.VH, for a greater cause. More over, we don’t need any special invitation to attend function of our own. What we need is the’ willingness’.

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nishvitha karandoor, mangalore

all the above commentors who have commented against poojary...pls do not comment without knowing his intention.and dont that he is taking revenge on mr heggade...he has told what he wanted and u do as u wish thank you

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shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi

Dear Dr. Rama Heggade, Stop your prejudice. Do you speak beary language when attending beary muslims and konkani when attending the GSB and christians? Tulu is native language of undevided Dakshina Kannada and its not the property of one religious group. Its a dialect that bonds hearts and connects people. All natives of DK/Udupi must be included.

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Nithin Karkera, Malpe / Bangalore

Janardhananna, you please organise a convention of Tulu speaking Christians & Muslims, and before that you please teach them tulu Language.

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Dr Rama Heggade, Dharmasthala

Tulu is only spoken by the original inhabitants of undivided dakashina kannada region and this includes non GSB hindus and jains. GSB hindus, christains and muslims do not speak tulu and their mother tongue is either konkani or beary..so this convention is only directed towards tulu speaking hindus and jains. However others are free to attend and bless this convention.

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S B karkera, M'lore/Muscat

This good visionary sensible call by Poojary. Same way it would have been more logic if he had invited Mr Heggade during renovation inaugaral ceremony in early nineties.This would have helped Mr Poojary in many ways personally and politically.

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Pavan, Bekal

Tulu is the language of unity ,Spoken by all regardless of Hindus ,R.Caolics ,protestans ,& Bearys .Veerendra hegde never ever mentioned Non Hindus are not allowed ,He always stressed this proggremm will be sucsessful only if people of all religion join hands .By saying this Poojary is trying his cunning politics.

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Ronald Mathias, Mangalore / Bahrain

JAI HO..... Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade and Sri. B. Janardhana Poojari

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sadiq kp, puttur

Rajarshi Dr.D.Veerendra heggade he is not only a Darmadarshi for a temple really he is Dharmadarshi of tulunadu I am sure he will not neglect any community so dont make unnecessary comments on Dr.heggade

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Tarun Karkera, mangalore

We Respect Poojary a lot, People who have already rejected Poojary and voted for BJP in the last election please dont comment anything... we are the one who love Poojary and blindly follow him... as he has done the things which no one can do... we proudly say that we are always with Poojary will vvote for him even if he stands again in any party or even as an independent candidate... WE LOVE POOJARY...

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Prajwal Shetty, udupi,dubai

hi,for sixty years after tulu nadu's inclusion in karnataka we never cared about tulu.in 1994 veerappa moily started the tulu academy and today mr heggade is organising this.mr heggade is a noble man,he really cares for tulu nadu.mr poojary is playing politics thats it,where was he when demands were being made for tulu's inclusion in 8th schedule.Mr poojary is just playing politics.also i think aishwarya rai name needs mention because she once refused to call herself kannadiga and said she was a tulu person.all people in tulu nadu(konkanis,bearys,kundapura people) need to give up this kannadiga tag and fight for a separate tulu state,we people have a great cultural heritage.we don't need pramod muthalik or other so called kannadigas to teach us about culture.

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VIJAY BRAHMAVAR, Bahrain

Yes,we all respect Tulu, our beautiful tuluvanadu. let us support this auspicious occassion and make grand success.Jai HIND,JAI KARNATAKA - JAI TULUVAS

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S. M. Nawaz Kukkikatte, udupi

TULU means "Thought of Unity Live Unity". so dears lets we respected our culture specially tulu. come and join all religion hand in one platform.

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VIJAY BRAHMAVAR, bAHRAIN

Yes,we all respect Tulu, our beautiful tulunadu, let us support this auspicious occassion and make grand success.

