>"Could Pratap Naik and Preeta Naik kindly look better into these matters and inform us, especially this being the centennial year of the publication of the first Konkani novel and also of the death of Ejobrudeza (Eduardo Jose Bruno de Souza), the first Konkani-language journalist and editor?"<
In that case I have a few questions to ask. Why is 1st August clebrated as "Patrakar Diwas"? Because it is Lokmanya Tilak's death anniversary day? Is it observed all over India?Why not the death anniversary day of our very own Ejobrudeza? "Udentichem Sallok" was published from Pune in 1889. What about the editor of this periodical? And pray why "patrakar diwas" in Goa and why not "patrakarancho dis"? Richard Cabral