Goanet Highlights - Nov 16 - 22, 2008
Compiled by: Selma Carvalho
Frederick Noronha in an article titled, "Politicians on the Run,"
[1]examines the insidious role played by politicians in dividing the Goan
community along religious and caste-based loyalties. He writes:
"The problem with Goa is not that we have a two-party setup which dominates
local politics, but that these two parties are so much like one another.
Superficial, pro-lobby and willing to sell their very voter down the Mandovi
river."
1:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084082.html
Paul Fernandes in "The dying sounds of Tradition," [2] wonders if the sounds
that accompanied feasts and festivals of the Goa of yore are silently fading
away. He writes:
"From music created by clapping hands and hitting stones to blowing into
conches and hollow gourd; from the sound of the dhol and shehnai to that of
the trumpet and trombone, the quintessential sounds of folk instruments are
going silent"
2:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084087.html
An article by Tomazino Cardozo dwells on "Consensus, devnagiri script and
Konkani." [3]
3:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084101.html
Selma Carvalho shed some light on remittances by Overseas Goans [4] in
colonial Goa.
4:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/083975.html
In part 4 of Mutations [5], Valmiki Faleiro looks at bribes and the Goan
bureaucracy.
5:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/083909.html
An article forwarded by Tony Martin, questions if India has had enough of
Sachin Tendulkar [6].
6:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084099.html
But Sandeep Heble, tells us why Sachin Tendulkar [7] is indeed one of India's
greatest batsman.
7:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084119.html
Lionel Messias takes an in-depth look at the viability [8] of the proposed
Central library in Panjim.
8:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084135.html
Sebastian Rodrigues keeps us abreast of how Fomentos maybe illegally [9]
dumping mining waste in the forests.
9:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084137.html
In a thought-provoking article titled, "This is not a Portuguese House,"[10]
Raya Shankwalker writes on how unplanned urban development is destroying the
aesthetics of traditional Goa.
10:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084129.html
JoeGoaUK's camera captures a spruced up Goa [11] in time for IFFI.
11:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084161.html
Vinay Natekar makes a case for why Sonal Shah [12] should be included in the
Obama transition team.
12:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-November/084169.html
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