goanet-digest Friday, August 16 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4223
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[Goanet] GOA-NEWS: NIO developing underwater robots with Portugal
[Goanet] BOOK REVIEW Disputed Mission, Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical
[Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO:Vermi composting: a household solution to problems of solid
waste disposal.
[Goanet] Variety: Blockbuster to be filmed in Goa, Mumbai & Rajastan
[Goanet] Thie Goa, Daman and Diu Day
[none]
[Goanet] ...and you thought journalists were not human
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:18:11 +0530
From: "Vicki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] GOA-NEWS: NIO developing underwater robots with Portugal
>From deccan herald/ Aug 13
India plans to expand EEZ
NIO developing underwater robots in collaboration with Portugal
>From Devika Sequeira
DH News Service
PANAJI, Aug 12
With the marine geophysical survey well under way, India could soon gain an
additional 1 million square kilometres along its legal continental shelf
(LCS). This would extend the country's exclusive economic zone to 350
nautical miles from the present 200 nautical miles off the coast, say
officials of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO).
The survey, being jointly conducted by scientists of the NIO and the
National Geophysical Research Institute and coordinated by the National
Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) has been underway for the
past four years.
India which has upto 2009 to file its claim before the United Nation's
Seabed Authority, expects to finish the survey within a year and file its
claim by 2004.
An extended floor zone (the claim can be made only on the sea floor and
not the waters or its living resources) gives countries with the
technological know-how a distinct advantage to explore gas hydrates. "We
can map the whole area in detail and look closely at the mineral wealth
there," the director of NIO Dr Ehrlich Desa told 'Deccan Herald'.
India's leading marine research institute, the NIO is also in the process
of developing an "intelligent" underwater robot in collaboration with
Portugal's Institute of Robotics. Known technically as autonomous underwater
vehicles (AUVs) these small robotic sets will serve as "an extended arm of a
ship" and will be programmed to measure underwater temperature, dissolved
oxygen, salinity, the light field and so on, says Dr Desa.
The AUV programme is just one among the many bilateral ventures undertaken
by the NIO. There are four more in the pipeline with Portugal, which
still has strong linguistic ties with Goa, 8 with Russia, some with France
and the USA.
Started purely as a government funded institute in 1966 under the Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the NIO is today
self-sustaining with commissioned research, says Dr Desa. Last year it
earned Rs 9 crore from research contracts undertaken for the government
and Rs 5 crore came from the corporate sector.
Among the on-going programmes, is the national gas hydrates project for
the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) for Rs 3.5 crore and the Oil
and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for Rs 6.5 crore. The GAIL survey is
being carried out on the west coast off Goa, and the ONGC one on the east
coast off the Krishna-Godavari basin./ends
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:24:40 -0600 (MDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] BOOK REVIEW Disputed Mission, Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical
Knowledge...
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:35:08 +0530
From: "D. Mendon�a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: GoaNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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BOOK REVIEW
Ines G. Zupanov. Disputed Mission: Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical
Knowledge in Seventeenth-century India. (Oxford India Paperbacks) New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi+277pp. ISBN 019565882 - 5.
The issue of Robert Nobili ?going native?, in order to convert the
Brahmins in India to Christianity in the XVII century, has generated as
much disquiet and debates as inspiration in missiological field. Disputed
Mission gives a detailed account of that debate better known as the Indian
or Malabar Rites controversy, which dominated the first half of the XVII
century. The nucleus of that famous controversy was the Jesuit Madurai
Mission in Tamil Nadu in South India. The two main disputants or warring
Jesuit missionaries were Robert Nobili (the creator and protagonist of the
controversy) and Gon�alo Fernandes. But soon it became a controversy among
the Jesuits or as some might like to say a clash between the Italian and
Portuguese Jesuit mentalities (pp. 68, 143). The book presents Nobili as an
intellectual with humanistic formation and a Roman aristocrat, master of
Tamil and Latin languages and a writer, and Fernandes a Portuguese ex-soldier
poor in latin and with no writing skills.
