MARGAO, Feb. 7 -- Team Herald

Reacting to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant's recent appeal to the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, to consider tiatr script books for national literary awards, the Global Konknni Forum (GKF) has criticised his failure to specify that the request should include books written in the Konkani Roman script.

The GKF emphasised that tiatr literature has been written in the Roman script since 1892 and urged the Sawant government to push for its inclusion in the Sahitya Akademi's recognition process.

According to Jose Salvador Fernandes, Secretary of GKF, the Sahitya Akademi's General Council recognized Konkani as an independent literary language on February 26, 1975. The resolution stated, "As Konkani fulfills the criter...