The All India Konkani Parishad has charged the Mandd Sobhan and Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academi of casting aspersion against the Parishad and rejected their statements, to a section of the press, against the Parishad as malicious.
The Parishad was referring to the remarks of the Mandd Sobhan and the Academi on the Parishad’s slogan of ‘One language, one script, one samaj’ as fascist, which also alleged that the Parishad was imposing Devanagari script on the Konkanwadis of Karnataka.
Rebutting the charge, the Parishad maintained that it has never tried to impose a dialect/script on any section of Konkani society nor suppress them at any stage of its 66 year-old history, during which it has grown into an all India organisation representing the entire Konkani society, during which it has spearheaded the Konkani movement with an exemplary respect for secularism and pluralistic culture.
Defending its slogan of ‘one language, one script and one samaj’, the Parishad emphasised the commonness and unity in the fields of Konkani language, literature and culture especially because the community speaking the language suffers from fragmentation of various kinds on account of geographical distinctions, political boundaries, scripts, regional cultures etc.
In the context, the Parishad said it is necessary to emphasise on one language, one common script and one community — meaning a culturally united Konkani community, the Parishad said in a press release.
The Parishad ridiculed Mandd Sobhan and the Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy for trying to malign it and distort its objects and said that they had betrayed absolute ignorance of the Parishad’s history and contributions — the basic factors determining the efficient functioning of any language and the complexity of Konkani’s script problem.
The Parishad held that the choice of Devanagari for Konkani was the result of protracted debates which took place during the past six decades on the Parishad’s forum and the convergence of views of scholars and writers from all the states. In these debates, the writers/scholars of Karnataka too had expressed their views in favour of Devanagiri, the Parishad said in the press statement and gave an instance where its founder Madhav Manjunath Shanbhag and V J P Saldanha, were convinced of the utility of Devanagiri.
The statement added that the Parishad encouraged the use of Devanagiri script on voluntary basis towards its ultimate acceptance as a common script for all Konkani regions, to achieve faster development of Konkani language through better communication and wider readership.
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