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[Goanet] NATIONAL ANTHEM???
[Goanet] Cristina Odone spots a sex tourist in Goa
[Goanet] 08 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:58:23 +0530
From: "Nash & Carol Lobo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NATIONAL ANTHEM???
Dear All,
I would like to share with you all what I have received from some source,
and which is as under.
>Our current National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana" is sung
>throughout the
>country. Did you know the following about our national
>anthem? I
>didn't.
>
>This is actually very surprising but most of us have
>never paid
>heed
>to actually understanding it truly. Please go through
>it and decide
>yourself. Fifty years of independence have come to
>pass and now
>nearly 900 million Indians take pride in singing their
>national
>anthem, it is amazing that most are not aware of its
>background and
>meaning.
>
>THINK - ITS OUR COUNTRY & WHOM DO WE PRAISE??
>To begin with, India's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana
>Adhinayaka,
>was written by Rabindranath Tagore in the honour of
>King George V
>and
>the Queen of England when they visited India in 1919.
>
>To honour their visit, Pundit Motilal Nehru had the
>five stanzas
>included, which are in praise of the King and the
>Queen. (And most
>of
>us think it is in the praise of our great
>motherland!!)
>
>The 'Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jai He' implies Victory
>for King
>George who is the lord of the masses (Adhinayak) and
>'Bharat Bhagya
>Vidhata' is "the bestower of good fortune".
>
>In the original Bengali verses, only those provinces
>that were
>under
>British rule, i.e. Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, Maratha,
>Dravid, Utkal,
>Banga etc. were mentioned. None of the princely states
>were
>recognized which are integral parts of India now -
>Kashmir,
>Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Mysore or Kerala.
>Further it
>mentions
>Vindhya, Himachal, Yamuna and Ganga, but neither the
>Indian ocean
>nor
>the Arabian Sea were included, since they were
>directly under
>Portuguese rule at that time.
>
>Following is a translation of the five stanzas which
>glorify the
>King:
>
>1st Stanza:
>Tav shubh naame jaage: (Indian) People wake up
>remembering your
>good
>name Tav shubh ashish mange: and ask for your
>blessings Gahe tav
>jai
>gaatha: and they sing your glories.
>
>2nd stanza:
>Around your throne people of all religions come and
>give their love
>and anxiously wait to hear your kind words.
>
>3rd stanza :
>Praise to the King for being the charioteer, for
>leading the
>ancient
>travellers beyond misery.
>
>4th stanza:
>Drowned in the deep ignorance and suffering, poverty
>stricken,
>unconscious country, waiting for the wink of your eye
>and your
>mother's (the Queen's) true protection.
>
>5th stanza:
>In your compassionate plans, the sleeping Bharat
>(India) will wake
>up. We bow down to your feet O' Queen, and glory to
>Rajeshwara (the
>King). This whole poem does not indicate any love for
>the
>Motherland
>but depicts a bleak picture.
>
>When you sing Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka, whom are you
>glorifying?
>Certainly not our Motherland. Is it God? The poem does
>not indicate
>that. It is time now to understand the original
>purpose and the
>implication of this, rather than blindly sing as has
>been done the
>past fifty years. Nehru chose the present national
>anthem as
>opposed to Vande Mataram because he thought that it
>would be easier
>for the band to play. It was an absurd reason but
>today for
>that matter bands have advanced and they can very well
>play any
>music. So they might as well play Vande Mataram, which
>is a far
>better composition in praise of our dear Motherland -
>India.
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 23:12:40 +0100
From: "Eddie Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Cristina Odone spots a sex tourist in Goa
Source: New Statesman (UK), June 10, 2002
Headline: Cristina Odone spots a sex tourist; In Goa, the loner among the
hotel guests squats and talks to the boys on the beach reports Cristina
Odone
BY: Cristina Odone
Full Text:
As holiday snaps go, it wasn't a happy one. The hotel in Goa was made up of
a dozen independent wooden huts overlooking the sea. May is considered
off-season, so fewer than half of the huts were occupied. But you couldn't
help but get to know your fellow guests, as you bumped into one another in
the restaurant and by the pool. But one guest kept resolutely to himself. He
was the first to appear for his meals, and had wolfed them down by the time
the rest of us reached the restaurant; he never came near the pool; and we
could see him lolling about in his sarong on the patio outside his hut.
Every now and then, we would see him flagging down some of the beach
vendors - young boys selling silver jewellery and wicker baskets - and when
they drew near, he would squat and talk to them. Once I saw him hand over a
packet of Marlboros to one delighted youth.
I asked the manager about him. He shrugged, his expression neutral: 'He's an
Englishman. He asks me to change about a hundred sterling every week. We
think he's buying favours.'
