Jayanti Naik

[2] Her work includes Ratha Tujeo Ghudio, Kanner Khunti Naari, Tlloi Ukhalli Kelliani, Manalim Gitam, Pednecho Dosro, and Lokbimb.

[3] Naik's Amonnem Yek Lokjinn (Goa Konkani Akademi, 1993) focuses on the village of Amona and its surrounding regions.

In 2019 Rajaee Prakashan published 'Gutbandh' a collection of her articles on Goan folklore which had appeared in the Marathi newspaper Lokmat.

In A History of Konkani Literature: From 1500 to 1992, the linguist and Konkani writer Manohararāya Saradesāya (also Dr Manohar Rai Sardesai) says of the 1962-born Naik's collection of short stories, Garjan: "Garjan means The Roar and in fact here the woman conscious of her strength and her social rights "roars."

Naik features in an anthology of Konkani writing, called Katha Darpan and published to mark the 138th anniversary of the Institute Menezes Braganza, in November 2009.

[6] Naik was earlier with the Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr, a Konkani training and research centre run out of Alto Porvorim in Goa.

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This was part of the British Council project of a website of women's writing from South Asia edited by Mini Krishnan and Rakshanda Jalil.

The stories in this volume are 1) Biyantul: A Cinderella Story; 2) The Fulfillment of a Desire; 3) The Victory; 4) The Curse of Vozhrho; 5) An Account of Her Life; 6) Ramaa 7) Naman: The Invocations: 8) Fil'Mine Mana; 9) Life Sentence; 10) Uma and the Human Sacrifice; 11) Basvo: The Nandi Bull.