67th day of our blog

 Hello Readers,

Today is 67th day of our blog.  I hope you will like it.  So here we go………

Freedom Fighters of Karnataka

Yashodhara Dasappa

Born: 28 May 1905, Bengaluru

Died: 1980

Awards: Padma Bhushan

Education: Queen Mary’s College

Children: Tulasidas Dasappa

Birth and Personal Life

Yashodhara Dasappa is an Indian social reformer, an activist, Gandhian, and a former minister for the state of Karnataka. She served as a minister under S. R. Kanthi (1962) and S. Nijalingappa (1969) and served to Indian National Congress.

Yashodhara Dasappa was born to K.H.Ramaiah, a well-known social worker on 28th May 1905 in Bangalore. She was a student of London Mission School and Queen Mary’s College, Madras. Despite being from a well-known family, Yashodara chose to become a social activist and join in India’s Freedom Struggle. Yashodhara married H.C Dasappa who served under Jawaharlal Nehru and has a younger son named Tulasidas Dasappa.

Yashodhara Dasappa was known to be an activist and active member of many movements concentrated towards India’s Freedom. She was an activist for the Forest Satyagraha Movement which resulted in the imprisonment of over 1200 people. She also partook in Vidurashwatha satyagraha which was held on April 25, 1938, in this satyagraha Yashodara participated and was then jailed for participation. In this event, over 35 people were killed in police firing. 

Yashodhara’s home was a meeting point of many freedom fighters as she was known to provide aggressive speeches against the government. One particular speech where she protested against the government when they decided to name a building after Hamilton who was known for brutality against the freedom fighters is revered upon.

She was politically inclined to Indian National Congress (INC) where she was a political member and a senior minister under Nijalingappa. She was the first woman to become a cabinet minister in Karnataka. While serving for the Government of Karnataka, she made news by resigning from the post in protest against the lifting of prohibition in the state of Karnataka in the year 1969.

She has been awarded Padma Bhushan for her contribution to society. 

Yashodhara Dasappa died in the year 1980 and was serving for Karnataka unification and Indian freedom struggle until the end of her life

Let’s Learn

In this Section you are going to learn how to read, write and speak Kannada fluently in a fun way. So let’s start. Yesterday’s edition we have asked readers to translate the sentence from English to Kannada from previous lessons. Hope you have completed😀 So here you have translation in Kannada to yesterday’s questions☺️

1. I want to help.{Naanu sahaaya maadabeku}

2. Children are very smart.{makkalu tumba hushaaru/churukiddare}

3. We need support to run this machine.{Namage ee yantra nadesalu sahaaya beku}

4. He is having cold, cough and fever.{Avanige sheeta,kemmu mattu jwara ide}

5. Today weather is cloudy.{Evattu moda Kavida vaataavarana ide}

We are excited to know how you have translated the same…..Please write it in comment section…We want to see your progress👍

Now Translate these Sentence from English to Kannada

1. I love my Parents.

2. He sings very well.

3. There is one bus stand is there

4. Ice cream is not good.

5. Some people were talking.

We have given sentence based on information given in this blog…So please read and try to answer. Please write your answer in the comment section.

We hope you will like our post.  Please let us know what do you want to know in comment section. We will try to add those things.

Let’s meet tomorrow with new post😀

Yours,

Seema