‘Kali Kannada’ Says Karnataka Culture Minister As He Himself Takes To Virtually Teaching Those Who Say ‘Kannad Gothilla’

For the past five days, Karnataka’s Minister for Kannada, Culture and Tourism has taken up an additional task of addressing ‘Kannad Gothilla’ — a pertinent issue that has even turned violent often.

The initiative has the minister’s team post an image with basic phrases, vocabulary and conversations in English with the Kannada equivalents transliterated using the Roman alphabet, on a Twitter thread everyday.

Acknowledging that there are various apps that have been working in this direction, the minister said this effort was to utilise his influence on social media for the benefit of Kannada.

There has been considerable response to these language learning posts by the minister with many Bengaluru citizens thanking him for making a productive effort.