The work is divided into Prologue, four chapters and Epilogue, which are
based on correspondence, letters and writings of Nobili and Fernandes and of
others involved in the dispute. Disputed Mission begins with a brief
description of the life and ambition of Nobili. The XVII century Tamil Nadu
is described as a complicated region in which various warriors challenged and
killed each other, and when settled they needed swamis (priests) even
Christian to purify them and their achievements. (p. 21) The work contains
very useful information on the political, social and economic climate of
south India and Madurai as well as on the profile of Brahmins. Zupanov goes
on unfolding the personality of Nobili and Fernandes and the manipulation
or influence used by both to score a point and defeat the opponent. She
provides the reader with sufficient background and foreground information,
and deals with them from different angles in each chapter, which helps the
reader to understand the complexity of the dispute.
Nobili ?going native? and renouncing relationships with low-caste people
was resented by the Jesuits (p. 5). The so called accommodation or
adaptation method of conversion or cultural experimentation narrative, that
provoked at least two centuries of disputes, first among the Jesuits
themselves and then among the other missionary orders and church hierarchy,
has been constructed by the author in a very fascinating, attractive and
highly scholarly manner. (p. 5). For Nobili accommodation was to be in
?accidents? not in essence (p. 26); both parties refuted paganism. Nobili
and Fernandes stand for different methods in the mission, but the goal was
the same - conversion of the natives from the lower pagan (Tamil) to the
higher Catholic (European) wisdom, the author says (p. 157). Despite
Nobili?s seeing similarities between Hinduism (Brahminism) and European
society, Nobili did not dialogue with the natives but affirmed the Jesuit
position and tried to show that Christianity was not a ?foreign religion? for
low castes (p. 192).
Disagreements between the disputants at times led to personal
confrontations and character assassination . The book presents the clashes
of personalities and the quality of participants. Throughout the debate
Nobili appears to win but at the end he loses, when his methods are discarded
for lack of supporters and followers.
Zupanov brought together a number of letters and correspondence written
by both Nobili and Fernandes and others as found in several archives in a
very ingenious analysis of them. The author?s ingenious dissection of the
?ideal? Jesuit letter/text was executed with a remarkable surgical precision
(pp. 10, 16). The bibliography is extensive, especially the primary sources
of unpublished manuscript or letters from the Archivum Romanun Societatis
Iesu. The author comments on the ?ideal? Jesuit letter, its writing
production which aimed at changing the world, the dryness of those letters
due to the imposition of a format, their limitations, and uses that
epistolography to recreate and evaluate the debate from different angles.
The work is a new unfolding of the disputation but the plot of the debate
could not be different - Nobili is a winner without a trophy. But the
author does not take sides in the debate. The verdict is decided by the vast
source material Zupanov presents to the reader.
Much is known about the Malabar Rites issue and Nobili?s unorthodox
missionary methods and action (p. 154). But Disputed Mission is more than a
contribution to Nobili?s thought and life; it is an insight into the letter
production of the Jesuits and the methods of inculturation; moreover, it is
a contribution to the history of the Society of Jesus in India and church
history as well. Zupanov has shown that no longer are the Jesuits the only
experts of their history, but that a ?layperson? can understand it as well
or even better.
D�lio de Mendon�a, S. J.
Xavier Centre of Historical Research
Goa, India
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:31:29 +0530
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Subject: [Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO:Vermi composting: a household solution to problems of
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:44:01 GMT
From: Eddie Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Variety: Blockbuster to be filmed in Goa, Mumbai & Rajastan
Headline: Bollywood, Hollywood Bloom for 'Marigold'
Source: Reuters. August 16, 2002 02:41 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/home.jhtml?action=check&_requestid=103180
By Cathy Dunkley
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Indian actor Salman Khan will star in "Marigold," a
musical romantic comedy written and to be directed early next year by U.S.
filmmaker Willard Carroll ("Playing by Heart").
