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CHRISTMAS HAS UNDERGONE A RADICAL CHANGE... SO HOW DO WE RESPOND?
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Christmas in Goa has undergone a radical change, as have most
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Of houses... and cow-dung
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VANAMAHOTSAV: OF MOTHER NATURE AND UNEQUAL THINGS
By Valmiki Faleiro
Mother Nature made things unequal. Our fingers, one longer
than another; us, one taller or punier than the other; some
lives, more equal than others. Like nature's hierarchy of
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Book Review of Rendermam Ani Tachem Jivit
Author and Publisher: Fr. Ave Maria Afonso
Pages: 64
Price: Rs.60
By: Walter Menezes
I met
CAJE'S BHAJI: LISTS OF FIVES WHILE FOCUSSING ON FOOD
By Cajetan Vaz
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For those of you in Goa who listen to FM Rainbow
105.4Mhz, some of this may be deja vu. Last year I
started highlighting my Top 5 lists on my Friday
show 'Caje's Bhaji'.
In defence of the rag-picker
By Clinton Vaz
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We all agree here that the Government should focus on basic
amenities first. The difference in opinion here is to whom...
the Goan or the outsider. In my understanding, we need the
migrants, and we need them because there are a lot of
An open letter to the Times of India
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Dear Times of India,
We have been getting the news of the entry of your
publication for many moons now. There has been talk of your
paper opening an edition in Goa for the past decade or so.
Finally it's
in the Gomantak Times.
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The WildGoa Newsletter!
News Views about Goa's Wildlife Outdoors Scene
Vol. 2008.01
Yes, yes...voi murre...it's actually been 'years' since the
last newsletter was out.
GOA'S MICHAELANGELO... APPRECIATING THE WORK OF JOSE PEREIRA
A fresco mural by Jose Perrira was unveiled by Alban Couto
at a largely attended function in the Rosary Chapel Fatorda
on April 26, 2008. The site of the mural, titled Creation
Resurgent, is on the large nave of the chapel which has
Goans in East Africa ... Tanzania: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Goans in Dar es Salaam (and other towns) owned
bars, bakeries many clothes and tailoring shops,
music stores, butcheries 'soda factories', a
shoemaker or two provision stores that had small
Trying not to remember St Xavier's
Prominent Goan writer George Menezes
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days in Bombay, to be published in a proposed book
on Goans in the city, being currently edited by
journalist Reena Martins. If you
PORTUGUESE STORY, ARAB VOICE, DIU AS THE SETTING ... WRITTEN BY A GOAN
Love and Samsara : A review by Ben Antao
I do not know why I am writing this, nor do I know to whom I
am writing, says the
to this book, write to its editor, Reena Martins
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GREEN THUMB: Planting Trees
By Miguel Braganza
The difference between planting seedlings of field crops like cereals,
oilseeds or pulses and planting seedlings or grafts of tree species is
simply this: trees are for keeps! An error in a field crop can be
rectified in the next season or next
Goa.
Tony Felix Fernandes is from Guirim in Bardez, Goa and
currently based in Goa. He has authored a book Goa :
Memories of My Homeland. Tony Fernandes' blog is at:
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Quepem by the kilo
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This morning, as you read this, I ask you to mourn the rape
and murder of half a dozen steep, thickly forested hills
barely 12 kilometres from Quepem town. These form an integral
link of the magnificent Western Ghats that surround Goa, and
Dear Balasaheb,
Namaskar! You will wonder who I am. Let me tell you. When I am introduced
people automatically say This is George Fernandes…… sorry I mean, George
Menezes. It is an indication of how nameless, I am. I am an ordinary Indian
citizen, Goan by ancestry and Maharashtrian by domicile.
GOA'S WAY OUT: GATING IN THE SUPER-RICH?
A letter from the Moira Action Committee
Dear Mr Britto,
You wrote an open letter to the people of Moira and Aldona in
this forum [1] when they protested the projects that you were
building in their villages. The Moira Action Committee would
like to reply
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The rejection of Maharashtra in the opinion poll held in 1967
and the inclusion of Konknni in Eighth Schedule of Indian
Constitution were possible due to the alliance between
Christians and
MINING BLUES AND ITS MANY HUES: WHEN P.R. GETS IT BADLY WRONG
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[1] introduces another colour to the Naxalite controversy.
Last week, we were all being called 'red' by the chief of the
'saffron' party,
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EXILE, AND THE GOAN WRITER: A TANGO MADE FOR EACH OTHER?
By Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
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It is relevant to the theme of this essay that the very first
novel by a Goan to see the light of day was written and
published when the author was overseas and far from home.
Francisco Luis Gomes
DIVERSE ROOTS, VARIED CHALLENGES: THE GOAN DIASPORA IN THE U.K.
This essay is from the book 'Goa: Aparanta
-- Land Beyond the End', edited by
Victor Rangel Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Goans in Britain, and how their attitudes
towards Goa have changed
From Siridao to Swindon
By Selma Carvalho
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Driving through Swindon, I don't get the impression of a factory town.
