All of U read & comprehend the following:
Linguistically, Konkani community may be equated to a flower garden. Just as in a garden there are flowers of varying colour, fragrance, size, genus even of stench, each has a place of relevance & importance in that garden. That is why it is a flower garden. If one of the flower, say rose claims that it is the only genuine flower & rest or all spurious it is absurd or idiotic. So are different dialects of Konkani. None or no section/clan of Konkani Community can claim that the dialect of Konkani that it/he/she speaks is genuine one & others are spurious. Just as if garden contains only a rose plant or any other flower plants it becomes not a garden but A COMMERCIAL PLANTATION which will deprive that garden its aesthetic beauty. Or different dialects of Konkani may be equated to branches of large tree i.e . Konkani. No branch can claim that it is the legitimate and others are illegitimate. It is absurd & obscene as it casts aspersion on the mother tree by one of its children. How ignominous & deplorable that is! So, all dialects of Konkani are to be respected & promoted as attempt to standardize will fail; as no one knows how Konkani was spoken by our too distant past forefathers! So, any attempts to standardize are bound to fail.
WEDS
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 Ancy S.D'Souza Paladka wrote :
>*Condemnation of Parishad's dangerous objectives*
>
>Mandd Sobhann wishes to register its unequivocal condemnation of the All
>India Konkani Parishad's declared objective, namely - *'One Language, One
>Script, One Samaj'*. This slogan smacks of the fascist ideology. We in the
>Konkani movement always believed in and worked for *'unity in pluralism'*-
>pluralism of caste, creed, religion, region, dialect, script etc.. Now if
>the logic of the Parishad's ideology is extended, it would read *'one
>language, one script, one dialect, one religion, one samaj'*. Globalisation
>also advocates and practices the same theory of *'one language, one culture,
>one world'*, bulldozing in the bargain, all other cultures and languages
>other than the one it promotes. As a result, the precious cultural beauty
>and variety of the world stands destroyed.
>
>In the 2 meetings the Parishad has already organised in the implementation
>of this dangerous ideology, it has laid bare its real motive, namely, of
>imposing the *'Devnagari'* lipi on the people of Karnataka who read and
>write Konkani only in the *'Kannada'* lipi and who have also opted for the
>Kannada lipi to teach their children Konkani in Karnataka schools.
>This high-handedness of the Parishad not only rides roughshod on the
>constitutional right of the Konkani of Karnataka, but also threatens to
>destroy the much valued unity of the Konkani people. *Unity cannot be
>achieved by destroying local/regional pluralisms, be it of 'lipi' or 'boli'
>and enforcing one variety on all others. By accepting and respecting
>pluralism alone, unity is possible.*
> The Parishad does not have a chance to succeed, simply because it does not
>have legal or moral authority, nor does it have jurisdiction and
>capacity. *Impositions
>of all kinds, anywhere in the world, have always met with resistance, have
>been repulsed and defeated.*
>
>The Parishad's ideology is dangerous. Its motives deplorable. Its actions
>condemnable. If the Parishad persists with this misadventure, all
>self-respecting Konkanis will be mobilised to befittingly reply.
>
>Mandd Sobhann implores Konkanis to - *'defend pluralism, preserve identity
>and through mutual respect build unity'. *
>*Rony Crasta*
>*(Secretary)*
>*Mandd Sobhann*
>**
>Forwarded By: Ancy D'Souza Paladka
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