Mangaluru: ’Mazaar Ani Her Katha’, short story collection by Melwyn Pernal released

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 17 Oct 2017: A short story collection titled "Mazaar Ani Her Katha" comprising of 10 short stories written by Professor Melwyn Rajesh Castelino, well known as Melwyn Pernal in the Konkani literary world was released on October 14.

 

Rev. Nelson D’Souza of Gandhidham Province in Gujarat and Ronald J Sequiera, President of Konkani Writers and Artists Association jointly released the new short story collection. Konkani Film Producer Cyril Castelino, Asha Fernandes and Writers mother Smt Cosses Castelino were present on this occasion.

 

 

Owner of Kittal Publications, H M Pernal briefed about the new short story collection to the select gathering. Writer, Television anchor Alwyn Dominic Danthy  compered the programme.

 

Melwyn Pernal, an M Tech graduate, is presently working as an assistant professor at Nitte Engineering College. Part of Mechanical Engineering faculty, Melwyn is aiming to complete his PhD shortly. A prolific writer, Melwyn has worked as editor of "Amcho Yuvak" and "Fatimacho Talo" news magazines. Plays written by him have found huge fan following in Canada, Dubai and other gulf countries, whenever enacted.

 

 

"Mazaar Ani Her Katha" is the fourth publication from Kittall Publications contains 10 short stories. Foreword for this collection is written by well known poet and story writer Wilson Kateel. Kittall Publications has published celebrated poet Wilson Kateel’s “Encounter” collection of 100 poems, which won prestigious Smt Vimala V Pai poetry book award of 2017 from World Konkani Centre recently. Apart from this Sikeram, Surathkal’s short story collection “Gorjek Podath” and H. M. Pernal’s short story collection “Beeg Ani Bigaath” were also published by Kittall Publications in past two years.