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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8 dead, dozens wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa port
Kyiv (AP): Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine's Emergency Service said on Saturday morning.
Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicentre of the overnight strike, the service said in a Telegram post. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot, and cars were also damaged.
The port was struck with ballistic missiles, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region.
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Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian warship and other facilities with drones, Ukraine's General Staff said in a statement on Saturday.
The nighttime attack on Friday hit the Russian warship “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted to the Telegram messaging app.
The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement added.
A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also hit. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