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LAWRENCE DSOUZA, KINNIGOLI

I always mentioned in my talks that whoever is born and brought up in Mangalore is bound to inherit minimum two languages that is Tulu and Kannada. I being Catholic I had the privilege of inheriting three languages that is Konkanni, Tulu and then Kannada, English and Hindi.

I strongly feel Tulu language belongs to all born in Dakshina Kannada then immaterial to their Religion. Mr. Poojari's suggestion is very much valid and worth puting into practice. Mr. Virendra Heggade is such a broad minded and practical personality he will surely take a note of this. Lawrence D'Souza State President, All India Catholic Union-maharashtra, 9769392220

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Riyaz Mulki, Mulki

What Poojary said is absolutely right, the voters from south canara and udupi district who belong to Tulu Nadu and speak Tulu. if it is not plz tell me what is that?.

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Padmanabha Shenoy, Udupi / Saudi Arabia

Dear Mr. Poojary, I don't think you can defame Dr. Heggade using your critic and trying to divide and rule system. You can't even come near to his level. He is a great personality who has established lots Hospitals and Schools for our society. His gift to our society is huge. What have you done for our society? Dr. Heggade has included many of Muslim and christians in World tulu convention which you are not aware of.

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Santhosh Jain, Mangalore

I wonder why poojary did not include other communities in his so called navaratri(mangalore dasara).he is the same person who said kudroli temple is much better than dharmastala. Most of the readers have not gone thru the names of the committee members,there are representatives from all communities.Poojary is making this statement because he is left out & is paying the price for his big mouth.

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Ivan, Mangalore/KSA

Is it TULU Language only for Hindus? I feel Mr. Pojarry is right.

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Vineet, Mulky/ Bangalore

I think this is a wonderful suggestion. What wrong has Poojary done for people to abuse him for his comment? Yes, he may have a loose tongue sometimes, but looks like the some people cannot see beyond hatred. Compared to all the communal and provocative speeches we see from the other side, Poojary makes much more sense.

Someone said that he is happy that Poojary is not an MP. May be we should be happy that our present MP can hardly read and write, unlike Poojary who has a law degree and a clean reputation.

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Manjunatha Prasad K, Mangalore/Saudi Arabia.

Remarks of Mr B Janardana Poojary is totally irrelevant and uncalled for. No where, it is even hinted that the forthcoming TULU SAMMELANA is excluding Muslims and Christians, by the organisers. Then, what is the need of this call/remark? May be, for people with that sort of tinted glass, it appears like thaat!!.Or may be, it is the part of his stategy of keeping the vote bank intact. But, if he still thinks that our Muslim and Christian brothern are that naive and gullible, he is wrong. Time and again, the people of DK have shown him and his party that his such calculations are not yeilding him any success!!.Further, he could have talked and discussed the matter with Dr Veerendra Heggade, before giving a statement in public function. Unnecesarily, he is raking up an issue out of nothing.

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Nithin Poojary, Mangalore

Gladson you are absolutely right, leaders like Advani,Ananth Kumar,Yeddi,Sadananda gowda,Nalin Kumar etc has openly gave hate speeches regarding other religion just to please hindus but they are called heroes, If Janardhan Poojary just gave a suggestion people call him dividing the people.

My question to all the comments below. a)What he will get by supporting Minority because the total minority vote in Mangalore constiuency is not more than 25%. Now tell me guys who is eyeing on the majority hindu votes. Janardhan Poojary known minority votes will not help him still he has the guts to talk in favour of minorities & backward caste. Truth is always bitter.

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Gladson, Brahmavar

Mr Girish, I do agree with your comments. But please note that re-naming Mangalore Airport as Tulunadu Airport is totally different. The opposition was not based on the basis of language or religion but was against the naming and re-naming fiasco.

Even today I hold on to my view with regards to this, which I expressed vehemently then, that Mangalore Airport should not be re-named with whatsoever name, leave alone Tulunadu airport. If it was a new airport, then it would have acceptable to name it. But it is existing for decades and has become sort of a brand. Then why to change it? No one is against 'naming' but they against ’re-naming'.

