goanet-digest Sunday, August 11 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4214
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[Goanet] Violence against women in India
[Goanet] NEWS: Experts urge more foreign exposure for Indian football
Re: [Goanet] - In defense of our Heritage -
Re: [Goanet] 11 AUG: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
[Goanet] First flight from Lisbon to Goa
[Goanet] NEWS: Speculation on Pak shrine attackers...
[Goanet] Where have the voters gone???: Painting the country saffron.
[Goanet] TISWADI WORKSHOP ON CHILD-FRIENDLY GOA MOOTS MONITORING COMMISSON
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Date: 11 Aug 2002 14:09:48 -0000
From: "Rohit Shukla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Violence against women in India
Friends,
The last line is shocking indeed!
Rohit.
Delhi medical student raped by Jordanian college mate
New Delhi, Aug 11
A 23-year-old woman studying in a prestigious medical college was
date raped in New Delhi by her Jordanian college mate, police
confirmed Sunday.
The incident, which comes within days of the gang rape of a law
college student in the New Delhi, happened when the woman visited
the other student's house after they had been to watch a film.
A medical examination made after the woman lodged a complaint with
police confirmed she was raped. "We have taken details about the
accused from the girl, and are looking for him," joint
commissioner of police, Satish Chandra, said.
Police have directed all international airports to be on the
lookout for the unnamed Jordanian to prevent him from leaving
India.
Earlier this month, a 24-year-old law college student was abducted
near a university campus and gang raped by four men in a moving
vehicle. The incidents have provoked security fears for women in
the capital.
According to figures compiled by the Indian ministry of women and
child development in 2000, on average one woman is raped every
hour in India.
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:19:46 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Experts urge more foreign exposure for Indian football
Experts urge more foreign exposure for Indian football
By Krittivas Mukherjee, Indo-Asian News Service
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) Indian football, celebrating a sensational triumph at
the LG Cup in Vietnam, could improve by leaps and bounds with more foreign
exposure, the country's former football stars say.
Kolkata, the capital of Indian football, is celebrating the title victory in
the LG Cup in which India beat hosts Vietnam 3-2 in an exciting showdown in
Ho Chi Minh City Saturday.
The Indians, down 1-2 at one stage, came from behind to claim their first
title outside the sub-continent in 31 years. The last time India won a
championship outside South Asia was in Singapore in 1971.
"The victory will boost the morale of the boys no doubt and this will,
hopefully, reflect in their performance in the Asian Games in Pusan," said
former Indian captain P.K. Banerjee.
Banerjee and several former footballers as well as experts say the quality
of Indian soccer could undergo a quantitative change if the national team is
made to play more often on foreign soil.
"The talent in Indian footballers is not fully realised because it isn't
matched against international standards. Performance improves when you play
quality opposition, and this doesn't happen regularly," said former defender
Sailen Manna.
"The team we presently have could do much better if allowed more foreign
exposure. The boys are bright and are bound to improve if placed against
quality foreign opponents under foreign climatic conditions," added former
international defender Subrata Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya, who coaches the national champion club Mohun Bagan and was
adjudged the best Asian coach in June by FIFA, advocates more attention to
building the national team.
"It has been seen time and again that we falter outside the country. And the
reason for that is our limited conversance with foreign conditions and
players," opined former star striker Surajit Sengupta.
In India cricket is religion and football is just one among the many other
sports. Predictably, football enthusiasts and experts are unhappy with the
limited publicity the game receives and the perpetual cash crunch it faces.
"This success will reflect in India's performance in the Asian Games. To
ensure that Vietnam is not a flash in the pan, the (Indian football)
federation must see that our players are playing on foreign soils much more
that we did in our times," said Prasun Banerjee, another prominent
midfielder of the 1980s.
The experts want the All-India Football Federation (AIFF) to take a more
pro-active role in sending the national squad to play abroad.
>From Vietnam, the Indian footballers travel to Britain where they will play
two matches against local club sides as part of their preparations for the
Asian Games.
- --Indo-Asian News Service
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 18:10:34 +0100
From: "Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] - In defense of our Heritage -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am proud to write that we should learn to write Konkani as we
> did before the advent of the Portuguese.
