GULAB

Diwali Issue of The Goan Review

2010-11-04T05:15:00.000-07:00

Diwali Issue of The Goan Review

The Diwali special (November-December) issue of Mumbai’s Only Konkani-English bi-monthly The Goan Review edited by Fausto V. da Costa has hit the news stands.
The main features in this issue are: Diwali: Festival of Light and the celebration of World Konkani Day in Mumbai.
Besides these main features thought-provoking articles by the stalwarts – John Aguiar’s ‘Dhorm Ani Somaz’ Felix P da Cruz’s ‘Gõychi Zomin Bilddorank Duddvam-Min’ Willy Goes’ ‘Self Made Man’ Gualdalupe Dias’ ‘Axavadi Jivit Khoreanich Sundor’ Eusebio Gomes’ ‘Budhvont Porikxa’ , Vincy Quadros’ ‘Novo Vichear’ and the editorial ‘Gõykara, Ken’na Utt’ttholo?’ in the Konkani section and ‘Man verus nature Marathon. (Domnick Rodrigues), ‘Song of Goa’ (Dr. Jose Pereira), ‘History of Konkani Literature’ (F.C.), Goa News Round Up etc. in the Englsih Section.
The issue priced at Rs. 15/- per copy is available at the regular outlets in Mumbai and Goa. For details and annual subscription you may contact the publisher on 9821228684.

The Goan Review hacho Divali Ank bahir sorlo
Mumboichem ekuch segit 23 vorsam ekui khondd nastana uzvaddak yevpi Konknni-Inglix du-masik The Goan Review hacho Divallecho ank bhair sorlo.
Hea ankant Divalli ani Mummboint Konknni dis somorombhnni hea vixoyancher xins kotha asat.
Xivai ‘Dhorm Ani Somaz’ (John Aguiar), ‘Gõychi Zomin Bilddorank Duddvam-Min’ (Felix P da Cruz), ‘Self Made Man’ (Willy Goes), ‘Axavadi Jivit Khoreanich Sundor’ (Guadalupe Dias), ‘Budhvont Porikxa’ (Eusebio Gomes), ‘Novo Vichear’ (Vincy Quadros) ani ogrlekh ‘Gõykara, Ken’na Utt’ttholo?’ adi. heo kotha Konkani vibhagant, zalear ‘Man verus nature Marathon. (Domnick Rodrigues), ‘Song of Goa’ (Dr. Jose Pereira), ‘Who Am I?’ (Lee Ann Fernandes), ‘History of Konkani Literature’ (F.C.), Goa News Round Up etc. Inglix vibhagant aspavtat.
Ho ank 15 rupiank sogleam svatancher vikrek asa. Odhik mahiti khatir ani vorgonni khatir sompork sadoum ieta uvzaddavpea lagim hea ankddear: 9821228684.

- As received from Fausto V. Da Costa on 4-11-2010
by gaspar almeida, www.goa-world.com

November issue of Gulab hits the stands

2010-11-01T03:15:00.001-07:00

November issue of Gulab hits the stands

The November issue of the popular Konkani monthly Gulab is on sale. The issue dedicated to the Saint of the gutters – Mother Teresa - features the saintly life and charity work of the beatified nun. Mhozo Noman - Madar Terezak (Late Fr. Freddy J. da Costa), Madar Teresa - 100 Vorsant Bhitor Sortana (Soter Barreto) and Madar Tereza : Dublleancho Adhar (Vincy Quadros).

This issue also features the interview with the veteran of the Konkani stage Anil Kumar who comments on the progress of the Konkani Tiatr , “Aiz Konknni tiatrachem sudharop mhollear vhoddleo jahirati ghalop ani tiatr toyar nastana vosre ‘book’ korop, hench sudharop; mhonnje Kolakaranchi nodor dates-incher, apleak konnache chodd show mellttolle,” Gulab aslo salutes the ex-union cabinet minister and Commissioner for NRI Affairs Eduardo Faleiro on his 70th birthday in the article ‘Gõykarancho Ek Foler - Eduardo Faleiro’ besides the regular features – Short Story, Poetry, Tiatr/CD reviews and history of Konkani literature.

For details kindly contact: 022-22630139, 9821228684 or email:gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

Novembr Mhoineacho Gulab ful’lo.

Goenchem Ekuch Rongit Mhoinallem Gulab hacho Novembr mhoineacho ank bhair sorlo. Kolkottachi gottoranchi Santinn Madr Tereza hankam bhettoilolea hea khas ankant Madr Terezachea xegunni jivitacher ani doyallponnachea vauracher uzvadd ghalpacho yotn kela - Mhozo Noman - Madar Terezak (Late Fr. Freddy J. da Costa), Madar Teresa - 100 Vorsant Bhitor Sortana (Soter Barreto) and Madar Tereza : Dublleancho Adhar (Vincy Quadros).

“Aiz Konknni tiatrachem sudharop mhollear vhoddleo jahirati ghalop ani tiatr toyar nastana vosre ‘book’ korop, hench sudharop; mhonnje Kolakaranchi nodor dates-incher, apleak konnache chodd show mellttolle,” oxem Konknni palkacho tejixtt digdorxok Anil Kumar Gulabak dil’le khas mulakhotint mhonntta.

Hea ankar Goycho adlo khasdar ani Rajya montri Eduardo Faleiro hanchea 70vea vorsa nimitan tannem Goykaram khatir kel’lea vauracher ek dhanvti nodor – ‘Gõykarancho Ek Foler - Eduardo Faleiro’. Hache xivay mottvi kanni, kovita, vicharvont lekh, tiatr-siddincho vimorso, Konknni Sahityeacho itihas adi borpam hea ankant aspavtat.

Odhik mahiti khatir sompork korat – 022 22630139, 9821228684 vo email:gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

October issue of Gulab hits the stands

2010-10-04T00:25:00.000-07:00

October issue of Gulab hits the stands

The October issue of the popular Konkani monthly Gulab is on sale. The issue dedicated to the Konkani Pasha the late Ravindra bab Kelekar features the Konkani personality and his work in the field of Konkani literature through the cover story features contributed by the Konkani stalwarts Dilip Borkar (Koddu Okhdacho Ghontt), Vincy Quadros (Ravindra: Vicharxoktichem Bhanddar), Soter R Barreto (Ravindrabab – Mhaka Disla Toso) and John M Alfonso (Ravindrabab Omor Urum!), besides the editorial ‘Ek Sandi Jinn, Mhan Vichear’.
This issue also features interviews of Fr. Conceicao D’Silva, parish priest of Carambolim “Sonvsarachea konnxea-konnxeamni padri ekdom’ boro vaur kortat dekhun tancher fator poddttat.” and the pearl of the Konkani stage Annie Quadros ‘Eka kolakaran aplea patracho kholayen obheas korunk zai.” besides the regular features –Short Story, Poetry, Tiatr/CD reviews and history of Konkani literature.
For details kindly contact: 022-22630139, 9821228684 or email:gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

Otubr Mhoineacho Gulab ful’lo.

Goenchem Ekuch Rongit Mhoinallem Gulab hacho Otubr mhoineacho ank bhair sorlo. Konknni Pasha sorgest Ravindra bab Kelekar hankam bhettoil’lea hea ankant hê mhan veoktichi ani tannim Gõy ani Konknni Sahityik mollar kel’lea uchara bhailea vaurachi mahiti lovkik borovpi Dilip Borkar (Koddu Okhdacho Ghontt), Vincy Quadros (Ravindra: Vicharxoktichem Bhanddar), Soter R Barreto (Ravindrabab – Mhaka Disla Toso) ani John M Alfonso (Ravindrabab Omor Urum!), te xivay ogrlekh ‘Ek Sandi Jinn, Mhan Vichear’ hea borpamni bariksannin dil’li melltta.

Hea ankant don mulakhoti asat - Fr. Conceição D’Silva, Kormollecho Padr Vigar “Sonvsarachea konnxea-konnxeamni padri ekdom’ boro vaur kortat dekhun tancher fator poddttat” , ani Konknni palkachem motim’ Annie Quadros ‘Eka kolakaran aplea patracho kholayen obheas korunk zai.” Hache xivay mottvi kanni, kovita, vicharvont lekh, tiatr-siddincho vimorso, Konknni Sahityeacho itihas adi borpam hea ankant aspavtat. Odhik mahiti khatir sompork korat – 022 22630139, 9821228684 vo email:gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

[As forwarded to gaspar almeida, www.goa-world.com
by GULAB Editor on 4/10/2010]

Gulab - Ank Jun 2010

2010-06-16T22:54:00.000-07:00

[Scanned from goa-world.com subscribed hard copy]

Goencho Avaz - 2010 ank

2010-05-18T01:30:00.000-07:00

‘GOENCHO AVAZ’ hits the stands
2010 annual issue of ‘Goencho Avaz’ the literary Konkani magazine of late Fr. Freddy J. da Costa hits the stands.
The issue contains thoughtprovoking features and short stories by renowned Konkani litterateurs – Dr. Jayanti Naik, Ravindra Kelekar, Uday Bhembre, Felix P. da Cruz, Sudha S. Amonkar, John Aguiar, Guadalupe Dias, Yusuf Sheikh, Vincy Quadros, Marcos Gonsalves, Willy Goes et al.
Published and edited by Fausto V. da Costa on behalf of Fr. Freddy J. da Costa Memorial Trust, the issue is co-edited by Soter R. Barreto whose editorial ‘Gõy-cho Avaz Kanar Poddttolo Kai Gõykaranchea?’ makes a strong case for Konkani, while the last word of the editor ‘GOENCHO AVAZ ani Romi Konknni Disallem’ unfolds the history of Konkani publications and the attitude of ‘self-styled’, misguiding so-called Konkani leaders.
Priced at Rs. 15 the issue is available at the regular newspaper outlets in Goa, Mumbai and the Gulf. Those interested in receiving a complimentary copy anywhere in India may kindly forward their request via following email: fausto@vsnl.net

Goencho Avaz Bhair Sorlo
GOENCHO AVAZ hea sorgest Fr. Freddy J. da Costa hanchea sahityik pormollit jheleacho 2010 vorsuki ank bhair sorlo.
Hea ankant lovkik Konknni sahityikanche - Dr. Jayanti Naik, Ravindr Kelekar, Uday Bhembre, Felix P. da Cruz, Sudha S. Amonkar, John Aguiar, Guadalupe Dias, Yusuf Sheikh, Vincy Quadros, Marcos Gonsalves, Willy Goes - chintunk lavpi lekh ani unchlea dorjeacheo mottveo kannio asat.
Fr. Freddy J. da Costa Memorial Trust hanche torfen Fausto V. da Costa hannem sompadun uzvaddak haddlolea hea ankacho Soter R. Barreto up-sompadok zaun asa; zacho ‘Gõy-cho Avaz Kanant Poddttolo Kai Gõykaranchea?’ ogrlekh Konknni bhaxe khatir ek okhondd bazu manddtta, zalear ‘GOENCHO AVAZ ani Romi Konknni Disallem’ hem sompadok-uzvaddavpeachem nimannem utor Konknni porgottnneancho itihas vachpeam somor dovortana ‘self-styled’ ani aplea adava khatir lokam modem vankdde somzut nirmann korpi Konknniche fuddari mhonnloleanchi vrut’ti uktadar haddtta.
Pondra rupya molacho ho ank Gõy, Mumboi ani Golfant potram manddancher vikrek asa. Zori konnak hea ankachi mogachi bhett koxi ek proti (fokot Bharotant khoinsorui) topalantlean apnnak patthoyloli zai zalear fausto@vsnl.net hea e-mail-ar sompork sadum-ieta.

[As forwarded by the published to gaspar almeida, www.goa-world.com]

April issue of GULAB hits the news stand

2010-05-08T23:45:00.000-07:00

April issue of GULAB hits the news stand

The April issue of Goa's most popular Konkani monthly GULAB hits the news stand. This issue carries a special feature on Konkani Associations, Language and promotion of Konkani.

Vincy Quadros in his article 'Konkani Sonstha, Sahit'ya Ani Konknnicho Prochar' gives a detailed account of the promotion of Konkani language through its associations.

Marcos Gonsalves highlights the many hurdles put forth by its so called leaders themselves in the promotion of Konkani language in his article 'Hi Dixa Naxil'li Konknni Chollvoll Kai?', while Soter Barreto wonders whether the many sammelans of Konkani held are successful in bringing together the Konkani speaking people or drifting them away in his article 'Konknni Bhaxechim Sommelonam Konknni Mon'xank Ektthaim Haddttat Kai? Vo."

This issue also carries Dilip Borkar's cover story on woman reservation Bill - 'Bailam Hatim Rajki Sot'ta Dadleank Porvoddtta?', besides thought provoking articles by the stalwarts Cursino R. Pinho, Sudha Amonkar, Felix P. da Cruz, Guadalupe Dias, Willy Goes, John Aguiar, etc.

Priced at Rs. 15/- this issue is available in Goa and Mumbai. For more details kindly contact 9821228684.

2010-05-08T23:42:00.000-07:00

May issue of GULAB hits the news stand

The May 2010 issue of Goa’s most popular Konkani monthly GULAB hits the news stand. This issue carries a special feature on today’s eating habits and it’s effect on health.

The editorial ‘Aichim Jevnnam-khannam Ani Bholaiki’ gives a blow by blow account of unhealthy preparations and preservation of foods today and their ill-effects on health. Soter Barreto in his article ‘Fast Foods Amche Tornne Pillgek Girastolim Kai? highlights the addiction of the youth towards the fast food, while Vincy Quadros in his article ‘Bhailim Khannam, Jevnnam ani Pivonnam’ dwells on the habit of today’s families preference of consuming junk food or food prepared outside to the one being prepared in their own kitchens at home.

This issue also carries Dilip Borkar’s cover story on the Goan politicians holding the public to ransom – ‘Konn Soddoit Amkam Hea Chopkeantlean!’, besides thought provoking articles by the stalwarts Cursino R. Pinho, Sudha Amonkar, John M. Alfonso, Felix P. da Cruz, Guadalupe Dias, Willy Goes, Felicio Cardozo, John Aguiar etc. It also features an interview with Konkani Tiatr personality Chitra Shirvoikar e Afonso and short stories of Mahableshwar Sail ‘Robotic Warfare’ and Hema Naik’s ‘Benul’l’

Priced at Rs. 15/- this issue is available in Goa and Mumbai. For more details kindly contact 9821228684.

GULAB - Mars 2010 ank

2010-03-10T00:50:00.000-08:00

March issue of Gulab hits the news stands

The March 2010 issue of Goa’s only illustrated Konkani monthly GULAB is out on the stands. The main feature of the issue being Rahul Gandhi and Future of Indian Politics, Soter Barreto in his article ‘Rahul Gandhi Bodol Ghoddun Haddit Kai?’ examines the role of Rahul Gandhi in Indian politics while Dilip Borkar pins hope of safe India in Rahul’s hands in his article ‘Rahul Gandhichea Hatant Amcho des sugur asa!’.

Besides this main story the issue has a cover story Retirement of Politicians ‘Rajkaronneank Nivrut’tponn?’ by Felix da Cruz
This issue also features a number of other thought provoking articles by the renowned Konkani writers – Guadalupe Dias, Willy Goes, Cursino R. PinhoSudha Amonkar, John Afonso and others and a short story ‘Happy Birthday’ by Damodar Mauzo.
Priced at Rs. 15/- (outside Goa Rs. 20/-) the issue is available at all the outlets in Goa, Mumbai and the Gulf countries, or contact the publisher on 9821228684 or Email: gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

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GULAB-acho Mars mhoinacho ank bhair sorlo

Gõychem ekuch rongit Mhoinallem GULAB hacho Mars 2010 mhoineacho ank bhair sorlo. Rahul Gandhi ani Bharotache Rajkaronn he xins kothecher (cover story) adharlolea hea ankant nanvvostea Konknni potrkaranchim hea vixoyacher vividh motam asat: Soter Barreto ‘Rahul Gandhi Bodol Ghoddun Haddit Kai? Dilip Borkar ‘Rahul Gandhichea Hatant Amcho des sugur asa! Ani Felix da Cruz ‘Rajkaronneank Nivrut’tponn?’
Hea xivay hea ankant asat anikui monar uzvadd ghalpi ani chintunk lavpi okhondd Konknni borovpeanche lekh asat, zoxe porim: Cursino R. Pinho, Felix da Cruz, Sudha Amonkar, Guadalupe Dias, John Alfonso ani her, ani Damodar Mauzo hachi ‘Happy Birthday’ hi mottvi kotha.
Pondra rupia molacho (Gõya bhair Ru. 20/-) ho ank Gõychea toxeach Mumboichea ani Golfantlea sodanchea vortoman-potram manddar uplobd asa. Odhik mahiti khatir uzvaddavpea lagim sompork korum yeta: 9821228684 hea ankddeacher vo e-pot’tear: gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

[Source: GULAB 10-03-2010]
As forwarded to www.goa-world.com

August issue of Gulab hits the news stands

2009-08-08T07:15:00.001-07:00

August issue of Gulab hits the news stands

The August issue of Goa’s only illustrated Konkani monthly GULAB is out on the stands.

The main feature of the issue being Medium of Instruction for Primary Schools in Goa, Fausto V. da Costa in the main feature ‘Mullavem Xikxonn Khoinche Bhaxentlean Aschem?’ details the advantages and disadvantages of having the medium of instruction in the regional languages vis-à-vis in English through the opinions of parents, educationists, linguists and the politicians.

Vincy Quadros gives his view regarding the government’s new proposal in his article ‘Dhavecheo Porikxa Optional’?, while John Aguiar explains the new educational policy in ‘Novem Xikxonnik Dhoronn’.Besides this main story the issue has a cover story on public health ‘Bholaiki Bighoddtta Tedna…” by Soter R Barreto and on Independence ‘Khorench Ami Svotontr Kai?’ by Guadalupe Dias.

This issue also features a number of other thought provoking articles by the renowned Konkani writers – Dilip Borkar, Cursino R. Pinho, Felix da Cruz, Sudha Amonkar, John Afonso and others. Short stories by J. B. Moraes, Damodar Ghanekar and Brenda Menezes and ‘Bhonvddi’ a poetry by Walter Menezes.

Priced at Rs. 15/- (outside Goa Rs. 20/-) the issue is available at all the outlets in Goa, Mumbai and the Gulf countries, or contact the publisher on +91 9821228684 or Email: gulabmarg@sancharnet.in or gulabq8@gmail.com

8/8/2009

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GULAB - June 2004 - Xroddhanjoli

2009-07-26T07:22:00.001-07:00

Gulab - October 1987

2009-07-26T07:19:00.001-07:00

Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa-cho 56ve Zolm Disacho Ugddas

2009-07-21T05:31:00.000-07:00

20/7/2009
O'Heraldo

GULAB - SEPTEMBER 2005 ISSUE

2009-07-12T06:06:00.001-07:00

'Ek Fool Don Bloody Fool'
*Fausto V. Da Costa

Vad ani Sonvad. Vad vhodda promannan cholta, punn sonvad komi. Zori sonvad ghoddoun haddun prosn suttave kel'le zalear kai borem zavpachem! Punn sonvsarachi (kai soimbachi mhonnum?) chal toxi nam, ani zori sonvad ghoddoun haddun vad mittoilo zalear magir vad
choloitole kitem kortole? Nivrut zatle?
Bhaxecho vad. Lipicho vad, puroskarancho vad. Dhormacho vad,
loksonk'echo vad, suvidhancho vad itiadi. Vaduch vad. Punn ekui prosn suttavo
korpacho iotn nam. Kiteak?

Halinch hanvem ek Hindi nattok polloilem - "Ek Fool Do Bloody Fool".
Rajkaronnant ani Somazant sodankal choltat teo ghoddnnuko vinnun borovpean besborem hem nattok boroilam. Razacho ek sevok koslei prosn suttave korpachi apleak khopxi asa hem somzon eka disak raza zata. Sogott prosn somponnim mittoitolo oso vagta, punn prosn mittovpak lagim pavtam pavtam mhonntta, "Ho prosn chodd gombhir asa, mhunnttoch tacher ami uprant nirnnoi gheum-ia." He toren to ekui prosn mittovpak laik asona. Hea nattkantlean khub mhotvache nirop sadle. Khub obheas gavlo. Sanjay Narvenkar ho lovkik Moratthi
kolakar mukhel obhinoiant khub porzoll'llo. Mhaka, Konknni tiatram xivai her bhasantlim nattkam pollovpacho khub xok'k. Vellant vell korun hanv borim-borim nattkam polloitam, karonn Konknni tullna korpak boreak poddta.

Amchi machi khoim asa ani heranchi machi khoim pavlea hacher spoxttikoron zata.
Prince Jacob hannem 'Sahi Re Sahi' hem nattok 'Rupnnem' nanvan Konknni palkar dakhoil'lem ten'na hanvem tachi khub tokhnnai kel'li, vixex korun tachea bhovgunni (versatile) obhinoiank lagon. Konknni machiecho apunn ek 'versatile' kolakar mhunn tannem hea nattkantlean sid'dh kel'lem. Punn hea nattkakhatir taka boro digdorspi mhunn Gulab puroskar favlo. Vad naka!
Porikxokancho (jury) nirnnoi xevttacho ani tacher koslich bhasbhas zaum nozo! Aikolam te pormannem ho show titlo iexosvi zaunk nam; mhonnje box-office hit thorlo nam. Hem somzom ieta, karonn Goenkar prekxok kole votten title xikxit nant. Osli kola jirvonn zavpak tankam kaim vell lagtolo.

Toxem pollounk gelear ek ekdom' boro mhunn gazlolo tiatr mhaka khub pavtti pollovpak sond mell'lli nam zaun halinch hanvem tacho xenkddeak tenklolo show polloilo. Punn mhaka to avddonk nam, odik korun tantlea mukhel patracho obhinoi, zo ut'tom' mhunn mhaka zaitea zonnamni adim sanglolem.
Akrek hanvem to tiatr polloitoch mhaka oxem dislem ki tea mukhi patrak aplo 'character' kitem ani koslo tachi sud'dam zanniv naslelea porim fokot ektting dislem. Kolechi zanniv asleleank pott'ttolem ki khoro kolakar aplo 'role' jieta ani nhoi fokt 'role' ektting korta. "A real artiste lives
his/her role not just merely acts it out." Hem boroitana mhojea dolleam somor sorgest Souza Ferrao ani Seby Coutinho ietat. He Konknni machievoile osle kolakar vortoule!

Sangpachem mhollear Prince Jacoban vo anik khoincheai digdorspean 'Ek Fool Do Bloody Fool' hem nattok Konknnint rupantor (adapt) korun machier haddunk mhozo sol'lo. Konknni kola girest zatli. Bharotachea her bhasam modem rupantor kel'lim nattkam borim choltat. Toxem pollounk gelear rupantor kel'lim nattkam dakhovpant Konknni machi khub fattim asa mhunn sangpak kainch horkot nam. Oxem zal'lean Konknni palkar nove-nove proiog komi zatat.
Mumboichea Nehru Centre-ant ghoddun haddil'lea vorsavollichea raxttrik bhasanchea nattok utsovant ekai Konknni nattkacho aspav nam; hi khontichi ani lojechi gozal. Tiatr zaum nattok hacher vad zainastana ek tori Konknni proiog machier sador zavpak zai aslo, jen'na Goeant tiatrancho pavs rokta.
Hachi zanniv asta kai tiatristank? Vad naka!

Puroskarancher vad! Oxem hanvem survatek mhonnlam karonn mhaka Gulab puroskaram vixim pacharun zaite fon aileat. Punn jen'na ami porxim mellon sonvad korun he khepek kitem chuklam tem fuddle khepek sudhraum-ia mhunn suchoilem ten'na mat ekloi fon korpi kobul zaunk nam. Hacho orth kitem?
He fon korpi tech dog-teg zonn; mhonnje bonavott fon! Sonvad korun prosn mittovop naka, vad chalu asom di!

Lipicho vad cholta te vixim tor tumkam anik sangchi goroz nam. Amchem mot tor ami don-tin khep soroll ugddapem kelam. Romi Konknni sonsthamni aple zomatint tharav pas keleat tantle kaim mud'deam kodden ami sohomot asat.
Dekhik: Romi Konknni pustokam sahit'ik puroskaram khatir vinchun kaddunk zai itlench nhoi punn tim pustokam Devnagrint lipeontor korun Devnagrint uzvaddak haddunk zai. Tim pustokam Devnagrint uzvaddavop ho ki vhoddlo puroskar mhonnum ieta. 'Kristanv Ghorabo' hi Eduardo Jose Bruno de Souza hachi poili Konknni kadombori Devnagrint uzvaddak haddpache asat mhunn 10 vorsam adim tori sanglelem. Tori ho vavr khoim pavla to pollenvcho; hem
amchem gorjechem kar'eo zaunk zai. Purvilea tiatristanchim kantaram, pustok rupan, Romint uzvaddak ietat tim Devnagri lipint ghalpak sorkari onudan melloitelea sonstham lagim amchim magnnim dakhil korunk zai. DKA 14 Romi borovpeanchim pustokam Dezembr mhoineant uzvaddak hadchi asli, kaim karonnank lagon hem xok'eo zalem nam khoim. Mhunnttoch DKA lagim 14 pustokanchi borpavoll tori ailea astolich. Tantlim tin borim tim vinchun kaddun Romint uzvaddak haddchim ani tim tin sorkari onudan mellttolea sonstham koddlean Devnagrint uzvaddak haddchim ani sahit'eo puroskara khatir tim patthovchim. Konnachoi kombo roddom, punn uzvaddtelem tori!

Kaim mud'de he zomatint manddleat te vevharik (practical) lagonant.
Tancher sonvad korun te mittovpak zatat zalear pollonvchi goroz. Sorkari sonsthamni omkech lipichea fuddareank 'representation' magche boldek kopxeche ani dhaddos aslele fuddari kodelincher bosovpak vinchun kaddunk amchim magnnim zaum di. Kopxeche ani nixchevak bandhun ghetil'le (committed) fuddari naslolean Konknnichi chollvoll mar khata hem-ui titlench sot zaun asa.

Romi Konknni borovpeam sovem zatlo Devnagri fuddareancho kivam borovpeancho oneai, he vixim zomatint ulekh zala mhunn vachlam. Punn Romi Konknniche fuddari Romi Konknni borovpeam sovem oneai kortat ten'na. vo mhonnum-ia Romivaleam koddleanuch Romivaleam sovem onit zata ten'na kitem? Oneai khoinchei votten zaum ieta ten'na tika omkench pod kiteak lavum-ia?

Oxem hanvem chintpant karonn asa. Sumar sov vorsam fattim 'A brief history of Konkani Literature' hem Sahit'eo Akademichem pustok uzvaddak ail'lem. Kon 'odd Konknnicho itihas J B Moraesbaban iskuttaun boroil'lo zalear Devnagri Konknnicho itihas Manoharrai Sardesai maman bariksannin dil'lo. Fokt Romi Konknnicho itihas ordkutto aslo ani to-ui Sardessai mamanuch boroil'lo.
He vixim ul'lekh ani xinn korun hanvem Gulab nemalleant ek lekh boroil'lo.

Taka zobab diun Sardessai maman Gulab-ant ek chitt boroil'li zatunt tannem ugddapem kel'lem apleak Romichi titli sod nam ani Romivaleam kodden sod laitana apnnak jem mell'llam tem boroilam. Tori-i hea pustokacho dusro bhag uzvaddak ievcho asa mhunnttoch mhoje koddlean Romi Konknni vixim kitem itiasik mahiti asa ti dhaddun dinvchi mhunn tannim mhaka te chittint agro kel'lo. Aiz he khobrek sov vorsam zait ailim, punn mhojean tankam koslich
mahiti dhaddpak xok'eo zalem nam. Tor hatunt mhojean Sardessai mamak kivam
Devnagrivaleank koxe doxi thoroum ieta? Amam Romivaleankuch amchem poddonk nam zalear dusream koddlean amcheamni koxi doia-maia magum ieta? Azun pasun ho Romi Konknnicho itihas konnacheanui boroum ieta ani Sardessai mamakoddlean to tea pustokant uzvaddak haddun fuddle pillge khatir sugur dovrum ieta. Asat ami toiear?

Toslich anik ek goxtt Mumboichea Konknni Bhasha Mandallant ghoddttali. Hem monddoll Goenkaramni sthapon kel'lem, hatunt dubhav nam. Tea kallar 'committed' Goenkar Xennoi Goembab, Prof. Armand Menezes uprant Dr. Menino de Souza, Dr. Rogaciano Moares, Adv. Souza Roy adi. he sonsthek khand marun asle ani puskoll vavr kortale. Uprant ti sonstha khub dhilouli ani ti ekloch F J Martyres babddo choloitalo. To somplea uprant ti-ui sompli ani
Mongllurkar bhavamni ti jivont keli ani azun meren te ti choloitat.

Goenkarank he sonsthent voddun haddpak tannim kel'lea iotnank hanv govai asam. Punn Goenkar koxech ienant. Sonsthent podam ghevpak raji nant, nam mhunn kariokrom' sador kortat tankam hajir zavpak toiear nant. Punn vad mat cholta, 'ti sonstha ghoddpi ami Goenkar, ani atam nett hancho'. Haka koslo ilaz asa? Amkam vad zai, sonvad korun prosn mittoilole nakat.

Voir ul'lekh kel'lea 'Ek Fool Do Bloody Fool' nattkant hi amchi vagnnuk dolleam mukhar aili. Raza aplea dogam sevokam borobor eka rajeant pavta, pun tem raj khoinchem tachi zanniv taka asona. Vatter konnai lagim vicharun aplem nennarponn spoxtt korchea bodlak to aplea sevokank mhonntta, "konnai lagim ganv khoincho to vicharchi goroz nam. Fokot vatten vetolea lagim gozalmat korum-ia; magir apxinch amkam kollttelem ami khoinchea rajeant asat te." Razachea futtkea noxiban taka poiloch monis melltta to Bharotacheo sogleo bhaso uloita, mhunnttoch razak apunn khoim pavla tem parkhunk odik ovghodd zata. Xevttak raza tea mon'xak mhonntta, "Borem tor hanv fuddem vetam." Ten'na to monis razachea paiank dhorun voddtta ani apunn tuka fuddem vochonk kosoch dinvchona mhonntta. Raza taka mhonntta, "Borem asa tor, toxem zalear mhozo paim sodd ani tum fuddem voch". Ten'na to monis tacho paim kosoch soddunk toiear nasta ani mhonntta, "Nam, mhaka fuddem vochonk naka."

Ten'na raza aplea sevokank arodd ghalun mhonntta: "Atam mhaka koll'llem ami khoim asat te! Ami Maharaxttrant asat. Ho amcho Moratthi monis, apunnui fuddem vecho nam ani dusreakui fuddem vochonk dinvcho nam!" Aiz meren hanv somzol'lom Goenkaruch toxe mhunn, punn.
Dekun vad naka, sonvad ghoddoun haddun prosn mittovpache iotn korum-ia.
Amchi vagnnuk boldum-ia. Nam tor amchi got zatli 'Ek Fool Ani Don Bloody Fool'!

Courtesy: Gulab (Sept.'05)

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July issue of Gulab hits the news stands

2009-07-03T23:41:00.000-07:00

July issue of Gulab hits the news stands

The July issue of Goa’s only illustrated Konkani monthly GULAB is out on the stands. The main feature of the issue being Rain and importance of water, Vincy Quadros gives a blow to blow detail of importance and use & misuse of water in India with special stress on Goa in his article ‘Udkachi Naxaddi Thamboum-ia’, while Soter Barreto nostalgically remembers the bygone monsoons in Goa in his article ‘Khoim Gelo To Ghosghoxeancho Pavs?’
Besides this main story the issue has a cover story on the jadugar of the Konkani stage late M. Boyer, an interview with the stalwart of the Konkani stage Succorine and a special update on ‘River Princess’ by Incaio Verdes Fernandes.
This issue also features a number of other thought provoking articles by the renowned Konkani writers – J. B. Moraes, Cursino R. Pinho, Felix da Cruz, Sudha Amonkar, Guadalupe Dias, John Afonso and others.
Priced at Rs. 15/- (outside Goa Rs. 20/-) the issue is available at all the outlets in Goa, Mumbai and the Gulf countries, or contact the publisher on 9821228684 or Email: gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

GULAB-acho Julay mhoineacho ank bhair sorlo
Gõychem ekuch rongit Mhoinallem GULAB hacho Julay mhoineacho ank bhair sorlo. ‘Pavs’ ani ‘Udok’ he xins kothecher (cover story) adharlolea hea ankant nanvvostea Konknni potrkaranchim hea vixoyacher vividh motam asat: Vincy Quadros udkachea mhotva, upeoga ani dur-upeoga vixim iskuttavn mahiti dita aplea lekhant ‘Udkachi Naxaddi Thamboum-ia’, Soter Barreto ‘Khoim Gelo To Ghosghoxeancho Pavs’ hea aplea lekhant adlea Gõyantlea pavsachi yad kaddta.
Hea ankant Konknni palkacho jadugar sorgest M. Boyer hacher vixex lekh asat ani Konknni palkachem nokhetr Bai Succorine hachi khas mulakhot. ‘River Princess’ hache voir Inacio Verdes Fernandes hannem bariksannin mahiti dilea.
He xivay hea ankant asat anikui monar uzvadd ghalpi ani chintunk lavpi okhondd Konknni borovpeanche lekh asat, zoxe porim: J. B. Moraes, Cursin R. Pinho, Felix da Cruz, Sudha Amonkar, Guadalupe Dias, John Alfonso ani her.
Pondra rupia molacho (Gõya bhair Ru. 20/-) ho ank Gõychea toxeach Mumboichea ani Golfantlea sodanchea vortoman-potram manddar uplobd asa. Odhik mahiti khatir uzvaddavpea lagim sompork korum yeta: 9821228684 hea ankddeacher vo e-pot’tear: gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

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www.goa-world.com by the publisher

July 4, 2009

June issue of Gulab hits the news stands

2009-06-03T04:33:00.000-07:00

June issue of Gulab hits the news stands

The June issue of Goa’s only illustrated Konkani monthly GULAB is out on the stands. The main feature of the issue being ‘Panchayat Raj of Goa ’ it carries varied view points of the stalwarts on the subject – Vincy Quadros elaborates the role of Panchayat and the responsibilities of Gram Sabhas in ‘Panchayoti Raj: Graminn Vikas Raj,’ Soter Barreto explains the importance of Panchayat in ‘Ponchayot mhollear Desache Buneadicho Fator’ while Soter D’Souza dwells on the state of affairs of the the Panchayat Raj in his article ‘Sthanik Xason Ani Adhunik Udorgot’.
Besides this main story Dilip Borkar features the ‘dupatta’ serial killer Mahanand in his story ‘Konnem Toyar Kelo Ho Rakes?’ and Soter Barreto reflects on the results of the 15th Lok Sabha elections in ‘Amcho Motdar Khoroch Xanno Zala!’ with an interview of South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha.
This issue also features a number of other thought provoking articles by the renowned Konkani writers – J. B. Moraes, Cursino R. Pinho, Felix da Cruz, Sudha Amonkar, John Aguiar, Guadalupe Dias, John Afonso, Willy Goes and others. It also features an interview with the current singing sensation of the Konkani stage Joaquim Cabral.
Priced at Rs. 15/- (outside Goa Rs. 20/-) the issue is available at all the outlets in Goa, Mumbai and the Gulf countries, or contact the publisher on 9821228684 or Email: gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

GULAB-acho Jun mhoineacho ank bhair sorlo

Gõychem ekuch ronigt Mhoinallem GULAB hacho Jun mhoineacho ank bhair sorlo. ‘Gõychem Ponchayoti Raj’ he xins kothecher (cover story) adharlolea hea ankant nanvvostea Konknni potrkaranchim hea vixoyacher vividh motam asat: Vincy Quadros Ponchayot Raj ani Gramn Sobhechi zababdari iskuttavn sangta aple xins kothent ‘Panchayoti Raj: Graminn Vikas Raj,’ Soter Barreto Ponchayot rajachem mhotv ukttaita aplea lekhant ‘Ponchayot mhollear Desache Buneadicho Fator’ zalear Soter D’Souza Ponchayot rajyache aiche poristhiticher nodor ghalta aplea lekhant ‘Sthanik Xason Ani Adhunik Udorgot’.
Dilip Borkar Gõychea Dupatta sankoll khunmareacher boroita aplea lekhant ‘Konnem Toyar Kelo Ho Rakes?’ Ani Soter Barreto 15ve Lok Sobhechea venchnnuke nikallacher aplem mot dita, zantun asa Dokxinn Gõycho khasdar Francisco Sardinha hanchi mulakhot. He xivay hea ankant asat anik monar uzvadd ghalpi ani chintunk lavpi okhondd Konknni borovpeanche lekh zoxe porim: J. B. Moraes, Cursin R. Pinho, Felix da Cruz, Sudha Amonkar, John Aguiar, Guadalupe Dias, John Alfonso, Willy Goes ani her.
Tech porim hea ankant uzvaddak ailea ek mulakhot – Konknni palkacho famad gavpi Joaquim Cabral hachi.
Pondra rupia molacho (Gõya bhair Ru. 20/-) ho ank Goenchea toxeach Mumboichea ani Golfantlea sodanchea vortoman-potram manddar uplobd asa. Odhik mahiti khatir sompadpea lagim sompork korum yeta: 9821228684 hea ankddeacher vo e-pot’tear: gulabmarg@sancharnet.in

Gulab May 2009 issue - A Mumbai Special

2009-05-11T22:53:00.001-07:00

Gulab May 2009 issue - A Mumbai Special

The May issue of the Goa’s only illustrated Konkani monthly Gulab is all about Goa and Goans in Mumbai.

The special feature on Mumbai covering a variety of subjects on Goan Mumboikars is a collector’s item. It starts off with the editorial ‘Mumbai Meri Hai’ followed by the article Goa ’s contribution to Mumbai by the late Orlando Gomes. Soter Barretto dwells on the future of Goans in Mumboi in his thought provoking article ’Sompltolo kai amcho Bombaikar?’ followed by Felix da Cruz’s memories of Mumbai in his article ‘Mhaka Mumboicho Ugddas Yeta.’

Cursin Pinho writes on the miraculous cross of Mumboi’s Cross Maidan while Dilip Borkar writes about his umpteen visits and stay in Mumbai in his nostalgic article ‘Sosnnikay’. Rio Rosa takes you on a journey of the several Goan institutions and associations of Mumbai and their present scenario while Fausto V. da Costa traces the history of the Goan Clubs (kudd) in Mumbai and undermining their sad plight of today put forth some measures to save them from extinction.

Besides these the issue also features thought provoking and investigative articles by the Konkani stalwarts: Jose Dias (Udkacher Far Yeta), Vincy Quadros (Doyallay), John Alfonso (Jiye Ani Dusreankui Jiyeunk Di), Arso (Willy Goes), Guadalupe Dias (Zoim Ximo Astat) and two short stories of the renowned Konkani novelists - Mahableshwar Sail (Bay Chovtik Yetlem) and J. B. Moraes (Matiek Pailea Uprant).

The issue priced at Rs. 15/- is available at the usual outlets in Goa , Mumbai and Gulf. For your subscriptions and other details kindly contact the publisher on 9821228684, email: Fausto@vsnl.net or in Kuwait email: gulabq8@gmail.com

gulab - May 2009 ank

2009-05-09T23:13:00.000-07:00

Visit of Fausto V. Da Costa to Kuwait - Gulab 25th Year Celebrations

2009-04-05T07:45:00.000-07:00

Bhov Manest Pio bab dobajeacho manest soiro, bhov manest Pienkar babani mhojea pritichea Konknni premino.

Tumkam noman ani tumkam dhinvas.

Poile svater aichea hea kariokramant bhag ghetoleank sogrvank mhojim porbim ani xabaski, tumi itlo nazuk Goenche porpomporik sonskruticher adarun ho kariokram’ ghoddun haddlo dekhun. Hi Goenchi pormompora ji amkam Goeant ani Mumboint bhogunk mellnna ti hanga hea Kuveittachea xharant bhogunk mell’li. He khatir tumchem obhinondon kortam.

Hanv kallzache khorik savn tumche – Kala Mogi Kuveit, Gulab Vaurpi Somiti Kuveitt, Kuveittche Gõykar ani Mongllurkar – sorvanche upkar atthoytam, tumi mhaka Kuveittak haddun mhozo son’man kel’le bodol. Konknnin mhaka Kuveitt pavoilo! Vixex korun Gulab-achi fikir dakhoun Gulab nemit pormollcho mhonn tumi hott dhorun Gulaba khatir ani Konknni khatir tumche yogdan kel’le bodol tumcho hanv upkari. Gulab nemit uzvaddavpacho bond zata hachi fikir Goykarank vhodd nhoi zalear Kuveittkarank hachi vhodd fikir, ani Gulab bond zata hem Goenkarank legit pottlear tumkam pottona mhunn tumi dakhoun dilem. Hantun tumche khub teag ani sakrifis asat mhunn vixex anik sangchi goroz urona.

Bab Domingo Araujo hanchea fuddariponnak hanv chepem kaddtam, tanchea bhovgunni ani dhaddoxi veoktimhotvak hanv salam’ kortam. Soglea Konknnichea somudayank ektthaim haddun oslim kar’yam ani kariokram’ ghoddun haddop dista titlem sompem nhoi tem, hachi mhaka got asa. Opurbayechi gozal mhollear ami tondd ugddun sangonastana aple hostukim ani koslich hott nastana Gulab-ak adar korunk tannem panvol marlem. Hachem mhaka istimosanv. Aplea utrak thir ravon bhasailolea pormonnem tannem Mars mhoineant Gulab-achea eka ankant khondd poddlolo to Kuveittchea Gõykarancho ani Konknni-mogeancho vixex ank mhunnon nazuk ank uzvaddak haddun ho khondd bhorun kaddlo. He toren Gulab kainch nhoi zalear anik eka vorsachem tori jivit jielo.

