Some mixup on my part. Sushila Sawant Mendes pointed out that the iconic Gandhi-Nehru photograph was clicked by Mr Lorenzo, the uncle of the person who currently runs Lorenzo Studio in Margao! My bad... I mixed it up with RV Pandit's photography. FN
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 17:50, Frederick Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Duarte, > > Somehow struggling to find that... but what I came across is: > > 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/CAMCR53LNVn5tOvSF7tWcfJLKhXjDz5u7ska6Qc2LJD7udf9rbg%40mail.gmail.com.
