Any takers of Tulu textbooks in Dakshin Kannada?

MANGALORE: Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy president Palthadi Ramakrishna Achar is spending sleepless nights worrying about the reaction that awaits 12,000 Tulu textbooks in the new academic year.
Having achieved a feat in getting the Department of State Educational Research and Training to approve Tulu as an optional language from Class VI onwards, the academy's euphoria was punctured by the muted reaction from society and teachers.Explaining the objective to introduce Tulu as an optional language, he said, "Due to a 'communication gap', the present generation has stopped learning Tulu. In order to prove wrong UNESCO's prediction on Tulu becoming a dying language, we had decided on textbooks."