Congrats, Daniel! FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Miguel Braganza <miguelbraga...@yahoo.co.in> Date: 25 June 2011 20:54 Subject: Re: Vasco: New capital of Konkani in Roman script! To: Vascokars <vascokarsuni...@yahoogroups.com>
Dears, The very first book that Daniel F. D'Souza [Mumbai-born Saligoakar resident of Vasco] published in his Mother Tongue Konkani, Koslich Malis Nastana [Without any Malice] won him the second Konknni Martir Florian Vaz Puroskar AND the Konkani Bhasha Mandal's Sahitiya Puroskar, both in 2008. Daniel F. D'Souza does not have any formal education in Konkani but he writes as much flair as he does in English. He also speaks both the languages fluently. His next book was "Chun'nam ani Kan'ddam" [Zizyphus rugosa and Carissa carandas] named after two thorny plants with wild but sweet edible berries on the hillsides of Goa during summer. Now in the land where the Brazilian Cashew nut [Anacardium occidentale] has naturalized itself so much that Goa has an international "Geographical Indication" for Cashew Feni, he has published yet another collection of selected essays under the title Goddkam [sprouted cashenuts, also called as 'goddavlim"]. Cashew nut shells have a phenolic oil which is very corrosive and hence no one would eat cashew nuts ...till a famine made some Konkann coastal person to eat Goddkam in sheer desperation somewhere in the early 1920. He did not die. Now cahewnuts and feni are the only exportable agricultural produce of Goa!! Goddkam is priced at just Rs.50/- a copy, thanks to the Dalgado Konknni Akademi's support for its publication. Buy and read a copy. You get to read 25 essays and still have a book that you can share with your children and grandchildren. Mog asundi Miguel -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to saligao-net@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe email saligao-net-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
