[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: From Abril to zonel... there's a lot of Portuguese in Konkani
From Abril to zonel... there's a lot of Portuguese in Konkani (697 words) Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org Agost (August), amizat (friendship), atak (heart attack) and azulat (bluish eyes). Bafad (choked), bimlam, bord (border) and brut (beast). You can go on with this list, and not stop till you reach some 2000 words in all. And yes, these indeed are Portuguese-origin words which have since entered the Konkani language. Some have made their entry so seamlessly, that even noted Konkani litterateur Pundalik N. Nayak, the other day, voiced his surprise at the way in which these words were thought of as thoroughly local. Retired professor Edward de Lima has just come out with his book tracing the common inheritance of these two languages. Even if calling this a shared inheritance is not a politically correct term today, should such a link be shrugged off merely on grounds of political bitterness, supposed alien-ness, distance or ethnicity? For instance, the Konkani words listed above are actually of Portuguese origin and come from Agosto, amizade, ataque, azulado, abafado, Overrhoa bilimbi, borda, and bruto! This listing in the glossary is both interesting and important, and spans some 35 pages of this large-sized book. Each word is rendered four times -- in Roman Konkani, Devanagari, Portuguese and English. (Incidentally Msgr Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado, 1855-1922, had earlier also authored a book on Portuguese “vocables” in Asian languages – which is now available for free download online, though with some typos that crept in while it was being digitised.) Lima acknowledges that some words, though commonly used by Christians and Roman script writers, may sound unfamiliar to those who are accustomed to write in the Devanagari script. At the end of the book, there's also a listing to show how Portuguese-origin names get rendered in Konkani. Interesting! The first half of the book sets the context. This includes the preface and introduction, and an essay on religion and language. But here the contradictory strands of language in contemporary Goa do emerge. For instance, in the introduction, Fr Mousinho de Ataide labels some Portuguese words in Konkani as tadbhava and others as tatsama. Ataide suggests while the former ought to be kept, “Konkani can do and would be better off” without the latter (p iii). (In its original usage, tadbhava words are borrowed from Sanskrit and changed to fit the phonology of the local language. Tatsama are borrowed but retain their Sanskrit form.) On the other hand, Prof Lima acknowledges that efforts are being made to find a substitute vocabulary for words derived from Portuguese. But, as frankly points out, the Catholic Church has itself produced a liturgy which is “highly Sanskritised, sometimes making it difficult for Christians to articulate as well as comprehend without assistance from the clergy”. So we have provadi (prophet), provachan (sermon), poromeshwar (God Almightly), iodn (sacrifice), iodnik (priest), samskar (sacrament), krist prasad (communion) and prarthanam (prayer). It could be argued that the strength of even languages like English, in part at least, comes from its many borrowings of words from so many other languages. (It has a nice term for them: loanwords.) A quick look at the Wikipedia itself gives a hint of English words taken from all and sundry -- French, Latin, Germanic languages, Greek, Australian Aboriginal, African, Arabic, Czech, Polish, Portuguese, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, or derived from proper names and even some of unknown origins. Lima argues that Konkani needs to be strengthen(ed) and standardized to bring about a synthesis in the existing syntactic differences which exist between the Hindu and Christian speakers. He suggests a new vocabulary which at times may be borrowed from other sister languages. But if unity and standardization is to come about by disowning the past, we could well be taking further steps towards creating an even more artificial, alien language. While the information conveyed in the glossary makes this definitely a worth-having book, the hang-ups about the past and purity makes such approaches debatable. Weeding out the alien is an approach that is itself alien to Goa, and even the rest of diversity-rich India. -- Influence of Portuguese Vocabulary on Konkani Language Edward de Lima Vikram Publications, Limavaddo, Porvorim Pp 74. 2014. Rs 200 ISBN 978-81-920574-6-0 Contact the book's author: delimaedw...@gmail.com
[Goanet] Bridge Workshop - 19th to 24th March 2014
Amaresh Deshpande will hold an intensive bridge workshop over 5 days (2 hour sessions each) at Literati from 19th March to 24th March from 5 pm to 7 pm. The fee for the course is Rs. 1500/-. I must say that contrary to my earlier perception I have found the game of Bridge is in reality a lot of fun. Children above 11 years of age are welcome and there is no fee for them. I would recommend this game to children as it really helps improve concentration and math and analytical skills. Do let me know if your interested. Regards, Diviya
[Goanet] WHY IS THE FISH DISAPPEARING FROM GOA'S PLATE? (First Post)
