The World Konkani Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame

A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 is a shrine to great Konkani Men and Women who have rendered commendable service aimed at the betterment of the society in various fields such as art, folklore, literature, education, science, technology, banking, politics and administration etc.

The Hall of Fame is established by World Konkani Centre

World Konkani Centre

World Konkani Centre Konkani: विश्व कोंकणी केंद्र Kannada:ವಿಶ್ವ ಕೊಂಕಣಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ was founded by Konkani Bhas Ani Sanskriti Prathistan Konkani: कोंकणी भास आनी संस्कृति प्रतिष्टान/ಕೊಂಕಣಿ ಭಾಸ್ ಆನಿ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಟಾನ್ at Konkani Gaon, Shakti Nagar, Mangalore "to serve as a nodal agency for the...

 Mangalore which consists of specially commissioned, hand painted portraits of eminent Konkani people. These portraits are aimed at acknowledging their contributions and also to give the generation next a glimpse of the Konkani people who have made valuable contributions to the society. It has become a focal point for Konkani Pride.The shrine has been installed at the Upper floor of the Left wing of World Konkani Centre. The hall of fame is named after Shri Vittal Kini and Smt. Rukmini V. Kini recognising the generous donation made by their earnest Grand Daughter Kum. Dhamya Ramadas Kini for developing World Konkani Hall of Fame.

Vishwa Konkani Keerti Mandir or World Konkani Hall of Fame was inaugurated by Rajdeep Sardesai

Rajdeep Sardesai

Rajdeep Sardesai is an Indian journalist, political commentator and news presenter. Sardesai is the Editor-in-Chief of IBN18 Network, that includes CNN-IBN, IBN-7 and IBN-Lokmat.- Biography :...

,Editor-in-Chief of CNN-IBN on March 6, 2010. He unveiled the portrait of his father eminent cricket player and a famous Konkani speaking person, late Dilip Sardesai, at World Konkani Centre. His wife Senior Editor of CNN-IBN Sagarika Ghosh, was the guest of honour on the occasion garlanded the portrait of Dilip Sardesai

Dilip Sardesai

Dilip Narayan Sardesai was a former Indian Test cricketer. He was the only Goan-born cricketer to play for India, and was often regarded as India's best batsman against spin bowling.-Early career:...

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Following Konkani Speaking Personalities are featured in the World Konkani Hall of Fame which is a ever growing section.

Literary Personalities

1. Yashwant Vithoba Chittal
2. Gangadhar V. Chittal
   Gangadhar V. Chittal
   Gangadhar V. Chittal was a recipient of Karnataka Sahitya Academy award. He held several administrative positions for the Government of India and audited several Indian Embassies and Consulates...
   
   
3. Santhosh Kumar Gulwady
4. Gourish Kaikini
   Gourish Kaikini
   Gourish Kaikini was a litterateur, teacher and columnist in Kannada language. He was conferred with many prestigious awards including Sahitya Academy award and Rajyotsava Award given by Government of Karnataka. He also wrote in Konkani language.-Early life:Gourish Kaikini was born on October 12,...
   
   
5. Jayant Kaikini
   Jayant Kaikini
   Jayant Kaikini is a poet, short stories author and movie songs scriptwriter in Kannada.-Early life:Jayant Kaikini was born in Gokarna. His father, Gourish Kaikini, a schoolteacher, was a Kannada littérateur and mother Shanta, a social worker...
   
   
6. Padukone Ramananda Rao
7. Damodar Mavjo
8. M. Boyer
   M. Boyer
   Manuel Santana Aguiar , known as Padmashree M. Boyer was a Goan tiatrist.M. Boyer, was originally from Marcaim in Ponda, and later moved to Raia. His parents were Sebastiao Floriano Aguiar and Mariquinha Luis. He was a talented actor from an early age, and he wrote and presented his first play...
   
   
9. Balakrishna Dattatray Satoskar Marathi Writer

Research Scholars

1. Dr. Pandurang S Pissurlenkar
2. Dr. Anant Priolkar
   Anant Priolkar
   -Works:* The Printing Press in India: Its Beginnings and Early Development * The Goa Inquisition *'Granthik Marathi Bhashya Ani Kokani Boli .-References:...
   
   
3. Manohar Hirba Sardessai Historian
4. Shripad R. Desai

Public Service/Administration

1. Benegal Rama Rau
   Benegal Rama Rau
   Sir Benegal Rama Rau CIE was the fourth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 July 1949 to 14 January 1957. He was educated at Presidency College, Madras, and at Kings College, Cambridge. He was knighted in 1936. He was a member of the Indian Civil Service...
   
   
2. Dayanand S. Nadkarni
   Dayanand S. Nadkarni
   Dayanand Sarveshwar Nadkarni was an activist, a freedom fighter, and a Member of the legislative assembly to the Karnataka State, Bangalore during 1967-1971 , when Veerendra Patil was the Chief Minister of the Karnataka state. Nadkarni was also the founder member of The Kanara Welfare Trust.-Early...
   
