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Khabbar North American Konkani Newsletter Volume XLII No. 1 January, February, March - 2019 From: The Honorary Editor, "Khabbar" P. O. Box 222 Lake Jackson, TX77566 - 0222 XLII-1 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….…… There is no doubt in my mind that Khabbar is the most Khabbarand the Annual Khabbar Mailing List from those two popular newsletter for Konkanis in North America, but I did big piles! And, moreover, the family called me to let me know not realize how important is was to few of the families. The about this saying Khabbar is the most important newsletter case in point was this family from NC who went on an that they will always want!! extended vacation. When they came back to collect their “Hold” mail, there were two big piles of mail. The first thing Editor’s Reply: That kind of a dedication from the readership this family did was to look out for the latest issue of really keeps the Khabbar staff motivated to be the best. ****** 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 XLI No. 1 Page: 2 Quarterly Newsletter For Circulation to the Konkani Community in North America Volume XLII No. 1 January, February, March - 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 got the right answer!!Let us see how Association (NAKA)under the able you will do with this quarter’s quiz. I hope all is well with you and your leadership of Ramesh M. Kamathhas family. been successful in organizing the next The progress of the ambitious project, Konkani Sammelan in 2020 in San Konkani Kendra, the Konkani This issue of Khabbar has been Jose, CA. Please, extend your support BhasAniSanskritiPratistanisgood. mailed to ALL families that have paid to the new Board. NAKA has Thanks to BastiGanapathiShenoy dues at least once since 2017. proposed a bold program to North who has volunteered his services to Families who have not paid since American Konkani community to help 2016 will not be receiving this issue. revive the ever popular Konkani KonkaniBhasAniSanskritiPratistan. The numbers on the mailing label Sammelans. Hope the community will Please, call him at (702)-341-6706 or clearly indicate the year/s the dues for support this program and help email: [email protected] if Khabbar has been received since 2017 NAKA.The Konkani Youth have interested to extend your help for this and if there is any error let me know. decided to hold annual Youth worthy cause. Indeed, the Kendra has Sammelans every year. This year it is become a center of attraction and I Even in these tough economic times, going to be in Chicago.Khabbarwill urge all North American Konkanis to the Advisory Committee of Khabbar publish all the developments and visit the Kendra to see in what way has decided that the annual dues will progress made by NAKA on an on- they can benefit from this. remain the same at $15.00 a year and going basis. for that you get: Khabbarwill always publish appeals Four issues of the Khabbar, Khabbar will also publish progress for charity free of charge but cannot Annual Mailing List and made by Konkani Charitable Fund collect money on behalf of any Discounted advertisement rates. (KCF) on a regular basis. The team charity. Families are encouraged to KCF needs all our support to help our send the money directly to the This issue has not been mailed to folks anywhere in the world.Dr. concerned charities or thru KCF if families that have specifically Gopal Bhandarkar and his team are approved by KCF. Khabbar firmly indicated that they will access doing a fantastic job in making our believes in helping our people whether eKhabbar, the on-line version of community aware of KCF and hope it is in India or here. Here’s the link to Khabbar, whichwill be on the web a you will help him to help our people. all the special appeals: quarter after mailing the hard copies. http://www.ekhabbar.com/special%20 The unofficial Khabbar appeals/special%20appeals.htm TheKhabbar Mailing List is a prized Correspondents in your area who send possession of our community. Please in the hoonKhabbars on a regular Hope struggle to rid terrorism from help me to keep it up-to-date. Send basis are doing an outstanding job. this world will materialize soon. Hope names and addresses of Konkani Remember, if it did not appear in Peace & Tranquility will prevail. families that are not in the list to P. O. Khabbar, then it did not happen in Box 222, Lake Jackson, TX 77566- North America! You can send the Happy Yugadi to you all. 0222, or email [email protected] news items via email and rest be assured that I’ll ([email protected]). Devu Boren Karo. “Khabbarize” them! On the Quiz front, it is the same story! Vasanth Only three, I mean, only five people Honorary Editor Khabbar XLI No. 1 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. ****** Dear Vasanth, Our uncle K. Venkataraya Pai from Bangalore sent us this article. Thought Khabbar may be interested in Publishing the same. Arkal Mohan Shenoy, San Diego, CA [email protected] Hello Vasanthmaam, I hope you are doing well! I have written a brief article pertaining to the 2019 Konkani Young Adult Convention, attached to this e-mail. This article contains information on the highlights of the past convention, as well as plans for the current convention. I was wondering if you would be able to include it in the next edition of Khabbar; we have included our contact information so that any readers interested in attending can reach out to us directly. Thanks so much for the help. After the next edition of Khabbar goes out, and once we have a more accurate headcount, I will contact you again with details regarding the headcount and a specific agenda that we will plan to follow. 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