Samanya Kannadiga Pratishthana Trust

http://www.aralikatte.com/2017/10/01/saka_kempegouda/Samanya Kannadiga, an organization, which is a civil society group. What sets the group apart from language groups such as the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike is that Samanya Kannadiga wanted to bring about a human connect; linguistic connect is just one of their goals.Founded in 2012, the group has an eight-member core team, which heads a 10,000-strong membership across the state.The group however is not against the cosmopolitan nature of the city, which has a large number of native speakers of Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, and smaller numbers of other language groups such as Marathi.“We don’t expect people to write Kannada literature within a year. Our goal is to get people to respect local sentiments and assimilate themselves to the city they have come to live in. Anyone who knows how to speak Kannada or at least makes an effort to learn the language is a ‘Samanya Kannadiga’"“When you go to a French restaurant, the menu is in French. In fact you are also forced to learn French before you enter the country. Then why should it be different here? In fact, we are not inventing our demands. Even after BBMP had made it mandatory for restaurants to have a menu in Kannada, they still don’t follow the rule,” What sets the group apart from other organizations is that it is tech-savvy. They say one of their achievements is emailing banks and getting them to include Kannada in ATMs.Many people still think Hindi is the national language and expect the rest of the country to speak it, which is not right. We tirelessly tell them every time that they are wrong. We also don’t tolerate anyone who abuses Kannada and the culture of the state