*** Illustrious Academician and Historian (Alban Couto's tribute to JC-A)

[Goanet Reader]

EPW Commentary
January 21, 2006

Tribute: John Correia-Afonso

Illustrious Academician and Historian

John Correia-Afonso had a
brilliant academic career in
history and economics, which he
taught before joining the
priesthood. His contributions
to the writing of Jesuit
history comprise his Jesuit
Letters and Indian History, The
Ignation Vision of India and
The Jesuits in India. But it
was his realisation of the
workings of a pervasive force
that animated the structures of
Goan society that led him to
modify the interpretation of
history as conditioned only by
the material means of
production.

Alban Couto

With his characteristic humility, John-Correia-Afonso would
have disclaimed the title of a historian in the sense of
being an expert; he would have preferred the second sense of
being called a student of history. His birthplace was Goa, at
Benaulim, signifying in Konkani the place where the arrow
fell from the bow of the mythical Parasurama, causing the
waters of the Arabian sea to recede, thereby bringing about
the creation of Goa. Not far away in the same district of
Salsette, at Sancoale, is the birthplace of the great Indian
scholar and historian, D D Kosambi (1907-1966). He
revolutionised the writing of Indian history. But it was his
realisation of the workings of a pervasive force that
animated the structures of Goan society that led him to
modify the interpretation of history as conditioned only by
the material means of production.

This metaphysical influence is palpable in the career and
work of John Correia-Afonso. His family, deeply religious,
was imbued with a broad liberal culture. His father,
Francisco, an eminent educationist known for his erudition,
wit, and repartee, was a star in the cosmopolitan and
intellectually challenging life of Bombay of those times.
They venerated the English writer, Chesterton, known also for
his wit, and in Francisco’s words of “a rich humanity
sublimated by transcendent spirituality; a flaming devotion
for democracy and liberty, together with a deep reverence for
authority and tradition”. These, John sought to combine with
the sense of mission which he found in Ignatius of Loyola,
the founder of the Society of Jesus. A brilliant academic
career in history and economics, which he taught before
becoming a jesuit priest in 1946, was enriched by studies in
theology and philosophy in Sri Lanka, Spain and US. He could
hold his own with some of the sharpest intellects for which
the Society was well known.He rose rapidly and reached
virtually the highest rung of the society, becoming its
secretary-general in Rome during 1967-70, and then regional
assistant (for India) to the superior general during 1970-75.

Departure from Rome  

There were rumours as to why he left Rome for India. Was his
departure connected to the misgivings in Rome about the
course of policies followed by the jesuits in developing
countries especially in Latin America, where the conduct of
liberation theology of national identity and social justice
seemed to be pushing priests into politics? The changes were
effected in the top order of the jesuit hierarchy which
eventually led to the change of superior general. Whatever
may have been the reasons for John’s departure, it did not
dim his vision. It was expressed quietly and firmly in his
academic work as principal of the St Xavier’s College, and
then as director of the Indian Institute of Indian History
and Culture from 1976 to 1990,which was renamed as the Heras
Institute to commemorate his mentor’s pioneering work and
scholarship in Indological studies and history.

The writing of history was itself undergoing radical changes,
moving away from the dry-as-dust narration of battles and
political acts of rulers. The new emerging dimensions of the
study of history were debated and discussed in their bearing
on research in Indian history in workshops and seminars
organised by John. In Historical Research in India (1979)
edited by him, comprising papers and reports of seminars, a
noteworthy contribution was made by Ashim Das Gupta, head of
the department of history at Santiniketan, who referred to
the inter-disciplinary approach mainly within the social
sciences. “Indian history has emancipated itself from the
earlier preoccupations with politics understood in terms of
the individual actors and is moving towards an exploration of
the structure within which the individuals acted”.

This approach to Indian history also meant the assessment of
external influences that were adapted by and assimilated in
the pluralism of the Indian tradition. John took the stand
with many others against the trends that sought to denigrate
and even eradicate such influences. He initiated the
safeguarding of heritage structures of
Anglo-Portuguese-Indian synthesis. He established the Bombay
Local History Society and organised walks that explained the
value and significance of Bombay’s heritage. But there were
difficulties in the acceptance of Portuguese influences which

*** Goanet News Bytes * Feb 7, 2006 * Punish those vandalising religious places, says GPCC

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

Goanet News Bytes
Summaries
Feb 7, 2006
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o Punish those vandalising religious places, says Goa
  Pradesh Congress Committee. Places of worship are being
  targeted by the culprits at the behest of certain
  people working behind the curtains to derive political
  mileage out of these anti-social incidents, who are
  out to create tension in Goa, says Ravi Naik. (NT)

o Sonia to visit Goa for a day in last week of Feb. (NT)
o Goa music industry loses Rs 100 crores due to piracy. (NT)
o Damodar College seminar on infrastructure dvpt in Goa. (NT)
o Raia villagers oppose a Muslim burial ground in village.(NT)
o Supreme Court order (on noise) dampens dance halls. (NT)

o Stiff opposition to Ravi Naik heading GSIDC. (GT)
o Dayanand Narvekar resigns as Goa Cricket Assn president. (GT)
o Margao council's lethargy results in garbage accumulation.GT
o Chicalim panchayat reaffirms opposition to shipyard. (GT)
o Goa Today Feb 2006 issue on stands: Mridangam maestro Malbarao.
o Passports applied for till Jan 9 have been cleared. (NT)
o Municipal union extends support to ban on plastics. (NT)
o Meta Strips has changed its name to Meta Copper  Alloy Ltd.
o Cashew crop auction on Feb 14, from 10 am onwards. 
o Workshop on impact of WTO on Indian SMEs: Fidalgo, Feb 10.
o Govt announces new fares for autos, taxis, motorcycles.NT
o Court calls for report on garbage dump at Mapusa. (H)
o Speed breakers turning into death traps at Sanguem. (H)
o Mormugao road show to make citizens aware of plastics ban. (H)

o GU English dept plans one-day literary fest Cynosure 2006, Feb 10.
o Two-day seminar on March 6-7 at International Centre on
  Higher Education in Goa: A Roadmap and Priorities (2006-2016)

FIFTH VOLUME of the Goa Medical College archives to be released
on February 10 at 3.30 pm at the GMC lecture hall 1. Edited by
Professor R Wiseman Pinto, the archives is published every
two years. The first was published in 1961. Articles featured
in the latest issue will include contributions from consultant
physician Dr Francisco Colaco of Margao, obstetrician and
gynaec Dr Arcanjo de Menezes of Margao and former GMC dean
Dr V G Dhume. It was earlier published as Arquivos da Escola
Medico-Cirurgica de Goa. (NT)

LAW OF THE JUNGLE: The rape of the Socorro plateau (near
Porvorim) has commenced. In what seems to be a preview of
the damage that the proposed IT Park will do to the
fragile ecology of this area, quarrying activity has
been underway at Vaddem for a considerable period of time
in private forest land. Similar as in the case of Assagao,
the powers that be seem hell-bentn on doing away with
pristine forest land, which are the last surviving in Bardez.GT

FOR THE FIRST TIME, the premier of a major Hindi film was
held in Goa. Pooja Bhat's film 'Holiday', the story of which is
based on Goa, was screened at the INOX on Monday, in the
presence ofits cast. Ms Bhat said the Rs 3.5 crore film
was shot over 41 days, 39 of these were in Goa. She said
the film celebrates ordariness. Pooja Bhat owns a 
house in Goa and she got married here. The film is about
a family which is holidaying in Goa, and a change of 
events changes their lives. (NT)

'DOSHMUKT': The acquittal of four accused in the Mala/
Fontainhas vandalism case is big news, in sections of the
Goa press. It's a five-column headline on top of Page 1
in Gova Doot, the paper seen as being close to the BJP.
The headline reads: Naguesh Karmalimsah choughe doshmukt'.
Navhind Times, in a small report on Page 3, reports that
the advocate for the accused Pravin Phaldesai had brought
to the notice of the court that there was no evidence on
record to show that all four persons were involved
in the crime. Herald says: Thought the newspapers had
flashed reports of the damage caused by the vandals, the
police moved at a snail's pace and, in January 2005, the
Parrikar government closed the case. (Goanet)

THREE JUVENILES, aged between 13-16, were arrested from
Mangor Hill Vasco for forcing an eight-year-old boy to
allegedly consume liquor and then involve him in
unnatural sex. (NT)

PRAKAASH EYE HOSPITAL at Vasco promises cataract surgery
performed the simplest way with only three drops of
anesthesia... no injection, no bandage, no stitch, no pain.
Minimum cost of surgery Rs 6000 adjusted to suit any patient.

-
DEATHS AND REMEMBRANCES:
- 

CUNCOLIM: Macedon Gomes of Panzorconim, b 1985
CURTORIM: Anthony Joaquim Mesquita, beblo b 1981.
NAVELIM: Mrs Gopi Ramchandani of Dongorim.
NAVELIM: Jose Rebelo Khudov Jose of Cruz Nagar/exAbuDhabi
PARRA: Ramesh Janardhan Prabhu Parrikar, freedom fighter

AGASSAIM: Francis Xavier Gomes, 1st anniv
CUELIM: Heriberto Francisco Maria da Cunha, month's mind.
CURTORIM: Ana Clementina Menezes e Coelho Elu
LOUTOLIM: Jose Luis de Sa, month's mind
MARGAO: Alzira de Piedade Costa e Antao, Pedda. Month's mind.
MERCES: Mohiddin A Kammar, 

*** Goanet Reader: From stethoscope to keyboard... an expat novel set in the US (Cornel DaCosta)

[Goanet Reader]

FROM STETHOSCOPE TO KEYBOARD: AN EXPAT NOVEL SET IN THE U.S.

On Thin Ice.
A novel by Meena and Gilbert Lawrence

Review by Cornel DaCosta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On receiving this novel via the Internet, I enjoyed reading
it entirely on my computer screen. This was a novelty for me,
but clearly, in the future, similar reading material may be
available on paper only if one chooses to generate or obtain
a printed copy.

From the start, in the novel, we are offered graphic accounts
of the snow and ice terrain where the Reddy family spent some
of their winter leisure in the region around and beyond the
small city of Utica in upper New York State.

The outdoor life much enjoyed by the foursome of father, (a
doctor by profession), mother, and two teenage sons is
explained in considerable detail, especially, their
enthusiasm for the sport of ice hockey and their
participation in team games against rival local teams.

The two sons and the father participate fully and
enthusiastically, with strong encouragement from the mother,
until such time when reservations are expressed among family
members about the wisdom of the father extending himself so
vigorously in the highly demanding sport.

Following gentle persuasion, Dr Reddy concedes that he ought
to consider an alternative sport on ice and is soon drawn
towards curling. He engages in this pursuit as intensely as
he did in ice hockey and soon masters the finer points of the
sport to participate well in local competitions.

The novel succeeds in making sport fairly central and
pleasurable in the lives of family members. There is an
implicit and explicit determination to be thoroughly
disciplined in sport as well as in dedication to education
and becoming productive citizens in their new country of
settlement from their origins in Bombay, India.

