Karnataka Kannada and Culture minister, V. Sunil Kumar on Monday said that the state government will take a call on reducing the duration of the ‘Nada Geethe’ (State Anthem) during the 10-day legislature session starting from September 13.
The Nada Geethe – Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate (Victory to you Mother Karnataka, The Daughter of Mother India) – is a Kannada poem, which was penned by Karnataka’s most revered poet Kuvempu and this poem was officially declared the state anthem of Karnataka on 6 January 2004.
In 2014, there was a proposal to reduce the duration to one minute 50 seconds by the committee headed by Kannada prominent poet Channaveera Kanavi as the song currently varies between four to five minutes depending on the rendition.
Participating in an official meeting here, the minister told reporters that besides reducing the duration of the state anthem the state government will also take a decision on how the photograph of Kannadambe Bhuvaneshwari (Goddess of Kannada land) is to be displayed.
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However, the formal proposal in this regard was made by Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP) in July 2019 to cap the duration of Naada Geethe – Jaya Bharatha Jananiya Thanujaathe at two minutes and thirty seconds but the successive state government had been dilly dallying over this.
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