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ಈ ದೋಸೆ ...

It all started with this song "ಈ ದೋಸೆ ಯೋಳ್ತಿಲ್ಯಲೇ ". My parents sent me this song which is a kind of comic song about making a dosa - or rather unable to make a dosa.

At the end of the audio, a voice told me that you can get other songs like this in the app h-fm . Ha, my favorite thing - downloading the apps (thanks to Jio - yug yug jio).

The app has some havyaka songs, some havyaka recipes, and other stuff. If you are a Havyak, download the app  and have a look at it.( In fact you find more than 5 apps if you search for "havyaka" in google play. )

Thus my curiosity being triggered, I searched in the wide wide web about havyaka songs.

See, these songs are unique. In traditional families, the festivals and pujas should be accompanied by these songs (they are called haadu). There are songs for each step in a puja like "aarati ettiddu", "huu bediddu", "naivedya maadiddu". And there are songs for different Gods and Goddesses. And for different festivals.

All of these are in our own version of Kannada. In my childhood, people would write books of such songs and sell them. Now many women make CDs of the songs.

In youtube, you can find many havyaka songs and bhajans. For a sample, have a look at this video on havyaka wedding in youtube

Also there is a website which has lyrics and mp3 of some such songs  - havya kavya 

One famous songs seems to be a satirical song called "appayya yenge beku" where a girl tells her father what kind of groom she would want. The reason for its popularity is the difficulty in finding brides for havyaka boys - which is because of skewed sex ratio in our community like everywhere else in India. 

Coming back to havyaka songs, I am happy to find these songs in the net. At least these efforts help to save the traditions before they are completely lost from us.

P.S.
Havyaka : is a small brahmin community found in coastal districts of Karnataka, and Shimoga districts. We have our own dialect which sounds like old kannada. We grow and eat (most of it :) ) betel-nut. 

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