WHY IS THE FISH DISAPPEARING FROM GOA'S PLATE? http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-is-the-fish-disappearing-from-goas-plate-1431139.html?utm_source=hp-footer Panaji: India's beach and boho tourism mecca, Goa, may well have to drop one key four-letter USP. Fish. Pollution, global warming, overkill both for export and to feed the burgeoning tourism industry is threatening to trigger a fish famine off the Western Indian state's coast and rivers. Almost synonymous with two other F's, feni, a potent liquor distilled from fermented cashew apples and it's passion for football, it is the possibility of a crispy rice-power and spice-coated tangy fried sea bass or mackerel absconding from a rice-plate, which has now forced the authorities in Goa to finally wake up and take note. In 2010, Goan fishermen netted 23,831 tons of mackerel, a spiny, emerald green fish which has been a steady source of marine protein for generations. Last year, the haul has shrunk to virtually half at 12,994 tons. Harvest of sharks, which find their way to tables in Goan homes and restaurants as 'ambot-tikh', a red, spicy-sour preparation have all but disappeared, their haul reducing sharply from 3159 tons in 2010 to 281 tons in 2013. The harvest of prawns, one of the fastest selling sea food, served fried or curried or even as adornments in gourmet cocktails, too has decreased from 9,970 tons in 2010 to 8,380 in 2013. In 2010, Baban Ingole, one of Goa's leading marine scientists was the first to suggest that Goa was sitting on the brink of a fish famine. It is both, due to natural causes like climate change, decreased dissolved oxygen (in the seas) as well man-made. Like in the case of overfishing, increased level of pollutants, etc., Ingole warned. Mackerels he said would be the first to take flight from the Arabian sea off Goa. And going by the fisheries department's own records, looks like they already have. Goa is perhaps one of the few oases in India, where poultry doesn't always win the battle of the taste-buds. Sea food is consumed in copious quantities by both a majority of the 1.5 million local residents as well as the 3 million tourists who visit the beach state mostly from October to March, Goa's tourist season. Prawns fried or curried, pomfret recheado (a traditional vinegar-based masala spiced with red chillies paste), squids in butter-garlic sauce shout out to most tourists from menu and road signages which advertise restaurants along the beach villages lanes. So steeped is the significance of fish in an average Goan's culture that the state's poet laureate Bakibab Borkar in one of his poems says: Please Sir, Mr. God of Death, Don't make it my turn today, Not today, There is fish curry for dinner. Borkar died in 1984, but perhaps he too would have worried about the price he would have to pay for the fish in his curry today. Fish prices have gone up by as much as 100 percent over the last five years. So much so, that to buffer the impact of this rise somewhat, the Goa government is working on a policy, which involves starting government-run kiosks which sell fish with controlled prices. Data on the fish catch is hard to come by. However that being said, what is mysterious is that while fishermen claim that the big fish are no longer available, how is it that the hotels have the fish? Ingole now tells Firstpost, making a case for proper management of India's marine resources. India as a nation is deficient in protein and with protein abundantly available through fish, it is important that this source of high protein is managed, he argues. In rural India, the average per person intake of protein has come down from 62 gms (1972-73) to 60.2 gms (1993-94) and then again to 57 gms (2004-05). The ravas has disappeared from the sea. It used to be one of the most sought after fish here. But over the last 10 years I have hardly seen any here, says Madhu Halarnkar of the moderate sized Indian Salmon, whose fried fillets commonly accompanied rice curry, until recently. In fact the Ravas, once a premium, but staple fish does not even feature on the state fisheries department annual catch record today. According to state fisheries director Shamila Monteiro, fish catch in Goa these days was more or less the same and prefers to stay clear of the phrase fish famine. But she does agree that over-fishing, pollution and temperature changes are taking its toll on Goa's fish harvest. A recent study showed that the mouth of the river Mandovi, Goa's most well known river is now infested with jelly fish, which have been attracted to the toxicity of the river water. Experts say that predators like jelly fish not only drive fish from the area, but are also symbolic increasing pollution in their immediate environment. The main things are temperature, environment factors and overfishing, she says, adding that poaching on its marine resources by other Indian neighbouring states was also emerging
Re: [Goanet] cell tower radiation hazards - technical references