It is lush green with swathes of agricultural land, the streets lined
with houses not given to prosperity but neither to the grime
associated with industrial hubs. I
Men who will stop the water: vignettes from Goa's mining heartland
By Hartman de Souza
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We skirt Paikdev's temple for Paikdev Zor, where this tribal
snake deity bathes. The story goes that the village of Maina
in Quepem Taluka once received all the water from the 'zor'
or
MY AFRICAN SAFARI: OF TEACHERS, TRIBES, TENNIS AND THOSE TIMES
Jules Carneiro
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My safari in Africa began in 1960 when I was recruited by the
Ethiopian ministry of education to teach there. That year saw
a military coup there which put paid to any ambitions I had
of completing my
HATE AND ANGER WON'T BRING VOTES; PEOPLE ALWAYS SEE THROUGH DIVISIVE
POLITICS
An Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Karnataka from St.
Joseph's College, Bangalore
Dear Sir, We write to you as members of the Staff of St.
Joseph's College and as secular citizens of the state of
Karnataka deeply
The plan that awakened Goa: moving from protest to a vision
Malini Krishnankutty
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On January 18, 2007, the Goa government denotified
Regional Plan 2011 (for short, referred to as RP
2011). It thus gave in to public opposition to the
KITEM? BAZARANT VETAM? KITLE POIS? PAUS PODDTA ...
By Tony Pinto
20th August, the date in 1992 when Konkani was included in
the Eighth Schedule of our Constitution, may not hold as much
significance as 26th January, 15th August and 19th December
for many people, but the date will be remembered
Activism, or cat's paw?
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE / By Frederick Noronha
Everyone in Goa seems to want to don the status of an activist these
days. This term is no longer used as a bad word, as it was in the
past. We've also come a long time from the days when a cocksure
Pratapsing Rane dismissed the
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THE VILLAGE PANCHAYAT I
GRAM SABHA
Compiled by:
Kumar Kalanand Mani
Soter D'Souza
Antonnio Francisco Fernandes
All information and suggestions are in accordance with the Goa Panchayati
Raj Act, 1994 (GPR Act, 1994) and Goa Panchayats Meeting Rules (GP Rules)
Circulars in force. This booklet
Today: Where I Come From
R. Benedito Ferrao
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On a day following my first return to Los Angeles from London
where I have lived the last few years, I was asked by a
Caucasian man, whom it so happened was English, which bus he
would need to take to get to Downtown LA. I advised
a long life
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DEVIL'S ADVOCATE / Trial by Facebook
By Frederick Noronha
All of a sudden, Goans older than 21 are discovering that
there are newer aspects to cyberspace. And, there a moral
panic over this. In a Margao higher secondary, a fight takes
place between two girl students. Someone else captures what
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WHEN THE CREW GETS ABANDONED... TALES FROM THE HIGH SEAS
Capt. Norbert Francis Rebello was born and schooled in Mumbai
until he joined the merchant navy in the early 1980s. He has
sailed on various types of ships, finally opting for the oil
tanker fleet. In command of ships for over a decade, he
The New Republic
Dispatch From An Anxious Mumbai by Naresh Fernandes
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The editor of 'Time Out Mumbai' reports from the surreal
scene of the attacks
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As columns of smoke rose from the Italianate dome of the Taj
Mahal hotel in downtown Mumbai on Wednesday night, I came
upon a woman standing a
We've Never Felt Scared, by Naresh Fernandes
Tracking the rich tradition of Jews in India.
As an Indian Christian, I occasionally remind my
Jewish friends that I owe my faith to them. Indian
tradition maintains that a few years after Christ's
death, one of his
Mumbai Under Siege (Yoginder Sikand in Islam, Peace and Justice)
Yoginder Sikand
O ye who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair
dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to
wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and
fear God. For
Before a single vote is cast... where terrorism touches ballotism
By Frederick Noronha
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The recent election for the Pale assembly by-election in Goa only
confirm a trend we need to be really concerned about. That is, the
results to elections in Goa are increasingly being decided
Views from, and about, 20th century Goa
Two books looking
at Goa during
the 20th century
and before made it
to the stands recently,
writes Frederick 'FN' Noronha
in his weekly column on
books from Goa.
Antonio de Noronha of Loutolim was a high court judge, during the
Republican regime of
Skin-deep secularism
FREDERICK NORONHA builds a
case to show that 'secular'
campaigners in Goa have their
own religious and even caste
biases.
It may sound provocative, but the 'secular' campaigner in Goa
isn't so secular. Scratch a 'secular' campaigner, and you
would quickly realise that below
is
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This essay was first published way back in 1996, and the
author underlines that his favourite book is Wayne Booth's A
Rhetoric of Irony [http://tinyurl.com/8qd8va]
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What Goans Have for Breakfast
By Augusto Pinto
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History is the most dangerous
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