I don't think that before the advent of the Portuguese Konkani in Goa was
written in the Devnagri script, but rather (or mostly) in the Kannada script
and also, if I am not mistaken, in a now obsolete "Modi" script (which was
also used for the Marathi language). Perhaps Konkani scholars could
elucidate us on this.
> I agree that like Kemal Ataturk did
> or as they did in Viet Nam, we would need our linguists to devise a
sensible
> alphabet (based on the Roman Script) to express exactly the pronounciation
of
> our words.
I am totally in agreement about this.
Jorge
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 18:10:51 +0100
From: "Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] 11 AUG: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
>KONKANI AND PANDORA'S BOX: "A developed language is a pre-requisite for a
>developed society. It is therefore absurd to search for Goa's Asmitai or
>identity in Konkani, which is nothing but an undeveloped form of Marathi,
>according to the principles of the science of language. Marathi is India's
>third great and one of the major languages in the world. Denial to it its
>rightful claim in Official Language Act, 1987, was a serious matter."
>(Jaisinghrao V Rane in Panorama-NT)
I think that the question of Konkani being "nothing but an undeveloped form
of Marathi" had been settled in no unclear terms, and scientifically, by
Shennoy Goembab in his "Konknni Bhaxechem Zoit" where he proved that
"Konkani was as complete a language as any" (Shantaram Varde Valaulikar in
"Goa Today", June 2000) and that Konkani started existing as a full-fledged
language long before Marathi. The unluckiness of our language is that,
unlike Marathi, it never benefited from favours or patronage from the powers
that be, be it during the Portuguese dominance of Goa, be it before 1510 and
even after 1961. Konkani Bhasha Mandal, Goa Konkani Akademi and all Konkani
scholars should write to The Navhind Times to counteract Jaisinghrao V.
Rane's above "dictum" in today's "Panorama".
Jorge
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:54:42 -0400
From: "Themistocles D'Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] First flight from Lisbon to Goa
Re: Goacom News Clippings by JoelD'Sousa - Aug.11, 2002.
Flight from Lisbon to Goa, see also the excerpt in Portuguese (below), by
Carlos Alexandre Morais in Cronologia Geral da India Portuguesa,
(1498-1962), p. 197-198.
FLIGHT FROM LISBON TO GOA: "On November 19, 1930, twenty-seven years after
the epoch-making flight of Wright brothers, landed on Goan soil the
eventful flight, the first successful flight from Lisbon to Goa. This
adventurous trip began on November 1 of the same year from Amadora, a city
seven kms away from Lisbon. During the flight the pilots made various stops
along the route. It was not a 17 hours flight, like today, but an
experimental 19 days voyage. It took so long because of unexpected delays
along the route." (Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues in Memoirs,
Herald-Mirror)
"1930
- - E=B4 publicado o Acto Colonial.
- - Moreira Cardoso e Sarmento Pimentel, no avi=E3o Mar=E3o, fazem a viagem ae=B4re=
a
Portugal-India. A distancia de 8914 quilometros e=B4 percorrida em 71 horas
e 30 minutos; =E9 o primeiro avi=E3o a aterrar em Goa (planalto de Mormug=E3o),
num aerodromo muito rudimentar mandado construir pelo major-aviador
Francisco Higino Carveiro Lopes.
- - =C9 criado o Arquivo Geral e Historico da India Portuguesa."
In anticipation of this historic event, funds were raised from among the
public to prepare the runway on the Mormugao plateau and other expenses.
The staff and students at St. Joseph=B9s School in Cansaulim staged a concert
on 2 of February 1930. A special hymn in Portuguese composed in
antecipation of this event by Pio Filipe da Silva was sung by the school
youth.
Himno de Sauda=E7=E3o
O fulgor e o brilho do dia festival
Nos sossobra e nos encanta
O rumor e o susuro da musica teatral
Nos anima e para o palco nos encaminha.
Tomemos, pois, o caminho para o palco
Que e um predilecto g=F4sto do comico
Onde nos estudandes da escola ingleza
Exibimos a scenas de surpreza.
Muito entusiastas pela avia=E7=E3o em Goa
Que em toda a parte com for=E7a s=F4a
La vem um avi=E3o, uma colossal pav=F4a
Cuja luz e som nos ofusca e nos atr=F4a.
