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Goa,Konkani and an independent identity. |
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Sharad Bailur |
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Oct 10, 07 - 2:23 AM |
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sharadbailur@yahoo.com,sharad.bailur@gmail.com |
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First my apologies to readers for having found this site so late. There are so many things that I would like to express that if I have to retain reader patience I shall have to put it in points. so here goes:
1. Goa did the right thing maintaining its independent identity instead of allowing itself to be absorbed by Maharashtra.
2. Was Karnataka not interested in absorbing Goa? Why is that only Maharashtrians have imperialistic designs on neighbouring states? They want Belgaum and Haliyal as well.
3. When India reorganised its states in 1956, it did so on the basis of language. By this token the Konkani
speaking people of the Konkan in Maharashtra, in North Kanara and South Kanara should have got a state of their own. They did not. Reason? Goa which then was Portuguese territory stood in between. Result? To this day while the Konkani speakers of Goa at least have a state of their won (good for them) those of North and South Kanara and Ratnagiri do not or for that matter Sawantwadi and other places that are known to be in Konkan. They are second class citizens in Maharashtra and in Karnataka. I know what I am talking about because I owe my descent to North Kanara.
4. A Maharashtrian visitor once asked me in Dapoli in Ratnagiri district where I have a home what a Konkani speaking North Kanara origin man was doing in Dapoli. My reply was: I speak Konkani in the Konkan. You speak a foreign language and ask me what I am doing in a district which is part of my home on the basis of language> You are the foreigner. Not me.
5. What is needed is a closer coordination among all Konkani speakers so that we can have a pan Konkani speaking state of our own stretching from Ullal in the south to Raigad in the north. What do you think? Goan Konkani can be our language of discourse. YOu can choose the script in which you choose to write. I would choose Roman. |
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Mirsangh 
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