Khabbar Vol. XLII No. 3 (July, August, September
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Khabbar North American Konkani Newsletter Volume XLII No. 3 July, August, September - 2019 From: The Honorary Editor, "Khabbar" P. O. Box 222 Lake Jackson, TX77566 - 0222 XLII-3 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED FIRST CLASS TO: Khabbar Follies In this section, Khabbar looks into the Konkani community and anything and everything that is Konkani from a Konkani point of view. The names will never be published but geographic location will be identified in general terms. There is no doubt in my mind thatKhabbar is a part & parcel of life of Konkanis in North America. In fact, Khabbar has developed a special relation with most of the Konkani families and here are some examples of those close encounters of a different kind….…… Solving the quizzes in the Khabbar is not an easy task. Less the answer! And went on to say that this quiz belongs to easy than 10 people can solve it on a regular basis even though quiz part that Khabbar publishes to check whether the quite a few say that they did solve but did not submit the subscribers really read the newsletter along with the quiz or answers! (I don’t believe that). It is true occasionally Khabbar not!! But, that answer was not right!!! In comes another email publishes easy quiz to see whether more people will attempt to from him giving the right answer and this time it took him solve but really nobody takes the bait!! Sometimes the quiz only 2 minutes!!!! looks easy, but it is not. Case in point is what happened with the last quarter’s quiz: Editor’s Reply: Even though the answer was right, it took him 2 minutes instead of 2 seconds! That is like 60 times more This family from TX sent the answer to the quiz right away time!! And how can one call this an easy quiz!?! with a note claiming it took him only 2 seconds to figure out ****** SUBSCRIPTION FORM: Dear Konkani family, It is time to renew your subscription for 2019.The numbers on the mailing label clearly indicate the year/s the dues for Khabbar has been received since 2017.Please, note that you have the FREE access to the eKhabbar, the electronic version of Khabbar, by visitingwww.ekhabbar.com. If you want hard copy, then only remit your subscription of $15.00/yr. Please, don't pay for future years! Fill the form below and send your subscription with a check payable to Khabbar, P. O. Box 222, Lake Jackson, TX77566-0222. (Canadian Konkanis please pay cash or MO in US$) Name: __________________________________________________________________________________ Spouse Name: ___________________________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________________________________________________________ Email ID: _____________________________________________________________________________ …………………………………………………………………………………………………Children…………………………………………………………………………………………………… Name Boy/Girl d.o.b. Hobby/Interest ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Comments, if any: ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Khabbar XLII No. 3 Page: 2 Quarterly Newsletter For Circulation to the Konkani Community in North America Volume XLII No. 3 July, August, September - 2019 Honorary Editor: Mr. VasanthBhat Mailing Address: P. O. Box 222 Lake Jackson, TX77566-0222 www.ekhabbar.com Tel : (979)-299-3210 Email: [email protected] Annual Subscription: $15.00 Make check payable to "Khabbar" & mail to P.O.Box 222, Lake Jackson, TX77566-0222 The Editorial Committee reserves the right to exclude, edit and correct all material received for publication and does not accept any responsibility for views expressed by authors of the publications. E D I T O R I A L Dear Konkani family, The North American Konkani The progress of the ambitious project, Association (NAKA)under the able Konkani Kendra, the Konkani I hope all is well with you and your leadership of Ramesh M. Kamathhas BhasAniSanskritiPratistanisgood. family. been successful in coordinating the Thanks to BastiGanapathiShenoy next Konkani Sammelan in 2020 in who has volunteered his services to This issue of Khabbar has been San Jose, CA. Please, extend your help mailed to ALL families that have paid support to the new Board. NAKA has KonkaniBhasAniSanskritiPratistan. dues at least once since 2017. proposed a bold program to North Please, call him at (702)-341-6706 or Families who have not paid since American Konkani community to email: [email protected] if 2016 will not be receiving this issue. revive the ever-popular Konkani interested to extend your help for this The numbers on the mailing label Sammelans. Hope the community will worthy cause. Indeed, the Kendra has clearly indicate the year/s the dues for support this program and help become a center of attraction and I Khabbar has been received since 2017 NAKA.The Konkani Youth urge all North American Konkanis to and if there is any error let me know. Convention (June 21 thru 23) in visit the Kendra to see in what way Chicago was a great success. Hope they can benefit from this. Even in these tough economic times, this annual tradition will continue. the Advisory Committee of Khabbar Khabbarwill always publish appeals has decided that the annual dues will Khabbar will also publish progress for charity free of charge but cannot remain the same at $15.00 a year and made by Konkani Charitable Fund collect money on behalf of any for that you get: (KCF) on a regular basis. The team charity. Families are encouraged to Four issues of the Khabbar, KCF needs all our support to help our send the money directly to the Annual Mailing List and folks anywhere in the world.Dr. concerned charities or thru KCF if Discounted advertisement rates. Gopal Bhandarkar and his team are approved by KCF. Khabbar firmly doing a fantastic job in making our believes in helping our people whether This issue has not been mailed to community aware of KCF and hope it is in India or here. Here’s the link to families that have specifically you will help him to help our people. all the special appeals: indicated that they will access http://www.ekhabbar.com/special%20 eKhabbar, the on-line version of The unofficial Khabbar appeals/special%20appeals.htm Khabbar, whichwill be on the web a Correspondents in your area who send quarter after mailing the hard copies. in the hoonKhabbars on a regular Hope struggle to rid terrorism from basis are doing an outstanding job. this world will materialize soon. Hope TheKhabbar Mailing List is a prized Remember, if it did not appear in Peace & Tranquility will prevail. possession of our community. Please Khabbar, then it did not happen in help me to keep it up-to-date. Send North America! You can send the Have a great and safe Fall. Happy names and addresses of Konkani news items via email Diwali to you all. families that are not in the list to P. O. ([email protected]). Box 222, Lake Jackson, TX 77566- Devu Boren Karo. 0222, or email [email protected] On the Quiz front, it is the same story! and rest be assured that I’ll Only nine people got the right answer Vasanth “Khabbarize” them! this time!!Let us see how you will do Honorary Editor with this quarter’s quiz. Khabbar XLII No. 3 Page: 3 Letters to the Editor ...... Letters to the Editor will be considered for publication unless the writer requests otherwise. Letters may be edited for publication. Editor reserves the right not to publish anonymous letters. Initials only on request if the writer includes his or her name. ****** Hello Ramesh Uncle and Vasanthmaam, We all wanted to thank you for the support towards the 2019 Konkani Young Adult Convention. The event ran very successfully, and everyone had a great time. Aspects of Konkani culture were discussed in a focus group; Sadanand Mam from Toronto had helped come up with the topics for that discussion. We also actively encouraged attendees to come to the 2020 Sammelan with their families. Attached is a write-up for Khabbar. As discussed earlier, we worked to raise our own funds to supplement the amount NAKA gave to support us. This was done through our independent fundraiser as well as a registration fee per attendee. Our goal was to ultimately donate some money back to NAKA as a token of appreciation for your support and for sustainability for future conventions. We currently have $1809.00 that we plan to send back. Additionally, a donor to our independent fundraiser, Dr. Ajanta Vinekar, donated directly to NAKA. The attendees truly enjoyed getting together and celebrating Konkani culture and heritage. I hope this tradition can be continued in the years to come. I'd also be happy to help Shloka with the planning of