Rupea Utsovacho ank kaddun Gulab nemit pormollpacho bond korun dor tin-tin mhoineamni uzvaddak haddpak ami tharailolem, ten’na Domingo baban Gulab nemit pormollche khatir apunn Kuveittchea Gõykaram vorvim chollvoll suru korta mhunnon amkam asvasonn dil’leanuch ami Gulab nemit chalu dovorpachem pavl fuddem ghalem, mhunnttoch Gulab 2008 vorsant nemit pormoll’la hem xroy Bab Domingo ani tachea sangati vaurpeank ani Kuveittchea Konknni mogeank favta, magir hea eka vorsant Gulab-an fuddem koxi kat ttanch marlea ti gozal veglli.

Bab Domingo borobor anikui khub zann vangddi pott’tiddken vaurleat hantun dubhavuch na, tancho vavr amche nodrek khoinchei votten komi nhoi. Tanchem sorvanchem nanv ghenastana hanv Gulabache torfen tanche upkar atthoytam. Pun hanvem Domingo-chi poili tust kelea karann tachea tokhnnay korpa sarkea fuddariponnak lagun. Aiz amchea Konknni somazant zaite prokolp mar khatat ani jiron vetat kiteak te kopxechea fuddareanchea hatamni nant dekhun, te pasot fuddari kopxecho asop vortem molachem. Ani Domingochi kel’li tust, tanchea vangdda borea ani khorea monan vaurlole aplich tust mhunn mandun ghetole mhunnpant kainch horkot na. Dekhun tanchea sangata ton-monan vaurloleam hurbevont Konknni vaurpeank mhozo noman ani dhinvas.

Hoi, hanv kallzant savn tumcho upkari aiz Konknni bhaxek lagon, maf korat Romi Konknnik lagon ani Kuveittantlea Konknni mogeank lagon hanv tumche modem pavlom. Toxech amche tiatrist bhav aiz sonvsarache charui konxamni pavtat fokot Konknni bhaxek lagon. Amche modlem ekuch natem mhollear ti Konknni bhas, ani zori ti bhas geli tor amchem modem anik natem koslem? Tor Konknni bhas amcho svabiman korta ten’na ticho upkar ami farik kortat kai? Hea prosnacho zabab ami amchea ontoskorna koddlean mellounk zai.

Aiz tumchea koddlean hanvem kitem magchem zalear ekuch - Konknni bhas tumchea jivitant vapddat. Bharotantlea heram rajyachea monxam sovem apli bhas uzar zata toxi Konknneam modem Konknni bhas uzar zaina, vixex korun Gõykar kristanvam modem. Hi ek hakikot. Machier tonddantlean Konknni, pun machie fattlean Inglix ani vosreantui Inglixuch. Internet-acher amche modem Konknnicho vad-vivad cholta to legit Inglixintleanuch. Oxem kiteak kai? Konknnintlean don volli ulounk, borounk ani vachunk nokllot tannim Konknnichea vo lipichea vadant boball kiteak korcho? Hankam mhozo ekuch sol’lo – poili Konknni uloyat, vachat, boroiyat ani uprantuch ticher vad korunk fuddem sorat. Bhas vadachem ani aplea svarthachem pangronn korun gheum noye.

Aiz Romi Konknni vachpeancho ankddo dhenvot asa. Ho prosn kelo mhunnttoch rokddoch Inglixintlean ‘counter’ vichar yeta to ho: Toxem Devanagrint vachpi khoim asat? Hea prosnachi goroz asa, hoi? Tori tacho zabab diuncho zalear devanagrint vachpi adim savn nasle, tori atam vachpi vaddot asat, pun romi Konknnint khub vachpi asle, ani atam tea vachpeancho ankddo dhenvtoch asa hi fikir korpachi gozal. Romi Konknnichea nanvan arodd ghaltat te khoim Konknni vachtat? Rite ddobe vazovpa xivay tanchem Konknni bhaxek yogdan koslem? Bextteo fottaxi marleo mhunnon prosn suttave zaum nozo.

Aiz romi Konknnint vachpi utpon’n korpachi nibel goroz asa. Fattlea tin vorsant Romi Konknnintlean zaitim pustokam ani porgottnneo uzvaddak aileo mhunnon Konknnicho vistar zala oxem chintop nitt na, bogor ami tim pustokam ani porgottnneo amchea ghoramni bhitor kaddun vachleo zalearuch mat Konknnichi porgoti zalea mhunnom yeta. Gulab ani The Goan Review hanchea fattlean kitlim nemallim yeun gelim nant? Kiteak gelim kai? Sorkari onudan ani borem-dekhpeancheo jahirati mellosor pustokam kivam nemallim uzvaddak haddpak sompem, pun hem sahitya kitlea zannamni vachlam ani vapuddlam tacher vichear korop mhotvachem. Aiz adhunik kalar sovloti aslolean kaim borovpi xerox offset podhotir eka pustokacheo 200 protyo kaddpachi xoketay asa, ani kaddttatui bi magir te aplo ankddo 2 hozar mhunnom vo 4 hozar mhunnom, hem konn topasta?

Punn hantlean ami amkanch nhoi bogor Konknni bhaxekui fottoitat mhunn zanna zaunchem. Konknniche progotik hem faideachem nhoich nhoi. Gõyant, Mumboint, Golfant Konknnichem kitem ani kitlem khopta tem mhojea bottancher asa. Fattlea 30 ek vorsank Gõychi sorv disallim nemallim Golf desant mhojea hatantlean vetat. Dekhun hanv mhonnttam vachpi dhenvtat hi husko korpachi gozal, ani ami sogle vad soddun Konknni vachpi utpon’n korpachea vavrak lagonk zai. Gõyant he dixen bilkul vavr zalolo disona. Lipicho vad gheun vell ibaddtolea dogam mhan fuddareank hanvem ekuch avhan dil’lem, ‘lipicho vad soddat ani Gulab-a khatir mhaka fokot dha-dha vachpi diyat. Tancho azun meren zabab na. ! Vachpi nastona porgottnneo konna khatir? Hench lokxant dovrun ami Gulab nemit uzvaddak haddpachem pavl marlelem. Konknni tigtoli zalear amkam zai Konknni ulovpi ani Konknni vachpi. Dukhi kallzan sangchem poddtta amche Konknni fuddari ani Konknni borovpi legit Konknnint uzvaddak yeta tem sahitya vachinant. Hi ek sot’tea stihiti. Naslear topasun polleat.

Mumboint tor ami GRAF sonsthentlean Konknni vistarpache khub proyotn keleat ani korit asat pun aiz bhov komi yes melltta. Mumboi Konknni bhaxecho ani chollvollicho maz zaun aslo tantunui aiz Goykarponn ani Konknni sap sanddlea. Mumbointlem Gõykarponn nopit zalam. Ani aiz Konknni molar Mumboicho zago Kuveittan ghetla. Konknni kariokram’ Konknni vachop, Konknni tiatr, Konknnicho husko chodd Kuveittan asa. Ekach utran Konknnichi progoti aiz Kuveittantlean zata. Kuveitt Konknni-mogeanchem obhinondon korunk favo ! Dekhun Konknni vachpeancho ankddo vaddovpak tumche lagim mhoji nomr vinonti. Hangasorui Konknni vachpeancho ankddo dhenvot asa hachi zanniv asa mhaka dekhun hem chitr bodolpak mhozo ulo. Vachpi chudd gheun sodunk vechi goroz na. Gulab Kuveitt khas ank Kuveittantlea kitlea zannamni gheun vachla tachem gonnit kelear ani titleim zannamni Gulab nemit vachlear Gulab kednach bond zaum nozo ani hem tumchea hatamni asa. Tumchea pavlamni herancheanui cholom yeta.

Ani akhkhrek mhoji Kala Mogi Kuveitt, Gulab Vaurpi Somiti, Kuveitt, ani Kuveittantlea Konknni-mogeank ek suchnna, pun nirnnoy tumchea hatamni asa. Tumi Kuveittant Gulab Vaurpi Somiti ghoddlea ti chaluch dovorchi ani Gulabak tumi ektthailole duddu tumchech svadin dovrun, dor mhoineak fokot char Gulab-achim modlim rongit panam tumche jahirati vorvim sponsor korchim. Tantun tumchim borpam kivam batmi, kivam jahirati ghalcheo. He toren amchean sangatak vavron amcho tumcho vavr goir-somoz nastana fuddem vhoron Gulab nemit pormollpachem karya chalu dovrum yeta. Gulab-achi fikir chodd zannam koddlean yeum ieta. Naslear eke khepek Gulabak duddu dile mhunn tachem jivit lamb korpak muskil ani tech borobor goir-somzonnekui khub zago melltta. Niyallun polloyat. Tech porim dor vorsacho Mars mhoineacho ank Kuveitantlea Konknni-mogeancho vixex ank koso chalu dovrunk zata. Hi fokot ek suchnna zacher tumi niyall korum yeta.

Tumche mahiti khatir Gulab-ak podorcho chhapkhanno na, New Age chhapkhanno Goenche diosezik dila. Gulab ami thoinch chhaptanv ani fokot chhapacho khorch dor proti fattlean 17 rupia farik kortanv. Te xivai her khorch dhorlear dor proti fattlean ani ek 8 rupia zodd, mhonnje eke proti fattlean 25 rupia khorchitat ani ti ami dolalank 11 rupiamni ditat, mhonnje eke proti fattlean 14 rupia luskonn asta. Dekhun amkam vachpeanchi-i goroz ani jairatinchim-i goroz. Vachpi vaddlear jahirati vaddttoleo. Dekhun vachpi vaddovpak amcho proyotn zaum di.

Hea Konknnichea vaurant hatak hat melloun amchea sangatak vaurche khatir fuddem soronk hanv tumkam vinonti kortam.

Anik ek pavtt tumkam sorvank tumi kel’lea sorva khatir Dev borem korum mhonnttam ani mhaka pasiensacho kan diun aikol’le bodol tumche upkar atthoytam. Dev borem korum.

(Hem uloup mukhel kariakorom choltana zalem)!

Gulab - April 2009 issue on the stands !

2009-04-01T22:32:00.000-07:00

GULAB-acho Abril mhoineacho ank bhair sorlo

Gõychem ekuch ronigt Mhoinallem GULAB hacho Abril mhoineacho ank bahir sorlo.

Podrave Lok Sobhechea eleisanvanche xins kothecher (cover story) adharlolea hea ankant aichea rajkaronnachim vividh motam ani kotha asat – ‘Lok Sobha Venchnnuk 2009: Oye, Oye! (Vincy Quadros), ‘Rajkaronn Zalam Ek Duddu Korpacho Dhondo! (Soter Barreto), ‘MP Nhoi, Sorkari Zanvoi’ (Dilip Borkar).
He xivay hea ankant asat anik monar uzvadd haddpi okhondd Konknni borovpeanche lekh zoxe porim: Cursin R. Pinho, Felix da Cruz, Sudha Amonkar, John Aguiar, Guadalupe Dias, John Afonso, Marcos Gonslaves, Willy Goes, Pio Esteves, Fr. Ubald Fernandes, Lino Dourado ani her. Tech porim hea ankant prokaxit zalea adlea tempaili lovkik Konknni palkachi sundori – Betty Ferns hachi khas mulakhot.
Pondra rupia molacho (Gõya bhair Ru. 20/-) ho ank Goenchea toxeach Mumboichea ani Golfantlea sodanchea vortoman-potram manddar uplobd asa. Odhik mahiti khatir sompadpea lagim sompork korum yeta: 9821228684 hea ankddeacher vo email: fausto@vsnl.net

April issue of GULAB hits the news stands

The April issue of the Goa’s only Konkani monthly GULAB is out on the stands.
With the 15th. Lok Sabha Elections as it’s cover story this issue features varied viewpoints on today’s political scenario by the renowned Konkani columnist: Soter Barreto - ‘Rajkaronn Zalam Ek Duddu Korpacho Dhondo!’, Vincy Quadros - ‘Lok Sobha Venchnnuk 2009: Oye, Oye!’, Dilip Borkar – ‘MP Nhoi, Sorkari Zanvoi!’.
Besides a number of other thought provoking articles by the stalwarts – Cursino R. Pinho, Felix da Cruz, Sudha Amonkar, John Aguiar, Guadalupe Dias, John Afonso, Marcos Gonsalves, Pio Esteves, Willy Goes, Fr. Ubald Fernandes and others.
It also features an interview with the most popular tiatrist of yester year Betty Ferns.
Priced at Rs. 15/- (outside Goa Rs. 20/-) the issue is available at all the outlets in Goa, Mumbai and the Gulf countries, or contact the editor on 9821228684 or email fausto@vsnl.net

In Kuwait,email gulabq8@gmail.com or call Domingos Araujo-Mob 99391452

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January 2006 - Gulab Issue

2009-02-02T22:34:00.001-08:00

January issue of Gulab hits the stands

The January issue of the only illustrated Konkani monthly Gulab edited by
Fausto V. da Costa has hit the news stands.

The issue carries a special features on the new year 2006 by the renowned
Konkani writers Soter Barreto, Marcos Gonsalves, Tomazinho Cardozo et al.
and thought-provoking articles by Ravindr Kellekar, Cursino R. Pinho, Udai
Bhembre, Fr. Moreno de Souza, Chandrakant keni, Fr. Jose Dias, Prof. S M
Borges & Felix P. da Cruz.

This issue also features the interview of comedian Agostinho Temudo - the
ace comedian of the konkani stage.

The issue is available in Goa, Mumbai & Gulf countries. For subscription,
advt. & other details contact: 2782413, 2782416

The prominent Goan Roman Script Monthly magazine being 'GULAB'.

2009-02-02T22:33:00.001-08:00

Konkani Language - Goa
Konkani - Official State Language :

Goa is a multi-lingual state, thanks to its chequered history of thousands of years, which has seen people of various regions, ethnic races and religions from India and abroad coming over to and settling in Goa, while influencing the local language.

At present, Marathi and Konkani are two major languages of Goa. Hindi, the national language of India, is well understood in Goa. In major towns, English is widely used in writing and conversation.

On the other hand, Portuguese, the language of the colonial rulers and the official language till 1961 before liberation, notwithstanding the official patronage and a compulsory medium of study, failed to make a dent in the mind of the majority of Goans.

It remained only the language of the elite but alienated the masses. Thus just after the departure of the Portuguese, Portuguese lost all its favour and usage. However, very few - particularly the older or pre-liberation generation - still use Portuguese.

Konkani and Marathi, much related, survived in Goa by secret studies at home, in temples and public places in villages. Both Konkani and Marathi are derived from Sanskrit, the mother of majority of Indian languages. These two languages use Devnagari script like Sanskrit. Hindi is also written in Devnagari script while Roman script is used for English and Portuguese.

Goans speak Konkani. Konkani is also written in Kannada in Karnataka and in Malayalam script in some parts of Kerala. People residing on the Canara Coast have been following the Kannada script, whereas to the extreme south of Karnataka, on the borders of Kerala, konkani has been written in Malayalam script.

Famous Goan poets and writers have written and published their literature in Konkani. The prominent poets of Goa, Manohar Rai Sardesai, Bakibab Borkar, R.V. Pandit have written various poems on Goa, Goa's natural beauty and its culture. The writers such as Chandrakant Keni, Pundalik Naik, N Shivdas, Dilip Borkar, Mrs. Hema Naik, Mrs. Sheela Kolambkar, have played dominant role in developing konkani lierature.

Konkani plays called "Tiatr" or "Natak" are held in each and every village. "Tiatr" are held by the Goan Christian community and "Natak" are held by the Goan Hindu Community. It is a must for the local Deity's feast. May it be a Local Saint's 'Fest' or a 'Zatra'. It is the way of life for Goans.

Tiatr plays are the folk variety. The Tiatr groups now a days stage plays in prominent towns of Goa and are quite popular. Subjects such as Fiction, Politics, Family life, Social problems are also gaining ground. The prominent Goan Roman Script Monthly magazine being 'GULAB'.

Konkani is also widely spoken in Mangalore, Bombay and some parts of Kerala. Konkani is the official language of Goa and is being used in all the offical correspondence. Konkani Bhasha Mandal is the prime body working for the development of Konkani.

Important Dates in history of Konkani Language

1187 First Konkani inscription
1209 Jnaneshwari is written in Konkani
1548 Portuguese destroy all Konkani works
1808 Konkani Bible is published
1932 Portuguese start Konkani school
1987 Konkani recognised as a National language

http://www.indiatravelite.com/goa/goakonkanilanguage.htm

May 2005 GULAB Issue

2009-02-02T22:25:00.000-08:00

May issue of 'Gulab' hits the news stands !

The May issue of Goa's illustrated Konkani monthly 'Gulab' carrying a special feature on the late Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI is out on sale.

This issue carries enlightening articles by renowned Konkani writers Fr. Moreno de Souza, Fr. Manuel P. Gomes, Pio Esteves, Fr. Thomas Lobo on the popes, besides articles on other various topics - 'Amkam Venchnnuk Favna' by Chandrakanth Keni, 'Aiz Kalchem Xikop' by Cursino R. Pinho, 'Plastik Batleo-Bholaikecher Akromonn' by Jose Dias, 'Konknni Lipim Vixim Sot' by Prof. S M Borges, and an interview with the "Double Century King of the Konkani Stage" Menino de Bandar.

This issue marks the first death anniversary of the Konkani stalwarts late Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa, ex editor and publisher of 'Gulab' & late Felicio Cardozo with the editorial 'Ek Voros Somptana...' and Soter Barreto's "Tancho Ugddas Omor Urtolo' who pays rich tributes to late Fr. Freddy & Felicio.

The issue is available at all the news stands in Goa & Mumbai or to order your copy and/or subscription email gulab_goa@ sancharnet.in

- Forwarded by http://www.goa-world.com

2009-02-01T02:42:00.001-08:00

GULAB AWARDS

(Gomantak Times News)

Mathew Araujo receiving the best Actor award from Mathany Saldanha
archbishop Patriarch Filipe Neri Ferrao was awarded the prestigious ‘Gulab Man of the Year’ award at a mesmerising programme held in Gomant Vidya Niketan, Margao on November 26, 2004. The programme had a note of sombriety as it was held for the first time in the absence of Gulab founder Fr. Freddy J da Costa.

Yet another priest, Fr. Moreno D’Souza S.J., bagged the Gulab award for best writer in Roman Konkani. Fr D’Souza, besides contributing regularly to Gulab, also edits the monthly magazine, Dor Mhoineachi Roti. He has also written a number of books particularly on the history of the various churches in Goa.

The sportsperson of the year award was conferred upon Robert Fernandes of Salgaoncar Sports Club. Sports Minister Mathany Saldanha who announced the winner and also presented the trophy eulogised Fr. Freddy and pointed out his great vision. Referring to a Mando written by Fr. Freddy years back wherein he had cautioned about tourists taking over Goa, Saldanha, who is also the Tourism Minister, rued that those words were proving to be prophetic.

Ben Evangelisto’s Devak Zai Zalear and Mario Menezes’ Tiatr Somplo Cholat Ghora dominated the Gulab awards for tiatrs bagging two awards each.

Ben Evangelisto himself won the award for the best tiatr writer winning over Roseferns for Maim, Tuzo Put Hanv and Jose Rod for Devan Dilem Devcharan Vhelem who were nominated in this category.

Marthew Araujo created history by bagging the award for Best Actor for the second consecutive year. He won the Gulab award for his portrayal of the doctor’s role in Ben Evangelisto’s Devak Zai Zalear.

Mathew Araujo announced the winner of this year’s Best Actress award which went to Sabina for her role of the wicked mother-in-law in Mario Menezes’ tiatr Somplo Cholat Ghora.

This is the second year in running that the female artiste from Mario Menezes’ troupe bagged the Gulab award for best actress as last year Rosy Alvares had walked away with it.

The best director award was bagged by Mario Menezes for his tiatr Somplo, Cholat Ghora. The other directors nominated for this award were Jose Rod for Devan Dilem Devcharan Vhelem and Ben Evangelisto for Devak Zai Zalear.

Noted music composer Josinho walked away with the trophy for the Best Musician. He won the award for the music composed by him for Jose Rod’s Devan Dilem Devcharan Vhelem. He beat his contemporary Juju who had won two nominations for producing the music for Ben Evangelisto’s Devak Zai Zalear and Roseferns’ Maim Tuzo Put Hanv.

Noted singer Anthony D’Souza who is part of the famous Trio Kings announced the winner of the new award for Best Comedian which was bagged by Agostinho. Mr D’Souza also presented the award.

With the institution of this new award, the total Gulab awards have gone up to nine of which six are dedicated to tiatrs and tiatrists.

Gulab Editor Fausto V Da Costa thanked the audience and also his family members for helping to organise the function. He urged tiatrists to work hand in hand with Gulab for the preservation and promotion of Konkani language.

Julio D’Silva, who compered the show with aplomb, requested the tiatrists to patronise Gulab with advertisements so that the magazine can survive. The awards were presented amidst an entertainment programme which included a playlet written and directed by Lawry Travasso based on the vocation to be a priest and nun. Mario Menezes, Rosy Alvares, Lawry, Agnes, Mathew, Ulhas Tari, Agostinho and Ambe acted in this playlet which also included two comedy scenes through which Agostinho and Ambe had the audience rolling in laughter.

Osvy Viegas sang a soulful song paying tribute to the good work done by Fr. Freddy. Ben Evangelisto delighted the crowd with his comedy song during which he appeared on stage in drag.

Lawry wrote a special song on Gulab which started the show rolling and later sang another which had been a hit during the last tiatr season. The second song paid tribute to Fr. Freddy and Felicio Cardoso.

Mabel Da Costa trained a group of amateurs to render two mandos written by Fr. Freddy. Both the mandos – Altarachea Panvddear Re Pavoinu and Soglleo Romasi Vachunu – were very well received by the audience.

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2009-01-29T00:25:00.001-08:00

Brazinho Soares ani Tacho Konknni Sonvsar

2009-01-27T23:13:00.000-08:00

Brazinho Soares ani Tacho Konknni Sonvsar
-Jose Salvador Fernandes

Monis, apli umed mhunn kortoli gozal, fuddem vochun kednam aplea jiva-bhavachi mandit ani ti gombhirtayen (seriously) ghet tem sangunk zainam. Kalapurcho Xri Brazinho Soares apli umed mhunn 1953 vorsa thavn Konkniche Romi lipintlean uzvadda yeupi pustokam viktim ghetalo, vachtalo ani samballtalo. Punn az tachi ti umed, umed uronk nam ti gozal tannem gombhirtayen ghetlea.

Rajyo Kola ani Sonvskrutik
Puroskar ghetanam dista.

Kalapurchem ‘Konknni Bhanddarachem Ghor’
Brazinho-babachem Kalapura aslolea ghorant, Konknnichem moladik-toladik, okxoranchem bhanddar bhorlolem asa. Hea bhanddarachem mol korta titlem thoddem.
Brazinho-baba kodde Konknniche Romi lipintlean uzvadda ailolim sabar vixoyanchim - ganvtti vokhdanchim, vijnean (science), kotha, kadambori, nibon’d, dhormik, lingi xikxonnachim - pustokam asat. Tea bhair, Konknni veakoronnam, xobdkox oxi bhaxik-ui pustokanchi aspot asa. Ganvtti vokhdanchim pustokachim nanvam sang mhonntanch, Brazinho-bab fottafott Francis Paul Jose Rodriguesachea Poilo Adar, Piddevontacho Adar, Ranantlim Zhaddam Dev Ximpta oxim kitlimxinch nanvam sangta. Sorgest Reginaldo Fernandesacheo Amoreska, Bhirakull Rat, Padmini, adi. oxeo Reginaldacheoch sumar 100 kadamboreo tache kodde asat. Tea bhair, Caridade Damaciano, Joao Inacio de Sousa, Bonaventure D’Pietro ani her kadamborikarancheo zaiteoch romaxi tachea ghorant ghor korun asat. Itlench nhoi, Konknniche Romi lipintlean uzvadda ailolim adlim ani disallim, satollim, pondrallim, mhoineallim, vorsallim toxench aichea kallar legit uzvadda yevpi potram-masikam Brazinho-babachea ghorant
vevosthit ritin manddun-samballun dovorlolim dolle bhorun polleunk melltat.. “Torui, mhojem ghor sarkem kortanam thoddim Konknni masikam vallten khalim. Tednam dolleantlean denvlolea dukhachi olsann azun-ui mhojea dolleant asa”, oxem Brazinho-bab dukhi zaun sangta.
Sogllem to koxem samballta?
“ Hanv tednam Ponnje Dr. Manohar P. Tambaxim ‘Lab Assistant’ mhunn nokrek aslom. Mhaka 25/-rupia pogar aslem. Chav-panniechi mhaka ruch yetali tednam hanv ti toxich sonsun, chaye khatir duddu moddinastana Konknni pustokam gheunk khorchitalom. Itlea mogan, itlea tygan ani jiv otoun haddlolea mhojea Konknni bhanddaracher mhozo jiv asa. Dekhun, dor 8 disam uprant hanv tim pustokam, potram saf kortam, pustam ani vallti-sannos vo kitench luksonn korta toslem lagchem nhoi mhunn khub thokos ani kallji ghetam,” oxem Brazinho-bab gombhirponnan sangta.

Nanvosto ani ontpr’raxttrik pop gavpi Remo Fernandes tachem pustok prodorxon polleta.

Konknni pustok-potranchim prodorxonnam
Brazinho-baba kodde pustok ani potram-masikanchea rupan Konknniche Romi lipintlean jem bhanddar asa tem Gõyant ani Gõyam bhair legit mellpachi xoketay nam. Itlem durmill (rare) bhanddar tem. Konknnicheo khas karyavolli zatat tednam Brazinho-babak tachem hem bhanddar prodorxit korunk sabar kodden amontronnam yetat. Punn to soglleach amontronnank zap dinam. 1989 vorsa Dalgado Konkinni Akademi (DKA) sthapnnechea vellar Ponnji Institute Piedade vosreant ek karyavoll asli. Tea vellar Brazinho-baban aplea Konknni-bhanddarachem thoimsor prodorxonn kel’lem. Toxench, 1992 vorsa, Konknni tiatrachim 100 vorsam monoitanam-i Kala akademint prodorxonn kel’lem. Tea vellar tachi hi Konknnichi girestkay polleun khubxea zannamnim tachi bhorpur tust-tokhnnay kel’li, oxem Brazinho-bab to 14-15 vorsam adlo ugddas kaddit sangta. Itlench nhoi, Kuveitt-ui tannem don vorsank tin pavtti prodorxonnam keleant. Ek pavtt sogllea tiatranchea pustokanchem ani don pavtti
tiatranchea ‘hand bill’-anchem. Him prodorxonnam Kuveitt Gõy Tiatr Sonvsthechea bavttea khal zaleant.
“ Bhanddar viktem gheunk zaite ‘offers’ aileat”
“ Mhoje lagim aslolem hem Konknnichem bhanddar apnnak di, apunn vikte ghetat oxem sabar zannamnim mhojexim porxim yeun sanglam. Thoddeam sonvsthamnim legit mhaka zaitench farik korunk raji asat mhunn duddvanchem ains dakoylem. Punn hea sogllea ‘offers’-ank hanvem nam mhonnlem. Mhojea ghamachea duddvamnim ani tyag korun ekttailolem bhanddar hanv dusreank kiteak vikum? Duddvam poros mhojea Konknni bhanddarak chodd mol asa oxem hanv somzotam ani mandtam,” Brazinho-bab obhimanan sangta.

Hea bhanddaracho fuddar kitem?
Punn tujea uprant hem bhanddar korun samballtolo oxem Brazinho-babak vicharlear to fott korun sangta - “Mhozo put, Tadeu samballtolo. Hem mhojem bhanddar samballunk az meren mhaka mhoje potinin, dhuven ani putan puray tenko dila. Ghorant tor Konknnichem-i kitem-i boroup aslolo ek kagdacho kuddko poddlolo aslear, tim to kuddko kednach kochrea dobeant ghalinant. Mhoje kodde haddun ditat. Atam ghorant mhoji sun asa. Tika-i mhojea bhanddaracho mog lagla ani ti-ui mhaka hem bhanddar samballunk khub mozot korta. To dis yetoch hanv tem ghor sasnnak soddun vetolom khoro, punn mhojem Konknni bhanddar mat tea ghorantlean khoinch vechem nam hachi mhaka khatri asa. Mhojea uprant tea bhanddarachi zababdari apleacher gheupachi mhojea putan ani heramnim khuxi ugtailea,” Brazinho-bab atm-visvasan sangta.
Brazinho-babachem dusrem rup - Konknni borovpi
Sahitik mollar tannem poili kovita “Doryachem Ojap” boroyli ani ti poilech pavtt Aitarachem Vachop potrar 9/2/1958 vorsa porgott zali.Mhonnche, tannem Konknnintlean borounk survat kelear hea vorsa 50 vorsam somplim. Aitarachem Vachop, Ave Maria, Vavraddeancho Ixtt, A Vanguarda, Porjecho Adar, Goan Express, Vavraddi, Cine Times, The Goa Mail, Udentechem Noketr, Goencho Sad, Sot, Divtti, Uzvadd, Loksad, Gõykar, Novem Goem, Goencho Avaz, Goenchem Ful, Konkan Mail, O Herald, Goan Sports Weekly, Dor Mhoineachi Rotti, Konknni, Arso, Gulab, Goencho Porzoll, Goenchim Kirnnam, Goencho Pormoll, Goencho Fuddari, adi. oxeam sabar potram-masikancher kotha, kovita ani mhotvachim boroupam tannem keleant.
Karnaval, Goencho Gulab, Hea Sonvsarant, Konknni Noketrancho Uzvadd hea masikancho up-sompadpi zaun vaurla. Mogacho Xevott Ximiterint ani Konn To Khuni (Tiatr), Mogachi Doulot (Kovita) ani Oparincho Jhelo (Mhonn’nneo) him pustokam tannem chhapleant.
Tachem nanv Novi Dil’lintle Sahit’ya Akademichea Who’s Who of Indian Writers-ant asa.
1996 vorsa, Santa Cruzchea Social Welfare Association-a koddchean ‘Boro Konknni Boroupi ani Kovi’ mhonn bhouman zala. Kala Akademin ghoddun haddlolea Tiatr Rupea Utsovachea dobajea vellar tacho bhouman zala. 2007 vorsant Abrilache 17ver Kuveitt Gõy Tiatrache Sonvsthen tacho Kuveittant bhouman kelo ani teach disa Kala Akademi Gõy hannim Tiatr Disa nimitan tacho bhouman kelo. Gõy Sorkarcho Gõy Rajyo Kola ani Sonvskrutik Puroskar-ui (2004-05) taka favo zala. Hea xivay, tannem kelolea Konknni vavra khatir tache sabar pavtti sotkar keleat.

Lapitt

19/5/2008

Why Konkani music really swings

2009-01-27T23:12:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY SPECIAL -- Why Konkani music really swings
(Joseph Zuzarte)

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> KONKANI MUSIC: OF JAZZ, LATIN-JAZZ AND BIG BAND INFLUENCES
>
> Or, why Konkani music really swings
>
> By Joseph Zuzarte
>
> If you thought Portuguese culture lives on only in street names, churches
> and the Portuguese-speaking patriots, you have a surprise in store which
> will blast your ears from the most unexpected corners. Portuguese culture
in
> Goa flourishes in one of the most unlikely of media: Konkani music. It is
> probably one of those unconscious things, not really subliminal, but not
> quite overt either. The how is easy to pinpoint.
>
> We might think of it as Konkani music, but when a foreign tourist hears it
> whilst living deep in the groves of a Goan village, the Konkani music
coming
> from a neighbour's radio-stereo, what he hears are unmistakable Portuguese
> melodies and instrumentation. It's the same type of music he would hear in
> the villages of Portugal or Spain, the Azores or in Central America. The
> tongue being alien, nobody knows any better.
>
> I must firstly make a confession. As a music critic for many years in
> Mumbai, I never cared to listen much to Konkani music. I never went for
any
> tiatr and my interaction with other Goans was at the bare minimum.
>
> To be sure, I have enjoyed the occasional Goan Konkani song in Mumbai and
> the obligatory mando album. Back in Goa, one of my neighbours is the local
> sound system guy. Consequently most days, in the morning, afternoon and
> night, the man subjects (or entertains) his fellow villagers with the
latest
> in Konkani music and tiatr recordings. Over the last two years I have
> practically heard the entire repertory of Konkani music.
>
> It has been a revelation. I won't be the first person to say that the
music
> of Chris Perry and Lorna is sheer genius and incomparable. Lorna's best
song
> is probably 'Piso Mog', in which her voice cascades and soars, expressing
> all the myriad emotions that the words of the song evoke, while Chris
> Perry's trumpet transports you into, well, heaven. It's extraordinary jazz
> music, most of their songs, with the dramatic pathos and flourishes and
> crescendos so typical of Latin and Portuguese music. It's little wonder
that
> today people are beginning to talk about 'Konkani jazz'.
>
> Chris Perry and Lorna also had a tempestuous love affair. Knowing a bit of
> their story as I do, their songs -- Lorna mostly singing about love --
seem
> to be an extraordinary work of art. It's like Lorna sang from the very
> depths of her soul of her love for him and he was equally inspired to
> produce the masterpieces he did.
>
> But like all great love stories, their love was not meant to be, because
> Chris finally moved back with his wife and family, leaving Lorna
> heartbroken. Only Lorna could sing 'Dusreak Ghat Kori Naka'. Lorna was
> shattered and did not sing for well over 20 years, becoming an alcoholic.
>
> That she made a triumphant return to Konkani singing is another story. I
had
> met her at her home in Mumbai around this time, and asked her if she had
> been to Portugal when she sang 'Lisboa'. She smiled sheepishly, saying
'No'.
>
> It has to be said that art imitates life and life imitates art in Konkani
> music in Goa. In the case of Chris and Lorna, it was like their music
> presaged the course their love was to follow.
>
> But there is much more to Konkani music than the genius of Chris Perry and
> Lorna. The ouvre of Alfred Rose is equally amazing, and if there is one
> Konkani singer who breathes the Goan life in his music, it's Alfred Rose.
>
> With an amazing number of songs, along with his wife Rita, Alfred has sung
> about all things Goan and some things Goan which have been almost
forgotten.
> Like 'Kalchi Kodi', that ode to yesterday's curry (the refrigerated
version
> is not quite the same thing!) which has probably inspired the Costa's to
> come out with a canned 'Kalchi Kodi'.
>
> Most of his songs would fall in the genre of folk songs, as do most Goan
> Konkani songs, though he was equally adept at lifting and using Western
pop
> hits, Hindi film hits and even rock'n'roll, all done with what can only be
> described as his typical Goan flourish (though he mostly stayed in Mahim,
> Mumbai).
>
> The love story of Alfred and Rita Rose is also well known, but this one
was
> quite a happy one and their joy can be heard in their music. Along with
> their two songs, their songs dealt with all the regular Goan family
> dilemmas. Again a case of life imitating art and vice-versa.
>
> Listening to the Konkani music of all these years, one can also easily
> observe the evolution of modern music, as musical instruments went from
> being acoustic to electric to electronic to computer-based, as also
> recording techniques and the recording format itself, from scratchy 78
rpms
> to the 45 rpms to tape to compat disc.
>
> The local AIR station has a fantastic collection of Konkani songs, going
by
> the songs aired on the various Konkani programmes. Particularly
interesting
> are the old recordings, which will not be available anywhere else. The
> international or Western influence, specially that of the Portuguese, is
all
> there to be heard.
>
> Most of the pre-Liberation songs are all heavily influenced by the great
> jazz, Latin-jazz and big band era. Konkani music really swings. Some songs
> are truly Wagnerian, while some are modelled on operettas with soaring
arias
> and the like. There are some amazing songs with the old classic piano and
> double bass combo, jazz blues in the style of Ella Fitzgerald.
>
> Today's Konkani songs deal with contemporary themes and almost all
> feature'sequencing' and computerised instrumentation. There are many songs
> about the 'ghati' problem, while the touristy songs about 'golden Goa'
also
> seem to surface every now and then. A recurring theme is the one about
wives
> being left behind by shippie husbands or gulfies, and the wife's thus
> committing adultery. There are new singers like Roseferns, Junior Rod and
> many others.
>
> The one constant in Konkani music over the years is the 'folk' element,
the
> story-telling in the songs: stories about the Goan life, about real Goan
> events and places (rather than abstract, imaginary songs; a striking
> exception are the James Bond-style songs from 'Buyarantlo Munis'). That is
> probably because the music has a very strong, symbiotic relation with the
> Konkani-speaking folk. In fact, I'm still trying to figure out whether
it's
> really art imitating life or life imitating art!
>
> ##
>
> The writer is a Goan journalist, who spent a long stint at the media
capital
> of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and is now back in his home state. Joseph
> Zuzarte can be contacted at

PURVINNLEM GOEM ANI GOENKAR (OLDEN GOA & GOANS)!

2009-01-27T23:10:00.000-08:00

i Fausto,

Thank you for your appreciation of my article "Purvinnlem Goem ani Goenkar"
(Olden Goa & Goans).

You have my permission to publish it on The Goan Review or Gulab magazine.

Thank you once again.

Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:11:47 +0530
From: fausto

Hi Domnic,

I liked your article PURVILE GOENKAR. There is a lot of information about
our culture.

If possible, I would like to carry it on The Goan Review or Gulab magazine
with your kind permission.

Regards
Fausto

http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2004-August/017171.html

Goem ... a text on Goa in Konkani

2009-01-27T23:09:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Isidore Dantas for doing a
useful job in translating this text. If you want to practise your
Konkani, and find some words difficult to follow, you'll get the clues
here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa

Marathi: गोवा / Konkani: गोंय)

Vattharachea akara nodren, Delhi uprant, Goem Bharotacho soglea von
dusro lhan (1987 vorsa ghottok raj mell'llea uprant) prant.
Lokvostechea nodren Sikkim, Mizoram ani Arunachal Prodex pranta uprant
to chovto urta. Bharotachea ostompt kinarer tachem thikann asa zo
Konkonn vibhagant aspavta. Ut'tore vatten Mharaxttr prantachi, tor
udent ani dokxinn vatten Kornattok prantachi bhonvtonn lagta. Ostompte
vatter Orbi doria urta. Prantachi rajdhani Ponnji asun Vasco da Gama
(Vasco) hem tichem vhoddlem xar. Sogleant dusrem vhoddlem xar Moddganv
jem itihasik toxem Purtugez sounskrutaiechem xar zavn asa. Purtugez
vepareanim, Goeant 15vea xekddeant paim dovorlo ani taka bollkailem.
Purtugezancho ho pordexi zago (gondhollan vosnnuk mhonnttlolo) 450
vorsam aslo, zo Bharotant 1961 vorsa tabeant ghetlo.

Lakhanim, porki toxech dexi bhonvddekar, dor vorsa, ontoraxttrik fank
zoddlolea vellank bhett dinvk ietat. Evropachea bhonvddekarank heo
vello, famad suttiecheo zago zalolo asa.

Vellam xivai Goem ontoraxttrik vastuxilpxastrachea daizak lagun
nanvlovkik zalam zantunt Bom Jezuchea Basilikecho aspav asa. Ostompte
ghanttachea avatthak lagun Goeant girest rukhavoll ani prannjivit
disun ieta.Hem vegllench jivxastr pollovpak lok anvddeta.

Sobit vellank lagun Goem famad zalam:

Purtugez vosnnukvadeanim, Goa nanv Evropi bhasanim bhitor kaddlem punn
tacho oromb ozun nivoll zanvk na. Mhabharot, hi Bharoti virkotha,
Goeank 'Goparashtra' vo 'Govarashtra ' mhonn ul'lekh korta zacho orth
'gorvancho zomo'. Purvilea Sonskrut bhaxentlea borovpanim 'Gopakapuri'
vo 'Gopakapattan' vapuddlolem melltta. Him nanvam her povitr Hindu
borovpant Harivansa ani Skanda hantunt zhollkotat. Xevttachea
borovpant, Gomanchal mhonn Goeank vollkhotat. Gove, Govapuri,
Gopakpattan ani Gomant him nanvam, hea zageak dilolim her nanvam jim
Purannant ani her borovpanim kantoilolim sampoddttat. Goeank, 'Aprant'
mhonnui vollkhotat.

Purtugez vastuxilpkole xastrachem ek udharonn – ek Pornea Goenchem kopel

Goeank ek lambdik itihas asa zo isvichea adlea tisrea xekddeant
fattlean veta jen'na to Mauria rajeacho ek bhag aslo. Don hozar vorsam
adim Kolhapur (Mharaxttr) hache Satavahanas hannem tacher raj
choloilem.Uprant Badamichea Chalukia kodden 580 tem 750 poriant tabo
gelo. Fattofatt thodde xekdde Silhares, Kadamb ani Kalyani Chalukia
(Dek'kancho raza) hannim Goencher raj choloilem.

1312 vorsa Delhichea Sultananim Goencher raj choloilem.Punn tea
rajeacho hea zageacher tabo oskot aslolean tankam Vijoinograchea
Harihar I hankam xeronn zavchem poddlem. Vijoinograchea somrattan
uprant xembor vorsam Goencher xek choloilo. 1469 vorsa Gulbargachea
Bahmani sultananim Goem bochkailem. Ho vonx konsoll'llea uprant
Bijapurchea Adil Shahchea tabeant ho zago ailo ani tannim Velha Goa
palvi rajdhani keli.

1498 vorsa Vasco da Gama-n, Kerollchea Kozhikode hanga doria margan
pavl dovorlem.Uprant to Pornea Goeant pavlo.Vosnnuk sthapunk
Purtugalachi mokh asli. Hea vorvim Evropi sot'te koddlean mosaleacho
vepara voir kobzo korunk pavle. Ottoman Turkanim paromporik marg bond
kelolean hem korunk sompem zalem. Uprant 1510 vorsa, Purtugez novsena
odhikari Afonso de Albuquerque hannim xek cholovpi rajeank ganvchea
somratt Thimayachea mozotin haroile. Hea vorvim tannim kaiom rabito,
Velha Goa vo Pornea Goeant sthaplo. Purtugezank dusrea rajeacho
bollixtt zago naka aslo punn ek vosnnuk, toxench navik boll zai aslem.

