Anu : Aayi, what's our most important festival?
Me : We celebrate DeepavaLi and Ganesha Chaturthi on a big scale.
Anu : But I think for people living in Karnataka, Kannada Rajyotsava should be the most important one. It celebrates the whole state!
The girl continues to surprise me. From someone who disliked Kannada, she's transformed into something of a brand ambassador. For DeepavaLi, her teacher asked them all to bring some traditional food to share with the class. Anu was very keen to carry raagi mudde, because she'd read it's one of our staple foods and she wanted everybody to taste it. And when she sees any combination of red and yellow, she gets excited thinking of Karnataka flag and now she's determined to read and write Kannada. It's all too much to digest for me right now and I'm just keeping my fingers crossed. Of course on the other hand, she's taken up Marathi equally wholeheartedly. She speaks to herself in Marathi occasionally and to anybody else she can, too. My in-laws are thrilled.
Me : We celebrate DeepavaLi and Ganesha Chaturthi on a big scale.
Anu : But I think for people living in Karnataka, Kannada Rajyotsava should be the most important one. It celebrates the whole state!
The girl continues to surprise me. From someone who disliked Kannada, she's transformed into something of a brand ambassador. For DeepavaLi, her teacher asked them all to bring some traditional food to share with the class. Anu was very keen to carry raagi mudde, because she'd read it's one of our staple foods and she wanted everybody to taste it. And when she sees any combination of red and yellow, she gets excited thinking of Karnataka flag and now she's determined to read and write Kannada. It's all too much to digest for me right now and I'm just keeping my fingers crossed. Of course on the other hand, she's taken up Marathi equally wholeheartedly. She speaks to herself in Marathi occasionally and to anybody else she can, too. My in-laws are thrilled.
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