Goanet highlights by Selma Carvalho :: [email protected] Christmas, cribs, coming-together
Please post your feedback to [email protected] The annual Goanetters’ meet this year was held on December 28 (Monday) at Mira Mar and was an unqualified success, giving several Goanettersa chance to meet for the first time and put a face to the name, so to speak. For details of the meet, interviews captured on video including one with legendary musician Micky Correa and, photographs, click here. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187670.html Averthantus D'Souza has been a long-time advocate of the pro-life platform. Here he argues for the rights of unborn babies following the recent decision of three Irish women to challenge Ireland's ban on abortion. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187686.html When I was a little girl growing up in Goa, the most favoured Christmas tradition in our household was the making of the Christmas crib. A place would be selected in the 'vodle sal' and a table set up in the corner. My older brother would start growing the 'natchne' about a month before so a blanket of make-believe grass would grace the crib. A stable and back-drop mountains would then be crafted out of pieces of wood and brown paper. JoeGoaUk presents us with pictures of some breath-taking cribs around Goa. There is also a must-watch video. It is interesting to note that Goans do not just make cribs anymore; indeed there is now a liberal interpretation of the original Bethlehem story, taking crib-designing into an artistic genre of its own. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187669.html A video documentary of cribs from Salcete Goa by JoeGoaUK. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187668.html Goan environmentalist Clinton Vaz speaks to us about the cruel habit of displaying live animals in cribs. Clinton has worked to eradicate this habit in Goa and has been met with success. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187637.html Frederick Noronha examines Goa's growing urban chaos and possible solutions to it against a backdrop of the recent study conducted in Goa by the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) of Ahmedabad. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187616.html A Gram Sabha meeting is grass-roots democracy, a quorum made up of members of a particular village voicing their opinions with their respective panchayats. In what is perhaps the most touching video documentary made by JoeGoaUk this year, here is a typical Gram Sabha meeting taking place. This is a reminder that participative democracy must ensure courtesy, discipline and a true willingness to listen to another point of view and that we in Goa are a long distance away from such ideals. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187618.html Wendell Rodricks talks about Goa and his haute-couture business. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187610.html Selma Carvalho spends Christmas Day with Seraphino Antao, the East African Goan sprinter who won gold for Kenya at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. A Christmas Day picture with Seraphino is included. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187608.html Richard Burton the famous English explorer has always been somewhat of an enigma and a maverick to the English but what is he to Goans? While Burton was in Goa circa late 1840s, he wrote a scathing book, Goa and the Blue Mountains, about Goans and Goa. Here is some more on Sir Richard Burton. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187555.html Mike Ghouse pays a tribute to Jesus and wonders what it means to be religious in the 21st century. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187518.html Tomazinho Cardozo gives us a Natalanchi Porob - Ek Uzvaddachi Porob http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187500.html Hot on the deals of the alleged rape of a Russian tourist in Goa, is another incident of alleged lewd behavior by our taxi-drivers with two Russian women. Is Goa fast becoming a signpost for notoriety? Samir Kelekar quotes the women as saying that the Goa taxi-driver "hit us" with a baseball bat this Christmas season. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187569.html Dr Oscar Rebello, former convenor of the GBA, writes an open letter to Goa CM, in The Drums of War. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187433.html Subscribe to Goanet at: http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
