India, May 30 -- Let me just come out and say it: Kannada-dalli maathadi. Which is like saying, Hindi mein baath kijiye. Or Tamizh pesu. I have chosen these three languages for a reason. This week, actor Kamal Haasan offered up a third instance of folks being caught in a Kannada language controversy. The players may be different, but the script is the same. Singer Sonu Nigam refused to sing a Kannada song in his Bengaluru concert and later issued an apology. An SBI bank manager in Bengaluru was caught on camera speaking in Hindi to a Kannada-speaking customer and then proclaiming that she would never learn Kannada. And now, Kamal Haasan who said that Kannada was born from Tamil. All three, in their own way, have cast aspersions on the Kan...