Translator Augusto Pinto: written language belief harming Konkani movement

A translator is someone who rewrites a book in another language so more people can read it.

Augusto Pinto is a translator who lives in Goa, a small place in India.

He translated a book written by Hema Naik, who wrote in the Konkani language.

The book was first called 'Bhogdand,' but Pinto gave it a new English name, 'Leslie's Broken Guitar Strings.'

He changed the title because the old word meant many different things in English and could confuse readers.

The story happens in a village in Goa and is about families, money problems, and people moving away to find work.

Konkani is a language that can be written in different scripts, like Devanagari and Roman letters.

Some people argue about which script is best, but Pinto thinks this fight is not very useful.

He believes talking and speaking are just as important as writing.

He hopes that new technology, like AI, can help all Konkani scripts and dialects live together peacefully.