The literary and cultural institutions working for the promotion of Konkani in Roman script, at a meeting held recently at Pilar, unanimously resolved to fight for the right of Konkani in Roman script under Dalgado Konknni Akademi (DKA) and for this they have decided to hold a meeting of all the institutions working for the promotion of Konkani in Roman script in Margao in the month of August 2005.
According to a press release issued here, the institutions also came out with the demand that the government should direct the Goa Konkani Akademi to use 50 per cent of the budget for the promotion of Konkani in Roman script and also Kala Akademy should immediately consider Konkani books in Roman script for literary awards and provide all other facilities to writers in Roman script.
Besides, demanding that the Goa Konkani Akademy should include nattoks and tiatrs in equal number in their annual festival, the institutions have also asked for due representation to Konkani writers in Roman script should be given in the statutory bodies of Goa Konkani Akademi, Kala Akademi and Sahitia Akademi by the Government.
The institutions held that the persons representing promoters of Konkani in Roman script should be appointed to head Goa Konknai Akademy and Kala Akademi.
According to the president of DKA, Mr Tomazinho Cardozo, the representatives expressed their disappointment at the way the government promoted Konkani in Goa through Goa Konknni Akademi by totally neglecting the development of Konkani in Roman script during last 18 years.
The representatives participating in the discussion narrated their experiences of step-motherly treatment meted out to Konkani in Roman scripts.
Not even 5 per cent of the budget has been used for the publication of Konkani literature in Roman script, it was pointed out.
Mr Cardozo alleged that Kala Akademy of Goa stopped giving literary awards to Konkani literature in Roman script as per the advice of the literary committee of the Kala Akademi which consisted of leaders of Konkani movement.
“Goa Konknni Akademi includes only one tiatr in the annual drama festival as against 5 Konkani dramas. No facilities to travel grants are given to writers of Konkani in Roman script,” the release mentions.
Mr Cardozo has pointed out that promotion of mando, dulpods and other Goan folk dances was not financed by any government institution.
“Konkani literature in Roman script is branded as having no standard by self-interested Konkani leaders even without reading a single book in Konkani in Roman script. No study of the literature of Konkani in Roman script since 16th century is done by any institutions, public or private, as their study of Konkani literature begins only in the 20th century,” the release has quoted him as saying.
“The leaders of Konkani have temporarily succeeded in manipulating the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi as far as the script of Konkani is concerned only because the Advisory Committee does not include enough representatives of Roman script writers for the last almost 30 years,” Mr Cardozo has alleged.
Terming the composition of the boards of Kala Akademi and Goa Konkani Akademi as totally unfair as far as representation of Konkani in Roman script is considered, he has noted that these institutions were never headed by representatives of Roman script writers since their inception.
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