Koli Pade (Kori Katta)

Cock fight is a famous folk sport in the region of undivided South Canara, covering present Managalore, Udupi and Kundapura. It’s called Kori Katta in Tulu and Koli Pade in Kundapura kannada. People usually grow different breeds of cocks just for the purpose of this folk sport, and many are very passionate about the game. The varieties of breeds include, Kembera, Kadla etc.

Normally it’s for the entertainment purpose usually held after some special events such as the on Diwali night, After the Kambala etc. Jathre Katta is observed during town fairs and nithya katta takes place near arrack outlets on a full moon or Amavasye. Under the third type, "Sodthi katta", a dual between two individuals is settled through the cock fight. The venue of the cock fight is called "kala". People gather in, with their fighter cocks when the sun is about to start going down in the west side of the sky. Some people do come there with out a fighter cock, and they bet money on the cocks, kind of Gambling. This is normally not the tradition of cock fight, but people added this to make some money, police often ride such places where gambling happen on these cock fights, but it still persist.

So without gambling the traditional cock fight in the rural South Canara goes like this. People bring their own Cocks and they tie a tiny knife called “baal” to their legs, and then allowed to fight with each other. Process of selecting the pair for fight called as "Jodi Naadunu" is followed by the actual fight "Kori Muttunu". The fight which does not exceed more than three rounds is decided, when one of the cock runs away or is injured. The winning Cocks owner will get both the cocks in Onti Katta, which will be considered as victory for that evening, and its called as “Anka”. There is a special type of Knock Out fight where they are allowed to fight till one dies. People are so passionate about this folk game is that the venue and dates are decided by a dedicated panchanga for this called as “Almane Kukkate Panchanga”.

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How to Read & Write Korean

Many of you might be thinking that Korean is very difficult to read or write as it contains all kinds of drawings like Chinese. But in actual it is not like Chinese, it can be considered one of the simplest script, and

You can learn in few hours. If you practice for a day, that would be more than enough. After suggestion from one of my friend I thought of going for it. I got some link from Google search which seemed to be to be pretty good, and learned in two days. I am sharing my learning here, so that may be it would also make you interested in learning how to read and write Korean.

Below is the alphabets and in brackets is the pronunciation of the same. The first 14 are consonants and rest 10 are vowels. In vowels you can see that with little modification of first you get other vowel, which are similar in pronunciation. Every character thus shown has a wired name in Korean, forget about that, remember the pronunciation.The alphabet was invented in 1443 during the reign of the Great King Sejong. There are 14 basic consonants and 10 basic vowels. Letters that have similar sounds also have similar shapes, so it is easy to learn.

The letters are grouped into syllable blocks containing an initial consonant (which may be silent or double), one or two vowels (below or to the right), and sometimes a final consonant (below), as shown in the below syllable

I will give you an Example of a station name, you can see in the below figure. If you see the first syllable, its (s+eo) - refer to above table and (ch+o) = Seocho. So happy reading Korean.

You may find some more letters, which are not very common, so this must give a good insight in to 99% korean words, and there may be cases with four letters in one syllables and which is also as simple to read as one explained above. If a letter is repeated, then you have to stress that word, as in bitter.

Even if don't know many Korean words, you can have still have fun "decoding" some words in a Korean text, such as words borrowed from English, the names of famous people, place names, and product brand names. I have learned to read and write Korean from this Site
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