''Sunaparant'' () was a
Konkani __NOTOC__
Konkani may refer to:
Language
* Konkani language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Konkan region of India.
* Konkani alphabets, different scripts used to write the language
**Konkani in the Roman script, one of the scripts used to ...
newspaper in
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī script, Brā ...
script.
Based in
Goa
Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...
, India, it operated from 1987 to 2015.
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/ref> It published a special magazine during the Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi (ISO: ), also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi () or Vinayaka Chavithi () or Vinayagar Chaturthi (), is a Hindu festival celebrating the birthday of Hindu deity Ganesh. The festival is marked with the installation of Ganesha's ''m ...
annual festival. ''Sunaparant'' was started on 13 May 1987, after Konkani was made the official language on 4 February that year, after a prolonged struggle by Goans.
History
Chandrakant Keni, who was also editing ''Rashtramat'', was the founder editor of the four-page Konkani newspaper started from Margao, the fort of Konkani movement. He was succeeded by Uday Bhembre and Raju Nayak, after which the black-and-white newspaper was shifted to the capital city of Panaji, with 10 pages and coloured edition in 2004. In Panaji, Sandesh Prabhudesai, Anant Salkar and Babali Naik were its editors.
Nearly 28 years after its first edition, ''Sunaparant'' shut down on 1 August 2015, with the management attributing the decision to the escalating cost of bringing out the newspaper.
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References
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Daily newspapers published in India
Mass media in Goa
Konkani
1987 establishments in Goa
Newspapers established in 1987
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