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What is it like a Sunday you wake up to noises when you've hardly had any sleep overnight? Worse yet, the news paper carries on front, a page long report about deaths in double figures - and another with made-look fairy tale of a weirdo accident survivor.

There was this not-so-good-looking card lying in my wallet for a long time now. I had never taken it out for last many months. It was no Credit Card, but Accident Relief Care card that my father had subscribed for me. Everyone at our home now has a subscription each of that.

Its been those busy days mixed with ill health, again. So, there have been no updates on my blog for a long time now. The website needs a face-lift and some re-arrangement is long due.

For all of you who asked for the Kannada Wikipedia meet excerpts and video - I'm terribly sorry it took this long, but I've drafted a blog post and also prepared a little document that I would soon be putting online.

Kannada Wikipedia Event

2nd April, Sunday, 2006.

4.00 PM to 8.00 PM.

Nayana Auditorium, Kannada Bhavana, J C Road, Bangalore.

Links: Invitation, Registration, More about the event

The themes demo page is back online, now running the latest Wordpress code.

The Download page for the themes is here.

I recently downloaded and installed Wordpress 2.0 (stable version not released, yet) from wp's subversion repository... and I didn't have regrets about the upgrade. Wordpress has gotten better, with TinyMCE now coming *with it* by default, some nice changes with theme admin page and the "Compose" or "Write Post" page in the Admin panel.

is not *activism*, but "reading habits among Kannadigas vis-a-vis other communities".

Though the above quoted message was not my opinion, it endorses what has been on my mind for a long time now. The words are from an article that appeared on Deccan Herald today. This highly sensible article speaks out the very notion that has been on many minds of the new generation Kannadigas:

"What Kannadigas lack is the reading habit vis-a-vis other communities, be it a newspaper or any other form of literature. "

"More than a fighting spirit, what needs to be improved upon are reading habits, study of literature, and recognition to latent literary talents so that this get its due space in the comity of Kannada society."

"Even this crisis is showcased in terms of the Kannada movie world, and, unfortunately, it is the movie buffs who decide the pro-Kannada movements."

"For, the development or otherwise of a language depends upon the growth of literature. But unfortunately, in Karnataka, it is the movie field which rules the roost."

Couldn't agree more. :)