World Konkani Day

World Konkani Day has been celebrated on April 9^th since 2015 in honour of the death anniversary of Shenoi Goembab (1877-1946), Konkani activist and writer. Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language, mainly spoken along the western coastal region of Konkan of India, including Goa. During the Portuguese rule in Goa, Konkani was diminished in status to the profit of Marathi and Portuguese languages. Shenoi Goembab was responsible for bringing back glory to the Konkani language by reminding his counterparts that their mother tongue is the language of the soul! He also wrote stories, tales, proverbs of the Konkani language and folklore, contributed to children's literature, and translated many classics such as Moliere, Shakespeare, and the Bhagavad Gita.