Venita Coelho wins Sahitya Akademi award

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Frederick Noronha

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Mar 16, 2021, 12:20:03 PM3/16/21
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Veena Patwardhan

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Mar 17, 2021, 1:59:43 AM3/17/21
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Great news. Many congrats to Venita.
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 21:50, Frederick Noronha <frederic...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Sajan

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Mar 17, 2021, 9:47:40 AM3/17/21
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While congratulations are in order for Venita Coelho, it is good to see that three Konkani works also won Sahitya Akademi awards for 2020 (two of them from Kerala, demonstrating the extraordinary spread of Konkani). 

Sampada Kunkoliekar’s travelogue ‘Char Panvlan Ashiyent’ won the Akademi's Yuva Puraskar, while poet R S Bhaskar of Kerala won the Sahitya Akademi award (Konkani) for his collection of poems, ‘Yugparivartanacho Yatri', and V Krishna Vadhyar, also from Kerala, won the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his novelette, 'Balu'.

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Frederick Noronha

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Mar 17, 2021, 10:16:23 AM3/17/21
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Just curious... were they published in Malayalam or Devanagari script?
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Sajan

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Mar 18, 2021, 3:58:44 AM3/18/21
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Jose tells me all Konkani books have to be submitted in Nagari script (must be that 8th Schedule thing). 

I'd assume Konkani writers from Karnataka and Kerala write in their native scripts, but transliterate their books for the Akademi. This shouldn't be very difficult using, say, Google Input Tools. Not sure how easy it is to transliterate from Romi to Nagari, though. 

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Frederick Noronha

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Mar 18, 2021, 4:01:39 AM3/18/21
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Eighth Schedule doesn't prescribe any script for Konkani. Only the Goa Official Language Act, 1987, does. And that applies to Goa.

The problem is that each script comes with its own dialect. So it cannot be a simple machine translation. Far from it.

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