Re: Catholics in Goa in Peril - Official Language Act 1987

From: Miguel Braganza <miguelbraganza@yahoo.co.in>

Subject: CATHOLICS IN GOA IN PERIL - OLA 1987

Dears,

The subject line is rather misleading as the script, dialect and language issues are not necessarily on religious lines. Of course, there have been worse subject lines on Goanet in recent years. I AM RETAINING A SMALL SECTION OF GODFREY'S POST TO AVOID THE NEED FOR REPEATING THE FACTS, DEBATABLE THOUGH THEY MAY BE.

It is the 22nd anniversary of the passage of the Official Language Act, 1987 on 04 February, 2009. Three days later, the pro-"Devanagri only" ABKP will have its session at Kundapur in Karnataka state ...a state that has rejected the alleged supremacy of Devanangri script and adopted the Kannada script for teaching Konkani in schools. Devanagri is an option for teaching Konkani, but it is not exercised even in one school in Karnataka to date. The Goa Assembly session begins one day after the OLA, 1987 anniversary. The former MGP minister-turned-Congress CM who saw the OLA Bill through is now the Speaker, the "Independent" MLA of Margao who?guided the KPA in that era is the Chairman of the Congress "Think Tank", the KPA President is the IPP of the Goa Konkani Akademi and all three swear by the OLA, 1987.

The lone Goa Congress MLA of that era is now a "retired hurt" former CM and some other leaders of the KPA are now gearing up for another "movement"?
The Goa Konkani Akademi has been reconstituted on New Year's Day 2009. No one has seen tomorrow, but one is hopeful of a new dawn. Status quo of the last term ... molestation of the OLA, 1987, but no consumation .... seems to be?on offer in the various cultural bodies, from Kala Academy [Art & Culture Dept] to Goa Konkani Akademi [Official Language Dept] with crumbs being thrown but not even on par with those given to the Marathi Akademi. these issues have been debated on the HCN programme CROSSFIRE aired yesterday and tonight [05 Jan. 2009]. There are requests to put out the video on Youtube. That will depend on the HCN policy on the matter. Perhaps, HERALD can host the Youtube clip on its website or give it to GoaMag [www.goamag.net] to host on its site or give it to any other Goa-linked website. The site that hosts it will get famous overnight.

Mog asundi
Miguel


Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:22:31 +0530 (IST)From: godfrey gonsalves <gonsalvesgodfreyji@yahoo.co.in>Subject: [Goanet] CATHOLICS IN GOA IN PERIL - OLA 1987Message-ID: <814391.79503.qm@web95302.mail.in2.yahoo.com>