Dears, On Saturday evening, 20 December, 2008, the CM was the Chief Guest at the inaugural function of the 1st Konkani Culture and literary festival at Margao. I was happy to be proved wrong in my assumption, based on otherwise reliable inputs, that is was going to avoid the function. Mr. Mauvin Godinho failed to turn up. So it was a double surprise.
The organisers remembered the sacrifice of Florian Vaz, the twenty years old boy who was killed by Police at Gogol-Margao this day 22 years ago, 20 Dec. 1986 during the KPA-led Konkani agitation. Daniel F.D'Souza and Tina D'Costa compered the event. Incidentally, Daniel is the winner of the second Konknni Martir Florian Vaz Puroskar earlier this year. Fr. Pratap Naik SJ, the Director of TSKK thathas instituted the award, was the keynote speaker. The programme continues the whole of Sunday as detailed below. Mog asundi Miguel --- On Fri, 19/12/08, Miguel Braganza <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: 1st Konkani Culture and literary festival at Margao To: "Goanet" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 19 December, 2008, 10:25 PM Dears, Please inform your friends about the Konkani cultural programme tomorrow and on Sunday organised by the Dalgado Konkani Akademi at the Pai Tiatrist Joao Agostinho Fernandes hall, Ravindra Bhavan, Margao. The programmes are Sunday morning, 21 December, 2008 9.30 A.M. Cultural programme 10.00 TALKS on Novels, Poems, Essays. 12 noon Cultural programme 1.00 P.M. Lunch 3.00 P.M. TALKS Education, Tiatr and Youth 5.30 P.M. Valedictory function. Churchill Alemao is the Chief Guest and you can best your last rupee that he will be there. the South Goa Parliamentary seat will be up for grabs in less than six months from now ...and he has his eyes on it for the love of Valanka. 6.30 P.M. Tiatr "Tandellanchem Kestanv" written by Pai Tiatrist Directed by Anil Kumar. I know it is almost Christmas time and everyone is busy, but if you can make the time, do come and encourage the people who have put this programme together ...all for the love of Konkani. Mog asundi Miguel Get rid of Add-Ons in your email ID. Get [email protected]. Sign up now! http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address