Dear Santosh, Thanks for your following email. Good to know that you are a neuroscientist and also noted that all others are well educated people. I have attached my report on cell tower radiation, which was submitted to Secretary, DOT in Dec. 2010, it contained nearly 200 scientific and technical papers. I have also attached Bio-Initiative Report conclusions and RF color chart, which gives details of various health hazards. You can download complete Bio-Initiative Report 2012 (1479 pages long) from http://www.bioinitiative.org/ The report gives references of 3800 scientific and technical papers with a summary spread over several chapters. Regarding my daughter's company NESA Radiation Solutions Pvt. Ltd., it is known to cell operators and DOT officials since its inception in Nov. 2011. Please see my report of Dec. 2010 and also in all my presentations, I always emphasize that better radiation norms should be adopted and transmitted power should be reduced. If transmitted power is reduced then who needs shielding solutions? With regards. ** Girish Kumar Professor, Electrical Engineering Department I.I.T. Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076, INDIA Tel. - (022) 2576 7436, Fax - (022) 2572 3707 email- gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in, prof.gku...@gmail.com Blog - http://profgirishkumar.blogspot.in/ ** On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Santosh Helekar wrote: Dear Prof. Kumar, Can you please refer me to any peer-reviewed research paper(s) in a reputed scientific journal that substantiate(s) your claims about effects of low power microwave radiation, and the physical and biological mechanisms involved. As a neuroscientist, I have scoured through the medical and biological literature and consulted with a world-renowned neuroscientist who served on a U.S. National Institutes of Health committee to examine this question in the 1990s. Neither he, nor the committee, nor I have found anything that unequivocally supports your claims. Cheers, Santosh On Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:50 AM, Prof. Girish Kumar gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in wrote: Dear Gerard Delaney, I do not know who are you and why you wrote the followings, which were forwarded to me by Stephen Dias. Atleast you should try to find out the truth and then make statements. You do not realize that how many people, birds, animals, plants, trees, etc. are getting affected by high cell tower radiation. There are ample examples in the history that whenever anyone or group of people raise voice against strong industry lobby, whose business may get affected due to proper awareness, they decline, for example, cigarette industry. Cell operators and their associates came out with a book mobile phones.. myths and reality. Please see my comments on the book in the attached file. Please see Pages 3 to 5 about sun (light) versus microwave radiation. Also, see my disclosure on Page 9. This was released to the press in the last week of Jan. 2014. If you have any questions, please send an email. With regards. ** Girish Kumar Professor, Electrical Engineering Department I.I.T. Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076, INDIA Tel. - (022) 2576 7436, Fax - (022) 2572 3707 email- gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in, prof.gku...@gmail.com Blog - http://profgirishkumar.blogspot.in/ ** On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Stephen Dias wrote: Dear Prof Girish, In case you wish to reply these funny uneducated guys , their e-mail is as follows: delaney.ger...@gmail.com and (2) is chimbel...@yahoo.com Please send me a copy if you want to explain them about radiation power and principles etc Leave apart the business what he claims that your daughter is doing, that is not my interest. Stephen Dias date: 13.3.2014 Message: 7 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:08:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Misinformation of the radiation from mobile towers Message-ID: 1394575737.50845.yahoomail...@web122102.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thanks Gerard for sharing this information. It is important to counter these bogus scares that crop up from time to time by educating people about basic scientific concepts. Underlying these scares there invariably is some commercial scam or MLM-type fraud being perpetrated.? Cheers, Santosh On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:56 PM, Gerard Delaney delaney.ger...@gmail.com wrote: Last year, a small group of Saliganvkars created awareness in the Lourdes Convent school hall about the alleged dangers of the radiation from Mobile
Re: [Goanet] Misinformation of the radiation from mobile towers
It is important to obtain medical information from reliable sources. Here is what American Cancer Society says about lack of any evidence for the harmful effects of cell phone towers: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/cellular-phone-towers Cheers, Santosh On Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:22 PM, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: What do we do about this mon ami? One cannot (specially a qualified medical doctor) in no terms assure there cannot be harmful effects when there is no proof. Just as for us doctors it is ethics not to guarantee that there will not be side effects to any medication. http://www.cell-phone-radiation.com/news/story.aspx?id=9#.UyGTbhBsv1M An article released in the Daily Telegraph today, 7th March 2014 explains that a recent Council of Europe committee has concluded that immediate action is required to protect children after ruling that new technologies do ‘potentially’ have harmful effects on humans. Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....
