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News from the crucial world of education, and more. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - APPEAL FOR AN ABBE FARIA STAMP: Support a campaign for this stamp at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/abbe250/ and http://www.abbefaria.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - GOANET POLL: Spare a moment to share your views with a vote via http://www.goanet.org on World Goa Day. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The good news ------------ o Plan to upgrade Goa Doordarshan centre approved, says Shantaram. o Margao municiplaity becomes first to have a customer facilitation centre. (NT) o Cafe S F Xavier, the prominent restaurant in Mapusa, is offering its visitors a "new flavour" with "mouth-watering Goan cuisine". o Rashid, Khodadad & Co Near Samrat Theatre in Panjim is offering shoppers a "crockery festival". New stocks of USA bone china microwave sets, etc. o Family Utsav, Goa's "biggest pre-Diwali" consumer exhibition is coming up from October 19-23. o Manipal Goa Hopsital offers free consultation for adults and children with heart problems. (NT) o Pro-Acoustic Centre is offering a "one stop shop" for all pro-audio products. Including from global names like Korg, etc. Khorlim, Mapusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Handloom and craft items from Madhya Pradesh on sale at Inst Menezes Braganza till Sept 4. (NT) The bad news ------------ SUN, SURF SAND... AND STINK: A photo in the Gomantak Times says Candolim welcomes its visitors with the stench of garbage, as trash has been offloaded on the banks of the approach road to the Nerul-Candolim bridge. The garbage includes both biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes. The village's mangroves are visible in the background. Photo L Fernandes. o Garbage not collected in Mapusa for 10 days. (NT) o Goa government to try and salvage Goa Antibiotics and Pharma- ceuticals Limited at Tuem, says Rane. (NT) o Flesh trade continues to haunt Baina. (NT) Living in hope -------------- o Government to probe pollution aspect of Sanguem sponge iron plant. (H) o Matanhy's writ petition adjourned for hearing today. (H) o Plea to include Goa's Dhangar aboriginals as scheduled tribes.H o Surveyors' recruitment will be corruption-free, says Rane.(NT) o National Ship Design Research Institute asked to assit Goa government in removing 'River Princess', says Dr Wilfred D'S.(NT) TODAY'S QUOTE: "If Goans all over the world, irrespective of caste, creed or religion are to be united, sthen it is only through Konkani in the Roman script." -- Tomazinho Cardozo, president of the Dalgado Konknni Academi, in GT. GOAN AUTHOR Dr U G Barda [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the US is se to release his ninth book titled 'Cleaning Validation: A Practitioner's Guide'. Seven of his books are on pharmaceutical technology, one on natural foods, and another on table-tennis. (GT) --------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- ART COLLEGE RAPE ACCUSED HELD NOT GUILTY: Several discrepancies and lack of evidence led to the acquittal of two students of the Goa College of Art, Altinho, Panjim of a rape charge. Additional District and Sessions Judge (Panjim) Bimba Thali on Tuesday acquitted Roy Fernandes and Vishal Mehta. (Herald) The medical report had said that 'rape cannot be ruled out', and the judge said, "So, whether the girl was raped or not couldn't be proved." The boys also got the benefit of doubt because two girls from the victim's college said that she was with them at the function and appeared fine. Besides, even two professors from the college told the court that the girl was not behaving normally on the farewell day. Besides, the judge said the victim had failed to depose before the court. This incident happened in May 2003. (GT) Cecil Pinto is quoted in GT: "My stand has been vindicated". But GT journalist Reuven Proenca, one of the first reporter on the spot when the scandal brok, and followed the case closely, asks, "Do women who drink and smoke deserve to be raped?" SERULA COMUNIDADE has decide to demolish the compound wall constructed by the Vidyaprabhodini High School at Porvorim, around an open space of 4500 square metres. Vidyaprabhodini is accused of having encroached on open space by the side of the school complex. It has not paid lease rent of Rs 28,875 per year for the last 10 years, the comunidade said. (Herald) o Directorate of Education has announced posts for 102 government primary teachers "on temporary basis". o Workshop for teachers held at Navelim Super School Complex, on the grading system. (NT) IN MARGAO, a 13 year old disappointed student ended his life after he received his report card. He was identified as Parmeshwar Hiremath. (GT) o DMC College Assagao launches its science association. (NT) o IGNOU, the Indira Gandhi National Open University, offers its counselling time-table. (NT) o MES College Vasco, holds lecture on Research in Commerce and UGC Schemes. By Dr Y V Reddy, Goa University, dept of commerce. (NT) o BJP in Curchorem has demanded that the Rane government clarify its stand on the medium of instruction in the primary level. it said that while educationists the world over have endorsed education in the mother tongue, the current education minister Luizinho Faleiro has voiced his inclination towards English as a medium, and making English compulsory from Sta I onwards. (H) o Parking jams plague Panjim schools. (GT) o MES College Vasco launches its Nature Club. (GT) --------------------------------------------------------------------- FOCUS ON A PHOTOGRAPHER: Dayanita Singh --------------------------------------------------------------------- FEATURE: Dayanita's Goa album When Dayanita Singh tires of New Delhi or New York or London for that matter, she retreats to Goa. She owns an old Portuguese house in Saligao, which is her haven from her zooming life as a professional photographer. And she need it, too. In the last decade or so, this pupil of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and International Centre of Photography, New York, has emerged as a much-celebrated Indian presence on the international photography scene. Her numerous group exhibitions apart, her solo showings have been at the Venice Biennale 1999; the Scalo Galerie, Zurich 