Title : Heegondu Kutumbada Kathe
As one enters the Lansdowne Building Road from the Jaganmohan Palace Road in Mysuru, one sees a prominent signboard on the first floor of the now neglected heritage building.
It reads “Tai Nadu” in Kannada.
Though Tai Nadu, a popular Kannada daily, ceased publication long back, the signboard stands prominently drawing the attention of the passers-by on this neglected road.
Tai Nadu took its birth in 1927 in Mysuru as a weekly and ten years later moved to Bangalore and became a very popular Kannada daily.
Its founder was P.R. Ramaiah, a veteran journalist and Gandhian, born in Palahalli, near Mysuru. The other main competitor for his morning daily was ‘Vishwa Karnataka’ of Ti. Ta. Sharma or Thirumale Tatacharya Sharma, a well-known writer also, who was another strong critic of the Government. Both were distinguished personalities in journalism and in social life as well. Both were influenced by Gandhiji and his associates of the freedom movement.