C=F4rro C=F4rro
Vamos, vamos irm=E3os Vamos, vamos irm=E3os
Recitar e cantar as nossas canc=F5es Ver os nossos primeiros avi=F5es
Vamoa, vamos irm=E3os Vamos, vamos irm=E3os
Encher de alegria os nossos cora=E7=F5es. Satisfazer as nossas aspira=E7=F5es.
Comp=F4sto e oferecido por Pio Filipe da Silva a escola ingleza "St. Joseph=B9s
School" de Cansaulim, por ocasi=E3o da recita dada pelos alunos a favor do
fundo para avia=E7=E3o em Goa, em os 2 de Fevereiro de 1930, festa de N. S. De
Boa Morte.
Pio Filipe da Silva
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:37:59 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Speculation on Pak shrine attackers...
Speculation on chapel attackers - Afghan terrorists or Indian agencies?
By Muhammad Najeeb, Indo-Asian News Service
Islamabad, Aug 10 (IANS) Theories about who was behind the latest attack on
a chapel in Pakistan range from it being the handiwork of
Afghanistan-trained terrorists to the involvement of Indian intelligence
agencies.
The Pakistan Christian Front has even expressed fears of Christians being
seen by some extremists as allied to the West and being targeted in a
genocide if the government does not move quickly.
A slew of terrorist attacks on Western targets in this country has seen many
nations issue travel advisories on Pakistan and drastically reduce
operations at their embassies here. The Australian cricket team has
cancelled its planned tour to Pakistan in October.
Terrorists belonging to Afghanistan or those who went there and have now
come back to Pakistan carried out the attack, said Wahab Ahmed, a former
police chief in Islamabad. "This is an alarming phenomenon that can only be
countered through improvement in our intelligence network."
"Throwing more money on the terrorism front might do the trick at this
stage, especially since terrorists who have been trained in Afghanistan and
come here are scattered and don't have many opportunities to regroup."
Ahmed told IANS that unless "strict rules are applied in fighting terrorism,
things may worsen in the near future".
Fears have also been expressed that a group of Buddhist monks participating
in an anti-nuclear march, staying near Taxila, may have been a target.
According to reports, three men hurled grenades at worshippers emerging from
a prayer service in the Christian Hospital chapel in Taxila Friday. Three
Pakistani women -- two nurses and a paramedic -- and one of the attackers
died, while 26 hospital staff members and local Christians were wounded.
This is the fourth attack on Christian missions since Pakistan announced its
support to the U.S.-led war on terrorism in September last year.
"This seems to be a well planned campaign by terrorists who were busy in
Afghanistan but have now been forced out of there," said Shahab Ghaousi, a
former director of the intelligence bureau.
The government needs to develop a strategy to put a complete halt to these
terrorists' migration to Pakistan, said Ghaousi. At the same time, security
arrangements at all potential targets should be beefed up.
"The time to stop such elements from entering the country through its
western borders (with Afghanistan) is long gone. Now it is time to go for
the kill," an unnamed senior police officer who is part of the fight against
terrorism was quoted as saying in The Nation daily.
"There is a reservoir of highly-trained people who have come back from
Afghanistan. They are not only trained but also motivated, unemployed and
poor. Such factors indeed make a lethal combination," the paper said.
Information Minister Nisar Memon's theory that this is an attempt by
"Pakistan's enemies" to destabilise Pakistan and bring a wedge between
Christians and Muslims, supplemented by Tourism and Culture Minister S.K.
Tressler, is also being given weight by some analysts.
Former interior minister Shujaat Hussain said: "This may be an act of
anti-Pakistan powers to create disturbance in the country."
In his statement carried by the Jang daily, Hussain said the involvement of
Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and other
anti-Pakistan organisations could not be ruled out.
- --Indo-Asian News Service
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Date: 12 Aug 2002 00:58:20 -0000
From: "Rohit Shukla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Where have the voters gone???: Painting the country saffron.
