Konkani Bhasha Mandal is organising ‘Sangaman-22’, a literary conference on October 7 and 8,
2017 at Ravindra Bhavan in Margao in association with Sangaman and Takshashila
Educational Society. Sangaman has been organised all over India earlier and the
one being held in Goa is the 22nd edition of the conference. Organised by
Sangaman organisation and sponsored by the Takshashila Educational Society,
this year, around 50 Hindi, Marathi and Konkani writers will take part in this
programme. The festival will be inaugurated on October 7 at the hands of noted
Marathi writer Raosaheb Kasbe.
Chetan Acharya, President, Konkani Bhasha Mandal, says, “This is
the 22nd edition of the festival and we are having this for the first time in
Goa. The main motive is to connect the Goan authors to authors from other
languages. In future editions of the festival, we will see Goan authors
visiting other places in India to be part of this national conference.”
“It is important to connect to the national stream and
understand what’s happening across the nation. This conference aims at looking
at different topics with a 2020 perspective,” says, Nityanand Naik, Secretary,
Konkani Bhasha Mandal.
Noted Goan writer and poet Damaodar Mauzo, who is going to
participate in the conference, says, “It is a conference of writers with a
progressive mindset. Different issues related to literature and those that
concern writers, along with subjects revolving around the literature scene in
the country and social issues will be discussed. Some of the topics that we
plan on touching upon are discrimination or inequality, problems faced by
minorities and dalits, etc. It is going to be a healthy exchange of thoughts
from writers.” Speaking about the development in the literature space in Goa,
Mauzo says, “It is nice to see new writers coming up in Konkani literature.
Writers like Ramesh Ghadi, Devidas Gaonkar, Amey Naik, etc are coming up with
new concepts. The rural life of Goa is getting focused. I am very optimistic
about the new and upcoming writers.”
Noted
names from across the country such as Giriraj Kishore, Raosaheb Kasbe, Kamlesh
Bhatt Kamal, Amrik Sinh Deep, Bhalchandr Joshi, Rajkumar Rakesh, Basant
Tripathi, Kailash Vankhade, Praiyamvad Dev, Jivesh Prabhakar, Jaydeep Hardikar,
Ashok Mishr, Alok Shrivastav, Ishwar Dost, Jitendra Bhatiya, Naresh Saxena,
Priyankar Paliwal, M J Pande, Laltu, Satish Kalsekar, Sushil Shukla will be
speaking at the conference. These celebrated authors will be joined by noted
writers and thinkers of Goa such as Mahabaleshwar Sail, Damodar Mauzo, Ramesh
Veluskar, Datta Damodar Naik, Dilip Borkar, Dadu Mandrekar, Ramesh Gawas,
Rajendra Kerkar, Soter D’Souza, Pravin Sabnis, Ashok Tuyenkar, Jayashri Ray,
Naman Sawant Dhawaskar, Prashant Naik, Raju Naik, Manguesh Harijan, Magdalin
D’Souza, Ramita Gurav, Ratnamala Divkar, Sateyndra Sonar, Saish Panandikar,
Anant Agni and Anwesha Singbal who will share their thoughts at the conference.
