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'''''Vauraddeancho Ixtt''''' (Workers' Friend) is a [[Goa]]n weekly magazine in [[Romi Konkani]]. It has been published continuously since 1933 and is one of the oldest publications in the state.<br />
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It was started on 4 January 1933 by Fr Arsencio Fernandes and Fr Graciano Moraes in order to protect poor and less educated workers against [[communism|communist]] propaganda that they were being exposed to. The charge later passed on from the diocesan priests to the hands of the [[Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier, Pilar|Society of Pilar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-January/187966.html |title=[Goanet&#93; Vavraddeancho Ixtt: A household friend of Goans |publisher=Lists.goanet.org |date=2010-01-02 |access-date=2011-07-26}}</ref><br />
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''Vauraddeancho Ixtt'' started writing on topics such as the [[comunidade]] system and the [[caste system]]. It has supported various issues since then like the struggle of ''Ramponkars'' in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, land grab, falling employment, [[environmental degradation]], concerns of democratic and human rights violations, food and [[water scarcity]] and the failing [[Public Distribution System]].<br />
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The weekly played a brave role in the support of Goa’s freedom struggle, a role that angered the Portuguese who then imposed clamps on the paper.{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}} It played the role of a nationalist newspaper that the Portuguese tried to suppress before the [[Invasion of Goa]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}} It was initially published in [[Konkani language|Konkani]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], and [[English language|English]]. Currently, it is mainly in Konkani, with a few columns in English.<br />
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''Vauraddeancho Ixtt'' gives away awards every year that are conferred upon Konkani writers and on those who contributed significantly to the Konkani language and to [[Culture of Goa|Goan culture]]. Social activists and young Konkani writers who have been associated with the weekly are also felicitated on the occasion.<br />
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According to [[Google Analytics]], the online edition of ''Vauraddeancho Ixtt'' is read in over 50 countries. It has a circulation of 15,000 copies in Goa, [[Mumbai]], other parts of [[India]] and overseas. In 2010, there was a fresh surge in interest in the magazine as it launched a [[Facebook page]] which has become very popular.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goanews.com/news_disp.php?rnpageno=2&newsid=1060&catid=183 |title='Ixtt' with a new vigour |publisher=Goa News |access-date=2011-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vavraddeancho-Ixtt/162341551181 |title=Niet compatibele browser |publisher=Facebook |access-date=2011-07-26}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
[http://www.v-ixtt.com/client/main.asp ''Vauraddeancho Ixtt'' website]<br />
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