Open-source & India #12
Self-hosted Services, Dashy, xsrv, bitwarden, cockpit & Meet the Kodava people celebrating Keil Murtha and eating rice delicacies
What are we discovering this week?
Hey there,
This week is all about being independent. Life life on your terms and use self-hosted alternatives. The great thing about self-hosted software is the complete control you can get over your own and the user’s privacy and data.
The services that help you immensely are platforms that let you deploy your apps for free with little effort, which is enough for you most of the time.
From file systems to search engines everything is available for you to deploy for yourself. I have mentioned a couple of them before like Mastodon, Chatwoot, seaweedfs, notea, Mayan EDMS all of which bring so much to the table.
And the India section is introducing the Kodavas (ಕೊಡವ), who speak Kodava and have a unique festival of Keil Murtha for worshipping firearms 🙏 🔫.
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A little about India, the food, the people and the culture
The Food
Rice for Kodavas
Rice plays a very important role in the lives of the Kodavas (Coorgs)! One of their most important festivals ‘Huthri’, celebrates the harvest in the paddy fields. In the olden days, a Coorg man’s wealth was estimated by the paddy fields he owned and not by the extent of his coffee estate.
Rice is also a staple food in Coorg and is served in different forms. You wake in the morning, perhaps to a breakfast of hot “akki vottis” (rice phulkas) eaten with a sesame chutney (yellu pajji) or with freshly churned butter, honey or ghee. The ‘rice vottis’ made with cooked rice and rice flour, are sometimes eaten with a ‘spicy pumpkin curry’ (kumbla curry). I still have fond memories of my childhood, sitting around the wood fire and eating ‘vottis’ as they came off the hot coals!
The People
Kodava (ಕೊಡವ)
The term Kodava (ಕೊಡವ) has two related usages. Firstly, it is the name of the Kodava language and culture followed by a number of communities from Kodagu. Secondly, within the Kodava - speaking communities and region (Kodagu) it describes the dominant Kodava people. The Kodavas (Kodava, anglicized as Coorgs), are considered a patrilineal ethno-lingual tribe from the region of Kodagu, (in Karnataka state of Southern India), who natively speak the Kodava language. Traditionally they are land-owning agriculturists with martial customs. Kodavas are the only people in India permitted to carry firearms without a license.
The words Kodava (the indigenous people, language, and culture) and Kodagu (the land) come from the same root word 'Koda' of unknown meaning. Some claim it means 'hills', others say it means 'west' but both relate to the Western Ghats' location. Kodagu is called Kodava Naad in the native Kodava language. The community members were called Kodava by the other natives and Coorgs by the British. They are ethnically and culturally distinct people. For centuries, the Kodavas have lived in Kodagu cultivating paddy fields, maintaining cattle herds and carrying arms during war & coffee plantations
The Culture
Keil Murtha (Keil Podh) Festival
In earlier times, the headman of the village, together with people in his ‘nad ’, consulted with the astrologer, the auspicious day for the celebration of Kailpodh (the festival of arms). Today, it is celebrated, in the first week of September, mostly on September 3. It is similar to the Ayudha Puja (Worship of arms) that is celebrated in South India.
In the early evening, male members of the family assemble in front of the weapons. The eldest member reciting a verse, which calls for caution and faith in God, hands over the weapon to the next senior member, who takes his blessing by touching his feet, and he does the same, to younger male members of the family.