Dear all
What a horrible stab in the back. Why this fear to give equal status for Roman Konkani? Is it because if that is given than Devanagri will die an untimely death? Or is there some agenda with the devanagris to kill Roman, which might never die? How many languages in India use Devanagri, There are many who dont so why demand Devanagri only for Konkani? Is it to prove that we are Indians? So what about other states in India? What script is used by Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, and Assamese? Are all the eastern Indian states using Devanagri? What about Bengali? Devanagri guys are behaving like Mafia, Tech kortat tem sarkem, urlolea tel lait gele, oxem num? See a few people are using all skills like the mafia is using to deny any right for us poor speakers of Konkani to voice ourselves. What a pity. The power that these few use is sickening. All Tiatrists should boycott Kala Academy. Its these people who have made it an institution. Romans Konkani may use English as their second language but the Devanagris are total Marathi guys who take poroskar both ways. Isnt it so? If not who buys all Marathi papers that sell in Goa? Cheers Jerry Fernandes Kala Academy closes door on Romi script writers PANJIM: Dalgado Konknni Akademy president Tomazinho Cardozo has asked Kala Academy chairman Pratapsing Rane not to allow the institution fall victim to the manipulations of Devnagri Konkani protagonists, and become a party to the discrimination meted out to followers of Konkani in Romi script. Reacting to the Kala Academy\'s decision not to disburse literary awards to Konkani works written in the Roman script, and not to constitute a separate award on par with the Gomanta Sharda Puraskar to writers in Roman script, Cardozo said that Rane had \"encouraged the fascist ideas of Uday Bhembre and a few others in their aim to destroy Konkani in the Roman script\". [GT]
