Hi, This is the message taken from the largest G-S-B groups. A Madras based great g-s-b schollar Mohan Prabhu says this in his message to his g-s-b fellowmen.
Dev Borem Korum, Ancy ___________________________________________________________________________ Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:23:33 -0000 Subject: Re: SB & GSB Shrikant: Into a common entity, not possible Shrikant. and the reason is people from SK/DK (I am partly from this district). I have travelled to all the places of GSBs and spoken to many informally as an individual and I found that we SK/DK has a habit of "adi bidru-mooku mele" attitude. Keep away the mutts. You spelled it right. They never have an iota of unifying idea. Do what you can and leave rest to god. roman letters for Konkani is the best option to improve the language and make it more popular. Scholars should sit and discuss and come out with a script. If Malaysians ( Bahasa Malaysia), Indonesians ( bahasa Indonesia), Vietnamese and turkish can adapt Roman alphabets, why we should not. Finally every religious scripture says one thing- meek will inherit this earth. May be thats why we GSBs (MEEK?) run away from all. Still- Dev Baren karo Mo