Dr. Madhavi Sardessai to preside over the all Goa Yuva Sahitya Sammelan

 Panaji 28 Feb.08 Dr. Madhavi Sardessai has been selected as the President of the 9th All Goa Yuva Konkani Sahitya Sammelan which is to be held on 16th & 17th February, 2008 at the campus of Fr. Agnel College Pillar, Pillar, Goa.

The sammelan is being organized by Goa Konkani Akademi in collaboration with Fr.Agnel College Pilar, Pilar, Goa.

Dr. Madhavi Sardessai is born in Lisboa, Portugal, at present she is residing at Margao, Goa. She has done her primary education through Konkani medium and has graduated from Smt. Parvati bai Chowgule College, Margao, with English & Philosophy. She has done her M.A. in Linguistics. For M.Phil she has presented a thesis on �Some aspects of Konkani Grammar�. She has obtained her Ph.D degree from the Department of English, Goa University on the topic �Comparative study of Linguistic and Cultural influence on Konkani vocabulary�.

 �Bhasa-Bhas� a book on Linguistics, �Eka Vicharachi Jivit Katha� ( translation ) and �Mankullo Raj Kunvor� a translation of the children�s novelette from French Language into Konkani are the publications at her credit. Beside this, many of her poems, essays, short-stories etc. are published in various magazines. A number of her Research papers on Konkani Language, literature & Linguistic are published.

From August 1995 to July 2007 she has worked as the Executive Editor of �Jaag� monthly and from Aug.2007 has taken the full-fledged charge as the editor of the same.