You Belong to Me Joni Jameshttps://www.youtube.com/artist/joni-james?feature=watch_video_title This was when we were about knee high and our folks were listening to this on radio, in Nbi! Bon weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j9jSafX_sc g -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] Offtopic: 29 Ways to Stay Creative
29 Ways to Stay Creative http://shar.es/Rdn0e via @sharethis 1. Make lists 2. Carry a notebook everywhere. 3. Try free writing 4. Get away from the computer 5. Quit beating yourself up 6. Take breaks 7. Sing in the shower 8. Drink coffee 9. Listen to new music 10 Be open 11 Surround yourself with creative people 12 Get feedback 13 Collaborate 14 Dont give up 15 Practice, practice, practice 16 Allow yourself to make mistakes 17 Go somewhere new 18 Count your blessings 19 Get lots of rest 20 Take risks 21 Break the rules 22 Don't force it 23 Read a page of the dictionary 24 Create a framework 25 Stop trying to be someone else's perfect 26 Got an idea? Write it down 27 Clean your workspace 28 Have fun 29 Finish something -- FN Phone +91-832-2409490 Mobile +91-9822122436 Blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com
Re: [Goanet] cell tower radiation hazards - technical references
Dear Prof Girish Kumar, Let me thank you for your detailed explanation provided to our knowledgeable personalities who is one of them is world renowned neuroscientist and other one is Msc -IIT Powai . Hope they understand exact work done by you.In fact we should refrain going deeper in the scientific studies on internet or e-mails. These discussions are not in good taste and we should avoid as far as possible. Anyway the matter needs to be closed and perhaps one day we all can get together and have scientific discussion in a good forum at public platform. Hope all our misunderstandings are clear once for all. Stephen Dias On 14 March 2014 10:29, Prof. Girish Kumar gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in wrote: Dear Santosh, Thanks for your following email. Good to know that you are a neuroscientist and also noted that all others are well educated people. I have attached my report on cell tower radiation, which was submitted to Secretary, DOT in Dec. 2010, it contained nearly 200 scientific and technical papers. I have also attached Bio-Initiative Report conclusions and RF color chart, which gives details of various health hazards. You can download complete Bio-Initiative Report 2012 (1479 pages long) from http://www.bioinitiative.org/ The report gives references of 3800 scientific and technical papers with a summary spread over several chapters. Regarding my daughter's company NESA Radiation Solutions Pvt. Ltd., it is known to cell operators and DOT officials since its inception in Nov. 2011. Please see my report of Dec. 2010 and also in all my presentations, I always emphasize that better radiation norms should be adopted and transmitted power should be reduced. If transmitted power is reduced then who needs shielding solutions? With regards. ** Girish Kumar Professor, Electrical Engineering Department I.I.T. Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076, INDIA Tel. - (022) 2576 7436, Fax - (022) 2572 3707 email- gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in, prof.gku...@gmail.com Blog - http://profgirishkumar.blogspot.in/ ** On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Santosh Helekar wrote: Dear Prof. Kumar, Can you please refer me to any peer-reviewed research paper(s) in a reputed scientific journal that substantiate(s) your claims about effects of low power microwave radiation, and the physical and biological mechanisms involved. As a neuroscientist, I have scoured through the medical and biological literature and consulted with a world-renowned neuroscientist who served on a U.S. National Institutes of Health committee to examine this question in the 1990s. Neither he, nor the committee, nor I have found anything that unequivocally supports your claims. Cheers, Santosh On Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:50 AM, Prof. Girish Kumar gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in wrote: Dear Gerard Delaney, I do not know who are you and why you wrote the followings, which were forwarded to me by Stephen Dias. Atleast you should try to find out the truth and then make statements. You do