  Sport is therefore, one vehicle through which
  integration or incorporation into American society
  is largely accomplished. For a Brit like me, it is
  fascinating to note the significant importance for
  many newcomers to the USA to become 'American' as
  rapidly as possible, quite unlike comparable
  parallels with the British scene in the UK.

Any reader of the novel would clearly note, in my view, the
self-appraisal sincerely expressed which seems to say,
haven't we been very positive and done well here?

However, some reflective analyses within the novel of the
advantages and disadvantages of making the immigrant move
from India to the USA would clearly not have been amiss. 
Such a perspective has perhaps been marginally overlooked,
even though there are good descriptions of the preparation
and consumption of Indian food in the family and in
neighbourhood social settings. There is however, an
unmistakable message in the novel that, South Asian
immigrants to the USA have invariably been industrious and
have contributed positively to many aspects of American society.

On returning from a vacation recently in British Columbia,
Canada, which included an awe-inspiring time in the Rockies,
I noted a lot of similarity in BC with the impressive terrain
as depicted in On Thin Ice around Utica. Thus, my planned
return to British Columbia is likely to be shelved, for now,
in favour of a visit to Utica, much closer than the ten-hour
flight to British Columbia from the UK.

The dimension in the novel relating to Dr Reddy's dedication
to his work as an oncologist and his concern for the
well-being of his patients reflects commitment to hard work
and a personal and family philosophy of resolute endeavour.

That this facet is shared positively with the local immigrant
and host community is very evident. The novel is also well
utilised to advance the lay person's knowledge of cancer
generally, how to cope with it and what preventable steps
need to be considered in society. In this respect, there is
indeed an excellent and valuable medical and social message
for all who come across the novel.

Clearly, the wise decision to work and live in a small city
like Utica helps the Reddy family greatly to engage fully in
varied social settings through the use of quality time, which
may not have been available in the city of New York itself.

I have encountered discussion recently, on the concept of the
short novel in the quality press. Increased support appears
to be offered to the short story and novel when traditionally
the mighty tome has held pride of place in the minds of
readers, metaphorically privileging the marathon, or the
1500m, over the 100m. In this sense, from memory, I recall
Aida Edemariam arguing persuasively that, in a short novel,
every word, every turn, every thought matters and that it's a
quality of concentration hard to sustain over a longer novel.
Thus, I was able to glean that, if they are good, short
stories and novels resonate far beyond their size, as is the
case with On Thin Ice.

  Whilst reading the novel, I did grapple with the
  question as 

*** Goanet Reader: Remembering a forgotten intellectual from yesterday's Goa

[Goanet Reader]

REMEMBERING A FORGOTTEN INTELLECTUAL FROM YESTERDAY'S GOA

Goa Through the Eyes of Fanchu Loyola
by Dr Carmo D'Souza
A REVIEW by Joseph Deva
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

When Fanchu Loyola left for Portugal for good, in the late
fifties, he left no trace of himself back in Goa.  Since
then, or after his death, few academicians have taken up the
task of collecting his writings and placing them in a proper
socio-historical perspective.

The latest to take up such enterprise is Dr Carmo D’Souza,
who through is book 'Goa Through the Eyes of Fanchu Loyla'
resurrects an intellectual from obscurity.

Most writers leave their omnipresent voice in whatever
enterprise they undertake. But, in this book, Dr Carmo
painstakingly picks up bits and pieces of information, weaves
them in proper sequence, giving rise to a figure or a
character -- whatever you may call him -- who stands up and
speaks for himself. Nowhere the author overshadows the
character, who has a total autonomy for propounding his own
political and economic philosophies.

An interesting and important feature throughout the book is
the effective use of irony (by the central character), which
at times reaches a romantic proportion. Irony is creating
what appears to be a firm picture of something, only to
reveal that what was promised in the original is, in fact,
quite different. A good example is something like the
following: a stage show presents a beautiful woman who sings
a tender, seductive song celebrating feminine beauty and
then, at the end, abruptly the performer rips off her hair to
reveal that she is, in fact, a man, and that the audience is
a bunch of idiots to have fallen for the illusion.

In this work, irony begins at the very first chapter itself
-- dedicating a hard-hitting article to the Governor General
of Goa for promulgating an 'oppressive' and 'tyrannical'
press law. It is like saying, I still love you', after
bashing up some one.

The book also teaches a few skills at interpreting law, even
an oppressive one at that, to our advantage. The skill that
one learns is like the trick of tightening the noose by
apparently loosening the rope.

  As long as the Portuguese ruled Goa, they
  commemorated the 1510 re-conquest of Goa. Quite
  unexpectedly the Governor General invited Loyola to
  deliver the keynote address at the function. There
  was a danger that he would be misunderstood, or
  even 'understood'. Either way he could land behind
  bars. He had to connect what he had been called to
  speak on and what he wanted to tell the
  authorities. To achieve this end, he exploits the
  words, India will speak for herself and for me,
  written by the dying conqueror Afonso de
  Albuquerque to his king who had wronged him. By
  exploiting these words he delivers a scathing blow
  on the Portuguese rulers, yet without inviting
  their wrath.

For many of us glorifying the memory of conquerors is
unacceptable and, for some even, condemnable. In fact, in Goa
some diehard nationalists threatened to wreak havoc during
the Fontainhas art festival, which they perceived as
glorifying the memory of conquerors. And some did manage to
destroy some plaques bearing the names of colonizers.

But, here is a dove propounding a vision just like Martin
Luther King Jr's dream wherein the descendents of the
conquered people shaking hands with the descendents of the
conquerors, singing the same song of love together.

Autonomy is a midway between slavery and independence or
rather the penultimate step before independence. No colonies
would have rejected autonomy then, leave alone independence.

But, here we have a freak rejecting autonomy -- provoking
outrage and condemnation not only then but probably now too
--  because India did not have the basic training in civic
and political skills. (And) the four years of self-government
have been bitter and painful... experience... The
self-government, instead of improving the economic situation
in the colony, has worsened it. (Moreover), under the
umbrella of the Legislative Council the ministers abuse the
system to line their own pockets.

To borrow a phrase from T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral,
whether King rules or baron rules it does not matter. What
actually does matter is how he rules. Do the people benefit
from the ruler and are their needs are fulfilled?

And, if you thought defection and misbehaviour by elected
representatives is a modern trend wait a minute... walk back
in time to 1923 and witness the first defection unfolding
before you. Of course, someone in today's Goa could well
dismiss it as nothing because you have seen much large-scale
defections, coups and counter coups. You would also dismiss
the assault on a member of the legislative council as
insignificant, for haven't we witnessed bloody wars in UP and
Bihar legislative assemblies -- not to mention the Filipe
Neri Rodrigues, Girish 

*** GoanetReader: Goa's panchayats, rich promise... sad reality

[Goanet Reader]

BrieFNcounters: GOA's PANCHAYATS, RICH PROMISE... SAD REALITY

Tanga-born Soter D'Souza came back home to Goa at the age of
10. Today, the 46 year-old former student of Britto's is a
man of many roles. After studying for awhile for the
priesthood, he took an unlikely decision to join the
right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party. But, subsequent to being
the BJP secretary of the state Minority Morcha (in
2001-2002), unlike others jumping on the gravy-train, he quit
that party when it was at the height of its influence at both
the national and state levels. 

He enjoys photography and does it semi-professionally.
Besides that, he takes pride in the sense of 'dignity of
labour' instilled in him, and has been delivering newspapers
and milk around parts of Porvorim since his school-boy days.

But more than his brief honeymoon with politics, Soter has
been a long-time campaigner on social issues. Here, he speaks
about his very mixed experience with the panchayats, the
village-based bodies that are meant, in theory, to give voice
to the grassroots across India.

  Soter was himself part of the Socorro panchayat, an
  influential-if-controversial body just on the
  outskirts of Goa's state-capital Panjim, which has
  seen skyrocketing land values due to the
  real-estate boom. He quit his panchayat seat two
  months before its five-year term ended. He did this
  because basically my presence in the panchayat
  [and reputation as a campaigner] was being used by
  the then sarpanch to blackmail builders and extract money.

Soter's father was also the sarpanch of Socorro in the
mid-eighties. So he brings in an interesting understanding of
these village institutions, introduced into post-1961 Goa. On
the one hand, they hold the potential for significantly
democraticising power -- specially in a state which has been
dominated by hierarchies and elites for generations ... and
dictatorships for a large part of the 20th century. On the
other, the panchayats have been corrupted and stymied so
badly, that the cure could be worse than the disease.

Excepts of an interview with Frederick Noronha
fred at bytesforall dot org

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Q: What do you see as the potential of panchayats in today's Goa?
-

One of the greatest asset in the panchayat raj system is the
direct participation of the people in governance, through the
gram sabha. Few other systems have such a facility for people
to directly participate.

-
Q: But does this apply to really vital matters? Can the
people decide for themselves in reality?
-

True. When you talk about governance, it should actually be
for all matters that concern the lives of the people, living
in a particular community, i.e. the village. Therefore,
Schedule XI of the Constitution of India gives 29 areas on
which panchayats can manage and govern. These areas range
from the management of forests to the generation of energy in
the area.

-
Q: But, what's the reality in today's Goa?
-

  Unfortunately, inspite of Goa being one of the most
  literate states in the country, hardly any
  responsibilities for these 29 functions have been
  actually handed over to the panchayats, by the
  state government.

Even in the whole area of construction permissions, which the
government claims is one of the big powers for the panchayat,
is being monitored by the Town and Country Planning, which is
the technical body. Also, in the event of any rejection of
any construction permission by the panchayat, finally it is
the Director of Panchayats -- a bureaucrat -- who has the
power to over-rule the decision of the panchayat.

  As far as other things go, you have other agencies
  of the government who are doing the work that
  should have been done by the panchayats. For
  example, the Forest Department is doing forest
  protection and management. You have the Water
  Resources Department, the District Rural
  Development Agency, or the newly-formed State
  Health Society eating into what should have been
  powers of the panchayat. Then you have the MPLAD
  (MPs' Local Area Development Scheme) and MLA
  schemes which do nothing but the same work as the
  panchayat is supposed to do.

All these works that the panchayat undertakes are finally
monitored by government bureaucrats. These bureaucrats are
directly under the control of some politician -- MLA or
minister. If the panchayat body doesn't support that
particular politician, then permissions 

[Goanet] PG wins hearts and heads

[D'Souza, Avelino]

PG wins hearts and heads 
The Electric New Paper, Singapore
J Rajendran
February 08, 2006  

ALTHOUGH its name suggests otherwise, US consumer products giant Procter
 Gamble (PG) is not in the habit of taking risks.

It relies on tried and tested methods and people like Dr Colin G D'Silva
to maintain the high standards that have made it one of the biggest
companies in the world, selling everything from diapers to potato chips.

Dr D'Silva is the only principal scientist at the company's Singapore
office at Novena Square.

