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India has the second-largest newspaper market in the world, with daily newspapers reporting a combined circulation of over 240 million copies as of 2018. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There are publications produced in each of the 22 scheduled languages of India and in many of the other languages spoken throughout the country .
Following is the list of recipients of Bal Sahitya Puraskar for their works written in Konkani. The award comprises a cash prize of Rs . 50,000 and an engraved copper plaque. [ 1 ]
In the 1980s, a Roman script Konkani paper called Novem Goem folded in large part due to financial difficulties and alleged mismanagement in spite of being set up with enthusiasm and even a drive to collect funds for it through a 'padyatra' (foot-march) across Goa. Sunaparant was a Devanagari Konkani daily published which functioned from 1987 ...
Ravindra Kelekar (7 March 1925 – 27 August 2010) was an Indian author who wrote primarily in the Konkani language, though he also wrote in Marathi and Hindi. [4] A Gandhian activist, freedom fighter and a pioneer in the modern Konkani movement, he was a well known Konkani scholar, linguist, and creative thinker.
This Act made Konkani as Goa's official language. [5] Bhembre also played a role in Konkani's inclusion to the Eight Schedule of the Indian Constitution and in granting Sahitya Akademi's recognition to Konkani as an independent language. Uday Bhembre is a leader of the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (Indian Languages' Protection Organisation ...
Bakibaab's statue in Goa. Balkrishna Bhagwant Borkar was born on 30 November 1910 in the village of Borim, Goa situated on the banks of the Zuari river. The atmosphere in his house was very pious and there used to be recitals of bhajans, kirtans, holy scripts and songs of saints of Maharashtra.
The 1967 Goa status referendum popularly known as the Goa Opinion Poll was a referendum held in newly annexed union territory of Goa and Damaon in India, on 16 January 1967, to deal with the Konkani language agitation and to decide the future of Goa. Symbol of Goa Opinion Poll Day (1967)
In a video uploaded in 2010, scholar and writer Dr Nandkumar Kamat says of Veluskar: "Ramesh Bhagwant Veluskar is one of Goa's best known modern Konkani poet[s]. A Sahitya Akademi award winner, he has several Konkani and a Hindi poetry collection to his credit and is known as pioneer to introduce folklorical and mythological elements in Konkani and offer a new ecoerotic and ecoastehtic idiom."