Buying favours is big business in Goa. For decades, western tourists flocked
to this region to buy sex with children. It was easy: they didn't need to
haunt bordellos or slums. They didn't even need to deal with the 400,000 or
so children who, according to a 1994 Unicef study, are involved in India's
sex industry. No, in a region where the average annual wage is among the
lowest in the world, you can pick up children on the street, as they make
their way to school or the fields where they work.
And you don't need to worry about their parents turning you in to the
authorities, either: many poor Indian families have turned a blind eye to
foreign paedophiles molesting their children. Sex can mean survival.
Recently, the Goan authorities have been trying to crack down on the whole
sordid business: huge billboards warn that sex tourism 'does not guarantee a
prosperous future for Goa'.
There are no statistics for British sex tourists - Britain has refused to
copy Australia, Germany and the US, which have recently passed laws that
allow prosecution of child sex tourists upon their return home. But it does
seem ironic to think that here, people wish for a Fortress Britain that can
keep dirty foreigners out; abroad, they wish for a fortress that would pen
dirty Britons in.
End of article
================================
Cristina Odone, [EMAIL PROTECTED] returned last week from her
holiday in Goa. In fact I tried to call her recently but she was then at a
lunch party she was hosting. Last Sunday she appeared in the David Frost TV
programme. She is Deputy Editor of the New Statesman and is a high profile
UK journalist known for her staunch Roman Catholic views. Check some of her
articles by doing a search at www.google.com for Cristina Odone. Her
portrait is at http://www.npg.org.uk/live/room_detail.asp?mkey=mw15465
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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 09:46:10 +0530
From: "Joel D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] 08 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
08 June 2002
STATE NH-17 TO BE MADE INTO 4-LANE: The two-laned National highway 17 would
soon be widened to a four-laned highway, announced Director General (Road
Development) NK Sinha while addressing a press conference organised by the
Indian Roads Congress on Friday. (H)
STUDY OF CABLE BRIDGE ACROSS ZUARI: The state government is in the process
of appointing a Danish firm to conduct a feasibility study into the
construction of a parallel cable bridge across the Zuari river on the lines
of the famous Hooghly bridge, in West Bengal. (H)
FREEDOM FIGHTERS' JUNE 18 PROGRAMME: A meeting of freedom fighters and
other citizens will organise a programme at the Lohia Maidan in Margao on
18th June to mark the historic day. (NT)
"TAI" REFUSES TO QUIT MGP: The president of the beleagured MGP, Shashikala
Kakodkar, who received flat at the party's debacle in the May 30 assembly
polls, asserted that she would not resign from the top post and vowed to
rebuilt the party, the oldest in Goa. (H)
BEDLAM AT MGP MEET: The differences in the rank and file of the oldest
regional party in the State came to the fore with supporters of MGP
president Shashikala Kakodkar and her detractors verbally clashing over the
party's worst-ever poll performance in the just concluded assembly
elections. (GT)
PLOTS FOR DEFENCE PERSONNEL: The Army Welfare Housing Organisation, New
Delhi, has proposed a scheme for the construction of various types of
accommodation on the Old Goa by-pass road. (NT)
INDIAN ROADS MEET: The 166th Council Meeting of the Indian Roads Congress
is being held at Panaji on June 8 and 9. (NT)
BRITISH COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP: The British Council, Mumbai, invited
applications from young men and women of Goan origin, who want to study or
train in the United Kingdom. Email:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (GT)
MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION: The United Goans Democratic Party has salvaged
some of its image, which was severely compromised when it seemed that two
of three legislators had succumbed to the lure of cabinet posts offered by
the BJP, in its anxiety to form the government. To his eternal credit, the
third member Mathany Saldanha, not only has resisted the temptation but has
stuck to his stated position during the campaign. The party is to be
commended on serving notice to the saffron brigade that there will be no
compromise on the issue of secularism. (Edit in Herald)
CHINCHINIM LOCALS HELD: Cuncolim police arrested Benedito Teixeira and
Sandrick Teixeira, both from Chinchinim, for allegedly assaulting one
Agustino Antao with an iron rod. Antao has fractured both legs as a result
of the assault. (H)
"PLANT WORLD 2002" AT MAPUSA: Nisarga Nature Club will organise "Plant
World 2002" at Nehru Park, Mapusa, from 10 am to 6 pm from 7 to 9 June, to
coincide with World Environment Day. Nisarga is an NGO which is setting up
plant nurseries in Goa to plant forest and avenue trees all around us. (GT)
POLICE PRO: The Director General of Police, Mr Gurcharan Singh Sandhu, has
appointed Police Inspector Bossuet de Silva as the new public relations
officer of Goa Police. (NT)
SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS TO COST LESS: Good news awaits students and their parents
as the text books for classes of secondary section have arrived and they
are likely to be priced lower than in recent years. (GT)
THE TEXTBOOK SHORTAGE: There is a shortage of textbooks in Goa. This
happens to be an annual feature�Textbooks are printed outside the state
despite the fact that printing technology is available in the state.