It specialises in a range of skincare and haircare products such as
Pantene, Head  Shoulders, Rejoice, Clairol and Olay.  Grooming products
that can give your self esteem a boost, according to him.

But the holder of a Masters and Ph D in biochemistry and microbiology
from McGill University in Canada is no staid professor in a white coat.

With his goatee, gelled hair and designer clothes, he looks more a
fashion guru than someone labouring away in a lab with test tubes and
microscopes.
'I'm a people person. I love interacting with people and I love working
in teams. I don't like sitting behind a desk,' says the 39-year-old head
of PG's beauty division here.  'I'm an extrovert and I'm constantly
travelling and meeting consumers, beauty editors and others in the
industry to find out what people want.'

MEN'S COSMETICS 
  Mind you, the beauty business is no longer a ladies' market.  Which
makes very good hearing for Dr D'Silva and his RD assistants.

More and more men are turning to moisturisers, anti-ageing creams and
hair colour to deal with wrinkles and greys.  Says Dr D'Silva: 'Ten
years ago you would have found hardly any men colouring their hair in
Singapore.  'Now you only have to walk down Orchard Road to see men with
every shade of colour imaginable. If you look good and feel good your
self-esteem gets a boost.' 

Although born in Mumbai, Dr D'Silva's grandparents were from Goa and the
Goan curries he loves to cook are a constant reminder of his roots.
He was one of Mumbai's top students before winning scholarships to study
in Canada.  He went on to work for the Canadian government and then the
Japanese government, researching enzymes used in food and industry.

But he wanted something more people-oriented and entered the world of
mousse and moisturisers when he joined PG in Kobe seven years before
moving to Singapore in 2004.  So does Dr D'Silva try out his own
'medicine'?  Indeed he does, shampooing twice a day and applying
anti-ageing lotions just as often.  As he readily admits: 'There is no
way we can reverse the ageing process. We can retard it at best and
that's where our products come in.
'But at the end of the day, it's important to lead a well-balanced life.
'Eat balanced meals with plenty of fruits and vegetables, drink plenty
of water, exercise and get sufficient sleep. And stay clear of alcohol
and cigarettes.' In short, don't gamble with your

[Goanet] Foundation laid before finalising plans

[Gabe Menezes]

http://oheraldo.in/node/9524

Foundation laid before finalising plans

BY HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, FEB 6 - The State Urban Development Agency (SUDA) might have
laid the foundation stone for the market complex-cum-community hall in
Cuncolim last month much fanfare, but the plans for the Rs 3.5 crore
project aren't finalised as yet, so to say.
This became apparent after a resident of Cuncolim, Jose Cruz Gomes
applied to SUDA Member Secretary, Daulta Havaldar to issue a certified
copy of the proposed plans to approach the court to scrap the project.
In his reply, Havaldar mentioned that the finalisation of the plan is
likely to take some more time by the Project Consultant, Dean D'Cruz
as the planning involves study of hydrology, topography, soil
parameters etc.
Saying that the planning of the project is assigned to D'Cruz, the
SUDA member secretary, however, promised to make available copy of a
plan as and when his office receives the same.
Incidentally, Gomes has sought a copy of the plan to file a Public
Interest Litigation, claiming the project is not in the best interest
of the public, especially school children.
In his application, Gomes further stated that the project will cause
inundation of water during the monsoons, saying the project is likely
to come up on the traditional water drain.
It was on January 18 last that SUDA Chairman and Urban Development
Minister, Joaquim Alemao had laid the foundation stone for the Rs 3.5
crore project on land which was acquired during the tenure of the BJP
ruled Cuncolim Municipal Council.

--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Better not to talk

[Gabe Menezes]

http://oheraldo.in/node/9487

Better not to talk

Do are politicians know what they are saying? It is understood that
during election time, it is very nice to utter grandiose statements
which make do not make sense to the educated but sounds extremely
important and catchy to the common man. Who are we trying to fool and
why are we trying to fool the common people because in the long run
these lies stand exposed and the cat is out of the bag. The latest
buzz word that is doing the rounds in Goa is knowledge based economy.
Fine, sounds nice but the basic question that should be asked to all
our politicians who want to take Goa to the next level of development
all economies are based on  knowledge so develop the knowledge
through education.'' And that comes to the second   question do Goa's
students, have those educational tool, capable of imbibing that level
of education which will help them transform the Goan economy.
Doubtful.
The reasons are simple. While the teaching community in Goa is capable
and has the potential to take Goa's students to higher planes, are the
tools available to help them along. In Goa, there are over 400 schools
in Goa without proper sanitary facilities, some do not have
laboratories for scientific experiments, what about libraries and many
do not even have the necessary physical training equipment for a
gymnasium class. Without the tools how to be shape the students and if
that is not there then where can knowledge be transmitted.
Remember fifteen years ago how a White Paper was released with great
fanfare how employment would be provided for all. Till date, that
White Paper is still white as no one is reading it. But on the
contrary, the unemployment rate is on the rise – currently over 90,000
and rising. What happened to that White Paper and the grandiose plans
to give employment to all? And then there is that 80 per cent
employment for Goans? Was it in Goa or was it in other states or
countries? All these statements and nothing has happened, except just
talk and talk – with no meaning. Better not to talk.

--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Catholic Priest makes Bollywood Film

[VABaliga]

  
  
'Aisa 
  Kyon Hota Hai' is entertainment with a 
message

  
  

  
By Vishal 
  Arora
  
Tuesday, 07 February , 
  2006
  

  

  

  
Aisa 
  Kyon Hota Hai? is a purely 
  Bollywood film thought out, conceived and executed by a Catholic priest. 
  For the first time in the history, the Catholic Church in India has joined 
  hands with Bollywood to make a feature film. 
  The film, the brainchild of Dr Dominic 
  Emmanuel SVD and presented by Bollywood film-maker Mahesh Bhatt, 
  highlights the role of love, loyalty and commitment in relationships. 
  
  Directed by former UNICEF officer Ajay 
  Kanchan, the film carries a message on two crucial issues facing the 
  country: HIV/AIDS and communalism. The film will hit the cinema halls on 
  February 17. 
  Set in the college campus, the story 
  revolves around a single mother Kiran (Rati Agnihotri) and her son Raj 
  (Aryan Vaid). Though Kiran brings up Raj with a lot of affection, he grows 
  up with no respect for emotional relationships. It’s not love, but lust 
  that is the reality of his life. Every now and then he is also haunted by 
  the thought that he is an illegitimate child. He wants to achieve success 
  and fame so that he can gain legitimacy and get people to respect his 
  mother. 
  Sifyspoke to Emmanuel, national president of the Signis 
  India (Catholic Association for Radio, Television  Cinema) and 
  spokesman for the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese, on the Church joining hands 
  with Bollywood. 
  Emmanuel holds a PhD in communication from 
  the UK. Currently he hosts a weekly television programme called the 
  Voice of 
  Christianity, which is aired on 
  Jain TV every Sunday. He has also made two tele-films that were aired on 
  Doordarshan and Zee TV. 
  Excerpts: 
  How did you get the idea of making a 
  Bollywood film? 
  The original idea was to make a 
  tele-serial on inter-religious harmony, which still remains the main theme 
  of the film. I have been writing on the theme, and recently finished a 
  series of books on value education for school children where the idea is 
  emphasised. I have also broadcast on radio on this theme earlier. But 
  since there were no takers for such a TV serial, we thought of making a 
  film. I must, however, hasten to add that at that time I never thought 
  that the film would take such a shape and turn out to be an all out 
  Bollywood film. 
  Can we call your endeavor an “unholy 
  alliance for a holy purpose”? 
  I don't think that it has anything to do 
  with being "unholy". It is all about using a medium, which is not only the 
  most popular in India, but also available to everyone. The question is how 
  one uses the medium. Any medium can be used for a good purpose or a bad 
  one. A knife in the hands of a doctor can remove a tumour and in the hands 
  of an assailant can kill someone. It depends on who uses the medium and 
  for what purpose. 
  Why did you choose issues like HIV/AIDS 
  and communalism out the numerous issues facing our country? 
  I have been working on inter-religious 
  harmony and understanding it for the past 25 years. I did two weekly radio 
  talks on Radio Veritas Asia for five years, from 1988 to1993. I then did a 
  Ph D from London on communication as dialogue. So inter-religious harmony, 
  due to the lack of which communalism breaks out, was the most natural of 
  choices. And since the curse of HIV/AIDS is growing everyday, threatening 
  to wipe out all the progress the country is making, and taking the lives 
  of so many, especially the young ones, it was important to include it as 
  well. 
  Do you think issues like HIV/AIDS and 
  communalism will sell in our country? 
  Our purpose in making the film is not to 
  make profit. But it has five songs and all the Bollywood ingredients of 
  entertainment, including a mild item number with wonderful music, which 
  was released by Times Music on January 2. If we can combine education with 
  entertainment and call it edutainment, that would be a great achievement. 
  And when you go to see the film, you will find out that we have hit on a 
  very successful formula. 
  What is the USP of your film? 
  
  Entertainment with a message. Enhancing 
  the risk perception of young people about their vulnerability, and 
  encouraging them to delay their sexual debut; safe sexual practices and 
  stress on formation of long-term loyal and faithful relationships with 
  their partners. And becoming aware of the prejudices against people of 
  other religions, which give rise to communal violence and bloodshed. 
  
  How is the 

[Goanet] Goa and the central services

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Goa and the central services
oHERALDo
Brig(Retd) Ian da Costa, Saligao.

We have been hearing talk of an IAS Cadre for Goa. Manohar Parrikar had
mooted this idea when he was in power, but did not act on it. Perhaps he
felt, like many others did, that Goa was too small a state, to have its
own independent cadre. Where, would the officials be transferred to?
Would there be enough of slots to effect a reasonable turn around
amongst them, so that, we would have from time to time, fresh ideas and
fresh air blown into various Departments?  Will the same officials
develop a vested interest in certain people, parties or pet projects as
they would be basically turned around within the same Secretariat? These
questions tend to raise doubts in an analytical mind about the outcome
of such a move, and the status quo remains. Many present day bureaucrats
come to Goa with the aim of acquiring a plot of Comunidade land at throw
away prices, building a house on it and selling the same for two to
three times the price in later years. There is little or no commitment
to the state or the people from them.

However there is ample scope to get certain IAS and IPS and certain
other Central Service Officers of Goan origin being posted in on
attachment from various other larger State cadres. They could be made
available on request, for about, one tenure of three years in a decade.
In that way we could have competent sons of the soil handling our
affairs. There will definitely be more commitment to our cause and to
the people, of which they are one. Our State Government needs to take up
this matter with the Central Government to get a positive response.
Where there is a will, there is definitely a way that can be found. But
has any Government tried for this so far? The answer will be in the
negative. 

