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Mangaluru: Artistes, writers condemn ‘murder’ of Konkani language by Konkani Sahitya Academy

  •   Sat, Nov 04 2017 11:18:15 AM

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Mangaluru, Nov 4: Konkani artistes and writers have condemned the ‘murder’ of Konkani language by Karnataka Konkani Academy.

In a press release Konkani Writers and Artistes’ Association (KWAA) has expressed its anguish saying Konkani Sahithya Academy which has been getting grant from the department of Kannada and Culture of government of Karnataka to the tune of Rs 60 to70 lac every year, is actually working against protecting and promoting the language.

Giving an example, KWAA has alleged that the Academy has organized a programme in association with the Post graduation department of Konkani, Mangalore University on November 4 2017 and invitation of this programme is printed only in English. When the president of Konkani Sahithya Academy was asked about this gaffe by KWAA members, he defended it saying, ‘As it is Mangalore University programme, it was inevitable to print the invite in English”.

Writers and artistes argue that since most of the participants in this programme including resource persons of the programme are academicians and students of Post Graduate Department of the University, it is wrong to print the invite only in English. This is nothing but ‘daylight murder’ of Konkani. KWAA members said that they would write in this regard to the chief minister and also the department of Kannada language and Culture, Government of Karnataka.
  

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  • Beowulf, Mangalore

    Sun, Nov 05 2017

    This whole thing about protecting language is nonsense. In 1000 years most, if not all languages will go extinct like languages have done in the past.

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