⇒ Jnanpith award winner and eminent Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo presented the Vishwa Konkani Awards-2021, instituted by the Konkani Language and Cultural Foundation, at a function at the World Konkani Centre, Shaktinagar.
Vimala V Pai Vishwa Konkani Lifetime Achievement Award: Suresh J Borkar, for his language pedagogy, grammar and lexicography
Vimala V Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar: Antony Barkur
Vimala V Pai Vishwa Konkani Poetry Award: Uday Mhambro
Basti Vaman Shenoy Seva Puraskar: Corrine A Rasquinha, founder-president of White Doves Psychiatric Nursing and Destitute Home, and Padmanabha Kamath, a senior cardiologist of the city, and founder of Cardiology at Doorstep Foundation