SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2024
DKA announces awards
HERALD NEWS DESK
PANJIM, APRIL 3
Dalgado Konknni Akademi (DKA) has announced its annual awards to personalities who have contributed to the development of Konkani in Roman script.
Eminent Konknni stalwart and scholar and former acting Vice-Chancellor of Goa University, late Prof (Dr) Olivinho Gomes will be honoured posthumously with Dalgado Puroskar 2009 for his lifetime contribution to Konkani literature in Roman script.
Minguel Jacob Carmo Luis Fernandes, popularly known ‘Prince Jacob’ - the prince of the Konknni tiatr, who staged his first tiatr, Pinzrem in 1985 and then went on to produce a quarter century of acclaimed khell-tiatrs will be conferred with Dalgado Puroskar 2009 for culture.
Both these awards carry a shawl, a memento, a citation and a cash prize of Rs 25,000 each.
Antonio da Piedade Morais, who tirelessly worked for the preservation of Goa’s literature, culture and identity, will be honoured with ‘Dalgado Daiz Puroskar 2003’.
Dalgado Puroskar 2009 for institutions furthering the cause of Konknni in Roman script will be awarded to Thomas Stephens Konkani Kendr (TSKK), a Konknni research, educational and cultural centre named after the sixteenth century English Jesuit, Fr Thomas Stephens.
Both these awards carry a shawl, a memento, a citation and a cash prize of Rs 20,000 each.
Dalgado Konknni Akademi’s Fr Freddy J da Costa Puroskar 2003 for journalism in Konknni in Roman script will be presented to Isidore Dantas, a Goan settled in Pune.
Dalgado Puroskar 2009 for youth contribution to Konkani in Roman script will be conferred on Nevena Furtado who writes poems and short stories with depth.
Both these awards carry a shawl, a memento, a citation and a cash prize of Rs 10,000 each.
Dalgado Konknni Akademi President Premanand Lotlikar congratulated all the awardees and hoped that their example of love and sacrifices towards the development of Konkani in Roman script will inspire the youth of today to work with dedication for the progress of our mother tongue, Konkani.
The awards will be presented in a special function to be held on April 8 in Tiatr Academy Goa’s Conference Hall, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panjim at 5 pm.
