Elected representatives (law makers )in Goa Legislative Assembly who are expected to bring about the amendment to section 2(c) of the Official Language Act 1987 during this session should impress in the august HOUSE that all GOANS Hindus Moslems Catholics who believe they are "niz goencars" whether in Terrakol in Pernem (North) to Polem in Canacona (South) or Darbhondra in Sanguem (East) or Vasco-da-Gama in Mormugao (West ) of Goa believe that:
a) KONKNNI is the MOTHER TONGUE of every true Goan niz goencar. b) for historical reasons some speak Konknni others Portuguese and some English; c) for historical reasons some read Konknni in Devanagari & Roman script others read in Marathi, Portuguese or English; d) for historical reasons some write Konknni in Devanagari & Roman script others write in Marathi, Portuguese or English; e) for liturgical purposes Catholics use Konknni in Roman script and for religious rite Hindus use Marathi or Konknni in devanagari script; f) all Hindu Bahujan Samaj (non Brahmin) community fully accept the fact that Catholics use Roman script and therefore it should also have been officially recognised as such in the Official Language Act 1987. Therefore any distortion of these facts by ex MLAs politicians out of power or aspiring to come to power that the Marathi protogonists will create a further turmoil is only a false canard a MYTH NOT A REALITY and intended to polarise the Goans, and should not be paid heed to in the current movement for recognition of UNITY IN LANGUAGE DIVERSITY OF SCRIPT Meanwhile as the script issue in favour of Roman script for Konknni besides Devanagari and Kannada in Karnataka is slowly but surely being pursued to the logical conclusion since the SCRIPT movement was revived in June 2005 ---- several writers in various local dailies and weeklies have been advocating that the issue be SETTLED ACROSS THE TABLE. Many of the protoganists of UNITY IN LANGUAGE KONKNNI --- DIVERSITY IN SCRIPTS (Devanagari Roman Malayalam etc ) who this writer encountered at the during the long drawn movement are of the opinion that those who feel the issue should be settled across the table would do well to bring around the undermentioned tentatively listed names of protogonists who believe strongly only in Ek lipi (one script-DEVANAGARI ) ek bhas (one language KONKNNI ) ek sahitya (one literature) and ek samaz (one community) viz FROM GOA Mr Uday L Bhembre Mr Chandrakant Keni Dr Manoharrai Sardessai Mr Damodar Mauzo Mr Nagesh Karmali Ms Hema P. Naik Ms Kamalarao Deshpande Mr Manikrao Gavnekar Ms.Sunita Kanetkar Mr Satyavan Naik Mr Rajdeep Naik Mr Sudesh Lotlikar Mr Serafino Cota Mr Soter Barreto Mr S.M. Borges Mr Datta D. Naik Mr Datta S. Naik Mr Manoj Kamat Mr.Suresh Borkar Mr Damodar Ghanekar Mr Pandurang Bhangi Mr Ravindra Kelekar Ms Kiran Budkuley Dr Jayanti Naik Mr Pundalik Naik Mr Shivdas Naik Mr Bharat Naik Mr Tukaram shet Mr Dilip Borkar Ms Madhavi sardessai Ms Priyadarshini Tadkodkar Mr Sandesh Prabhudessai Mr Sridhar Kamat Mr Sridhar Kamat Bambolkar Mr Prakash Vazrikar Mr Arun sakhardande Ms Nayana Sakhardande Mr Prajwal Sakhardande Ms Anju Sakhardande Ms Jyoti Cuncolekar Mr Bhiku Bhomi Naik Mr Gurunath Kelekar Mr Sumant Kelekar Mr Ramesh Veluskar Mr Ashok Bhoslo Ms Prashanti Talpankar Ms Nayana Adarkar Ms Maya Kharangate Ms Vaijanti Prabhu Mr Srinivas Kamat Mr Mahabaleshwar Sail Mr Suresh Pai Ms Meena Kakodkar Mr Suresh Kakodkar Mr Raju Naik Mr Sanjiv Verenkar Mr Shyam Verenkar Dr Harischandra Nagvenkar Mr Bhushan Bhave Fr Mousinho Athaide Ms Maria Aurora Couto Fr Jaime Couto Fr Michael Fernandes Fr Moreno de Souza, S.J. Mr Prabhakar Bhide Mr Purnanand Chari Mr Rupa Chari Mr Babli Naik Mr Prashant Naik FROM KARNATAKA Mr Paul Moraes Mr Basti Vaman Shenoy Mr J.B.Moraes Mr Gokuldas Prabhu FROM KERALA Mr. N Purushottam Mallya Mr Sharaschand Shenoy Dr Usha Bai to accept DIVERSITY OF SCRIPTS. This will then lead to universalisation of Konknni and unity of Goans. GODFREY J I GONSALVES BORDA MARGAO GOA [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9822158584 __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com