Top Spin: Tulu Finds Its Tongue, Officially

Tulu, spoken by Aishwarya Rai and 2 million other people in Karnataka and Kerala, will soon be an official language.

Tulu, spoken by Aishwarya Rai and 2 million other people in Karnataka and Kerala, will soon be an official language. At the recent World Tulu Congress in Mangalore, Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said the demand to add it to the eighth schedule of the Constitution, pending since Independence, had been stuck in babudom.  Tulu had its own script till the early 20th century when popular sentiment junked it in favour of the Kannada script.  But it was kept alive by a rich oral literary tradition, the local folk art Yakshagana and its tiny film industry.

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