Girish, Who said Konkanis, Coorgis and Iyengars are not Kannadigas? There are so many Iyengars in K'taka who speak mostly Kannada and the Tamil spoken is iyengari tamil which no tamilian can understand becoz it has 97% kannada, 2% tamil and 1% iyengari language. The iyengars have been in K'taka from 1053 AD much before the lingustic states were formed. Samething goes for Sir MV. He is a Mulkanadu brahmin. Mulakanadu telugu dialect is different from the telugu spoken in AP and has mostly Kannada words in it. These communities have been here for 100s of years. People in the border with M'rashtra speak both lang, hence Bhimsen Joshi speaks both. Looks like you have not interacted with these communities and have no understanding of the cultural fabric of K'taka.
Will you accept the fact that MGR is not a tamil, he is a malayali from colombo; jayalalitha is a mysore iyengar; vaiko is telugu kamma;rajini is a marati from bangalore; khushboo is a northie;the list can go on.
