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St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled "Lion King"
December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa
to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall
& upgrading the school playground
Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha
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I am remarking on the fiction of perception. Knowing that fiction
tends to be more real, and in being so, helps us understand reality as
we may not be able to see or perceive it, even when it appears in
front of us.
There is another class of Goans who are highly skilled and work the
same hours as the unskilled and semi-skilled. These are extremely
skilled guys who work as supervisors and lower management. They know
the functions and skills (in terms of executing those themselves) of
the men they oversee; not a mean feat. In fact, there are also skilled
workers, among them welders and machinists who are not regarded as
skilled in terms of cadre, but skilled in terms of plain polished
skills!! They have no cars, and put up a lot in terms of loneliness,
poor food, fighting against those from other states -- who form
cliques, being ill-treated even by guards if they forget to carry
their IDs before boarding the bus to go on site. Often just made to
stand there in the early morning cold, instead of allowing them to go
back to get their IDs by native gauards who needlessly harangue them.
To make the last couple of points, I am including information from
Qata and Muscat. These guys can give the best engineers time to ponder
about their education, which in real terms is often no match to the
experience of these understood to be unmentioned skilled. What these
may not be are "bol bacchans" (to talk their way of anything OR in my
colloquial form, to talk themselves out of someones bedroom when
cornered). Aside from the story by Mauzo -- and I am gald that such
issues are being written about, we must respect the existence of all
who are not among the white collared, the blue cornered so to speak. I
also feel that such stories should be serialized in newspapers.
venantius
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There are two classes of Goans in Kuwait: one is the group of
unskilled and semi-skilled workers who come without their
spouses and live in cramped quarters, with four and more
sharing a room.
[From Goanet Reader: The Red Nissan (a short-story by Damodar Mauzo,
translated by Xavier Cota)]
> From: "Goanet Reader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: The Red Nissan (a short-story by
> Damodar Mauzo, translated by Xavier Cota)