Tulu convention is one of the best ways to promote Tulu. My point is that one should not limit Tulu just for naming and re-naming process. Dr Heggade is capable of promoting Tulu in bigger way than this through his vision and influence. Dr Heggade and Poojary were at loggerheads for long and still the cold war exists between the two.

Everyone knows how badly this cold war has affected Poojary's political career. Those who have followed DK politics closely know that it was after this cold war began that Poojary started losing elections. So read in between these lines and know what has been Dr Heggade's effect in DK politics. He is certainly more influential than most of us we know and guess. So Poojary has valid reasons in putting across these points. As I said earlier there is a lot than that which meets our naked eyes here.

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shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi

Mr Gireesh Shetty/Mangalore, Dubai. Well said. I agree with you. To be a tuluva you must love that language and culture associated with it. The word TULUNADU AIRPORT is perfect name. First lets all start showing our sincere love and concern for our home land, its language, its culture, its history, its people. This should be done with all sincerity and should not be a matter of lip sympathy.

We live in tulunadu, tulu soil, breathe tulu air and if dead are buried/cremated in tulu nadu. Our sincerity to our home land/language is utmost important. Tulu as a language, culture can do miracles and spread the message of unity, love and peace. I am proud to be a son of tulunadu....

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Sudhir, Mangalore

Well said Girish. Really happy to read his message & I should thank to Daiji for publishing this. In my life I voted 4 times & I have voted thrice to Poojary because still I believe he is able & honest candidate. But Congress party vote bank politics & Poojarys mouth which supports some community make me change my mind. Again he started the same way when his political career is totally dead. My suggestion to Poojary, just concentarate on Gokarana Temple or do some charity work combining all communities.

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ravindra, mangalore

I have great respect to Poojari, but his communal politics has drowned him in politics and also hindering growth of DK Dist. True, it another form of dirty politics and this, apparently reveals that our matured politician has not learned lessons. Why only muslims and chritians ? What sin GSBs have committed for their exclusion. Whether Poojari treat them as non-hindus ? or deliberaly excluded them because majority of them will not vote for his party in general and for him in particular.

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Sunil D'Souza, Mangalore/Qatar

Mr. Poojary asked Mr. Heggade to include Muslims and Christian in the Tulu Convention. I don’t find anything wrong in this.  In South Kanara most of the people speak Tulu. Unnecessarily don’t give colors to the words allow the people to leave in peace. Wish the convention a grand success

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Gireesh Shetty, Mangalore/Dubai

Dear Mr Gladson Like i said below people from all community should be Invited to this converntion no Doubt as TULU is the culture of the region not any community. What you said about poojary is also true that didnt soil his dignity with corruption. Even though I support BJP there was no doubt that he was the able candidate last time and whole of my house back home who support BJP(for vajpayee) all times have voted for Poojary for his and in a hope to save Mlore from going into dogs like SRS and BD doing only nonsense around the city.

Mr Poojary's only problem was his toungue , some communtiy politcs and usual congress vote bank politics. This fired him back most of the times. Poojary's call is ok justified, but if you could answer me one question, do all our other community people really welcome this TULU scenario. Are they ready to aceept it as OURS rather than giving it a hindu feel.The answer is also very evident if you browse the old article which came in Daijiworld when Dr Heggade casually proposed that Mangalore Airport should be named TULUNADU Airport ( for which I have no ve or -ve stand), please read the readers comments who opposed this, why are they opposing it, who are those people who are opposing this just coz the word is TULU, may be that would answer most of the questions.

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M.A.Kamalaksh, Mangalore/Saudi Arabia

Mr.poojary we know the meaning of tuluvas it's of all who speaks tulu and it's not reserved or belongs to certain community, csat or religion,

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Sudhir, Mangalore

Mr. Poojary, we all request you to not make Tulu langauge a communal issue like saffron color, BJP party, RSS. So please keep atleast Tulu langauge safe from your dirty politics. We all proud to be from Tulunadu.

