amidst life's trials to achieve such a feat with concern for others and love of his mother tongue, it definitely proves - 'someone up there cares and loves him'. This book, the author very courageously says, "Its sole objective is to promote the language especially to new generations of the diaspora, perhaps also to those settled in other parts of India, for those who work with English solely. I have
always loved Konkani that I picked up by ear on my mother's lap, spoken it in my childhood and till we lived in Bombay from 1947 and I moved on to the USA in 1965 with my bride." The book has been self published by the author as his efforts to get a well-known Konkani Language Institute in Mangaluru to publish it proved difficult. The author had hoped to release the book to mark his 90 th birthday early this year, but that event passed by. The editor of the book is Sri Pundalik Prabhu, a Konkana from Ujire್ and್ the್ author’s್ close್ friend್ who has lived in Canada as long as the author. The author can not but say a word of o thanks to his own wife Smt. Clareen Prabhu, an educationist and a fluent Konkani speaker, who has been a pillar of strength, resource and inspiration,
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