The picture, budgeted at under $10 million, will see Khan co-star opposite
an as-yet-uncast U.S. actress. Dubbed as a Bollywood-Hollywood
collaboration, the project will be shot in both English and Hindi. Filming
will take place in Mumbai and the Indian states of Goa and Rajasthan.
"Marigold," which is being touted as the first Hindi-language film made by
a U.S. director, is the story of a demanding B-movie actress stranded in
India when her latest fly-by-night film is suddenly canceled. Penniless and
unable to return home, the desperate actress accepts a role in a gaudy
Bollywood production even though she is a terrible dancer. Khan will play
her dance instructor Prem.
"The movie-within-a-movie format enables us to do the Bollywood sequences
for real and at full strength while still preserving the narrative
structure of a mainstream Hollywood entertainment," Carroll said.
Carroll added that he also incorporated many of Khan's suggestions into the
final version of the screenplay to add details to the Bollywood sequences
and to clarify certain aspects of Indian family life and culture.
"In the past, U.S. productions shooting in India have used the country as
an exotic backdrop and a source of inexpensive manpower," said Sidharth
Jain, VP of producer Hyperion Pictures India. "This project is different.
It's a true co-production; Indians working side by side with Americans. It
will be a seamless mixture of what each industry does best."
Khan made his breakthrough in Indian cinema in Sooraj Barjatya's "Maine
pyar kiya" (I Have Loved). In subsequent films like the hit "Hum dil de
chuke sanam" (I Have Given My Heart to You), the actor has been closely
associated with the family-values genre of tuneful romance and celebrations
of the traditional Indian joint family that defined mainstream Hindi cinema
in the 1990s.
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Expect the article to be widely syndicated but don't forget, you saw it on
GoaNet
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:33:46 -0700
From: "rene barreto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Thie Goa, Daman and Diu Day
G O A, D A M A N A N D D I U D A Y
Lisbon - Portugal, August 16, 17 and 20
P R O G R A M M E
August 16, Friday
Traditional Music, Song and Dances of Goa, Daman and Diu at "Teatro
da Trindade" with EKVAT, GOA-DAMAN-DIU CHOIR, SURY�
August 17, Saturday
Tour of the city of Lisbon (road names and monuments linked with Goa,
Daman and Diu) and Lunch
Meeting of Youth and Carrom Tournament
August 20, Tuesday
Talks on "Perceptions of Goa" with Oscar Mascarenhas, Jos� Eduardo
Agualusa, Catarina Portas and Paulo Varela Gomes
Closing Dinner at Goan Restaurant
THE GOA DAY IN PORTUGAL (2001 and 2002)
It was in 2001 that the wish to commemorate the Goa Day in Portugal
was materialised. And it was not by chance that the idea came from
a "cyber space", namely the discussion forum of the Supergoa.com
page. It was through Internet that knowledge was received of these
commemorations in the rest of the world.
A small group of Supergoa forists - Portuguese of Goan and European
descent - decided to act, organising within a couple of weeks the
commemorations in Portugal with a lunch and meeting in Lisbon on
sunday August 19, 2001. The idea, pushed forward by Eng. Hernani
Mour�o and Dr. Francisco Monteiro (two assiduous collaborators of
Supergoa.com), was disseminated through Internet and through Goan
restaurants of Lisbon, as well as through the media.
Though forecasts were bad - August is a month of annual vacations -,
the results were excellent. With the presence of around a hundred
persons, one socialised and talked about the Goan identity, with the
participation of youth and of adults, Goans and other Portuguese, in
a discussion that, mingled with much music and songs, lasted till
late evening (for more information on the 2001 Lisbon celebrations
please log on to http://www.supergoa.com/goaday/2001/lisboa.html).
