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CONVENTION OF THE GOAN DIASPORA FROM GOA INTO THE WORLD
Lisbon, Portugal June 15-17, 2007 Details at:
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Dears,
What Augusto Pinto writes validates my oft repeated cliche, "It's all about
money, honey." For 19 years one coterie cornered all the grants [About ten
million rupees per year] through the Goa Konkani Akademi, the prize money of
the National Sahitiya Akademi for often substandard books in Konkani written in
Devanagri script [with an award here or there for a book in Roman script or
Kannda script with a Devanagri transliteration], the Goa state awards and quite
a few jobs. Not all jobs are sold, as Augusto would like one to believe. I have
worked for the Goa Government. Obviously Augusto has not...he has not bothered
to find out , either. Whether Joneiro or Morador, Goans are great at passing
opinions on things they do not understand...or want to know!
The Konkani script issue is only a smoke screen to establish the Antruzi
dialect as the 'Standard' version of Konkani. It is like a red herring or the
lizards detached tail that keeps the cat occupied while the lizard escapes
beyond its reach. The cat may be bigger and have a bigger brain...yet the
lizard is better equiped to escape when the going gets tough. The Konkani
Porjecho Avaz, its composition, its foot soldiers and its ultimate achievements
are a classic case that proves the theory. But just who studies how the mass
movements work in Goa...and who gets what? The people still ask why the GBA did
not fall in to the trap of becoming a political body...and losing all its
credibility. Look what happened to the KPA leaders. The Opinion Poll leaders
are being acknowedged after 40 years only because it has become politically
convenient. After the election fever dies down, Dr. Jack de Sequeira will be
forgotten...except by the tourists coming to Calangute Tinto or Dona
Paula jetty.
Roman script is not about Cristaos at all.The writings of Dr. Manohar Rai
Sardessai, Prabhakhar Tendulkar, Premanand Sangodkar, Chandrakant keni and even
Adv. Uday Bhembre and Naguesh Karmali are popular because they wrote in Roman
script. The Devanagri readership is limited outside the school text books. Let
anyone disprove this statement.
Mog asundi.
Miguel
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:46:46 +0530
From: "Goanet Reader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: The Konknnes and the Kirrghes (or, A
Once Upon a Time Translator's Take on the Konkani Script Imbroglio) By Augusto
Pinto
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If you are confused about the controversies that erupt every
now and then in Goa, then remember that you only have to know
this: the teatro is all about the Konknnes and the Kirrghes.
(Kirrghes is what witty Konknnes call the Cristaos; and if
you don't know who Konknnes are what are you doing drinking
in this bar? Vai se embora! Or voshimor, if you please.)
Okay its also about the Saraswats and the Bahujan Samaj (some
think this is the real natak -- but let's not confuse matters
right now), the Mull Goenkars and the Moradores, the Brahmins
and the Sudras, the Bamons and the Chaddes, the Konkniwadis
and Marathiwadis and Englishwadis, Devanagari script and
Roman script, the rich and the poor and the ugly and so on
and so forth.
Mog asundi,
MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa
Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist
Botanical Society of Goa
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