The Kodava Sahitya Academy has prepared an action plan for Rs 1.02 crore for the year 2012-13, to take up various activities.
Addressing a press meet here recently, academy president Addanda Cariappa said a ‘Kodava bhashe kaliyiri, kalisiri’ (learn and teach Kodava language) campaign will be started in all government offices to create awareness about the language.
“Camps on Kodava language and programmes on Kodava culture will be organised. This includes poets meet on ‘Male-bole’ and paddy harvesting,” he said.
He said the academy will hold a seminar on ‘Ain mane’ (ancestral house). A booklet on all temples of Kodagu will be brought out. An awareness programme on Kodava folk culture, Devara Kaadu will also be held, he added.
Efforts will be made to introduce literary works of I Ma Muthanna. Staging of plays, translation of books, release of CDs on poems, drama contest for students on Haridasa Appaccha Kavi, camp on Kodava plays will be organised.
Kodava, Hindustani and Karnataka music festivals will held in memory of Chakkera Appayya, who is known as Coorg Star. Janapadotsava, literary meet in the name of writer B D Ganapathy, Kodava musical concert in Madikeri Fort and Rajara Gaddige, felicitation to Kodava artistes, Kodava-Kannada poets meet are some of the programmes planned for the year.
Cariappa said a state-level Kodava literary and cultural utsav will be held in December. The academy will observe the birth anniversary of Field Marshal Cariappa, General Thimmaiah, Nadikeriyanda Chinnappa, I Ma Muthanna, B D Ganapathy and others.
Plans are afoot to screen Kodava movies, organise drawing competitions. The best literature available in other languages will be translated to Kodava. ‘Academyra Palame’ a tri-monthly will be brought out to inform the activities of the academy to the public.
Measures will be taken to distribute folk musical instruments. All help will be provided by the academy for construction of Kannada Samskrithika Samucchaya Bhavana. We will try our level best to include Kodava language in the eighth schedule of the Constitution, he said.
Academy members Kasturi Govindaiah, Chermanda Poovaiah, registrar N Shantamma and treasurer H V Indiramma were present.
source: http://www.DeccanHerald.com / Home> District / Madikeri, DHNS / April 19th, 2012
