02-20-2007, 09:48 AM
What I am really glad about is that this work is in Kannada, a language which I do not understand! Why then am I glad you will say?
Simply because Karnataka (and to a limited extent Andhra Pradesh) is the only battleground in the South where Hindus in the name of Hinduism have held their own. After the iconoclastic DMK, to the Mapillah and Christists in Kerala and thence to Samuel Reddy - Hinduism is besieged in the South - and Karnataka has held forth.
Only recently a new polarization has started to take place - anyone remember the recent riots in Bangalore thanks to Jaffer Shareef? More power to the writer I would say - I am glad this work came out. I hope this will lead to Hindus voting as Hindus in Karnataka - if only you can build a bridge - any bridge - between the Vokkaligas and the Lingayats (and this bridge can only be the Hindu faith); can you imagine what a vote-bank that would be?
# posted by Ghost Writer : 2/19/2007 9:37 AM
More information about Bhyrappa.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/slbh.../index.htm
Wikipedia Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L._Bhyrappa
Links to his books and various translations.
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Simply because Karnataka (and to a limited extent Andhra Pradesh) is the only battleground in the South where Hindus in the name of Hinduism have held their own. After the iconoclastic DMK, to the Mapillah and Christists in Kerala and thence to Samuel Reddy - Hinduism is besieged in the South - and Karnataka has held forth.
Only recently a new polarization has started to take place - anyone remember the recent riots in Bangalore thanks to Jaffer Shareef? More power to the writer I would say - I am glad this work came out. I hope this will lead to Hindus voting as Hindus in Karnataka - if only you can build a bridge - any bridge - between the Vokkaligas and the Lingayats (and this bridge can only be the Hindu faith); can you imagine what a vote-bank that would be?
# posted by Ghost Writer : 2/19/2007 9:37 AM
More information about Bhyrappa.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/slbh.../index.htm
Wikipedia Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L._Bhyrappa
Links to his books and various translations.
http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/authorselect...or=S+L+Bhyrappa