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Hi It is great that I find the description of Yakshagana and Hulivesha etc,. It would be nice to know when and where the performance is? or e-mail address to the groups to find out their performance schedule. Thanks bjr

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I am adding the same image I found in Mangalore page. If anyone have better image please post it. --Shivu 08:13, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Removal of Dravidian topics template

It is pointless to remove the Dravidian topics template for personal reasons and I know why you removed it. Misplaced Pages is not for one person, but for everybody. It would be up to Administration to decide whether or not to remove this. Removing the template and stating that Yakshagana has lot of things in common with "North Indian" topics too is like removing a Khmer topics template for a Cambodian dance and stating that it has a lot of things in common with Chinese dance even though its roots are Khmer. Now I have personally created a Yakshagana page without knowing there was already one created. I have even went to the library to check out a book on Yakshagana to add to Misplaced Pages. It was a wonderful learning experience to discover that the Kannadigas have a classical dance since not much is heard about it, as well as the rest of Southern India. I notice that the cultures, arts, and languages of India are presented to the world in a false manner. Rewriting history, deletion of items, and moving towards a generic mix and match culture is not the way to go. It is the reason why that India still remains a mystery to the rest of the world, since people keep changing their culture trying to impress the world. People may detest Periyar Ramaswamy of the Self-respect movement, but please let me quote him by saying, "It is when we get rid of superiority and inferiority feelings we establish self-respect for ourselves."

Wiki Raja 15:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

As I said, the term "Dravidian" needs to sorted out in that template. What does "Dravidian" stand for? Dravidian group of languages? Yakshagana was performed based on Sanskrit dramas till recently. Don't try to push your viewpoints in whatever articles you wish. I appreciate your concern and hard work in knowing about Yakshagana, thanks for that. But confining Yakshagana as "Dravidian" is simply not acceptable.Gnanapiti 18:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

With all due respect, I do not know how many times I have given the definition for Dravidian. Many times Gnanapiti. So many times I have been asked the same questions, and I have given the same answer for the repetitive questions asked. Dravidian is a family of related ethnicities and languages. Just like Indo-Aryan is a family of related ethnicities and languages. I have even provided a referenced source for that. For one, you did not have a problem having Yakshagana posted as a link on the Dravidian topics template, until an anonymous user came on and stated that we put Tamil Eelam on the template. I would dislike (I do not believe in using the word hate, by the way) for Yakshagana or any other Kannada related material to be taken off the Dravidian topics template since we are all ethnicities whose mother tongues are of a commanality - Dravidian. Indo-Aryan ideas may have influenced some of our cultures, but that does not change us from being Dravidian. Let me give you an example, the early Pallavas and Cholas have travelled frequently into Southeast Asia introducing the Tamil version of the Ramayana by Kambar (which came from the Sanskrit version of the Ramayana by Valmiki). Bali, Cambodia, and Thailand, for example, demonstrate the Ramayana in their dances and martial arts. Does that make them non-Malay, non-Khmer, or non-Thai? Does that make them Dravidian or Indo-Aryan? We have certain dances in Tamil Nadu, one of them which portrays the Mahabharata (Mahaparatam in Tamil). It is a Dravidian styled dance form to an Indo-Aryan story. Anyways, I am not against you and strongly feel that you are an asset to this group. Everybody is welcome, and most definitely you. We all just have to learn about each other to understand our differences. Kind regards. Wiki Raja 20:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

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