In fact we have a number of distinguished Goan officers in the Central
Services who have done us proud. One such officer is Richard D'Souza of
the Indian Forest Service who hails from Saligao. He was recently
approved to be Chief Conservator of Forests by the Government of India.
He opted for Goa, but for reasons best known to the present Government,
his request was turned down. Is it that good, forthright and honest
officers are no longer wanted here in Goa? Are we only looking for the,
Yes Sir types?  Disappointed, frustrated and dejected Richard was posted
to Arunachal Pradesh in North East India. This is just one instance of
this kind, but other good Central Service officers of Goan origin are
reluctant to offer their services to Goa for fear of being similarly
humiliated.  Our Government needs to know that our people want and
desire, good, honest and forthright Goan officers as the Secretaries to
Government and as heads of various Departments. 

The Government is therefore well advised to feel the pulse and take
proper and immediate measures to inject enthusiasm, honesty and
efficiency into the bureaucratic system. The days of the dishonest
politicians are also numbered. The public in Goa have been fooled a
number of times with false promises and talk of grandiose projects which
are never implemented. Now the time has come for the politicians to show
their honesty of purpose or be prepared to be cast out of office. The
Government must be responsive to the people's demands! This is what
Democracy is all about! Let the will of the people prevail, as long as
we do not trample over the toes of the weaker sections or the
minorities. Even now it is not too late to get Richard D'Souza posted to
Goa. Let the Government Act.

[Goanet] 3 teenagers held for sexual intercourse

[Gabe Menezes]

http://oheraldo.in/node/9520

3 teenagers held for sexual intercourse

HERALD CORRESPONDENT
MORMUGAO, FEB 6 - In a shocking incident, three teenagers have been
booked on charges of indulging in sexual intercourse with an
8-year-old boy at Mangor-Vasco on Monday night.
According to Vasco police, the victim's mother lodged a police
complaint stating that the three young boys between 13-16 years had
sexual intercourse with her minor son.
According to the mother, the three boys forced her son to consume
liquor and later had sexual intercourse with him.
They also allegedly intoxicated another 6-year-old boy.
Vasco police has registered a case against the three boys under
Section 377 IPC and Goa Child Act.
The boys will be sent for a medical checkup, before being sent to the
Apna Ghar in Merces.

--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Churchill Bros standby

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Churchill Bros standby
HERALD SPORTS REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 7 - The All India Football Federation has named Coca Cola
Churchill Bros as standby, possibly to replace Fransa-Pax Football Club
if they do not take any further part in the NFL.  The possibility of
Churchill Bros replacing Fransa was discussed at the Emergency Committee
meeting in New Delhi today.  Churchill Bros finished ninth in the last
edition of the NFL, and being a Goan team, makes for an ideal choice.

But, the move has its own share of worries.  The groupings for the
Second Division National Football League, starting February 22, are
already in place and Churchill find mention in Group A.  At the
Emergency Committee meeting, AIFF president Priyaranjan Dasmunshi's
argument was that 10 teams were needed to stabilise the NFL structure
and the ongoing television schedule. 

It was not immediately known whether Churchill Bros would be ready to
start on two points from four games if Fransa are scratched from the
NFL.

[Goanet] Dasmunshi killing Indian Football : Pacheco

[borg costa]

 Dasmunshi killing Indian Football  : Pacheco

At a press conference for journalists, Fransa club
chairman Mr. Micky Pacheco said that he had received
AIFF's emergency committee decision at 5:30 pm and had
replied to the same within half an hour. Speaking to
the journalists he said that he sees no reason why
their protest should be rejected. 
 
 I run the club without contributions, with my own
money and yet there is no respect for the money that I
am investing. Dasmunshi has been around for 16 years
and he changes the running of the AIFF as and when he
wants. When Dr. Vijay Mallya wanted to become the
president, the constitution was changed and it became
compulsory for a person to be a part of AIFF for 5
years if they wanted to head the AIFF. This Vision
India and the World Cup dream will remain a dream
only. Pacheco also accused Dasmunshi of being
responsible for killing Indian football.  AIFF is
concerned about T.V and sponsors and not about Indian
Football. All the money that they get from this
sources is manipulated by AIFF. That is why FIFA
stopped a certain amount of money that the AIFF was
supposed to receive. He also added that he was
willing to continue in the league provided the verdict
is in their favour.  I am only asking for justice and
trying to save Indian football as Dasmunshi is killing
it. Damunshi wants only certain clubs in the NFL, he
is not interested in Indian football.

 If you'll want me to prove that Fransa is good, give
me a replay against Mahindra. Mahindra should also
write to the AIFF asking for a replay as they are
aware that the referee was wrong. I sent a letter to
the AIFF the very 2nd day of the match saying that I
won't take part in the match on the 3rd Feb. unless a
verdict is out. They asked us to appear for the
manager's meeting, and we answered in the negative.
Despite informing them, they send Air India to the
ground for the match. It just goes to show their lack
of organization? I request football lovers and the
media to please come out in the open.

When questioned on his plan of action, he replied, 
If no justice is done, I will disband my team. No club
in India has an age group structure like Fransa has.
We have 200 players registered with us in all the
various age groups. I will pay my players though.


Soccernetindia.com






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[Goanet] Margao fire service have busy day

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Margao fire service have busy day
HERALD CORRESPONDENT

MARGAO, FEB 7 - Margao fire services was kept on its toes with as many
as four fire calls on Tuesday.
Fire services first went near the Manovikas school at Sonsoddo, where
the grass had caught fire and a tent was reduced to ashes. The fire
fighters, however, saved five tents.

Two fire brigades then rushed to Orlim, where a house had caught fire.
An equal number of fire brigades later went to Navelim near the market
place, where some wood and other material at a saw mill caught fire,
causing a loss of Rs 50,000.

The fire fighters returned to Navelim at 8 pm, where a mishap had taken
place. However, the vehicles was cleared before the time fire services
reached the site.

The total loss in the three fire mishaps is estimated at Rs 81,000,
while property saved is Rs 2.6 lakh, fire officials told Herald.

[Goanet] Bogsonnem Postponed

[SamHen Porduction]

BOGSONEM POSTPONED: 
As a mark of respect to the memory of HH the late Amir  

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, the organisers has decided  

to postpone the 1st ever ladies show BOGSONNEM.   

directed by well known artist Samuel Carvalho.  

This round the Gulf trip show, which will be held in Qatar  

Dubai and lastly in Kuwait. SAMHEN PRODUCTIONS  

organisers with great difficulty have decided and rescheduled   

this show to Thursday, March 2, 2006 at Hawally A/C 

Auditorium at 6.30 p.m. as there is no other alternative

for this round trip Gulf tour. The all ladies special show  

cast who will be acting as man and ladies is from Goa   

and Bombay: Felcy, Applon, Fatima, Roma, Betty Ferns,
Betty Naz, Meena Leitao, Clara, Janet, Anju and Filina
Sapeco. Music by: NORMAN CARDOZO. Don't miss
the opportunity to watch Felcy imitating M. Boyer and
Janet as William de Curtorim. This show is well received 
by the tiatr audience both in Goa and Bombay.
For gate pasess contact organisers on 9732917 and
6364366 and at Raja Stores.
Bus will be available to and fro, and will leave from Kuwait city Opp.
Caesar's Restaurant parking lot sharp at 6.15 p.m.
on that day.


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[Goanet] Salaam ali kum!

[domnic fernandes]

I am not a convert but having lived in the Gulf region for a long time, I am 
familiar with some of the common greetings.   The correct greeting is: 
“As-Salaamu Alaykum” - not Salaam ali kum; the reply:  “Walaikum Salaam”, 
or “Walaikum Salaam Rahmatullaahi Wa Barakaatuh” (more formal).


Dev borem korum.

Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA

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[Goanet] Differences with Mikky sorted out, party growing stronger:Tripathi

[Gabe Menezes]

http://news.webindia123.com/news/printer.asp?id=242532cat=India

Differences with Mikky sorted out,party growing stronger:Tripathi
Panaji | February 07, 2006 3:43:11 PM IST

Resolving out the differences between Deputy Chief Minister and State
unit President Wilfred D'Souza and Agriculture Minister Francisco
Xavier Pascheco (Micky), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) national
secretary Chandrakant Tripathi today claimed the issue was over and no
groupism exists in the party ranks now.

Interacting with the reporters here, Mr Tripathi said that the storm
that erupted over Mr Pascheco's resignation has died down and the
party has been receiving tremendous response at its membership rally,
which is now underway.

''In coalition politics, the party's decision and common interests
takes precedence over individual differences and wishes,'' he said.

Asked whether the NCP would go alone in the coming general elections
next year, he said it was too early to say. The organisational
elections are due in March, he added.

Dr D'Souza, besides the party vice president Fatima D'Sa and general
secretary Surinder Furtado were present on the occasion, while Mikky
was conspicuously absent.

UNI BM SSS VD ND1520


--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] GCA to sell only 12,000 tickets for Apr 3 ODI in Goa

[D'Souza, Avelino]

GCA to sell only 12,000 tickets for Apr 3 ODI in Goa 
07 Feb 2006 - UNI

Panaji: The Goa Cricket Association (GCA) has decided to sell only
12,000 tickets for the second tie between India and England one-day
international (ODI) to be played at Nehru stadium Fatorda here on April
three. 

Talking to reporters here last night, GCA secretary Chetan Desai who is
also chairman of the organising commiteee, said the decision was taken
following the ticketgate controversy in April 2002 during the
India-Australia decider, when many spectators with bogus tickets had
entered the stadium. 
This time, the tickets will not be sold through any agent or contractor
but through banks, he added. 

He said though the stadium capacity is of 27,000, the GCA had been
forced to reduce it to around 24,000 as some seats were reserved for the
affiliated units, associate members, volunteers and other associations
as per the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) protoccol.

Besides the BCCI condition, the pitch and stadium renovation works will
start once the Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) hands over the stadium to
them on February 10.  Therefore, seating capacity had been reduced, he
noted. 
He said in 2002, there were around 90 clubs but now 20 more clubs have
been granted affiliation. We have decided to allot passes to all these
clubs. Besides, the SAG has asked for 1,000 passes. Mr Desai said, To
check the duplication, we will do the bar coding on the tickets as well
as the seats will be numbered. The ticket bar coding exercise will
facilitate the GCA to put ticket holders under scanner to prove the
authenticity of the tickets at more than four places, he added.

He said the upcoming tie looks set to be money spinner for the GCA with
the in-stadia advertising fetching the assocation Rs one crore. The
tenders for which were opned yesterday at the GCA board meeting, went to
Delhi's 21st century media.

Mr Narvekar, who is also State Health Minister and BCCI vice president,
said former Indian Test player Dilip Sardesai will be honoured on the
day of the match.

[Goanet] Goa firms join state society to fight HIV/AIDS

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=yleftnm=lmnu2leftindx=2lselect=1chklogin=Nautono=214394

Goa firms join state society to fight HIV/AIDS
Our Regional Bureau / Panaji February 08, 2006
Eight more industrial giants have joined hands with the Goa State AIDS
Control Society (GSACS),in collaboration with the International Labour
Organisation (ILO), to create HIV/AIDS awareness among their
employees.