Inkizisanvank (1510 tem 1812) lagun ganvkarank, misionaranim bollan
Kristanv kele. Hem korpak tannim tanchi zomin, kitab vo zage zopt
korpache khastichi bhirant dakhovn, dhomki divpacho upeog kelo. Zaite
Hindu Kristanv zale punn tannim aplem daiz sambhall'llem. Inkizisanv
ani sotavnne koddlean kus marunk hozaranim Goeantlean poll kaddli ani
sezarchea Kornattokantlea Mungllur, Karvar ganvanim vochun ravle.16vea
xekddeant Evropi boll Bharotant pavtoch, Purtugez aspotik Brittix ani
Dutch hannim revaddo ghatlo. Bharoti-Purtugez zage ostompte kinarer
thoddech urle zantunt Goencho vhodd aspav aslo.

18vea xekddeant ek athvich ghoddni ghoddli jika Pinttochem 1787
vorsantlem bondd mhonn vollkhotat. Hachi sfurti French bondda koddlean
aili. Purtugezachea xekacher hem poilem moniskulliechem bondd.Goem
tachi mhotvachi sompoti zali ani taka Lisbonak melltat teoch nagrik
sovloti divpant aileo. Purtugezanim aplea nagrikank, ganvchea bailam
kodde kazar zavpak ani Goeant ravpak umed dakhoili. Punn khoreponnant
ganvkarank (donui Kristanv ani Hindu) te unneponant lekhtale. Hea
ekvottachea bhurgea-ballank 'mestis' hankam Purtugez boreponn
dakhoitale. Uprant ek sonsod rochli ji raza kodden nitt sompork
sartali. 1843 vorsa, rajdhani Velha Goa thavn Ponnje vheli. Modlea
18vea xekddeant, vapuddlolo zago vaddovn atam aslolea Goenchea
vatthara itlo zalo.

Bharotak 1947 vorsa Brittixam koddlean svotontrai mellttoch, Purtugal
hea zageacho tabo soddpak kobul naslo. Ekvottit Raxttranche Sorv
Sobhent modesti koruna atm- nirnnoi ghevpak suchoilem. Xevttim 1961
vorsa Bharoti 40,000 bollache fovjen ghuri ghatli.26 horanchi thoddi
lottafett zalea uprant Goem, Damanv ani Diu( Udent Mharaxttrant urta)
hankam Kendra khala Songh Prodex kelo. Ekvottit Raxttranchea Surokxa
somiten he ghurie add dox divpi tharav manddlo zo Soviet Songhan
nakarlo. Uprant zaitea raxttranim hem akromonn svikarlem ani
Portugalan 1974 vorsantlea tanchea Carnation Bondda uprant tem mandun
ghetlem. 1987 vorsachea Setembrache 30 tarker, he Songh Prodex
vibhagun Goeank Bhartacho 25vo prant kelo ani Damanv ani Diu Songh
Prodex ravle.

Bhugol ani Hovaman

Goenchea vattharacho akar 3702 chovkott kilometr (1430 moil) 14°
53'54" ut'tor ani 15° 40' ut'tor okxanx tor 73° 40'33" ani 74 °20'13"
rekhxanx urta. Choddso Goencho bhag Konknnantli doriadeg ji ostompt
ghanttant pavta ani Dek'kan soddeak kuxin korta. Sogleam von unch
tenkxi Sonsogor zavn ji 1167 metr unchaier asa. Goeank 101 kilometr
doriadeg asa. Goencheo mukhel nodi Mandovi, Zuari, Terekhol, Chapora
ani Betul. Murganv bondr Zuarichea tonddar urta jem Dokxinn Asientlem
ek boreantlem borem soimbik bondr. Zuari ani Mandovi nodi Goenchea
jivitacheo zhori zavn asat ani aplea nhoim-a vorvim 69 ttoke bhugolik
vatthar udkan vhanvoitat. Goenchea nodincho marg 253 kilometr (157
moil) asa. Goeant tinxim purvilim tollim asat jim Kadamba vonxachea
kallar bandlolim. Toxench xembor odhik voizuki zhori asat.

Goenche matiechem pangrum chireanchem zavn asa ani tem tambddea
rongachem lokhnnachea oxides hantunt girest asa. Fuddem, bhitorlea
bhagant nodichea degancher mati mou ani moliechi ani ti khonniz
toxench kalli matien girest asa ji jitrop rovpak bori. Bharotachea
up-khonddantlea purvilea kallachim khoddpam Molem ani Anmod Goenchea
ani Kornattok prantanchea ximer distat. Tankam Trondjemetic Gneiss
mhonnttat ani tim Rubidium isotope hanchea pormonnem 3600 milianv
vorsam adlim. Hancho ek nomuno Goem Videapitthan prodorxonnak dovorla.

Goem, uxnnea prodesant urta ani Orbi doria lagsor aslolean vorsacho
chodd kallak gorom ani domott hovaman asta. Mai mhoino sogleam von
gorom ani ken'na gormi 35°C (95° F) vochun domott asta. Pavs Junhachea
poilea atthvoddeant pavs ieta ani gormi thonddaita.Choddso Goencho
vorsuki pavs, pavsallea udexim melltta ani Setembr xevott poriant
poddtta.

Modlea Dezembr tem Febrer porian, Goeank ek thondd mosom asta. Hea
mhoineanim thondd rati asun 20 °C (65° F) ani gorom dis thoddem domott
asun 29° C (84° F). Bhitorlea bhagant dongrache unchaiek lagun rati
chodd thondd astat.

Goenche taluke

Utt'or Goenche taluke zambhllea rongan dakhoileat ani Dokxinn Goenche
taluke sontrea rongan dakhoileat.

Goencho prant don jil'leanim vibhagla: Ut'tor Goem ani Dokxinn Goem.
Ut'tor Goenchi mukhel kocheri Ponnje urta ani Dokxinn Goenchi mukhel
kocheri Moddganv urta.Dor eka jil'leak Zil'lo Odhikari asa zaka Bharot
sorkar nemta. He jil'le 11 talukeanim vibhaglole asat. Ut'tor Goenche
taluke Bardez, Divcholi, Peddnem, Fonddem, Sattari ani Tisvaddi.
Dokxinn Goenche taluke Kannkonn, Murganv, Kepem, Saxtti ani Sangem.

Bharotache Sonsodent Goeank dor jil'leak ek, oxeo don Loksobhecheo
boska asat. Raj sobhek ek boska asa.

Rukhavoll ani Prannjivit

Bharotantlem sogleam von borem pacharlolem Suknnea Obhoiaronnio Salim
Ali Bird Sanctuary zavn asa.

Ranacho vatthar 1424 kilometr asa zo sorkari malkecho asa.Him ranam
choddxim bhitorlea bhagant udentik urtat. Ostompte ghantt zo udent
Goencho chodd bhag zavn asa to jivxastr pollovpacho bhag mhonn
ontoraxttrik maniotai mell'llea. National Geographic Magazine hachea
Febrer 1999 ankant, Goeank tachea uxnnetaiechea girest jivxastrak
lagun Amazon ani Congo nodinchea bhagank sor kelam.

Ran utpadonant, konddeancheo mani, Morattha sali, chillar sali, ani
bhirondd aspavtat. Unchaieche zage soddlear madd veta thoim
distat.Jitropant sail, sal ani ambe distat. Follam modem ponnos, ambe,
ann'nnos ani kalli maina hancho aspav asa.

Kole, randukor ani bhonvtelim suknnim rananim distat. Suknnea modem
kirkire, maina ani kir sampoddtat.Vegllea toranchem nustem zoxem
kul'leo, vagio, sungttam,

gorma, kalvam ani sangttam gorailolem dista. Goeant sorpanchi lokvosti
chodd asa ji hundracher tabo dovorta. Goeant zaitinch raxttrik udheana
asat zoxe porim Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary.Her prannjivitachim
obhoiaronniachim nanvam oxim: Bondla Wild Life Sanctuary, Molem Wild
Life Sanctuary, Cotigao Wild Life Sanctuary, Madei Wild Life
Sanctuary, Netravali Wild Life Sanctuary, Mahaveer Wild Life
Sanctuary. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary Choddnechea zunvear urta.

Goencho 33 ttoke bhugolik bhag (1224.38 kilometr) sorkarachea tabeant
asa, zantlo 62 ttoke prannjivitachea obhoiaronnio ani udheana khatir
Rakhun Dovorlolo asa. Jen'na zaitoch bhag khasgi rana khal asa ani
chodd zago kazu, ambe, madd,adi lagvoddi khatir asa, ten'na ran ani
zhaddancho zago 56.6 ttoke bhugolik zago aspavta.
[edit]

Kull Ghorchem Utpadon (GDP)

Bharotacho girest prant Goem zavn asa ani tachem GDP akhea desa von
oddez pavtti vhodd ani tachi vadd soddsoddit asun 8.23 ttoke zavn asa.

Ud'deg dhondo

Doriadege pasun poixile zage khonniz ani minank lagun girest asat. Min
soglean von dusro vhodd ud'deg. Minant lokhonndd, bauxite, manganese,
chikott mati, chunacheo khoddi ani kupador aspavtat. Chear doxokam
krixik chodd mhotv dinvk na punn tem zaitea lokak rozgar dita. Mukhel
pik bhat tea uprant supari, kazu ani narl. Nustemari cheallis hozar
lokank rozgar dita.Odhikrut sutram pormonnem hea bhagant chodd mhotv
dilolem disna ani pagoilolem nustem unnem zalam zachem karonn
paromporik nustemari voilean iontrachea bottinim nustemarin vollon
ghetlam.

Modhiom vorgache udegant kittnaxok, sarem,ttaior, ttub, zotim, moche,
vhanno, rosaionn, gonvam utpadon, tikhem, follam ani nustem dhobeanim
bhorop, kazu bio,lugott ani soreachem utpadon dista.. Goem, tachea
unnea molak lagun soreak famad zalam karonn soreacher kor khub unno
asa. Anik ek duddu ievpachem karonn mhonnche pordesant nokri korpi
nagrik je aple duddu tanchea kuttumbhak patthoitat. Zuari ud'degachi
vorsavollichi ienavoll 36,302 krutt rupia tor Sesa Goa chi ienavoll
17,265 krutt rupia (2005 vorsachi) asli. Dogaincheo mukhel karbhari
kocheri Goeant asat.
[edit]

Seva

Poriotton, Goencho mull ud'deg ani to doriadeger chodd urta ani
bhitorlea bhaganim unnem zait veta. 2004 vorsa don kotthi
bhonvddekaranim Goeank bhett dili. Hantle chear lakh lok pordexi
asle.Hachim sabar karonna asat: Poilem, hea vattharachem itihasik
sudharop jea vorvim porkeam xim soirigot. Dusrem, chodd (35 ttoke)
Katolk lokvosti.Hem sounskrutechem daiz Portugez vosnnukvada pasun
Bharoti her bhagam poros Evropi vo Amerikek lagim korta. Goenchi
sounskruti Kristi, Hindu ani Islamancho mell zavn asa.

Goenchem jevonn Portugal, ostompt Bharot ani Orbi hancho mell zavn asa
(ani poriotton mosomant Kaxmiri).Goem Bharotantli ekmev vegllich suvat
zoim tujean eka hottelant vochun (nustem ani kombie masa viret) donui
gaicheam ani dukrachem mas jem thoddem tiksannechem asta, toxench
beer,dakancho soro ani her soro ugteponni chakum ieta..

Hea khaxelponank lagun ani Goenchi orthikai Bhartantli chodd fulti
aspachea sotak lagun, Goeank ek oddenanv favo zalam. Tem mhollear
"Novea lokak Bharot". Bhartachea dusrea bhaganim khompivadde ani her
prosn zhollkotat te chodd promannant hanga disonant.
[edit]

Ieradari

Goenchi mukhel ieradari khasgiponni choloileo bosi jeo xar ani ganvank
zoddttat.Goem sorkaran choloileleo dhoveo ani nillea-tambddea
pott'ttiancheo bosi Kadamba Transport Corporation mukhel margar (zoxem
Ponnji-Moddganv) dhanvtat ani thoddea poixilea ani talukeacheam mukhel
zageanim vetat.Vhoddlea xaranim zoxem Ponnji, Moddganv xaram modem
bhonvloleo bosi nagrikanchi seva kortat.Bhovxik ieradari titli
suddsuddit na ani choddxeo bosi sanje uprant dhanvpacheo bond zatat.

Goenkar chodd korun duchaki dhanvtereanche aple ieradaricher patietat.
Goeant don raxttr marg dhanvtat, Bharoti ostompt kinaren koddlean Goem
tem Mumboi udente vatten ani Mungllur dokxinn vatten. Goenche modlean
vetolo NH-4A, udentek Ponnje ani Belganvank zoddtta. NH-17A Murganv
bondr tem Kutthale zoddtta ani novo NH-

17B toiar zatoch, chear lenicho mhamarg Murganv bondrak thavn NH17 eka
vegllea zagear Verna mellttolo zo Daboli vimantolla koddlean vetolo.
Goeant 224 kilometr raxttrmarg ani 815 kilometr zillo marg asat.

Bhaddeache ieradarint mittor nasloleo tteksi asat ani kheddeganvanim
rikxa. Ek athvich ieradari mhonnche hollduveo-kallio duchaki
mottorsaikoli tteksi zachea cholovpeank pilots mhonn pachartat. Hea
dhanvtereank fattlean ek boska asta t ani bhaddem adinch tharaitat vo
uprant ghetat.Goenchea thoddea zageancher nhoim/nodi upunk feribotti
asat jeo Nhoi Ieradari choloita. Goeank don relimarg asat- ek South
Western Railwayn choloilolo zo vosnnuke kallar bandlolo ani zo Vasco
ani Hubli zoddtta ani Moddganvchean pas zata. Adli hi mittor gauge
atam rundailea. 1990 vorsa bandlolo Konkonn relimarg doriadege
koddchean samantor cholta ani Mumboi tem Malabar kinarek zoddtta.

Goenchem ekmev vimantoll- Dabolim vimantoll, loskori vimantoll asa
zorui nagrik uddpank porvangi diloli asa.Loskori kama khatir mollam
vapuddnant ten'na nagrik upeogak to vapddum ieta. Hea niamit uddpam
xivai, hem vimantoll bhaddeachim uddpam hatalltta. Murganv hem
lagsorlem bondr jem min, petrol, kollso ani ontoraxttrik mhal
hatalltta. Choddxeo bhair dhaddpacheo vostu ganvtti astat. Ponnje- jem
Mandovi nodichea kinarer urta tem ek dhakttem bondr jem adim 1990
vorsa porian Goem ani Mumboi bhitor poinnareanchi vahatuk
hatallttalem.
[edit]

Loksonkhiaxastr

Goenchea ganvkarank Inglixin Goan mhonnttat, Konknnint Goenkar
mhonnttat, Purtugezin Goes (dadlo) ani Goesa (bail) ani Moratthint
Govekar mhonnttat.

Goenchi lokvosti 1.3444 krutt ravpeanchi jea vorvim tem chovtem
dhakttem raj (Mizoram ani Arunachal Prodexa uprant). Tachea
lokvostechi vaddh 14.9 ttoke dor vorsak zata. Dor chovkott kilometra
fattlean.313 lok ravtat. 49.77 ttoke lok ganvani ravtat. Hozaram
dadleam modem 960 bailo. Goenchi sakxarta 82.32 ttoke zantunt dadle
88.88 ani bailo 75.51. Hindu (65%), Katolk (30%) ani Islam he Goenche
tin mukhel dhorm. Goeant 1498 vorsa thavn Evropi vosnnukvada sangta
Romi Katolkponn pavlem jen'na Vasco da Gaman Malabar doriadeger pavl
dovorlem. Inkizisanva vellar Purtugezam khala Hindunk bollan dhorm
bodlunk lailo Hem nakarlolea zaitea Hinduvank paromporik rivaz
choloitat mhonn koid kele.Goenchim mukhel xaram Moddganv, Murganv
Ponnji ani Mhapxem zavn asat. Nimnnea chear xarank zoddttolea zageank
ganv koxe vollkhotat.

Purtugez raj somptoch, mukhel uloiloli bhas Konknni ani sahitek,
xikxonnank Inglix

vapuddtat.Goenchi bhas ek vadacho vixoi zoim don gottam Konknnivadi
ani Moratthivadi modem ek chollvoll 1985-87 vorsa zali. Chodd lok
(Hindu, Kristanv ani Musolman) maibhas Konknni khatir zhogoddle.
Chollvolle uprant 1987 vorsa eke manddnen Konknni bhaxek odhikrut
bhaxecho dorzo dilo.Don pongddachea zhogddeank lagun hi bhas chalik
launk zomlem na. Xiklolea lokanche purvile Purtugez bhaxek mar boslo
ani ti thodde lok ghorant uloitat ani bhou thoddim pustokam

tantuntlean porgott zaleant. Inglix bhas sovloti ani somajik halchalik
upkartoli bhas chodd lokak somzota. Hindi, Bharotachi raxttrik bhas hi
uloiloi dusri bhas.Poilim chodd lok Goeam Konknni uloitalo punn atam
Hindi bhas uloiloli aikunk melltta karonn zaite Bharotantle bhaile lok
hanga pavleat.

Goeant somorpiloleo porbo Natal, Paskam, Chovoth, Novem Vorsa Dis,
Xigmo ani Karnaval. 1960 vorsa thavn Xigmo ani Karnaval porbo ganvanim
pavleat ani halinch hea porbank bhonvddekar uddi ghaltat. Heo porbo
thodde dis choltat ani tantunt partteo ani nach zatat.

Ostompte Inglix kantaram Goeant chodd lokak avoddtat. Paromporik
Konknni lokgitank tachea uprant zago melltta. Manddo, hem paromporik
Goenchem songit zacho 19ve xekddeant oromb zalolo to kherit porbank
gailolo ani nachlolo dista.Goeant contrance songitui fankivont zanvk
pavlam.

Xit ani nustea koddi Goenchem mukhel jevonn. Goem aplea veg-vegllea
nustea pratam khatir famad zalam. Narl ani narlachem tel Goenchea
randpant vapuddpant ieta ani tantunt mirsango, kallim miriam, mosalo
ani vinagr vapddun veglloch suvad ieta. Dukra masache prat zoxem
vindalu, xakuti ani sorpotel Katolkanchea choddxea porbank randtat.
Tantiacher adarloli girest bhou patllicho prat zaka bebinca mhonnntat
tem Natalank chodd avddichem. Chodd nanvlovik soreachem piop fenni
Kazu fenni kazuchem foll fugovn kortat ani maddanchi fenni maddanche
surechi kaddttat.

Goeant don sonvsarik daizache zage asat. Bom Jezuchi Bazilika ani
thodde nemlole Konvent.Basilikent, Sant Francisacheo reliko asat zaka
zaitech Katolk bhavarti aplo askari sant mandtat.Dor doskak, tachi
kudd sokla haddun porje khatir puzpak ani pollovpak dovortat,.Osli
ghoddnni nimmnni 2004 vorsa ghoddl. Vhoddle kabizadachea zageancher
Goem-Purtugez modichi vastuxilpkola pollonvk melltta.

Goeant zaite kodden Bharoti-Purtugez modichea vastuxilpkolen bandlolim
ghoram asat zorui kaim ganvanim tanchi got titli bori na. Fontainhas,
Ponnje ek sounskrutik zago tharaila ani to ek jivo jivitacho
songrahloi koso vapuddtat ani zoim Goenchi jivit, vastuxilpkola ani
sounskruti nodrek ieta. Purtugeza kallcho probhav kaim Goenchea
devllanim dista chodd korun Mongexi devllant.Punn 1961 vorsa uprant
kaim oslim devllam moddun Bharti pod'dotin bandleant.

Goem futtbol khellak chodd korun Moddganv xar chodd lovkik. Hangasor
mukhel khella moidan asa jem Fatorda urta. Futtbol ganvchea xetanim
pavs na ten'na ani rovop na ten'na khell'llolo dista. He khell chodd
doria degechea ganvanim khell'llolo pollonvk melltta. Choddxe vhoddle
National Football League pongodd zoxe Vasco, Sallganvkar, Dempo,
Sporting Clube de Goa, Fransa Pax, Churchill Brothers hangache.

Halinchea doxkanim Kriketticho probhav bhou promanant dista ani hachem
karonn taka raxttrik TV palov dita. Hacho porinnam Brittix rajea
kodden soirigot naslolea Dokxinn Asiecher zala.

Rajeachem ekuch khellachem moll Fatorda Stadium zavn asa jem Moddganv
asa.Hea mollacher ontoraxttrik futtbol toxench krikettui zata. Hoki
khell tisrea zagear urta.Goem hokiche fixealkaieche paromporik kott
aslem jem halinchea kallar dilovlam.

Sorkar ani Rajkaronn:

Panjim vo adim Purtugez kallar Pangim mhonn vollkhololem taka Goenkar
aple bhaxent Ponnji mhonnttat ani tem Goenchea proxasonnachi rajdhani
zavn asa ji Mandovi nodichea dhodder urta. Goenchi Vidhan rajdhani
Porvorim urta zoim Goenchi Vidhan Sobha bhorta ji Mandovi nodichea
poltoddi asa.Punn rajeachi niasobhechi rajdhani Mumboi (adlem Bombay
ani Goenchea bhair) asa ji Mumboichea Mha Niasobhe khala asa.Ticho ek
bhag Ponnje asa. Goeank, Bharotachea don sodnachea Sonsodent, Lok
Sobhecheo don boska ani Raj sobhechi ek boska asat. Goenchea ek
sodnache vidhan sobhent 40 vangddeanchi vidhan sobha asa zacho mukheli
Mukhel Montri zaka proxasok boll asa. Raj choloitolo sorkar chodd
boska melloilo pokx vo aghaddicho asta. Bhoumot aslolo pokx vo aghaddi
sorkar choloita. Rajpalak Raxttrpoti nemta. Rajpalachi bhumika chodd
dobhajeachi punn ken'naim sorkar konnem korcho vo vidhan sobha sthogit
korchi ten'na tachi bhumika chodd nirnnaiok zavn asa zoxem fattim
ghoddlam.Pondra vorsam modem 1990 tem 2005 tis vorsam sthir sorkar
aslea uprant, Rajpalan vidhan sobha virgoili ani Raxttrpoti rajvott
ghoxit keli. Jun 2005 pott nivoddnukent venchnnuko zaleleo.thoim
panchantle tin zage Kongres pokx jikhlo ani sodrer ailo. Goeant,
Kongres ani BJP he don vhodd pokx. Her pokxanchim nanvam UGDP, NCP,
MGP zo khub porno ani zo aple paromporik venchnnuk mandd harounk
pavla. Her Bharotachea prantanim protek dhormank Brittix kaide lagu
keleat toxem hanga disonam, Purtugez samaneo kaido zo Napolean
kaideancher adarit asa to sorkaran Goeant sambhall'lla.

Akaxvanni

Goeant, adim Emissora de Goa mhonn ek bollixtt reddio sttexon aslem
jem Purtugezanchea kallar ganvkar vhodd chit divn aikotale. Purtugez
sot'tea somptoch hem sttexon All India Radio khal bodol'lem. AIR ekuch
radio vahini ji FM ani AM vitraita. Ponnje, Altinho studio asa ani
ttransmittor Bambole 5 kilometr ontracher asa. Bambole bollixtt
ttransmittor asa zo porki bhasanche kariakrom pordesant vitraita.
Hachea xivai FM channel Rainbow FM ui Akaxvanni kodden asa. 2006
survek FM vitravnni ordem hor tem ak'kho dis aslem. St Xavier kolejin
thoddea bollachem FM radio station sthapunk apli ievzonn jahir kelea
zaka porvangi mell'llea. Hem Febrer 2006 vorsa suru zavpachem punn
atam huxir zala.

Khobrepotram ani Masikam

Ganvchea vortmanpotram porgottnent, Inglix bhaxeche Herald potr
Goenchem soglea von pornem chalu aslolem jem 1983 poriant Purtugezint
aslem zaka O Heraldo mhonnttale punn tem atam Inglixin uzvaddaitat,
jivall punn dhakttem Gomantak Times, ani Goenchean uzvaddailolem
poilem Inglix disallem The Navhind Times.Hanche xivai The Times of
India, ani Indian Express Mumboi ani Bengllurchean hanga ietat.

Sorkari maniotai aslolim potram Navhind Times, Herald, Gomantak Times
(Inglixin) Gomantak, Tarun Bharat, Navprabha, Pudhari, Goa Times,
Sanatan Prabhat, Gova Dhoot (soglim Moratthi) hancho aspav asa. Hachea
xivai Sunaparant Devnagri Konknnintlean bhair sorta. Him soglim
disallim potram. Gomantak eka kallar nanvlovkik Goenchem dispotr aslem
zaka Tarun Bharotan sokla uddoilem. Halinch Gova Dhoot chodd famad
disallem zanvk pavlam.

Bhailim disallim, Goeant dusrea zagear thavn pavtat tantunt Kesari,
Times of India, Maharashtra Times, Navashakti adi hancho aspav asa.
Don mukhel khobram sounstha asat teo Press Trust of India ani United
News of India.

Her porgottneo Goa Today (Inglix mhoineallem), Goan Observer (Inglix
satollem), Vavraddeancho Ixtt (Romi Konknni satollem), Goa Messenger,
Gulab (Konknni mhoineallim) Bimb (Devnagri Konknni mhoineallem)
Harbour Times ani Digital Goa.

Durdorxonn

Goeant Bhartantleo asloleo sogleo TV vahinneo distat. Heo vahini chodd
kebolantlean mellttat ani bhitorlean zageanim upgirea vorvim pollounk
mellttat. Durdorxonn ji raxttrik vahini asa tacheo don bhuim-vahineo
asat, Goeant soglleo keboll vahini asat zanchi nanvam MTV,ESPN, Fox,
Zee TV,ZEE Marathi, HBO, Star Plus, Star Movie, BBC, CNN, Tensport,
AXN, Star World, Star News, Sony, Set Max, SAB, Sahara One, Sahara
News, Discovery , National Geographic,Animal Planet, adi. Elektronik
madhiom zantunt thollave kamgar asat teo ETC, ANI, Sahara, NDTV,
sthanik kebol khobram vahini zoxim Goa 365 (Inglix), Goa Newsline ani
Goa Plus (donui Konknni).

Telekom

Mukhel telekom seva Reliance Infocomm, Tata, Indicom, BPL BSNL, Hutch,
Airtel ani Idea

Xikxonn

Dor ganvanim ekvottlole taluke asat ani dor eka ganvant sorkaran
choloiloleo xalla asat. Punn ganvkar choddxe khasgi malkecheo xalla
posond kortat karonn teo chodd sovloti

ditat. Sogleo xalla Sorkarachea SSC Boarda khala ietat zancho
obheaskrom Sorkarachem Xikxonn Khatem toiar korta. Thoddeo xalla ICSE
Board choloitat.Chodd xikpi Goeant aplem xikop Inglix madheomant
kortat. Prathmik xallo chodd Konknnintlean choltat (khasgi punn
sorkari adara khal). Bharotantlea her zageam bhaxen, thollavea
bhaxenchea xallanche ankdde unnem zait distat karonn xikpi Inglix
madheom posond kortat. Ek bori Inglix madheomachi xalla Moddganvchi
Ignatius

Loyola High School ji 19vea xekddenant xikxit Moddganvkaram khatir
survat kel'li punn ganvkarache vaddik lagun oslem arokxonn atam kaddun
uddoilam.

Dha vorsanchea xallechea kalla uprant, xikpi Junior kolejint proves
kortat ani vinean, kola, kaido vo ud'deg dhondo xastr apnnaitat.
Thodde tin vorsanch diploma kortat. Don vorsanchea kolejicho kurs
kortoch vevsaik podvi ghetat.Goem videapitth ekuch Goenchem videapitth
jem Tallganv urta ani sogleo koleji tachea asrea khal asat. Goeant tin
iznerki koleji ani ek voizuki kolej asat. The Goa Enginnering kolej
ani Goa Medical kolej sorkar choloita ani don iznerki koleji khasgi
malkecheo. Halinchea kallar Vernechi Padri Conceicao College of
Enginneroing ek bori kolej zavn asa. Vokhdam xastr, vastuxilpkar anid
dant-voizuki kolejui her koljim vangdda distat.

Goeant kolejink khub magnni aslolean thoddeank xikxonna khatir Goeam
bhair vechem poddtta. Doriantli iznerki, hotel karbhar ani randop
henvui Goeant xikoitat.Goenchem ekmev vesai karbhar xikovpi xalla Goa
Institute of Management asa ji svotontr asun 1993 vorsa Pri.Romulado
D'Souza hannim sthaplea.

Thoddeam xallanim Purtugez bhas tisri bhas mhonn xikoitat.Goem
videapitth Purtugez bhaxent podvidhor ani Master podveo bhettoita.
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Povitr Zageachi Povitrtai sambhallat

2009-01-27T23:08:00.001-08:00

Povitr Zageachi Povitrtai sambhallat

Borovpi: Daniel F. de Souza.

Mon'xak hea sonvsarant jieunk tin vostunchi chodd goroz: Jevonn, ravonk ghor ani aple kuddichi moriad dhamp'pak kopdde. Heo tinui vostu ek sarkeo gorjecheo. Hanche modhem kopddeam udexim tor nhoich ami amchi vinglli kudd dhamptanv ani ti nettoitanv punn amchi moriad sambhallttanv. Mhunnttoch he kopdde je ami vapurtanv te magir somazache nodrent moriadiche rit-mannsugeche asunk chodd goroz. Be-moriadit nhesop kelear ani somazant dha zannam modhem befikirin bhonvlear tuka respet-man mellona, punn portench zalear tuzo abru varear ubhta.

Halinch jedna Mumboicho Arsebisp Kardial Ivan Dias hannem Mumboint aitarachea misak ieteleank tanchea nhespa vhoir kaim nem' kaide ghale tedna hacho dogd amchea Goeantui posorlo ani soglleanche kan-dolle chotur zale; hatunt mat dubhav nam. Oxem panvl marun Arsebisp Kardial Saib oxem sangunk sodhina ki lokan igorjent ietana adle bhoxen kant (veil) ghalun ani mathem-kan dhampun igorjent ieunchem mhunn. Punn igorjent misak ietana moriadichi nhesonn angak ghalun Dev mondirant proves korcho mhunn. Karonn Dev mondir, zaum magir tem igorz vo kopel, ek kheritponnim povitr oso zago ani tea zageachi povitrtai nhoich kornneamni bogor nhesnna vorvim legun sambhallunk chodd mhotvachem ani gorjechem.

Mhaka zalear mhoje nodrent oxem dista ki jem panvl aiz Mumboiche diosezichea vhoddilamni ubharlam toslench panvl amche Goenche diosezichea vhoddilamni-i marchi chodd goroz mhunn. Karonn aiz, barik polleunk gelear, amchea Goeantui igorjent misak nhespacher disan-dis ostomtechem varem marun amchi nhesonn komi ani komi zait gelea. Aicheo modi aileat teo 'bhov thoddem lipoitat, punn chodd dakhoitat' ani zaitea amchea tornatteam cheddvank, toxench kazari bailank legun, ghodie oxem dista ki jitlim tim aplea nhespantlean ogllem dakhoitat titlim tim odhik fashionable zatat mhunn! Ho tancho chukicho somoz. Ani chodd lojechi gozal mhollear amchim kaim cheddvam bailo heo modi korun Dev mondir ek dansacho vosro zal'lea porim loz-pez soddun apleak zai toxim nheson hanga proves kortat ani dusreanchem-i mis pidd'ddear kortat mhonnnlear hanv otitai korcho nam.

Aiz TV, Internett ani her sompork sadhonam ani madheomam udexim sorv sadharonn mon'xachi modi korpachi laiki ani humed khub zagrut zalea ani hache udexim heo noveo modi soglleam vattharamni posorleat mhonnlear chuk zanvchi nam. Aiz amche ganv odik korun je doria deger asat te (coastal areas) adlea porim udorgot naslole ganv urunk nant, punn te soglle semi-urban vatthar zaleat ani lhan-xarancho akar (small towns) ghetla. Mhunnttoch ostomtek zolmon ietat teo modi amchea ganvantlea paiam vattamni pavunk chodd vell lagona. Ani ganvamni pavleo mhunnttoch teo modi rokhddeoch amchea Dev mondiramni aitarachea misak proves korinastana-i bi ravonant!.

Mon'xa lagim unch molache ani nove modinche kopdde aslech mhunn zaina. He kopdde khoim, koslea okajavank nhesche, kosle modichem nhesun apli rit-mannsug ani moriad somazache nodre mhukar koxe toren rakhunk zai ti zannvai ani chintop te kopdde vapurtoleank asunk chodd goroz. Hi zannvai zor nam zalear gaddva ani mon'xa modhim koslich ontor aschi nam. Sangunk vaittt dista, punn sangchench poddtta; karonn aiz amche chedde cheddvam casual wear zoxe porim Dennim Jeans ani T-Shirts ani Sleeveless Tops ghalun aitarachea misak Dev mondirant ietat. Itlench nhoi zaitim cheddvam bailo, off-shoulder nhespam nhesun ani noodles-am itlo barik potto (strap) aslolo vistid ghalun Dev mondirant ieun zaiteanchem mis legun pidd'ddear kortat. Tor hem sogllem polleun ogich bospachem? Dubhava viret zaitea igorzamni, altarar ravun amchea padrimni hea modim vhoir xittkavnni dil'li zaite fautt kannancher poddlea. Punn durdoivan, hacher durlokx gelam ani soglleamni kan bhere keleat. Karonn sorv sadharonn mon'xak, selective hearing (apnnak zai tench vinchun kaddun aikop) ho ek gunn asta, ani hea selective hearing-acho gunn ami zaite fautt goirfaideak vaporla. Dekun hacher unchlea zagear savn chabuk marunk zai.

Aiz amchea Goeant kaim corporate ofisamni legun tharavik Dress Code (nhespache nem') asat. Ani kamdaramni kaichekai nhesun ani Jeans ghalun dor disa kamank ieunk zaina. Jeans ani Casuals fokot son'varachim nhesunk maneotai asa. Tor oslo Dress Code amchea diosezichea vhoddilamni amchea Dev mondiramni kiteak lagu korunk zaina? Zata ani to korcho. 'A stitch in time saves nine' he Inglez mhonn'nnechi hea vellar mhaka iad zata. Uprant xinnon faido nam.

Zaite kodden amchea igorzamni resperak amcheo hoklo ani hoklecheo dheddio modi kortat tem polloilear tim resperak nhoi punn Fashion Parade-ik' aileant kai dista. Konnem tori mhaka fattim ek dam sanglolem (khoincho ganv to hea vellar boro ugddas zaina, punn Goeantuch ghoddleli khobor): Eke hoklen khoim resperak ghatil'lo vistid (gown) voir itlo ugto aslo (revealing) ki resper kortelea padrin misar ani koblat uchchartana, anik kosloch upai nasun, nhovreacho coat kaddun tichea angar ghalo. Osli vagnnuk Dev mondirant kortoch soglleank ti ek vhodd sotavnni zaunk pavta. Dekun oslea vagnnukancher bondi haddunk goroz. Jedna kazarache toearek hokle-novreak igorjent apoitat tedna, her xikovnnea sangata, resperachea misak nhespacher kaim nem'-kaide ani rit-rovisechi xikounn hea zoddpeank diunchi goroz asa. Nam zalear ho sogllo 'Fashion Show' chaluch urtolo ani ek dis amcho Kristi somaz hatabhair pavtolo.

Amchea tornatteank Dev mondirant misak ietana modi ani nhespa vhoir kosle nem'-kaide rakhche hacher nhoich amchea dhormik fuddeareamni igorzamni favo ti xikounn diunk goroz punn amchea Goeant Diosezichim iskolam ani Unch-madheomik iskolam asat tatunt 'Value Education' ditana, hi xittkavnni dilear vaittak poddchi nam. Punn khoim tori he dixentlean survat zavpak zai.

Zaiteo amcheo xarantleo ani her vattharantleo igorzo asat zoim aitarche kaim bhonvddekar legun misak ietat; tankam igorjent nhespache moriadi voir ek kollovnni korun ani ticho Inglez ani Hindi bhaxen onnkar korun bhair vonttir toktto marcho.

Kall bodol'la ani xikpa vorvim mon'xachea gineanar uzvadd poddla, dekun modi korpachi ani ostomtechi vagnnuk apnnavpachi khumkhumi Goenchea tornnatteam modim mottea promannan aiz dixtti poddtta. Oslem varem amchea sobhonvtim posortana tem varem amche sonvskrutaiek ek motto dhok'ko divpacheo khunno legun disunk lagleat. He dixen kaim karvai korina zalear, ek dis Dev modirant ietat tim magnnem korunk nhoi bogor thoim vochun aplea novea kopddeanchem ani ostomtechea bemoriadik modinchem prodorxon korunk mhunn amchea tornatteanchea monant vankddo somoz zait mhunn mhojem mon mhaka tonchta. Dekun sobhemazar mhoje vichar Gulabachea paklleancher xinvraitam.

GULAB-achea boreaponnan (Agost 2005 ank)

(Courtesy - Gulab August 2005 issue)

Konknnichem Konnak Poddlam? - G.R. Crasto

2009-01-27T23:05:00.000-08:00

Konknnichem Konnak Poddlam?

Konknni Goenkaranchi maim-bhas. Avoik visorpi khub thodde melltole. Avoicho
sogleank mog. Ho mog utramni ami sogleakuch aikotanv. Utram-kornneamni omlant
haddpi mat bhov thodde. Hench Konknni sovem ghoddtta. “Konknnichem Konnak
Poddlam?” Ho Fausto babacho lekh gelea Mars-achea ankar vachlo. Vorsak barai
mhoine Konknnicho mog korpi bhov thodde mellttole. Punn jedna Konknni avoin
ulo marla tedna sonvsarachea chearui kon’xeamni aslelea putamni tika apli favo
ti mozot dilea. Iad zata. Novem Goem disallem suru korchea nimitan purai
Goeant iatra chol’li. Ami-i tatunt bhag ghetlolo. Pordesantleai Goenkaramni
apli ful nam paklli patthoili. Novem Goem suru zalem ani bhurgeaponnaruch
somplem. Kitlea Konknni mogianche teag! Khoim gel’lo? Khoim nam. Kitem
haddlem? Kaim nam. Poiso ektthail’lo to chotraien vapddunk zai aslo. Disallem
cholounk ghodonna zalear ek mhoinallem tor hea Konknni mogianchea ugddassak
sthapun dovrunk zai aslem. Toxem ghoddlem nam.

Uprant anik ek pautt Konknni avoin ulo marlo. Konknni Goenchi Raj bhas zaunchi
mhunn chollvoll suru zali. Chollvollik duddvanchi mozot zai asli. Konknni
Porjechea Avaz-ak nett euncho mhunn sonvsarak ximpoddlelea Goenkaramni anik ek
pautt Konknnik mozot keli. Hangasorlean ami kaim Goenkaranchea sangatan denngi
ektthavpant bhag ghetlo. Konknni Goenchi Raj bhas zali, anik Konknni Porjecho
Avaz xant zalo, bond zalo. Hoch boro soeg aslo cholvoll matxe fuddem vhoron ek
disallem nhoi zalear mhoinallem suru korpacho. Romi ani Nagri donui lipi sudam
vaprunk ietaleo. Heim ghoddlem nam. Vhoir kel’le mud’de, “Konknnichem konnak
podlam?” hea prosnak thoddo bhov zabab ditat. Punn voir dil’lea donui
ghoddneam vellar somiti ektthaim ieun vaur kel’lo ani somitichi nodor mottvi
zali. Hea somitincher zaite aropui aikunk ietale. Konknni porjen patthoil’lo
duddu aplea hatant asosor thoddea somitimni Konknnichi seva keli ani
uprant ...aichi poristhiti.

“Konknnichem konnak podlam?” Voilea don udharonnam vixim ek spoxtt zata.
Somiti vinchun kaddun Konknni jivi dovrunk titlem sompem nhoi. Kitleoxeo
Konknni sonstha utpon’n zatat. Tancheamni ektthaim ieun ek Konknni mhoinallem
porgott korcho vaur hatant gheunk zata. Punn zaite pautt hea sonsthancho avaz
aikotoch mhaka ‘ollbim pausantuch fultat’ tanchi iad zata. Eka disallea vo
mhoinallea udhexim Konknni jivi urteli zalear Konknniche je pixe asat tanche
hat ghott korchi chodd goroz asa. Thoddea pixeank Devan apoun vhele. Adlea The
Goa Times-ache sompadpi Sorg. Dr. Simon Fernandes, amchea mogache Pri. Freddy,
Felicio Cardoso hanchi maka iad zata. Khub kall Elly Bros. hannim Cine Times
porgottun Konknni vachpeanche anvdde bhagoil’le asat. Hea sogleanchi tust
korit titli komi, kiteak tannim dusreacher patieun nhoi punn aplea teagamni,
aplea poixeamni, aplo vell vibaddun Konknni vachpeanchi tan bhagoilea. Aiz
tanche sarkelo ekuch nomuno mhojea samkarak eta. Bab Faust Da Costa. Gulab, The
Goan Review, Goencho Avaz hanchem vojem aiz tannem aplea mathear ghetlelem
asa. Hem tachem vojem lohu korche khatir Konknni borovpeanchea ani
vachpeanchea suchnanchi chodd goroz asa. Survek amchi ek suchna. Khoincheim
tori ekuch masik mozbut korchem.

G. R. Crasto, Bahrain

http://www.goa-world.com/

Ank V Vors 23
Mai 2005

GULAB

Sthapnnar Sompadpi ani Uzvaddavpi:
Sorgest Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa

Sompadpi:
Fausto V . Da Costa

Sompadpi Somiti:
Prof. S M Borges
Soter R Barretto
Marcos Gonsalves

Protinidhi:
Mumboi: Fausto V. Da Costa, Tel. 22630139
Kuwait: Jose Antonio Gracias, Tel. 6064772
Res 4349830 (Code 00965)
Bahrain: G. R. Crasto, Off. 291166 Res. 296613
D. Goem: Fabian G. da Costa Tel. 2735379

Xhapkhanno:
Plot 85, Phase II C,
Verna Industrial Estate,
Verna, Salcete, Goa, India
Tel. 91-0832-782413, 782416 & 782431

E-mail: gulab_goa at sancharnet.in

Chotraien uloi, xik ani boroi

2009-01-27T23:01:00.001-08:00

Chotraien uloi, xik ani boroi

Mauxi: Are Pedru baba tum khoim? Kitloch kall zalo tuji khoboruch na mu re?

