Sri Kavery Kodava Association, Mysore East and Kodagu Model School had organised a function at the school premises in Vidyashanakar Nagar, here this morning to inaugurate the newly-constructed second floor named as ‘Pandanda Cheethamma Block’.
Star of Mysore Founder-Editor K.B. Ganapathy, who is also the Special Advisor of the Association, delivered the inaugural speech after the school block donated by Pandanda Kariappa Family, Kolkata, was inaugurated.
The event began with Ganapathy homa and Saraswathi puja.
Students presented invocation dance. Association President P.S. Devaiah welcomed.
Association Secretary K.M. Belliappa introduced the guests, who were also felicitated.
Chairperson of Building Committee P.U. Jayakumar addressed the gathering.
Smt. and Dr. Kayapanda M. Mandanna, Kolkata and Smt. and Sri Pandanda K. Madappa, Kolkata, shared their thoughts.
Mary Anitha, Head Mistress of Kodagu Model School, briefed the gathering about academics.
Seethamma, Chairperson of the Academic Committee, proposed a vote of thanks.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / August 19th, 2023
Dr. Cheranda Koushik Ponnanna has been appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Phoenix, Arizona.
He will be conducting his Post Doctoral Resarch on the Genetic Basis of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity. He holds a Ph.D in Genetics from University of Mysore. He is the son of Cheranda Ravi Thimmaiah and Usha from B. Shettigeri, Kodagu.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> In Briefs / August 14th, 2023
Nithish PV, a native of Kodagu, has bagged sixth rank in the five-year LLB course (Kannada medium) in the state.
Karnataka State Law University, Hubballi, has announced the tentative list of rank holders.
A student of Vidyavardhaka Law College, Nithish wrote exams in Kannada language and scored 51.28 % marks.
He hails from Abbur Katte village in Somwarpet taluk.
He is the son of farmer couple PD Vijay and MS Shobha, said senior advocate S Lokesh, under whom Nithish is currently receiving hands-on training in Mysuru.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News> Mysuru News / July 27th, 2023
MICA College, Mysuru, had organised a State- level Inter-Collegiate Hockey, Cricket, Basketball and Football tournaments in their campus from June 16 to 27.
Sporting teams from Kodagu, Mandya, Bengaluru, Mangaluru and Mysuru fought for the coveted MI trophies and cash prizes.
In the Hockey MI3s tournament, 29 teams participated and Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa (FMKMC) College, Madikeri, defeated St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bengaluru to win the trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 15,000. Runners-up were awarded a trophy and cash prize of Rs. 7,000.
In MI Crick, 32 teams participated. In the finals, SBRR Mahajana PG Centre defeated MIT Tandavapura and won a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 with a trophy. Runners-up were awarded cash prize of Rs. 5,000 and a trophy.
A total of 14 teams participated in the MI3s Basketball tournament. In Boys category SJCE, Mysuru defeated MICA Mysuru and won Rs. 10,000 cash prize and a trophy. Runners-up were awarded cash prize of Rs. 5000 and a trophy. In Girls category, NIE Mysuru defeated Sapient College, Mysuru in the finals.
In the flood light MI7s Football tournament, 32 teams participated. Sacred Heart Mangalore defeated FMKMC College, Madikeri to clinch the trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 20,000. Runners-up were awarded cash prize of Rs. 10,000 and a trophy, according to a press release from MICA Principal.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports / July 10th, 2023
The decision to cancel the exclusive selection process for Kodagu athletes for state-level teams has irked sports persons in the Kodagu district. As many as 18 students, including three girls, selected at the district-level selection process have been removed.
Kodagu district has players at the state and national level and they have also participated in the Olympics events. An exclusive selection of Kodagu students has been going on for the past 23 years in Ponnampet.
Arun Machaiah, a former MLC, accused senior officials behind the decision to cancel the selection.
A state-level sports school is being run at Kudige and the athletes to play at the state level are selected from there.
While the national-level sports persons are selected from Sai Sports Residential School, Madikeri.
Machaiah said when the selection processes for national and state-level events come together the opportunities for the athletes of Kodagu are likely to decrease.
