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QUOTE Presented a commentary & snippets on Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti - linking R. V. Pandit, the famous Konkani poet, just demised, an ace photographer of Gandhiji, with the great man, on Goa Doordarshan, in Konkani, on 3rd October, 1990. UNQUOTE This is from the Goa University Report from 1990-91: https://www.unigoa.ac.in/uploads/content/Annual%20Reports/annual%20report%2090-91.pdf Franjoao was also a dedicated and versatile photographer, who as staff of the Administrative Intelligence Room, Ministry of Commerce delved into photography and mastered still and cine photography and all dark room techniques. This expertise gained him international recognition and he was elected to the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and was also made fellow of Royal Society of Arts. On October 17, 1971, he inaugurated a photography exhibition at the hands of noted poet R V Pandit. The photographs depicted nature, stones and flesh. https://www.navhindtimes.in/2013/07/13/magazines/panorama/panorama-franjoao-bow-forgotten-master/ R. V. PANDIT: JIVEET AANEE WAAWARby DR S M TADKODKAR <https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22DR+S+M+TADKODKAR%22> [RV Pandit: Life and Work] https://archive.org/details/dli.viswakonkani.1423 This book was scanned by the World Konkani Centre in Mangaluru, India. The World Konkani Centre is founded by Konkani Bhas Ani Sanskriti Prathistan to serve as a centre for the preservation and overall development of Konkani language, art and culture involving all the Konkani people the world over. Additional Book Details: Edition: 2006 Price: 85 No. of Pages: VIII+114 Language: KONKANI Script: DEVANAGARI Type of Book: MONOGRAPH / BIOGRAPHY If RV Pandit photographed Gandhi, another Goan became famous for photographing Jinnah – Ignatius Sequeira. https://www.navhindtimes.in/2022/04/24/magazines/panorama/goan-to-scinde-the-story-of-a-forgotten-migration/#google_vignette A Review of Konkani Poetry After Goa's Liberation Nandkumar Kamat https://www.scribd.com/doc/44611122/A-Review-of-Konkani-Poetry-After-Goa-s-Liberation Symposium March 26, 2017, Panaji The regional office of Sahitya Akademi at Mumbai, in collaboration with Goa Konkani Academy and the Institute Menezes Braganza, organised a symposium on R.V. Pandit, distinguished Konkani litterateur, on the occasion of his birth centenary year, on March 26, 2017, at Panaji, Goa. Dr Madhav Borkar, renowned Konkani poet, inaugurated the symposium. At the outset, Sri Krishna Kimbahune, Regional Secretary, welcoming the audience and participants pointed out the coincidence that the birth centenaries of both Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and R.V. Pandit fall this year. Pandit was a prolific poet and an accomplished photographer who wrote in Konkani, Marathi and Portuguese, but had received recognition as poet was only because of his poetry in Konkni, he said. Dr Borkar said that Pandit was an artist by birth, and achieved fame as photographer first, and then as poet. The diction he employed in his poetry was close to spoken Konakani, and he had opted for free verse deliberately, he stated. Sri Ramesh Veluskar, noted Konkani poet and critic, delivered the keynote address, saying that the pictorial effect Pandit’s poetry left was remarkable. Some other characteristics of his poetry were deliberate use of free verse, neo-realistic style, and deep concern for the downtrodden, he pointed out. Dr Tanaji Halarnakar, Convener, Konakni Advisory Board, chaired the session. Sri Sanjay Haramalkar, Chairman, the Institute Menezes Braganza, proposed a vote of thanks. Dr Harishchandra Nagvenkar and Dr S.M. Tadkodkar presented thier papers in the first session, while Sri Nagesh Karmali chaired the session. Nagvenkar said that Pandit’s diction was very energetic and lively, and the social awareness that his poetry displayed was exemplary. The downtrodden were the centre of Pandit’s poetry, and the distinguishing characteristic of Pandit was that he wrote about the downtrodden when he himself was quite well off, he said. Dr Tadkodkar said that Pandit instinctively avoided carnal element in his poetry, and responded to human sorrow, and voiced sensibly the suffering of a common man. His poetry was of compassion and empathy, he said. Sri Bhushan Bhave and Sri Hanumant Kambli presented their papers in the second session, and Sri Gokuldas Prabhu chaired the session. Sri Bhave observed that Pandit’s poetry had an air of revolution and revolt, and Pandit wrote in workaday language of masses unlike B.B. Borkar whose diction was deeply influenced by Sanskrit. Moreover, his poetry was interdisciplinary and left the effect of paintings, he added further. Sri Kambli informed that Pandit wrote poetry since 1963, and 44 years before that he experimented with his camera, and he was basically a photographer. It was Mahatma Gandhi’s influence that restricted him to make photography his profession. The Through My Window programme with Sri Prakash Vazrikar who was invited to speak of R.V. Pandit, was part of the symposium. Vazrikar said that Pandit attempted to express his disturbed and yet compassionate self in Marathi, Konkani and even Portuguese, and experimented rigorously with genres such as poetry, children literature, translation, and successfully with art of photography. It was Sri Harshchandra Nagvenkar who first pointed out the significance of Pandit as poet. The significance of Pandit’s poetry lay in the fact that it voiced the suffering and agony of common people in Goa but succeeded in transcending such geographical or ethnic barriers and spoke of humanity as a whole. https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/e-newsletter/mar-apr_2017_Newsletter.pdf Mrs. P.S. Tadkodkar: Article on 'Pastoral Poetry of R.V. Pandit in Jaag monthly issue. Prior to 1993-94 However, some of the best writing today expresses the voice of the subaltern. The earliest to focus on exploitation particularly of the Gaudde and Kunbi communities was R.V. Pandit who brought modern techniques to the writing of poetry; he famously burst into print with five volumes of verse published at once. An individualist, an official photographer to Mahatma Gandhi and something of a maverick genius, he is one of the few Konkani poets to have his work translated into English. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Writing+on+Goa.-a0315920710 Rgds, FN On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 16:45, Duarte Braga <duartedbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Frederick, do you have a link for the referes Ghandi stamp? > All the best > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to goa-research-net+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAMCR53LEXrgL6-AHXAf-td0aZo7%3DB4t6ZWWJP2vV2%3Dg8PwTRWw%40mail.gmail.com.
