Dear Goanetters,
The GOENCHO ULO issue of taday is dedicated to World Goa Day. Joel D'Souza
worked on this edition inspite of an attack of influenza and Leo D'Mello put it
on the web inspite of it being a Sunday, normally a day spent with the family
and Sunday services. Roque Fernandes stopped all his works and did the DTP as
our DTP person met with an accident and could not work. It was a race against
time and agaist odds. We made it in the nick of time. Together Everyone
Achieves More.
Francis Rodrigues will be hosting a WGD get together at the request of Ben
Antao, the unofficial underwriter of GOENCHO ULO. Like Konkani in the Roman
script...there is nothing official about it. We love our Mother Tongue. That is
all that matters. Everything else follows when there is love.
George Pinto has give a list of half a dozen objectives for WGD. I would
request him only two things to make life easier for all: 1. To convert these
ideals into some practical things to do and 2. to lead the way in doing it. Goa
sudharop is no easy task when all we like to do is party. Agreed. Let us find
the way forward and walk our talk.
Rene Barreto suggested that one of the thing that expatriates could do is to
"Gift a football" to the youth in one's village. I have asked him to collect a
hundred pounds sterling from friends and events in London this WGD. I will
match the amount from my savings and Ben Antao will do like wise. Some may like
to call Rene a 'fraud' because he comes up with ideas and does not work to
fulfil them. The offer to match 100 units of your currency[pounds, dollars,
dirhams, riyals or Euros. Liras please excuse], is open to the next man or
woman if Rene cannot raise the money and send it across to Goa.
For George Pinto the challenge will be to convert " 5. Maintaining your
culture while living in the melting pot." will be to get the members of the
Goan expat community around him to master the few sentences that Domnic
Fernandes has compiled while sitting in KSA. What culture can we boast about if
we talk Konkani with a Cockney accent or a Texan drawl? We have taken the
trouble to make GOENCHO ULO available at at least two websites every month in
easy to read Konkani in a familiar script without any diacritcal marks or
accents. Use it to learn your mother ttongue and remain familiar with its
growth and actions. If the London returned little girl in Divar, Gemma
Fernandes, can speak, read and write Konkani in three years what is holding
some of you back for 40 years or more?? Parties, picnics, dances or SFX
feasts????
Konkani uloi, Konkani vachun dakhoi!!!
Viva Goa.
Miguel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. WORLD GOA DAY 2006 - message SGPIAG (President(sgpiag))
4. Re: WORLD GOA DAY (George Pinto)
11. Goencho Ulo on the web ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
12. World Goa Day and World Konkani Day (Edward Verdes)
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:43:53 +0100 (BST)
From: "President(sgpiag)"
>From the desk of PRESIDENT - south goa public interest
action group - margao goa india.
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MESSAGE -
States have been formed on liguistic basis in India
The mother tongue of Goans - Konkani was given State
recognition on 04/02/1987 and received the assent on
14/04/1987. It was included in the VIII Schedule of the
Constitution of India on 20/08/1992
Scripts should be recognised to enhance the promotion
of the language not to restrict it being the monopoly
of a singular community.
On World Goa Day 20th August we hope that this view
receives wide support to ensure that Goa and Goans
have an Identity of our own (in the fast changing
demographic composition of the State ) just like
linguistic states elsewhere in the rest of the country
would vie for.
Our warm wishes to the organisors of the events world
wide and in special to Mr Rene Baretto the mover of
this unifying movement.
TERENCE MAZARELO
PRESIDENT (SGPIAG)
1st Flr Benlix Bldg Opp Fatima Convent
Margao Goa India
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
weblink http://mumbai.sancharnet.in/manojnd
FAX +91 832 2712430
HELPLINE (24 hrs) 9822158584
Tel +91 832 2731373 (O)
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:40:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Pinto
-- Francis Rodrigues wrote:
> And next year do something worthwhile so that WGD will unite and not divide.
> And finally pay tribute to that quiet, solitary, unknown Goan who really
> founded World Goa Day, an aeon ago.
The issue is just the ongoing failure of World Goa Day to do something concrete
and to engage
Goans with Goa to do something beneficial for Goans outside of lame messages
posted in cyberspace
and picnics and dances. It is also not about just giving credit where it is
due, as Goans find it
difficult to make time for that since it detracts from self-publicity. The
biggest issue is what I
wrote 7 months ago which I reproduce:
"It is worth asking what useful purpose Goan organizations in the diaspora
serve? 40-60 years ago
with fairly significant Goan immigration out of Africa/Goa/India to
England/Portugal/Canada and to
a lesser extent to USA/Australia there was a need for Goan social
organizations. Their annual
events provided a forum for people to socialize and meet, in come cases survive
the challenges of
their new land. A typical Goan (Catholic) calendar of events which has not
changed in decades:
1. Dance.
2. Picnic.
3. SFX feast.
4. Children's Christmas event.
5. Another occasion for a dance (pick some date).
Today, the calendar needs to be updated if expat Goans want to modernize,
integrate and come of
age (the reasons in some case are obvious but too lengthy to discuss here).
This change is needed
if Goan organizations are going to truly serve their community, engage youth
and have a future. In
no particular order of importance, a current calendar may look like:
1. Investing in your future - health, education, finance, culture.
2. Self and community development - responsibilities and duties to yourself and
others.
3. Understanding your roots/history in the larger context of world history.
4. Securing justice and equality for all in an interconnected, global world.
5. Maintaining your culture while living in the melting pot.
6. Goa's rich religious history - understanding various Goan traditions,
including the secular
tradition."
Another WGD, another day of Goan failure and non-accomplishment. Sleep well
Goans, your future
belongs to someone else.
Regards,
George
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Viva Goa.Say it with feni.
MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa
Horticulturist/ Editor
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