Shenoi Goembab anniversary
begins
Sandesh Prabhudesai
23 June 2002
Today is the 125th Birth Anniversary
of Shenoi
Goembab, Goa's great philanthropist of the
millennium.
The Goa Government, under the leadership
of Mr Manohar Parrikar, has announced to celebrate the
whole year, officially.
It will begin today with a day-long function
organised jointly by the Konkani Bhasha Mandal and the
Goa Konkani Academy at Institute Menezes Braganza hall
in Panaji.
A symposium, Shenoi Goembab's Vision and
Relevance will be held in the morning, depicting various
facets of Shenoi Goembab, as a historian, linguist and
a philosopher.
Adv Shantaram Naik, leader of the Congress,
will inaugurate the symposium. Narayan Desai, Madhavi
Sardesai and Tanaji Halarnkar will present the papers.
A formal inaugural function will be held
in the evening, at 4 pm, to be inaugurated at the hands
of chief minister Mr Parrikar. Power minister Digambar
Kamat and Cortalim MLA Mathany Saldhana will also grace
the occasion.
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