Pedru: Age mauxe, tuka dislam mhonn toxem mhonnttam, tuvem mhoji khobor
ghetlea kitem? Hanv don pavtt voir bhonvun ailom. Fonddar don pavttim
khontto marleo. Ani atam tontto-kudd'ddo koso boddi gheun choltam.

Mauxi: Mhaka bhogos baba, hanv nokllo zalim. Ponn hem sang, kaim dis zale,
atam porno, novo adlo/novo, adlo/atancho oxem kitem cholta tem tuka khobor
asa ?

Pedru: Age, hoi ge, amche xapai bhormentle zage zaleat khoim! Ani
porno/novo, adlo/novo adlo/atancho Korar amche Konnni bhaxent ghalunk
sanglam khoim. Az kitlinch vorsam zalim konnuch khobor korinaslo. Dusrea
bhasamni ani Kon'nodd lipin Konknni bhaxantor kelear kitloch kall zalo, ani
atam....?

Mauxi: Amger ek porni almar asli ti bhair uddoun ek novi haddlea. Ani mhoje
mauxe-bhoinnin adli asli ti viklea ani atanchi ek bori sobta tosli haddlea.

Pedru: Oi ge atam te lojek poddleat. Kiteak zanna? Pornea /Adlea Koraracho
ek bhag namnechea boroupean bab Felicio Cardozan (Kardozon nhoi) Konknnint
bhaxantoraila. Mhonnttoch atam adlo ani novo mhonn vivad suru zala.

Mauxi: Atam hacher tujem mot kitem?

Pedru: Atam hanv je konn he somitint asat, tanche lagim hat zoddun magtam
uloita tem xika ani boroia. Ani hem xikunk (sud'dh lekhon zaunk), Amchea
omor Prof. Lourdin Rodriguesan Konknnichem veakron jem Gulab-ar ani V.
Ixtt-ar Amchi Bhas Xik mhonn porgottlam Mars 1983 tem Agost 1990 ani tantunt
"Dulobha Kallza Jezuchea" 1990 Abril, thoim sompoitana tannem sanglam "He
vishoim ani somoim..... hem soglem... bhov goroz asa..... Amche modhem
Kristi dhorm xastri asat ponn Konknni bhasxastri ani viakoronnkar na......
Mezar bosun, sogllem Kristi dhormik sahiteo, nitt, sud'dh, subh ani rochnent
(order) ghalchem. Ani toxench hanvem oslea zaitea adharan chotraien uloi" ho
bhag V. Ixtt-ar suru kelolo to 29-4-1993 pasun chol'lo. Toxench hanvem tea
osud'dh "Xelli" utrak lagun Gulab Nov. 88 Agnus hem utorlam - cordeiro -
menddrum oxem boroilam tem vachchem mhonn magtam. Konknni, Moratthi, Hindi
oxinch utram uloitat boroitat ani melltat.

Zori tor, him sogllim boroupam hea somitichea vangddeanche nodrek naslim vo
na zalear hanv raji asam tim diupak, ponn ek magtam, tumcho ho mhotvacho
vavr ugtea monan kora. Vattevoilem, bazarantlem haddun osrear dovorchem
nhoi.

Hea mhotvachea kama khatir thodde nomunne ditam:

Jezuchea Povitr Kuddi Rogtachi Porob V. I. 14/6/03 pan. hem oxem kiteak?
Kudd mhonnttoch tem Mas ani Rogot Povitr Kuddichi vo Masa-Rogtachi oxem
boroilear puro. Soro tem dakancho ros borounchem. ? J. E. Saldanha

Bapachea Gopant
Piedade Fernandes

Kepencho, amcho bhav Piedade Fernandes aple piddeche koxtt vhodde
sosnnikaien ani mogan soslea uprant, Agostache 5 ver, sanjer Bapachea gopant
portolo. Tachi pirai 72 vorsam asli. Aple potini sangata apleam panchui
bhurgeank bore dekhi ritin vaddoilim ani aple eke dhuvek somazache seve
khatir Madr Terezache Missionaries of Charity he Sonvsthechi Madr zavnk
bhettoili. Sodeak ti Amerikent vavurta. To sodanch hanstea tonddan sogleank
vagoitalo. Dusrea disa Igramoll vaddeantlea Kapelant tachea mornna vidi
zali. Pilarchea Fr. Agnel Kolejicho Principal Pri. Freddy Rodrigues mukhel
Iadnik asun sangatim Mis bhettoilem ani V. Ixtt-acho Sompadpi Pri. Peter
Raposo hannem provochon kelem. Kepencho Kur Pri. Tomas hannem simiterint
nimnim magnnim orpun kudd nikhipili. Amchi buzvonn tachea kuttumbak.

NICHEU KORI `WORLD GOA DAY' DISA

Mhojea mogall Goenkar bhava-bhoinnimno,
Atam donuch utram ghaltam tumche mukhar;
Supurloso, vellar, tumkam ugddas korunku,
Lagim pavla vhoddlo dis, zanv-ia ami toiar
Sobounk World Goa Day, hem tach' 4tem voros,
Gazonv ia tem odik, heram vorsam poros.
Ho dis rochlo 2000 vorsa bab Rene Barrett-an,
Novea itihasaicho ugddas amchea kallzant rigunk;
Konknni zali mhonn amchi Rajbhas Goeam,
Bharot-ghottnneche 8ve Vollerint ti poddun.
Hem ghoddlem 20ver Agostache 1992 vorsa,
Ponn azun koslo tacho faido ami kaddla?
Dha vorsam zaun gelim, torii ami nhidleanv,
Beporva kortanv ami amche Konknni bhaxechi;
Ti ulounk dha-zonnam modem ami loztanv,
Visrun ti zaun asa mhonn Osmitai amchi.
Ti jikhunk 1987, bhoktiamni rogot legun vharoilem,
Atam koxem tankam ami rinn farik korchem?
Agostache 20ver nicheu korum-ia Konknni ulounk,
Zori konn nokllo, tannim xikunk suru korunk zai;
Nam tor ek dis poddtelem amkam dukham gollounk,
Goenchi Rajbhas fuddem Moratthi zait kai!
Kiteak chodd Moratthivale Goeam kortat toiari,
Goenchi Rajbhas ek dis zauncheak ti Moratthi.
Chintun polleiat kosle bhognnar amche zait te,
Oi, amche tornatte fugar zatole bekarponnan;
Maharaxtrantle tornatte ieun Sorkari zage bhortele,
Amche niraxi zaun jiv ditele vo vetelet pordesant.
Xekim Goem zaun vetolem Vishal Gomantak,
Ang xirxirta mhojem, oslem dolldir chintcheak.
Kitle koxtt korun jikloleanv ti Rajbhas,
Ponn ami kainch kelem nam ti rakhunk;
Inglez-uch tasun denvoilo ami ticho prokas,
Zaite Padri legun laglet Inglezin sermanv sangunk.
Morathivaleamni atam novean zhuz suru kelam,
Koslim zanvchim atam amchim hatiaram?
Ekuch upai: vaddounk amcho Konknni ankddo:
Xikat, uloiat Amchi Bhas, ho mhozo nimno ulo!

-- Basilio Magno (Spain)

Sheik Amir to perform in Kuwait for silver jubilee celebrations of GULAB

2009-01-27T22:58:00.000-08:00

Goa’s Mimicry King – Sheik (Xec) Amir to entertain on Friday

Xec Amir, as he is known in ‘tiatr’ circles, completed schooling from the Mahatme School. At a young age, he was a regular participant at the school shows and acted on the marathi stage. But the konkani stage beckoned. Amir used to go along with the erstwhile singer John F.

In Premanand Sangodkars’s ‘tiatr’ titled ‘Vatt Chukli’, the young novice was asked to sing a solo. Although a bit apprehensive to perform with the stalwarts, Amir did sing and his humorous song received four encores.
Premanad Sangodkar booked him for all the remaining shows.

John Claro cast him in ‘Vinglli Nachpinn’ and ‘Civil Kazar’ but it was late
Fr. Freddy J. da Costa who encouraged and made him into an actor. He was cast along with the great Jacinto Vaz, to do the comedy in hit plays like 'Utt Goemkara’, ‘Khata Pita Dev Dita’ and ‘Goemcho Avaz’. He has in the past performed in Kuwait and in the Gulf.

And now for the celebrations of the silver jubilee of ‘Gulab’ the Konkani magazine, Xec Amir will perform in Kuwait on Friday, 15th August 2008 for Mario Menezes’ Konkani play “Ghorabeache Vantte” to be staged at Hawalli A.C. Auditorium to commence at 4:15 p.m.
See him perform.

The Konkani lovers in Kuwait, while wishing the organizers, Kala Mogui Kuwait and the Gulab Working Committee, welcomes Mario Menezes and his troupe.

(As published in Kuwait Times - Page 30 / 14th August 2008)

- Forwarded by www.goa-world.com

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KONKANI DRAMA IN KUWAIT

Mario Menezes brings emotions beautifully to life in his Konkani drama
horabeache Vantte to be staged on 15th December 2008 as part of
Gulab's silver jubilee celebrations in Kuwait and 61st India's
Independence Day celebrations at the Masrah Hawalli Auditorum at 3:45
p.m.

Watch out Rosy Alvares, Comedian Joana, Agnes, Lawry Travaso, Mario
de Vasco, Sheikh Amir, Baby Rioma, Mario Menezes, Edison with
musicians August de Panchwadi and James giving a fine entertaining
performance. For details email gulabq8 at gmail.com or Mob: 9391452
or visit Raja Stores (Kuwait City) for gate passes. The Konkani drama
is prresented by Kala Mogui Kuwait (KMK) with Gulab Working Committee
Kuwait and supported various Goan Mangalorean and Indian organizations
& individuals in support of Konkani.

Congratulations to Vinay Lewis of "Pearl Beats"

2009-01-27T22:57:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Vinay Lewis of "Pearl Beats" for making it to the Finals of "Gulf Voice of Mangalore".

Vinay Lewis and Joyline Gonsalves will represent Kuwait.
They triumped from among the 12 semifinalist at the Carmel School Auditorium.

Gulab Working Committee wishes Vinay & Joslene the best of luck for a grand final to be held on Friday 17th October 2008 at American School Auditorium.

Cheers!

GWC/q8
Gulab Working Committee - Kuwait
gulabq8 at gmail.com

Goa's Pride - http://www.goa-world.com
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans

Konkani Amchi Mai Bhas Sogglea Goenkaranchi - hench amchem herans.
For all Goans, our mother-tongue Konkani, is our pride!
http://www.songs-from-goa.at/goa/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ECJrnqPcI

Plans to reactivate Dalgado Konkani Akademi - 15/5/2004 (The Navhind Times)

2009-01-27T22:56:00.001-08:00

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Plans to reactivate Dalgado Konkani Akademi
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Over 70 writers of Roman-script Konkani unanimously resolved to
reactivate the Dalgado Konkani Akademi, formed in the 1980s to
further the cause of Roman-script Konkani.

In a meeting held at the T B Cunha hall, Panaji, yesterday, the writers
also resolved to demand the Goa government's support in preserving
and promoting Roman-script Konkani which is the age-old tradition of
the Christian community of Goa. Besides, the writers resolved to organise
a three-day festival to bring together lovers of Roman-script Konkani.

The writers put up several suggestions towards the cause of the
Dalgado Konkani Akademi; the creation of a fund to finance the activities
of Roman-script Konkani, popularisation of its pioneers, bringing together
all institutions using Roman-script Konkani, formation of village level
committees to create awareness etc.

Welcoming the writers, Fr Freddy J Da Costa, the editor of Gulab,
a monthly magazine in Roman-script Konkani, said the aim of this
movement will be to preserve Konkani culture in the Roman script.
He stressed that they were not against Devnagiri-script Konkani and
that the need of the hour was to support writers of Roman-script Konkani
to create good literature and to increase readership.

"Our perception that Devnagiri script for Konkani will unite Goans has
failed us. Konkani writers in Roman script have not got any benefit to
develop their talents," he said. Fr da Costa urged the writers to seriously
deliberate on the issue if Roman-script Konkani was to be preserved.

Mr Tomazinho Cardozo said that Vavraddeancho Ixtt and Gulab, both in
Roman-script, had higher readerships compared to any Konkani publication
in Goa. There is tremendous readership for Roman-script Konkani provided
the writers produce good literature. The Christian community will have firm
roots in Konkani language and Goan identity only if their Konkani tradition
in Roman script is preserved and promoted, Mr Cardozo said.
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The Navhind Times 15/5/2004 - page 5
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Sunnem - Moipaxi ani Visvaxi Mon'zat

2009-01-27T22:55:00.001-08:00

Sunnem - Moipaxi ani Visvaxi Mon'zat

Borovpi: Daniel F. deSouza.

Soglleam zon'varam poros sunneacho mhaka khub mog ani moipas. Sunnea itlem
moipaxi ani visvaxi zon'var hanvem anik dusrem polleunk nam. Sunnea porim ek
ghoddo pasun visvaxi, punn tachea visvaxiponnacho onnbhov mhaka nam. Horxinch
zalear sunneacho mhaka lhan'ponnim savnuch moipas. Aiz meren hanvem mhojea
jivitant tin sunnim posleant ani tancho mog moipas onnbhovla. Tea xivai mhojea
ixttanger legun asat tim sunnim mhoje lagim mog-moipasan vagtat.

Monis bheiman ani onupkari. Mon'xak tum xembhor fautt borem kor, punn ek fautt
ek kitem borem korunk chuklear to tujer portota. Adim xembhor khep borem
kel'lo monis soroll visorta ani tuzo dusman zata. Punn sunnea sarki mon'zat
toxi nhoi. Tem zon'var khub visvaxi ani upkari. Tum taka ekech fautti borem
kor ani tem tujem jivitbhor ixtt zatlem ani tujea upkarant ravtelem. Tachea
visvasak mon'xancho visvas kosoch sor korinezo. Monis kama-purto-mama. Sunnea
koddsun hanvem khub mog ani visvaxiponn onnbhovlam ani halinch ghoddlele eke
ghoddnukek lagun hea vixoiacher don utram boroin-xem mhaka ievzolem.

Kaim vorsam fattim Saliganv, Bardez, Albino De Souza mhojea eka
ixttager 'Lassie' nanvachem ek vhoddlem 'Alsatian' sunnem aslem. Lhan savn
tem mhoje vangdda khellttalem. Uprant tem vhodd zatoch sompeponnim ghora-
bhaileank koxench lagim dhorinaslem punn hanv tanger gelear mhaka tem itlem
ukllun dhortalem ki tachim dhoniam legun taka ojeaptalim. Ek vichitrponn
sangchem mhonnlear, hanv tanger bhett diunk vetana khub pois astanch taka
mhojea vasar gomtalem ani tem aplea ghora bhitor astana kachabul zatalem.
Daraxim vochun ani zonelacher uddki marun tem zonelache gradintlean tondd
bhair ghalun mhaka polletalem. Tachea hea vichitr vagpa udexim tachea
ghorcheank legun gomtalem ki hanv ghoddie tanger ieunche vatter asa mhunn.
Fokot ghorchea dhonia xivai osli vagnnuk tem sunnem fokot mhojech koden dhakol
kori.

'Tasha' mhojem pomeranian sunnem sumar sat vorsam jielem. Ani hea sat vorsank
tannem mhaka khub mog-moipas, man ani visvas dilo. Gineanan tem khub huxear
ani vagnnuken khub somjik. Mon'xak pasun kaim vellar itli somjikai aschina
jitli somjikai hea sunneak asli. Hatamni pasun xinalam korun sanglear tem
somzotalem. Koslench pievpachem okhod vo tonic taka diunk zai zalear taka
battli dakhoilearuch tem ieun mhojexim bosun bhurgea bhoxen aplem tondd ugtem
korun boso. Uprant kuleran taka okhod diunk zai aslem. Oslem sunnem hanvem
anik dusrem azun polleunk nam. Zorui hanv fridge-antli 'cadbury' kaddun khatam
zalear, 'silver- paper'-acho avaz aikun tem khoim asa thoimsorlem mhojexim
ieun rokhddench don paiamcher ubhem zatalem ani aplo 'cadbury'-cho vantto
dilea viret thoinchem koxench halonaslem. Mhoji maim kedna duent aslear tem
tichi fatt soddinaslem, tiche baje pondak bosun ravtalem ani ti utth'tta tedna
apunn utthun tichea fatta-fatt apunn bhonvtalem.

1993 vorsa Goeant bhuim-kamp zala te ratricho mhaka azun ugddas ieta. Te ratik
tem mhoje baje pondchem utthun okosmat zomnir bosun mhaka nidhla to polleun
utthounk laglem. Aple donui hat tannem voir kaddle ani bajer dovorle. Hanvem
taka nidhunk agro kelo punn tem koxench nidhonaslem. Porot-porot voir
polletalem. Tem kitem sangunk sodhta tem mhaka somzolem nam. Anik kaim voram
modhem te ratik bhuim-kamp zaun amchi baz ek vhoddem koxem dholonk lagli ani
hanv ani mhoji ghorkarn ekach farak zagim zalim. Ami tisre mallier ravtalim.

Hanv ghora bhair vetoch 'Tasha' mhoji vatt polloit dara somor bosun ravtalem.
Ken'nai hanv kaim disank Goem bhair ghel'lom asot zalear tem aplem jevonn
legun khaunk ienaslem, nam mhunn aple boxiek vollun legun pollenaslem. Ek don-
tin dis tem oxench kori. Uprant taka somzaun baie-puta korun, lhan bhurgea
vori jevonn jevunk agro korcho poddo. Ek dis tem okosmat duent zalem ani
Vasku voizak tachi pidda survatek gomlich nam. Ek suman uprant hanvem taka Dr.
Merilyn Estibeiro hi zon'varanchi voiz tedna Porvorim astali tichexim vhelem.
Taka topastoch tinnem tachi poristhiti chodd gombhir mhunn mhaka gomoilem.
Fuddlim 36 voram kaddlear borem zaupak xoketai asa mhunn tinnem mhaka te ratik
sanglem. Tea disa Porvorim mhojea mottorantuch bosun taka ek sor ghalo. Uprant
dusro sor taka dusre sokallim sumar 11 horancher ghalunk mhaka dotoran
formailem. Dusre sokallim 8.30 vorancher hanv taka thoddem dudh bhoroun mhojea
offisak gelom, ani sumar 10.30 vorar ghora portolom; taka dotoraxim vhorun
dusro sor lavpak. Taka hanvem zapailem ani nhidentlem tem utthlem. Zaiti
tozvit korun tannem apli man voir kaddun mhaka pollelo ani porot nhidunk
gelem. Hanv taka mhoje vengent dhorun mottorant ghalunk gelom voizager
vhorunk. Zalear, tannem mhozo hat aple jiben lhenvpak proitn kelo, punn taka
boll zaina zalem. Dusre ghoddie-bhitor tannem mhoje vengent astanach apli man
bagoun mhojea hatamni aplo prann soddlo. Mhaka oxem dislem ki zait ghoddie
tem aplo prann soddunk hanv ghora ie meren mhakach ravtalem kai mhunn.

Halinch hanv mhojea kuttumba sangatim Mai mhoineant Shimla-Manali hea Himachol
Pradeshantlea vattharant bhonvddek gel'lom. Thoim Manali 4 dis ravnnem korun
astana, ek dis ami Vashistha mhonnttat thoim ek 'Sulphur Spring' nanvachi khot-
khotit gorom udkachi zhor polleunk geleleanv. Hi zhor voir dongrar asa, rosto
oxir, thoim vhoddleo bosi vochonant. Vetana ami 'Sumo' gaddient geleanv.
Amchi bos sokla sumar ek ded kilometre pois tharleli. Ti zhor polleun porot
amkam amche bosint ieunk tea dongra velean paiam vatt cholun ieunk zai aslem.
Amchea 'tour guide'-an amkam to rosto dakhoun to dusrea yatrikank haddunk
porot zhorixim gelo. Ami te paiam vattenlean denvtana okosmat ek parpoll
sunnean (stray dog) amcho khoincheanunch sangat dhorlo. Thoinchim parpoll
sunnim legun ekdom' vhodd akarachim ani datt lhonvechim. Kuddin mozbut ani
vhodd. Ani amkam vatt dakhoit-dakhoit mhonnlolea porim tem sunnem amchea
pavlam mukhar cholonk laglem. Sunnem khub moipaxi ani bore okhondd kuddichem
aslem. Tem amkam kitem tori sangonk sodhta kai oxem diso. Karonn porot-porot
tem mhojeach tonddak polletalem ani apunn tumchi ixttagot zoddunk sodhtam oxem
sangta kai mhaka dislem. Ami tacho sumar polleunk vatter bestinch modim
tharleanv. Zalear tem sunnem thoim apunnui tharlem. Uprant ami eka zagear
pavtoch thoim nisorgachi sobitai tokhetana matso vell bosleanv. Tem apunnui
amchea paiam-lagim boslem. Amkam soddun ek pavl legun tem mukhar marunk kobul
naslem, hem mhaka gomun ailem.

Hea vellar hanvem bhienastana tachea mathear hat bhonvddailo ani taka poxelem.
Hanv hem korta tem polleun mhoje dhuven-ui bhienastana taka poxeunk suru
kelem. Ani oxem korun ami ti dongraveli sumar 20 min'ttanchi vatt sompoun
rostear pavleanv. Hanvem ievjilem thoim ek khanavoll bi asa zalear taka kitem
masacho prat gheun khaunk diunk. Punn thoim tea dongrailea zagear ekui
khanavoll nasli. Punn ek lhan posro mhoje nodrek poddlo. Mhoje ghorkarnik ani
dhuvek hanvem bosint vochun bos mhunn sangon hanv tea posrear sunneank biskut
gheunk gelom. 'Tiger' biskutichem ek pakitt gheun hanvem taka mhojea hatamni
khavoilem. Tem tannem gostan khalem. Uprant anik ek pakitt gheun taka havem
tem khavounk survat kelem. Tem ordhem sumar khaun zata mhonnlear amcho 'tour
guide' mhaka porot apounk ailo, bos suttpacho vell zalo mhunn. Hanvem tem
ordhem biskutichem pakitt foddlem ani biskuti thoinch zom'nir taka khaunk
dovrun tea sunneak anik matxem mathear poxelem ani adeus kelo.

Somzol'lom tem teo biskuti khatelem mhunn. Punn tannem kitem korchem zait.
Hanv bosiximdhanvtam tem polleun sunnean teo biskuti thoinch soddun tem mhoje
pattlean dhanvun ailem. Ani tannem mhoje sangatan bosir choddunk khub proitn
kele. Dusro bosintlo lok ani ddraivor legun tacho sobav polleun thottakle.
Zorui tor hanv anik khoim Goeank lagim aslolom tor jerul taka bosint ghalun
ghora gheun ievpachom. Punn oxem korop xok'eo naslem. Hanvuch hanga, poilo,
hottelar ravtalom, ani taka anik khoim asro dium aslo? Zodd kallzan hea mhojea
vattsurea ixttak hanvem anik ek pautt mogan poxeun ami tegaimni zodd kallzan
taka adeus kelo. Tacho moipaxi sobhav azun mhojea dolleancher nixeta.

GULAB-achea boreaponnan (Setembr 2005 ank)

(Courtesy - Gulab September 2005 issue)

Jacinto Vaz - GULAB Puroskar

2009-01-27T22:54:00.001-08:00

From: Eddie Verdes
Date: Apr 30, 2007 12:32 PM
To: goaworldtoday at yahoo.com

*A tribute to late Jacinto Vaz - Charlie Chaplin of Konkani Stage*

The late Jacinto Vaz popularly known as Charlie Chaplin of the Konkani Stage was the First Tiatrist to receive the Goa State Cultural Award for the year 1979-80.

Born in Mandur, Ilhas Goa, on 27th April 1918, Jacinto did his schooling in Goa and Bombay. He used to take part in singing competitions in the School.
Although he started his career as a serious artist he ultimately acted in comedy roles, comedy which was in his blood. Jacinto Vaz has acted in 1000's of Konkani tiatrs all over Goa as well as Bombay and has won several awards including "Cine Times" and "Gulab" awards. He also acted in few Konkani films.

Jacinto Vaz is best remembered for his 3 famous songs: 'Akashwani', 'Bombay Deko' and 'Dont worry be Happy'.

After his song 'Akashwani' All India Radio had stopped playing his songs for some time. In this song he came on stage with his face tucked in cardboard box (radio) and then he would switch on the radio and imitate the songs, Akashwani broadcasted, mostly the news and the songs..ending with:
ah ah ah ah ah ah oxem zata....
magir fugdi galo go...
baba zala gho.....

Jacinto Vaz's first audio cassette 'Goemcho Avaz' was produced with the help of his son Tony Vaz. Songs in this cassette are: Rodtam hospitalan, Morn, Bangde Jelache, Saude, Goemkaranchi sutka, and Bombay Deko.

Jacinto Vaz is the only tiatrist, who made me laugh, I have not seen any other Tiatrist whose comedy can be compared to the Great Comedian 'Jacinto Vaz'

Today 30th April is the death Anniversary of Jacinto Vaz. I am not sure exaclty which year he passed away but I think it was in 1993. Kala Academy of Goa which celebrated the 100 years of Tiatr on 17th April 1992, had a valedictory function in Aprill 1993 to honour the
works of Konkani tiatrists, C.Alvares. Jacinto Vaz, M.Boyer, Remmie Colaco, Shalini, Prem Kumar, Antonette Mendes, Alfred Rose, Fidelis Fernandes, Alex Fernandes, Ophelia and Philomena Braz.

Jacinto Vaz could not attend the show as he was sick and his wife Mary received the award on his behalf. I think he passed away in the same month & year (1993).

Below are the words of the song, sung by Jose Rod - "Jacinto Vaz" which is a tribute to the great Konkani comedian and artiste.

May his soul rest in Peace.

Edward Verdes
Dandeavaddo - Chinchinim
Salcette Goa.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Jacinto Vaz
Lyrics and song by Jose Rod

Konkani palkacho Charlie Chaplin, mhunntlear sogott tuca vollkotalo,
Veg vegle toreche soungam korun, lokak ansoitalo,
Bhurgechponnim khorea mogan, konkani palkak tunvem vengoilolo,
Azunui palkar tuji goroz amkam, sodlear khoim mevtolo.

Jacint vaz, tujem naum aikot tor, tiatr pollounk lok ietalo daum marun,
Tiatr pollenarank divirtir kele, bori comedy korun,
Abrilache 30 tarker somplo, boro comedian ithisan dovrun,
Tunvem ansoilolo lok tuca aiz roddta, dolle dukhamani bhorun.

Ekonxim voixim (1980) vorsa state awards ghetlo tujea athan,
Kala Academyn , CineTimes, Gulab awards jikoi kedo tuca maan
Khorench hem ek Devachem dennem, comedy rigon asli tujea rogtan
Sodlear amkam anik meuchonam, giraslo darun mornan.
Composor, comedian, tiatr boroupi, chearui konxeacheani tuje tiatr zalele,
Abi tum log bombay deko, kantaran pixe kelele,
Dont worry be happy ho cant tuzo, sang Goemcar koxe visortole,
Once more talleo marun palkar tuca, koxe apoitole.

Tiatrachim xembor vorsam zalim, thoddeank pollounk tem noxib asonk na
Kala Academin inamam dilelem, gheunk tum ieunk na
Ghorkarnin tuzo inam ghetlo, bolake pasot tujean ieunk zaunk na
Toslim xembor vorsam rochtelea Bapan tuca kiteak favo keli na.

Konkani palkak jivit bhettoilem, lokak ansoile pott futtomsor
Konnachean tuka visronk zaumchem nam, Goeamkar zannat tuzo valor
Goemcarache navan magtam, Saiba Jacint Vazak gopant dhor
Charlie Chaplin nimmo adeus tuca, Saiba taka sorg favo kor.

- Lyrics & Text forwarded by Eddie Verdes.

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Tiatr Dis sorombho - 115 Vorsam somptana

2009-01-27T22:51:00.000-08:00

Another ‘Tiatr Day’ With Very Poor Attendance

Mogall Joe Bab,

Tunvem voilo mathalo diun, Abrilache 19ver Brestara
disa, NRI-GOANs wed-site potr veharant ‘Kala
Academy’-n ghoddun haddlolo “Tiatr Dis” sorombacbo
vako (report) uzvaddak haddlolo to, ami mon diun
vachlo. Konknni bhaxecho, Goencho ani Goenchea
sonskruticho tuka bhouch mog asa mhonn tujea vavra
velean amkam sid’dh zata. Pordesan aslelea Goenkarank
tujea koddlean bhouch faideachem vachop ani fotu soit
video velean chitram melltat. Tuzo moladik vell
piddear korun Goenkaranchea moga khatir khitem tori
mothvachem dita. Tuji tust korta titlich thoddi zait.
Isvoracho axirvadd tujea vavracher magtam.

Chalu vorsak, Abril 17ver ‘Kala Academy’-n sat
Goenchea tiatristancho sotkar kelo. Hantle dog kolakar
goir-hajir (absent) asle mhonn tujea borovpan vachunk
melltta. Julio Rodrigues (Jr. Rod) aplea sorgest bapui
Minguel Rod-ak, Goenchea sorkaran azun pasun bhovmann
(honoured) diunk na mhunn, nixedh porgottun, ‘Kala
Academy’-chea sorombhak hajir zai nastanam ravlo.
Dusro kolakar, Brazinho Soares-Kulapurkar, Kuwait-an
teach disa (Abrilachea 17ver) Kuwait-Goa Tiatristanchi
Sonvsthen (KGTS) 115 vorsam ‘Tiatr Dis’ ghoddun
haddlolea sorombhak hajir aslo ani tech porim “Konknni
Oparincho Jhelo” tachea novea pustokachem ugttavnni
pordesant korchea khatir KGTS hannim, taka khas
amontron diun Kuwait haddlolo.

‘Tiatr Dis’ mhonntoch, Kala Academy-cho sobhaghor
(auditorium), tiatristanim bhorun votunk zai aslem.
Durdovean, fokot hatar mezpa sarkele tiatrist thoim
distale mhonn tujea borovpan vachlem. Hi ek vhodd
khonttichi gozal. Thoddeank soddlear, zaitea
tiatristanim Konknni rong-machi aplo pottacho dhonddo
kela. Tor he tiatrist tea disa khoim asle kai?

Abrilache 17ver KGTS-an, eka farak tin xikar marli.
Tiatrachim 115 vorsam sorombh ‘Tiatr Dis’, KGTS
ghoddun haddlear panchvem voros (5th anniversary) ani
Bab Brazinho Soares-chea “KONKNNI OPARINCHO JHELO’
pustokachi ugtavnni.

Sorombhak hajir zaunk, Sonvsthe-cho, sorv-chitnis
umedivont bab Domnic Araujo hannem, mhojea oslea lhan
kirkoll borovpeak, amontron kard dilem. Sanjechea 7:30
horar, Village Inn Restaurant-ant voilo dhobazo
sorombhcho aslo. Kuwait-an, xeboram odik, vhodd ani
lhan (professional/amateur) tiatrist thikann korun
aslelean, hea dhobajeak Village Inn vosreant famili
sangata tiatristanchi ghorddi zatli mhonn chintun,
hanv vegim thoim pavon sorlear, ‘Hanv gel’lom axen,
sermanv zalo firngi bhaxen’ osli ghoxtt mhoji zali.

Bab Brazinho hanchi borovpam, hanv iskolacho lhan
por astanam Konknni disalear, satolear, ani masikar
vachtalom. Tannem, adlea tiatrachim hand bill-am (1947
thavn) ani pustokam (1954 savn) zoma korun aplea
ghorant samballun dovorleant mhonn kaim pavtti Inglez
toxench Konknni potrancher hanvem vachlelem. Ani
halinch KGTS hannim, tanchea vorsavollichea choutea
songit “Konknni Machiechi Itihas” karriavolli disa,
Kuwait-Hawally Sobhaghorant Bab Brazinho-an
ekttavlelim tiratrachim hand bill-achem prodoxonn
kel’lem tem, hanvem pollelem.
Hea mahan mon’xak mellunk kallchea Munglarak disa,
mhaka ek vhodd ani kherit bhagia zalem. Village Inn
Restaurant-achea darvorteamxim Shri Anthony
Corriea-Pienkar-an (Adim, oHeraldo disaleche Konknni
panache sompadpi, adle Uzvadd disaleache sub-editor
toxench Gulab masikache Kharbari asle) mhoji vollok
Bab Brazinho-ank dili. Brazinho baban, mhojea
nanvacheruch mhaka vollkollo ani mhojim borovpam
V.Ixtt-ar, Gulab-ar, The Goan Review adi, adi. tust
korpa sarkelim asat mhonn, hea mahan borovpean
sangonam fuddem, mhojem dhadoslem. Borovpeanchi vollok
sahiti (literature) velean zata. Ami eka-kekak borovpa
velean khub adim savn vollkotale. Hem amchem poilem
mellop zalem.

Ami tegui-i vosreant bhitor sorle. Punn, ghora
koddsun vosreant ieunk hanv bhair sortanam jem hanvem
kitem chintlelem tem mat mhojem soponuch kochem
tharlem. Kuwait-an, tiatristanchem bhirem asa tea
pormonnem “Tiatr Dis” sorombhak Village Inn vosreant
paim ghalunk svat aschinam oxem hanvem sumar kadlolo.
Ghoddie sodam porim susegad Goenkar late pavtolo oxem
hanvem odmas kelo. Jedna, Kuwait Igorjiche Padri
Vigar, Padri Melwyn D’Cunha hannem “Konknni Opariancho
Jhelo” pustokachi ugttavnni keli tedna hanvem, mhaka
soit 34 lok hajir aslele mezun kaddle. Ani xevott
meren to ankddo hallunk nam.

Jr. Rod-an, aplea bapaik Minguel Rod-ak Goenchea
sorkaran azun bhovmann diunk nam mhonn nixedh marun
‘Kala Academy’-chea sorombhak hajir zaunk nam, zalear
Kuwait-cho ekloi famad tiatristist KGTS-an ghoddun
haddlollea sorombak hajir kiteak naslo? Tancho koslo
nixedh kai? Vo amontron diunk na? 32 odik KGTS
sonvstheche vangddi asat. Fokot 11 vangddi vosrean
disle.

Joe bab, khoreanich ho gombhir vixei mhojea
manarojean vachpan ‘Aitarechea Kaskutleo’ hatunt
gheunk mhaka khuxi nasli . Jedna tunvem Kala Academy-n
zal’lem Goenchem chitr tujea borovpan amchea nodrek
haddlem tedna, mhaka-i dislem hangasorlem vo
Kuwait-chem vathoronn tujea nodrek haddunk. Khorem
mhonnlear thodde Goenkar crab mentality sarkele. Vhoir
sorteleak voir sorunk dinant. KGTS-achi novi vavurpi
somiti nirmann zaleleak, borea magpeanchea adharan
khup sudharnnim kelea ani korunk sodtat, punn jextt
(senior) tiatrist ani thodde KGTS vangddi, tankam
khala udounk tozvit kortat mhonn, Abrilache 17ver 2007
Village Inn Restaurant-an dolle bhor disun ailam.

Brazinho baban ‘Goenche Kala Academy’-cho, aplea
jinnentlo vhoddantlo vhodd sotkar chukoun Kuwait-an
aplea poilea (pordesan) pustokachi ugttavnni korunk
ailolo. Aple khas dolleanim tannem pollelem Goenkarank
kitlo porian sahiticho mog asa poi to. To ek
sahitikar-uch nhoi punn ek okhondd tiatrist. Konknni
rong-machier fuddle pillgek urta toslo vavr kela
Tiatistam khatir tannem khubuch girest daiz samballun
dovorlelem asa. Ani hea mahan borovpeachi ani
kolakarachi ekdom durboll poristhitin pustokachi
ugtavnni polloun, borea magpeank khub vaitt dislem ani
hajir asleleanim aplo xinn porgotailo.

Mogan mog dium-ia,

Lino B. Dourado

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21/4/2007

Romi dailies -- a lost cause?

2009-01-27T22:49:00.000-08:00

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Since 1889, almost a hundred Romi Konkani papers or periodicals
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Romi dailies -- a lost cause?

By Peter Raposo, sfx

So far, almost a hundred Romi Konkani papers or periodicals have
been published at different point of time since the year 1889.
Undentechem Sallok by Eduardo Bruno de Souza was the first Romi
Konkani periodical that started in 1889. Initially this paper
started as a monthly but later came out as a fortnightly and
lasted till 1894. Most of these periodicals were weekly,
fortnightly or monthly with an exception of few dailies.

In all there, there were a total of around nine dailies that
thrived -- at different points of time -- in Romi Konkani
journalism. Started in 1907 in Mumbai, by Bernard Francisco
Cabral, Sanjechem Noketr is the first daily in Romi Konkani.

Later, in 1932, Antonio Vicente da Cruz started Concani Bulletin,
another daily paper in Mumbai. These two dailies were followed by
Goan Observer (a Konkani-English daily) started in 1933 by Joao
Lazarus de Souza and Emigrant by Inacio Caitano, which was
started in 1934 as a weekly but later was published as a daily.

These dailies were all flagged off on a high note, but there
apparently wasn't enough steam to keep going. Besides, these
being mostly a one-man show business, after a short span of time
they all closed. This was the first phase of the daily papers.
Most of these papers did not follow any rules of grammar or
syntax. Portuguese words crept in extensively.

The second phase of the daily papers began in 1963 soon after
Goa's Liberation. Felicio Cardozo started Sot in Margao. This was
followed by Divtti, which started in 1967 of which Felicio
Cardozo, again, was the first editor. (Incidentally, Sot and A
Vida, a Portuguese daily, joined forces and combined to form
Divtti).

In 1970, Gomantak Private Limited started Uzvadd in Panjim. This
was edited by Evagrio Jorge. In 1982, Novem Goem was started and
Gurunath Kelekar became its first editor. Goencho Avaz is the
last Romi Konkani daily on our list, which was started by Fr.
Freddy D'Costa in 1989.

This second phase saw changes come in by way of language used,
grammar and syntax. Many writers emerged during this period.
However none of these papers outlived more than five years,
except the Concani Bulletin, publishing for 13 years.

Sot: Sot started by Felicio Cardozo evolved from Goencho Saad, a
weekly periodical, also started by him. It was printed on all the
days except on Mondays.

It carried news, columns, editorials, cartoons. A tabloid, it
published in four to six pages. It covered prevalent corruption.
Rules of grammar and syntax were followed and spellings tended to
be more consistent. Portuguese words were avoided. Readers slowly
got used to it.

During the first seven months a thousand copies were printed from
which only 400 copies were sold. Sales later grew to 5000. During
the course of time, Sot made enemies due to its exposures on
corruption. It also lost advertisers, this being one of the
factors for it becoming financially unviable. This led to its
merger with A Vida, a Portuguese-language daily run by Veritas
Publishers in Margao and Divtti was formed.

Divtti: Felicio Cardozo took over as its editor. It closed down
after a few months due to differences between the editor and
publishers, and financial difficulties. A tabloid, it had four
pages (weekday editions) to six on Sundays.

Uzvadd: Started by Gomantak Private Limited in 1970, with
Evagrio Jorge as editor. Readership touched 4000, but slowly
dwindled, in part for seeking to promote causes like merger with
Maharashtra and Marathi.

Jorge finally left the paper due to differences with the
publishers. The paper ran for almost six years. Prior to ceasing,
it turned weekly. Lack of funds and advertisements also
aggravated its demise.

Novem Goem: This publication was started with help of public
funds at the initiative of Dr. F.M. Rebello. Gurunath Kelekar was
its first editor. It ran a loss due to mismanagement and had to
be closed after three months.

However it was restarted and Felicio Cardozo appointed as its
editor. In its new avatar it carried six pages on weekdays and
eight pages on Sundays. Again, it too had to be closed down due
to mis-management and lack of funds.

Goencho Avaz: Fr. Freddy D'Costa, the founder and editor of Gulab
started Goencho Avaz, the last Romi Konkani Daily. A significant
section of the Konkani readership in Goa had been asking for a
Konkani daily paper, says Fr. D' Costa, who also considers this
as the main reason to have started the paper.

There was also a need among a vast section of the people who
neither read English nor could follow other languages and who
wanted to be informed about daily affairs.

Within a year's times, the readership of Goencho Avaz had reached
over 5000. Goencho Avaz carried four pages on weekdays and eight
pages on Sundays.

Fr. Freddy accepts that this venture being a one-man show, it had
to close down. He gives two main causes as reasons for its
closure: it was not managed professionally and the lack of
adequate income meant it could not continue paying the employees.
Today Goencho Avaz still continues, but comes out only
occasionally.

Why is it that not a single Romi Konkani daily survived is one
question that will haunt its readers and those behind the
launching of these papers. Most of these papers had common
pitfalls. They were either a one-man show or were not managed
professionally.

It could be argued that the 'lack of funds' followed from these
reasons and vice versa (this being a vicious circle). As a result
not a single daily or even the numerous periodicals that existed
were consistently able to deliver to the Romi Konkani reader what
it should have and what it could have.

To argue that there were insufficient readers to support a daily
would be inaccurate. No doubt the onslaught on Konkani during the
Portuguese regimes, the merger-with-Maharashtra and pro-Marathi
controversies and the division on the basis of script certainly
affected the growth of Konkani and Romi Konkani journalism. But
that no one actually capitalised or exploited the opportunity
that existed is a fact that will always continue to haunt.

After Goencho Avaz, no one else has come forward to start another
Romi Konkani daily. Is there a scope for a Romi Konkani daily,
the question is still being asked. If a person like Dattaraj
Salgoancar (publisher of the Sunaprant) supports such a daily,
would it work?

