-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lately Goan "leaders" are encouraging Goans to write books. Some are telling NRI Goans to write or encourage others to write books albeit in Konkani. This is no different than few others like Tony Barretto encouraging Goans to "write anything". Yet I beg to ask how many of these Goans including our "leaders" have a personal library of "Goan books by Goan authors", unless of course it is related to their work?
Recently an older relative in New Jersey, USA, due to retirement was "downsizing" her home. She wanted to get rid of her library, so I offered to buy all of her Goa-related books. This modestly rich "aum Goemkar" had not a single Goa-related book. I am afraid this is not an exception. And of course, my constant beef that WGD celebrations, (and other Goan socials) with all their repeated posts and hoopla, do very little to actually promote, make available for sale and purchase "Goan" books at their functions. Kind Regards, GL Fred Noronha: More entrepreneurs need to enter the field of creating and marketing cultural products (including books) that reach the audiences. Rather than doing everything oneself and re-inventing the wheel, it makes sense to build alliances with others who are working on parallel tracks. Both Cip and AVF promised to take back the message to their respective regions. One debate focussed on the need for a Roman script Konkani dictionary that is inclusivist in approach to the different dialects and words used by actual speaker-communities. From Kuwait came a cheque of Rs 25,000 for the fledging Dalgado Konkani Academi, whose goal is promoting roman script Konkani. Others present would have their own perspectives, to add to the understanding of what was discussed and what is possible.