Zilla panchayat had taken resolution for an exclusive selection of Kodagu students for state teams in Ponnampet School. It was approved by the Karnataka government in 2001.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News> Mysuru News / by G Rajendra / May 28th, 2023
Kodagu Model School, promoted by Sri Kavery Kodava Association – Mysuru East, Vidyashankara Layout, has secured hundred percent results in theSSLC Exams for the academic year 2022-23.
Muhammed S. Shiraazuddin has topped Kodagu Model School with 598 marks out of 625 (95.68%).
Other students are: M.P. Nivedha – 594 (95.04%); Bhavish K. Gowda – 538 (86.08%); P. Prem Sagar – 533 (85.28%); S. Lohith Raje Urs – 530 (84.8%); H.U. Thejas Gowda – 525 (84%); R. Preethika – 519 (83.04%); N. Sanjana – 508 (81.28%); S. Preetham Raj – 507 (81.12%); R. Bindu – 501 (80.16%); N.S. Nandish – 493 (78.88%); M.U. Anirudh – 488 (78.08%); D. Adithya – 478 (76.48%); H. Kiran – 462 (73.92%); S. Purushotham – 447 (71.52%); D.M. Nithish Gowda – 438 (70.08%); M. Tejas – 396 (63.36%); M. Harshavardhan – 375 (60%); P. Yadunandan – 362 (57.92%).
BVB School
The students of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB) School in Vijayanagar, Mysuru, too have excelled in SSLC and the School has secured 100 percent results.
Out of the 161 students who had appeared, 124 have passed with distinction and the rest 37 in first class.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / May 08th, 2023
Bacharaniyanda Appanna teaching I M Muthanna’s script at the Kodava Sahitya Academy in Madikeri.
Featuring unique words and vowels not found elsewhere, the Kodava language, spoken in Kodagu, is an independent Dravidian language. According to the most recent data from the Karnataka Kodava Sahitya Academy, there were 21 castes living in Kodagu who spoke the Kodava language: the Kodavas, Amma Kodavas, Kodagu Heggades, Kembattis, Airis, Koyuvas, Boonepattas and the Gollas (Eimbokalas), to name a few.
Kodagu was an independent principality in South India between 1633 and 1834. After the British annexed Kodagu in 1834, it was called Coorg and became a province of British India. After Independence, Coorg was retained as a state and placed under a chief commissioner. In 1956, when the states of the Indian Union were reorganised, Coorg became a district of Karnataka state.
Kannada was the official language in Kodagu for much of its existence. The Kodava language generally uses the Kannada script.
The earliest inscriptions found in Kodagu date back to the 9th and 10th centuries and are in Kannada. But there were two peculiar 14th-century inscriptions of Kodagu, dated around 1370-1371 AD found in the Bhagandeshwara temple of Bhagamandala and the Mahalingeshwara temple of Palur. Many have dismissed the inscriptions as a mixture of scripts and languages. In 2021, my work involved isolating letters used in both. I labelled the script used ‘thirke’ (meaning ‘temple’).
Several scripts
There have been a number of scripts invented for the Kodava language in the last 150 years or so. Koravanda Appayya, a doctor in the erstwhile Mysore State, had invented one with around 50 letters in 1887.
Kodagu scholar Iychettira M Muthanna invented another alphabet for the language in 1970. Appaneravanda Kiran Subbaiah, a sculptor in Mysuru, invented one in 1980. In 1983, he introduced a variant of the Kannada script to accommodate the Kodava language. Often, Kannada or Roman characters (the script used for English) were adapted, sometimes with additional changes.
Ponjanda S Appaiah, a professor, used the Roman script with his own transliteration system in 2003 to write in the Kodava language. In his Kodava-English dictionary, Appaiah used combinations of English letters for the Kodava language. He authored the entire book in the Roman script.
On the other hand, the ‘Kodava Arivole’ (Kodava dictionary) by Boverianda Uthaiah is in the Kannada script and makes use of 35 of the 49 Kannada letters.
In 2005, German linguist Gregg Cox introduced the Coorg-Cox script. Three years later, Charles Henry Kumar, a teacher from Mandya brought out another script to write the Kodava language.
