Sasken office in Bangalore attacked

Sasken office in Bangalore attacked

Kannada activists were incensed over derogatory poem on Kannada allegedly written by the company's employees

Dheeksha Rabindra

Monday, March 03, 2008

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BANGALORE, INDIA: All the three offices of Sasken Communications Technologies Ltd in the city were shut down today as members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) attacked one of its offices at Electronic City after a few employees wrote a supposedly derogatory poem on Kannada.

"Five North Indian employees wrote a derogatory poem on Kannada and were seen singing in the office corridor. An employee recorded the entire scene on his mobile phone and sent it to the KRV, after which Vedike activists attacked office and ravaged the computers in the office," said a Sasken employee.

Trouble started when a few KRV activists vandalized the front office of the Sasken office in Electronic City this afternoon.

Following this, the company asked its employees to leave the office immediately. As a safety precaution, the company declared a holiday for all the offices.

Sasken has three offices in Bangalore - in Electronic city, Domlur and Bagmane Park.

When contacted, a senior official from Sasken said, "We cannot talk now, as the police are looking into this and we are trying to sort it out."

Speaking to CyberMedia News, KRV spokesperson Saneerappa said, "A poem insulting Kannada was written and sung by a Sasken employee named 'Lee' who is from Canada. This is happening for the last three months (sic) and the company has not taken any action. North Indians support such kind of activities."

"Further, since North Indians are heading most of these IT or other multi national companies they don't realize the sensitivity of this issue. If he were a Kannadiga he would not let this happen. However, our objective is to let the north Indians know and make them aware of this issue and see to it that this would not happen again in any of these IT companies and other MNCs."

"They have insulted Kannada. The fact is we have accepted them and provided all the amenities in the city. But in turn they are insulting Kannada. We want to teach them a good lesson," he added.

He said that KRV would stage a protest in front of the IT secretary's office on Tuesday morning demanding the arrest of the person who wrote the poem in question.

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