MARGAO, Feb. 21 -- Team Herald

The Global Romi Lipi Abhiyan (GRLA) strongly criticised the Sahitya Akademi's "one language, one script" policy, calling it a threat to Konkani's linguistic diversity. At a press conference on Friday, GRLA President Kennedy Afonso condemned the Akademi's decision to recognise only the Devanagri script, arguing that it has marginalised four other scripts-Romi, Kannada, Malayalam, and Perso-Arabic-while eroding Konkani's rich literary heritage.

GRLA has demanded an urgent reversal of this policy and a restructuring of the Konkani Advisory Board to ensure fair representation for all scripts.The press conference was held ahead of a two-day seminar, My Country and Foreign Land in Konkani Literature, organized b...