Gamaka artiste and freedom fighter 93-year-old C.S. Mangalamma and Vijaya Shankar, a bilingual expert, were the ones who were felicitated at the interaction meet.
Speaking at the meet, freedom fighter C.S. Mangalamma said that although her mother tongue was Tamil, she always conversed in Kannada, as she has found home in Kannada Nadu and consume Cauvery water. Maintaining that she takes pride in saying that Kannada is her mother tongue, she said that she knew Telugu, Sanskrit and English, apart from Kannada and Tamil.
