Mangalore : ‘Media is a strength of the democracy. It makes us to think different things differently under one umbrella of independence.” Said Bishop of Mangalore Rt Rev Dr Peter Paul Saldanha .
He was speaking after Launching of www.pingara.com at Kodialbail bishops house Mini hall on Thursday evening as president of the function
He applauded the one man work of senior journalist Raymond Dcunha as one man military at this venture of English Web, Konkani TV anchoring in hosting “Konakni Bhashenthli Nekethra” at V4 TV and completing 50 episodes , at the same time tough of toughest kannada print weekly “Pingara”publishing for last 16 years continuously .
J R Lobo Past MLA of Mangalore south constituency spoke as a guest of honor mentioning the toughness faced by media as this junction of slowdown economy. He requested the invitees there to support PINGARA with economical contributions.
Dharmadharshi Harikrishna Punarooru who was the guest insisted that media should be supported and ensured the society a free and fair opinion poll at democracy.
The famous comedian of Konkani Dolla Mangalore ( Adolphas Cutinho ) and his wife Valentin Cuthino were honored as 50th Konkani Bashenthli Nekethra and felicitated with shawl by bishop.
The clothes Bank Charity which was done from 4years by Pingara group by collecting new and unused clothes from public keeping a box near Bishops house on public roadside at Dilkush Bakery doors to collect clothes was effective as approximate 6lakhs worth cloth collected from donors and distributed among nearly 800 beneficiaries ranging from children till aged one’s. One of the donor Stany D'mello donated a set of 2 solar lights to beedi rolling family of Uppinangady through Clothes Bank .