People working in Romi Konkani journalism feel that the scope for
such a daily is still there. At Vavraddeancho Ixtt our readers
frequently ask us: "Can't you give us a daily V. Ixtt?" The same
is true at the Gulab.

This demand comes from a large section of people in Goa who needs
to be informed and who can follow only Romi Konkani. It also
comes from a lot of people of Goa, more precisely the Christians,
who follow Romi Konkani and want to read the daily paper in their
own mother tongue besides an English-language paper.

There are those who may find it difficult to understand any other
language, say English, as well.

Looking at the past, it would appear that the Romi Konkani
dailies failed on two accounts: They were more often than not a
one-man show (no corporate backing) and none of them was managed
professionally.

Once the running of the content and the personnel is managed
professionally, a Romi Konkani daily could surely run
successfully, lasting for another 30 to 50 years and may be even
more.

But the million-dollar question here is, who will bell the cat?
Enthusiasm and ideas alone are not enough. Someone with the
managerial skills and abilities to sustain such a venture needs
to take the lead. In fact, time is ripe for the third and the
final phase to start another Romi Konkani daily paper. It is now,
or probably destined to never be.

Besides a person with corporate backing, the Church in Goa is
also in a good position to run a daily paper for several and good
reasons. The Church is the only institution that extensively uses
Romi Konkani; a dialect mostly used among the Catholic segment.
It has enough qualified persons to run such a venture or has the
potency to prepare such persons, if needed.

The Church in Goa has a network of about 160 parishes, including
ten major parishes able to subscribe to a thousand copies each.
For the remaining 150 parishes to buy even 100 to 500 copies is
not far-fetched.

A paper run by the Church could easily fetch over 25,000
subscribers without much effort, a figure that could grow given
the proper strategy and promotion. Such figures can help attract
advertisers. Besides, the huge market relating to death
announcements, anniversaries, weddings, and the like will be
another regular and guaranteed source of income that could ensure
such a publication's longevity and standards.

Finally let not this suggestion be understood as an attempt at
creating a communal divide (as we've seen happening in the case
of Konkani and Marathi). On the contrary it will bring Goa's two
major communities together, as it will keep a large section of
people (in this case the Christians) who are alienating
themselves totally from the Konkani fold.

Further, it should be seen as exploiting the existing scenario
for the enhancement of Konkani journalism and Konkani as such
irrespective of its scripts. No one should see it as a threat to
Devnagri Konkani, the official script of Konkani. Devnagri
Konkani will develop in its own time and the support of the
Church is evident from the 125 Konkani (nagri) primary schools it
runs and promotes. In fact, in the course of time, the new Romi
daily can slowly start introducing Devnagri and, when and if Romi
Konkani becomes irrelevant, it can be changed to Devnagri itself.
Otherwise the story of Konkani journalism may end up in the words
of the wise Konkani saying: 'Dada-i na puddvem-i na'. Simply, a
tale of lost opportunity.

--
The writer is a young priest, and editor of the Vavraddeancho
Ixtt, a Konkani weekly published from Pilar.

April 25, 2004

TRIBUTE TO FELICIO CARDOSO -- THE UNASSUMING GIANT

2009-01-27T22:48:00.000-08:00

FROM THE KONKANI WORLD: TRIBUTE TO FELICIO CARDOSO -- THE UNASSUMING GIANT

By Xavier Cota
xcota at sancharnet.in

The tragic death of Felicio Cardoso a year ago on May 17, 2004
brought down the curtains on a great man who walked most
unassumingly amongst us.

A man for whom Truth was an uncompromising credo but who, ironically was
often accused of being anti-religious! A generous soul whose left hand did
not know what his right hand had given and who could yet be charged with
being un-Christian! A true freedom-fighter who despite suffering years of
brutal imprisonment for his beliefs, never made a fetish of it, nor wore his
scars on his sleeve. A teacher who never stopped learning. A chef par
excellence, a dramatist, a magician who had mastered hypnotism. A linguist
with fluency over English, Portuguese, Kannada, Hindi and Marathi but who
prided in most often speaking only his mother-tongue Konkani which he served
with brilliant distinction. A writer with mastery over several literary
genres, but who nevertheless chose the difficult path of Roman-script
Konkani journalism when all that we had at the time were a handful of
gossipy weeklies and monthlies in rundown, anaemic, Konkani, and a religious
weekly catering to a very limited readership....

Felicio, though virtually penniless and in indifferent health after his long
stint at the infamous Aguada Jail, managed to string up the finances and
almost single-handedly launched a high quality Konkani weekly GOENCHO SAD in
tabloid format in the Roman script. It was to become the first Konkani
weekly in Liberated Goa. From the inception, there were articles of high
standard written by eminent Goan writers, both Catholic and Hindu.

Felicio Cardoso's contribution to the standardization of written
Konkani and the introduction of pure Konkani and Antar-Bharati or
pan-Indian vocabulary to Goans in general and the Catholic community
in particular is unparelleled. He did it with the flair of a natural
teacher as he gradually introduced more and more sophisticated
syntax and terminology with the colloquial word in parenthesis.
These were subsequently gradually withdrawn.

GOENCHO SAD, which hit the news stands early on Sunday morning became a
weekly habit for thousands of Goans from the well-educated to the
semi-educated. With its mix of bold, accurate reporting, informed comment,
poems and creative literature, sports and quizzes, puzzles and competitions,
GOENCHO SAD was a success. With the readership clamouring for more, Felicio
was emboldened to transform it into a daily within a year.

Thus, was born SOT.

Continuing the Goencho Sad tradition, a host of top Goan writers wrote for
it. Goa's Poet-Laureate Manohar Rai Sardessai contributed a poem every day!
Inspired by this, young Goan writers tried their hand at poetry and prose
and SOT provided a platform for their creativity. They were heady times.

During the four years of its life, SOT played a heroic role in exposing
corruption and above all in safeguarding Goa from merger with Maharashtra
during the Opinion Poll and for the recognition of Konkani. Later he trained
his guns on the Deputationists -- the colonial-type bureaucrats from across
the border who were lording it over the Goans in the Goa administration and
looting Goa. It would be no exaggeration to say that though GOENCHO SAD and
SOT lasted for only half a decade, the standards they set for responsible
journalism, bold exposure, informative comment and uncompromising adherence
to Truth, is a beacon for Goan journalism for all time -- that too on
antiquated machinery and a shoe-string budget!

However, unknown to most readers, publishing the SOT was a daily struggle
for its editor-publisher who had to sell off the few family heirlooms (that
still remained unlooted by his relations and others during his sojourn in
jail), to finance it. His uncompromising love for Konkani and his
intolerance of corruption and injustice inevitably placed him in the bad
books of the powers that be.

Corrupt businessmen irked at his espousal of the cause of labour,
even hired hoodlums to beat him up as he cycled home one night.
Unmindful of the pain, he heroically brought out the next day's
edition! Stung by his exposures, the then MGP Government shut off
government ads to the fledgling paper.

As the red ink mounted, well-wishers mooted what appeared to be a good idea
-- the merger of the struggling SOT with A VIDA the Portuguese daily (which,
after Liberation found its circulation dwindling), to produce DIVTTI the
first broad-sheet Konkani daily with a page in Portuguese. But the chemistry
was not right. Unyielding Truth is not a sought-after commodity especially
for the establishment to whom some of the new partners belonged. After a
few months, Felicio quit rather than compromise his editorial independence.
After his departure, DIVTTI sputtered on for some time before folding up.

For a short time after that, he published LOKSAD, a weekly.

Thereafter, another broad-sheet daily UZVADD was launched from the house of
Chowgules. He was invited to be its editor, but because of the conditions
imposed, which would compromise his editorial independence, he declined. He
was then asked to suggest a name. Eminent freedom-fighter Evagrio Jorge
whose name he suggested only agreed on condition that Felicio would be its
Margao correspondent. Ironically Evagrio also met his death in a tragic car
accident.

After the demise of UZVADD there was yet another attempt called NOVEM GOEM.
This daily tabloid, despite the back-breaking labour put in by Felicio, who
was not even thanked for his efforts, did not last, because of the venality
of those in charge.

Meanwhile he resumed his education 23 years after it was interrupted by his
involvement in the Liberation struggle, consequent incarceration in Aguada
Jail and his involvement in journalism . He completed his SSCE, went on to
finish his graduation and almost completed his LLB while beginning a new
innings as a teacher in Rosary High School, Navelim, where he made his mark
as a real guru with encyclopaedic knowledge and a rational, liberal outlook.

He gave vent to his literary and journalistic urges by contributing a
regular column 'Dixtti Kon' to the first Devanagari Konkani daily SUNAPARANT
and by his close friendship and association with Fr. Freddy da Costa.
Together they forged the GULAB into a class Romi Konkani monthly with a
large circulation both inside Goa and abroad.

It was firmly anchored on the bedrock of Truth and Justice and regularly
gave its readers gleanings from the best of Indian literature by its
translations from other languages and by transcribing quality Konkani
literature from Devanagri and Kannada scripts. GULAB reflected its editors'
concern for the loss of values, environmental destruction and above all
stood for the primacy of Konkani in safeguarding Goa's patrimony.

On special occasions, the newspaper GOENCHO AWAZ would be brought out.

The death of these two stalwarts together in a tragic car crash dealt a
double blow to Goa -- two powerful voices for truth, justice, rationalism
and open inquiry have been forever silenced. More tragically, a beacon for
leading a large segment of people back to Konkani has been snuffed out.

Is all lost?

Truth and Justice are eternal values. They reside in each and every
one of us even though many a time we do our best to sacrifice them
at the altar of untruth and expediency.

And Konkani?

Can we continue to be myopic and pretend that Konkani is only for the
semi-literates and die-hard protagonists, that it will not feed us, that it
is undeveloped, that it is a dialect etc etc?

When shall we Goans realise that Konkani is the very soul of Goa, the thread
that binds all Goans irrespective of caste and creed. Remove it and you have
an empty shell of selfish groups dancing to the tunes of out-of-state
puppet-masters and jostling for the crumbs thrown out by them.

Do we want to be masters of our destiny? Or will we continue to be ruled by
bureaucrats from all over India except Goa. Does any other state of this
country tolerate so many non-local civil service officers? Goa does it
because we never implemented the Official Language Act unlike other states
where no affront to the mother tongue is tolerated. The cause of
implementing the Official Language Act and safeguarding local jobs for Goans
is left to valiant groups like the Hitrakhan Manch fighting lonely battles
while the official bodies like the Official Language Cell remain mute?

Prophets, unlike the pompous pygmies that strut about on the political
stage, puffed with ill-gotten wealth, ego and self-importance are largely
ignored in their lifetimes, but, unlike those ludicrous figures, they are
not immediately forgotten, but are remembered even centuries after their
deaths.

Perhaps at this yearly milestone of the death of Felicio Cardoso -- genuine
freedom-fighter, champion of Truth and Konkani savant, we should rededicate
ourselves to reclaiming the soul of our Goanness.

Who knows, the spirit of Felicio Cardoso who recognised Romi-script as a
necessary bridge to lead thousands of marginalised Goans back into the
Konkani mainstream, may yet inspire a high-quality self-sustaining
Romi-Konkani daily which will be a byword for courageous, credible
journalism for a new Goan Renaissance!

FOOTNOTE: At the end of the anniversary mass at Seraulim Church
which had a touching homily based on the Sermon on the Mount by
Mons. Jaime Couto (a professor at Saligao Seminary)and the blessing
of the grave, Felicio Cardoso' friends and admirers gathered at his
house where Goa's Poet Laureate Dr. Manohar Rai Sardessai unveiled a
commemorative plaque. He remarked that a person like Felicio turned
up very rarely. He expressed the wish that every politician who
aspires to be a minister today, should first undergo at least one
month's solitary confinement at Aguada jail and taste a hundred
strokes of the infamous Agente Monteiro's cane as did Felicio
Cardoso. Adv. Uday Bhembro said that we as Goans do not treasure and
preserve our history. He remarked that we should have converted into
museums and pilgrimage centres of learning the residences of Goan
greats like Francisco Luis Gomes, Mon. Dalgado and Xennoi Goem Bab
so that posterity should know that such towering persons are our
ancestors. Writer Damodar Mauzo appealed to the heads of Asmitai
Pratisthan and Konkani Akademi to bring out a collection of Felicio
Cardoso's writings and his biography,. Soter Barreto, close
confidant of Felicio, thanked the people for coming announced that
the house which had been renovated by him and where Felicio's
considerable collection of books was housed, was available to
students of Konkani for reference work and for small literary
gatherings.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tanzania-born Xavier Cota is a Salcete-based former banker
who retired early to spend more time with his first love -- writing. He is
one of the few skilled translators of Konkani works into English, and his
translations have earned him praise from Konkani writers like Damodar Mauzo.

Konknnik Romi Lipi Koxi Labhli? GULAB (Ank Janier 2004)

2009-01-27T22:47:00.000-08:00

Konknnik Romi Lipi Koxi Labhli?

Khoim 700 ghottok, khoim 24! Kolpona korat: Je suvater
700 gramam sakor ghalun pudding kortale, te suvater 24
gramam sakor ghalun kelem zalear tem ruchik koxem
lagtolem?

Purtugez odhikareamni Goeantlim Hindu devllam ani
tirth-sthanam (shrines) moddun matie bhorvonn kel’lim.
Novim devllam bandpacher bondi ghal’li. Hindunk apleo
dhormik kariavolli korunk, logn-somarombh, mun-jicho
vidhi (thread ceremony) korpak addvarlole. Bhottank
ani gurunk (xikxokank) Goeant ravpak mona kel’le.
Kristi xikovnnechea procharak addkholl mhonn khub
Hindunk Goeam bhair dhanvddavn ghatlole; je konn
ravlole tanchim udorposonn korpachim sadhnam, ganvche
ganvkarentle odhikar ani hok kaddun ghetlole. Tankam
nana toreche opman bhogche poddttale. Hindunchim jim
bhur-gim onath (orphan) zatalim tankam tanchea
kuttumbantlim bollzobren kaddun vhorun bavtizm ditale
ani porot tanchea ghor-cheankodden dinaslim. Hindu
dadleank ani bailank Kristi dhormache xikovnnek hajir
zavop soktichem kel’lem... Osli sabar jin’sanchi
vornnon korunk zaina tosli piddapidd amchea purvozank
Purtugez dhormkol’li (fanatic) odhikareamni dil’li.

Je misionar padri Evropantlean Goeant ailole te aplea
bhasam xivai Goenchi Konknni bhas zanv her dexi bhaso
nokllo asle. Kristi dhormacho prochar korunk tankam
hangacheo dexi bhaso xikcheo poddleo. Tea kallar,
Sax-ttint Jezuit padri Thomas Estevão (Fr. Thomas
Stephens), Diogo Ribeiro ani her Jezuit padri pavlole.
Goenchea her suvatan-cher Fransiskan ani Dominikan
padri dhormik vavr kortale.

Pri. Thomas Stephens, Diogo Ribeiro tech porim anikui
Jezuit ani Fransiskan padri Goenchea suxikxit
bam’nnankodden Dev-nagri lipi ani Konknni bhas xikle.
Toxech te Moratthi, Sonskrit heoi bhaso xikle.

Purtugez bhas Romi okxoramni boroitat. Hi ek movall
bhas. Tin-tunt kotthor veonznam (hard consonants)
nant. Mhaprann-uch’char (aspiration) nam. Purtugez
vornnmallent h hem letr asa punn tacho uch’char mono
(onuch’-charit). Nagrint g okxoracho mhapranni
uch’char zata toso h-cho uch’char Purtugezint zaina.
Dekhik, Purtugezint hora boroitat punn tacho uch’char
ór-a oso za-ta. Purtugez bhaxent [k, Ä, p, N, >, V, B,
M, <, .k, Fk, èk, g, G. adi uch’char nant. Inglez
bhaxent punn hantuntle chodd xe uch’char asat. Dekhun
Nagri lipichea voir dil’lea okxoranche uch’char Romint
dakhounk Pri. Thomas Stephens, Diogo Ribeiro ani her
misionar padri oxe borounk lagle: qh, gh, ch, chh, zh,
tt, tth, dd, ddh, nn, th, dh, h, ll. Tannim
Konknnichem Romikoronn korunk Devnagri lipi buneadichi
lipi koxi dhorli.

Pri. Thomas Stephens aplea Arte da Lingoa Canarina
nanva-chea Konknnichea Veakronnant, poilea bhagant
vornnmalle (alphabet) vixim oxem mhonntta: “Poile
suvater, sogleo Evropi bhaso odik-unnea 24 letramni
boroitat mhonn lokak khobor asa. Punn hea ganvamni
vornn asat te letram nhoi punn okxoram (silbam) ani
tim amche vornnmallentle svor (vogais) ani veonznam
(consoan-tes) mellun zatat. Amche kodden jen’na 24
ghottok (elementos) asat tanche kodden sumar 700
astole.”

Khoim 700 ghottok, khoim 24! Kolpona korat: Je suvater
700 gra-mam sakor ghalun pudding kortale, te suvater
24 gramam sakor ghalun kelem zalear tem ruchik koxem
lagtolem?

Rebekak 4 taro (kordam) asat. Heo cheari-i taro sarkeo
aslear arkan (gozan) tea tarantlean tore torechem
modhur songit utpon’n korunk zata. Zor rebekachi ek
tar tuttli, don taro tuttleo, torui fixal rebekist tem
rebek vazoun dhuno (tunes) utpon’n korunk xokta. Punn
don taram vorvim 4 taran-chem songit koxench nirmunk
zavchem nam. Romint boroilole Konknni bhaxechi toslich
got zata. Konknni bhaxechem songit besur (unmusical)
zata!

Purtugez sorkari ani dhormik odhikareanchea dumalleak
lagun Goeant Konknni bhaxechi sobha-vik Nagri lipi
kuxik uddovn tiche suvater Romi lipi potkorchi poddli.

1556 vorsa Goeant ek bori ghoddnnuk ghoddli. Tea vorsa
Se-tembrache 6ver Goeant xapkha-nno pavlo. Khoreponnim
to xap-khanno Abisinient (Ethiopia) vhorpak haddlolo.

1526 vorsa Abisiniechea Som-rattan (Emperor)
Purtugalachea Dom Manoel Razak ek chitt boroiloli.
Pustokam toiar korpak thodde kamdar Abisinient
dha-ddunk vinonti korun tea Somra-ttan Purtugalachea
Razak bo-roilolem. Ti chitt pavche adim Dom Manoel
Raza somplo.

Tacho put Dom João Purtu-galacho Raza zalo.
Abisiniechea Somrattan ti vinonti hea Razak keli. Te
pormonnem, sumar 30 vorsam uprant Purtugalachea Razan
Somrattachem magnnem manun ghevn ek xapkhanno ani kaim
kamdarank Abisinient dhaddpak kele. 1556 vorsa,
Mar-sache 29ver Tej nhoinchea Belem bondrant savn
Jezuitancho ek pongodd Abisinient vochpak tarvar
choddlo. Tea pongddant Abisinient nem’nnuk kel’lo
Patriark, Hiero-polisacho Bisp, ek padri tin Jezuit
bradar ani Jezuitanche sonsthent bhitor sorunk khuxi
dakhovpi tho-dde tornnatte asle. Tea bradaram bhitor
ek aslo to Juan de Busta-mante. To xap’pchi kola bes
bori zanna aslo.

Purtugalachea Dom João razan Patriarka sangatak
Indiechea eka mon’xak dilo. To huxar ani onn-bhovi
mudrok (printer) aslo. Bus-tamante aple borabor ek
xap-khanno vhortalo. Tea tarvant aslolea Jezuitam
bhitorle choddxe Abisinient vochpache asle. Tem tarum
Goeam pavlem ten’na Patriark xapkhanno ghevn hanga
utorlo.

1557 vorsachea Janerant Pat-riark Abisinient vochpachi
toiari kortalo. Ten’na Goenchea Rajpa-lan (Governador)
kaim khas karnnank lagon Patriarkak anik thoddo kall
Goeant ravpak vinonti keli. Te pormonnem Patriark
Goeant ravlo. Punn 1562 vorsa, Dezembrache 22ver to
ontorlo ani to xapkhanno Goeantuch urlo. Title
mozgotim Abisiniechea Somrattache ani misionaranche
sombond matxe koddu zal’le.

Abisinient aslole misionar to xapkhanno apnnankodden
dha-ddun diunk magnni korit asle. Tannim 16vea
xenkddeachea xevtta sumarak Romant aslolea Askari
(Protector) Kardialak chitt borovn Goeant asa to
xapkhanno ani tech borabor Romant mellpi Etiopi
ttaip-okxoram dhaddun divpak vinonti kel’li... Punn
xekim to xapkhanno Goeantuch urlo.

Tea xapkhannea borabor Juan de Bustamante ailolo
tannem Goeant xapnnavollichi kola suru keli. Akhea
Hindustanant mud-ronn-kolent (printing art) to
malgoddo. To Spein desachea Valensiant 1536ant
zolmol’lo. 1556 vorsa to Jezuit sonsthent bhitor sorlo
ani 1564ant padri zalo. Punn 1536 vorsa tannem aplem
nanv bodlun João Rodri-gues kel’lem. 1588 vorsachea
Agostache 23ver to somplo.

Konknni ani her dexi bhasan-chem sahiteo Devnagri
lipint uvaddak ieunk zai mhonn Pri. Thomas
Stephensachi itsa asli ani he dixen tannem pavlam-i
mar-lolim. To aplem Doutrina Chris-tam (Dotonichem
Konknni Pus-tok), Krist Purann pustokam Devnagri
lipint xapun uzvaddav-pachi toiari kortalo. He khatir
tannem Devnagri ttaip korunk lailole. 1577 vorsachea
xevttak sumar 50 Devnagri okxoranche ttaip toiar
kel’le. Punn he ttaip toiar korpi bradar João
Gonsalves 1578 vorsa somplo. Tacho sangati Pri. João
de Faria 1582ant morun Devnagri okxoranche ttaip korpi
konnuch nam zalo. Sumar 50 okxoranche sanche (moulds)
toiar zal’le. Urlolea okxoranche sanche korpi dusro
monis naslo.

Pri. Thomas Stephensan 1608 vorsa Dezembrache 5ver
Romant, Jezu Sonsthechea aplea vhoddi-lank chitt
borovn tannim tanchea Provincial padrik urlolea
Devnagri okxoranche sanche korunk sang-chem mhonn
maglem. Punn tache te chitticher tachea vhoddilamni
favo tem lokx diunk nam. Dekhun tannem 1616 vorsa
aplem Purann Romi lipintuch xapun uzvaddai-lem. Zor
Br. João Gonsalves ani Pri. João de Faria moronk nasle
zalear xapkhanneachim Devnagri purai okxoram toiar
zatlim aslim. Vo tosle sanche korpi kamdarank zor Pri.
Thomas Stephensache vhoddilan dhaddun dil’le zalear
ten’nach Devnagrichem sthan goddgonj zatlem ani
Konknni sahiteacho itihas veglloch zatlo aslo.
(Cholta)

Bab Cezar D’Mello hache hostukim tiatrist Xri F. X.
Pereiracho sotkar kelo

“Zoit Prokaxon”achea san pustokanchea prokaxit
suvalleant Sameer Salgaonkar “Miras” kotha
Songrohachem prokaxon kortana, kuxik ube Sobhapoti Xri
Vishwas Satarkar, Xri Pundalik Naik, Dr. Pandurang
Phaldessai. Dusre votten Xri Bhiku B. Naik ani Xmti
Rajani Bhembre

(GULAB - January 2004)

- Forwarded by www.goa-world.com

KONKANI COURSE WITH BOOK AND CD

2009-01-27T22:44:00.000-08:00

KONKANI COURSE WITH BOOK AND CD BY ISABEL

Mogal bai Isabel,

Mhaka chodd khoxi bhogli tuji e-mail (28-08-04) Konkaniforum-acher
vachunk, ki tuvem ek "Konkani Course with CD" porgottlai mhunn.
Mhojim hunnoni porbim tukapattoitam. Dubav nam, zaite Goy'mkar
pordesant khoxal zatolet tuvem tankam ho sompo upai rocjloi mhunn:
CD vorvim Konkani xikpak.

Tum tujea sumbronn pormonnem zanno zateleim ki sompem mhunn porgottunk.
punn zobor agodd tem vikunk. Goy'mkar sonvsarak ximpoddlele ason.ani
Goy'kari "bookshops" nam zaun. Tea bhair, kotta, Goy'mkaramcho mog Konkani
bhaxe thaim bhov hunno zaun asa.. Torui punn tuvem soflleam G.O.A.-chea
President-ank borounk zai patounn tankam "review" tujea Kursacho ani magun
tanche lagim tannim tuzo varvr tanchea vangddean-che chotraiek haddunk sni
tsncheo "Orders" and dudu gheun tuka daddunk, ani tum taka/tika sogllim
pustokam ani CDs daddteeleim mhun. Mhaka dubav nam ki he Goy'mkar vhoddil
G.O.A.-che Konkani-chea mogak lagun tuka hantun adar ditolet.. Tuje lagim
soglleam G.O.A. President-ank borouncheak tanchim e-mail addrsam nam zait
tor, tuvem Bab Rene Baretto-ak boroun magchem: r_barreto at btconnect.com
Abi zori mhoje lagim Konkani Kursachim don borim pustokam asat, zoxim:
1). SARKI AMCHI BHAS SOMPI - boroinar: Antonio F.X. Rodrigues
pannam 202 .....porgottlam 2003 vorsa
2) KONKANICHEM GURUPUSTOK - boroinar: Crescencio Francisco Monteiro
pannam 284 porgottlam 1962 vorsa
torii tuzo vavr London-ak vikrek dovorlear, hanv zerul ek mhaka ani dusrem
mhoja bacheak London-ak viktim ghetolom aslom.
Hem khorem, ki Goy'mkar pordesan zaitem zoddtat ani zaitem moddtat, punn
Konkani potram gheun vachunk te roddtat. Hea pasun Konkani mogui bab Fausto
da Costa, aplem kaiborem inglez-konkani "magazine" THE GOAN REVIEW
luskonnan porgotta, zorii tem Mumboi xaplam. Devan tujem magnnem aikonchem
ani tuzo vavr folladik zauncho, hem mhojem magnnem, ani todench zatolem
soglleam Konkani mogiamchem,

Hea sokoili mhoji kavita Noman Romi Lipi-k Konkaniforum-chea vangddeank
bhettoitam..

NOMAN ROMI LIPI-K
borovpi Basilio Magno (Spain)

Konknni bhaxe, tuk' kortanv ami noman!
Tum zali mhunn raj-bhas amchea ganvchi;
Tantun mellunk pavlem ghottok-raj amkam,
Tem zaun aslem amkam sothea soimbachi;
Punn tori-i dusro xevott aslo hacho,
Ghott korunk Goeam ekvott Goymkarancho.

Ek bhas, ek des, tach' vorvim ekuch porza,
Hi zaun asunk zai amchi politik filosofi;
Don bhaso zhuzleot apleak gheunk ek Goa,
Xekim Konknni jikli, harun geli Moratthi.
Punn Moratthivale zaun xanne kole,
Tannim dampun hadle Konknniche dolle.

Bhuloile Konknnik, des-bhoktichea nanvan:
"Romi lipi naka, ti zaun Eropi;
Ti Goeant haddli Purtuguez soitanan,
Amchi dexi lipi zaun asa Devnagri."
Zaite Romi borovpi haka bhul'let,
Morathivale zage, Konknivale nhidlet.

Zait zaiteank puttvonk na hem sot porgottunk,
(Bhieon nhunnot mhunn Purtuguezacho lembddo;)
Ki Romi lipin sompem ekvott zoddunk,
Nhoi fokot Goencho, punn akhe Indiecho,
Zoxem korun ghetlem bhair vhodd desamnim;
Tanche vhoir thoddi vollok gheum-ia ami.

Poilem sonvsari zhuz somp'sor, Turki ganv,
Vapddi Arabik lipi Turki borounk;
Punn 'Attarturk' podver ietoch, (vhodd tach' nanv)
Formailem Romi lipin Turki xikounk.
Romi lipi sompi zaun, vaddli ti bhas,
Aiz Eropak porzollta ticho prokas.

Asat zaite vhoddle des Asiak, zannim
Arab lipi nikllaun Romi vapuddli;
Pon'nas vorsam fattim des Indones-in,
Apli bhas Romi-n borounk suru keli;
Tanche dekhin, Singapur, Malaisia,
Apleo dexi bhaso Romi-n boroita,

Hem sompeponn ami khud zanno Goeam,
Chodd konn khoreponi xiklena Konknni;
Ti maim-pain uloil!li aikon ghorant,
Xikleanv ulounk, borounk soronk na fattim.
Inglez vo Purtuguez borounk zanno zaun,
Konknni borounk zali sompi, nastana lisaun.

Goem zaun aslem Roma Udentichem,
Goymkaramni kor'ietaslem vhoddlem nanv,
Zori Romi lipin-uch borounk tharail'lem,
Ani Indiek dilelem hem lisanv:
Konnacheanui sompi xikunk iet asli,
Zaum ti bhas Tamil, Hindi vo Guj'ratti.

Kotta, Goymkaramni chukoilem tarum,
Manun gheun Devnagrin Konknni borounk;
Ai, des-bhokteamno, polloieat tumi chintun,
Kitlem borem zat'lem aslem ami dakounk,
Ek bori dekh Indiek Romi lipi vorvim,
Punn kotta! hem konnem chintlem na tumi.

Chint-ia ami nhoi Hindu ani Kritanv mhunn,
Bogor put ani dhuvo Goa maimchim;
Choddam potram , oi, ietat Romin xhapun,
Tim adim Kristanvan, Hindvamni vachlim.
Tor kiteak atam kortanv ami vegllikai
Ani mhunnttanv Devnagri lipi zai?

Xekdde bhor Romi lipin xhapli Konknni
Potram: Udentechem Sallok, Sot, Uzvadd,
Udentechem Neketr, Goa Times, ani
Vavraddeancho Ixtt, Goykar. Rotti, Gulab.
Romi lipi zalea amchem herderponn,
Tem ami sambaunk zai ekvottan ravon.

Polle Romi lipin borovpi utt'leat,
Zage korunk tumkam je asat susegad;
Ekvottan tumi sogle adhar diat,
Salvar korunk Romi lipichem bhiradd,
Hanv Romi lipin borovpi pordesant,
Kallzant than tumkam kortam Noman!

basiliom at terra.es

4 January 2005
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Konkani Kovita: GHINEANNAMCHO DIVO

2009-01-27T22:42:00.000-08:00

KONKANI KOVITA:
GHINEANNAMCHO DIVO

Astanam Ami
Bhurge Lhan
Maim Pain
Ghalun Eskolan,
Kele Amkam
Teacherichea Hatan

Sukh Zalem Khobar
Disbhor Lissanv
Homework Kitloch Ditali
Teacher Ti Pemsanv,
Rag Tokler Mari
Aikolearuch Tichem Nanv

Homework Korinam Tor
Teacherik Rag Chodtalo
Headmaster Maink Vo Paik
Apounk Dhadtalo,
Tednam Eskolant Tossoch
Gharai Mar Podtalo

Sonvarachem Eskol
Borem Distalem
Aitarachem Zaitem
Khellonk Melltalem,
Somarak Portun Vochunk
Kalliz Dukhamnim Rodtalem

Ami Lhan Astanam
Eskolacho Valor Gomonam
Teacher Sangta Tem
Ami Kanar Dourinam,
Eskol Ani Teacher
Dista Sogllem Fokannam....

Kitlo Tokos Gheun
Teacher Amkam Xinkoita
Tichea Ghiniannan
Amchem Ghinnian Vadoita,
Teacher Mhuntlear Uzvadd,
Sounsarant Chollonk Rosto Dakoita

Desacho President Vo Konnuim To Zanv
Tache Fattlean Teachericho Hatt Asta
Tiche Ami Sodanch Upkari
Tinnem Kelele Sacrifis Aiz Amkam Dista,
Teacher Ek Vati Porim Lassun
Bhurgeamcho GHINEANNAMCHO DIVO Petoita
.

Boroupi/Written by: Cajetan Godinho
– soccer legend at Soor Grounds - Kuwait
http://www.goa-world.com/goa/tiatr/cajetansartwork.htm

(c) www.goa-world.com

Cajetan's Godinho's Collection of Konkani Poems
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GOVERNOR LAUDS KONKANI WRITERS' CONTRIBUTION

2009-01-27T22:40:00.000-08:00

GOVERNOR LAUDS KONKANI WRITERS' CONTRIBUTION:

The Governor Kidar Nath Sahani lauded the contribution of Konkani writers for rejuvenating the regional language and inspiring the people to develop the language. He was speaking after felicitating seven stalwarts of Konkani renaissance
Fr Moreno de Souza, Purshottam Mallya, Manoharrai Sardesai, Fr Antonio
Pereira, Ravindra Kelekar, Monsg Alexander D'Souza and Pandurang
Bhangui at a function organised by the Shennoi Goembab 125th anniversary
Mahatsov Samiti, at Kala Academy's Black Box on Friday.

The governor described Shennoi Goembab as a national hero and said that other Konkani writers need to be commended for their literary works as they too through
their writings have helped to take the nation ahead.

Editor of Gulab, Fr Freddy J D'Costa, also spoke on the occasion.

[O'Heraldo / 7 June 2003]

Konknnichi Lipi Ani Amchem Dhoronn (Agrlekh GULAB - ank Novembr 2005)

2009-01-27T22:36:00.000-08:00

Konknnichi Lipi Ani Amchem Dhoronn

Lipi voir anik fuddem boronvchem nhoi, oso ami nirnnoi ghetlolo, punn halinsorak amchea lipi vixinchea dhoronnacho kaim goir-somoz kela vo zala ani amcher kaim arop keleat te khatir ami khulaso korunk sodhtat.

'Romi lipicher tum virudh kiteak? Tum Romi lipichea porgottnneancho sompadpi
asonui tum Romi lipichea favorant nam', oso mhozo ulekh zala. 'Gulab-acho
sthapnnar sompadpi sorgest Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa, zannem Romi lipintlean
Konknni Gulab rochlo ani uprant Romi lipi sambhallpak ani posravpak Dalgado
Konknni Akademi rochli, tachea vicharam poros tumche vichar sarke veglle
asat,' oxem mhonnunui kaim Konknni fuddareamni mhaka voddkila. Spoxtt
sangpachem mhollear ami Romi lipi virudh ken'nach ek xobd borounk nam ani,
ami khas Romi lipint boroitat ten'na, ami te lipi virudh, oxem koxem
mhonnum- iet? Ek soroll sangpachem zalear aiz chol'lam tem zhuz lipichem
nhoi, bogor lipichea mon'xanchem ani lipichea nanvan. Hea zhuzantlean vo
vadantlean jeral khoinchei lipik, ani vixex korun Konknni bhaxek, kainch
labh mellttolo oxem amkam zalear nikhalus disona.

Hem lipichem zhuz ani vad cholta te vixim matr ami fokot amchem dhoronn
spoxtt kelam, karonn amkam amche bhaxecho husko asa dekun. Ho lipicho vad
cholta te vixincho ekan-ek lekh, protikria, mot 'statitics' chikhol marop,
itiadi ami bariksannin vachlam, niall'llam ani bhasbhas kelea ani
tatunt-leanuch amchem mot ani dhoronn spoxtt kelam. Lipik lagon bhaxek
chepnnant dovrop sarkem nam. Akrek bhasuch nopoit zaun magir lipich urot oso
amkam bhoim ievpak lagla.

Ho lipicho tontto khub 'sensitive' mhunnttoch khol niall korinastana,
Konknni lokanchea bhavnam kodden khell korun, porjek uchamboll korpachem ek
sompem hatiar (easy weapon) zaun asa, mhunnttoch oslea vixoiacher favo to
vichear korinastana sott korun zonn ekleak dista toxem mot divop ani borovop
ani faleam magir apli chuk zali mhonnun roddon kainch faidea-chem nam. Dekun
ami kitem amchem mot porgottlam tem vhoddle fikirin ani zababdaren kelam.
Ami khoinchech lipicher virudh nant, ani Romi lipichi tor amkam opurbai,
karonn tinnench amkam manachea zagear pavoileat. Nagri lipi amkam vachpak
thoddi bhov ieta, tori-i borovpak title sompeponnim ienam, ani hi ek amche
mukhar vhoddli oddchonn ani osoktai. Punn amche he osoktaiek lagon fuddle
pillgek sakrifis korunk lavop, ani tanchea sopnancho gobor korop, hatunt
bilkul xanneponn nam, bogor haka svarthacho vas marta.

Romi lipik, Nagri lipi vangdda ek-sarko dorzo dium ieta zalear hi ek vhodd
sontosachi gozal. Tea poros Nagri lipi kaddun Romi lipikuch odhikrut
lipichem sthan dilem tor ami tea-von khuxal. Punn he sontosache gozali
vangdda khol niall korche, he sombondint anikui mhotvache vichear asat: Eke
bhaxek don lipimni sthan dium ieta kai? Don lipi asleo tor eke bhaxecho
vikas sovkas zatlo hatunt tor bilkul dubhav nam. Zor eke bhaxek don lipimni
sthan dium ietalem zalear 18 vorsam fattim Konknni bhas ghottnneche atthve
vollerent ghal'li ten'nach hacher vichear korun toxem kiteak kelem nam? Nam
mhunn ho tontto uprant rokddoch kiteak voir sorlo nam? Ho tontto voir
kaddpak 18 vorsam ravpachi kosli goroz asli? Ani zor amche fuddari aiz 18
vorsamni mhonnunk xoktat apli chuk zali mhunn zalear faleam Devnagiri-Romi
lipi ghaltoch uprant urfatto kitem porinnam' zalo zalear anik 18 vorsamni
apli chuk zali, oxem te mhonnunk khore. Ten'na magir roddon kitem faido?
Dekun khol niall ani vichear korunuch pavlam marlear koxim?

Ani ek prosn ubho zata: Hea lipichea tonttea vorvim Konknni xiktelea amchea
bhurgeanchem mon nirxetelem. Xikpeancher hea lipichea vadacho porinnam'
kitem zatlo, tacherui ami lokx dinvchi goroz asa. Atam, sadharonn Konknni
xikpi Kristanv bhurgim tor Nagri lipintleanuch boroitat ani vachtat, zalear
ghoddie-ghoddiek hea lipichea tontteak lagon tannim, tancho kainch dox
nastana, ho dhopko kiteak khauncho? Te pasot ho lipicho prosn
ghoddie-ghoddiek ustun vhoir kaddchea bodol to 'once and for all' mittovn
uddouncho. Amchea svartha khatir xikpeanchea fuddara kodden khellpak amkam
kosloch hok'k nam. Vixex korun amchean tornattea xikpeam koddleanuch tanchem
mot ghevn ho prosn mittovpak zata.

Zori amchea voilea prosnak amkam pottoun dinvcho zabab mellot zalear ani
Konknni bhaxek kainch luskonn zainastanam Devanagri vangdda Romi lipik sthan
dium ieta zalear ho bodol ghoddun haddpant amchem poilem mot astelem!
Ami survatek mhonnlam, hea zhuzant amkam bhoim asa mhunn, karonn aiz
BJP-vale sud'dam Romi lipik sthan mellovpak tenko divpak utthleat, ani
hatunt, amkam zalear, ek vhodd 'conspiracy' dison ieunk laglea. Aiz Romi
lipi ghalun kaideant durusti korunk amkam pattimbo diun, faleam magir
Konknni vangdda Moratthi bhaxekui sthan divpak durusti korunk te magnnim
ghalit mhunn. He toren te amkam 'jolly good ride'-ar vhoronk khore.

Zoxem eka sompadpean mhonnlam tem amkam pottom vo nam - Konknnichea anik eka
zhuzak machi toiar zalea ani hem zhuz Konknnivadi ani Moratthivadi hanchem
aschem nam, bogor Romivadi ani Nagrivadi Konknneanchem astelem ani rajkornni
porje modhem futt ghalun aplem sadovpak hea zhuzacho bhorpur faido
kaddttole. Oxem zaum nhoie.

- Fausto V. Da Costa

Agrlekh xhapun aila GULAB Novembr 2005 ank-ant
(Editorial in the November 2005 issue of Gulab)

Konkani, ROMI LIPPI and fake devanagri script

2009-01-27T22:34:00.001-08:00

From: "r.barreto" a msg from Francis Rodrigues

[ On re-reading my exhortation to you, I would like to apologize to you if
I have taken you unduly to task. At 4 am, frustrations tend to rankle more.

I do realize however, that we each have our measured quota of limitations,
within which we function. You do your bit for Goa Day irrespective of its
origins and for this we must remain grateful.

The Konkani foot-soldiers labouring in the dusty trenches of Goa will
continue until our goal for the Romi script is achieved.

Aluta continua.
FR.]

Earlier, Francis Rodrigues had noted that "our beloved mother-tongue remains
falsely imprisoned
behind the bars of a fake Devanagiri script used by a bigoted few"

===
jc's input:

1. I commend Francis Rodrigues for having reviewed his own view wrt Rene
Barreto. I submit that our views of others must be based on reasonable
facts or factors. Even if you had to take refuge in the "4 am frustrations"
(whatever they are) (:-), FR, thanks for taking a step back.

2. I personally commend Renebab for doing what he does. I trust that as many
among us will come together and help the Goa Day 2006 efforts this year.
Renebab is a good man. He has zip conflict of interest in this. I say that
without any hesitation at all.

3. I hope FR wasn't serious when he labelled Devanagiri script as being
fake. If he was, I'd like to disagree with him. The alleged one-script
Devanagri Scripted Kokni may be >33% (and rising) contrived, but the
Devanagri script certainly is not fake.

4. Let's understand what the issue is, rather than just jump up and down
with politicians, some of whom are now going to discuss this script matter
with Sonia! I hope they are not discussing Konkani with her. Even if they
are ...!

5. I submit to you that this language confusao is about political and
financial control. Look around and see the confusion and filth which abounds
while Goans are fighting among themselves about what SHOULD be their CORRECT
mother tongue.

