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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The vexed language issue has resurfaced on the Goan horizon, again threatening to divide Goan society, which has lived a peaceful co-existence since pre- liberation, on communal basis as it did nearly 20 year ago. Seeing this peaceful co-existence firsthand, the late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had appealed to the people of a freshly liberated Goa to always maintain their unique identity amidst mainstream India as Goa had a lot to teach the rest of India on communal harmony. However, today there is a potential time-bomb set ticking by unscrupulous politicians for very selfish gains in the form of script issue regarding the official language of the state. These hedonistic forces are out to destroy Goa and Goans by a great communal divide. Hence, my brethren BEWARE! Goa is geographically, historically, genetically and culturally an integrated part of the konkan region and obviously the mother tongue in this konkan region is Konkani which is written either in Devanagiri or Romi depending on the manner in which Konkani is spoken in that region. This is an undisputed fundamental truth and has no nexus whatsoever with religious sentiments of the people of the region. However, the partisan forces actively at work in the state, operating in a subtle manner, have twisted the script issue to such illogical conclusions that they have very slyly brought on the Marathi language which is a language of the Maratha region and are trying to project the same as the official language of Goa. This is a paradox as the language of the Marathas cannot be claimed to be the mother tongue of the Konkani?s of Goa. Agreed that the Maratha region having common boundaries and historical links with the Konkan region, there is an overlap and integration of cultures of both regions. If Marathi should be the official language of Goa of the Konkan region, then it would be justifiable to make Konkani the official language in Maharashtra of the Maratha region. This is taking the language imbroglio to its logical conclusion. We, the people of Goa, had fought a war with divisive forces twenty years ago on the language issue and justifiably Konkani was made the official language of Goa after due deliberations. Konkani is the sole official language of the State of Goa in both it?s variants ? Devanagiri & Romi. Ciao, SAVIKA _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org