Bengaluru: While freedom of ridiculing in India on August 15, 1947, people from Mysuru had to wait for another 16 years to listen to their governor to provide a ceremonial independence day address to commemorate the incident in Kannada.
The first I-Day Kannada address in 1963 in 1963 by the Governor of Acting, Nittoor Srinivasa Rao, inflated and even encouraged the leading Littérateur quavempu, which would be corrected as Rashtrakavi a year later, to give a 14-line poetry clapping.
Every year from independence, the official celebration of observing a big day on the parade has a traditional address by the Governor of State.
In 1962-63, then the Governor of State of MySuru, Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, was on a tour of the United States and Justice Nittoor Srinivasa Rao, who was the Chair of the High Court of MySuru, was the governor of acting.
On August 15, 1963, Rao was scheduled to give an independence day speech as an acting governor.
However, the loyal language leisure and the faithful Kannada was a little surprised to receive a copy of his speech in English.
In Nithoor Srinivasa Rayaru: Noorara Nenapu, biographical sketches of Freedom Fighter, writers and juris published in 2003, today’s incident was recorded well with Rao calling for typers to translate English speech and typing it on Kannada.
“Rao remembers Joviely in the book What is the word Jawan which means the soldier is translated as a jawana by the translator which means Peon in Kannada,” said Vemagal Somashekar, a senior historian author and Kannada.
With a speech translated into Kannada in one hour, Rao justice took the central stage on the parade in Bengaluru on the morning of August 15, 1963 and delivered the governor’s speech for the first time in Kannada.
The speech came as a pleasant surprise for many people in the venue and lakh people from the country of Mysore, which was set to the radio.
It was considered a historic day by Kannada language lovers at that time and even managed to reach the newspaper newspaper.
The poet Kuvempu was very fascinated by the I-Day Rao speech that he wrote a 14-line poetity titled Rajyapalarige Abhivandae (Salute to Governor).
Kuvempu satisfied poetic praise at the speech, said the nanna hottege hande was hoydantaitu (feel like drinking a large vessel full of milk).
The poem appeared in the Kannada newspaper the following day and many were discussed in literary and political circles.