In the face of the vast coverage by the social communication media
(LUSA news agency, the dailies "A Capital", "Correio da Manh�"
and "P�blico", RTP Internacional ["Sinais" programme] and
Macao's "Jornal Lus�fono", among others), it was decided to extend
the commemorations in Portugal giving them the practical effect which
is envisaged throughout the world: to strengthen the community
spirit. In this country, the first step would necessarily be to
create a platform of understanding among the six associations related
to Goa, Daman and Diu. This objective led to the set-up of an
Organising Committee with representatives of all the associations and
a common work developed along periodical meetings. The immediate
outcome of this cooperation - besides a first proof that a spirit of
cooperation and understanding in specific circumstances is possible -
is the Goa, Daman and Diu Day which congregates all the Goans,
Damanese and Diuese as well as many other Portuguese nationals who
for diverse reasons have a special link to those territories.
This Goa, Daman and Diu Day will certainly mark one of the biggest
commemorations of the World Goa Day throughout the Earth, as has
already been asserted by Rene Barreto who initiated this idea. And it
is not a chance thing. Although somewhat closed within themselves in
the past, the Goan, Damanese and Diuese communities of Portugal are
now opening to the world and showing that they are among the most
active ones as regards the preservation of their unique identities,
being at the same time perfectly integrated in the host country.
Thus, this second commemoration of World Goa Day in Portugal mirrors
not only the need for a more careful look at what goes on in Goa,
Daman and Diu but also the importance that these diaspora communities
and all friends of and others interested in these territories can
have for a healthy and integrated development of Goa, Daman and Diu.
Constantino Hermanns Xavier
(coordinator of World Goa Day in Portugal)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:39:32 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [none]
Mr. Herminator,
You reprinted some story about a Rev. Rebeiro who is accused of
sexual molestation. I would like to point two things regarding the article.
Rebeiro is no Goan name and it could be a latin name. Furthermore, I do not see
any inference in your posting which states that Rebeiro is a Goan. You start with
mentioning that Rebeiro is Goan. Kindly explain.
Edgar Martins
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:49:37 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] ...and you thought journalists were not human
Dear Dr JC, It only goes to show that journalists too (including me,
without doubt) get taken for a ride once in a while. As they say, doctors
bury their mistakes. Our community 'proudly' displays them on the front
pages (that's if editors give us the space).
>From the feedback I've been getting, it's seems obvious as of now that I
was rather wrong in circulating the message below. The good thing about
the Internet is that there's a chance to get corrected by your
readers... and admit a mistake. In the 'mainstream' press, one can afford
to be more arrogant.
I've forwarded Dr Helecar's comments to the editor-in-chief. My interest
in the item was (a) because coconut oil is something quite closely related
to Goa (b) as there has long been charges that the criticism of coconut
oil was instigated by the "palm oil lobby" and (c) since many in Goa still
question how our ancestors consumed coconut oil without any of the
supposed ill-effects (albeit while having a different, less-sedentary
lifestyle).
This all, of course, is no excuse. If the information is wrong, it's
wrong. My only possible excuse could be ignorance on the
issue; but, as they say, ignorance is no defence.
I accept the error.
Incidentally, the posting of the article was made by me to GoaNet, and
hence the critique of me would be better placed there. Am forwarding this
to GoaNet (to let its readers too know that I'm human too). FN
On 16 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:35:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: The Goan Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Coconutty info and Santosh's wish
>
> "santoshhelekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> [How I wish mainstream journalists such as Vasantha
> Arora would stop giving free publicity to these greedy
> and unscrupulous salesmen, masquerading as health
> experts!]
>
>
> And How I wish that mainstream journalists like
> Fredrick Noronha would stop and think for a second &
> verify the info they are disseminating.
>
> What.....if there were no dogs watching? (as in
> Watchdogs)
>
> This is dangerous disinformation FN! just like the
> AIDS stuff Leo Rebello is carrying on with.
>
>
> jc
>
>
>
> Message 22656 of 22662
>
> From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed Aug 14, 2002 6:27 pm
> Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: 'Coconut oil healthiest oil
> on earth'
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