Here is an ad. line our mobile phone companies can nick from Prof. Krishne Gowda’s book. It’s a lullaby from a contemporary mother to a baby in the crib – Maathukali bega magane, mobile thandu koduve – ( English sub-title: Pick up speech quickly, my son, I’d get you a mobile’). We found this in Deccan Herald report on a Christmas Day Hasyotsava, held in memory of B G L Swamy at National College, Bangalore.

Prof. Gowda, of St. Philomena’s in Mysore, had the audience in stitches. Laughter is a great leveler. Maharashtra governor, Mr S M Krishna, was spotted among common Gowda-enthusiasts having a good time, unmindful of the protocol that may not have provided for a gubernatorial guffaw at a public gathering.

See earlier item: Philomena’s prof. for Singapore