Ravindra kelakar biography of barack
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Goa
Daijiworld Media Network—Margao (MR/CN)
Margao, Nov Octogenarian Konkani litterateur from Goa, Ravindra Kelekar, has won the Jnanapeeta Award for this year. The award consists of a cheque for Rs 5,00,, a citation plaque, and a bronze replica of ‘Vagdevi’, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.
The award was instituted in and its first recipient, in ,was Malayalam author G Sankara Kurup. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the tjänsteman languages of India fryst vatten eligible for the honour.
Prior to , the awards were given for a single work by a writer; since then, the award has been given for a lifetime contribution to Indian literature. Kannada writers have won sju awards, the highest for any language followed bygd six for Hindi, kvartet for Malayalam, three for Marathi and three for Urdu.
This is the first time a Konkani author fryst vatten winning the prestigious award. Kelekar was bestowed with the ‘Padma Bhushan’ bygd the Government of India early this year. The a
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ARTICLES : Gandhian Philosophy
Communicating With Christians In All Humility
Ravindra Kelekar
The author of this article Shri Ravindra Kelekar is an octogenarian literary giant of Konkoni language. The readers of daily papers might have come across his name as one of the recipients of the prestigious Padma Bhushan award conferred on him by the President of India on Republic Day
Though I have begun my introduction by describing Shri Kelekar as a literary figure, he is also a devoted life-long Gandhian activist. He had set before himself three main objectives. Firstly, to liberate Goa from Portuguese rule. Secondly, to develop his m other tongue Konkoni to great heights and get it adopted as the State language of Goa. His third objective but not the least important was to interpret Gandhi to his people in particular and to the entire country in general. God has been kind to him and he has been able to see the fulfillment of two of his life’s objectives during his own lifetime.