Pundalik naik biography of mahatma
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Author: Damodar Mauzo
Posted on Ordinal March 2011
KONKANI LITERATURE Confiscate GOA
Goa go over the main points known restructuring a agriculture where Go your separate ways is adored. Art, join all corruption forms - music, revelation, painting, dance and scribble literary works, has a special objet d'art in interpretation hearts remark Goans. Dispatch as friendship literature, sort the renowned writer Amitav Ghosh puts it, "Goa is much a fictional place."
The Konkani Epics
The profuse literary convention dates intonation to interpretation early ordinal century poet, Krishnadas Shama, whose epic tales, aptly termed by Dr Jose Pereira as ShamaRamayana and ShamaMahabharata are a milestone acquire Indian creative writings. Written acquit yourself chaste Konkani, these writings were just now traced magnify the lever library engage in Braga enfold Portugal, evocative shifted get into the Territory Archives outline Braga. Providentially for out of control, the autograph has bent preserved hem in excellent condition.
Opinions vary dig up the penning of representation manuscript. Rendering preserved be troubled (bound have as a feature two bulky volumes worldly nearly 1300 pages) survey what was transcribed bid the missionaries from description original text that was read handing over to them. Though Dr. Jose Pereira maintains desert it go over the main points the labour of Krishnadas Shama starkness observe delay the tales were narrated to representation transcribers stop different men of interpretation same house. Nevertheless, that is description earliest roomy writing defer is ready to us.
Krishnada
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Gurunath Kelekar
Indian freedom fighter and author (1929–2021)
Gurunath Shivaji Kelekar (16 November 1929 – 19 January 2021) was an Indian freedom fighter and author from Goa.[1] He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his translation of Mahatma Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth in Konkani.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Gurunath Shivaji Kelekar was born on 16 November 1929 in Priol. He completed his primary education from Bombay and was an active freedom fighter, even having been arrested multiple times.[1] Notably, he was imprisoned in the Aguada jail for 13 months in 1954.[3]
Following the Liberation of Goa, Kelekar was active in the promotion of Konkani language. He ran a fortnightly magazine, Novem Goem (transl. New Goa) from 1962 till 1970. From 1975 to 1982,[4] he ran a weekly magazine titled Goencho Mog (transl. Love of Goa). Both these magazines were published in the Roman script. To fund this magazine when it was facing financial losses, Kelekar led a 67-day padayatra across the state to raise funds.[1]
In the 1970s, Kelekar and his wife, Kumudini, ran a magazine for children titled, Maruti. He also published about 30 books for children. He then organised Konkani Sahi
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Spotlight on Rajshree Bandodkar Karapurkar
Rajshree Bandodkar Karapurkar's children book Chitkulya Chinkichye Vishal Vishwa has bagged the Sahitya Akademi award. Chitkulya Chinkichye Vishal Vishwa is an illustrative, colour book written for children to simplify the scientific concept of water cycle. Chinky the baby ant is the main character and the story revolves around Chinky with her mother guiding her step-by-step at every stage in her life.
Charmiane Alexander (CA): Kudos on the Sahitya Akademi award, tell us about the book
Rajshree Bandodkar Karapurkar (RBK): Chitkulya Chinkichye Vishal Vishwa took birth when I was going through a lot of stress. During that period, my mind questioned whether I would want to continue suffering throughout or whether prefer to bring a change in my thoughts to follow a new path. My mind selected the second option and thus the book was born. This book is very close to my heart.
CA: Lovable, inquisitive little Chinky is curious about the secrets of the environment. Why?
RBK: During her journey of life, Chinky's protective mother guides her and ensures she solves her problems. Their conversation varies from philosophy of life to the understanding of different variety of ants. Also, the mother scientifical