Career īesides English, her stories have been translated into Hindi, Marathi, Telegu and Malayalam. Jyoti Kunkolienkar rates Naik (along with Hema Naik) as the authors writing on women-centric themes in Konkani from Goa today. There is vigour in her style but at times her expression lags behind her thoughts." He also comments on Jayanti Naik's Nimnnem Bondd ( The Last Revolt) which "expresses dissatisfaction against the idea of God's justice" and adds: "It is true that the women writers are prone to a certain sentimentality but this sentimentality is hardly overdone." In 2019 Rajaee Publications published her third collection of short stories 'Aart'. 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." It is a roar of revolt against the mightily and the rich in favour of the poor, the weak, the oppressed. 'Lokrang' (2008) is a collection of essays on Goan and Konkani folklore. It has been transliterated by Felicio Cardozo. She had also compiled and edited, Venchik Lok Kannio, a collection of Konkani folk tales in the Roman (Romi) script, which was published by the Goa Konkani Akademi, in 2008. In 2019 Rajaee Prakashan published 'Gutbandh' a collection of her articles on Goan folklore which had appeared in the Marathi newspaper Lokmat.
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It covers its history religion, social practices, festivals and folklore, among other topics.
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Naik's Amonnem Yek Lokjinn ( Goa Konkani Akademi, 1993) focuses on the village of Amona and its surrounding regions. Her book on Konkani folklore, entitled Konkani Lokved, has several folk tales current among the Konkani-speaking emigrants who made their permanent home in the southern Indian States of Karnataka and Kerala in their original form with regional slant, as they were graphically recounted to her. Her work includes Ratha Tujeo Ghudio, Kanner Khunti Naari, Tlloi Ukhalli Kelliani, Manalim Gitam, Pednecho Dosro, and Lokbimb. Naik takes care of the folklore section of the Goa Konkani Akademi, the aim of which is to "conserve and preserve (the) rich folklore of Goa".