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Vauraddeancho Lxtt News Paper
Vauraddeancho Ixtt is a newsweekly, which was started in the year of 1933. The literal meaning of Vauraddeancho Ixtt is friend of workers. With the passage of time, it has emerged and grown as Vox Populi for the Goans. Currently, it retains nearly 12000 subscribers, who are very keen and active. As per the latest analytics of Google, the online edition of this weekly is read in about 30 countries. It carries aspirations for nurturing hope to the journalism and also conveying it the message of affection and love. It is the only weekly of Konkan, which has existed in the publication continuously since the year of 1933. In the year of 1933, it was launched by Fr. Graciano Moraes and Fr. Arsencio Feranandes. This weekly is still circulated by the society of Pilar. Nowadays, this weekly is the only one of its kind to be published in this language and script. It was started in the year of 1933 as the Church tried to hold back its links with the concerned workers in a world frequently turning politicized and secularized, this weekly was ready to approach the working class and the mass at the grassroots to inform and educate them on communism verses religion. Nevertheless, with the passage of time, it got wide popularity, the scope proffered to the coverage of religious, cultural, political and social themes. V Ixtt possesses a wonderful past as only one weekly, which provided views and news that contented the appetite of reading of a big readership in Mumbai and Goa. Being run by the society of pilar and priests, its respect and credibility remained steady. During recent years, its great editors have remained as priests of the Society of Pilar, such as Fr Feroz Fernandes and Fr Peter Raposo, who controlled the publication at young ages of 20s and 30s. The contribution of Ixtt to the movement of freedom is worth mentioning. Ixtt under the guidance of the Society of Pilar emulated a thought nearer to the ambition of movement of the freedom pertaining to our Goa and motherland India. It was just the Vespers of India’s independence that V Ixtt started to publish from the grounds of the ancient Monastery of Pilar, the place where its press and editorial office were located. This weekly has good liberty for expressing itself without having censorship of rigorous Portuguese up to the early years of 50’s. Nevertheless, this picture began to alter soon after the liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and the struggle movement of freedom for liberating Goa from the grip of the Portuguese. In this period, the press succumbed under huge pressure of violent Portuguese censorship. Nothing was likely to be published in Goa without having it censored by the help of police of Portuguese with the approval of rubber-stamp. Ixtt under the influence of Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues and Fr. Jeronimo Pereira had to oppose undefeatable pressures for toeing the line of Portuguese. For survival of maximum time, Ixtt kept silence to the policies of Salazar, without censuring the government of Portuguese. But, this reticence itself was termed as stiff opposition to the sovereignty of Portuguese in Goa. On August 12th 1961, three months prior to the liberation of Goa, Vassalo da Silva, the governor, by decree withheld the publication belonging to Ixtt for at least 90 days as a big punishment for being unpatriotic to the Portuguese and exhibiting tendencies of Pro-India. Hence, Ixtt was only one paper in Goa, which stayed and bore a lot for aspirations of nationalist. Nowadays, Ixtt remains to be famous and prevalent. Currently, Ixtt possesses nearly 12000 subscribers and this number is going upward day by day. Since the year of 1999, Ixtt has been online, thereby sharing a link on Goacom.com. Nowadays, it has got its own website. http://www.v-ixtt.com