RECEPTION TO BONAVENTURE D�PIETRO.
On 21st of this month in Kuwait city with the attendance of selected invitees, well known Roman script Konkani writer �Romansi boroinar� Bonaventure D�Pietro was given a reception by the Konkani lovers in Kuwait. As informed earlier, Bonaventure D�Pietro was publicly honoured on 14th of this month by Konkani Heritage Kuwait during their Heritage Musical Show 05. While receiving the prestigious KHK Memento from the hands of KHK President Fidelis Fernandes, Bonaventure D�Pietro was overwhelmed by the kind gesture and the honour that was bestowed upon him by KHK. During the reception many speakers spoke in praise of Bonaventure and highlighted some of the aspects of his writings. All those who spoke during the function directly or indirectly touched upon the writings of D�Pietro. Fidelis Fernandes as a first speaker while delivering his speech eulogized in superlative terms the greatness of Bonaventure�s �Romansi� which Fidelis said he read. He also praised the caliber of Bonaventure�s musical skill by even indicating the places and pieces Bonaventure played. Renowned tiatrist Querobina Carvalho in her speech also made reference of Bonaventure�s writings and music. Luis Cardoso of Kuwait Konknni Kendr in his historical view compared Bonaventure�s writings to the novels written by some of the world renowned novelists and concluded that if Bonaventure had to write in English he would be one of the topmost writers in the world today. Mario Rebello yet another stalwart of KKK and staunch Konkani promoter in appreciation of Bonaventure�s good work on Konkani field presented a nice Mobile Phone to Bonaventure D�Pietro as his personal gift. Elvino Rodrigues the president of KKK while praising the enormous contribution of Bonaventure in the promotion of Konkani explained the genesis of Konkani movement in Kuwait and how, when and who started it. Young girl who is a new comer to Kuwait and while in Goa a member of musical troupe of Bonaventure D�Pietro, Marian Fernandes from Anjuna, Chinvar, in her beautiful speech elaborated the good work of her guru who was responsible for bringing her and her troupe some of the laurels thru the musical art. Rosary Ferns who has created for himself a special niche in the art of Tiatro by writing and producing best of dramas and singing best of songs and also producing first Konkani CD praised Bonaventure D�Pietro for what he achieved in life. Mr. Norman from Navelim who had great distinction of reading almost all the �Romansi� written by Bonaventure D�Pietro, in his researchful speech highlighted the wisdom of Bonaventure in writing so wonderfully. As a matter of interest, Bonaventure D�Pietro recently was awarded in Goa, Fr. Antonio Pereira Award for the excellence in Konkani promotion. It is an annual award given in memory of late Fr. Antonio Pereira a Jezuit who has written so exhaustively and extensively on so many subjects. A. Veronica Fernandes compeered the proceedings.
While speaking A. Veronica Fernandes in the midst of the gathering asked Bonaventure to raise his voice thru his mighty pen on those people in Kuwait who are trying to commit a murder on the beautiful art of tiatro. As everyone is aware not only in Kuwait but all over the Konkani & tiatro world that there is a gang sprung up in Kuwait to commit a crime against one tiatrist by killing his art; the phenomenon used in this murder campaign is �To Aslear Aum Nachona� which is blindly supported by all the yes men just like George Orwell depicted in his masterpiece Animal Farm with an statement �if comrade Napolean says yes, it must be yes�. And precisely because of this blind following to comrade Napolean, communism collapsed. Replying to this, Bonaventure D�Pietro said, �it is not necessary to write more on this, whole world knows who is the author behind this crime on the promotion of tiatr and a tiatrist in Kuwait Those who are responsible for committing such a dastardly crimes they will receive their punishment �ravon na pavon�. Further, he went on saying that history is full of evidences of the miserable end of all those who committed crimes on the development of somebody�s art. He also said that art is a God given blessing and if anyone one person or group of persons try to destroy this blessing of God then they will suffer, not only they but even their children and grand children�. It is a pity that no right thinking and justice lovers are raising their voice on this hara-kiri. Those who talk of justice are become dumb and those who look for justice are become blind.
Inspite of writing so many books in Roman script, Bonaventure D�Pietro is unable to get Sahitya Academy Award because this award is become the monopoly of Boarkars, Kelekars, Mauzos, Naiks and those few individuals who won the limelight due to the efforts of all the Romivadis. The books written by Nagrivadis are not even smelled by the readers with the exception of few cohorts of Nagrivadis. By denying Romivadis of their due share of Sahitya Academy Awards, Nagrivadis are committing robbery on good work of Konknni Romivadis. I don�t know how long this type of robbery will go on but the real lovers of Konkani should not stop raising their voices on the hara-kiri Nagrivadis are doing against Romivadis. If due share is denied to Romivadis and Romi Konkani, I am afraid during my life time itself Konkani may get uprooted from Konkani land � Goa and may go into extinction. If this tragedy occurs then posterity should blame only the current stalwarts of Nagri script Konknni. Nagri script Konkani is read by handful of people and that too only the Nagri readers. Earlier it was thought that if Nagri script were recognized as official script, all the Romivadis would follow suit. But as a matter of fact Romivadis are not interested in Nagri script and the number of Nagrivadis is not swelling either and in the bargain the development of Konkani is going to hamper. In this case Konkani will be the loser and for this only Nagrivadis will be held responsible.
A. Veronica Fernandes, Kuwait.
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