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Shashikala Kakodkar was born on 7 January 1935 at Pernem, Goa, [1] Portuguese India, to Dayanand and Sunandabai Bandodkar as their eldest child. Her younger siblings were Usha Vengurlekar, Kranti Rao, Jyoti Bandekar and Siddharth Bandodkar.
The English-language daily Gomantak Times shut down its operations at the end of May 2020. [9] The Gomantak Times had been started in 1986, as part of the Chowgule mining group, and had then been sold to the Pawar family-linked Sakal Publications of Pune (earlier Poona) in 2000. It had some 13 journalist employees. [9]
Gomantak Maratha Samaj is a Hindu community found in the Indian state of Goa. [1] They are known as Nutan Maratha Samaj in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra and Naik Maratha Samaj in Maharashtra , Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka , also Telangana respectively.
Kurdikar was born in Kurdi village, Portuguese-ruled Goa to a Maratha Gomantak Samaj family. [3] Little is known of her father; her mother, Jayashreebai, was from the Devadasi community and known locally as a talented singer. [4] In 1913, Kurdikar began learning music for a while from a holy man at a Damodar Temple in Zambaulim, arranged by her ...
Until 1983, The Navhind Times was the sole English-language daily in Goa, till the Portuguese-language O Heraldo converted to being a broadsheet daily in English too on October 10, 1983. In 1987, the Gomantak Times joined, as the third English-language daily in Goa. But it shut down in 2020, during the pandemic year, citing financial pressures.
B. D. Satoskar, author, ex-editor of Gomantak daily. [5] Chandrakant Keni, retired editor of Marathi daily Rashtramat and Konkani daily Sunaparant; former freelance journalist; was associated with the development of Konkani language; won Sahitya Academy Award for his book Ashadh Pawali [132]
He used to encourage his students to act in retaliation against the Portuguese, but was again arrested and deported for entering Goa illegally. [3] Ranade joined the militant organization, Azad Gomantak dal in 1953. [5] As a member of the organization, he was involved in the liberation of Silvassa in 1954 and then entered Goa illegally again. [3]
Born in Marcel, Goa, he has authored many books in Marathi as well as in the Konkani language. He is best known for Gomantak prakriti ani Sanskriti (Goa:Nature and Culture, volumes I-III), an encyclopedic work on history and culture of Goa and the Goans. [1] This work was republished on occasion of his birth centenary, in March 2009.