not realize that how many people, birds, animals, plants, trees, etc. are getting affected by high cell tower radiation. There are ample examples in the history that whenever anyone or group of people raise voice against strong industry lobby, whose business may get affected due to proper awareness, they decline, for example, cigarette industry. Cell operators and their associates came out with a book mobile phones.. myths and reality. Please see my comments on the book in the attached file. Please see Pages 3 to 5 about sun (light) versus microwave radiation. Also, see my disclosure on Page 9. This was released to the press in the last week of Jan. 2014. If you have any questions, please send an email. With regards. ** Girish Kumar Professor, Electrical Engineering Department I.I.T. Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076, INDIA Tel. - (022) 2576 7436, Fax - (022) 2572 3707 email- gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in, prof.gku...@gmail.com Blog - http://profgirishkumar.blogspot.in/ ** On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Stephen Dias wrote: Dear Prof Girish, In case you wish to reply these funny uneducated guys , their e-mail is as follows: delaney.ger...@gmail.com and (2) is chimbel...@yahoo.com Please send me a copy if you want to explain them about radiation power and principles etc Leave apart the business what he claims that your daughter is doing, that is not my interest. Stephen Dias date: 13.3.2014 Message: 7 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:08:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!
[Goanet] Misinformation of the radiation from mobile towers
Santosh Helekar chimbelcho at yahoo.com on Thu Mar 13 21:33:14 PDT 2014 wrote: It is important to obtain medical information from reliable sources. Here is what American Cancer Society says about lack of any evidence for the harmful effects of cell phone towers: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/cellular-phone-towers Cheers, Santosh COMMENT: the site above states; QOUTE: “The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified RF fields as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” based on limited evidence of a possible increase in risk for brain tumors among cell phone users, and inadequate evidence for other types of cancer. (For more information on the IARC classification system, see our document, Known and Probable Human Carcinogens.) UNQUOTE Besides, my previous post on the subject cites a very recent findings, i.e. Dated 7the March, 2014. Any responsible person/authority, like say a Judge/Court cannot pronounce that an accused is ‘innocent’ due to ‘lack of evidence’. A Judge/Court can only acquit or exonerate based on ‘lack of evidence. In this case the “accused” is the cell Tower RF waves radiation; no responsible person can assure/pronounce that they are innocent! Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
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[Goanet] Medicines and doctors
When God created the earth and the people he also created medicinal plants so that man may use them and get ok. but we have failed to recogonise God as our doctor and have too much faith in local doctors who once they get their mbbs degree they do not open their books and do reference. Take a simple example. a person has a fracture. he goes to the best doctor who operates him or her and puts a plate with screws and a big bill. what the people did in olden days they would take the patient to bone setter who would set the bone and tie it and put wooden sticks for support and gradually the bones would join. While the former is a very expensive treatment the latter is less expensive. I remember before i got married my neighbour's daughter had pneumonia and my grand mother suggested ventos. The child's mother laughed at her and took her to a child speciallist. He gave her antibiotics and in a jutki her cold got ok. six months later the action was repeated and again the child specialist and again antiobiotics and this went on for five long years till one day the child was very bad. They rushed her to the hospital and put on ventilator and gas etc etc . the cold within had become solid and the child was on death bed. They tried to remove the thick flem but after two days the child died.
[Goanet] Can Aires Rodrigues stop this ?
