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Rao Bahadur Ari Gowder, the only Badaga leader who is still remembered even after forty years of his death, gave his property equally to his two grand daughters and one grandson along with their mother. Our flats in New Delhi and Bangalore along with our property in the Nilgiris and Mettupalayam have been equally divided between these two. We have educated them in the best of schools like Lawrence School, Lovedale and both have done their Masters from Canada and USA. By no stretch of imagination, they can can be considered as competent or qualified and least of all experience which is a must.Īnd, most importantly, when it comes to property allocation to daughters, how can these panjayats go against the law of the land? The feeble argument that only a son can be called a ‘WARISU’ is blatantly brutal, one sided, gender biased and ‘anti-female’ like many other social issues in our society. Other members of the ‘problem solving’ group are youngsters selected for collection of tax – wari and to organise temple festivals – habbas etc. These days, in most of the hattis the ‘Gowda’ chosen is the one who does not have a permanent or regular job as he has to attend to a lot social functions both in his as well as in other hattis. Tthe ‘core committee’ of elders looking into complaints was made up of non partisan, experienced and where available educated people and their rulings were acceptable to all. Also, in olden days, the options of going to the court or seeking remedy through legal channels were not easy. The Badaga proverb – doddaru shloka – ‘manay ya maathaadi, mandaga hogu’ aptly describes this. The problem is, in olden days a complaint was made to the common wisdom of hatti elders when the disputes could not be solved within the family – Kudumba. As you may be aware KAPP panjayats are popular male dominated forums in Hariyana and wester UP who had given the ‘OK’ for honour killings, acting as extra constitutional authorities and are in trouble as Supreme Court is looking into their actions. Sadly, even in this day and time, in many hattis, the property is recommended to be given ONLY to sons by the so called hatti ‘elders’ in what can be termed as ‘kapp’ panjayats to sort out property disputes. Now, even the laws in our country has been amended wherein the boys and girls have equal rights on the property of the parents. This is the time visionaries and forward looking Badaga leaders like Rao Badahur Ari Gowder insisted that the girl child should be educated and equal rights and property be given as the boys among Badagas. Like in all other communities in our great country, the girls were forced to live a condemned life. If they had children and a wayward husband who indulged in wasteful life with drinking being an eternal curse, the life was not only miserable but unbearable. This combined with lack of education and absent of other alternatives, forced many daughters to suffer in silence. The daughters, more often than not, were not welcomed by the brothers (generally due to their wives pressure). Material lust took control over conventional matters. I am adding more songs to ‘Best of Bella Gowder’īut all that changed over time. Ninna thammana mele gava illeyo, Uria Hotte ? The audio quality may be bad as these songs were originaly recorded on a mono tape recorder Muruga sings this song, ‘ …Gava Illeyo Gava Illeyo, oh ennu anna….,
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Prize sitting on the banks of the ‘halla’. ‘you are the world’ and wins the contest. The world, Lord Ganesha just takes a circle around the parents saying Muruga takes off on his vahana mayilu to go around World and comes back first’ would get the ‘hannu’ - fruit. Sons God Ganesha & God Muruga saying ‘whosoever goes around the
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Theme that God Shiva & Goddess Parvathi give a contest to their Theįirst song from this album - ’Gava Illeyo Gava Illeyo’ is based on the The other songs are from the album ‘Best of Bella Gowder’. The first 19 songs are from the album ‘Berada Bellie Ballad’. I bow my head in dedication to Kerben Bella Gowder who passed away a few years back.