Tulunadu Traditions

Pili vesha is the famous form of folk dance in Tulunadu which attracts the people from across the world towards it. Pili, in Tulu means tiger and vesha mean the attire. Which together means to say, the dance of tiger. It is danced for the beats of Thaase, the drum. The beats of  Thaase can be heard to several meters. It makes anyone feel like dancing. Pili vesha requires a lot of patience while putting on the paint of the tiger. It requires hours together to paint a pili vesha.                                                              Pili vesha has historical importance. Pili or tiger is the animal of Goddess Durga. So, pili vesha is performed during Dusserah. It is also performed during Krishna Janmashtami, Ganesh chaturthi, etc. Pili vesha is famous in Mangalore and Udupi. There is so much devotion and emotion inv...

The beautiful Tulunadu which we see today was not the part of land long long back. It was the part of the ocean. It was Parashurama, who is said to be the sixth Avatara of Lord Vishnu according to Hindu mythology who made it a part of the land. Parashurama was a Brahmin and was the son of sage Jamadagni and his wife Renuka. Once, Jamadagni ordered Parashurama to chop the head of his mother because he was angry on her. Parashurama being the follower of father's words, chopped his mother's head with his axe. Later when his father agreed to give him blessings, he asked Jmadagni to revive his mother. Jamadagni agreed and his wife came alive by his blessings. This is the early story of Parashurama. Parashurama hated all the Kshatriyas; so, he destroyed them all. And donated the gained land to sage Kashyapa. After donating all the land, he thought, staying in the donated land is not right. So, he went on to Sahyadri to start a meditation on Lord Shiva. Shiva appeared before him an...

Hello again. A person who is in Tulunadu not knowing Tulu would normally be treated as a stranger.  So, it is common that one might badly wants to learn Tulu. In the beginning, Tulu might seem a bit difficult to learn. But believe me, after learning Tulu, one doesn't feel as comfortable as speaking in Tulu while speaking in any other languages. Tulu is a sweat language, that it feels very sound to hear it. So, an outsider who wants to learn Tulu must try to avoid some mistakes. It would help learning Tulu faster. #1:  Thinking that it's tough The first mistake that is commonly made by non-Tuluvas is that thinking Tulu is tough. By listening to the speed at which people speak, and the way the tongue twists, it is often that one might feel Tulu is difficult to be learned. I suggest, first, remove that from your mind. Tulu is not a difficult language; perhaps, it is one of the easiest and sweetest languages that one can learn. This would help in making it learn faster. #...