Many senior advocates in Mapuca have their offices in residential areas. Mapuca Municipality charges less charges to residence areas less electcity charges where as those in commercial areas have to pay more municipality fees, higher electricity bills. so it is not fair that some advocates are paying higher premium whille others pay much less
Re: [Goanet] cell tower radiation hazards - technical references
Dear Prof. Girish Kumar, Thanks for sending me your advocacy reports. Assuming you have not yet done so, I encourage you to submit them for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. So the real experts in the vast range of highly technical fields covered by these reports can critically evaluate them, and offer their comments, as they do for any original scientific research paper. But as for me, I will read your reports, and get back to you with my comments and questions, if necessary. As you know, unlike politics, activism and law, in science people weigh the entire body of research on any subject, and especially, the quality of all of that research on all sides. Scientists evaluate both positive and negative findings, and draw definitive conclusions only when the evidence unequivocally points in one clear direction. Therefore, if research papers are cherry picked only to support a preconceived opinion on one side then that task is of no scientific value. That is why I asked you to refer me to peer-reviewed research paper(s) that unequivocally supported your claims regarding biological effects and the exact physical and biological mechanism by which these effects occur. I have not seen any research paper of this type in the literature. For this reason, and because of the fact that all epidemiological studies have shown no significant health effects of cell phone or cell phone tower radiations alone, no public health organization or regulatory agency in the world has made any definitive statement supporting your claims. But I am happy to evaluate any information that you can provide, and I will try to offer my comments on your reports. Cheers, Santosh On Friday, March 14, 2014 12:00 AM, Prof. Girish Kumar gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in wrote: Dear Santosh, Thanks for your following email. Good to know that you are a neuroscientist and also noted that all others are well educated people. I have attached my report on cell tower radiation, which was submitted to Secretary, DOT in Dec. 2010, it contained nearly 200 scientific and technical papers. I have also attached Bio-Initiative Report conclusions and RF color chart, which gives details of various health hazards. You can download complete Bio-Initiative Report 2012 (1479 pages long) from http://www.bioinitiative.org/ The report gives references of 3800 scientific and technical papers with a summary spread over several chapters. Regarding my daughter's company NESA Radiation Solutions Pvt. Ltd., it is known to cell operators and DOT officials since its inception in Nov. 2011. Please see my report of Dec. 2010 and also in all my presentations, I always emphasize that better radiation norms should be adopted and transmitted power should be reduced. If transmitted power is reduced then who needs shielding solutions? With regards. ** Girish Kumar Professor, Electrical Engineering Department I.I.T. Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076, INDIA Tel. - (022) 2576 7436, Fax - (022) 2572 3707 email- gku...@ee.iitb.ac.in, prof.gku...@gmail.com Blog - http://profgirishkumar.blogspot.in/ ** On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Santosh Helekar wrote: Dear Prof. Kumar, Can you please refer me to any peer-reviewed research paper(s) in a reputed scientific journal that substantiate(s) your claims about effects of low power microwave radiation, and the physical and biological mechanisms involved. As a neuroscientist, I have scoured through the medical and biological literature and consulted with a world-renowned neuroscientist who served on a U.S. National Institutes of Health committee to examine this question in the 1990s. Neither he, nor the committee, nor I have found anything that unequivocally supports your claims. Cheers, Santosh
[Goanet] GOANET: Distressed patient in GMC for want of medicines.