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Lancelot N Tauro, Mangalore/Doha Qatar

While we meet our people outside our districts, we greet OORUDAAR, Yencha Ullar, Namaskara without looking each other religion or caste. It's our language. JAI HO TULU.

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raj, mangalore

They devided us for last 60 years in the form of relilgion..and even on cast basis.  this is another step thru language

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Prajwal Shetty, udupi,dubai

Heggade has invited all people of tulu nadu.in the dubai meet he also said christians stage tulu plays at churches inspite of konkani being their mother tongue and muslims also speak tulu very well.poojary has already been rejected by tulu nadu people.he just wants publicity and let me tell you tulu is not just hindu language.it is the mother tongue of jains too.jains are not a vote bank for mr poojary,therefore he doesn't count them as minority.

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Balakrishna T. Shetty, Palladakody/Mangalore/Riyadh

D Veerendra Heggade did not neglect or forget to invite our Muslim and Christian participation in World Tulu Convention. After all please don’t bring here politics and indeed it will not bring any political benefit by minority LOGO in Tulu Convention. 

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Ramesh Ullal, Dubai

Dear Clifford,Sri Veerendra Heggade is doing lot of good works.But remember the money he spends come from the donations and offerings of the people.So its not a big deal.Dharmasthala Temple's annual income is more than 1000 crore rupees.

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prakash, Puttur/Muscat

This dirty politician want to make ever thing to wooo and misguide the public. where it is told that non hindus are not included in this.this person want to show that he is for minority people.

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Gladson, Brahmavar

Mr Kishor, when Poojary speaks, it becomes communal speech for you, but when someone from BJP speaks on religion line, it is right. What wrong did Poojary say now? He just urged the organizers to include Muslims and Christians who also speak Tulu to include in the convention. Whoever knows about the relationship between Dr Heggade and Poojary, also know well why the latter has urged the former. One can trust Poojary's sincerity than that of many other leaders.

Despite being in the public life for such a long period, he has never soiled his dignity with corruption, even though he has soiled his tongue a lot. He calls a spade a spade. If he feels even his partymen are not in tandem with his thoughtline, there are innumerable instances when he has taken them to task.

How come a call to include all in the Tulu convention become communal speech? There are many leaders of Mangalore who blantantly deliver provocative speeches on sensitive issues like religion, gender, terrorism, cattle running, etc. But for you guys it looks as if they are very much in line with common thought pattern.

If you see the organizing committe, the guests and other things which have already under progress for the Tulu convention, you won't be surprised with Poojary's call. There a lot things which meet our eyes are totally different than actually what they are. Similarly in Mangalore we have a lot of religious, political leaders who are not as honest and sincere as they project themselves to be.

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Gireesh Shetty, Mangalore/Dubai

Am sure all hindhus including us and Dr Heggde wouldnt have any problem in including people form all community in this convention as tis is not confined to a particular community. May the organisers dint think about this while thay were planning or something but am sure its not intentional.

But Poojary's role here is deffinetly political gimmick to make his presence felt and not to loose their vote bank by publically addressing this matter. Congress will never change. But the thought is right one, yes we need to invite all. Let this be a convention of unity. All the best for the convention Mr Heggade

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shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi

Tulu is no doubt a regional language and it doesnt represent any religion. Tulu integrates and consolidates the spirits of regionalism. Its not the property of one group or religion. Its a language widely spoken by the people of twin districts and all the users of this language must be called to attend the tulu conference.

Language should be used to blend hearts, promote love, unity and peace. We are tuluvas and nobody can deny it. We speak our respective mother tongue only at home, the moment we step outside our home, we speak tulu and tulu is our life, its our culture and its our identity. Whether or not muslims and christians are not invited to this convention, we love tulu and are proud to be associated with it.

