Goa: Goan community, traumatized by colonialism, survives with traditional resilience and enthusiasm, and falsifying unique identity.
However, a precarious identity that can easily be a victim of the election bank that promotes and provokes the division and subdivision of caste and credo, “said Maria Aurora Couto in the prologue to his book ‘Goa: a daughter’.
Couto died on Friday after a short disease , At the age of 80.
At night his life he spent in his ancestral home of his husband in the calm Carona ward from Aldona, his close colleague, he was often found to reflect on the threat to Goa.
Identity, Goemkarponn – Concerns who have found reflections in his literary work.
Couto Born in Salcete in 1935 but he lived there, as he said in this book, “only sporadically” until 2000, when he returned to live permanently in his homeland along with his husband Ias Alban Couto.
He has recorded the trip his life in four books.
perspective of outsiders he got from his trip throughout the country with her husband had with clearly reflected in his writing.
In “Filomena Travel”, Couto told his mother’s story, who took a leap to move his family seven children to Dharwad, in neighboring Karnataka, and raised them as a single parent, and struggled through the process because he could hear it “did not approve the voice of the community in his head “.
The author of Konkani Mukesh Thali, who was closely related to Couto for more than two decades, said that Wrownwright was award-winning Jnanpith Girish Karnad who was a college friend at Dharwad Karnatak College, remained a trusted association for life, and he often turned to him.
Every time he needs guidance in things about his linguistic pursuit.
Thali said that Karnad inspired Couto to be written.
“Karnad will often visit Couto’s house in Aldona.
He once told me that Karnad told him as long as he was one of his visits that he saw a writer in him, and persuaded him to write so keep his knowledge for grandchildren.
He heeded his advice, and immediately, soon, He found the literary pursuit of taking wings.
“Former British literature teacher in Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi, and Dhempe College, Panaji, the recipient of Padma Shri once told Toi in an interview:” I do not believe I have a career.
My husband has a job can be transferred.
In addition, my focus is family and to keep my mind alive also by reading, teaching, writing if possible.
“After mastering working with a computer in three days to write his first book ‘Graham Greene’ in 1984, Couto said He has grasped the way to stay in touch with the family spread in s ELLION OF THE WORLD “which makes life without limits”.
Thali describes Couto as “Perfectionist to the core with sharp minds of razors and research oriented views” as evidenced in all his literary works.
“He loves and is proud of his Konkani language.
I will always insist that he communicates with us in Konkani, because I’m just happy to hear that speaking in the Saxtti lyrical dialect,” Thali said.
Note Konkiti Writer Sheela Kolambkar, who is his student at Dhempe College, said what was interesting for students about Couto was “a very beautiful appearance”.
“In such a way that rather than paying attention to what he taught, we could not take his eyes off him, he charmed at that time.
That was in the early 1960s.
And he had great love for Konkani,” said Kolambkar with his teacher.
Couto’s passion for cave inheritance preservation has served as an inspiration for many people.
Paying spelling glowed to him, Jnanpith Awardee and Konkiter Writer Damodar Mauzo vowed to continue his ideology and concern for the country.
“Princess Goa has left us forever,” Mauzo said.
“But his contribution to literature and humanity will be valued for a long time to come.”
Maria Couto, Memoirist, Teacher & Guardian Goemkarponn, DIES
