Selvanoir

You people will talk , talk and talk to flex power but will not raise any valid point. What's stopping you people from demanding the govt to introduce a law requiring company to incorporate sensitization to local language and culture into their onboarding process ?

When the IT industry falls, every glitter you see around fades. Black money investments from babus and NRIs made these developers take real buyers for granted. Bech lo ab “Luxury projects”. No corporate professional can commit the next 20 years to paying a one-lakh-per-month EMI in the age of AI.

Amid debate around Kannadigas being treated unfairly in the IT sector, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike is planning to visit IT/ BT companies ,meet heads,HRs & others from Nov 1st, seek information on recruitment practices & submit memos for fair employment opportunities for locals

Bizarre incident. Citizens cleaned Ane Park near Bengaluru on their own by crowd funding. When they came next day they saw poster of BJP MLA Ashwath Narayana taking credit for it. This made them furious and they are calling this out.

Let me share my own experience. I worked for several years in a US-based company in Bengaluru. Around 2011, two people from Kerala occupied senior management positions. During their tenure, I noticed that a large proportion of freshers recruited into the company were from Kerala. Gradually, their regional network grew stronger, and Kerala's language and culture received more prominence than Kannada, despite the company operating in Bengaluru. At one point, there were even attempts to restrict the use of Kannada on the office floor. My association with Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) made the management reconsider that decision. When I left the organization, I openly raised these concerns with HR, who also happened to be from other state. Today, I hear similar allegations about the same company. A Telugu-speaking executive reportedly holding the CTO position in the USA is said to be favoring Telugu-speaking employees in recruitment and promotions in Bengaluru. This is how regional favoritism can operate. When senior managers favor people from their own linguistic backgrounds, those employees eventually become managers themselves. They may then continue the same recruitment patterns, creating a cycle in which qualified local Kannadigas can be overlooked. Many Kannadigas are familiar with concerns about such practices. Kannadigas who understand their rights and are willing to speak up question these practices. But many remain silent, fearing retaliation, career setbacks, or losing their jobs.

Karnataka Housefull!! ILP is the need of hours!!!

One of the biggest reasons Tamil cinema normalised mediocrity as a culture is Rajinikanth. At his peak, Kamal Haasan fought to push Tamil cinema towards better storytelling, technical excellence and artistic ambition. He invested his own money, suffered losses repeatedly and still took risks because he believed audiences deserved better. Rajini, on the other hand, not only acted in mediocre films but turned mediocrity into a marketable identity. Even his celebrated “style” owes more to Amitabh Bachchan than people care to admit, much like the borrowed templates behind several of his films. Kamal brought better technology, technicians and scripts into Tamil cinema, while Rajini largely played it safe, capitalising on a formula that audiences were conditioned to celebrate. The bigger damage was cultural. “Dehatism” became a virtue, and mediocrity became commercially aspirational. Vijay followed that template, and now Pradeep Ranganathan and a generation of actors and directors seem to believe that exaggerated mannerisms, mass hysteria and wafer thin scripts are enough to build a career. Kamal tried to elevate the audience’s cinematic experience. Rajini mastered the art of giving the audience what it already celebrated. And Tamil cinema has been paying the price for that distinction ever since.