The companies include Zauri Agro Chemicals Ltd, D-Link, Mormugao Port
Trust (MPT), GKB Opticials, Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL), MRF, E-Merck and
Crompton Greaves. They will now be following the HIV/AIDS guidelines
policy.

The HIV/AIDS guidelines policy is based on the ILO code of practice.
�The industrial units believe that it is an asset to have a healthy
workforce, which shows their commitment towards the society, said
Manorama Bakshi, Workplace Advisor of ILO/GSACS.

It be noted that the United Breweries Ltd and Salgaonkar group of
companies were first organisations to take initiatives for HIV/AIDS
awareness.

According to Bakshi, the ILO/GSACS conducts the awareness programmes
for the workers at the industrial premises, wherein the
master-trainers are trained. The master-trainers then spread the
knowledge among their colleagues and families.

The ILO/GSACS conducts awareness workshops on various topics such as
HIV/AIDS as an issue for workers, condom promotion and behaviour
change.

Businesses are directly related to societal dynamics and need to
address the issues such as HIV/AIDS,said Nitin Kunkolienkar,
president, Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI).

Business houses in Goa are asked to develop workplace policy and
HIV/AIDS awareness programmes as an ongoing human resource strategy.

This will benefit the business houses in long run, said Kunkolienkar,
vice-president, D-Link.

More companies have approached the ILO/GSACS to create HIV/AIDS
awareness in their organisations.


--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] AICHEA DISSAK CHINTOP - Fevrerachi 8vi, 2005!

[domnic fernandes]

Gunn ek diamant ji dhor eka dusrea fatrak fafxita.

(Character is diamond that scratches every other stone.)

Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA

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[Goanet] People throng Carmelite convent to meet nun with stigmata

[joseph fernandes]

This article appeared in 'The Examiner'
www.the-examiner.org


People throng Carmelite convent to meet nun with
stigmata

Hundreds of people flocked to the Carmelite convent in
Pondicherry, January 17, seeking the blessings of
Sister Therese Margaret said to have suffered the Holy
Stigmata.

An external Sister from Thanjavur Carmel in Tamil
Nadu, Sister Margaret was on a private visit to the
Pondy monastery at the request of the local Carmelite
nuns.

Sister Rosy, as she is popularly known, first suffered
the passions of Jesus on Good Friday last year, it is
said. She bled in the head from the agony of the crown
of thorns, on the shoulders due the cross and the
agony of the thongs on her back and in the palms and
feet. Since then, she experienced the sufferings from
Thursday night till Saturday.

Starting with swelling of the palms with bursting
pain, the blood gushed out or oozed from the palms and
feet on Friday during Mass or prayer time. On Sunday
morning she was her normal self with no sign of
suffering except for a scar where she bled.

The Church and the Carmelite authorities are silent on
the matter. Some are even sceptical about the whole
episode. The bleeding signs appeared last on November
26 last year. However, the passions on the head,
shoulders, back, palms and feet are said to continue
but with no outward sign. The bloodstains in her
clothes are said to smell sweet.

During her suffering, the Carmelite nun has had many
visions of the Lord talking with Mother Mary and to
her. Once the Lord asked Sister Rosy whether she
preferred internal or exterior stigmata.

She is said to have preferred internal passion.
Another time, Mother Mary cleaned dry the blood from
her wounds when a nun helping her left for community
prayer. “It is just shade of my sufferings,” Jesus
seems to have confided to Sister Rosy.

Sister Theresa is keen on meeting priests and nuns and
motivating them to living up to their vocational vows.
She is claimed to have pointed out the failings of
individual priests and nuns.

For the lay people her message is – read the Bible
daily, pray using the words of the Bible, frequent the
Holy Mass, receive Communion and say the family
prayer. People come to her seeking counselling, prayer
and healing.

Sister Therese Margaret is aged around 40 years and
wears a big smile while blessing the people. This SAR
News correspondent saw a number of priests and nuns
among the people waiting to meet with the Carmelite
nun.


Joseph Fernandes
Mumbai




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[Goanet] About 40 foreigners to be deported for undesirable acts

[D'Souza, Avelino]

About 40 foreigners to be deported for undesirable acts 
NT Staff Reporter 

Panaji Feb 7: Some of the regular foreigners visiting Goa for the past
several years are being identified for deportation as their activities
were found to be undesirable and the state police through home
department have initiated the process to ban them from being issuing
fresh visas to re-enter the country through Indian missions aboard.  The
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Mr Ujwal Mishra told The
Navhind Times that the process of identifying some of the foreigners for
deportation has been taken seriously by the police.

The police are also collecting evidence of some of the foreigners who
are suspected to be involved in money laundering, accumulating property,
drug peddling and other illegal activities.

Mr Mishra said the list of few foreigners for deportation has been
prepared based on the cases booked against them especially in drug cases
and other criminal activities. The cases are being put before the home
department for further action on deportation of these foreigners.
Besides, he said the police are forwarding the case history of these
identified foreigners to the Indian mission in their respective
countries so that the fresh visas should not be issued to them.

Sources in the department said that nearly 40 foreigners have been
short-listed for deportation and their papers are being processed to
communicate to the Indian missions to ban their re-entry into the
country.

The officials sources said that there are 218 foreigners on business
visas from several countries engaged in business activities in Goa.
Besides, many foreigners coming on the tourist visas are also venturing
into restaurant business finding it a lucrative trade by engaging a
local partner along the coastal belt.

Two Russians on tourist visas recently were found running restaurants
along Arambol belt and the Goa police has booked cases against them for
violation of the visa conditions.  The business activities undertaken by
these two Russians tourists were reported by the police station to the
foreigners branch, which had registered the cases against them for
violation of visa condition.

Majority from among the foreigners, who were deported to their
respective countries in recent past are from Nigeria. The deportation
orders were issued after they were found contravening the visa
conditions.  The state police has recently sought sanction of funds for
deporting two Nigerian nationals who have no money to return to their
country. Besides, the police department has proposed to establish a
detention camp for keeping those identified foreigners for deportation
till the period their travel formalities are completed.

The state police has issued a circular to all its police station asking
to furnish information pertaining to foreigners' business activities and
verification of their passport and visas.

The information available from the foreigner's branch of the Goa police
revealed that the foreigners on business visas are Britishers, Greek,
Dutch, Germans, Swiss, Americans, Israeli, Brazilians, Italians, French,
Canadians and Norwegians.  Most of them are engaged in restaurant
business especially along the coastal belt or organise fairs or dealing
in garment and antique business.

Besides there are 2,414 registered foreigners staying in Goa for a
period of over six months. Many of them are stated to be of Goan origin,
holding passport of different countries.  A senior official pointed out
that the Union government should formulate a policy in consultation with
the state governments, while issuing business visas. This is because the
foreigners are especially competing with the locals in small business
activities like restaurants along the coastal belt in Goa.  Besides,
some of them have started businesses like night parties, which are often
disliked by locals.  The business visas are issued for the period of one
year to five years and are extendible. The foreigners on business visas
have to establish company, duly registered under the Company Act and
later seek registration and avail the resident permit from the police.
Besides, they have to seek the Reserve Bank of India's clearance.

All visas, except tourist visas are extendible and nearly 1,000
foreigners on an average apply for extending their visas on some or the
other pretext to stay in Goa. Among these majority are of Goan origin.
The powers of extending the visas are vested on the state home ministry.
Some of them are seeking the PIO card which allows them to stay in Goa
for 15 years.

[Goanet] Roman script supporters to boycott Konkani meet

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Roman script supporters to boycott Konkani meet 
NT Staff Reporter 

Panaji Feb 6: The Dalgado Konknni Akademi (DKA) today gave a call to the
real followers of Konkani language to boycott the silver jubilee
literary conference of the Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Parishad, scheduled
to be held at Kala Academy complex, here, from February 10 to 12,
bringing to the fore the sharp divide between the supporters of Konkani
in Devnagri and Roman scripts.

The DKA president, Mr Wilson Mazarello, addressing a press conference,
today said that a symbolic rally will be held at Azad Maidan, on
February 10, to display an active support to Konkani in Roman script.

The rally is not a show of strength and will be participated by those
who support equal status for Konkani in both scripts, including around
30 noted Konkani writers, he added.  Appealing to the Konkani lovers to
boycott the literary conference and openly show their protest, Mr
Mazarello said that DKA demands from the government an equal status to
Konkani written in Roman script at par with Konkani written in Devnagri
script in the Official Language Act 1987.  Imposition of Devnagri
script and a particular dialect as the standard Konkani have resulted in
driving away the minority community from the Konkani language, he said,
adding DKA regrets to state that the imposition of Devnagri script for
Konkani has divided the Goan community. 

Mr Mazarello further said, The Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Parishad,
instead of respecting the varieties of Konkani and thereby forging unity
among the various regions, communities, dialects and scripts, has caused
irreparable damage to the unity of Konkani, by adopting a retrograde
policy of one script, one dialect/ language, one literature, one
community. Hence DKA wants to end the injustice meted out to all the
scripts of Konkani except Devnagri, he noted.  Through its above
mentioned communal policy, the Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Parishad is
sowing the seeds of communal division, hatred and disharmony in Goa and
among followers of Konkani in various scripts spread throughout the
country, he said.

Mr Mazarello also mentioned that the Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Parishad is
not registered under the Societies' Registration Act 1860, and
furthermore remained an 'exclusive club' of a fistful of persons and
organisations to get funds from government and public, to organise
unproductive conferences.  No genuine attempt has been made by the
parishad either to include active registered bodies into it or promote
Konkani language and literature, he alleged.  The DKA president also
observed, since the Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Parishad is not a
registered society, it has no legal status and right to ask for, or
receive government grants, subsidies and funds.
He further said, A coterie of writers who control Akhil Bharatiya
Konkani Parishad, also control and manipulate practically all the
matters related to Konkani at the state as well as central government
level, in various departments and institutions.

The former president of DKA, Mr Tomazinho Cardozo, speaking on the
occasion said Though the Goa Konkani Akademi, at the direction of the
government, has started planning activities for Roman Konkani, much is
left desired for this script of Konkani.

Mr Cardozo also said that he is convinced about the futility in efforts
to unite Goans through one language and one script.  How's that
possible when large number of people have richly contributed towards
Roman Konkani literature and language, and furthermore all the religious
events of the Catholic community are conducted in Roman Konkani, he
added.  'Goem Shahir', Ulhas Buyao was also present at the press
briefing.

Re: [Goanet] GOA PLANS FOR A380, VEGAS STEERS CLEAR

[Mervyn Lobo]

Gabriel de Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 I first thought this was a natural American Not
 invented here reaction.  
 
 But on reading further, I came to understand the
 logistics of loading/unloading some 500-800 
 passengers (depending on configuration of the
 aircraft), can be mind-boggling. Catering and
 baggage-handling also come to mind, besides the
 required toilet and refuelling facilities mentioned
 in the article.



