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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian educationist (1935–2019)}}<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|3|22|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Goa]], [[Portuguese India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|12|8|1935|3|22|df=y}}<br />
| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|educationist|translator}}<br />
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| spouse = Sudha Amonkar<br />
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] (2009)<br />
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'''Suresh Gundu Amonkar''' (22 March 1935 – 8 December 2019)<ref>{{Cite web|author=Gauree Malkarnekar|date=Dec 8, 2019|title=Goa: Padma Shri awardee Suresh Amonkar passes away at 84 {{!}} Goa News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goa-padma-shri-awardee-suresh-amonkar-passes-away-at-84/articleshow/72425368.cms|access-date=2021-11-29|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> was an Indian educationist, writer, and chairman of [[Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education]].<ref name="About Us">{{cite web | url=http://www.newgoa.in/aboutus.php | title=About Us | publisher=New Goa High School | date=2016 | access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref> He served as the director of State Literacy Mission and Adult Education, as the Chief Commissioner of Goa State chapter of the [[The Bharat Scouts and Guides|Bharat Scouts and Guides]] and as the president of the Council of Boards of Secondary Education (COBSE).<ref name="Kakodkar, Amonkar to get Padma awards">{{cite web | url=http://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/South-of-Zuari/kakodkar-amonkar-to-get-padma-awards/22245.html | title=Kakodkar, Amonkar to get Padma awards | publisher=Goa Herald | date=26 January 2009 | access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Works ==<br />
He translated several classics into [[Konkani language]], including [[Dhammapada]], [[Tirukkuṛaḷ]], [[Bhagavad Gita]], [[Gospel of John]] and [[Dnyaneshwari]].<ref name="Amonkar on Goa University Library">{{cite web | url=http://libcat.unigoa.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:Amonkar,%20Suresh | title=Amonkar on Goa University Library | publisher=Goa University Library | date=2016 | access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Goa's Padmashree Dr. Suresh Gundu Amonkar on Dr. Jose Pereira and Hinduism">{{cite web | url=http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.region.india.goa/111683 | title=Goa's Padmashree Dr. Suresh Gundu Amonkar on Dr. Jose Pereira and Hinduism | publisher=Gmane | date=8 August 2010 | access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref> He was a recipient of the Goa State Teacher's Award and the 2012 Jyanpithkar Ravindra Kelekar Award.<ref name="Awards announced for Konkani writers">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/awards-announced-for-konkani-writers/article4198731.ece | title=Awards announced for Konkani writers | newspaper=The Hindu | date=14 December 2012 | access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2009, for his contributions to Literature and Education.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="Assembly Congratulates Kakodkar, Gundu, Kelekar">{{cite web | url=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=56437 | title=Assembly Congratulates Kakodkar, Gundu, Kelekar | publisher=Daiji World | date=3 February 2009 | access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Konkani literature]]<br />
* [[List of translators]]<br />
* [[Tirukkural translations into Konkani]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{cite book | url=http://libcat.unigoa.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=62537 | title=Dhammapad : [Translation into Konkani in Verse and in Prose] | publisher=Asmitai Pratishtan | author=Amonkar, Suresh | year=1997}}<br />
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