Dear Dr William, Thanks for sharing that background with us, about the kind of events which take place in boardrooms and academies, which lesser mortals might not have a clue about.
Regardless of the language politics of that era (which continues now too, probably in different formats), may I point out that the research query came from a Portuguese scholar who has worked at Macau and Brazil, and hence the comment "You want to remember RV Pandit. Are you honest?" might be totally misplaced here. As for myself, I'm curious to just know more about all who worked on Goa, regardless of what field, approach or politics, how these have been treated, etc. In the 1970s, I was still a schoolboy in short pants. As you know, in the 1980s, I was still searching to find my way around Goa (and, on a maybe not unconnected vein, recall the bike-ride we took to a Konkani sahitya programme in Pernem on your red Bajaj M-80, or maybe M-50.) RV Pandit was then available in print though, and he had been quite well translated by Thomas Gay (whose name I sharply recall, but didn't find out much else). These slender books were published by Bhagwati Prakashan, probably Pandit's own imprint, and quite widely available in Goa in those days. But I agree with your wider suggestion: Goa doesn't adequately recognise those who have worked so long in these fields, even within some of our living memories. FN On Thursday 18 April 2024 at 21:36:15 UTC+5:30 wrdsilva wrote: > I came in contact with Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, photographer, > literateur and much more very early in my work in contact between Goa > and Kanara in the 1970s. I had many sessions with him on Konkani > literature, folklore and much more. Unfortunately, when I suggested > his name for Sahitya Academy Award in 1977 as member of the SA Konkani > committee, all members wanted Ravindra Kelekar and his Himalayant and > not his Mhoje Git Gauddeachem. Second, I proposed, with the president > of SA agreeing with me, that Konkani be recognised in at least three > scripts for thirty years before a unity of scripts, but they denied > the cause. So, I resigned and never came close to SA again. I am even > now away from Goan Konkani politics. > You want to remember RVPandit. Are you honest? > William Robert Da Silva > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 1:06 PM fredericknoronha > <frederic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Another interesting profile on Raj Vasant Pandit (the East Indian > publisher): > > > https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/profile/story/19970131-rv-pandit-producer-of-maachis-being-talked-about-for-other-reasons-as-well-831788-1997-01-14 > > > > On Thursday 18 April 2024 at 13:05:56 UTC+5:30 fredericknoronha wrote: > >> > >> RV Pandit, the Goan poet (translated by Thomas Gay) and photographer > whom Duarte is studying is here: > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._V._Pandit > >> Raghunath Vishnu Pandit (1916 or 1917 to 1990). > >> > >> RV Pandit, Raj Vasant Pandit was born Thomas Ignatius Rodrigues in > Vasai, and is an East Indian publisher, film producer etc > >> A tribute to him by the journalist Amrita Shah (whose byline you would > know) is here: > >> https://twitter.com/amritareach/status/1459469817002430464?lang=en > >> > >> Similar sounding names and initials, but no connections. FN > >> > >> > >> On Thursday 18 April 2024 at 13:01:40 UTC+5:30 eugene.correia wrote: > >> > >> Wasn't there one RV Pandit who edit a magazine, which was popular mag, > whose name I have forgotten? Dom Moraes wrote for that msg. > >> > >> Eugene > > > > -- > > 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-n...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/faa49901-663f-443a-852c-91ff80eb9341n%40googlegroups.com > . > -- 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/a29dc83a-c4f3-453e-9323-8bf70868ac4bn%40googlegroups.com.