   
3. Radhabai Subbarayan
   Radhabai Subbarayan
   Kailash Radhabai Subbarayan nee Kudmul was an Indian politician, women's rights activist and social reformer. She was the wife of Indian politician P. Subbarayan and mother of Mohan Kumaramangalam, P. P. Kumaramangalam and Parvathi Krishnan.- Early life and education :Radhabai Kulmud was born to...
   
   
4. R. K. Baliga
   R. K. Baliga
   Ram Krishna Baliga is regarded as the father of the Electronics City in Bangalore, India.- Academic Role :Manipal Institute of Technology...
   
   
5. Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar
   Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar
   V. N. Shirodkar or Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar was a reputed Indian Obstetrician and Gynecologist.-Brief life:Shirodkar was born in Shiroda, Goa. After graduated from Grant Medical College, he went to United Kingdom and obtained his Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1931. He was associated...
   
   
6. Lila Mulagaokar
7. Dr. Venkatesh Padurang Kamat
8. Dr. Sakharam Gopal Gude
9. Vishwasrao D. Chowgule
10. Venkatesh Suryarao Sardessai
11. Air Chief Marshal H. Moolgavkar
12. Dr J C Almeida IAS officer and former chief secretary of Goa
13. Julio Francis Ribeiro
    Julio Francis Ribeiro
    Julio Francis Ribeiro is a retired Indian police officer and civil servant.He held increasingly responsible positions during his career, and led the Punjab Police during part of the Punjab insurgency periods....
    
    
14. General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
    Sunith Francis Rodrigues
    Gen. Sunith Francis Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM, formerly Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army. Born on 19 September 1933 in Bombay. Over the years as Governor, in Punjab, he has generally received a positive response by the Punjabi press and the Punjabi people have accepted him as one their own...
    
    
15. Ramnath Kare Industrialist
16. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
    Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
    Raghunath Anant Mashelkar is also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. He is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research , a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India....
    
    
17. Anil Kakodkar
    Anil Kakodkar
    Anil Kakodkar is an eminent Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy. Before leading India's Nuclear Programme, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic...
    
    
18. Pandurang G. Kakodkar Former Chairman, State Bank of India, Economist
19. Louis Jose D'Souza Cancer Surgeon
20. Ramakant Khalap
    Ramakant Khalap
    Ramakant Khalap is an Indian politician from Goa, India.Ramakant Khalap was a member of the 11th Lok Sabha.Ramakant Khalap was born at Mandrem, Goa to late Shri Dattaram Khalap and late Smt. Satyabhama Khalap of Mapusa...
    
    

Art and Culture

1. Deenanath Mangeshkar
   Deenanath Mangeshkar
   Dinanath Mangeshkar was a well-known Marathi theatre actor, a renowned Natya Sangeet musician and an exceptional Hindustani classical vocalist....
   
   
2. Lata Mangeshkar
   Lata Mangeshkar
   Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...
   
   
3. Asha Bhosle
   Asha Bhosle
   Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies...
   
   
4. Usha Mangeshkar
   Usha Mangeshkar
   Usha Mangeshkar is an Indian singer who has recorded many Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati songs soundtracks.She is daughter of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar & Shevanti . She is the younger sister of singers, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle and elder to her music-director brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar...
   
   
5. Hridayanath Mangeshkar
   Hridayanath Mangeshkar
   Hridaynath Mangeshkar is a composer/singer from India known for his eclectic compositions and a well-respected body of work. He is the younger brother of Indian music icons Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle...
   
   
6. Meena Mangeshkar
7. Leena Chandavarkar
   Leena Chandavarkar
   Leena Chandavarkar was an Indian actress who appeared in Bollywood movies and is now appearing in reality shows.- Biography :She appeared as a guest judge for the first 2 episodes of "K for Kishore", a new reality TV singing show launched by Sony TV during December 2007. She is now appearing again...
   
   
8. Anant Nag
   Anant Nag
   Anant Nagarkatte popularly known as Anant Nag is an actor and politician from Karnataka, India. He is considered to be one of the all time greatest actors in the Kannada film industry with a vast number of commercially successful movies. As a result, he is popularly known as an actor with...
   
   
9. Shankar Nag
   Shankar Nag
   Shankar Nagarkatte , 9 November 1954 - 30 September 1990) popularly known as Shankar Nag was a popular actor and director of Kannada cinema. He also directed and acted in the teleserial, Malgudi days, based on celebrated novelist R.K.Narayan's short stories. Besides these, he was actively involved...
   
   
10. Anuradha Paudwal
    Anuradha Paudwal
    Anuradha Paudwal is a popular playback singer in Bollywood in India.She has sung songs in Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.- Biography :She studied at Xavier's College in Mumbai. She was married to the late Arun Paudwal, who worked with music director S. D. Burman as his assistant...
    
    
11. Deepika Padukone
    Deepika Padukone
    Deepika Padukone is an Indian actress and a former model. She appears mostly in Hindi as well as Tamil and Kannada language films. Born to Badminton player Prakash Padukone, she chose to become an actress and not pursue a career in sports.Padukone made her acting debut in the 2006 Kannada film...
    