I wish this convention a great success... Long live tulu and tulu naadu...Solmelu...Dever edde malpodu.. Preeti ippodu...

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Lydia Lobo, Kadri

Politics or no politics, all those living in the Coastal region do speak Tulu, irrespective of their religion. It is wrong to give Tulu a tag of 'Hindu's language' Honourable Dharmadhikari who generously offers a bowl of food to all those who pass-by Dharmastala, need to kindly give a thought to uniting comminities.

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Thilak shetty, Dubai, Mangalore

If his intensions are really genuine then he should have approached the organising committe with his suggesstion. Even through their website we can submit our suggestions. But this person trying to gain some political mileage by appeasing minorities. This is the main reason for Poojary's defeat in election after election. Thank you mangalorean voters for not sending this person to Parliment

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Shiva Shetty, Kateel / AUH

Mr. Poojary its time to enjoy your days with your grand children, have done enough to divide communities until now.

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ajay, mangalore

I think this time Mr. Pojary is right because tulu language is not the asset of one religion or one class of people It is the asset of all pepole who are living in this coastal area .

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Clifford , Mangalore

Dr. Veerendra Heggade's contribution towards development of our twin district is more than any politician of India. He helps all the community who really improve in their life. Mr.Poojary should remember that he could not even win the confidense of Mangalorean. Whatever his gain was a congress party logo. Mr. Poojary you should remember that, tulu convention is not election and there is no parties. This is for us, who can speak and understand and ever want to learn about this language.

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Kishore, Udupi/Dubai

Mr. Poojary this is your habit of giving communal speah every where. Keep it up. This is your bread & butter.

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Suresh Poojary, Kapu

Mr.Janardhan Poojary, you are in GooduDeepa function, & you are speaking on different topic tulu convention, which is no where connected with this function. If you wish to comment, comment elsewhere & not in this function, as you are purely politicising the issue.

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Saleem GH,Amchinadka, Puttur/Abu Dhabi/UAE

As a point of view, the opinion of Mr. Janardhan Poojari is right. I hope the organizers of Tulu convention will allow to participate all communities in coastal karnataka (Tulu Nadu)

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Ajith, Mangalore

While it is true that Muslims and Christians use Tulu language it is also true that it is predominently a Hindu local language.The christians use Konkani and English to communicate between themselves and Muslims use Beary language.It is unfortunate by section of people to try to promote only Tulu language while ignoring Konkani and Beary languages.The Tulu people should learn these two languages without any hesitation to promote true integration of all communities.

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manoj, mangalore

At every available opportunity these politicians jump at exploitation for reasons of vote bank... Even after 62 years of independence we the population & strength of this country love getting fooled.. We still want to listen, follow & support these vested interests..I just wish & pray that may god bless & enlighten my fellow country men

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Charles D'Mello, Pangala

I dont think Tulu convention is only for Hindus. Dr.Verendra heggade must have considered all tulu speaking representation, which Mr. Janardhana Poojary is not aware of.My Mother tongue is Konkani...Tulu has taken equal part in my life.

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Rajesh Poojary, Mangalore/Kuwait

It's sad to see Mr.Janardhana Poojary trying to bring religion into everything. Please don't turn Tulu into another 'hindu-only' symbol. There is absolutely no ban on minorities from joining the Tulu organization and my chrsitian/muslim friends are happily participating in such events.

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Anil, mangalore

Mr. B Janardhan Poojary your totally right.Tuluva is not only whose mother tongue is Tulu, but everyone who can speak n love the language.

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George Cruz, Managalore/USA

The former union minister is trying to be a wise guy and trying to put a wedge between the communities. The Tulu convention never implied that they are going to exclude muslims and christians.

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Alwyn, canada

I love tulu and time to all come together for this convention.

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vashal, mangalore

Mr Poojari you are real leader of all tulu people.

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