Knowledge is good, but experience is better, said revered spiritual master Kamlesh D. Patel, widely known as Daaji, the fourth global guide of Heartfulness. He was speaking during the launch of The Heartfulness Way,’ a book that gives the reader a peek into the Heartfulness techniques and principles which can be used to transform day-to-day lives. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goa-mobile-nursing-service- reaches-out-to-home-bound-patients/articleshow/63519696.cms
School students from Portugal and Goa, who have co-authored a multi-lingual, illustrated book of short stories on rivers and seas, have mirrored concerns about water pollution and scarcity across the European country and its former colony in India, while also featuring Goa's controversial offshore casinos that dot the Mandovi river off Panaji. http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/goan- portuguese-school-kids-collaborate-pen-book-on-water- pollution-118032500136_1.html The book deals with the adventures of building a house in Nilgiris and a fictional account of a flat being demolished in Mumbai and we couldn’t help but ask how did building a home in the Nilgiris came about. “We wanted a 2nd home. So the choice was between Goa and the Nilgiris . Since I had gone to school there and the weather was definitely better than Goa we chose this place”, says the author. http://www.asianage.com/books/290318/doc-engages-readers- with-book-on-two-homes.html Subir Sen, a mechanical engineering student from NIT Rourkela was sent back to his hostel who was found ‘studying’ during Goa study tour. http://www.fakingnews.firstpost.com/india/engineering-student-sent-back- spotted-studying-goa-study-tour-25999 Author Vasco Pinho was presented a memento in recognition of his work in detailing the history of Panaji city. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/work-on-mrt-for-city-begins/ articleshow/63457273.cms Jessica Faleiro is a multifaceted writer who writes fiction, poetry, essays and travel pieces. Jessica has been conducting travel writing workshops for budding writers to help them capture their own journeys and trips in words. Café speaks to the author of ‘Afterlife: Ghost stories from Goa’, to learn more about how creative writing can be developed. https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Using-travel-to-unlock-creativity/127797.html The government informed the court that it was not keen on the NIA probe into the murder case as it is not a scheduled offence an offence doesn't come under the ambit of NIA Act. Kalburgi was a Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer of old Kannada literature. The well-known scholar and epigraphist was 77 years old. His murder was the third instance in two years where a rationalist author had been killed. Read more at: https://www.oneindia.com/india/kalburgi-murder-case-sc- asks-karnataka-goa-maharashtra-to-file-affidavits-2664301.html At the age of 17, when most teenagers watch or read about alternate universes in fiction, Simmy Kors has created a universe with its own language and mannerisms for her debut novel, ‘The Zenas Cure’. In a chat with Café, the young author talks about the book and her love for writing https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/QUITE-LITERALLY-A-WORLD-OF-HER-OWN/128537.html The book takes us to the honey-gatherers in the Sundarbans, the rice fields in which fish are grown on Divar Island in Goa, the seasonal harvesting of salt from salt pans in Little Rann of Kutch, urban gardening in Mumbai, and coffee plantations among many other places. George spoke to Scroll.in about farming festivals, the dearth of accessible farming literature about India, the generosity of farmers, and much else. https://scroll.in/article/873035/women-have-always-been- the-soul-of-agriculture-of-india-they-are-needed-every-step-of-the-way *Blitzkrieg in the Backyard: Goa’s tryst with WW II* Seventy-five years ago, on 9 March 1943 to be precise, Goa had a tryst with World War II. Around midnight on the last day of Carnaval, mysterious explosions occurred off Mormugao Port aboard three German merchant ships “Ehrenfels”, “Braunfels” and “Drachenfels” and an Italian “SS Anfora”, in a tale marked with high espionage, sabotage, intrigue and daredevil military operation conducted by the British Secret Service through an amateur “ageing” group of British army volunteers, all in a typical Goan setting. The incident is said to have changed the course of the War in the sub-continent; maybe even delayed the Japanese armies’ march into India. A lot still remains shrouded in mystery though.https://www.heraldgoa. in/Review/Voice-Of-Opinion/Blitzkrieg-in-the-Backyard- Goa%E2%80%99s-tryst-with-WW-II/128016.html -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ RADIO GOANA: https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ - *"When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail" - Abraham Maslow <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_all_you_have_is_a_hammer,_everything_looks_like_a_nail> *
