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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A 2300 pages book is the pride of any publisher , librarian or book owner. That's the size of the new POVITR PUSTOK [Bible] in Konkani, Romi script, honey. It is being released on this Sunday 04 June, 2006 after a special mass at 10.00 A.M. in Old Goa.Edited by Fr. Manuel Fernandes and assisted by Fr.Ave Maria Alphonso this book has the efforts of Fr. Caetano Cruz Fernandes, Fr. Moreno D'Souza, Fr. Eusebio Ferrao and a number of other persons including [ I am told] Bonaventure D'Pietro a noted saxophonist and writer of thrillers, one of which [Jaanya-Celi]is being released today by the Goa Konkani Academy at Panaji.. 40,000 copies have been sold at a Pre-publication priceRs.150/- The balance 20,000 copies are priced at Rs.300 each. 60,000 copies are not enough for a Catholic population of about 4 lakhs in Goa. There will be a large numer of MOGO [ Mumbaikars of Goan Origin] in Mumbai and all over the world who would read any book only in the Roman Script or Romi Lipi.. The other MOGO [Manglurkars of Goan Origin] also love reading in Roman script when not reading in Kannada script. If every earning Konkani- reading Catholic buys a copy of the POVITR PUSTOK then a second re-print, of 2.00 lakh copies or more, will be necessary. It can be economically done while the offset plates are still available. Since the Authorship vests in the Pericletos [Holy Spirit or Counsellor] no major revisions are possible in the text. Buy a copy immediately on its release. Force a re-print in Roman script. Buy a copy of the POVITR PUSTOK for the next generation [specially those who have studied Konkani in schools and learnt to hate their Mai Bhas, instead of loving her more as was presumed to happen.]. You can treat it like the Da Vinci Code. No one is compelling you to either read it or to believe it. Just buy a copy. It would have served the purpose. If your children read a small passage for the very first book[ Genesis] once a week, they will find out for themselves how easy and nice it is to read their mother tongue in a script they will anyway use all through their life. I will be posting excerpts from the Old Testament [Porno Korar] that talk about life[ and not about any religion] on the net groups that permit me to do so. May be some of the appropriate proverbs, too. there is a whole 'Book of Proverbs' in the Old testament. It will now be avialble to Konkani readers who have had to make do with much inferior proverbs for want of a better source. I have been looking for a good Konkani translation of the Proverb " When a wise man argues with a fool; whether he laughs or rants, there is no end' . Now I have to just look up that chapter and verse in the POVITR PUSTOK. Life is so simple. On World Environment Day [05 June] improve your cultural environment. Buy a POVITR PUSTOK. Support Konkani. Do in Rome as the Romans do. Use Roman Catholics use Roman Script. The world today is a Roman Script Empire. Like it or lump it..... that's the truth, the life and the way of the things to come. Viva Goa. Miguel _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)