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The Las Vegas strip or the Casino Hotels are
parallel to the airport and now even run adjacent to
it. The noise pollution is what, IMHO, will stop the
Vegas authorities from allowing the bigger air planes
to land there.

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[Goanet] Church bells that chime Jana Gana Mana on Republic day

[joseph fernandes]

This article appeared in The Examiner
www.the-examiner.org



Church bells that chime Jana Gana Mana on Republic Day

If you hear bells chiming the Indian National Anthem
at dawn on Republic Day, January 26, you are close to
the Holy Name Cathedral at Guruwar Peth sharing a
110-year-old tradition.

The carillon bells fill the midnight air with hymns
and songs on Christmas Eve, Easter and New Year.

The tradition of playing the bells has been passed
down from one generation to the other, ever since the
tower was installed in 1898.

The alloy bells produce a note in the octave-range.
The four-feet high bell weighs a staggering one tonne
while the two-feet high one weighs 300 kg.

They are part of an intricate mechanism of wheels and
pulleys, but the mechanism failed long ago.

Since then the ringers have always sat on the platform
next to the bells — on the fifth floor of the tower —
and played them. Originally the ropes reached the
ground floor from where the bells were comfortably
played.

John Teller and Company in England moulded these
unique bells. The Cathedral has requested them to
maintain these bells and revive their mechanism.

Holy Name Cathedral is a protected Heritage monument
built on a two-acre campus at the initiative of Bishop
of Bombay in 1877.

The famous bell tower at Guruwar Peth is one among
seven similar towers in the world — Karachi, New
Zealand, Melbourne in Australia, Cape Town, St.
Peter’s Cathedral in London and Oxford Shrine in
England (Cowsley Village).



Joseph Fernandes
Mumbai




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[Goanet] GMC's integrated management system to be effective this year

[D'Souza, Avelino]

GMC's integrated management system to be effective this year 
BY HERALD REPORTER 

PANJIM, FEB 6 - The ambitious project of the Government to have an
integrated hospital and health management system at the Goa Medical
College (GMC) is expected to be in place by the end of this year.  The
Mumbai-based Novella Hospital Management Systems which was appointed by
the Government of Goa to implement a totally integrated hospital and
health management system in the state will computerize the GMC by
December 2006. 

This project is a part of the governments' programme to upgrade and
modernize the GMC. Sources from the State health ministry had earlier
disclosed that the cost of the project is approximately 80 lakhs.  In
the offing is a 24X7 online hospital management information system,
electronic medical records, advanced imaging solutions, a laboratory
management system for the doctors, management and staff of the GMC.  

Satish Kini, principal consultant and director of the Novella systems
who visited the GMC last week for a presentation said that Novella is a
healthcare consulting company and not just a software company. Only
doctors and experienced hospital specialists guide the users on how to
use the Novella 21st Century HealthNET 

According to Kini, the Novella 21st Century HealthNET is designed by
doctors, IT specialists and other experts in the field. While the
computerization of the GMC is scheduled to be completed by December
2006, the next phase would be to make these systems available to Mapusa
and Margao district hospitals and the primary health centres.  

It is expected to take two years to implement the integrated hospital
and health management system throughout the State.  A detailed plan
about the project was presented by Novella Systems team at the GMC last
week. In attendance were the department heads and doctors from the GMC.

[Goanet] Autorickshaw, pilot fare hike likely from today

[Gabe Menezes]

http://oheraldo.in/node/9499

Autorickshaw, pilot fare hike likely from today

BY HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM,  FEB 6 - The hike in fares for autorickshaws, tourist  taxis
and two-wheeler operators ('pilots')  is expected  to  be  enforced 
from  tomorrow with  a notification  expected either  late on Monday
evening or early Tuesday  morning.
The  hike   in tariff  comes  into  force almost ten days  after   the
 State  transport ministry  finalized  the  decision  on January 25
this year and  placed it  before  the  Cabinet  for  approval last  
week.
The hike of  about 25 percent  has been welcomed   by   the 
respective associations . However  it is not   clear on whether  the 
operators (tourist  taxis and  autorickshaws) will  co-operate  with
the  authorities  in implementing meters  which is  part and  parcel
of the package and scheduled to be implemented after  replacing  with 
digital meters  from March 15, 2006.
The  government  has  also not yet taken a  decision  on hiking  bus 
fares,  causing  resentment  and  even threats  from bus operators.

--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

Comment: Compare the autorickshaw fares in Mumbai, In Goa it is what
the market will bear. If they employed the use of meters perhaps, they
would increase their revenue as they do in Mumbai.

[Goanet] St Xavier's, DM's College triumph

[D'Souza, Avelino]

St Xavier's, DM's College triumph
HERALD SPORTS DESK

PANJIM, FEB 6 - St Xavier's College, Mapusa and DM's College, Assagao
won the Inter-Collegiate Hockey Championship 2005-06 women and men
section, played at Peddem Sports Complex, Mapusa.

St Xavier's College defeated DM's College 6-0 in the women's section.
Reema Malwankar (4), Melinda Fernandes and Vandana D'Cruz scored one
goal each.

In the men's section, DM's College defeated Fr Agnel College 1-0. Sunil
Naik scored the lone goal.

Dr DB Arolkar, principal of DM's College, Assagao was the Chief Guest
for the finals who awarded medals and trophies to the winners.  Milton
Lawrence Fernandes welcomed the Chief Guest. DS Betkar compered the
programme and Lateron proposed the vote of thanks.

[Goanet] Plans for Kabrasthan jolted yet again

[Gabe Menezes]

http://oheraldo.in/node/9522

Plans for Kabrasthan jolted yet again

BY HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, FEB 6  - Muslim Community's plans to own a spacious Kabrastan
(burial grounds) for its fast-rising population in Salcete has
received a jolt yet again.
Acting on information that a burial ground for the Muslims is being
proposed at Manora in Raia village, the local populace have rallied
under one banner and have vowed to oppose the proposal tooth and nail.
Days after the Raia Panchayat body made its opposition known at its
monthly meeting, the Panchayat gram sabha held on Sunday reiterated
its objections to the burial grounds on grounds that Raia has hardly
any Muslims staying within its jurisdiction.
What's more, the farmers and tenants made it amply clear to the
Panchayat that they would not like to part with the cultivable land to
house a kabrastan.
The Panchayat's action comes against the backdrop of information that
a Muslim body has approached the Town and Country Planning department
for an NOC. However, it could not be immediately established whether
any Muslim body had approached the TCP for the NOC.
On January 9 last, the Raia Panchayat had resolved to oppose the
Kabrastan in the village. A copy of the Resolution has already been
forwarded to the Chief Town Planner for necessary action.
Incidentally, this is not the first time that attempts to have a
spacious Kabrastan in Salcete's countryside has come a cropper. In
2002, the Community had planned to set up the burial grounds on land
admeasuring 40,000 sq mts on the Macazana-Guirdolim border, but
vehement protests from the local populace forced the community as well
as the authorities to abandon the proposal.
Two years ago, the plan to acquire land at Chandrawado-Fatorda for a
Kabrastan as per the city's Outline Development Plan met with stiff
opposition from the local residents,
Recently, the Muslim community from Margao had asked the Margao
Municipal Council to allocate around 99,000 sq mts of land behind
Pandva Church at Aquem. But, the proposal evoked strong protests from
the citizens of Aquem and adjoining areas, virtually forcing the Civic
authorities to think twice on the matter.
The Muslim community has been desperately trying to locate adequate
land for the Kabrastan given that the existing ground atop the
Pajifond hillock virtually stands saturated.

--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Punish those vandalising religious places, GPCC to CM

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Punish those vandalising religious places, GPCC to CM 
NT Staff Reporter 

Panaji Feb 6: The executive committee of the Goa Pradesh Congress
Committee which met here today demanded that the government should take
immediate and strong action against those involved in vandalising places
of worship in the state.  Disclosing this, Mr Ravi Naik, the president
of the state unit of the Congress party, said here today that the Chief
Minister, Mr Pratapsingh Rane, who also attended the meeting has
promised to take strong action in the matter and direct the police to
nab those behind the crime.  Mr Naik charged that the places of worship
of different communities were being targetted by vested interests to
hurt the sentiments of the people and create vertical division among the
various communities who have been living in harmony for ages.

The GPCC chief alleged that the places of worship were targeted by the
culprits at the behest of certain people working behind the curtains to
derive political mileage out of these anti-social incidents, who were
out to create tension in the state.

The Congress leaders further demanded that if necessary government
should increase patrolling to arrest the culprits and put an end to this
menace, Mr Naik informed.  Mr Naik also said that a committee of
Congress members had been formed to find out the names of 3,500-odd
persons whose names do not figure in the draft electoral roll of Panaji
constituency.

The committee will meet tomorrow to chalk out the strategy by referring
to the electoral roll prior to 2002 elections and the new draft roll, he
added.  He further said that these committee members after visiting door
to door in all the 20 booths will submit their findings to the mamlatdar
of Tiswadi with a request to enlist those who do not figure in the
electoral roll.

[Goanet] Goan Teams in Expatriates Soccer Tournament.

[A. Veronica Fernandes]

GOAN TEAMS IN EXPATRIATE SOCCER TOURNAMENT FOR SOUTH ASIANS.

Nepal is one of the Asian countries where soccer is very popular.  Some of 
the finest Nepali origin soccer players are displaying their soccer skills 
in India. Some years back one of the finest soccer teams of India was Gurkha 
Brigade, later on the famed Bombay outfit Mafatlal absorbed half that team 
including the great Bupinder Rawat. One of the topmost soccer spots in India 
is Goa where during the last so many years especially after its liberation 
from the Portuguese colonialism many prominent Gurkha foot-ballers joined 
top Goan soccer Clubs as professionals. All of them with their fair 
complexions like that of Portuguese and also highly skilful display of 
soccer reminded the spectators of the golden days of foot-ball era in Goa 
during the Portuguese colonialism. Many of these Gurkhas not only played for 
their respective clubs in India but they also represented India and gained 
lot of fame for them.  This is the calibre of these Gurkhas whose origin 
goes back to Nepal.


Being the lovers of soccer, Nepalese in Kuwait under the banner of their 
Club “Mount Everest Sporting Club – Katmandu” will organize a grand soccer 
tournament at Kheitan Stadium with effect from 3rd of next month.  The 
tournament known as “Expatriate South Asian Foot-ball Championship” is for 
the soccer teams from SARC countries namely Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri 
Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Maldives.  Only expatriate players from SARC 
countries having valid Kuwaiti residence permit will be allowed to 
participate in this soccer festival. Expatriates with visiting visas are not 
allowed to participate. Since this is the inaugural year of this soccer 
festival only 6 teams from three countries volunteered to participate in 
this year’s edition, namely, from India, Sri Lanka and Nepal though three 
more countries promised but withdrew at the last minute just before the draw 
which was held on 13th of last month in Abbasiya, Kuwait,  in the presence 
of the representatives of all the participating teams.


