Monday 04 December 2023

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Culture | Literature

After 50, Marathi honours Konkani as the Chief Guest at All India Sahitya Sammelan

22 Aprill 2022 would be a historic day for Goa and Maharashtra. Jnanpith recipient Damodar Mauzo, a Konkani writer, would grace the 95th All India Marathi Literary Meet (अखिल भारतीय मराठी साहित्य संमेलन) as the ... READ

साहित्य अकादेमी पुरस्कार मेळ्ळेलें ‘ध वर्डस्’ कोंकणी अकादेमी कित्याक विकतें घेना?

विष्णू सुर्या वाघाच्या ‘सुदीरसुक्त’ कवितासंग्रहा फाटोफाट निलबा खांडेकाराचो ‘ध वर्डस्’ हो कवितासंग्रहय वादग्रस्त जाला. दोगांयचेरूय आक्षेप घेवपाकडेन संबंदीत आसलेली संस्था, गोवा कोंकणी अकादेमी. हे संस्थेन ‘सुदीरसुक्ता’क पुरस्कार दिलोना. आनी ‘ध वर्डस्’ हें पुस्तक तर ... READ

Two ‘Konkanis’ bag Sahitya Academy awards

Two ‘Konkani’ novelists bagged Sahitya Academy awards this year, one for English and another for Konkani. READ

"Christmas in Goa is not complete without Hindus, and Chovoth without Christians"

Anwesha Singbal, Goa’s young writer, portrayed a real picture of Goa to the World while delivering her acceptance speech after receiving the most prestigious national Sahitya Academy Yuva Puraskar 2016. READ

Goa Dakshinayan: Debate among Galaxy of intellectuals

Goa next month will kick off a national movement of intellectuals, who are gathering to debate upon several burning concerns, following killings of Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Com Govind Pansare and Prof K S Kalburgi. READ

Pak writers restrained from attending Goa Lit Fest

Following the demand to impose a ban on Pakistan artistes from working in the Hindi film industry, Pakistani writers are now at the receiving end. READ

Borkar, Anwesha bag national SA Awards for Children and Youth Lit

Goa’s eminent writer Dilip Borkar and young writer Anwesha Singbal have bagged this year’s prestigious Sahitya Academy awards in children’s literature and youth literature respectively. READ

'Bomboikar Goan' writer Jerry Pinto wins $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prize

Mumbai-based Goan writer Jerry Pinto is among the nine recipients of the Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize this year, awarded to English-language writers "for their literary achievements or their potential". READ

Poet Ashok Borkar passes away

Ashok Borkar, owner of Borkar Super Stores and a prolific poet of Goa, expired today in Pune. READ

Beware! Fascism is entering through backdoor: Mehta

In the technologically advanced era, beware, fascism is coming silently through the backdoor, not openly from the front door. READ