Yet, the English title is rather different from that of its Konkani counterpart, so why the dramatic alteration? For instance, Jerry Pinto translated Jnanpith Award recipient Damodar Mauzo’s Konkani novel Jeev Diunk kai Chya Marunk (literally Commit Suicide or Drink Tea?) The words I use are Konkani words and not Romi Konkani or Devanagari Konkani words (just as they would not be Kannada Konkani words or Malayalam Konkani words had I used those scripts). Romi and Devanagari are scripts, not languages, and Romi Konkani and Devanagari Konkani are not dialects. Writing and printing are, in civilisational terms, a very recent phenomenon and the belief that written language is of greater importance than spoken language is not just mistaken but is doing great harm to the Konkani movement.