6. I also suggest to you that both Uday Bhembre and Fr. Pratap will
eventually end up hurting the Konkani our mothers spoke and speak it (our
mother tongue). Script apart, our parents will understand as much of the
Konkani written in the Devanagri script, as they will understand it in the
Romi script, and as much as they would understand German in any script. This
will happen however well intentioned Uday Bhembre and Fr. Pratap may or may
not be.

7. Accordingly, BEFORE we jump up and down and criticise Goans for turning
to English at weddings etc, and turning away from the Church except for
weddings etc, let us try and understand what the main cause for this
situation is and WHO is benefitting from this confusao.

8. IF Romi Konkani mogis really want Romi Konkani books and literature to
survive, they better rethink and re-word publications like Gulab and
Sunaparant. For starters, they may wish to take a cue from the Tiatrs. I
agree with exCM Parrikar on this. One needs a dictionary to understand these
publications. I wish Gulab and Sunaparant all the very best as they self
destruct. It isn't like they have not been advised.

9. Is a rethink likely? I believe not. As long as the Bhembres, Prataps,
Gulab and Sunaparant of this world take these uncompromising and entrenched
positions .... nada will change. Konkani will suffer the same fate as that
delightful language Urdu - eventually mutilated and disfigured by both the
neoHindiwallas (of central and northcentral India) and the neoUrduwallas (of
Pakistan).

10. Are we really ready for this uphill battle ....or is it "cheaper" to
just switch to English ?

good wishes to all

jc
jcolaco1@hotmail.com

BTW: Please view this webpage : http://www.colaco.net/1/GoaNiz.htm

Opposing Views welcome. We will publish your views, as long as you accept
responsibility for those views. After all, on The Goan Forum website - the
Opinions belong ONLY to the authors, not to jc or TGF

GULAB magaznine dubbed as ANTI-ROMI ?

2009-01-27T22:31:00.002-08:00

Mogall Miguelbab,
I rejoice at your “new-found” happiness. But I
believe there was really no reason for you to feel
unhappy earlier. It was all a result of
misunderstanding on your part solely because you gave
too much credence to charlatans. Consequently you
assumed (or believed the canard) that I am/was against
the use of Romi (i.e. Roman script) for writing
Konkani. This canard is still being propagated and, I
am sorry to say, it is some Catholic priests who are
at the root of this. They have even dubbed GULAB
magazine as anti-Romi. And, since the source of this
“information” are Catholic priests, other Catholic
priests also believe it to be the Gospel Truth. The
same goes for the Catholic laity at large; how could
they left far behind when a writer of your stature
could be misled? But the truth is that, for over a
year now, I have been writing in GULAB a page every
month on writing Konkani correctly in Romi. The
column is entitled “Konknni ‘Nitt’ Boroum-ia.”
Probably you too believed this canard and have stopped
reading GULAB; else you should have known this for a
fact.
But you are not a fool; you would not believe in a
canard unless there was some other corroborative
evidence. There was! What has been my stand during
all these three years and more? I am against an
Amendment to the Official Language Act to include
Roman script. Why? Because, given the composition of
the Legislative Assembly (current or the last one), at
THE VERY BEST it will fail to get the requisite number
of votes (therefore, no damage done) or, at WORST, it
could end up rescinding the current status of Konkani
itself and putting Marathi in its place (a calamity).
I have also been busy nailing the lies and half-truths
which the vested interests have been propagating for
their own ulterior and nefarious motives; and I have
done this with VERIFIABLE facts, figures and
references. And, since they have labeled themselves
as “protagonists” of Romi, I (being their opponent)
was obviously dubbed as “antagonist.” One of their
canards was that the Goa Konkani Akademi did not
publish any Konkani books written in Romi and, ipso
facto, was anti-Romi; this “injustice” was also cited
as the result of the OLA. I made enquiries and learnt
that not a single manuscript in Romi was rejected by
the Akademi as NONE WAS EVER SUBMITTED TO IT for
assistance in publication, under any of its schemes.
Now, you tell me. How can you fault the Akademi in
this situation? If these “stalwarts” were really
interested in Romi should they not have motivated
writers to submit their manuscripts? I also learnt
another fact; a “stalwart” had undertaken a GKA
project to compile an anthology of lyrics of 101 tiatr
songs 15 years ago but has not completed it till date.
Therefore, the boot was actually on the other foot!
The sad fact is that Goans at large have no option but
to believe the piffle dished out by clergymen and
comedian tiatrists.
Contrary to what you have been propagating, the
booklet of Orthographic Rules is not a work of
collaboration (or working together) of just the three
persons you have mentioned which was published by the
Goa Konkani Akademi. The Akademi constituted a
Committee for the purpose and these three were SOME of
the members; the entire Committee is mentioned in the
booklet itself. The orthographic rules were arrived
at after discussions at several meetings in the Mons.
Dalgado Library of GKA. Therefore it would not be
proper to call these persons the AUTHORS of the
booklet; they all contributed to the outcome.
Recently the Dalgado Konkani Akademi conducted
workshops for Romi writers. The resource persons were
Pundalik Naik for “Short Story Writing” and Fr. Pratap
Naik for “Romi Orthography.” Didn’t it strike you as
odd that DKA (which claims that several Romi writers
have been denied the Sahitya Akademi award) could not
find a single ROMI writer as resource person for
either session? That, in spite of both the President
and the Secretary of DKA having been members of the
Orthographic Rules Committee, neither of them took the
responsibility of guiding the participants in the
relevant session and had to take the help of a KANNADA
script Konkani writer to do the honours? Please
ponder over this, if you have not already done so.

Borem magun,
S. M. Borges
Nagdoli, Velim, Salcete.

______________________

"Miguel Braganza" braganza.miguel at gmail.com,wrote:

<when I read that the new Konkani Orthography in Roman
script has YOU and Tomazinho Cardoz + Jose Salvador
Fernandes working TOGETHER along with the Goa Konkani
Akademi.>>

S. M. Borges

‘Pai Tiatrist’ Kiteak Khuxeal Na?

2009-01-27T22:31:00.001-08:00

‘Pai Tiatrist’ Kiteak Khuxeal Na?

Dhul-mattichea sonvsarant, sabar oddchonenk fuddo korun jiyetele Saxttichea tiatrist bhav-bhoinnanchi ek itsa asli ti, chalu vorsache Julayche 20ver 2008 puri zali. Dekhunuch sorginchea voimkuttan nitoll hovaman (climate) ani anondan jiyetlele Gõyche tiatristamni, hi tarik omor ugddasachi korunk yevjilem. Oi! Gõychea Mukhel Montri Shri Digambar Kamat-an. Moddganvche xarant novench bandlelem ‘Ravindra Bhavan’ sobhaghor (auditorium) Saxttikarank bhettoilem ani odik korun tiatrist somudayentlea lokak. Bhitorlea vosreak “Pai Tiatrist” sorgest Joao Agostinho Fernandes, hanchem nanv diun tiatr kola ek mozbut Gõychi sonskruttai mhunn Gõychea Aam Adhmi sorkaran pattoun dilem.

Sonvsarant choltolo anond voimkuttan (paradise) zagounk sorgest tiatrist bhav-bhoinnam Julayche 20ver ekthaim yeun sorginchem sobhaghor vivid torechea fullamni nettoilelem ani rong-machi zhigzhigte noketranchea uzvaddan surngaileli. Mukhel pordd’do, Gõyche pachvi rongachea zhaddamni chirtrailolo ani varear uddtelim suknnim eka 3D filma porim tea zhaddancher bostat kai diso. Ani ek ojeap (wonder) mhonnlear sonvsarant tiatr ‘house full’ zalear lokak niraxi zaun ghora vechem poddta, punn voimkuttan toxem ghoddo naslem. Jitlo lok sobhaghorant bhitor sortalo titlech pavtti boska vo koddeli asun sobhaghor lamb ani rund zait vetalem. Koddelincher ek lhanso kompuittor bosoilolo aslo. Thoimsor, zai tem ‘type’ kelear vareavelean chau, kofi, udok, thondd godd piyepam, khavpak boje-bottatvade, chevris-pao boslelea zagear yeun melltalem. Fattlean bosun aslele madd-caju hansun ani moujen xekoitale. Tancho soro koslich zap kaddinaslo. Punn sonvsarant
piyeteleancho soro mat tiatrachea hollant zanktta.

Goddealicher, sanjechim 4 horam vazpak 10 minutam aslim. Sobhaghorant aslelea lokak umedir dovorpak, famad songitkar Chris Perry ani tache sangati muzgamni, tannem ghoddlelem “Sorg Tujea Dolleamni” hea kantarachea surar ‘instrumental’ songit vazlea borabor lokacheo bobo-hueli-talleanchea avazan voimkuttantlem sobhaghor hal’lem. Tem somplea uprant ‘Calangute’ ho sur vazovpak suru kelo. Bobo-heuli-hatanchea talliam bodla lokachea dolleamni ghoxghosea pavsachea udka porim dukham vhanvunk laglim. ‘Calangute’ ho sur lokachea kanar bostamna, sonvsarantleo adli godd-godd yiadi dolleam somor yeunk lagleo. Sobha ghorantlo lok dolleamni dukham bhorun eka-mekak buzvonn ditalo. Lokanchim dukham zomnir poddun thoim ek auchit vhall vo drainage ugti zaun sogllim dukham tea vhalleleant vhanvun vetalim. Vhanvtelim dukham bott laun jiber lailear tim dukham amott nhoi punn godd-godd lagtalim. Mhonntoch, sonvsarantleo godd-godd yadi ajun jiveo asat mhunn
sidh zatalem.

Sanjechim justuch 4 horam vazlelim. Muzgachea kumpasar mhukel porddo ugtailo. Sobhaghorant aslolo lok gup-chup zalo. Machier, bhangaranchim dhumpaumni varear halltalim ani tatuntlean agtteacho dhunvor bhair sorun sobhaghor bhouch pormollit pormollan bhorlelem. Dudgonge (Milky Way) voir-sokoll vochpachea panvddeancher ek dadlo monis voir sakun sokoll dhenvun yetalo. Sonvsarant astamna tache kuddicho rong kallo aslo. Punn, voimkuttant tachem rup gore loka porim disunk laglem. Sobhaghorant aslolo lok kuchu-kuchu korun khobro korunk laglo. “Konn kai? Vollkichoch dista” Machechi moddli svat ghevn fokot tannem mhonnlelem “Utth Gõykara!! Tumkam bori sanj anvddetam…….” Ghe!!!! Lokachea mukhamollar hurbecho hanso ful’lo. Thambo nastana lok hansot ravlo. Tallianchea avazar to kitem uloita tem somzunk porian yenaslem. Sonvsarantle machier to ubo ravlearuch lok taka rokhdoch hasunk lagtalo. Ani az voimkuttantui, toxench ghoddlem. Oi! To zaun aslo
Gõycho Charlie Chaplin Jacinto Vaz. Taka vell dilolo to somplo ani ‘Zolmacho Dis Tuzo’ hem git gayit Alfredo Rose machier aslelea eka tambdea gulabantlo bhair sorlo.

Kantar chalu astamna, rong machievelea uzvea vatten nille rongchem mollbar dhovim kumpam ubzovlim ani tatuntlean 54 tambddea gulabi fulamcher bosun Fr. Freddy J Da Costa sobhaghorant vhodda dobhajean dhenvlo. Lokamni tallianchea avazar taka yevkar dilo. Ani adinch fuddem jextt (senior) tiatrist C. Alvares, Cecilia Machado, Prem Kumar, Mary Vaz, Kamat de Asolna, Kid Boxer, Anthony Mendes, Minguel Rod, Ulhas Buyao, Conception-Nelson ani her sabar tiatrist bosun aslelea zagear, Saib Rocha-n taka haddun mukhel pavnneachea koddelir bosoilo. Bab Peter sodam porim tiatran nhespachea stylin machier ailo ani mhonnlem.

“Mogacheano, az ami eke borabor don sunknni martat. Poile svater, aichea disa manache soire manest Fr. Freddy-cho 54vo zolm dis. Tumchea nanvan taka purai voimkuttantli khuxealay anvddetam. (lokacheo tallio) Az Saxttichea Moddganv xarant vorsachea vorsa tachea zolm disa, tannem sthaplolo ani rompil’lo Gulab nemalleacho puroskar vanttpacho dobhajo chalu asa. Ani dusri anondachi gozal mhonnlear, Gõychea sorkaran Moddganv-Fattorda futboll khella moidanna lagsor Ravindra Bhavan Sobhaghor bandlam ani nigtench Gõychea Mukhel Montreachea hatantlean ugttavnni zalea. Bhitorlea hollak amche ‘Pai Tiatrist’ Joao Agostinho Fernandes’ hanchem nanv dilam”

Lokancheo bobo-hueli ani talleanchea avazar machivelea voilea bhagantlem mollob ugtem zalem ani kana bospa sarkeli turturi vazoun ‘Pai Tiatrist’ bog’gi-cher (sorginchea ghoddeam gaddiecher) bosoun taka machier haddun dhenvoilo. Lokan, ubem ravun (standing ovation) un-unit oporbayechea yevkaran taka ghetlo. Itlea mhonnosor konn eklo sobhaghorant okosmat pavun sorlo. To novo soiro distalo. To soglloch kachabull zal’lo. Akh’kea sobhaghorant nodor bhonvdaili punn khoisoruch rikami svatt taka disli na. Saxttichea lokachi vevostha korpi Sanny de Quepem ani Bardezkarancho poramus korpi Rex de Bardez bhitor solelea novea soireak vollkilo ani veg-vegim tache sorxim gele. Laginch aslelea Christopher Leitao-ank nixani keli ani chomotkar zal’lea porim thoim ek koddel aili ani novea soireak te koddelir bosoichea adim tannim taka hea sobdamni xiddkailo.

“Sonvsarantli pisai hangasor cholomna. Upkar korun dhean (sintid) dorchem.”

Anthony D’Sa (Nirmonn filmantlo khalnayak (villain)), Jet Speed Jepsis Hitler, Dod de Verna, A. M. B. Rose, Seby Coutinho, Aristides Dias, Souza Boy ani her dusre tiatrist novea soireak vichitr nodren polloit astamna ‘Pai Tiatrist’ Joao Agostinho moddekat machier yevn mhonnlem.

“Oporbayeachano. Hea sontosachea voimkuttan az mhaka kherit torecho dupett sontos mellta. Poilea svater, xembor odik vorsam tiatr mollar Konknni machier suru kel’lea amchea vavrak xevottak inam’ mell’lo. Zori tem foll khavunk amkam mellchena punn amche sonvsarantle tiatrist bhav-bhoinnank lab melltolo hem chintun mhojem mon dadhoslam. Aichea disa don soromb boraboruch chalu asat. Gulab Puroskar 2007 vanttpacho dobhajo ani Ravindra Bhavan Sobhaghorachi Ugttavnni. Hea Sobhaghorak mhojem nanv divn amchi kola Goykaranchi ek niz sonskruttai mhunn Gõychea sorkaran kobul keli ho anond bhogtamna dusri dukhi gozal sangpachi mhollear………(sukhachea vellar dukhacho sondex asunk favo na Utodd’decho Joffy Fernandes modench uloilo) Oi! Hanv zannam. Punn durdovean thodde bhov amche tiatristancheo kornneo ugteaponnim sangcheo poddtat (sangomna zalear chodd borem zatelem. Mohona-n mhonnlem) Punn, sanglea viret amchea modim veglozar asa to nopoit zavnchona.
(chodd motthvachem mhonnlear amchea modim ekvott na. Banavlleche Dr. Rosario Rodrigues-an zap ghali) Ani to ekvott tiatristam modim na mhunn hanv sangunk sodtam. Aicheo donui khariavolli ‘Gulab Puroskar’ ani ‘Ravindra Bhavan’ sobhaghorachi ugttavni mhojea motan tiatrist somudayek ek vhodd ut’tejon ani ies mellpa sarkele marg. Kolecho mog asleleamni ani ticher thodde ghorabe jiyeteleamni aplim khasgi kama pois dovorun khoinchea eka tori khariavollik ajir zaunk zai aslem, punn vhoddlem durdov mhonnlear thodde amche tiatrist bhav-bhoinnam hatar-pottar kainch poddunk naslele bhaxen hech vellar Ponnje, Mapusa ani Fonddechea hollamni tiatr nhestat vo nachtat. Hea tiatristank hanvem kitem mhonnchem…….” Ani ‘Pai Tiatrist’ fuddem ulovncho bond poddlo. Kiteak, sobhaghorant bhitor sorlolo novo soiro mottean aroddlo.

“Osleank, beiman tiatrist mhonntat.”

Sobhaghorantlo lok ekdom thotaklo. Voimkuttant, mansuge bhailim utram uloupak khor ani khoddok bondi asa mhunn hea novea soireak khobor nasli mhunn kolltalem. Ajir aslelea lokan ekuch motan novea soireak sobhaghorantlo bhair dovorpak hukum pas kelo.

“Asumdi. Novo soiro to. (tuzo konn lagta? Robin Vaz-an vicharlem) Voimkuttantle kaide noko astolo. Amchoch to” Aleixinho de Candolim lokak somzikayechea tallean sangtalo tednam novo soiro konn kai to polounk Fr. Freddy, pattim vovllo. Apnnank okmanachea khilleamni khillaitole mon’xak poloun sapuch ojeaplo ani mhonnlem?

“Tum? Hangasorui sottavpak ailo?”

Lino B. Dourado

GULAB-achi Chollvoll Khuim Pavlea?

2009-01-27T22:29:00.000-08:00

GULAB-achi Chollvoll Khuim Pavlea?

Orxim to Konknni potram vo nemallim vachunk titlem mon dinam punn sumanantlem potr Vavreaddeancho Ixtt internet-ar yeta tacher ek dhanvtti nodor chukoinastamna ghalta. Konknni audio kasetti, CD, ani tiatr VCD Gõyam sakun Kuveittan, khaxea yetlea tiatristam koddlean novin (original) vikot gheta na tor aplea ghorcheank sangun Gõyam thavn dhaddunk sangta, punn Kuveittan ‘duplicate’ korun vikteleam koddsun keddnanch vikot ghena. Konknnicho taka mog dekhunuch Konknni songit ani tiatrancheo CD vikott gheun ek onek torechem yogdan (contribution) Konknni pasot korta. Kuveittan, Konknnilean kariavoll asot zalear artik nodren adhar bhasaita, ani hech khatir aplo usko dakoun tannem mhaka voilo prosn kelo.

Janerache 5ver 1983 vorsant Gulab-cho poilo ank, sorgest Fr. Freddy-n uzvaddak haddlolo. Vorixtt tufanank fuddo korun zorot-morot ani apnnachi bholaiki pollenastana dor mhoineache mhoineam Gulab nemallem vachpeanchea hatant ghaltalo. Sorgest Pattiv, Gulab-achea rupea utsovachi vatt polloit astamna May 17ver 2004 vorsan taka, ani sangati boroinar Felicio Cardozo ani tanche ixtt Franky Pires-ak marekar obseogan girasle. Uprant Gulab-achem bharadik vozonn Simão bhaxen Fr. Freddy-chea bhavannim Fausto ani Fabianan aplea khandar ghevn aplea bhavachi itsa, mhonnchem Gulab masikak rupea utsovachi medal favo keli. Punn tech borabor artik (financial) poristhitek fuddo korunk zai naslelean, mhoineachea mhoineank adle toren Gulab bhair sorcho na fokot tin mhoineam ek pavtti, teddnam mat sogllea Konknni mogeank ek dhoko, dhokoch boslo.

Kuveittche Gõykaramnim Konknni khatir bhouch yogdan kelam. Romi Konknnilean ‘NOVEM GOEM’ ek disalem asunk ekvottan fuddem sorun duddvacho adhar kel’lo asa (tea uprant kitem zalem ti dusri gozal) Konknnink Raj bhaxechi dorza mellunk sotasot lakamnim duddvanchi mozot Konknni fuddareank pavoileli. Barik-mottea Konknnichea vavran Kuveittche Gõykaran sodanch poilo zago ghetlolo asa ani geta. Ani atam 25 vorsam ful’lolo Gulab-acho pormoll bavot vetam tem pollevn khorele Konknni Gõykar zagrut zaleat. Ani Gulab-ak porot jivo dovorchea pasot Kuveittche niz Konknni mogi fuddem sorun ek GULAB VAVURPI SOMITTI (Gulab Working Committee) ghoddun haddlea..

Amcho, aicho Gõykar khaxelea aplea zolm dortorer xenlolo asa. Bharotantle dusrea prantantlea lokachi urponz Gõyant sumana-sumanant choddot veta ani bhailo lok subeij disunk lagla. Adim Gõychea xaranim ghelear Inglez xivai dusri bhas mhonnlear bhov thoddi Hindi aikunk yetali punn atam xarantlem sodduch, ganv-ganvanim ottra-ponas torecheo bhaso kannar sadovtat tednam ami khoreaninch Gõy prantant asat? Hem somzunk aicho Gõykar ghonddollak sampoddla. Tintear ghelear Bostão, Pedru, Jose, Caitan, Magdu, Sucorrin, hea nanvanchim mon’xam bazarant astalim punn atam Uttapa, Sungttamkha, Mandpa, Utteli, Bosteli hea mon’xanchea nanvanim ulo kelear, ‘tu’ khorun tondantli luti bhair udoun ulo marteleak zap kortat ani roste ani imaroti tambdea rongan nettoitat.

Aicho Gõykar duddvanche dixen (direction) pollounk lagla ani vhoddilanim dilelem daiz, sonskrutay ani osmitay (identity) visorla. Purvozanim samballun dovorlelim bhatta-bensam, odik duddu melltat mhunn porkeank vinkun koslech tras ghenastanam mell’leli dovloticher dolle dampun mouz ghetamna, tanchea sorbhonvtim xezari lok ganvcho bhailo zala mhunn, hi az meren funkott duddvachea nadar khelltolea Gõykarak zanniv na zavn thodde bhov Gõychea uskean aslele Gõykar susegad Gõykarachi chall pollevn sontapla. Ani xevttim “mhoje maim ge, pavat ge, chor aileat ge” oxeo bobo-huyelli galtanam ‘ghantti’, xezareak boball ghaltoleachi baxea somzunam zavn chor akh’kench ghor lutun veta.

Zalear, thoddeach kallan amche Gõyant amchi maim-bhas nopoit zavpache doxer pavteli ani kaim potram, nemallim Konknni jivi dovorunk vavurtat ti morunk dilear ami amchoch fondd kaddlea porim zatelem. Amcho tallo ubarpak amchi avoy-bhaxen aslelem potr vo nemallim nasun ami oronneant sandlelea porim amche jivit zatelem. Dekhunuch mhagelea ixttan usko dakhoun mhaka vichar kelo. “Kuveittan, Gulab-chi chollvoll khuim pavlea?”

GULAB mhoinalleacho prochar korunk, jahirati, denngi ektthavpak ani GULAB-achea adharak her koslo-i prokolp (project) Kuveittant ghoddun haddpak Kuveittche KALA MOGUI-KUWAIT sonsthek amchi maneotay asa. Gulab-che sompadpi ani Uzvaddavpi Fausto V. Da Costa-n jahir kollovni keli teddnam GULAB-cheo pakotteo odhik jhoddun nagddo zavnche adim ‘Kala Mogui’ sonstheche vangddeanim 25 vorsancho pormoll fuddem vorpacho vavr fattim-fuddem pollenastana apnnachea khanddar ubharlo. Ani az ek niz Hindu-Kristi Konknni somudayecho zomo ektthaim yeun ‘Gulab Vavurpi Somiti’ Gulab masikak novem jivit divnchea khatir ap-khuxen vavurpak fuddem sorleat.

Kuveittant, Gulab-acho Rupea Utsov ani Konknni Sahity Puroskar Dhobazo Agostache 15ver ghoddun haddpak kela. Ek kherit Gulab-acho ank Agostachea mhoineant bhair sorcho asa. Kuveittche-Goykar sahity mollar, khellan (sports), donddean, xikovpant, vevsaik mollant, kola, sonskruttik sonstha ani klub ani somajik vavurpeancho ullek hea khas akant korchelo kela. Borovpeanim Inglez ani Konknnin apli borpavoll July-chea 15 ver meren Gulab Vavurpi Somiti-chea vangddeam thaim divnchi vo sompork 9391452 korcho. Gulab-cho dhobazo korunk duddvancho khorch zatolo. Borea deknnaranim duddvanchi denngi, Gulab khas ankak jahiriti, yadostik vo souvenir kaddtele taka tumcho adhar dilear Gulab-acheo arthik (financial) poristhitek lagon paklleo pisolltat teo bhigoddpak pavncheo nant. Odik tumi hea khariavollicho thoddo bhag tumchea khanddar ghetlear mhonnchem, SPONSORS kose ravlear hem vhodd vojem unnem zatelem hatunt matui dubhav nam.

Gulab dor mhoineam Konknni vachpeanchea ghorant pavchea khatir zonn eklea Konknni Goykaran vavurchem asa. Gulab-an mhaka kitem dilam hem vicharchea adim hanvem Gulab-ak kitem dilam ho ek vhodd xanneponnacho vichar korun ful na tor paklli divn tuzo mog Konknni avoy sovem dakhouncho vell ho. Gulab-cho vorgonnidar (subscriber) zaun tujem anek torechem contribution korum zata. Kuveittan, topalatlean (by post) 5 vorsank pavtti korunk vorgonni KD 20 ani 3 vorsank KD 12. Gulab nemallem Gõyam ganv-ghora tuje familik pavtti zaunk Bharotachea duddvam hixeoban tujean hangasor vorgonni farik korunk zata. Ani ek vhodd akharan tuzo adhar, Gulab-acho pormoll nemit pormollunk zatalo, jeddnam tuvem 10 tikettimni gunttlolo ‘RAFFLE’ KD 5 farik korun ugttea monan ek book vikhott ghevn tuzo arthik sohokar dilear. Faleanchea disa Gulab pormollta teddna tum tukach obhimanan polletolo ani tujea sohokaran Gulab-acho chomotkar zalo dekhun tukach ghorv bhogtelem.

Tor “Utth Gõykara” Sorgest Fr. Freddy-n sthapllo ani rompil’lo GULAB jivo dovorpak tujea ani mhojea hatant asa. Hoikari (positive) nodren fuddem chol…………

Lino B. Dourado

libado23s53 at yahoo.com

5/7/2008

Boro ies anvddeun GULAB puroskarak

2009-01-27T22:25:00.000-08:00

Katrichea zorintlean khobor amchea mezar pavlea tea promann, amche bhov
mogalle ixtt JoeGoaUk chalu mhoineache 20ver sanjechea 3:30 horar Gomant
Vidhya Niketan Vosreant GULAB puroskar bhettouvpachea dhobajeak hajir
astolo.

Hi ek bori sondhi taka mellunk sodhteleank.............Tumcho mog Konknni
sonskrutik asa mhonn tumi dakhounchea khatir GULAB puroskarak hajir zaun
tiatrisponnache vavrak xeboi marcheo.

Boro ies anvddeun GULAB puroskarak

Lino Dourado

Mogacheamno,

Porxim bhettun amontronn na divpachi amchi oddchonn tumi somzotole mhunn
ast ballgitam.
Julaiache 20ver sanje 3.30 vorar Gomant Vidya Niketan vosreant Gulab
puroskar
bhettovpant ietle, ten'na tumi muzrot hajir zaunk amchi nomr vinonti.
Tech porim hem amontronn tumi anikui tumchea ixttank ani vollkicheank
patthoun
tankam apovnnem ditole mhunn ravtam.
Dev borem korum.
Fausto V. Da Costa

(circa 2007)

MON PAVTA PUNN HAT PAVONANT - Fausto V. Da Costa

2009-01-27T22:23:00.000-08:00

MON PAVTA PUNN HAT PAVONANT

ANIK ek voros sompta. The Goan Review nemallem jivem asa. Koxem kat te vixim
vicharnakat. Fuddlea vorsant kitem zatlem hem vicharnakat. Punn fuddlo
Jan-Feb'05 ank uzvaddak haddpachjo nirnnoi ghetla. Itlench khatren sangum
ieta.
Hem amchem-tumchem nemallem 16vea vorsant ttanch marta. Oddchonneank fuddo
korit tem chol'lem. Tin vorsam fattim ami tem bondh korpak nirnnoi ghetlolo
ten'na tem chalu dovorchem mhonn GRAF sonsthechea vangddeamni hot dhorlo ani
arthik mozot bhasaili mhonnunuch tem anik tin vorsam sarunk xoklem. Tech
porim kaim Konknni mogeamni tem jivem dovorpak agro korun eka anka khatir 7
hozar rupia 'sponsorship' diun tin ank kaddpak mozot keli. Oxench heram-i
G.R.-achea bore-dekhpeanchea sohokarak lagun tem aiz meren tumchea hatant
poddlam. Somestanche ami abar mandtanv.
Atam amche prosn dupett zaleat. Arthik poristhiti bori na ti na, tantun atam
uzvaddavpacho vavr vaddtta ani sogllo karbhar ekleacheach khandar poddtta,
karann ho vavr pollovpak Mumboint monis mellpak muskil zalam. Xivai, favo
tosle ani favo title borovpi nant. Atam tori Gulab-achea kaim borovpeamni
aplim moladik borovpam G.R.-ak divpak survat kel'lean amchem vojem matxe
lohu zalam.
Vachpeancho ankddo tor choddona, urfattem zalear dhenvot asa. Favo titleo
jahirati mellnant. Jahirati mellop muskil zalam. Hea osli poristhiti ievpak
karannam astelinch. Jerul karannam asat hem ami maneo kortanv. Punn he-ui
prosn suttave korpacho-i vavr magir ekleachoch nhoi? Sonstha legun tumchea
fattlean asot zalear ti fokot nanvak, ani sol'lo divpak.
Sol'lo! Oi sol'lo tor sogott ditat. Sol'lo divop mhonnchem ek sompem kam'
zalam. Sol'lo divpak duddu lagonant. Aiz ekuch vostu sovai asa ani tichem
mol choddona, ani ti vost mhollear sol'lo. Punn dil'lo sol'lo vevharant
ghalpak khas sol'lo divpea lagim sud'da ghoddona. Mhunnttoch sol'lo diun
koslo faido? Tantun prosn suttave zainant, bogor prosn vaddttat.
Atam Gulab mhoinalleachem sompadponn hatant ghetlelean vavra borobor
zababdareo ani sangata ttennxionam vaddleant. Gulab-acho kharbhar tatpurto
khoro, punn je meren hem mhoinallem novea uzvaddavpi-sompadpea hatant dium
meren to pormollit korunk naka? Gulab, Goenche Arki-diosezichea tabeant
korpa vixim sonvad chalu asa te meren to cholovpacho vavr pollovpachi amchi
fikir.
"Goencho Avaz" survatek disallem ani uprant satollem koxem uzvaddak ietalem
ani fattim tem Konknni Sahiteacho Pormollit Jhelo mhonn masik rupan vorsak
dondam sorv sorgest Fr. Freddy J. da Costa ani Felicio Cardoso uzvaddak
haddttale. Tacho fuddlo ank uzvaddak haddina zalear tachem 'Registration'
zopt zatlem. Mhunnttoch 'Goencho Avaz' uzvaddaunk konnachi-i itsa aslear
tannim amkam kolloum ieta. He vixim Dalgado Konknni Akademiche sahitik
somitichea fuddareak ami e-mail patthoila. DKA ek varxik masik uzvaddaunk
sodhta mhunnttoch tannim 'Goencho Avaz' hachea rupan hem masik sahitik jhelo
koso dor vorsak uzvaddaum ieta.Ami sol'lo diunk sodhinant, bogor ek suchnna
kortat. Ani zori DKA vo her konnui hem masik uzvaddaunk toiar asot zalear
tankam amche tanki pormonnem sogllo sohokar diunk ami raji asanv. Hem-ui
masik jivem uronk amchi itsa asa.
Voir dakhoil'leam karannank lagon vavr dupett zala. 'Goan Review' odik
pormollit korcho oxem amkam-i dista. Dubav na to pormollit korpak amchi
sogli tozvit chalu asa. Tori to anikui pormollit korpak xokea asa hem ami
mandun ghetanv. Ani toxem korpak amchi itsa bi asa, punn mon ani chintnam
pavtat, punn hat pavonant mhonnttat tosli amchi got zalea.

Konkani monthly magazine in Roman script

2009-01-27T22:22:00.000-08:00

Copy of mail sent to lino dourado:

Dear Lino,

Thanks for the compliment. I'm glad that there is at least one reader who
would like to see both the sides. Therefore I am sending Fr Couto's article
which I have broken into three parts for the sake of convenience. It had also
appeared in RENOVACAO in three parts. For those who don't know this inassuming
priest, Fr Jaime Couto has been a Konkani teacher for almost all his life.
Presently he is at Saligao seminary. He teaches Konkani in Roman script to
seminarians who have completed their twelfth standard and are now preparing to
enter the Rachol Seminary for higher studies in Philosophy and Theology. Those
points which were left uncovered in Fr Couto's article were covered by me in
GULAB which the readers, if they are genuinely interested in Roman script
Konkani, must have already read. As for those who do not read the only
Konkani monthly magazine in Roman script, we could only let them be; they are
only out to have some fun; so why bother about them?

Regards,
borges

**** Goanet Admin note: Fr. Couto's article follows in three parts. ****

--- lino dourado wrote:

> Hi Eugene,
>
> S. M. Borges is a great writer and his contribution to
> Gulab and other major Konkani magazines and papers are
> well appreciated
>
> Lino Dourado
>
>
> --- Eugene Correia wrote:
>
> > This is important correction, though there could be
> > other mistakes.
> >
> > --
> > In my village I COULD'NT (instead of could) find many houses,
> > including mine, buying Konknni magazines and V. Ixtt,
> > except for one neighbour.
> > ----
> >
> > I think S.M.Borges raises some pertinent questions,
> > and it would be good if he posts the article detailing
> > the other viewpoint on this forum, if needed in separate parts.
> >
> > Is S.M Borges the same Borges who writes or has written or Gulab?
> >
> > Eugene

THOUSANDS PAY A TEARFUL FAREWELL TO FR. FREDDY J. DA COSTA

2009-01-27T22:20:00.001-08:00

THOUSANDS PAY A TEARFUL FAREWELL TO FR. FREDDY J. DA COSTA

( 20-07-1953 to 17-05-2004 )

The mortal remains of Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa, Editor and Publisher of
GULAB roman script konkani magazine who died in a tragic road accident
in the early hours of 17^th May 2004 were laid to rest at the Our Lady
of Gloria Church, Varca Salcette this evening (19-04-2004). Thousands of
people from different walk of life paid a tearful last farewell to Fr.
Freddy Da Costa. People from across the land and parishioners from
various parishes across Goa where Fr. Freddy was associated either as a
Chaplain or a Parish priest traveled to this far flung village in the
South to have a last glimpse of this priest who had touched their lives
in different ways. Children, youth the young and the old from different
communities they were all there to bid a final adieu to Fr. Freddy J Da
Costa whom they not only adored but revered for more than two and a half
decades.

Earlier in the day, the coffin containing the mortal remains of Fr.
Freddy were brought to the Siridao Rosary Church and a Eucharistic
celebration was conducted at 10.00A.M.. Thereafter the body was briefly
taken to the New Age Printers printing press at Verna. In the evening,
the funeral service began from Fr. Freddy’s residence at 15.35 hrs. Rev
Fr. Francis Fernandes Asst. Parish Priest of Our Lady of Gloria church
conducted the service at the residence and led the funeral cortege to
the church. As though as a sign of respect and tribute to the departed
soul, nature too shed tears of grief. To the mourners present at the
residence, this seemed to be very rare gesture. My mind even went back
to the funeral procession of Mother Teresa when the white dove from the
sky came and sat along the route near to the carriage. As the coffin was
being brought out the residence suddenly a rain cloud hovered above the
house for well over five minutes and there was a light shower.
Thereafter, though the skies were overcast, there was not a drop of rain
and the entire funeral service progressed smoothly.

The eucharistic service began at 16.15 hours with the hymn "Jivitachea
Jivita Tum" led by Fr. Peter Cardozo’s choir from Pilar. The mass with
more than 300 priest was concelebrated with the main celebrant being
Archbishop Patriarch Filipe Neri Ferrao, flanked by other 2 Prelates
namely; Archbishop Emeritus Henry D’Souza from Kolkatta and Bishop
Cypriano Moniz from Assansol. Fr. Cristovao Caldeira the parish priest
of St. Lawrence church Agacaim and former Rector of Rachol Seminary
preached the homily. The church was packed to capacity and the mourners
were overflowing out in the church compound.

The Eucharistic service was well conducted and orderly despite the large
presence of mourners present. Fr. Soccorro Mendes, Director of the
Family Service Centre, Panjim was the commentator at the solemn requiem
mass. Around twenty priests were seen distributing the Holy Communion to
the faithful in different locations in and outside the church. At the
offertory procession the nephews and nieces of Fr. Freddy placed single
dressed white roses on the body. A symbolic red rose (GULAB) was offered
by his young niece Safira while a copy of GULAB magazine, GOENCHO AVAZ
and other literary works of Fr. Freddy were placed in the hands of the
Archbishop Patriarch Filipe Neri Ferrao by his younger brother Fausto Da
Costa, Editor and Publisher of The Goan Review, Mumbai.

In his touching Homily, Fr. Cristovao Caldeira dwelled on the umpteen
qualities of the head and the heart of this dynamic priest who was
blessed with immense talents and great love for the mother tongue
Konkani, for which he worked relentlessly all through his life and
finally sacrificed it at a young age living the symphony of life
incomplete. He recalled his ways of functioning as a parish priest and
the way he guided his flock. He said Fr. Freddy always wanted to work
collectively with his flock and collaborators. He also highlighted
certain facets of the Synodal documents, and said Fr. Freddy in his
wisdom and foresight had much earlier already implemented many of its
guidelines. In his death he said a shining star from the Goan skies has
been snuffed out.

Eulogizing the life of Fr. Freddy Da Costa, the Archbishop Patriarch
Filipe Neri Ferrao recalled the day they both entered the Seminary of
Our Lady Saligao, 42 years ago as little young budding seminarians. He
also expressed that a few days before this tragic accident Fr. Freddy
had met him for a few moments and opened up his cherished plans and
ideas he had in mind for the betterment of the Archdiocese. It was most
shocking for the Archbishop Patriarch to hear of this tragic accident,
for just a few hours earlier on Sunday evening at 6.00 PM Fr. Freddy had
concelebrated a Eucharist mass at Stela Maris Chapel , Miramar together
with the Patriarch and other Prelates. In his death the Archdioceses of
Goa has been rendered poor and Konkani has lost one of its staunch
pillars the Patriarch added further. He consoled the grief stricken
mother of Fr. Freddy, his brothers, sisters and their respective
families. The Patriarch also remembered the other victims of the
accident viz., Felicio Cardozo and Frank Pires.

Archbishop Emeritus Henry D’Souza, also paying glowing tributes to Fr.
Freddy said he was closely associated with the Worldwide Apostolate of
Our Lady of Fatima and always helped the Apostolate in many ways.

The last rite were also performed by the Archbishop Patriarch before the
body was taken in a procession to the cemetery led by the Archbishop to
its final resting place. The thousands of mourners who were present at
the final rites waited patiently lined on either side of the road
leading to the cemetery waiting their turn to put a handful of mud for
their friend and beloved pastor. The atmosphere was very gloomy and the
mourners were seen silently shedding tears and reflecting on the tragic
accident that extinguished this glowing lamp from the soil of our
beloved Goa.

Prominent among those present at the funeral were also nuns,
seminarians, ex Chief Ministers of Goa, politicians, writers, doctors,
tiatrists, journalists, etc. A special supplement of GOENCHO AVAZ was
brought out as a mark of respect to the late Editor and Publisher and
copies of the same were being distributed outside the cemetery by the
grief stricken staff of Fr. Freddy’s Printing Press.

Daniel F. De Souza

Vasco da Gama

19^th May 2004. /11.45 PM

TRIBUTE: Felicio Cardoso, Fr Freddy J Da Costa (from TSKK)

2009-01-27T22:19:00.002-08:00

THOMAS STEPHENS KONKNNI KENDR
B.B. Borkar Road, Alto Porvorim, GOA - 403521
Tel: (0832) 415857, 415864
E-mail: skk_goa at sancharnet.in
17 May 2004

Dear Sir,

We will be grateful to you if you could give publicity to the following
note. Kindly refer to the New Age Printers, Verna, for details about the
accident and arrangements for the funeral. We are giving you their
biographical details and their contribution to the Konkani language.

Tragedy hits Two Konkani Stalwarts

Mr Felicio Cardoso and Fr Freddy J. da Costa died on 16 May night in
a tragic accident on their way to Bangalore by road. Both of them
were recipients of the Antonio Pereira Konknni Puroskar of Thomas
Stephens Konknni Kendr (TSKK), for 1992 and 1996 respectively. TSKK
condone the death of these two champions of Konkani, and convey our
sympathies to their families.

Mr Felicio Cardoso

Mr Cardoso was born on 30 August 1932 at Suravli, Salcette. His
primary and Liceum studies were in Portuguese. He did his high
school studies at Model English High School, Margao. Discontinuing
his high school studies he took part in Goa's liberation movement.
He was arrested on 16 June 1954 and was sent to Aguada. When in the
prison he learned to read and write Konkani in Devanagari and
Kannada scripts. He was released on 31 January 1958. He completed
his SSC in 1976, and his B.A. in History in 1980.

Mr Cardoso was a Portuguese teacher before Liberation. He was a
Konkani teacher at Rosary Higher Secondary School, Navelim. He was
a member of the Board of Studies of GBSHSC, and a member of their
textbook committee, and a Konkani examiner of the same board.