Printing of school books, which is not a matter of precision, must be given
to bidders in Goa itself. All printers in this small state must therefore
get printing jobs. How and when will we become self-sufficient, then?
(Kisan Kamat, Dona Paula, in Listening Post-NT)
SEMINAR ON FRESH WATER MANAGEMENT: An one-day seminar on fresh Water
Management was organised by the Green Triangle Society in association with
the Inspectorate of Factories and Boilers on the occasion of the World
Environment Day in Panjim. Padmashree Norma Alvares was the chief guest on
the occasion. (H)
NEGLECTED HERITAGE: On my recent visit to the forts of Tivim, Carambolim,
Banastarim, Chapora, Reis Magos, Aguada and Pilar, it pained me to see the
neglected state of some of them. Tree roots are jutting out of the walls of
the 16th century Reis Magos fort. Plastic bottles and advertisement of a
bar decorate the 15h century Banastarim fort. Domestic tourists are seen
dumping plastic bottles, cans and other waste, both within and outside the
Aguada fort. (Prajal Sakhardande, Caranzalem, in Listening Post-NT)
INFLATION UP: The effect of increase of petroleum products has had an
effect on the transportation of commodities, with prices of essential
commodities rising. Cereals and food grains have also been affected with
the increase in prices, which has burdened the common man. (GT)
RASH DRIVING LEADS TO MISHAPS: In the recent past cases pertaining to rash
and negligent driving are rising on the streets of Goa. (NT)
FIREFLIES AND FROGS: I hear the rising sound of the croaking frogs. Like
the fireflies, these amphibians also hibernate after the monsoon. Frogs,
are key stone species in any ecosystem rich in insects. In our state people
go out with a torch when frogs begin croaking and hunt them for preparing
"jumping chicken". Thousands of frogs are hunted mercilessly in Goa in the
month of June. This has already caused an ecological imbalance. The insect
population has gone up. The mosquitoes are breeding happily because their
larvae are not consumed by the frogs. (Nandkumar Kamat in Zest-NT)
WAR CLOUDS ON GOA TOURISM! September 11 attacks notwithstanding, the West
always makes news in terms of its celebrities, its mega events�In the case
of India, it seldom features on the front pages. News ranges from brilliant
exclusives on human suffering, to natural and man-made disaster�The
country's adverse image and the westerners' cynical attitude has remained
intact, thanks to the Surat plague, the earthquakes and now the Gujarat
ethnic conflicts. Now the doomsday rumour about an Indo-Pakistan nuclear
war has taken the form of a hysteria in the West. (Edit in GT)
SHEETAL TOPS AT SSC: Ms Sheetal Pinge of Shri Damodar Vidyalaya,
Loliem-Canacona, scored 92 per cent of marks at the SSC examination,
recently conducted by the Goa Board and stood first in the school and
Canacona taluka. (NT)
D E A T H S
06 June: Cuncolim: CLARIZA AMELIA AGUIAR E NORONHA, relict of late
Conceicao, mother of filomena/Raul, Rudolph/Sharad, Visitacao/Blasio,
Sylvia/Rosarinho, Gregory/Celine.
06 June: Fatorda: CHIQUITO BOMPARTO QUADROS, husband of late Elsa,
father of Amelia/Russel, Antonio/Agnes, Paul.
05 June: Ambora: EZU CARVALHO, relict of Rosario, mother of Vicky
(Kuwait)/Mary, Clara/Piedade (Nairobi), Romash/Felix (Australia), Tony/Lina
(Australia), Eeliza/Deodade, Luis (Kuwait)/Joyce.
07 June: Santa Cruz: AGOSTINHO DE ARAUJO, husband of Guilhermina,
father of Socorro, Evangelisto, Clacy/Joaquim, Herquelin/Nazareth, Dominic
G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 28.4deg C (83.1 deg F) at 7.30 am at Assagao
Max temp: 32.0 deg C; Humidity: 71 per cent. (Panjim yesterday)
Weather: It rained last night. The morning is a bit brighter today.
Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, GT= Gomantak Times
Daily Goacom News Clippings also at: http://www.goacom.com/news
Website: http://www.goacom.com
Webzine: http://www.goacom.com/goanow
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