Many people belongs to one state and born and brought up in another state. They have dilemma in culture and festivals. But, like that they have language problem also. They don’t have deep knowledge about any of either.

Many times funny incidents happen, for example when we go to our native place, my native place is Karnataka, Udupi and mother tongue is ‘Tulu’, we face problem while talking, means we know the language and even we speak it daily but when we go to our native place, while talking we come to know that we don’t speak in pure mother tongue as some words they don’t understand and same goes with us also because as we live in Maharashtra, our mother tongue becomes mix of Hindi, Marathi, English and Tulu. But we think we are speaking very correctly, and by hearing our language they start laughing.

Many things are there we use it in daily life but we don’t know their names in our mother tongue so we use Hindi, Marathi or English words for them. So our mother tongue becomes amalgamation of all languages. But, we like it like that only because it becomes innocent language without any slangs or bad words. And plus point is that we know and understand more language compare to who live in their native place only. So chill,

Two states dilemma about culture and festivals, here I ‘m talking about people whose native state is one and they born, brought up and live in another. They love both states equally. But, whenever any festival comes they don’t have deep knowledge about any one either.

For example I born and brought up in Maharashtra but my native place is Karnataka. So, advantage is that I know both states culture and festivals. But disadvantage is that I don’t have deep knowledge about any of it.

So, solution for this whatever we know and whatever we can follow just take it from both the culture and just enjoy all the festivals.

Bunts community people are natives of Dakshina Karnataka, mostly Udipi and Mangalore districts. They speak  ‘Tulu’ language. Shetty, Rai,Alva, Poonja, Chouta etc, these surnames come under Bunts community, and some people use their native village name as surname also. They come under Kshatriya cast in Hindu religion.

They follow matrilineal system means name and property, such as land is handed down from mother to daughter. They were more into farming but now they are in other jobs or business also, mostly many bunts are into hotel business.

As they live in coastal areas of Karnataka, their food mostly have fruits and vegetables available in those areas. They use coconut in most of their food. They eat non-vegetarian food also. Rice is their staple food, and they prepare many delicacies using rice. They use some leaves to make steamed rice delicacies like turmeric leaves, teakwood leaves, banana leaves etc. They make rice puddings by pouring batter into these leaves while steaming, which gives them distinctive aroma.

They worship Hindu God and Godess, with that each family has their own Kuldaivata and they worship Naga daivata also. They celebrate festivals like Ugadi, Sankranti, Diwali, Dashera etc.

For recreation they have competitions like Kambala in which buffaloes race in muddy field, Kor da atta it means rooster-fight. They enjoy it very much.

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