Extra sounds
Boverianda Nanjamma and Chinnappa say that in addition to the five rounded Kannada vowels (with both long and short forms), the Kodava language has four unrounded vowels in their short and long forms and a nasal sound which accompanies some of the consonants. They have used five diacritical marks (symbols added above letters to indicate accent, tone and stress) in their works to accommodate these extra sounds.
In February 2022, under the presidentship of Ammatanda Parvathi Appaiah, the Karnataka Kodava Sahitya Academy discussed the various scripts used for the Kodava language. Bacharaniyanda Appanna, a former president of the academy, taught those assembled the script invented by I M Muthanna.
Upon comparison, it was declared that Muthanna’s script was the easiest to learn. The Kodava Sahitya Academy then recommended the Muthanna script to the Central Institute of Indian Languages to be made official.
Muthanna was of the opinion that his script was to be taught to children below the age of 15-16 years, says Appanna. “They will learn with passion and help promote the script when they write in it and inspire others,” he adds.
On why a script is important, Appanna says: “A script adds strength to a language, like how pillars strengthen a house. Yet, there are many prominent languages which do not have their own script. English uses Roman, Hindi uses Devanagari.” Having a native script is also important as it accommodates native sounds otherwise not found in other scripts.
Nerpanda Prathik Ponnanna, a language activist, has been popularising the Muthanna Kodava script by creating awareness about it through social media videos. He has also been getting signboards in the script for various shops, ancestral houses, and hockey tournament family teams.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> Spectrum / by Mookonda Kushalappa / May 10th, 2023
The renowned Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa College in Madikeri has been upgraded to a regional centre of the newly formed Kodagu University, according to the University’s Vice-Chancellor Dr. Ashok Sangappa Alur.
Speaking at a programme in the college premises on Friday, Dr. Ashok Sangappa stated that the college would be celebrating its Platinum Jubilee next year, and there are plans to construct new academic blocks and develop the existing ones. He emphasised that all necessary measures would be taken to advance Kodagu University to higher levels and sought the co-operation of all teaching and non-teaching faculty to achieve this goal.
Earlier, he toured the college campus and gathered information on the college’s student population and available facilities. He also met with class representatives, NCC, NSS and other student groups of the college and held discussions with the teaching and non-teaching staff.
College Principal Major Dr. B. Raghava briefed the Vice-Chancellor on the college’s history, problems and concerns.
Dr. Ashok Sangappa was felicitated on the occasion. Later, the Vice-Chancellor, along with the College Principal, University Registrar (Evaluation) Dr. Seenappa and Post-Graduate Studies Centre Director Dr. K.K. Dharmappa paid a courtesy visit to the residence of Air Vice-Marshal (Retd.) K. C. Nanda Cariappa and felicitated him.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / April 30th, 2023
Devanira K. Appaiah, a teacher, received the prestigious President’s Award for teaching from the then President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan in 1962.
He may have been the first Kodava to wear a kupiya-chale (traditional Kodava men’s attire) for the ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Appaiah is the father of Raghu and Sanju from Ammathi, Kodagu. (Pic. courtesy: WhatsApp)
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles (above part of the article ) by Prof. G. L. Shekhar / Top Stories / April 10th, 2023
Kodagu has managed to improve its position in the second PU examinations. It stood third in the State, securing 90.55 per cent results. Last year, it was at sixth place in the State.
Compared to last year, the results have improved by 17.23 per cent, said Puttaraju, Deputy Director of the PU Department, Madikeri.
Out of 4,622 students who appeared for the examination in the district, 4,185 have cleared it.
In the Arts stream, 779 students out of 985 passed the examination, securing 79.09 per cent results. In Commerce, 2,168 students cleared the exam out of 2,347 students, securing 92.37 per cent results.
In the Science stream, Kodagu secured 95.97 per cent results with 1,238 students passing the exam out of 1,290 students who appeared.
Akshata L stood first in Kodagu in Arts getting a score of 578. In Science, Niranjan K. of Kushalnagar stood first in Kodagu with a score of 591 marks.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> India> Karnataka / by The Hindu Bureau / April 21st, 2023
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