Dear Fausto-bab, Have no such fear as expressed by the 'alleged' President of KBM, which Shridhar Kamat is definitely not! The allegation is made by an alligator that is party to permiting a quasi-official status to Marathi in OLA, 1987. Konkani in Roman script does not even have that status. That shows how much more they love the Devanagri script over Konkani language. Konkani in Devanagri and Marathi [also written in Devanagri] are bhai-bhai all the way since 1987. Why do the allegators shed crocodile tears NOW ? On 07 August, 2006 in Margao, Mr. Wilson Mazarello [Wilmix], the President of DKA, had this to say in context of the quote attributed to him by Ms.Melba Mergulhao-Carvalho Antao in the Goan Observer of 5-11 August on page 6, " Goan Observer person called me on the phone, asked me some questions and then went ahead to misquote me. I requests the journalists not to do this to anyone." Melba seems to be a confused old lady. I do not know if she knows to read or write Konkani in any script. Perhaps, her fellow columnist who was present at the Press Conference where the allegation was made, could enlighten us on the subject. Marathi is already there in the OLA,1987. The DKA, to the best of my knowledge, is agitating for inclusion of Roman script for the Official Language of Goa, Konkani. What does Dalgado KONKANI Akademi have to do with Marathi? The Goa Marathi Akademi is given Rs.30.00 lakhs grants per annum to protect the rights of Marathi. DKA gets nothing. Both are registered as Societies/NGOs. And one thought that KONKANI was the SOLE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of Goa State. It seems like Marathi is superior to Konkani in Romi in Goa. It is the SCRIPT that matters, not the LANGUAGE. Viva Goa. Miguel From: "Fausto V. D'Costa" Subject: [Goanet] 'DKA's Statement exposes tacit understanding
'DKA's STATEMENT EXPOSES TACIT UNDERSTANDING PANAJI:** Konkani Bhasha Mandal president** Shridhar Kamat has expressed his fear that an amendment in the Official Language Act to accord equal status to Konkani in Roman script would open the doors to Marathi to be included as well, and said that this was already happening. "The statement made by Wilson Mazarello, President of DKA welcoming the proposition of the CLP,according equal status to Konkani in Roman script and in the same breathsaying that there is no objections for the inclusion of Marathi in the actspeaks volumes and exposes the tacit understanding between them and the fanatic and the fundamentalist elements within the Marathi leadership" he alleged.Speaking under a unified banner called Konkani Ekvott, which comprises different Konkani organisations and the Goa Hitrakhan Manch, Kamat said that the bid to bring in Marathi was already underway. The KE was represented by Serafino Cotta, KBM's Srhidhar Kamat, Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Parishad's Nagesh Karmali, Catholics for Devanagiri's Fr Jaime Couto and Prof SM Borges, Hitrakhan's Prashant Naik and Jose Lourenco and Asmitai Pratishtan's **Arvind Bhatikar** and Prof Harischandra Nagvenkar. (News fromGomantak Times) HOW CAN MARATHI BE INCLUDED IN THE ACT?? AND WHY NOT ENGLISH & PORTUGUESE TOO??? IS THIS YOUR STAND DKA??? Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
