A Kannadiga's Lament: How National Politics is Eroding Our Identity As I watch this latest controversy unfold - Tamil politicians claiming ownership over Kannada's origins while BJP leaders, whose entire ideology is rooted in Sanskrit supremacy, suddenly pose as defenders of Kannada - I am struck by a profound realization: we Kannadigas have become strangers in our own land, spectators to debates about our own heritage, conducted by forces that have systematically weakened us for decades. The Great Betrayal For seventy-eight years since Independence, we have faithfully voted for national parties - Congress, BJP, and their various avatars. We believed their promises of development, their rhetoric of unity, their assurances that our interests would be protected within the larger Indian framework. What have we received in return? The slow, methodical erosion of everything that makes us Kannadiga. Today, a Tamil actor can casually dismiss our language as a derivative, and our r...
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