Long list of missing minority voters worrying EC officials =0A =0AGUJARAT P=
OLLS: BJP reminds EC of its main job =0AExpress News Service =0ANew Del=
hi, August 11 The Election Commission is expected to take a final decision =
on conducting polls in Gujarat by Wednesday. Though the EC has not revealed=
its mind, the BJP seems quite rattled by the way Chief Election Commission=
er J M Lyngdoh made news in Gujarat. Senior party leaders were today fielde=
d to virtually tell the EC that its job was to conduct elections, and only =
that. =0A=0AWhile Lyngdoh, who returned with his team to New Delhi today af=
ter a three-day tour of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, said a decision would come =
in a few days, it is learnt that the conclusions of the nine-member EC team=
that visited the state earlier may be reinforced in the second tour. =0AOn=
e of the facts the team found, and which may influence the final decision, =
is the long list of voters from the minority community who are missing, esp=
ecially in the two cities worst hit by the riots. =0A=0AElection Commission=
ers T.S. Krishnamurthy and B.B Tandon, along with advisor K.J. Rao, had met=
iculously gone through the voters=92 lists for assembly and parliamentary c=
onstituencies of the cities and tallied them with the names of people suppo=
sed to be in the relief camps.=0A=0A=91=91The team was given electoral roll=
s by the local administration and also had its own list. When they went to =
relief camps and communally sensitive areas, they could not find the voters=
,=92=92 a source in the Commission said. =91=91These voters were not in the=
relief camps, they were not back in their houses. They were not on the lis=
t of those killed in the riots. The administration had no clue where they c=
ould be. =91Voters cannot be disenfranchised so easily.=92=92 The second im=
portant issue the Commission would discuss would be the law and order situa=
tion in the state. =0A=0AThe BJP today gave enough signs that it was distur=
bed by Lyngdoh=92s approach. Party President M Venkaiah Naidu said at a Pre=
ss conference in Bangalore that =91=91there is no way other than holding th=
e election.=92=92 Criticising the Opposition parties for making attempts to=
get elections postponed on the ground that thousands of people were still =
in relief camps, he asked why these parties were not talking about the lakh=
s of people who were in the camps in Jammu and Kashmir. =91=91When election=
s can be held in Jammu and Kashmir, what prevented these from being held in=
Gujarat?,=92=92 he asked, accusing the Opposition parties of maintaining =
=91=91double standards=92=92.=0A=0ABut the more telling comment came from p=
arty spokesman and general secretary in charge of the state Arun Jaitley. O=
bjecting to Lyngdoh=92s focus on relief and rehabilitation measures in Guja=
rat, he said there were several relief commissioners to do that job and tha=
t the EC should concentrate on elections.=0A=0AClaiming that 98% of the sta=
te was normal, Jaitley said , =91=91The relief commissioners must do their =
job and the Election Commission its own. The EC should bear in mind the con=
stitutional requirement of Article 174 which mandates that the next sitting=
of the state assembly has to be called in early October.=92=92=0A=0A=91=91=
The job of the EC is to conduct elections,=92=92 he added. =91=91I hope the=
y are able to announce the dates at the earliest.=92=92=0A=0A =0A=0A=0A
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:10:19 +0530
From: "albertina almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] TISWADI WORKSHOP ON CHILD-FRIENDLY GOA MOOTS MONITORING COMMISSON
PRESS RELEASE
TISWADI WORKSHOP ON CHILD-FRIENDLY GOA
MOOTS A MONITORING COMMISSION
The Tiswadi-level Workshop towards child-friendly Goa organised by Bailancho
Saad along with Child Development Project Officer, ICDS Programme, mooted a
holistic child-friendly policy and code coupled a plan of action and an
effective functional State Commission for Children which will monitor the
execution of children-related action by the various Government Departments.
The Workshop was attended by participants rangign from doctors, lawyers,
heads of educational institutions, teachers, Government officers and
representatives of women's and children's rights organisations.
The Workshop deliberated on inputs for policy, plan of action and legal and
administrative measures to be taken in the best interests of children. Dr.
Philomena D'Souza, Head, Department of Paediatrics, Goa Medical College, set
the tone for the Workshop stressing on the need to adopt a holistic approach
which would take into consideration the immediate social environment,
his/her social fabric, and the national and international concerns that
impact on the child. Important issues raised by Dr. Philomena were the need
for clean waterm air, playgrounds for children and the time for nutrition.
Ms. Victoria Fernandes, MLA, from Santa Cruz constituency, in her note of
assurance called upon the participants to bring to her notice any concerns
regarding children which she could raise in the Assembly.
