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Prior to this, the Formento Media (Timblo)-linked Prudent TV channel laid off some 23 of its staff—10 from the Marathi daily Goan Varta, nine from Prudent TV, and two each from the English-language daily The Goan and the Konkani daily Bhangarbhuim. [9] Lokmat Marathi daily also shut down its three bureaus in Mapusa, Vasco and Ponda. [9]
The Marathi language has a long history of literature and culture. The first Marathi newspaper, Darpan, was started on 6 January 1832 by Balshastri Jambhekar. The paper was bilingual fortnightly also published in English as The Bombay Darpan and stopped publishing in 1840.
Goans (Romi Konkani: Goenkar, Portuguese: Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese, Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries.
Following these changes, in 1912 a group of nine prominent residents of the Goan town of Margão founded an organization which would be later called the Gomant Vidya Niketan. The founders were inspired by a shared vision to foster unity among diverse groups within Goan society, aiming to advance social, religious, and cultural initiatives. [4]
Tarun Bharat ("Young India") is a Marathi newspaper based in Belagavi, India. [1] It is the seventh-largest-selling Marathi daily newspaper in the country. The paper has eight editions from locations in North Karnataka (Belagavi), Southern Maharashtra (Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara), Konkan (Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri), Mumbai and Goa.
' People's Opinion ') is a Marathi-language newspaper published in Maharashtra, India. Founded in 1971 by Jawaharlal Darda, it is the largest read Marathi-language newspaper in India. [2] It is also available in an e-paper format and is published in Hindi and English as Lokmat Samachar [3] and the Lokmat Times respectively. [4]
José Camillo Lisboa, Goan physician and botanist [94] José Gerson da Cunha, Goan physician who achieved international renown as an orientalist, historian, linguist and numismatist [95] Acacio Gabriel Viegas, medical practitioner who was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Bombay, India, in 1896. [96]
Konkani would be supplanted by the Marathi majority, and be lost permanently. Goa is a unique Eastern place with a Westernised cultural identity of its own, having been part of the Portuguese East Indies for over 450 years. [3] If Goa was merged, Goan culture would be subsumed in Marathi culture and disappear.