Now, it’s Tamil in city rly stn

By CT reporter
MANGALORE : It is the Malayalam language and Malayalam speaking people who have been reigning supreme in the Mangalore railway station over the past several years. This is an already known fact to Mangaloreans. Now, it seems the problem has doubled with Tamil too trying to gain an upperhand in this railway station in a Kannada land.
Majority of the officers and staff in the Mangalore railway station are Keralites. If enquired in Kannada, the reply is in Malayalam here. Now, another menace, of late Tamil too has creeped in.
Today, the railway booking slips are available in English and Tamil mixed language. When asked the reason, the officials here say they just do not know as it is received from the higher-ups.
Even the officials here are in no way bothered by these Tamil language slips. The already Malayalised Mangalore railway station is now slowly being transformed into a Tamil station even as the state capital is slowly turning into a Tamil land.
It is a tragedy that the Kannada Development Authority has preferred to ignore this blatant neglect of Kannada in the Mangalore railway station, though the Authority Chairman Siddalingaiah had recently thundered in the city against the anti-Kannada stance.
Even the Dibbana as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the unification of Karnataka had arrived in the city and left with its main intention being promotion of Kannada. But, the language is totally neglected in our very own railway station and surpisingly our Mangalore MP and other elected representatives have turned a blind eye and deaf ear to all these happenings.