Raju Hiremath

Indian women relay team has won Gold in 400 M relay - comprising a team of (L to R)  Ashwini Shetty, Mandip Kaur, Manjit Kaur & Sini Jose. Ashwini ran the cruicial 3rd leg in the finals.   Ashwini hails from Karantaka's coastal area. Coming from financially poor farmer's family in rural village of- Jansal, near Siddapura, Kundapur Taluk – Udupi district. Her father owns few acres of paddy growing farms which is again completely dependent on rains. In her childhood she used run around the cattle at home – taking them out for graging, to her father's fields. Running behind them she realised her speed and increased it herself running in school competions. She later started participating in inter-school, district level and many other local competitions; couple of which she won running on barefoot. On barefoot she went on to pursue her dreams of running in state level and national level games. Today India won GOLD after 50 yrears in a track event. Ashwini recalls “today e

When Shashi had come to Blore months 6 back from Mudalagi, he told me abt a new song which has become a big hit in our belgaum district. I told him it may be some shabber dange song or may be another double meaning drama by raju talikoti. He said "no, this is a descent one. You will like it". To keep his mood I said "ok, let me listen". Then he played it on his mobile. In the first two lines I could not resist laughing loudly "what a devdas song?" For which he said " ಮುತ್ತ್ಯಾ ಪೂರ್ತಿ ಕೇಳು ಆಮೇಲೆ ನಗು". {He calls me Muttya, i will tell this story sometime later}. And believe me as he said when I went on listening I started liking it. The lyrics was something which was sung in our north kannada style. Later I asked him to send that song to me. now it is in my mobile too. After few months, one day I felt like sharing it on net with my friends from UK (Uttar Karnataka). So I just typed "Preetiya pariwala", to my surprise I found a video of