I guess this is a problem of people of my generation and present day may not even relate to it. Or maybe I have written about this in my previous posts (I will check).
Back in the day when we transitioned from grade 7 to 8, we had to identify one language as primary (first) and secondary invariably was English (unless English was primary, those schools were far and few) and one tertiary language. Mind you till grade 7 we were doing the same and in most schools Kannada was the primary language.
Anyways, come to grade 8, a new choice popped up called Sanskrit. Considering students were starting from scratch they would start with alphabets and grammar and by end of grade 10 they would have graduated to reading some amount of Sanskrit let alone converse. So, in terms of GPA or what we used to call easy scoring subject, Sanskrit was top choice.
Yours truly was also the same mentality and by divine grace I met with a Kannada teacher MS. Gowramma who suggested me to take Kannada as primary language and my dad also suggested the same. There was initial resistance in me but I did take it up. Along with meeting such wonderful friends in that group, one thing it developed in me was the love for language, years later reflecting back on what I studied back in grade 8, 9 and 10 specially in what was called non detail were some intense texts.
Years later that spark has kept up and I don’t say I am an avid Kannada reader, same time the history buff in me would pick up a Kannada book about Karnataka Ithihasa than an English commentary.
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