Open letter to our Health Minister Mr. Laxmikant Parsenkar Sub : GMC distressed patient Prabakar Shirkey, Maharastrian from Ratnaguiri admitted in Ward 139 (Neurology Ward) and Bed 23. Hon Minister of Health, You are aware by now that the patient was admitted by us ( Stephen Dias, D.Paula and Joe de Sousa a social worker from Ucasasim -Aldona), in the GMC ward No 139 and Bed 23 is been reported by your doctors that he is suffering from TB and is likely to be shifted to TB Hospital, St Ines once all the papers and tests are completed. Fine, I fully support and give you a credit for the GMC Doctors and nurses for taking all the care of this patient Prabakar Shirkey. Although I was told by one of the senior nurse that this man is adamant and disobedient and aggressive but still these nurses and servants are been doing a good job. Now the question comes, that the stools which he passes on the bed does not allow the servants to clear it and hence they have suggested me to buy pampers from a pharmacy. I have a question to Health Minister why these items are not available in GMC for the poor patients and those who are in distress? I was told by the same nurse on condition of anonymity that certain patients are supplied costly medicines around Rs. one lack worth. Why there should be different set of rules for different patients? Please see that all the patients are given the same treatment especially the poor ones. I have noticed that there are few patients already admitted and lying on the floor for treatment and I really appreciate your generosity on that grounds. Attached are the few photos which you may have a look. 4 Attachments 100_0380.JPG 100_0381.JPG 100_0382.JPG 100_0383.JPG
[Goanet] Goanet Reader: From Abril to zonel... there's a lot of Portuguese in Konkani
From Abril to zonel... there's a lot of Portuguese in Konkani (697 words) Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org Agost (August), amizat (friendship), atak (heart attack) and azulat (bluish eyes). Bafad (choked), bimlam, bord (border) and brut (beast). You can go on with this list, and not stop till you reach some 2000 words in all. And yes, these indeed are Portuguese-origin words which have since entered the Konkani language. Some have made their entry so seamlessly, that even noted Konkani litterateur Pundalik N. Nayak, the other day, voiced his surprise at the way in which these words were thought of as thoroughly local. Retired professor Edward de Lima has just come out with his book tracing the common inheritance of these two languages. Even if calling this a shared inheritance is not a politically correct term today, should such a link be shrugged off merely on grounds of political bitterness, supposed alien-ness, distance or ethnicity? For instance, the Konkani words listed above are actually of Portuguese origin and come from Agosto, amizade, ataque, azulado, abafado, Overrhoa bilimbi, borda, and bruto! This listing in the glossary is both interesting and important, and spans some 35 pages of this large-sized book. Each word is rendered four times -- in Roman Konkani, Devanagari, Portuguese and English. (Incidentally Msgr Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado, 1855-1922, had earlier also authored a book on Portuguese “vocables” in Asian languages – which is now available for free download online, though with some typos that crept in while it was being digitised.) Lima acknowledges that some words, though commonly used by Christians and Roman script writers, may sound unfamiliar to those who are accustomed to write in the Devanagari script. At the end of the book, there's also a listing to show how Portuguese-origin names get rendered in Konkani. Interesting! The first half of the book sets the context. This includes the preface and introduction, and an essay on religion and language. But here the contradictory strands of language in contemporary Goa do emerge. For instance, in the introduction, Fr Mousinho de Ataide labels some Portuguese words in Konkani as tadbhava and others as tatsama. Ataide suggests while the former ought to be kept, “Konkani can do and would be better off” without the latter (p iii). (In its original usage, tadbhava words are borrowed from Sanskrit and changed to fit the phonology of the local language. Tatsama are borrowed but retain their Sanskrit form.) On the other hand, Prof Lima acknowledges that efforts are being made to find a substitute vocabulary for words derived from Portuguese. But, as frankly points out, the Catholic Church has itself produced a liturgy which is “highly Sanskritised, sometimes making it difficult for Christians to articulate as well as comprehend without assistance from the clergy”. So we have provadi (prophet), provachan (sermon), poromeshwar (God Almightly), iodn (sacrifice), iodnik (priest), samskar (sacrament), krist prasad (communion) and prarthanam (prayer). It could be argued that the strength of even languages like English, in part at least, comes from its many borrowings of words from so many other languages. (It has a nice term for them: loanwords.) A quick look at the Wikipedia itself gives a hint of English words taken from all and sundry -- French, Latin, Germanic languages, Greek, Australian Aboriginal, African, Arabic, Czech, Polish, Portuguese, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, or derived from proper names and even some of unknown origins. Lima argues that Konkani needs to be strengthen(ed) and standardized to bring about a synthesis in the existing syntactic differences which exist between the Hindu and Christian speakers. He suggests a new vocabulary which at times may be borrowed from other sister languages. But if unity and standardization is to come about by disowning the past, we could well be taking further steps towards creating an even more artificial, alien language. While the information conveyed in the glossary makes this definitely a worth-having book, the hang-ups about the past and purity makes such approaches debatable. Weeding out the alien is an approach that is itself alien to Goa, and even the rest of diversity-rich India. -- Influence of Portuguese Vocabulary on Konkani Language Edward de Lima Vikram Publications, Limavaddo, Porvorim Pp 74. 