Mangalore: Krishna Rao, Harryboy, Baabi Win Konkani Academy Honorary Awards
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (VM)
Mangalore, Oct 27: Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy will confer its Honorary Awards, Konkani Book Awards and Konkani Youth Award at a ceremony to be held at Sri Manjunath Pai cultural hall in Karkala on November 11, said Kasargod Chinna, academy president.
Addressing a press meet at the Academy office in Lalbagh here on Saturday October 27, Chinna said that Honorary Awards will be presented to S M Krishna Rao (Konkani language and literature), Harry D’Souza (Harryboy Mumbai) (Konkani art) and Baabi Nayak (Konkani folk).
The Book Awards will be conferred on Maxi G Pinto for 'Satham Khatham', a compilation of essays; Ronald Vaz for 'Awaaz’, a poetry collection and Ron Michael for 'Vodthanthle Gulob’, a Konkani short story.
The special Konkani Youth Award will be conferred on Mahadevi Kulal for pottery art, Vilas Nayak for painting and Mahalaxmi Shenoy for classical singing, said Chinna.
The Honorary Award consists of a cash prize of Rs 10,000, and Book Award a cash prize of Rs 5,000. Awardees in all three categories will be presented mementoes and citations.
Prior to the announcement of awards, programmes conducted by the Academy in the past six months were presented as a slide show during the press meet.
On November 10 'Janapad Yatra’ will be held in Karkala followed by the presentation of Academy awards on November 11, in which MLA Gopal Bhandary, legislative assembly deputy speaker N Yogish Bhat, muzrai minister Kota Srinivas Poojary, MLC Captain Ganesh Karnik, Dayanand Pai of Century Group and writer Vally Vagga among others will be present.
He said that the Academy will be organizing 'Konkani Mahotsav’ from November 22 to 25 at Town hall with various cultural programmes.
The Mahotsav will begin with a Janapad celebration on October 22, on October 23 there will be programmes by women, October 24 by college students and on October 25 a musical nite performed by prominent artistes like Eric Ozario, Charan Kumar and Muralidar Kamath.
The academy has also planned to hold a national-level 'Konkani Film Festival’ in the first week of January, he added.
Devdas Pai, registrar, Academy members Roy Castelino, Ashok Shet, Om Ganesh, Rajaram Nayak, Chandrakanth Kamath, Mahesh Nayak, Subhash Kamath among others were present.