Nepal is having a big number of its citizens in Kuwait working in diverse 
fields and they are very sports loving community, soccer being their forte.  
During the last few years they have been organizing their soccer activities 
for their community members at Sour Grounds with the help of Indians, mainly 
the Goans but from this year the story is different. The teams that are 
going to participate in this years E-SAF-C at Kheitan Stadium from India are 
Goan Overseas Association - Maroons and Kuwait Goans Association; from Sri 
Lanka are Ceylon Youth Club and Kuwait Lanka United Sports Club; from Nepal 
are Mount Everest Sporting Club and Sunrise Sporting Club.  All the matches 
will be refereed by the qualified Kuwaiti Referees, both at the Centre and 
on the Lines.  The duration of each match will be 70 minutes with 10 minutes 
interval with the exception of the Final which will be of 90 minutes 
duration.  The inaugural match will be played on 3rd March 2006 at 1.30 p.m. 
between M.E.S. Nepal  S.Y.C. Sri Lanka followed by K.G.A. India  S.R.S.C. 
Nepal at 3.00 p.m. The inaugural match will be preceded by the March Past 
ceremony in which all the participating teams will take part. The other 
matches are scheduled as: G.O.A. India v/s M.E.S.C. Nepal on 10.03.06 at 
1.00 pm followed by S.R.S.C. Nepal v/s V.L.U.S. Sri Lanka at 2.30 pm and on 
17.03.06 at 1.00 pm S.Y.C. Sri Lanka v/s G.O.A. India followed by K.L.U.S. 
Sri Lanka v/s K.G.A. India at 2.30.


Briefing the participating teams during the meeting held on 3rd of this 
month at Abbasiya, the president and Secretary of the organizing committee 
Mr. Balkumar Grumm and Mr. Deepak Basal respectively said that the 
organisers will take care of the medical Kit facilities during the game and 
will provide the participating teams refreshments besides other necessary 
amenities.  They further stated that during the inaugural ceremony and for 
the final on 24th March 2006, at 12.30 prominent journalists and officials 
from National Sports Council - Nepal from the Kingdom of Nepal will come to 
Kuwait to witness the events.  Besides, the organizers said the dignitaries 
from the SARC Embassies in Kuwait will be also invited along with prominent 
dignitaries from Kuwait who are associated with soccer.  Though Nepal is not 
having its diplomatic mission in Kuwait yet its Embassy in Saudi Arabia has 
assured all the necessary assistance for the organizers to make this soccer 
festival a most memorable event in the history of expatriates' soccer in 
Kuwait, disclosed the organizers.


A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

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Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: From stethoscope to keyboard... an expat novel set in the US (Cornel DaCosta)

[Bernado Colaco]

--- Goanet Reader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 FROM STETHOSCOPE TO KEYBOARD: AN EXPAT NOVEL SET IN
 THE U.S.
 
 On Thin Ice.
 A novel by Meena and Gilbert Lawrence
 
 Review by Cornel DaCosta
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

So this novel has nuttin to do with Goa? Why this
review on Goanet reader?

BC



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Re: [Goanet] The British Are Coming

[Bernado Colaco]

--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 http://oheraldo.in/comment/reply/9494
 
 The British Are Coming
 
 By V. M. de Malar


A pity that the brits are not doing a clean up of
their ghettos viz mumbai and calcutta.

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RE: [Goanet] Mopa Airport: Full Transparency Essential

[Nasci Caldeira]

Hello goanetters,

The writer, Mr Nandkumar Kamat, has made a good case of 'Planning needing 
imagination and innovation, and of course public (local and Goa wide) 
consultation, and transparency.


In light of this, why then is the case not being made, for a complete review 
of the Mopa Project altogether? Is Mopa really required? I would think not. 
When Mopa was thought of, its not as though Goa did not have an Airport; if 
fact Goa had international flights in addition to Domestic/ national 
flights.


So accordingly, in view of the future requirements re capacity, 
modernisation and technological requirements, what was needed then and now 
is to appoint a capable consultancy to make Dabolim work, for the benefit of 
all; and let this consultancy advise and draw up a project to enhance 
Dabolim, to international requirements and standards and to satisfy possible 
future capacity needs. There is no need to even think of Mopa at all; 
Dabolim is in the centre of Goa and has served Goa well; and should continue 
to be of benefit to all of Goa from North to South to East.
Let such a newly appointed Consultancy tell us how Dabolim can be made to 
meet Goa's needs.


And of course the Navy should see 'the writing on the wall', and realise 
that 'their hour is near' and run gracefully! Sea Bird needs the Navy to FLY 
from INS Kadamba.


If in case, the Consultancy tells us that Goa may need another airport in 
the future, (this I doubt very much) and if the same is permitted by 
aviation safety rules etc; then Goa could then present another site, within 
Goa. I would suggest some place in Canacona or Ponda; then the proposed 
super highway on NH17 could meet the needs of people from Pernem! Let 
Ramakant Khalap and his supporters and the Pernem wallahs, have a taste of 
their own medicine! t Do travel along the super HWY and catch a Flight from 
Canacona; they will make it in 40 minutes! Hah Hah! Why Not; Why is Mopa the 
sacred cow all of a sudden. Dabolim has been and ever shall be, for all of 
Goa!


U see how bogus this claim on Mopa is? Business and tourists and people from 
South and Eastern Goa are not complaining and opposing Mopa, just for the 
sake of it; but precisely because Goa already has a potentially great 
Dabolim location for an airport. Why duplicate the exiisting infrastructure 
and build a 'White Elephant'??


The need of the hour is:
1) upgrading existing infrastructure, within airport parameters and the 
feeder routes;

2) Acquisition of more land for possible future requirements.
3) Construction of one more viable and good quality bridge across each of 
the Zuari and Mandovi rivers.
4) building of a six lane Freeway along NH17 from Pernem to Canacona, with 
Bus Stopping Lanes, service lanes near towns or semi urban areas en route, 
and special lane only for two wheelers and three wheelers, in either 
direction.


It is not necessary to 're-invent' the wheel ! Go take a look at how things 
are done and thought of in advanced countries, and learn and implement the 
same at home. For God's sake; do not change policemens uniform, to 
enlighten or reform them. Goanetters will know what I mean here! There are 
better things to do and get results.


Nasci Caldeira
Melbourne
Down Under.

The above is with reference to some of which I have to reproduce below.

Nandkumar Kamat wrote:
A visit to Curitaba, Brazil, would open the eyes of
our politicians. Infrastructural planning needs
imagination and innovation. It has to be transparent.
But this is not the case when a mega-project like the
proposed Mopa international airport is under
consideration. The government entrusted the work of preparing the
techno-economic feasibility report to the Canada-based
International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). ICAO
also brought in Airport de Paris International (ADPI)
to assist it in their work. It gave a technical
presentation to the steering committee in July 2005.
This was followed by an economic feasibility report in
August 2005 which the government discussed and
accepted in September 2005.

[Goanet] Jamir urges filmakers to take advantage of Goa's beauty

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA/PFVersion.jsp?article=http://10.81.141.122/news/181_1619287,001100030009.htm

Jamir urges filmakers to take advantage of Goa's beauty

Press Trust of India

Panaji, February 7, 2006

Welcoming filmakers to Goa, Governor S C Jamir has urged them to take
advantage of the state's scenic beauty.

Speaking at the premiere of actor-turned-director Pooja Bhatt's film
Holiday, shot in the picturesque location of Goa, Jamir also
complimented cast and crew of the film.

The movie celebrates being ordinary as all of us can't be beautiful,
Pooja told mediapersons yesterday during the premiere in the presence
of her cast, Dino Morea and Onjolee Nair.

It was shot for 41 days of which 39 days were in Goa. Goa can be a
great destination for premiering films too, she said.

Holiday is the first film premiered in Goa with the exception of films
premiered during International Film Festival of India (IFFI), she
stated.

Commenting on the film, Pooja said it would demolish the conventional
concept that Goa is a place to break a way from the routine life and
lie back.

In fact, we promote that Goa is an escape to get back to life, she added.

She expects the film, in which Dino Morea playing a Goan character, to
make good business in the overall market.
--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

Re: [Goanet] Posts on Goa

[cornel]

Hi Gilbert
I am just catching up with earlier posts. Yours in particular, caught my 
attention and I am glad I did not speedily delete it as I am prone to do if 
I have too many unread posts.
With great respect, I have to say that, you may not have read my response to 
Martinho and to A. Veronica Fernandes very carefully. Or perhaps you misread 
or misunderstood it entirely. Most certainly, Gabriel de Figuereido 
understood clearly my polite comments to  earlier points made by Martinho, 
in particular, and acknowledged this in his reply.

Regards
Cornel

- Original Message - 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: goanet@goanet.org
Hi Gabe and Cornel,
Reading many of your posts, on the subject of Goa exiting colonialism, one
could fairly state that you two have intellectually been at the two ends of
the spectrum.  Yet, I was amused that in today's posts of this subject, both
of you appear to be in agreement!!!

I was amused because both ends of the spectrum agreed:  On blaming Salazar
and Nehru AND on the resultant deterioration of many aspects of Goan life.
You both with all due respects, embody the Goan attitude - blame someone
else for our plight.  Neither of you blamed the native and the Diaspora
Goans for failing to make the efforts to find a solution to colonial Goa.
The Luso-Goans who were in power did not want to give up their hereditary
fidalgo status and neither political group really cared for the vast
majority of Goans - the lower caste and the poor upper caste - Hindu and
Catholic Goans.

I am dumb-founded about the Luso-Goans who now bad-mouth Salazar.  Yet their
own forebears and freinds, propped up the Salazar regime in Goa in the
1940-1950's. Further they aided and abetted Salazar by throwing Goan freedom
fighters into jail.  Like the Congress party in India, why did not the Goan
senior management in government and civil life not paralyze the Goa
government by non-cooperation and resignations?

History moves on!  The intelligent and hard-working continue to work
diligently to make the best of the situation.  Others sit back lamenting on
the situation, like many Goans regarding the pre-1960 days and related
issues.  Let’s look at how other groups in India (under the same Indian /
Nehru Government) handled changes.

In post-independent India, was neighboring Bombay State which encompassed
the present states of Maharastra and Gujarat. The Gujaratis had the economic
clout and the Maharastrians in the capital of Bombay had the vote.  Bombay
State split on May 1, 1960– with some violence.  The two parties did not sit
and cry and blame others.

The Gujarati mill owners and others in Bombay closed down their (old)
textile mills, moved out of Bombay, and built brand new state-of-the-art
mills in Ahmedabad. They soon regained their distinction and exceeded their
status and profits challenging even their former masters (Britain) and USA.
The Maharastrians worked hard to develop their state and Mumbai into the
fastest growing and most dynamic (financial and cultural) city in the world.
Forty years later, neither side are into “whose fault it was.”

