Veteran journalist and former editor of Sunaparant, Sandesh Prabhudesai, will be celebrated in ‘Behind The Byline’, know your GUJ member series, on Friday, May 23.
Prabhudesai will be in conversation with Gauree Malkarnekar (Assistant Metro Editor- The Times of India and GUJ executive committee member) at the GUJ hall, Shram Shakti Bhavan, Patto, Panaji, 4pm.
Prabhudesai’s career spanning four decades has earned him plenty of admirers. He started his journalism career as Margao correspondent of Sunaparant and Rashtramat in 1987 and later joined Tarun Bharat, where he was assigned the responsibility of South Goa Bureau Chief (1987–1990). He later joined Gomantak Times as Chief Reporter (1990 – 1996).
As the editor of Goa’s first Konkani daily, Sunaparant, in 2003 during its crucial transition phase from black & white to colour printing, Prabhudesai did significant work, before joining Prudent Media TV channel as its Editor-in-Chief in 2008.
Prabhudesai was also the Consulting Editor for Goa 365 television channel.
Prabhudesai started India’s first unique Mobile News Service – Goenkar News Service – (1999) and goanews.com, Goa’s first news website (1999).
As an established author, Prabhudesai has written10 books, including two translations (Konkani & English. His books released in three languages in 2014 includes Taalgadi (Konkani), Ghusmat (Marathi) and Clear Cut (English). Goff (Konkani) followed in 2015.
Some of his noted works include ‘Ajeeb Goa’s Gajab Politics’: Politics of Land of 7000 Years, and the 2002 bestseller, Double Engine: History of Goa Lok Sabha Elections.
Apart from journalism, the veteran journalist has acted and directed several stage plays.
Prabhudesai has been honoured by several government and non-government platforms for his dedicated work in the field of journalism. There’s the Goa Konkani Academy Literature Award and Konkani Bhasha Mandal Literature Award for Taalgadi in 2015, Konkani Prasar Madhyam – Kala Kaushalya Puraskar 2020 (Goa Konkani Academy), Laxmidas Borkar Smruti Patrakarita Puraskar 2022, Best TV Journalist Award of Goa Chamber of Commerce & Industry in 2016, Konkani Rotna 2023 by Kala Niketan etc.
‘Behind The Byline’, know your GUJ member is a monthly series initiated by the Goa Union of Journalists, where a senior GUJ member of repute is introduced to its members and the general public.
Goa Union of Journalists
Discover more from Allycaral
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
