In the lush, contested linguistic landscape of Konkani, where the winds of the Arabian Sea carry echoes of Portuguese hymns and Vedic chants, a spectral tension simmers beneath the surface. Konkani, the vibrant Dravidian-Indo-Aryan tongue spoken across Goa, coastal Karnataka, and Maharashtra, has long been a battleground for scripts—a polyphonic chorus of Roman, Devanagari, Kannada, Perso- Arabic and Malayalam...