Mangaluru Student pens longest Tulu poem with 2,241 words, enters World Book of Records
Mangaluru: A student of the Sahyadri College of Engineering has entered the World Book of Records, London, by writing the longest Tulu poem which he wrote on a 21-foot-long paper.
Pranesh, who is a resident of Kulashekar in the city, is a second-year student of Mechanical Engineering. He has written a poem called 'Tulunada Aisiri' which describes the Tulu language and culture in 108 stanzas of 432 lines. With the poem containing more than 2,241 Tulu words, Pranesh has used 30 pages of A4 size to write it.
The poem describes the celebration of festivals in Tulunadu, worship of deities, snake worship, religious places, folk and popular sports as well as a request for the inclusion of Tulu language in the 8th Section of the Constitution.
Pranesh, who is interested in literature, is a poet and a scriptwriter. He has indulged in his passions along with his study.
“I had sent a copy of the poem that I had written in August 2019 and January 2020 for entry into the World Book of Records. But I had to resend it in February as it had not reached them. It has been accepted and certified now,” said the student.
“The culture of Tulunadu is a land of religious centers with interesting rituals of worship. I don’t have much knowledge of such things, but I have written whatever I have seen and heard, in the poem,” Pranesh told the Vartha Bharathi.
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Four dead in highway pile-up in Karnataka
Ballari (Karnataka) (PTI): At least four people are feared dead and some others were injured in a pile-up involving a bus, a garlic-laden lorry, a car and multiple two-wheelers near Danapur in Hospet taluk of Vijayanagara district on National Highway 50 on Saturday morning, police said.
According to police sources, the accident began as a minor collision but escalated when the speeding lorry rammed into a bike and subsequently crashed into a bus and a car before overturning.
The lorry fell onto the car and dragged it for nearly 100 metres after the impact, police said.
Preliminary inquiry suggests the driver was transporting garlic towards Chitradurga and was driving at high speed, leading to loss of control and a chain collision.
“The four occupants of the car are feared to have died on the spot after the lorry toppled onto the vehicle,” police sources said, adding that some people sustained injuries, some of them serious.
Rescue operations were underway to clear the overturned vehicle and retrieve those trapped.
The injured have been shifted to government hospitals in Hospet and Koppal for treatment, they added.
Vehicular movement on National Highway 50 was severely affected, with traffic piling up for several kilometres as locals gathered at the accident site and emergency teams intensified relief efforts.
