TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024
At the recently held meeting of Fr. Freddy J. da Costa Memorial Trust the names of the personalities to be felicitated by Gulab, the popular Konkani monthly and Fr. Freddy J. da Costa Memorial Trust, for the year 2020, have been declared:
DR. CARLOS M. FERNANDES the Assistant Professor, Teacher In-Charge, Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS) and In-Charge University Librarian at Goa University, Taleigao, has been selected as the ‘Gulab’s Personality of the Year’.
Renowned Konkani author, litterateur, historian and one of the major contributors in the preparation of the Konkani Lectionary, Vachpam Grônth REV. FR. MANUEL GOMES has been awarded the ‘Gulab Writer of the Year.’ While popular senior tiatr writer, director and songster WILSON MAZARELLO, will be felicitated with this year’s ‘Gulab Tiatrist Award’.
Due to the prevailing pandemic situation this year the awardees will not be felicitated on July 20, 2021, as was the tradition, to commemorate the birth anniversary of the late Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa, the founder editor of Gulab. However, the awardees will be felicitated at a special function to be held at a later date.
The personalities for the awards have been selected by an experienced jury comprising of Guadalupe Dias, Fr. Ave Maria Aphonso, Marcos Gonsalves, Br. John Afonso and Pio Esteves from the four following nominees in each category, provided by the Trust:
a) Gulab Personality of the Year: 1. Dr. Carlos Fernandes (Department of library sciences at the Goa University, Ex-Curator – Central Library, Goa) 2. Kumari Sonia Sirsat (Fado Singer – Goa’s Ambassador) 3. Shri Tomazinho Cardozo (Politician, Ex-Speaker, Author, Tiatrist & Konkani Activist and 4. Shri Minguel Fernandes (Poder - Agnelo Bakery, Majorda).
b) Gulab Writer of the Year: 1. Fr. Manuel Gomes, 2. Fr. Eusebio Gomes, sfx 3. Fr. Nevel Gracias, 4. Shri Teotonio D’Costa,
c) Gulab Tiatrist of the Year: 1. Shri Wilson Mazarello, 2. Smt. Fatima D’Souza, 3. Shri Cyriaco Dias, and 4. Shri Xavier Gomes.