2014. Rs 200 ISBN 978-81-920574-6-0 Contact the book's author: delimaedw...@gmail.com
[Goanet] Goa news for March 15, 2014
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Tarun Tejpal refused bail by Goa bench of Bombay High Court - Indian Express ages extensive order rejecting Tejpal bail,Justice U V Bakre of the Goa bench of the High Court said he is an influential person who would like to protect his reputation and name any how. Tejpal was arrested on November 30, 2013 after he ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNFoYTLzHCE8I3cLGIUWz3XcsDWXqwcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/tarun-tejpal-refused-bail-by-goa-bench-of-bombay-high-court/ *** Goa: Cong shortlists Ravi Naik, Francisco Sardinha for LS polls - Firstpost orruption Bureau, while Sardinha is the sitting MP from South Goa. The candidates were announced based on the ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNExQ42_Fl2pTMbOKzVd0oEJTo3n2wcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://www.firstpost.com/politics/goa-cong-shortlists-ravi-naik-francisco-sardinha-for-ls-polls-1432215.html *** Goa: NCP keen on tie-up with like-minded parties for Lok Sabha polls - Indian Express inded political parties to field a consensus candidate on NCP symbol, party's Goa unit chief spokesman Trojano D'Mello told reporters here. http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGcFjou6Y30BDQQn6z8IQgd9XRaRwcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/goa-ncp-keen-on-tie-up-with-like-minded-parties-for-lok-sabha-polls/ *** AAP names candidates for the two LS seats in Goa - The Hindu ap-won-t-accept-donations-from-goa-mining-firms-1968818AAP won't accept donations from Goa mining firms http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNHGhm1DlBprtVwDNsdiBojT9KH7QAcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/aap-names-candidates-for-the-two-ls-seats-in-goa/article5777442.ece *** Goa gears to celebrate Holi with Shigmotsav - Indian Express o-celebrate-shigmotsav-from-march-1630-2014-23440Goa to celebrate Shigmotsav from March 16-30, 2014 http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNG-jSCOTpJOSOtmZa2c1UdjnX1pJgcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-style/goa-gears-to-celebrate-holi-with-shigmotsav/ *** NCP to take on alliance partner Congress in Goa Lok Sabha polls - Indian Express tanding alliance with Congress in Goa, the NCP today announced it will contest both the seats in Lok Sabha polls. The NCP's announcement came hours after Congress short-listed its candidates for both the seats, ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNFzk8WBF_8C9PdE4k7tYwrzkccY3wcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/ncp-to-take-on-alliance-partner-congress-in-goa-lok-sabha-polls/ *** Goa co-op banks await Dharwar court verdict on tax notice on FDs - Hindu Business Line ndu Business LineCooperative banks in Goa are agitated over a recent Income Tax Department circular asking them to deduct tax at source (TDS) on interest on fixed deposits above #130;¹10,000.The circular follows a judgment of a Karnataka Income Tax Tribunal in Bangalore ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNHxx4uztECqsl_B1gCon0ZR38l8dwcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/goa-coop-banks-await-dharwar-court-verdict-on-tax-notice-on-fds/article5785089.ece *** LS polls: Goa NCP keen on alliance with like-minded parties - Business Standard inded parties to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections in the state against the Congress and BJP candidates. A committee led by party's state chief Nilkant Halarnkar ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNHs-_puNrYm1wd3c5zTXgeJ0py2ygcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/elections-2014/ls-polls-goa-ncp-keen-on-alliance-with-like-minded-parties-114031400406_1.html *** Pins De La Brume Hotel / GOA Architects - ArchDaily chDailyFrom the architect. Pins De La Brume Hotel is on side of the entrance road of Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou, looking far into the North Peak. The original building is masonry structure built at the end of 20th century. The client hoped to upgrade it into a ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNEua5Mx_B0Bvz2_in9y6OlTD1hAEQcid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331url=http://www.archdaily.com/485438/pins-de-la-brume-hotel-goa-architects/ *** Cancer fund raising programme 'Goan Shave' organized - Times of India aiser-'Goan' Shave' , which will feature a host of musicians, DJ's, dancers, hair-stylists and others volunteering their time and their talent for a cause. Guests can choose to get their heads ...a class=