    
12. Varsha Usgaonkar
    Varsha Usgaonkar
    Varsha Usgaonkar , is an Indian film actress from Goa, who has worked in various Bollywood and Marathi movies as the leading lady...
    
    
13. Eesha Narangnée Koppikar
14. Amrita Rao
    Amrita Rao
    Amrita Rao is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.Beginning her career as a model, Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras...
    
    
15. Preetika
16. Babuti Nayak Hosad
17. Aditya Kalyanpur
    Aditya Kalyanpur
    Aditya Kalyanpur is an Indian Tabla player. He belongs to the Punjab gharana.-Early life and background:Aditya Kalyanpur was born in Mumbai, India....
    
    
18. Nityanand Haldipur
    Nityanand Haldipur
    Nityanand Haldipur is a performer and teacher of the Indian bamboo flute, known in India as the bansuri. He is a purist in the true Maihar Gharana tradition, at present learning from Ma Annapurna Devi, in Mumbai, India...
    
    
19. Omkarnath Gulwady Tabla Maestro
20. Suman Kalyanpur
    Suman Kalyanpur
    Suman Kalyānpur is a female singer from India.Suman Kalyanpur aka Suman Hemadey was born on January 28, 1937 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, , her maiden name being Hemmady. In 1943, her family moved to Mumbai , where she received her musical training. She married Ramanand S...
    
     Hindustani Vocalist
21. Chandrabhaga Devi Danseuse
22. Dinakar Kaikini- High ranking Hindustani vocalist
23. Devendra Murdeshwar - Flutist and disciple of the flute maestro late Shri Panna Lal Ghosh
24. Durga Khote
    Durga Khote
    Durga Khote was an Indian actress, starting as one of the foremost leading ladies of her times, she remained active in Hindi and Marathi cinema, as well as theatre, for over 50 years, starring in around 200 films and numerous theatre productions....
    
     Cine Actor
25. Jitendra Abhisheki
    Jitendra Abhisheki
    Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki was an Indian vocalist, composer and scholar of classical, semi-classical, and devotional music...
    
     Hindustani Vocalist
26. Maya Rao Kathak Exponent
27. Kesarbai Kerkar Hindustani Vocalist
28. Mogubai Kurdikar
    Mogubai Kurdikar
    Mogubai Kurdikar was a renowned Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana.-Early years and background:...
    
     Hindustani Vocalist
29. Anjanibai Malpekar Hidustani Vocalist
30. Laxman P. Pai Artist
31. Raghuvir Shankar Mulgaokar Painter
32. Pt. Govindrao Agni Marathi Music Director
33. Dattaram Narayan Walavalikar Theatre Personality
34. Ramchandra Pandurang Kamat Sculptor
35. Malbarao Sardesai Musicologist and tabla maestro
36. Raghuvir Ramnathkar Music Director
37. Ratnakant Ramnathkar Music Composer
38. Prabhakar Karekar
    Prabhakar Karekar
    Prabhakar Karekar is an award-winning Indian Classical vocalist born in Juvem, Goa, who received training from masters of the Agra gharana and Gwalior gharana. Karekar is also an All India Radio artist. He was initiated in classical music by Suresh Haldankar. The famous exponents Jitendra...
    
     Hindustani Vocalist
39. Shobha Gurtu
    Shobha Gurtu
    Shobha Gurtu was an Indian singer in the light Hindustani classical style. Though she had equal command over pure classical style, it was with light classical music that she received her fame, and in time came to be known as the Thumri Queen, and for the ‘Abhinaya’ ang in her full-throated voice...
    
     Hindustani Vocalist
40. Kishori Amonkar
    Kishori Amonkar
    Kishori AmonkarN- is an Indian singer who performs in the classical genre khyal and the light classical genres thumri and bhajan. Amonkar trained under her mother, classical singer Mogubai Kurdikar of the Jaipur gharana , but experimented with a variety of vocal styles in her career...
    
     Hindustani Vocalist
41. Damu Kenkre Theater Personality
42. Sudha Karmarkar Cine Actress
43. Prafulla Dahanukar
    Prafulla Dahanukar
    Prafulla Dahanukar is an award-winning Indian painter. She was born in Goa and raised in Mumbai. She completed 50 years of her career as a painter in 2007. - Education :...
    
     Painter
44. Vasudeo S. Gaitonde
    Vasudeo S. Gaitonde
    Vasudeo S. Gaitonde was regarded as India's foremost abstract artist. He received Padma Shri Award in 1971.-Personal life and education:...
    
     Abstract Artist
45. Jyotsna Bhole Vocalist
46. Motiram Gajanan Rangnekar Theater Personality

Sports

1. Prakash Padukone
   Prakash Padukone
   Prakash Padukone is a former badminton player from Karnataka, India. Among other championships, he won the All England Championship and became the first Indian to do so. Prakash was awarded the Padma Sri in 1982...
   
   
2. Arvind Savoor  Acclaimed Billiards player
3. Brahmananda Shankhwalker Football Goalkeeper