2002; the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2003; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; and the Frith Street Gallery, London 2005. And then there are her books, four till date: Zakir Hussain, New Delhi 1986; Myself Mona Ahmed, Scalo Verlag, Zurich-New York 2001; Privacy, Steidl, Germany, 2003; and Chairs, Steidl, Germany, 2005. Dayanita is constantly working and is on the move from one project to another. But it is to Goa that she always returns. To heal and realise. To mix and mingle. She has a few local friends, mostly her neighbours in the village, with whom she spins a web around herself as if to distance herself from her other journeys. Journeys, by the way, is the title of her next book project: a series of seven minature-format photo-poems on Allahabad, Benaras, Kolkata, Coimbatore, Chennai, Devigarh and Thiruvananthapuram. No, Goa does not feature in these. It is more than a journey. It is, in her case, a recurrent destination. Dayanita's Goa pictures, unlike her more seen and written- about projects, like Families or Mona Ahmed, are the least discussed or exhibited. In this album, she ignores the stereotypical beach-front Goa of the tourists to delve into the inner recesses of the quaint Goan Catholic community that she finds in and around her Saligao retreat. Her frames are somewhat like the intimate confidences that one would share with a stranger. A person not bound by blood-ties, but by a wilfully chosen sharing of space, time and empathy. What marks these pictures is the pride and pathos of Goa's fast-fading Indo-Portuguese culture, which Dayanita is able to evoke so nimbly through apparently prosaic situations; the picture of Mrs Braganza in her polka-dot dress against a wall decorated with flowers and wall-plates; the large, mirrored, empty ballroom of the Braganza house; a roadside Jesus wrapped up in marigolds, a white lonely church shot in a gloomy grey light, some favourite pieces of china crockery and a revered father's photograph exhibited along with Dayanita's own works, artist Mario Miranda's private chapel.... There is something achingly charming about each of these images. Using her favourite Hasselblad camera, Dayanita composes her square frames with both live and inanimate subjects. The tight, contained format and the black-and-white tonality gives her pictures a starkness that has become the hallmark of her personal style. And hers is a telling gaze. -- Dr S Kalidas CAPTIONS: Poetic imagery: Dayanita's camera manages to bring out the pathos of the lonely St Lawrence Church against a gloomy sky. Mrs Menezes Braganza in a polka dotted dress seems to strike a balance with the blooming flowers. Prettily poised: Dayanita portrays images of the Catholics. Here she captures the frame of mother and daughter, Luisa and Melissa Cordeiro. The ballroom in the Braganza house reflects the opulence of another age. Pictures of piety: Both the nondescript roadside shrine and eminent cartoonist Mario Miranda's lavish chapel occupy pride of place in Dayanita's frames. Favourite things: Even a humble fruit like the watermelon creates a deining moment for Dayanita. She also finds beauty in seemingly prosaic objects collected by the townsfolk. Present perfect: Dayanita captures images of the new era in gayle and her sister Nicole, and contrasts it with Santa Monica nunnery, now the Museum of Christian Art. ----------- Dayanita Singh was born in 1961 in New Delhi. She currently lives and works here. She studied visual communication at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and photojournalism and documentary photography at the Internatioal Centre of Photography, New York. Published in DISCOVER INDIA, August 2005 issue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS & OBITUARIES --------------------------------------------------------------------- TRAGIC ENDING: When Shamsundar Fadte, a local correspondent for a Marathi newspaper, focussed on the dangers of the wild elephants that had stayed into Goan forests, little did he realise that the wild tuskers would claim a life -- that of his own father. (Sameer Umarye, Herald) AMBORA: Jusefa Pinheiro of Ambora, Sonafator b 1929. ARPORA: Carmo Johnny Mendes of Trindade Waddo b 1954. CALANGUTE: Joaquim Antonio Dias of Gauravaddo, b 1963. Son of late Diago/Effie Dias, husband of Christa, father of Diago and Raybelle. CANDOLIM: Jose Antonio Matias Pereira of Orda, St Cruz, Candolim. Perry Stores and Communication. GOA VELHA: Conceicao Rego of Goa Velha b 1936. VELIM: Miss Judita Fernandes of Sibrete, b 1983. Daughter of Santano/Rita (Reina) Fernandes, sister of Rockson, Remegibu, granddaughter of Joseph/Paulina Fernandes and late Luis/late Rosalina D'Costa. VELIM: Maria Dolorosa Guilhermina da Costa e Torcato b 1923. --------------------------------------------------------------------- CULINARY CORNER: Global tastes -- Southern fried chicken --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a delicious recipe for Southern fried chicken. Fried chicken is a very popular dish in America. Try it. Southern Fried Chicken 4 chicken breast halves, 2 tablespoons honey, 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, 1 teaspoon finely grated lime peel, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon chili powder, 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, dash cinnamon or allspice, 2 cups fine dry bread crumbs, 1/4 cup chopped cilantro, 2 teaspoons vegetable oil If desired, remove skin from chicken. Combine honey, lime juice, peel, salt, chili powder, cumin, pepper, and cinnamon or allspice in a large shallow bowl. In a large bowl combine the bread crumbs, chopped cilantro, and vegetable oil. Dip chicken in honey mixture, turning to coat well. Add coated chicken to the bread crumb mixture, patting on crumbs. Transfer to a foil-lined baking pan. Bake at 425° for about 30 minutes, or until chicken is browned and juices run clear. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ||g |||o |||a |||n |||e |||t || Issue compiled by ||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|| Frederick Noronha |/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyleft Goanet 2005 Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org You may reproduce this ezine in its entirety, with credits retained. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Goanet, the net-worker of all networks. Stay in touch. 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