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**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
Planning to attend? Send an email to [email protected] with contact details
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Dear fellow Goykars
Sunburn is not a Goan music festival. I noted no element of our wonderful
Konkani music such as that brought to life by
the film Nirmon or our folk songs. It is a successful brand name held in Goa
enriching the local economy just like other
beach and mountain parties around the world.
As you are aware, empty vessels make the most sound. However, sound can be
divided into either "noise" or "music".
The clips from the Sunburn festival show visitors moving around just like in
the 1960s to Goa Trance music, to my ears a
non-musical electronic noise with no notes connected causing movements in the
liquid around the brain and reflex actions,
a bit like throwing a stone into the water, creating ripples. The amplification
of sound will indicate the distance to which
people are affected depending on age groups and deafness levels. This has no
comparison to the sound of the grand
piano or a proper dance band that is representative of our talented local
community musicians.
It has therefore pleased me to inform you, by kind favour of Dolcy D'Cruz
writing in OHeraldo, of a Charity Event in aid of
Childs Play India Foundation by the stunning stratosperic sopranos performed by
Patricio Rozario, Susanne Hurrell and
Joanne D'Mello celebrating the female voice tomorrow the 4th January at the
Kala Academy, Panjim, Goa at 7pm. I am
sure that those attending will appreciate the sound in the form of "music". I
take this opportunity to wish them a successful
and enjoyable evening.
The excitement of Sunburn created the human excrement on the beach in Candolim
awaiting to be cleared by the tide of the
Arabian Sea. There is also evidence in photographs of this filthy practice at
Salmona Springs and the Panjim Ferry Boat
Ramp amongst other places. This can only indicate an illiterate section of Goa
human inhabitants and its visitors who can
be called the Lost Potty Trained Generation. I do not mean clay pots where we
store mole, parra that is harvested from
the sea. Perhaps the litter lying around is used to wipe their bottoms, do
these people ever wash their hands before
meeting and greeting each other by shaking hands, handling food and drink and
counting money. Bank and restaurant
workers need to take note and ask to be protected by wearing gloves avoiding
potential health hazards for them.
This, however, is not unique to Goa. I have been to Goykar events in the
London, United Kingdom, where parents waiting
in line for a toilet provided by organisers prompt their children to pee on the
floor.
In Goa where jewellery and cazars are more important than health care and job
creation, I would be interested if there are
any statistics as to what our people are dying off and what age group.
In the United Kingdom we have a saying that when the population is healthy the
economy of the country follows likewise.
The civil authorities in Candolim must have made arrangements with the clear up
bill to the organisers or did they?
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
3 January 2012
[email protected]
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