Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ----- Forwarded message ----- From: "Yahoo!Mail" <gonsalvesgodfre...@yahoo.co.in> To: "edi...@herald-goa.com" <edi...@herald-goa.com> Cc: Sent: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 at 16:41 Subject: The Battle for Konkani and Statehood of Go Well this book The Battle for Konkani and Statehood of Goa written by Shri Luizinho Faleiro ex CM of Goa has in the himble opinion of this writer no relevance to the real aspiration of the population of Goa and Goans.. True it is well documented book of the struggle to achieve both Konkani and Statehoid but fails to reveal how a certain section of the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin community just a mere 3% of the Goan population discreetly manipulated the entire Konkani speaking community in Goa to achieve their sinister design. Goans world wide supported an emotive issue Konkani our mother tongue which was mainly spoken written read and preserved by the non Brahmin Goan minority community in the English or Roman script definitely not in the Nagari script accent and vocabulary with which these 3% segment population are familiar with. Despite several write ups by some outstation writers and this writer fore warning the movement stalwarts of the sinister design of the 3% referred here to above even the Church in Goa till this date is not reconciled to the fact they were betrayed by a "nagari mogi" insider. So what was the result the hearts of Goans sank when they realized that Konkani became an official language but till this date it is not in the public domain who inserted a handwritten entry unsigned : in nagari" scriot on the notified..official Gazette of Govt of Goa This writer is confident that the needle of suspicion points to a protagonist of Konkani nagari script but cannot name him for obvious reasons. The corollary therefore the 27 % minority community continue with the Englush script Konkani jn religious rites and in domestic use but their kith and kin are forced to digest an alien script Konkani as guinea pigs in the laboratory of konkani chauvinism Of course by this script all the 3% are ensured Government jobs because they are more familiar with the script Hence this book can well find a place only in the Goa Konkani Bhavan and used as resource materisl by students to understand in hind sight why Konkani is written in Kannada Malayalam Nagari script even this day but not in the English script.. The writer could therefore stand advised to add a chapter as an explanation to the above betrayal to his book as an addendum to make it complete Ofcourse 3% supporters got the Sahitya Academiy to post haste get the Konkani nagari script inclusion in the ninth schedule of the Constitution to abort any attempt to tinker with the official language and add the English script . But the possibility that with a large section of Malyalees and Kannadigas familiar with Konkanu in these scripts they could demand official recognition for these scripts besides nagari script in matters of employment. Godfrey J I Gonsalves Borda Ward X St Joaquim Rd Margao Goa Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