Economic policy concerns took the first slot at the Workshop with Speaker
after speaker noted the direct bearing that economic policies have on
children and hence the need to impact on the economic policies. Mr. Kemal
Barros from Alcoholics Anonymous drew pointed attention to the alcoholism of
adults, and its attendant problems for children of alcoholic families. He
maintained the need to stop licensing of further outlets of liquor besides
strictly enforcing the excise laws related to sale of liquor including the
provision prohibiting its sale to children. Ms. Kamal Naik, Headmistress
Santa Cruz High School, expressed the inadequacy of the existing enforcement
system and the need to fine-tune it. Another reflection of the adverse
economic policies was the existence of street children which Ms. Anita
Haladi sought to define while recommending strongly for census and
statistical data as regards these children so that their existence is
visible in planning and policy. That the State has a responsibility to
address malnutrition and anaemia in children as part of its economic
policies was reflected in several presentations. In this spirit, Dr. Suresh
Gaonkar from Food and Nutrition Board, Government of India, called for
proper record-keeping on statistics of children malnourished or suffering
from anaemia.
The Workshop then took off from this into the health concerns of children,
with Dr. Narayan Dumo, Dr. Padwal, Dr. Philomena D'Souza, Dr. Dayanand Rao
and Dr. Muriel Sequeira and Dr. Anand Helecar speaking on nutritional needs,
diseases, hygiene, traffic problems of children and health rights. Issues
such as detrimental effects of consumerism on public health, the prevalence
of respiratory infections and worm infestations among children, the need for
a surveillance system, lack of political will to implement basic health
needs of children were highlighted in the presentations.
As far as educational needs of children, participants voiced the need for an
assessment report of existing facilities for children, with a view to
strengthen the same. Participants also called for a needs assessment report
with a view to check drop-out rate, particularly in rural areas and urban
slums. Participants also articulated strong concerns about discrimination in
access to education. Ms. Madhuri Rao from Family Counselling Centre
articulated the need for counselling facilities in schools, besides setting
up of special counselling centres for children. Ms. Shaila De Souza, Centre
for Women's Studies, spoke of the recreational needs of children which she
pointed out were important spaces in children's lives which were overlooked
by most planning reports.
The Workshop then moved into addressing special categories of children with
Adv. Shanti Fonseca of Child Rights Cell, AITUC, stressing the need for
including domestic labour and labour in hotels in the list of hazardous
industries with a view to banning child labour in these sectors. Fr.
Maverick Fernandes of Caritas-Goa, reminded that the provisions in the
Disabilities Act were like facilities of access to institutions ad offices
were yet to be implemented. He also drew attention to the need to provide
protection to mentally children from being abused and specified that
physically and mentally challenged girl children are most vulnerable in
these circumstances. Adv. Cevelorna Torres from Bailancho Saad, speaking on
the needs of children of unwed mothers called for sensitisation of society
to prevent the stigma that is there for children of unwed mothers and also
called for legislation to make sale of children an offence besides making
adoption possible for all communities. Concerns were also expressed about
other special categories of children like children with HIV/AIDS.
Sr. Philomena Serrao from Childline focussed on care-givers including family
and anganwadi workers whose own situation needs to be addressed so that
there are enabling conditions for children to live in dignity. Among her
recommendations was the one for open shelters for children from disrupted
families.
The Workshop then dwelt on child protection issues calling for effective
vigilance and appropriate provisions in laws and legal procedures. Dr.
Nishtha Desai from Children's Rights in Goa speaking on paedophilia called
for a special law on paedophilia and strengthened vigilance mechanisms in
parks, hotels, and surveillance to check the pimping activities of certain
motor-cycle pilots and taxi-drivers. Dr. Mariette Correa from Goa State AIDS
Control Society called for pro-active prosecution of traffickers by the
police by developing appropriate linkages with other authorities. Mr.
Rogaciano Rebello advocated the need for a composite child victim assistance
unit and appropriate regulatory mechanisms to detect sexual abuse of
children besides monitoring of shelters and juvenile homes.
The Workshop concluded with participants emphasising on accountability
mechanisms both for the consultative processes as also for the policy, plan
of action and other measures that are agreed to be taken and calling for
incorporation of a child-friendly approach in all existing policies and
plans, periodic review of the chalked out policy and plan of action to be
stipulated in the law itself, appropriate budget allocation to meet the
requirements of the plan of action, besides strict monitoring of the
implementation of these through the constitution of an appropriate State
Commission for Children.
albertina almeida
For Bailancho Saad
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