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Mar 14, 2010
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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 that Khabbar 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….……

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I think with limited knowledge of Konkani, our kids manage pretty good. Case in point, this family was busy preparing for their daughter’s wedding. The last name of a person on the invitee list was missing and the bride (second generation American Konkani) wrote the last name as “Koenke” meaning somebody in Konkani! As the invitee list was getting finalized and all the names were edited for accuracy, a contact was made to get the correct last name of that invitee. To everyone’s surprise, that person’s last name was KOENKE! Now, what are the chances of that happening!?!
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This family from CA after retiring in early 2009, decided on spending few months a year in India and the rest here in the US. This family being a true patron of Khabbar, I sent a copy of Khabbar to this family’s address in India while they were there. Here came the reply from the family,” Hi Vasanth, It was a pleasant surprise to receive Khabbar at our Mysore address. As always reading Khabbar was fun. Now that is really news from "Kular" for us. It really shows how much you care about your loyal followers. Thanks.”.

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