Karnataka and Kannada 'Parichaya'!

Last week (friday, 10th Nov 2006) was a special day for us, the organisers and many employees in the EC campus of my company. We had organized (money and idea pooled by us!) one-day event called 'Parichaya' (meaning, Introduction) and I was one of the members of the organizing committee!
As the name indicates, we intended to give our fellow friends a Parichaya to Kannada language and Karnataka history, wealth and values! It was a roaring success!!! We had not expected so much crowd to visit us and get 'introduced' but as the day progressed, we were flattered to see the number! People stood in queue patiently to visit the event and this was the most surprising thing of the day!
We had arranged lot of poster presentation, indicating the richness of Kannada and Karnataka - right from Poets to Tourism to Foods! I had organized a small Quiz program comprising of simple questions on Karnataka (mainly for our non-kannada folks) and man, it was amazing to be on the quiz-master side! Very good response and hope everybody enjoyed it! :)
Coming back to our Parichaya stall, we had lot of gifts (Kannada books, CDs, Karnataka tourism info maps) and for every visitor, we had a small gift - kannada food comprising of 2 sweets and a khara item! I estimate that around 2k people visited us between 1130hrs and 1530hrs!!!!
In the evening, there was an Orchestra arranged and it was really good unwinding for all of us, who stood behind the show and for many friends from our EC campus!
Overall, lot of (non-kannada) people got Parichaya of our rich state Karnataka and Kannada language!
Jai Karnataka!

Comments

Leena Paul said…
Hmm...seems to be a great idea!!
Good job!
8:36 PM
Deeps said…
Hey..thanks! long time that u came 2 my blog i believe! :)
1:43 PM
Anonymous said…
Wow!
Thats a great thing....... Lots of good posts to read here (that u've written in the last month) :) Liked most of them.......
Esp this parichaya must have been a good experience.... Great!
4:34 PM
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