Literature of Mangalorean Catholics
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Mangalorean Catholics have immensely contributed towards Media Activities in MangaloreMangalore
Mangalore is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located about west of the state capital, Bangalore. Mangalore lies between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghat mountain ranges, and is the administrative headquarters of the Dakshina Kannada district in south western...
, Bombay
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
and other cities in India
India
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. The Konkani Dirvem was the first Konkani language
Konkani language
KonkaniKonkani is a name given to a group of several cognate dialects spoken along the narrow strip of land called Konkan, on the west coast of India. This is, however, somewhat an over-generalisation. Geographically, Konkan is defined roughly as the area between the river Damanganga to the north...
periodical
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
to be published in Mangalore
Mangalore
Mangalore is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located about west of the state capital, Bangalore. Mangalore lies between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghat mountain ranges, and is the administrative headquarters of the Dakshina Kannada district in south western...
in 1912. The founder-editor of Konkani Dirvem was the great poet Louis Mascarenhas.
After the Konknni Dirvem, came Raknno weekly in 1938 as an organ of the Diocese of Mangalore. A succession of brilliant priest-editors beginning with Sylvester Menezes, Alexander D’Souza, Mark Waldar, Vincent Menezes, Samuel Sequeira and the current editor Eric Crasta has transformed Raknno as a literary medium and in the process bringing countless writers into the limelight. G.M.B. Rodrigues was the first Mangalorean to start a Konkani Weekly Sukh-Dukh in Bombay
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
in 1948. In 1949, George Fernandes
George Fernandes
George Mathew Fernandes is an Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He is a key member of the Janata Dal , and was the founder of the Samata Party...
brought out a monthly Konknni Yuvak. Other periodicals of those times were Amchi Mai, Sevak, Ange, Jezu Rai, Kala Kiran, Samajicho Divo, Samajichem Ful, Prakas, Uzvad, Amchem Konkan, Maiganv, Bhingari, Dublleancho Bhav, Sant Ritachi Vordi, Catholic Yuvak etc. Poinnari, a Weekly, was started in Bombay
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
in 1950 and its first editor was the wellknown novelist V.J.P. Saldanha. Later on, the famous poet and dramatist Cha. Fra. D'costa became its editor.
Felix Noronha is a renowned Konkani writer, who wrote the words for the Konkani hymn Dulob Jezu that was set to the tune of the English hymn 'What a Friend we have in Jesus'. The wellknown novelist and writer J.S. Alvares brought out Mithr, a Weekly in 1953 and Jhelo a Fortnightly in 1956 in Bombay
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
. A.A. Saldanha, J.B. Moraes and V.M. Fernandes experimented on the model of Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...
by bringing out a monthly Konkani journal titled Konkan Daiz in 1958. Cha.
Fra. D'Costa started periodicals like Zaag-maag, Vishal Konkan, Jivit and Udev one after the other. Kannik a fortnightly from Mangalore was one more periodical started by a Mangalorean Catholic Raymond Miranda in 1965. Since 1994, the Catholic Sabha of Mangalore is bringing out Amcho Sandesh a monthly, as its organ. Amar Konkani a half-yearly research oriented journal was started in Mangalore in 1980 by the Konkani Institute of the St. Aloysius College. Divo Weekly was started in Bombay
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
in the year 1995 with its founder-editor being J.B. Moraes.
External links
- Mangalorean Catholic Konkani Bible in Kannada scriptKannada scriptThe Kannada script is an alphasyllabary of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of southern India and also Sanskrit in the past. The Telugu script is derived from Old Kannada, and resembles Kannada script...