From 1949 he contributed articles regularly to Konkani periodicals
published from Bombay, such as Sot, Goa, Goemkar, Konkan Times,
Golden Goa and Sontos. After Liberation he was the editor of
Goencho Sad, a Konkani weekly in Roman script from 1962 to 1963. He
started and edited Sot, a Konkani daily in Roman script 1963 to
1967. From 1967 to 1968 he edited the Konkani daily Divtti.
1968-69 he was the editor of Loksad, a Konkani weekly. 1983-85 he
edited the Konkani daily Novem Goem. Besides this, he contributed a
number of Konkani articles to periodicals such as Suria, V. Ixtt,
Uzvadd, Goencho Avaz, Rashtramat, Sunaparant, Porzoll, Gulab, Vishal
Konkan, etc. After his retirement from Rosary H.S. School he was
associated with Fr Freddy in editing Gulab till his death.

His first book Fulanchi Bag is an anthology of his Konkani poems
published in 1952. He has written or edited ten Konkani books such
as Tufan, Tiatrancho Zhelo Bhag I & II, published by Goa Konkani
Akademi. His last book was Utpot'ti (a translation of Genesis, the
first book of the Bible) in 2002. He has written, produced and
acted in a number of Konkani Tiatr from 1950 to 1962. He has
produced a number of one-act plays. His programmes were broadcast
on AIR Panaji and Bombay. He acted in the Konkani film Jivit amchem
oxem.

He was the President (1984-86) of Konkani Bhasha Mandal, Goa. He
was on the Executive and General Council of Sahitya Akademi, New
Delhi, as a representative of Konkani.

Fr Freddy J. Da Costa

Fr Freddy J. Da Costa was born on 20 July 1953. He did his primary
studies in his native village Varca, Salcette. He joined the Minor
Seminary of Saligao at the tender age of nine, completed the 6-year
Humanities Course there and joined the Major Seminary of Rachol for
Philosophical and Theological studies. He was ordained priest on 24
April 1976. After finishing his Pastoral Training Course at Pius X
Institute, Old Goa, he was appointed Prefect of Saligao Seminary.
He did his special studies in Hindi, and taught Hindi and Konkani to
the seminarians for 14 years. He has an M.A. in Sociology. He was
a member of the Board of Studies of GBSHSC, and a member of their
textbook committee.

Fr Freddy began his literary career at the tender age of ten with a
poem entitled Maim in V. Ixtt. From then on he contributed a number
of articles, poems and short stories to Rotti and Uzvadd. For a
number of years he had a regular feature article on V. Ixtt under
the title 'Oxem mhaka Ievzota'. From 1983 he has been editing and
publishing his popular Konkani monthly magazine Gulab. He edited
and published the Roman script Konkani daily Goencho Avaz for a year
and a half. Then it was made a weekly, later a fortnightly tabloid,
and later still it came out occasionally. He has also contributed
articles to English dailies and periodicals in Goa.

Fr Freddy was the author of 11 Konkani books such as Kanniam Zhelo,
Utth Goemkara, Onit. His Bap'pa series of one-act plays are still
popular. He wrote and published over a dozen tiatr, which include
Devachi Khast, Niz Mog, Ghorabo, Utth Goemkara. Songs of some of
these Tiatr are produced as audiocassettes.

He was the first President of Dalgado Konknni Akademi, and took
active interest to promote Konakani in Roman script. Just last week
he was involved with others to revive this akademi, and was
appointed a member of a core committee. He had many dreams and
plans to preserve and promote Konkani in Roman script, which remain
unfulfilled with his untimely death.

In 1980 he was the recipient of 'Man of the Year' award instituted
by President of Maharashtra Congress. In 1995 he received the
Kulagar award. His plays and talks were broadcast by AIR Panaji.

When he was the parish priest of Bambolim church, he was
instrumental in getting a majestic and beautiful Shrine of the
Miraculous Cross - Fulancho Khuris - built at Bambolim. Besides his
manifold work for Konkani he set up and ran a printing press, New
Age Printers.

Pratap Naik, S.J.
Director TSKK

A tribute to Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa - Gaspar Almeida

2009-01-27T22:19:00.001-08:00

The unexpected death of Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa has
deprived the Goans and the Church of one of its most
gifted priests. He was a man of integrity and
transparency who was an exemplary parish priest at
several Goan parishes, a teacher at the Seminary and
an adviser to the die-hard Konkani enthusiasts.

Fr. Freddy had an easy manner and was at home with
people from every walk of life. He had the gift of
making you feel that you were the most important
person in the world when talking with him. A person
of great seriousness but at the same time extreme good
humour, Fr. Freddy was ever ready to defend his
strongly held Catholic beliefs but was also gracious
companion, a reconciler who believed in the 'dignity
of differences'. Those who worked with him found Fr.
Freddy a loyal and trusted colleague. He had an
incisive mind and the gift of clearly explaining
difficult concepts and issues of importance to the
community.

"I am deeply saddened by the tragic death of Fr.
Freddy. He was a generous, selfless and brilliant
man, who was one of the finest people I have had the
pleasure of knowing. He will be remembered for his 22
years of dedication to his much cherished 'GULAB' -
the only roman script Konkani family magazine. My
three page Konkani article "Politics of the Olympic
Games" in GULAB issue of April 1986 was published by
him without even editing a word. So also were my
reports on the sports, cultural and social activities
of the Goans in Kuwait.

Fr. Freddy had a great generosity of grace and
understanding. His deep pastoral sensitivity gave him
an insight into many people's lives, with whom he
developed strong and trustworthy friendships. The
Church has lost a much loved priest and, for so many
of us, Konkani lovers, the tiatrist faternity, the
musicians, the Konkani authors, a true and loyal
friend. We will miss him terribly, but in his great
works - GULAB, Konkani publications, audio cassettes,
etc., Fr. Freddy will always be remembered by all
Goans and Konkani lovers.

Gaspar Almeida
Associate, www.goa-world.com

Namneche 2004 Gulab Puroskar jiklele kollakar Kuwait dhesant

2009-01-27T22:16:00.000-08:00

Tum Vhoir Aum Sokhol

2001 vorsant ‘HEM KAZAR KOSLEM?’ Comedian Philip-an ek
ut’tom dorjeacho Konkani Songit proiog dakhovn P.V.
Production-acho bavtto voir ubarun dovorlolo asa.

Teach bavttea kala aplo dusro Konkani Musical Show TUM
VHOIR AUM SOKHOL, Setembrachea 16ver, 2005 Hawally A/C
Hall-ant aplea voznadik digdorponan machier
dadkhoupant sogle toearen ravla. Dolleam boro sarkeli
veglech torechi machieveli mandavoll pollenv tuje
dolle pittpittailea viret ravchona mhonn digdorspi
aplem avhan ditanam tujo kimticho vell bekar vochona
zaunk.............

Hea ‘show’-ak bhag ghevnk VHOIR thavn udop khorun
Kuwait pavtat Goeamche prosidh, namneche 2004 Gulab
Puroskar jiklele kollakar. Comedian Agostinho Themudo
(segid don vorsam 2003-2004 ut’tom vinodi Gulab
Puroskar jikpi), Bai Felcy ani Lawrie Travasso (Bori
gavpin/ boro gavpi 2004 Gulab Puroskar). Prekxokachim
kallzam jikpi Anthony San, Ancette de Santa Cruz,
Franciso de Tuem, Peter de Costa ani songita mollar
Goeant chokchoktolo bab Norman Cardozo. UK thavn
pavtta Tommy Aphonso (Jr. Nelson)

Ani SOKHOL Kuwaitche bhuimer ravun tankam vhodd umedin
ievkar ditelim Konknni palkachim ostad tikam Bai:
Querobina Carvalho, Marcus Vaz, Laurente Pereira,
Sylvester Vaz, Micheal D'Silva, Braz de Parra, Albino
de Santa Cruz, Ketty de Navelim, M. Luis & Leena,
Master Carl Rod, Ignatius de Xelvon, ani Zoro Coelho.

Soirea kollakarank fullamcho turo bhettoitelint
Mongllurchim salkam Ronny-Jasmine sangatak asun Dilon
ani Jason.

Mon bulgavpi ani aplea surachea talar nachpa sarkelem
songit vazovpi Kuwait-che ‘numero uno’ mhonn
pacharlele Shahu Almeida , Mongllurche Adrian
Gomes-achea sohokaran proig-vosrean chomotkar kortele
zalear nad ani bizlechi fixal vevostha SPIDERS aplea
buzar getele. Khas bizlecho prokas Julio Cardozo ani
Paklo polletat. Machieveli mandavol SPA aplea hatant
samballam zalear Menino ani Caetano de Ribandar
machiecho kharbar aplea digdorsponan choloitele.

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Stores Tel: 2412970
Fahaheel: 3720619, 6262597, 9732917, 9494518 vo
e-topal ComedianPhilip at gmail.com

DUBAI XHARANT (UAE)

Kuwait-che prekxokank dadhoxi kelea uprant eka sumana
uprant hoch show Brestara 22ver September 2005 VHOIR
thavn Dubaichea (UAE) Al-Nasr Leisureland (Open Air
Poolside) thoimsorlea Goenkarank dadhoxi korun SOKHOL
pavtele justuch sanjechea 6.30 vaztam

Odik mahiti mellun ghevnchi Gabby de Chandor
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Restaurant’-ant tiketto vikrek asteleo

http://www.goa-world.com/goa/poems
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Jivitachim Ponnas Vorsam --- Fr. Freddy wrote .... "I say thank you GOD", it's a fairly long life

2009-01-27T22:11:00.000-08:00

Konkani writers, Fr da Costa, Felicio killed in
accident
NT Staff Reporter

Panaji May 17: In a horrific tragedy, Fr Freddy J da
Costa (50) and Felicio Cardozo (71), two towering
pillars of the Konkani movement died on the spot when
their car collided head-on with a lorry at Haveri,
near Hubli, at 3 a.m, today morning. The
seriously-injured car driver, Francis Pires succumbed
to his injuries in Karnataka Medical College, Hubli
around 11 a.m.The tragic death of Fr da Costa,
founder-editor of Gulab, the Konkani magazine and
Felicio Cardozo, eminent Konkani writer, journalist
and freedom fighter, is a double body-blow to the
Konkani movement as both were strong proponents of
Roman-script Konkani. Gulab is popular not only in
Goa, but among Goans living abroad particularly in the
Gulf countries. Fr Freddy was longing to celebrate the
silver jubilee of Gulab, which is in its 22nd year of
publication.

The police officials in Haveri police station, when
contacted, said the accident occurred barely 50 metres
from the police station when the Tata Indica in which
Fr da Costa and Cardozo were travelling, attempted to
overtake another vehicle but collided head-on with an
oncoming lorry.

The Haveri police sources also confirmed that the
bodies of all the three deceased had been handed over
to their relatives from Goa around 4 p.m today
afternoon. The badly damaged car was still near the
site.

According to local sources, Fr da Costa and Cardozo
left Goa for Hubli at about 8.30 p.m on May 16. They
were proceeding to Hubli to work on a literary project
along with the driver, Francis from Siridao.

On the occasion of his 50th birthday on July 20, 2003,
Fr da Costa released a book in Roman-script Konkani
titled Jivitachim Pon’nas Vorsam (Fifty years of
Life). In his “final words” in the book, Fr da Costa
writes thus, “Fifty years in India at least, is a
fairly long life for a person. Hence first of all, I
thank God. Also to those who helped me get up and
proceed every time I stumbled and fell, I say thank
you.”

(courtesy: The Navhind Times www.navhindtimes.com )

- Forwarded by gasper almeida, associate,
www.goa-world.com

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REGINALDO B. FERNANDES “PATXAI ROMANSINCHO”

2009-01-26T07:15:00.003-08:00

REGINALDO B. FERNANDES “PATXAI ROMANSINCHO” – 12th Death Anniversary

Today, November 13, 2006, we commemorate the 12th death anniversary of
Reginaldo Basilio Fernandes, “Patxai Romansincho” (King of Konkani novels).
He was born to clarinet player, Antonio Caridade Fernandes and Carmelina in
idyllic Siolim village in Bardez Taluka, Goa, where rare events occur
regularly. He lived at Siolim’s Aframento Vaddi, the locale immortalized in
Goa’s Mande as “Siole dongra sokolu ….”

The second decade of the last century proved very lucky for the Siolkars
because it produced two great persons – Joãozinho (Johnson) Carvalho
(1913-1996) and Reginaldo B. Fernandes (1914–1994). Both performed at the
Emissora de Goa during Portuguese rule. Both of them passed away one after
another though not in the same order as they were born. Some of the other
famous names from Siolim that come to my mind are: Antoninho D’Souza,
another great musician and maestro who served as the music director of the
Emissora de Goa (pre-liberation) and All India Radio (post-liberation),
Panjim; Santan Fernandes, a violinist and a choir specialist and “motiti”
singer whose tenor voice prevailed over everyone’s at “Aitarache Pas”
(Passion Sundays). One of Goa’s most prominent tiatrists, Kid Boxer, as
well as the dwarfish Mini Diogo also hail from Siolim, and, of course, Remo
Fernandes, to name a new.

When Reginaldo’s father succumbed to a paralytic stroke, Reginaldo had to
take over as the breadwinner of the family. Hence, at the age of 18, he
boarded the coastal steam-ship and left for Bombay. A.V. D’Cruz, another
renowned Siolkar in Bombay at the time, spotted Reginald’s talent for
writing.

Reginaldo took to writing in Bombay in 1932 to get over his homesickness.
The moment he published a book, he would send a copy to his wife, who would
read it aloud to all the neighbors, who eagerly gathered at his house to
hear it. His romantic literature, filled with nostalgia for rustic Goa, was
instantly devoured by the Konkani reading public. His narrative transported
the reader on a royal tour of exotic, sprawling mansions, peopled with
princely aristocrats. The mood and tone of the narrative took off with the
ominous hoot of the owl, the crackling of dry leaves along a lonely pathway,
trickling of rain in a stream, a dog howling in the distance; a hyena
howling on the hills at night, the soothing rustle of the swaying palm
leaves, the bubbling brooks or the peal of the bell at the Angelus time.

Reginaldo was a master story teller but unlike today he lived in an age when
awards and honors hardly existed. His sole reward was a satisfied reading
public. The Kuwait Goan Association, however, honored him for his
contribution to Konkani. He was also the recipient of the Goa State
Cultural Award for 1992-93 for his outstanding performance in writing.
According to his son, Salvador, following Goa’s liberation, he had an option
to migrate to Portugal but the very thought of missing his daily dose of
cashew fenni convinced him there was no place like home.

Reginaldo has written in all 177 “Romansi” (Konkani novels) in Roman script
with titles ranging from letters A to Z – a feat, I am afraid, none will be
able to surpass, especially given the present rate of written Konkani in
Roman script!

“Reginaldacheo Romansi melar keleleo.” (Reginaldo’s novels were sweetened
with sugar.) If I know Konkani today, it is due to Reginaldo’s Romansi. At
the age of barely 10, I was able to read Konkani without anyone’s guidance
and soon thereafter I came across Romansi and took a liking for them. I
have read most of Reginaldo’s Romansi. His Romansi were so good that once I
started to read them I could not put them down. I would sit by the
flickering “petrolacho divo” (kerosene-based lamp) and continue to read them
until early morning when I would finish them. Sometimes, the kerosene in
the lamp ran out and I had to refill it. I could not study past midnight
but when it came to reading Reginaldo’s Romansi, I didn’t mind keeping awake
after my studies up till 5:00 a.m. and sometimes beyond when the birds
welcomed the dawn with their singing. He created such an interest in the
reader that he carried him/her with the story till the end; only the readers
knew the value and magic of Reginaldo’s writing. Oh Reginaldo uncle, I miss
your Romansi so much!

Besides being numero uno writer in Konkani novels, he was also a proficient
lyricist, musician and playwright. He has left behind several Konkani
compositions, including the melancholic “Adeus Korchea Vellar” sung by the
late Allen Costa, which is till today played on All India Radio. This
particular number was very famous at weddings. The moment the band struck
it, especially ‘Johnson & his Jolly Boys’, the folk knew that it was time to
part. The famous Goan band leader, the late Joãozinho Carvalho once said,
“Reginaldo Fernandes is like a khoddop (rock) on the music scene. He
excelled on the violin as well as the trumpet.” The vast majority of his
fans were hardly aware that Reginaldo was not merely a “Patxai Romansincho”
but also a complete musician – a violinist and a trumpeter who was born when
music was taught in parochial schools in Goa’s villages and with the
advantage of learning it under the music maestro, Zefferino D’Cruz. He also
figured among the Goan musicians who played for the Hindi film industry.

Reginaldo possessed a melodious voice. He wrote and presented 17 Konkani
dramas. In 1970, he wrote dialogues for the film “Kortubancho Sonvsar,
which was produced by Britona Films.

Here are the lyrics of a Konkani song which was devoted to the King of
novels:

“PATXAI ROMANSINCHO” by Gable-Allan

I
Munis sonvsarant ieta, aple ikmotin dis sarta
Devan dilelem dennem to vaprun fuddar aplo korta
Konn nanv zoddunk vavurta, konn duddvam pattlean morta
Punn munis mortoch, kortubancho ugddass tacho sonvsarant urta

Chorus
Reginald Fernandes, ganvan to Siolecho
Moipaxi utrancho, ani lhanvikaiecho
Ekxem sot’tor ani sat buk borovn, record dorla apnnancho
Novembrache 13ver somplo, Patxai Konkani Romansincho

II
Sat tuvem dakoilet, pustokam Tarizona
Barabasachem jivit vachun ratik nid poddonk nam
Golkonddachi Girestkai, tujem chintop vachpich zannam
Valencia cheddvachi churchureanchi istor azun visronk zainam

Chorus
Tachim borim pustokam, Zorzorro ani Arabeskar
Tachea hea orixtt vavrak, mevla Gulab Puroskar
Rolling Trophy bhettovpi, amche Kuwaitche Goenkar
Tiatranchea Utsovak kel’lo, Reginaldacho sotkar

III
A to Z okxearanim, Romanxi boroileat tannem
Perdidade pustok vachit tea mukar dovorlem nimannem
Sotra tiatr boroilet, muzgaponnanchem aslem dennem
State Cultural Award mevla Devachem ievchea adim apovnnem

Chorus
Aikon khobor mornanchi, kallzak hea zalo gavo
Patxai Konkani Romansincho, dusro zait kai favo
Oixim vorsanche piraier, palovlo Konknnincho divo
Reginaldak, sorginchem suk, Dhoniam tum kor favo
Goenkaranim, ugddasak tachea, monument bandunk zavo

(From Dom’s antique shelf)

The devout Siolkar would wake up at the first peal of the morning bell and
would never miss St. Anthony’s novena every Tuesday at the Siolim church. A
helpful little girl, Milagarina Perpetua Aneca, was his constant help and
companion during his last days. Reginaldo Fernandes breathed his last on
Sunday, November 13, 1994, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Nursing Home in
Anjuna. Milagrina recalls that he was extremely fond of his songs
“Sorvbhovmtim Uzvadd Charneancho” and “Adeus Korchea Vellar” – a tune that
the band struck when Romansi writer’s and musician’s body was lowered into
the grave.

A person spends his life time and gives his best to establish a name for
himself, family and the society but the moment he passes away, people tend
to forget him so fast as if he didn’t exist. This is what happened when
Reginaldo passed away; there was no immediate announcement of his death.
The Goa media – newspapers, radio and TV - failed to report/broadcast the
news of his death adequately.

The following lyrics of a Konkani song summarizes Reginaldo’s life and
regrets the fact no adequate publicity was given to the King’s death:

“REGINALD FERNANDES” by Alvito

I
Nixeanni Patxeai asta porjen vinchun kaddlolo
Tosoch ek Patxea aslo abru-man zoddlolo
State Award passun tea Patxaik mevlolo
Toch to Reginaldo Fernandes, Romansincho Patxea mhunn soglleanim vakanddlolo

Chorus
Siolim, Bardez tuzo ganv, sonvsarak famad tujem nanv
Romanxi vikrek iet, lok rokddeoch geit vochon marun dhanv
Romanxi tujeo vachun, bhogtalem satisfasanv
Avchit Reginald somplo, kallzak balo toplo, dukan poddlo Goencho ganv

II
Jinsavar Romanxi tuvem, boroileo kosleo-kosleo
Ek pavtt vachunk lagot tor, bond korunk disonasleo
Romansi xapun haddunk, zaiteo oddchonim sonsleo
Tosleo anink ievcheo nam, amkam vachunk mevcheo nam, Romanxi tujea osleo

Chorus
Devan bhorlolo taka, anik sabar denneanim
Tea tempar to gaztalo, boro trumpet vaztalo Hindi filmanim
Tiatr pasun dakoilet, vakanddlo taka sogleanim
Reginald tum ontorlo punn sodanch jivo urlo, Goenkarachea kallzanim

III
Konknni bhaxe pasot tuvem, zaite sacrifis kelet
Konkani bhas samballunk, donxim vodik buk boroilet
Tuvem boroilele buk, sodanch ugddasak urlet
Punn Konknni Bhaxa Mandal amchea Reginaldak te sapuch visorlet

Chorus
Dusre zatichea munxeanim, aplea munxeank soddunk nam
Tanche melear boroinnar, rokddich khobor paper-ar, haddlea xivai ravonk nam
Serkaran Reginaldachi, matui khoboruch korunk nam
Reginald somplo mhunn paper-anim pasun rokddich khobor haddunk nam
Radiocher, TV-cher pasun Reginaldachi khobor sangonk nam

(From Dom’s antique shelf)

Reginaldo sacrificed his life and left behind for us a treasure of Konkani
books. On behalf of Goans, I request his surviving children, Salvador and
Philoo (Gaydon), to republish his books and distribute the wealth among
Goans so they may benefit from it, especially now when we are fighting for
Konkani in Roman script. I, for one, wouldn’t mind reading his Romansi
again. Alternatively, the Goa government could take over the project and
have the books reprinted and republished.

Next, on behalf of Goans, I suggest that a monument be built in Reginaldo’s
memory in his birth place, Siolim. This is the least we can do for the man
who has done and given us so much in his life time.

May Reginaldo’s soul rest in peace.

Moi-mogan,

Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA

GONCRATULATIONS TO GABRIEL CRASTO

2009-01-26T07:15:00.001-08:00

GONCRATULATIONS TO GABRIEL CRASTO.

A thousand Mabrouks (congratulations) to Mr. Gabriel Crasto. I am glad to
know of this award for you. At least finally your good deeds for the cause
of Goa and Konkani from Bahrain are acknowldged and rewarded.

I also congratulate my friend and your brother in Kuwait Gasper Crasto, one
of the pillars of Navelim Youth Centre, Kuwait, your mother whom I recently
met in Kuwait during the wedding of Gasper and all your family members.

Edward Faleiro and his NRI forum should take note of this. Crasto, you
deserve more and better awards than this. It is perons like you in the Gulf
who work for the cause of Goa and Konkani which is the soul of Goa and not
those who were doled NRI Awards on silver platter when their contributions
for the cause of Goa and especially for Konkani are nothing.

If at all any top awards are to be presented to NRI Goans, then it should be
for Gulf Goans only whose contributions for the cause of Goa and Konkani is
second to none. Once again Edward Faleiro and his chamchas should open their
eyes.

A thousand congratulations to Mr. Crasto once again. Through this
recognition you gave recognition not only to the excellent contribution of
Bahrain Goans to the cause of Goans and Konkani but also to the contribution
of entire Gulf Goans -- headed by Kuwait Goans.

I share in your happiness.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait

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G R Crasto is Goan Review's 'Man of the year'

Renowned Konkani activist and social worker Gabriel R. Crasto of Navelim,
Goa has been selected The Goan Review's 'Personality of the Year (2006) for
his dedicated service to the cause of Goans and Konkani language.

Crasto a staunch Konkani supporter who presently works for Jalal Travel
Agency in Bahrain has served the Goan community in Bahrain and has always
supported the cause of Konkani and Goa.

Crasto is an outstanding footballer, organiser and compere and occassionally
contributes his thought-provoking articles to Gulab and The Goan Review. The
award instituted by GRAF (Goan Review Art Foundation) in the memory of late
Fortunato Fernandes consisting of a rolling trophy, a certificate and cash
prize, will be bestowed on the winner at a special public function to be
held later this year.

For a photo of G R Crasto, please see:
http://www.goanet.org/images/topics/Personalities/GRCrasto.jpg

Nuvem-Kuwait Parishioners felicitated Norman Cardozo

2009-01-26T07:14:00.001-08:00

Nuvem-Kuwait Parishioners felicitated the well-known
musician Norman Cardozo

Exclusive Interview
Nuvem-Kuwait Parishioners (NKP) felicitated the
well-known musician Norman Cardozo from Murda Grande,
Nuvem - Salcete Goa for his outstanding achievements
in music on Monday, 19th September 2005.

Before landing in Kuwait to play in Comedian Philip’s
musical show ‘Tum Vhoir Aum Sokol’, he has played in
London for "Lorna". "Prince Jacob" and other Goan
artistes and mesmerized the audience with his solo
performance.

Lino Gabriel Fernandes, NKP Secretary honoured the
proud son of the soil with a memento and on behalf of
Nuvem Parishioner in Kuwait, Master Manfred Fernandes,
son of Agusto (NKP treasurer) felicitated the musician
with a Gold Pendant.

While the reception was on a prominent writer

telephonic interview with Norman Cardoz.

Lino B. Dourado: I had a great opportunity to see you
live on stage in Kuwait at Hawally A/C Auditorium for
Comedian Philip’s musical show ‘Tum Vhoir Aum Sokol’
on 16th Sept. 2005. After a long break Tiatr lovers in
Kuwait enjoyed your combination with Kuwait based
musicians. What do you think about this?

Norman Cardoz: Every show I’ve played with has a
different way of performing and in order to be a
sensitive accompanist, I have to orient myself to that
person’s frame of mind and suit my music to their
music. I would like to thank Shahu, Adrian and their
music troupe for their best support. That is the
reason ‘Tum Vhoir Aum Sokol’ was an instant hit show.

Lino B. Dourado: Before coming to Kuwait I understand
that you provided music for some Konkani shows and
tiatrs in Europe. Also what difference to you find
between the audience back home and in foreign
countries?

Norman Cardoz: In Goa I play almost every alternate
day in tiatr, wedding reception, beat shows, etc. I
meet Goan audience very often. No doubt I received
respect and appreciation all over Goa. After the end
of the shows normally the people are in a hurry to go
home and we musicians are busy packing our
instruments. Whereas in foreign countries like Canada,
UK, Portugal, Kuwait and etc., a gullible audience
encircle you to get a handshake and sign a few
autographs from the artistes. It stunned me that these
lovely people stood for hours to get autographs. Life
is inspiration. You feel honoured. You feel like you
have achived your aim.

Lino B. Dourado: You are well-known in Goan music
world as a best solo artist. How long have you been
playing now in tiatr fraternity?

Norman Cardoz: To establish a strong identity for
myself, first of all I have to do my homework well. I
want to be as good as I can be and to do as much hard
work as possible. This is a constant challenge. In the
beginning I used to play the guitar in tiatr. In 2001
I started on keyboard. I wanted to be my own so I
started ‘one man band.’ Ultimately, I received
appreciation from different corners and in 2002
versatile actor, singer, director-producer Jose Rod
invited me to play in his new drama ‘Devan Dilem
Denvcharan Velem’ in Kuwait. That was my first one man
performance in a foreign country.

Lino B. Dourado: So this is your second time in
Kuwait?

Norman Cardoz: Yes.

Lino B. Dourado: Have you won any awards? When and
which.

Norman Cardoz: As a best musician I have won the
prestigious 2002 ‘Gulab Award’ for Mario Meneze’s
drama “Mhoji Maim Mhoji Dusman”. This award I shared
with most senior music director Diniz.

Lino B. Dourado: What have you to say regarding the
Parishioners of Nuvem in Kuwait?

Norman Cardoz: While receiving the Nuvem-Kuwait
Parishioners’ memento from the hands of Secretary Lino
Gabriel Fernandes, I was overwhelmed and tears rolled
down because of the kind love and honour that was
bestowed upon me by the villagers. It feels so good to
get recognition for my work. I am greatful not only to
those who are present for the reception but all those
ganv-bhav who remember me in a one way or the other.
I will never forget this moment. I thank the
organizers for a wonderful evening.

Lino B. Dourado: What is your message to Goans in
Kuwait?

Norman Cardoz: Together work for the betterment of
the Goan community. Encourage the youngsters in music
and theatrical arts. I hope to see more Goans into
such creativeness and music. Thank you Lino Bab.

(Ends)
- Forwarded by http://www.goa-world.com

ROMAN-SCRIPT KONKANI WRITERS IN GOA DECRY 'STEP-MOTHERLY' TREATMENT

2009-01-26T07:13:00.000-08:00

ROMAN-SCRIPT KONKANI WRITERS IN GOA DECRY 'STEP-MOTHERLY' TREATMENT

PANJIM, May 15: Some 17-years after Konkani got 'official language' status
in the western Indian coastal state of Goa, mainly-Christian writers of
Konkani in Goa increasingly feel their variant and script is coming under
increasing pressure and gaining step-motherly treatment.

Turning pro-active, a meeting held in mid-May drew some 70 writers to
state-capital Panjim, where they decided to relaunch the Dalgado Konkani
Academy -- an institution started in the 1980s to promote Konkani in the
Roman-script but which fell into inactivity.

They also demanded government support to preserve and promote Konkani in
this script, which, they said, is an age-old tradition of the Christian
community in Goa.

Goa's Christian minority, forming a little under 30% in this state of 1.4
million, has strongly lobbied for Konkani in the backdrop of linguistic
controversies in this state.

But this community has historically used the Roman-script over centuries for
Konkani, while since 1987, the Konkani is in the Devanagari script has been
officially recognised.

Devanagari script Konkani has been used by a smaller number, but it gained
weightage because of arguments such as it being a more-suited script for an
Indian language, and the claim that it would bridge gaps between different
community and caste groups in this state.

"The perception that Devanagari script for Konkani would unite all Goans has
failed," Fr Freddy J Da Costa, editor of the Roman-script popular monthly
magazine 'Gulab' was quoted as saying in a statement released after the
meet.

Speakers at the meet also voiced angry protests over the lack of official
support to the Roman (or 'Romi', as it is locally called), the allocation of
prizes only to Devaganari writers, and called for support from priests and
the Church -- who are among the active promoters of Roman-script Konkani --
to support a renaissance of the same.

"They have taken us for granted. In Goa, there is a large section of the
community which doesn't understand Devanagari," said Tomazinho Cardozo, a
Konkani writer, dramatist and former politician, an organiser behind the
mid-week meeting on this issue. Cardozo was a former Speaker of the Goa
assembly in the early 'nineties.

"Today there are many readers and writers who use the Roman-script Konkani,
but there are few to guide them," said Fr Costa, whom many point to as one
of the few successful editor-publishers of a Konkani journal in Goa. The
other well-read Konkani journal is the weekly 'Ixtt', brought out by the
Pilar Society of SFX priests, also in the Roman script.

Premanand Lotlikar, a dramatist from the coastal South Goa village of Colva
who has also used the Roman script for Konkani, recalls times in the
not-so-distant past when readers would keenly await the publication of local
novels in that script -- locally called "romanz".

Dr Olivinho Gomes, a former IAS officer and ex-acting vice chancellor of the
Goa University, argued in favour of a church publication in Roman Konkani
and said resources could be shared among the seven regions in western and
southern India which have Konkani -- though in different scripts, including
Kannada -- as a prominent language in church affairs.

"We apologise for the long slumber that the Dalgado Academy went into after
the 'eighties," said Fr Costa. The academy, meant specifically to promote
Roman script Konkani was named after a priest Mons. Sebastiao R Dalgado from
Goa who spent long years promoting the small language which has an estimated
2 to 5 million speakers all put together.

"We have accepted Devanagari (as the official script of Goa). Our children
study that language. But still, we have a (living) tradition which needs to
be sustained. Our writers have got neglected," said former Speaker Cardozo.

But speakers stressed that their campaign was not meant at targeting any
other script -- including the currently-dominant Devanagari. They questioned
the view that a decline in the Roman script would lead to an increase in
Devanagari, pointing out that neglecting the former could lead to people
getting alienated entirely from Konkani and instead shifting over to larger
languages like English, as seems to be happening in Goa itself.

"We have to learn to call a spade a spade," argued Wilson Mazarello, a
popular local dramatist who goes by the stage-name of 'Wilmix'. He was more
blunt in critiquing the attitude of Devanagari Konkani writers, whom he said
were responsible for cornering off prizes and official support meant for the
language which was written in many scripts.

Some speakers decried those who insinuate that Roman Konkani writing lacks
writing. "They often say so without even reading it," argued Cardozo. Others
also made the point that this form of writing allowed the commonman to
express his thoughts, and arguments of quality should not be used to block
the same.

Speakers pointed to the inability of Devanagari Konkani publications to find
a market, and rued that writers in the Roman script were not getting
support. "In histories (of the language) the name of those who have
contributed in the Roman script never come out," said Cosma Fernandes, a
writer and teacher. Added Mathew D'Souza of Merces: "My father struggled
(with humble jobs) and managed to publish a Konkani paper."

Bonaventura D'Pietro, another writer, stressed that Roman-Konkani books
should be published by the government in that script itself, rather than
rendering it into the Devaganari script, since this would mean a limited
appeal.

But there were different views from others like Pratap Naik sj, a priest who
heads the Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr, a language promotion centre run by
the Jesuits and named after a member of the same order who came from England
centuries ago and wrote in Konkani.

"Take any language in the world. It is people who have built a language. Did
the British government promote English worldwide? Our brothers who use the
Kannada script for Konkani, who gave them awards? Why do we want to go to
the government with the begging bowl? Let's prepare a master plan and go
ahead," argued Fr Naik.

But he said such a task required a full-time commitment. He suggested the
idea of a major culture-fest by the year-end, and the promotion of a
federation of institution using Roman-script Konkani.

Goa's language issue boiled over with unexpected fury, particularly between
1985-87, when it errupted as a bitter Konkani-versus-Marathi battle. Marathi
is the language of the neighbouring state of Maharashtra, but the issue is
more complex than what it seems, given its caste and communal implications
here.

In the mid-eighties, the then Pratapsing Rane-led Congress government
brought about a complex law, as the proposed solution. It grants official
language status for Konkani, with the proviso that Marathi can also be
recognised for official purpose. But each 'official' purpose for either
language has to be independently declared to be accepted, and the till-then
little-utilised Devanagari-script Konkani was the accepted variant.

Earlier too, TSKK director father Pratap Naik has argued that adopting Roman
script for Konkani would be more practical and viable for the
standardisation of Konkani.

He has been quoted saying that the present Roman Konkani script writings
were more or less orthographically correct, but a few changes would have to
be introduced in order to standardise and make it acceptable script to the
international community.

Peter Raposo, the young priest-editor of the seven-decades old 'Ixtt'
publication, aruges that almost a hundred Roman Konkani newspapers or
periodicals were published at different point of time since the year 1889
(rpt 1889). These included around nine dailies, the rest being periodicals.

"Why did not a single Roman Konkani daily survive is one question that will
haunt its readers and those who started these papers. Most of these papers
had common pitfalls. They were either a one-man show or were not managed
professionally. And in fact the 'lack of funds' followed from these reasons
and vice versa," argues Raposo. He disagrees with the view that there have
been insufficient readers.

Raposo suggests a Roman Konkani daily, arguing that "it will bring the two
communities together, as it will keep a large section of people (in this
case the Christians) who are alienating themselves totally from the Konkani
fold".

Konkani Issues

2009-01-26T07:12:00.000-08:00

KONKANI ISSUES
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PICTORAL COMIC FORMAT BOOK IN KONKANI: Cecil Pinto
posted news about the plans for the
first-ever pictoral comic format book in Konkani, to be
brought out by S. Chittaranjan Nayak of Kochi. See
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2004/03/01/stories/2004030101290200.htm
This writers' network http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goawriters
is open to those serious about writing. Contact Cecil (above)
for details.

A NEW MAILING LIST ON WRITING in Romi Konkani. Check out
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tskk-writing

An introduction: "This group consists of persons
interested to write Konkani in Roman script using
the scientific system developed by Thomas Stephens
Konknni Kendr (TSKK), Alto Porvorim, Goa, India.
Subscribers will be given information about Konkani
language, literature, publications, etc (in any
script) only in Roman script using the TSKK
orthography. They are encouraged to give feed back
preferably in Konkani. Spread the word about this
yahoo group to your friends. If they want to
receive regular mail in Konkani in Roman script,
ask them to subscribe to this group. Thanks --
Pratap Naik, S.J.

SUGGESTIONS TO EXPATS: Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendra's Fr
Pratap Naik SJ and www.tskk.org has this
list of suggestions on what non-resident Goans can do for
Konkani:

NRI Konkanis (Konkani speakers or their
descendents) from Karnataka and Mumbai have done
and continue to do a lot for Konkani and Konkanis
of their region. Now it is the turn of Goan NRIs to
do something concrete and meaningful for their
mother tongue Konkani. Let them not waste their
time in endless discussions. Instead let them do
something worthwhile for Konkani. I propose a few
areas for their Action Plan.

* Since Konkani in Roman script was neglected from the time
of liberation, now we have to work for giving Konkani in
Roman script its rightful place. Therefore, bring pressure on
local MLAs, MPs, and government to amend the Official
Language Act 1987 to get official and equal status for Roman
script on par with Devanagari script.

* Launch a secular Konkani weekly in Roman script. It should
not be a mouthpiece of any particular political party or
government. It should fearlessly speak out for Goa and issues
related to Goa. Such a weekly will promote critical thinking
among local people and value-based political, social life style.

* NRIs could select and publish every year at least
10 Konkani books of a good standard written in
Roman script. Let them start their own publishing
house of a standard like Penguin, Oxford, Cambridge
or Macmillan.

* Publish children's literature. To promote Konkani among
children, a children's multi coloured periodical is really
necessary and need of the hour.

* NRIs could establish few awards (Rs. 50,000 to 100,000)in
the name of their clubs or institutions and give them
annually to a deserving person for his/her lifetime
achievement to serve Konkani in Roman script. Four such
awards were established for those who write Konkani in
Kannada script.

* Organise annual competitions or festivals for adults such
as: Tiatr, Khell-Tiatr, Khell, One act play, Kantaram, Mando,
Christmas Carols, devotional hymns, motets.

* Organise annual competitions for adults: short story,
novel, article, poem, article, elocution, etc.

* Organise annual competitions in two categories, namely for
high school students and college students: elocution, essay,
short story, poetry, folk story narration, Konkani riddles
and proverbs, look at a picture and write a caption, etc

* Select the first three tiatrs which win prizes at Kala Akademi
competition, and have Tiatr festivals in important towns of
Goa. Through these festivals the young tiatrists will get an
exposure to their talents and creativity.

* Produce good quality audio CDs of Kantaram, songs and jokes.

* Give scholarships/grants to do research on various topics related to
Konkani in Roman script.

* Establish a full-time Konkani channel for entertainment and
news. Such a channel will give a boost to Konkani and
talents of younger generation. 13. For whatever reason NRIs
cannot attend to item numbers 1 to 12 on their own, then let
them financially support or sponsor projects of those
institutions which promote Konkani language, literature and
culture in Goa.

VIEWPOINT FROM VASCO: Neeraja Vaidya - Yadav
from Vasco comments,

Read your (GNB) post in VU (Vascokars United).
There's a site called mayaboli (i think,
www.mayaboli.com) where people post in Roman
Marathi or Devanagari enabled by the site,
whichever they feel like. The aim is communication.
You have to be able to get across to the other
person what you want to say, that's all.

I often read stories by Christian boys in Sunaparant. They
write perfect Konkani, but I wonder if that's the kind of
dialect they speak in, at home. Their dialect is probably
closer to Romi, but they've learnt Nagari in school, so they
follow that grammar...

My favourite in Sunaparant is Anton Chepekar and his kind of
Konkani. That is mostly followed only by Romi writers.

Sunaparant/Bimb/Jaag and Gulab should publish articles from
each-other's paper/magazine. You don't see Christian writers
in Bimb. Do you see Hindus writing in Gulab? This might soon
turn into a religious issue otherwise....

A PRESCRIPTION FOR KONKANI? Cecil Pinto forwards a word from
Anu Garg's Wordsmith and suggests:
"Perhaps Konkani needs heterography instead of
Standardization."

heterography (het-uh-ROG-ruh-fee) noun

1. A spelling different from the one in current use.

2. Use of the same letter(s) to convey different sounds,
for example, gh in rough and ghost.

[From Greek hetero (different) + -graphy (writing).]

The idea of heterography is a recent phenomenon, relatively
speaking. Earlier, when English was mainly a spoken language,
it was a free-for-all, spelling-wise. Any spelling was good
as long as you could make yourself understood. Each writer
spelled words in his own way, trying to spell them
phonetically. Shakespeare spelled his own name in various
ways (Shaxspear, Shakespear, and so on).

If you read old manuscripts, you can find different spellings
of a word on the same page, and sometimes even in the same
sentence. Spelling wasn't something sacrosanct: if a line was
too long to fit, a typesetter might simply squeeze or expand
the word by altering the spelling.

If the idea of to-each-one's-own spelling for the same word
sounds bizarre, consider how we practice it even today, in
the only place we can: in our names. Look around you and you
might find a Christina and a Cristina and a Kristina and many
other permutations and combinations.

With the advent of printing in the 15th century, spelling
began to become standardized. By the 19th century, most words
had a single "official" spelling, as a consensus, not by the
diktat of a committee.

Today if you write "definately" and someone points out that
you've misspelled the word, just tell them you're a
practitioner of heterography.

-Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org)

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QUERY ABOUT TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN GOA: Sareen Priyanka Surjit
Kumar has this comment and
query: "I have been subscribed to Goanet-News for quite some
time now. I am a tranportation planner, studying at the
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, Roll No
SPA/NS/TP/368. We were in Goa for a study for the traffic
management plan of Panjim. We conducted primary surveys as
well as collected the secondary data. However, we missed out
a few things.

I have listed the same below and would be grateful if you
could send me the same by mail: (i) Employment data --
spatial as well as time series. (ii) Tourism data -- spatial
as well as time series. (iii) Any data pertaining to any past
traffic and transporttaions studies carried out in Panjim,
including origin-destination surveys, classified vehicle
volume counts, parking surveys etc. I would be really
grateful if you could send me any of the data listed above.

[GNB REPLIES: We've sent your query to an architect-friend
who will try to help.]

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EVENTS, HAPPENINGS...
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SEMINAR ON IT ISSUES: Amartya Sen
says the Goa Institute of Management, Systems Management
Department is organizing an IT debate to discuss and brain
storm the issues of the IT Policy of Goa 2005 released very
soon. GIM is organising this debate along with Goa Chamber of
Commerce, Confederation of Indian Industry (Goa Chapter).
This will be an opportunity to interact with the core
committee responsible for setting up IT initiative in the
near future and the participating Corporates to showcase
their expertise. Nov 11, 2005. From 2 to 7 pm. At Goa
Institute of Management (www.gim.ac.in)

NEXT AT LILA'S: At 5 pm on 9 November, Lila invites
you to view the photographs of Asavari Kulkarni. A
photo-columnist of the daily Tarun Bharat,
Asavari’s work covers a wide range of subjects.
Besides a slideshow by the photographer, there will
be an informal display of her work. Please note
that following this session, Lila takes time off
and will reopen only on 7 December.

AT THE FRIDAY BALCAO: On Nov 11 from 4 to 6 pm at Goa Desc
Resource Centre No. 11, Liberty Apartments, Feira Alta,
Mapusa Goa. Topic: Ten Years of The Disability Act in the
context of Goa. Open discussion.

INDIAN CLASSICAL: Kerkar Art Complex organizes concerts of
Indian Classical Dance and Music every Tuesday from 6:45 to
8:30 p.m. during the tourist season. This is the only place
in Goa State where concerts of Indian Classical Dance and
Music are organized on a regular basis. Kerkar Art Complex
Gaurawado Calangute, Bardez Goa – 403516 Tel: 2276017 Fax:
2276509 Email: subodhkerkar at satyam.net.in Website:
www.subodhkerkar.com

(GOANET)

ROADMAP FOR FASTER DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDISATION OF KONKANI

2009-01-26T07:10:00.000-08:00

ROADMAP FOR FASTER DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDISATION OF KONKANI

All Konkani speakers can converge on a common script, Devanagari, by 2050

By Uday Bhembre

The thousand and odd years of evolution of Konkani has been
quite a rough roller-coaster ride for this language of an
estimated fifty lakh people. Most scholars hold the view that
Konkani evolved as a language around the 10th century.

Till the end of the 15th century it did not receive any
patronage as non-Konkani kings and rulers ruled over Goa and
the rest of the Konkani region. Those kings and rulers
patronized, cultivated and used their own languages.

Konkani saw better days in the 16th century when
European missionaries embarked upon its systematic
study and created religious literature in it. The
establishment of the printing press in 1556 helped
to publish books in as well as about Konkani.

This good work continued for about five generations
of European missionaries, that is, from about 1550
to about 1675. And then began the dark period. At
the instance of the new generations of European
missionaries, the King of Portugal issued the
Decree of 1684, which abolished the use of Konkani
in education as well as other fields.

Even spoken language suffered and the Damocles sword hung
over the very existence of the Konkani language. The writing
and publication of books stopped and the printing press too
was closed down.

Inspite of this serious attempt to eliminate Konkani, it
lived to see better days. In my view two factors kept it
alive:

* In the Old Conquests it remained on the lips of the common
folk from where it could not be snatched away; and

* The New Conquests were acquired after 1770 by which time
the fervour of the Inquisition and the severity of
implementation of the Decree of 1684 had evaporated.

The dark period continued till the middle of the 19th
century. In 1858, Dr. Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara
published his Historical Essay on Konkani Language and
appealed to the Goan youth to revive Konkani and to use it in
education. He also re-published earlier books with the object
of helping the revival. But his appeal fell on deaf years and
nothing changed.

The revival in the modern phase started only in the last
quarter of the 19th century.

In 1889 Eduardo Bruno de Souza started publication of Konkani
journal Udentechem Sallok in Roman script from Pune. In the
same year Tomaz Mourao, Barao de Cumbarjua published a
Konkani Primer in Devanagari script.

In 1892 Lucacino Rebeiro presented the first show of the
teatro in Mumbai paving the way for a popular form of
theatre.

In 1893 Mgr. Sebastiao Rodolfo Dalgado published his
Konkani‑Portuguese dictionary.

The dawn of the 20th century added new dimensions
to that pioneering work. Vaman Raghunath Varde
Valaulikar or Shenoi Goembab laid the foundation of
modern Konkani literature. At the same time he
started a movement through his writings for revival
of Konkani and vigourously refuted the arguments of
pro-Marathi and anti-Konkani forces that wanted to
suppress Konkani calling it a mere dialect of
Marathi.

In the second decade of the 20th century Luis Mascarenhas
started publication of the journal Konkani Dirvem in
Mangalore and revival of Konkani began in that part of the
country too.

Then, in 1939 the first Konkani Parishad was held in Karwar.
The subsequent sessions of the Parishad held in different
parts of the Konkani region led to the awakening of the
Konkani people and inspired them to work in an organized
manner through institutions. Thus, Konkani Bhasha Mandals or
Sabhas were established in Mumbai, Goa, Mangalore and Kochi.

Goa's liberation gave a fillip to these efforts.

The three decades following the liberation of Goa are
particularly important in the history of Konkani language.
Education in Konkani began in 1963. The propaganda campaign
in 1966-67 preceding the Opinion Poll helped to spread the
message of Konkani in all the parts of Goa and among all
sections of Goans. It influenced the minds of the youth who
later joined the Konkani movement. In 1975 Sahitya Akademi
recognized Konkani as an independent literary language
effectively silencing those who despised it as a dialect of
Marathi. The fierce language agitation of 1986 led to the
attainment of three goals:

* The Official Language Act was enacted making
Konkani the official language establishing the
identity of Goans as a Konkani-speaking community;

* The passing of the Official Language Act led to
the conferring of statehood on Goa within four months;
and

* Konkani was included in the Eighth Schedule of
the Constitution in 1992.

Surely these are achievements, which we can legitimately be
proud of. But they are not ends in themselves. Through these
achievements the gates and doors, hitherto closed to us, were
opened. New avenues and a variety of opportunities for the
development of language, propagation of literature and
conservation of culture are thrown open to the
Konkani-speaking community.

And now facing us is the question of the 21st century: Where
do we go from here?

I propose to answer this question by traveling back into the
past, discussing the present and then traveling into the
future. This will help me lay before you the roadmap for
faster development and standardization of Konkani as the
travel along the proposed road began 66 years ago.

I have mentioned earlier that the first Konkani Parishad was
held in Karwar in 1939. That was the first gathering of the
representatives of Konkani-speaking people. The Parishad
passed several resolutions. One of them was to appeal to all
Konkani-speaking people to impart primary education to their
children in Konkani.

By another resolution, the Parishad appealed to the entire
Konkani‑speaking community to adopt Devanagari as the common
script for Konkani. There was a peculiar background to this
resolution. There were five scripts in which Konkani was
being written. They were Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam,
Roman and Arabic.

I need hardly say that this happened partly due to migration
of people from Goa to the other parts of the country. This
multiplicity of scripts had resulted into five islands. They
were almost watertight compartments. One compartment would
not know what was happening in the other compartment as
regards language, literature and culture. There was no
communication.

Those visionary leaders, therefore, realized that
the multiplicity of scripts was a liability and in
order to eliminate it they appealed to ado0pt one
common script, Devanagari, as it was the natural
script of Konkani. This resolution was repeatedly
adopted in subsequent sessions of the Parishad to
emphasise its necessity and importance.

There is significant progress in that direction over the last
66 years. Education in Konkani that started in 1963 in
primary schools in Goa has reached the university level and
it is in Devanagari. The Official Language Act defines
Konkani language as the one written in Devanagari script.
Sahitya Akademi has accepted Devanagari script for its
programmes in Konkani.

Since the inclusion of Konkani in the 8th Schedule of the
Constitution other departments of Government of India where
language matters use Devanagari. For example, National Book
Trust publishes Konkani books in that script. The Home
Ministry has got the Constitution translated into Konkani in
Devanagari script. Reserve Bank prints the denomination on
currency notes in Konkani in that script. The UPSC
examination has an optional paper in Konkani in Devanagari
script.

Over the years the use of Arabic script has diminished.
Except a small journal there is no publishing activity in
that script, so much so that a writer from Navait Muslim
community recently published his book of poems in Devanagari.

In Kerala, the Konkani-speaking community voluntarily made a
conscious effort to adopt Devanagari in place of Malayalam.
Today, they have replaced Malayalam to the extent of 90%.
Only the older generation writes in Malayalam in magazines.
All books are published in Devanagari.

Konkani is being taught in schools in Kochi as a part of the
curriculum. They use the same textbooks that we use in our
schools in Goa, which are in Devanagari.

Therefore, as of today in real terms, only three
scripts are: in use Devanagari, Kannada and Roman.
The five islands have been reduced to three. But
difficulties and disadvantages do persist in many
ways creating roadblocks and hardships in the
process of development and standardization of
Konkani language.

As we all know the Konkani-speaking community is fragmented
in a variety of ways. It is fragmented geographically,
historically, culturally, politically and script wise. We
cannot change either the history or geography. Due to
historical accidents, sub-cultures have developed within the
broad frame of Konkani culture.

It is neither imperative nor advisable to destroy them. They
may add to the richness of Konkani culture. There is no
possibility of a Konkani State as the Konkani-speaking region
is not a contiguous geographical area. It is in the matter of
multiplicity of scripts that the fragmentation can be and
should be overcome. The islands should be bridged,
communication should be smooth and interaction should be
intensive.

As of today it is difficult to review Konkani literature,
because it is difficult to find critics or writers who know
all three scripts well. Even the knowledge about each other’s
literature is scanty. This situation is not conducive to the
propagation of Konkani literature at all.

The publishing activity suffers badly. Each of the three
scripts has a small market, say about 300,000 to 400,000. In
Maharashtra, where the Marathi-speaking population is about 70
million, the print order for the first edition of any Marathi
book is 1000. Similarly, in Karnataka, where the
Kannada-speaking population is about 5 crores, the print
order is 1000. One can imagine how many books or journals can
be sold in a small market of 3-400,000! For this reason
book publishing in Konkani has not been viable at all in some
cases whereas it is not as viable as it should be in some
other cases.

Impediments like these have hampered standardization too.
There is some standardization in Devanagari section, which
has come about mainly due to education. Consistency in the
textbooks had to be maintained.

Therefore, rules of orthography had to be framed and
followed. They are today followed by writers, editors,
publishers and teachers. In contrast, there are no commonly
acceptable rules of orthography either in the Kannada script
section or the Roman script section. Late Fr. Freddy J. da
Costa of ‘Gulab’ magazine and late Felicio Cardoso, whom we
lost in a tragic accident last year, had brought discipline
in writing in Roman script to quite an extent and that
tradition is followed by ‘Gulab’. But others write the way
they want.

This being the state of affairs today, it is imperative that
the entire Konkani-speaking community gradually converges on
Devanagari as common script. We have been proceeding in that
direction for quite some time and quite some ground has
already been covered.

Imagine the tremendous benefits for the language
and literature, which in turn are benefits for the
Konkani-speaking community if one script is
accepted by all from Mumbai in the North to Kochi
in the South. Communication becomes several times
easier, propagation of literature increases
manifold, publishing of books and periodicals
becomes economically viable as the market is
enlarged from 300,000-400,000 to 50 lakh (five
million), that is more than twelve times the
present size. Imagine the effects and the benefits
if a newspaper published in Goa or Mumbai or
Mangalore or Kochi is circulated throughout the
Konkani-speaking community. Such an atmosphere will
be conducive to an early and naturally evolved
standardization of Konkani.

In my view, given the will and the conscious united efforts,
the goal of converging on a common script can be achieved by
the year 2050 if the present direction is followed. In Goa
two generations have passed since education in Konkani was
initiated.

Many young men and women from the Catholic society have
learnt Konkani through Devanagari script. There are, among
them, graduates and postgraduates. Some of them are teaching
in schools and colleges while some are journalists.

Average age of writers in Roman script is, say, 40. In
another 25 to 30 years they will be on the verge of
retirement and those who have learnt Konkani through
Devanagari script will take over. Writers, teachers,
journalists, editors will emerge from them. Therefore, by the
year 2035 or so Goans, whether Hindus or Catholics, will have
converged on one script.

As regards Kerala it is a matter of another decade or so. I
foresee that by the year 2015 the Konkani-speaking community
there will fully switch over to Devanagari.

Karnataka will take a little more time than Goa. There, so
far, there is no education in Konkani. But there are good
signs. The Karnataka Government is going to introduce Konkani
in education from the next academic year as an optional
subject from Standard VI. If this education is imparted in
Devanagari script, it will take about two generations to
switch over to Devanagari. It is not that Devanagari is
unknown or foreign to them. They learn it for Hindi. But
learning Konkani as a subject in Devanagari will give them
better grounding in that script. This transition may take
about 45 years to materialize.

Taking all these factors into consideration, I believe that
the entire Konkani‑speaking community is capable of
converging on a common script -- Devanagari -- by the year
2050. there is no harm even if it takes a little more time
because this transition has to be voluntary, smooth and
without any force or pressure. Kerala has shown the way.

Now every transition results in some inconvenience,
some hardship, some disadvantage. Even if a bus
stand is shifted from the centre of the city to a
less congested area, there will be people who will
resist, citing hardship. But if that hardship is
eliminated through city buses or in any other
manner the resistance abates.

In our case, the transition is from five scripts to one
script. Therefore, it is natural that inconveniences,
hardships, handicaps may occur. They need to be addressed and
they can be addressed successfully.

But that has to be done at the people’s level and at the
level of our own institutions. It will not be wise to ask
Sahitya Akademi to change its policy because that policy
conforms to the direction in which we are proceeding.
Likewise, it will not be wise to ask the Government of Goa to
amend the Official Language Act as that Act conforms to the
roadmap that I have discussed.

As I see, there are two major grievances of some of those who
write in Roman script. One is that books published in the
Roman script are not eligible for Sahitya Akademi Awards and
Kala Academy Awards.

There is a way to overcome this handicap. Some writers who
write in Kannada script have successfully done it. Poet J. B.
Moraes, Poet J. B. Sequera and late C. F. D'Costa have
received Sahitya Akademi Awards. Mr. Moraes and Mr. Sequera
published their collections of poems in Kannada as well as
Devanagari; whereas C. F. D'Costa’s book was transliterated
into Devanagari. This can be done in respect of books in
Roman script too.

Goa Konkani Akademi has a good scheme to assist the
transliteration. The scheme offers 75% of the printing cost
of the transliterated work. That assistance can be increased
to 100% so that there is no burden at all on the writer or
the publisher.

Kala Academy has effected necessary changes in its scheme to
make books in Roman script eligible for Kala Academy Awards.

Konkani Bhasha Mandal has been giving prizes for books
irrespective of the script.

The other grievance is that writers and publishers
of books in Roman script are not eligible for
benefits of some of the schemes of Goa Konkani
Akademi. The Akademi can amend its schemes and
eliminate this handicap. After all, these writers,
whatever the script, are Konkani writers and as
long as books are written and published in Roman
script they should be encouraged and assisted
financially.

In conclusion, it is my firm belief that conciliation and not
confrontation, unity and not division on communal or caste
lines, and pride abut Konkani and not conspiracy with
anti-Konkani elements will help the faster development of
Konkani language, smoother propagation of Konkani literature
and effective conservation of Konkani culture.

To borrow Dr. Cunha Rivara's words for the roadmap that I
have discussed, "Indeed, this enterprise is not easy, but it
is useful, it is honorable, it is glorious!"

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Uday Bhembre is a lawyer, former legislator
and ex-editor. This is the text of his speech delivered at
the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Alto Porvorim, on
Thursday October 20, 2005, in the History Hour series. He can
contacted via email dineshmatha at rediffmail.com

Bonaventure D'Pietro bags DKA AWARD 2008 !

2009-01-26T07:09:00.001-08:00

From: jose fernandes
Sent: Friday, 2 May, 2008 7:36:00 PM
Subject: Bonaventure D'Pietro bags DKA AWARD 2008 !

DKA Award 2008 to Bonaventure D'Pietro

Mr. Bonaventure Peter Fernandes, popularly known as Bonaventure D' Pietro
in the field of Konknni literature will be shortly awarded prestigious
'Dalgado Puroskar 2008' by Dalgado Konknni Akademi (DKA) for his sacrificial
and invaluable life-time contribution to Konkani language.

Born in Chinvar, Anjuna on 14th July, 1943 he learnt Portuguese and music
in the church school. For further studies he went to Mumbai.

His contribution to Konknni literature started in 1958 when his novel
'Soitanacho Ghutt' was serialised in 'O Heraldo' paper. He has authored
number of novels of high literary value and won numerous awards for his
works. Some of his novels which have bagged awards are:- 'Kallea Vistidachi
Choli' (Konknni Bhaxa Award 1972), 'Clara' ('Kirkoll Goan Association Award,
Bombay 1974), 'Mhojea Paicho Fondd' (Kala Academy Award 1974), 'From Goa
with Love' (1975), 'Mog Va Patok?' (Novelette), 'Ek Bhett Mungllurchea
Xarak' (KBM Award 1977 and KA Award 1986), 'Mhaka Jiyeunk Zay', (Konknni
Kendr Mapusa, Award 1984), 'Jimmy' (1984 KA Award), 'Tichea Morrna Uprant'
and 'Janya-Celi'. He also has a short stories' book to his credit 'Tera
Numbrachi Kottri' .

Besides this, D'Pietro has also contributed immensely to Konknni journalism
in the form of informative articles, thought provoking short stories, poems,
etc. He was a regular contributor to Konknni periodicals 'Udentechem
Neketr', 'Novem Gõy', 'Gulab', 'Konkan Mail', etc. His writings are seen
till today on Konknni weekly 'Vavraddeancho Ixtt'. While working as a
sub-editor in some of the above mentioned Konknni periodicals, he has
translated lot of English stuff into Konknni for the benefit of Konknni
readers. He also came out with his own tri-monthly Konknni publication
'Arso' of which 7 issues has been rolled out till today, last issue being
informative 'Sam Juanvachi Porob.' Recognizing his work in Konknni
journalism, Dalgado Konknni Akademi awarded him Fr. Freedy J. Da Costa
Potrokar Award in 2007.

D'Pietro contributed to Konknni tiatr too 'Dhunvor', 'Chitrakar', 'Patang'
are his tiatrs staged in Goa. Besides this he has written number of one-act
plays. He participated in AIR programme 'Bolkanvar Gozali' and 'Sahit'ya
Jhelo' for several years. He wrote the scripts for these programmes. He has
also written many radio plays.

In 1999, Goa Durdorxon broadcast his telefilm 'To Amger Yetolo' on 25th
December spreading the message of Christmas.

Besides being a writer, D'Pietro is also a musician. He plays sweet and
soothing music on Alto saxophone, Tenor saxophone, Soprano saxophone,
Clarinet and violin.

'Bonaventures & Bob Brown Combo' (B.B.C.) were his band group in Mumbai.
Presently he is running his musical group in Goa under the banner of
'Pietros'. He has also published a book titled 'Songit - Doulot Gõykaranchi'
in 2004, a research work which gives detailed account of Goa's music and its
musicians.

His novel 'Tichea Mornna Uprant' has been included in the syllabus of MA
(Konknni). The same literary work has been transliterated and published by
Karnataka Konknni Academy recently in Kannada script..

For enriching the Konknni language and Goan culture in different forms,
D'Pietro has been felicitated by Anjuna Panchayat, Silver Waves Boys
Assaganv, Konknni Heritage Kuwait, Vavraddeancho Ixtt, Gulab, Jivit,
Parishoners of Anjuna, Kalika Devi Devasthan Committee, Siloim, etc. For his
lifetime contribution to Konknni, Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr, Porvorim
honoured him by conferring on him the prestigious 'Fr. Antonio Pereira
Konknni Puroskar 2004'.

Mr. Pietro will be awarded on 8th May, 2008 on the occasion of Monsenhor
Sebastiao Rudolfo Dalgado's 153rd anniversary at the hands of Shri Eric
Ozario from Mangalore, who was instrumental in taking Konknni in the
Guinness Book of World Records.

Devak Zai Zalear - Tiatr in Kuwait (2004)

2009-01-26T07:08:00.000-08:00

BENEVANGELISTO’S TIATRO IN KUWAIT

All preparations are underway for staging Benevangelisto’s well acclaimed
tiatro “DEVAK ZAI ZALEAR” in Kuwait on 13th of next month at Indian Arts
Circle Funaitees, starting at 3.30 p.m. Beautiful handbills showing
attractive photographs of the artistes are already released today near the
Church and displayed and pasted at some of the strategic locations in
Kuwait. Gate Passes are already available at Raja Stores and with the
organizers. These days there is nothing but talk of “Devak Zai Zalear”
tiatro and all the lovers of tiatro are anxiously awaiting to see this
tiatro. Those who are come forward to help Benevangelisto to stage this
tiatro in Kuwait are very busy with the task ahead and they will leave no
stone unturned to attain success for this tiatro. The organizers besides
being charismatic people, as per my information, are assured total support
by the tiatro lovers in Kuwait, including Goan Organisations and Clubs.
Secondly, this is the first time after a long gap a tiatro troupe is coming
to Kuwait and because of this tiatro lovers are anxiously awaiting seeing
this tiatro of Ben.

About Benevangelisto, he is known as Goa’s best character comedian having
won many times best comedian awards. He rose into fame with his master
piece tiatro “KIDD”. The other masperpiece tiatro of his was “CHONDRIM”
Gulf is not new for him as he already has acted in Kuwait a number of times
earlier. A year back in KKK organized “Songit Sanz” his character role as
“Garamae” and a solo as “Elvis Presely” surely mesmerized the hall packed
audience. Billed as seasons best tiatro in Goa, Ben will this time perform
super character role of late Jacinto Vaz and will render much admired song
of Jacinto Vaz “Abi Tum Lok Bombay Deko”. This song has recently won him
innumerable fans in Dubai where he participated in Mario Menezes tiatro.

The other aritstes who deserve mention are versatile Felcy one of the most
experienced and seasoned females of Goan stage whose acting and singing
styles are unique; Rosy Alvares belonging to the clan of Alvares family
that has given so much for Konkani stage. Rosy Alvares’ beautiful looks,
smart way of singing and very good acting will surely delight the audience.
As it is Rosy Alvares has recently won the prestigeious “Gulab” award for
being the best actress of 2002. She will pair with one of the giants of
Konkani Stage Mario Menezes and both of them will do justice to their roles.
Father and son duo of Young Chico and Jr. Chico first time in Kuwait will
perform together and as promised they will capture the hearts of the
audience by rendering best of songs as never sung before. As per the
organisers, Jr. Chico will devote his best of talents only for this show
along with his father. Mathew Araujo de St. Cruz, the best actor award
winner of Gulab will do his role in a style totally different from what
normally done by normal actors. Baby Hayzel the daughter of well known
stage artiste Milagres de Chandor will perform her role to the best of her
abilities and since she is the daughter of Milagres de Chandor, surely all
eyes will focus on her tenderness. Comedian Sally who is having a vast
following in Kuwait need no much elaboration but along with Benevangelisto
and tall boy comedian Boney (Colva) will keep the audience at the edge of
their seats. Ben will perform a unique role in which audience will see him
as the tallest man on the stage. Connie M. of Fantasy Band fame will render
best of his solos, so also Lawry. Especial musicians will accompany the
troupe from Goa and hence musical part will be taken care of nicely.
Additionally, local artistes will also perform in this tiatro the main one
being by public demand “Michael D’Silva” whose enormous following in Kuwait
will give extra boost to this tiatro.

Since this tiatro will comprise best of artistes consisting of best of
singers and performers of character roles, the audience will surely get
fabulous entertainement. One will hav feast of songs namely solos, duos,
duets, trios etc.

For Entry Passes or for any other information contact the organizers on Tel.
Nos. 7808473 & 9531863.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

Black Day for Romi Konkani Lovers.

2009-01-26T07:06:00.000-08:00

Just three day back there was news in the local dailies that he along with
some prominent Romi Konkani leaders would renew and revive the Dalgado
Konkani Akadami. Me too had the invitation for the meeting at T.B. Cunha
hall Panjim. Some of the newspapers are yet to publish this news. But sadly
there is yet another shocking news that awaits tomorrows papers for the Romi
Konkani lovers/readers. That's the gruel news of the tragic death of our
friend and guide Rev. Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa along with yet another
prominent Romi Konkani writer - Mr. Felicio Cardozo. This is the real Black
day for Konkani lovers. This is almost the repeat of what had happen in
1978 when we lost two great Konkani leaders in Evagrio Jorge the then Editor
of Chowgule owned daily UZVADD and Mark Fernandes from Calangute near
Tourist hostel in Panjim when a private bus knocked them down on the
footpath.

Enthusiastic Fr. Freddy was alway on the front track for the love of
Konkani. Knowing very well that the Romi readers and writers are lost with
no much literature available, he had taken this great step to revive the
Dalgado Konkani Akadami along with Tomazinho Cardozo and Prabhakar Tendulkar
for the love of Romi Konkani and to reach the needs of Romi readers.
GULAB - the monthy magazine published by him had reached the 22nd year.
Earlier GULAB was his baby as an in-house monthly magazine for the
seminarians at Saligao Seminary. Fr. Freddy was one of the members of the
board for decision making as far as konkani literature was concerned. A
creative writer. He has written several books, dramas and conducted mandos
too. His dramas NIZ MOG, DOXEA, UTT GOENKARA etc were great hits not only in
Goa and Bombay but also in Gulf countires. He has won several awards for
Mando festivals held at Kala Academi - Panjim. NIZ MOG musical cassette was
such a hit that one could hear it at every nook.

Fr. Freddy was also a good footballer. He has played for Churchill Brothers
in the early 70s when this team was neither 2nd nor 1st division team.

Fr. Freddy is gone - with lots of Konkani's work pending. Hope the Konkani
pundits carry forward the work in the right direction.

As I salute this noble soul. I ask fellow konkani reader and writer to
create awareness and make florish the Romi Konkani which was Fr. Freddy's
dream.

May his Soul Rest in Peace.

ALFONSO BRAGANZA (Mapusa-Goa)
Sarabond sarabond at sancharnet.in

Konkani Comedy Film to be released in Kuwait

2009-01-26T07:05:00.001-08:00

Konkani Comedy Film to be released in Kuwait

Kuwait: Goa's ace comedian Agostinho Themudo will release his fourth Konkani
VCD film 'Kurroikar' in Kuwait on Friday, 24th June 2005.

Agostinho's performances over the years in Konkani dramas and video films
has acclaimed him one of Konkani stage's top rated natural comedians, and
has bagged him the year's 'Best Comedian' in the prestigious Gulab Awards.

Agostinho's maiden VCD 'Mar taka Soddnaka' was a super-duper hit. His other
VCDs are 'Sorry Pai' and 'Sunday'. He also has 4 audio albums of jokes and
songs to his credit - Interview, Good-for-nothing, Suseg, and Honeymoon and
perhaps Agostinho is one of the few Konkani artistes to feature in over 30
other audios.

'Kurroikar' features comedians Sally, Selvy, Janet and Crizon. The album is
produced by Manfa Music and directed by Fabian G. Da Costa.

When asked whether the film would be as good a laugh-riot as his first, he
commented, "I try my best to better myself with each production and
performance so I can live up to the expectation of my fans...It's for them
to judge how good it is..."

Agostinho is in Kuwait to act in Mario de Majorda's 'Chuklelim Pavlam' - a
drama to be staged at Hawally AC Auditorium on Friday. He will be touring UK
and Canada next month along with some of Goa's top most artistes.

Condolence Meeting held by KGTS

2009-01-26T07:04:00.001-08:00

Condolence Meeting Held in Kuwait by KGTS

The untimely demise of late Julio Morais and late Fr.
Freddy Da Costa was condoled at a condolence meeting
held by the Kuwait Goa Tiatristanchi Sonvstha (KGTS),
Kuwait on 24th May 2004 at the Royal Terrasse,
Salmiya at 7:00 p.m.

KGTS President, Francis de Verna in his opening speech
highlighted the tragic loss to Konkani Lovers due to
the sudden death of Julio Morais, Fr. Freddy J. Da
Costa, Felicio Cardoso and Frank Pires.

Cajetan de Sanvordem, speaking on late Julio Morais -
the beloved father/father-in-law of Augusto/Gracy
(both KGTS members) said that the latter who spent
several years in Kuwait involved himself mainly in two
things: Konkani dramas and football.
He helped many Konkani drama directors in Kuwait
including his ganv-bhav late Tavares de Ribandar,
whose drama "Milagrincho Khuris" was staged by Julio
Morais.

Another senior KGTS member, Junifer Rodrigues added
that Julio Morais was a great Konkani lover and would
go to any length to promote Konkani. He was always
ahead to help the needy Goans.

While condoling Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa's death,
Cajetan de Sanvordem expressed how deeply he was
shocked when he learnt goa-world.com and goanet, that
Fr. Freddy is no more. Cajetan briefed on the life of
Fr. Freddy from his childhood when he was studying for
priesthood in the seminary, and also writing dramas in
which Cajetan used to act.

Fr. Freddy used to say that to give message to the
audience through dramas is the best way, people digest
it easily. Fr. Freddy has given so much to the Konkani
world for which he worked continuously till his
death.

Cajetan recollected that on 20th July 2003 Fr. Freddy
celebrated his 50th birthday at Gomantak Vidhya
Niketan, Margao-Goa where GULAB awards were
distributed, in his speech the late Fr. Freddy said:
“Mhojea ponas vorsamchea jivitant mornan don pavtt
mhojea dharar marlem, pun dhar kosench ugodle nam.
Mhaka Konknni khatir zaitem korinxem dhista, hanvem
Tiatr dakhoileat tantle khaim tiatr borech hit zaleat,
mhaka anikui tiatr boroinxe dhistat pun boll pavona,
pun mhoji ek akhri itcha asa, ani ti mhunttlear ek
khodegant Konknni film toiar korpachi, uprant anv
moronk raji".
Alas Fr. Freddy could not fulfill his last wish.

Rich tributes were also paid to late Mr. Felicio
Cardozo, and prayers were offered to the Almighty in
rememberance of Frank Pires also.

– May their souls rest in peace.

KGTS Managing Committee

Musician Juju's Demise

2009-01-26T07:03:00.000-08:00

MUSICIAN JUJU'S DEMISE: Jose A Fernandes, popularly known as Juju, a very
good saxophonist and band leader expired at his residence at Pedda in
Benaulim on December 9. As a musician Juzu was very popular on the Konkani
tiatr circuit, particularly in South Goa. Being an excellent composer, he
has scored melodious music not only for his own audio cassette "Bhiradd" but
for over 35 others. He was the recipient of "Flying Film Production 2000 and
"Gulab" awards. (Bonaventure D'Pietro)

10/12/2004

ZITO ALMEIDA - A VOICE OF KONKNNI NO MORE

2009-01-26T07:00:00.000-08:00

A VOICE OF KONKNNI NO MORE
By Valmiki Faleiro

No one who has read Konknni in the Roman script would not be familiar with the name
of Zito Almeida. In a passion for writing, spanning some five decades, Zito produced a huge mass of published work, most of it in his beloved mother tongue. But, sometimes – for a wider reach, as he would say – also in English. This was so particularly on the life of saints and village feasts.

Not without surprise: Zito hailed from a deeply religious family, as he himself also was. His elder brother, late Fr. Lactancio Almeida, of the Society of Pilar, was a long-time Editor of the ‘Vauraddeancho Ixtt.’

Zito was born March 2, 1938 at Banda, Assolna. So entwined was his life with his faith that when he decided to start a business for a living, he set it up at Margao’s “Holy Family House” dealing mainly with, what else, all forms of religious items – from Bibles and scapulars to rosaries, from Holy pictures and statues to ciboria. Side-by-side on the shelves of his showroom lay, of course, his second love: books in Konknni.

After completing primary studies in Portuguese and further studies in English, Zito
began writing at a young age. He initially contributed to ‘Aitarachem Vachop,’ a weekly published by the Salesian Society from Panjim. He continued his Konknni writing in ‘Vauraddeancho Ixtt,’ Pilar Society’s popular weekly.

Among the daily newspapers he wrote for were ‘Sot’, ‘Novem-Goem’, ‘Divtti’, ‘Goencho
Avaz’, and ‘A Vida.’ So also for weeklies like ‘Udentichem Nokhetr’, ‘The Goa Times’,
‘The Goa Mail’, ‘Avé Maria’, ‘Cine-Times’, ‘Loksad’, ‘Konkan Mail’, and monthlies like ‘Dor Mhoineachi Roti’, ‘Gulab’, ‘The Goan Review’ (a bi-monthly), and ‘Renovação,’ the fortnightly of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman. Most in today’s younger generations would have only heard of these publications: almost all now extinct.

In addition to that voluminous work, Zito authored some books. Among them:
‘Bhurgeank Kannio-I’, ‘Bhurgeank Kannio-II’, ‘Vaitt Ieta Boreak’ (1967), ‘Fatima’ (on the apparitions, 1973), ‘Goy, Mhojea Sopnantlem Painnem’ (on Goa and Goans, 2006), all in Romi Konknni.

As General Secretary of the Konkani Bhasha Mandal, he edited ‘Konknni, Romi Lipint
Khas Natalam Ank-1979.’ He also edited Special Issues of ‘Natalanchim Nokhetram’
(in Konknni, English and Portuguese, at Christmas-1968) and ‘Goychi Ranni,’
(Carnival-1980.)

For a lifetime of work in Konknni, Zito was a much-decorated man. Among the many
honours, awards and ‘puroskars’ he received: In ‘Konknni Pustokancho Spordho’
organised by the then ‘Konknni Katolk Boroinnarancho Ekvott,’ he was awarded the
first prize for his book ‘Bhurgeank Kannio-I’ (1970). He bagged the “Fr. Lactancio
Almeida Iadostik Puroskar” as the best writer of ‘Vavraddeancho Ixtt’ (1986.) The
‘Gulab Award’ came his way for being a “Boro Borovpi” (1988.) He was feted by
‘Vavraddeancho Ixtt’ (2003.) The Dalgado Konknni Academi awarded him their “Fr.
Freddy J. Da Costa Potrokar Puroskar-2006” for his writings in the past 52 years.

Among the many public felicitations was one in 2007, for his writings on Gulab from
the monthly’s inception in 1983. Of course, he was honoured by both the State-level
institutions of the language, the Konkani Bhasha Mandal and the Goa Konkani
Academy for his lifelong contribution to the language.

Besides his articles in Konknni, Zito also wrote rather profusely in the English
language. This work was published in Goa’s ‘Herald’, ‘The Navhind Times’, ‘Gomantak
Times’ and ‘Fr. Agnel’s Call.’

The great thud that shocked the Konknni world ironically came from a small fall at
home. Zito was bleeding a bit from the head. When brought to a Margao hospital, his
vital parameters necessitated admission to the ICU. Suddenly, several unrelated
problems surfaced and, in less than a week and before anyone could realise it, the
notable son of Konknni had passed into the pages of history.

Zito-bab breathed his last on April 4, 2008, at age 70. He leaves behind his wife, Maria
Emy Menezes of Cuncolim and children Rubina/Russel, Darlene Orfelinda, Savio and
Maria Lourdes (Lulush) and two grandchildren, Rusener and Rubayne. All the saints
he worshipped and propagated during his journey here must have surely been there at
the pearly gates, to welcome him to eternal home. (ENDS)
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The above article appeared in the March 2, 2008 edition of the Herald, Goa

A tribute to late Jacinto Vaz - Charlie Chaplin of Konkani Stage

2009-01-26T06:58:00.001-08:00

Gulab Tosripo 2002 (Gulab Awards 2002)

2009-01-26T06:55:00.000-08:00

"GULAB" AWARDS:"

Dr Nandakumar Kamat has been unanimously declared "Goan of the Year" for 2002 by Konkani monthly magazine "Gulab", for his path breaking work in scientific and environmental issues. The other awards go to Mathew Araujo (best actor in khelltiatr "Bovall"); Rosy Alvares (best actress in "Mhoji Maim Mhoji Dusman", Roseferns (best script writer for "Mitt"), Prince Jacob (best director in "Rontto"), Anthony Xavier Brinjel (best upcoming artiste) (Jr. Chico),
Climax Lawrence of Salgaocar Sports Club (best sportsman) and Fr Jose Dias
(best writer in Roman Konkani).

courtesy: Gomantak Times

Montreanchea Hatantlean Puroskar Vanttche Nhoi

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Montreanchea Hatantlean Puroskar Vanttche Nhoi

Vorsachea vorsa Gulab Puroskar vanttpant ietat. Hevui
vorsak Gulab Puroskar - 2004 jikhpeank bhettovpant
aile. Gelea vorsak, Gulab Puroskar-2003 dobajeak
Moddganvchea Gomantt Vidya Niketan vosreant hanv hajir aslom.

Kaim zonn ho Gulab Puroskar Mumbointlea Filmfare
Award-sam kodden sor kortat. Sorgest Fr. Freddy-n
utt’tejon divpa sarkelo vaur chalu kelolo to fuddarak
chalu uronk mhoje anvdde ani otreg.

Punn ek mhaka somzona. Ani konnem tori hache voir
niall kela zalear tivui mhaka khobor na. Ami,
Mumbointlea Bollywood vividh puroskar zoxe porim
Screen, Filmfare, adi. TV-ir polletat, ani toxench
Hollywood Oscar awards. Hea ghonghonit dobhajeank
hanvem keddnach politicians manache soire koxe hajir
aslele polleunk nant, ani nhoi mhonn tanchea
hatantlean jiknnarank puroskar vanttpant aile nant.
Fokot tancheach mon’xeam koddlean (film industries
personalities) puroskar vanttpant ietat.

Zalear, Gulab Puroskar rajkarnni nastana vanttpant
kiteak ienant?

Ghelea vorsak Gulab Puroskar vanttpant ailo tedna
BJP-cho sorkar aslo. Gulab Puroskar dobajeak kaim
Montri ani amdar manachi kodel ghevn boslele. Puroskar
jiknnaramni, odik korun tiatristanim, sorkar Konknni
ani tiatristam katir kainch korina mhunn machier thavn
ttika keleli. Suvallek hajir aslelea montrean maik
hatant ghetoch sodam porim fottaxeo marleleo.

”Tumche vichar hanvem nond keleat ani mhojea sorkarak
hache voir vichar korun mhojea lagim ghoddtta titloi
hanv adhar kortolom” Tallio. ..Hevui vorsak oxench
kitem tori ghoddlem astelem..Montreanim
fottingponnacho pavs votlo astolo ani prekxokamnim
tallio pettoileo asteleo.

‘Ut’tom Romi Konknni Borovpi’ Gulab Puroskar 2002
Utodd’ddeche adle Vigar, Padre Jose Dias-ak (atam
Kutt’tthale igorjent vavurtat) favo zal’lo. To amchea
igorjent astana, amchem modlem natem kuttumbik
torechem aslem. Amchem ghor igorjek tenkun aslelean
rikami vellar ami dogui rajkarannachea gozalincher
bhasabhas kortale. Tachea koddlean hanv khub xiklam
ani tachea kallzantle vichar pasun somzolam

punn

Boro Borovpi mhonn Konknnicho mog naslelea adlea
Mukhel Montreachea hatantlean Gulab Puroskar 2002
khuxe bhair svikar korcho poddlo. (Polle fottu Gulab
masik Agost 2003, bhailea pannar)

Padri Jose Dias-ache Gulab-ar ietlo dor ek lekh hanv
mon divn vachtam. Aple likhnnen favo tea vellar tannem
sorkarachim motlobiponnam vachpeanchea nodrek
haddleant. Halich Junachea Gulab ankar jea mon’xeachea
hatantlean Puroskar ghetlolo taka pasun tannem soddlo
nam. IFFI-che nanvan Parrikaran choddan chodd
duddvancho ibadd kela mhonn tannem spoxtt korun
dakhoilam. Anik konnui zal’lo zalear Parrikarachea
hatantlean Puroskar ghetlolo mhonn ogo ravtolo aslo,
punn Padri Jose Dias sotak soddanch fuddo kela, ani
akhach lagun Konkan Railvechea chollvolint tannem
pulisancho latthi-mar pasun kala.

Voili gozal hanv kiteak kortam?

Agost 2005 Gulab mhojea hatant poddlo. Modlea don
panar Fr. Freddy J da Costa Iadiostik Gulab
Puroskarache fotu pollele. Barik nodren te pollevn
ghetle ani mhojem mot Gulab vachpea somor ghalin
dislem.

Hea vorsant Gulab Puroskar vanttpant bodol disla. Adle
porim broxttachar ani mhelle rajkarnni hatantleant
Puroskar vanttpant aile nant. Fr Casmiro Ut’tom’
Konknni borovpi Gulab Puroskar 2004 Kokoy-ak ani Rio
Rosa Fr. Moreno-k Goan Review-cho “Man of the Year’
ani ier choddxe puroskar Goeanche promannink maha
veoktim koddlean bhettoitana fotuvancher distat.
Konnem tori hem pavl ghetlam tem khub xanneponnachem
asa. Ani fuddarak oxech toren cholchem mhunn mhoji
opekxea

Kiteak, Goeamche montreamni Konknni khatir kainch
kelem nam ani fuddarak korchenant. Ghelea vorsa IFFI
somoiar Parrikaran 21 lak rupianchi dan “Shwas”
Marathi filmak dilelem. ‘Aleesha ani Sood’ hea
donantlea ekai Konknni filmak duddvacho adhar korunk
nam. Punn tantlem ek film ‘Aleesha’ National Film
Award jikhun ek nibor thapott Parrikara oslea
anti-Konkani mon’xeancher vazoil’lea porim zalam.

Xevottachem sangpachem mhollear, fuddarak Gulab
Puroskar Somitin mothvache puroskar asat te
montri-amdaranchea hatantlean diunche nhoi ani
puroskar svikar korteleank opman korcho nhoi..

Lino B. Dourado
(Utodd’ddekar-Kuwait)

'Gulab' Setembr 2005

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