Yet Goan intelligentsia, especially in the diaspora still find the topic of
“1961” and related issues including Opinion Poll, very self-rewarding
mentally and as a boost to our egos. Today, there is very little to show for
it other that some social celebrations.  And we call ourselves capable of
enlightened self-government.  Or is it more likely day-dreaming? :=))

I am sure both of you very intelligent guys realize this is a commentary on
Goans in general and not on either of you in particular.
Kind Regards, GL

[Goanet] Celebs put 'Behind Bars' for drinking

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Celebs put 'Behind Bars' for drinking
CNN-IBN
Updated 1659 hrs IST (+GMT 5:30), 07.02.06

Panaji: The New Year Eve is long over, but Goa is still the preferred
party destination. Goa was the place to be last weekend as Mumbai's Page
3 descended here for the launch of two new watering holes.

A quite cheekily 'Behind Bars,' the latest discotheque in south Goa,
flew in some of Bollywood's well-known faces to endorse the new place. 
With a glitzy setting and the glasses clinking, the stars got their
groove on and partied as they do only in Goa. First option to settle
down. I love Goa if I have to settle down somewhere, I will probably
prefer Goa, Says Bollywood actor Arbaaz Khan.

Give some sun and sand and surf and II would love to be there, beams
Malaika Arora-Khan. As for the name, 'Behind Bars' ilicited some
interesting responses.  It's a great place to be locked in. There's no
shortage of food and drinks. I would love to be locked in, Neha Dhupia,
another Bollywood hottie said.  All set to attract partygoers in Goa
with the right ingriedients and Bollywood personalities already
endorsing it, it seems this place wants to just keep you in custody. 

Meanwhile, the launch of 'On the Rocks' was one party that everyone
would've loved to be a part of. 

Nestled amidst the shacks on Baga beach, the launch of 'On the Rocks'
saw an impromptu fashion show as models-turned-Bollywood actors strutted
their stuff in Goa's favourite designer Wendell Rodricks collection.

So we asked the obvious question. Which is the one drink they liked one
the rocks? While some were cagey, to say the least, others had no such
problems.  The one drink I like on the rocks is, as boring as it
sounds, paani on the rocks, says actor-model Tania Zaetta.

Designer Wendell Rodricks is down-to-earth. The one drink I like on the
rocks is vodka.

ON THE ROCKS, ON A HIGH: Celebs had a gala time as two new watering
holes opened shop in Goa.

Re: [Goanet] A Goan Village circa 1961

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

 Antonio Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
 Now a question  to all those Goanetters who had
 lived in a Goan village  during the Portuguese
 regime  in the late forties and fifties.  Do you
 remember what village life was  like and if so,
 compare it with todays  burstling life  of any Goan
 village.
 

Sorry to reply to an old post ...

Loutolim got piped water circa 1966, electricity circa
1970.  

Before that, the well and the PetroMax or Alladin or a
petroli ponti served the purposes for water supply
and lighting at night. Pulling up water from the well
and carrying a bindul was good exercise I was told, 
and a cold water bath next to well was considered
good for health (still have these btw whenever I
visit Goa).

1970 onwards. Well covered in weeds as there was no
use for it. PetroMax turned rusty, no mantles for
the Alladin available (suprisingly, still available in
NSW, Australia at a premium). Petroli ponti and
candles still serve the purpose when electricity fails
for no good reason than overload, a number of
brown-outs at night. 

Today. Well cleaned up as water supply restricted to
one hour a day, usually 3:00pm. Back to the well. 
Fortunately electricity still holds up.  Forced to
install a water-storage tank.  Maybe have to invest in
a water-pump as well, to replenish water from well to
tank, in case there is no piped water two days in a
row.  Back to the proverbial square one, as far as
water is concerned. 

P.S. septic tank was installed in 1963, well before
electricity or water made their way to Loutolim, water
being supplied by filling up a low-level overhead tank
by us youngsters (then) every morning.  

As to social meetings in the evenings, the pedda and
the church-yard was full then as it is now, (got
Mario's cartoons somewhere, Loutulenses League
magazine dated 1952 I think) though the kids soccer
games (and we used to play hockey as well) and the
teenagers volley-ball seem to have disappeared long
ago. The hilltop where one would go for a breath of
fresh air has long since been handed over to housing.
Sounds of strumming guitars and groups of youngsters
who would meet to make music have been replaced with
loud blaring music from radios from humties built
haphazardly along the road behind the main church,
along with sounds of cursing as someone lost a game or
two gambling at the carrom-board.  Progress.  

One good sign though, is Bigfoot. May Jocelino's tribe
increase. 

Cheers,

Gabriel.



 
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[Goanet] Oyster mushroom strain developed at GU

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Oyster mushroom strain developed at GU 
NT News Desk 

Panaji Feb 6: In his attempt to domesticate the local wild and hitherto
uncultivated edible mushroom species of Goa, Dr Nandkumar Kamat one of
the principal investigators of the Planning Commission, sponsored
long-term joint project on biodiversity cataloguing of the Western Chats
of Goa, implemented in the botany department of Goa University, has
successfully developed a highly stable and fertile, local strain of the
second most popular commercially cultivated edible mushroom species of
the world - Pleurotus Ostreatus, commonly known as 'Oyster Mushroom' or
'Dhingri.' 

The strain was developed from a wild variety found in Sanguem taluka.
Further research is in progress to enhance the yield and prepare hybrid
strains suitable for Goan conditions using cheap locally available raw
material and outdoor environment.  At present the oyster mushroom
producers in India and Goa use either the imported strain or those
developed in Punjab, Bangalore and Coimbatore. 

The Goa University strain is the first proven fertile strain from
Western Ghats of India with demonstrated potential for outdoor local
conditions.  Project assistants Ms Kumud Phadte and Ms Nikita De Silva
assisted Dr Kamat in his efforts. Earlier, success had been obtained in
artificial cultivation of another species, Auricularia Auricula (wood
ear mushroom).

[Goanet] Fifth volume of Archives of GMC to be released on Feb 10

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Fifth volume of Archives of GMC to be released on Feb 10 
NT Staff Reporter 

Panaji Feb 6: The Health Minister, Mr Dayanand Narvekar will release the
fifth volume of Archives of Goa Medical College at a function to be held
on February 10, at 3.30 p.m. in Lecture Hall I of Goa Medical College,
main building, Bambolim.The Archives of Goa Medical College, a
scientific publication, published by the Goa Medical College Staff
Society is edited by Dr R Wiseman Pinto (professor and head of pathology
department). The Dean of GMC, Dr V N Jindal is the advisor to the
editorial board.

The Archives of Goa Medical College is published every two years and
this is the fifth volume since it was first published in 1961. Report of
the GMC activities is given by Dr Jindal and Dr Wiseman Pinto.

The articles featuring in this edition are contributed by Dr Francisco
Colaco, consultant physician, cardiologist and echocardiographer from
Margao, Dr Arcanjo de Menezes, consultant general surgeon, obstetrician
and gynoecologist from Margao and Dr V G Dhume, former dean of GMC.
Besides, the archives also contains original research articles, clinical
case reports, review articles, articles on medical education, and papers
on medicine and the law.  The archives were initially published as
Arquivos da Escola Medico-Cirurgica de Goa in 1961 with a symposium on
cerebro vascular accidents and then in 1973 with Dr P Rajaram as the
editor.

The archives were revived over again in 1997 due to the efforts of Dr
Wiseman Pinto and Dr V G Dhume who were then secretary and president of
the GMC Staff Society respectively.  Now the Archives of GMC is being
regularly published by the GMC Staff Society every 2 years. Certificates
will be presented to the life members of the Goa Medical College Staff
Society on the occasion.

Other members of the editorial board are Dr Jeevan Vernekar (associate
professor of radiology department), Dr Amit Dias (lecturer of preventive
social medicine department), Dr Ian Pereira (lecturer of pharmacology
department), Dr S Mandrekar (assistant professor of pathology
department), Dr A Ferreira (associate professor of PSM department), Dr E
J Rodrigues (associate professor of forensic medicine), and Dr P
Rataboli (assistant professor of pharmacology department).

[Goanet] Garbage dump: HC orders inspection of site by pollution control board

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=020725

Garbage dump: HC orders inspection of site by pollution control board

NT Legal Correspondent

Panaji Feb 6: The division bench of the Bombay High Court today
ordered the member secretary of the pollution control board to visit
the site (near Green Park Hotel, Mapusa) to inspect a complaint on
dumping of garbage and asked him to submit the report within three
days.

Mr Justice R M S Khandeparkar and Mr Justice N A Britto passed the
order on public interest litigation filed by Mr Florian Lobo, a
resident of Moira.

The division bench has asked the member secretary of the pollution
control board to visit the site during low tide along with the chief
officer and secretary of respective panchayat and representative of
Captain of Ports. The High Court has also sought the report with
photographs.

It was brought to the notice of the court that garbage was being
dumped in the rivulet across the national highway-17 near the Green
Park Hotel. Mr Florian Lobo had written a letter to the High Court
mentioning that there was dumping of garbage by trucks across the
NH-17 from Bastora.
--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Stress free Goa? Naah!

[Frederick Menezes]

from www.rediff.com

Stress free Goa? Naah!

Arati Menon Carroll | February 07, 2006

A recent trip to Goa left me with a plaguing reflection: When it
comes to 
the conduct of kids on holiday, what is kosher and what is not?

Let me present the incriminating circumstances. I am striking a
languid pose 
by the pool of my hotel (more on that later) in sunny Goa,
sipping at my 
'special,' contemplating a plunge, when I spot a rather
aggressive child 
having a go at another, and then another, with a blunt
instrument of some 
sort, for what seemed like an extended period of time.

When the father of a bawling girl brought the injustice to
attention of the 
aggressor's mother, her reaction was: Things like this happen
on holiday, 
teach your child to hit back.

I choked on my straw.

Now the sight of naked children cavorting in and around a pool
has always 
unnerved me. It's like wearing white at Wimbledon. There is no
exception to 
pool-appropriate attire, even if you're a child.

One day (on the same holiday) an unclothed child and his parents
made their 
way to the water. Minutes later, the child had climbed out, was
standing on 
the edge and aiming an interminable spray onto his mother and
the pool.

His father unhurriedly nudged him towards the nearest bush, but
it was too 
late to stop severe damage to the allure of the pool.

The mother maintained her sangfroid.

Suffice it to say my holiday was just not the same anymore. It
must also be 
mentioned (although I understand that this is almost definitely
an 
exception) that the only people who seemed to react negatively
to this 
display of smuttiness were people unaccompanied by toddlers.

The others continued their laps around the sullied pool.

This take-it-easy parenting style is great for parents who don't
want the 
stress that accompanies rule-breaking when on holiday, and
unleashing kids 
on holiday can be great for building their self-assurance and
the process of 
discovery, but how literally does one take 'chill-out in Goa'
when it comes 
to one's children? Is the solution child-free zones like in some
parts of 
Lanzarote? Or to just have kids of your own and develop empathy?

In fact, is holiday decorum on a general decline along with
service in Goa? 
My 'mini-boutique' hotel took an hour and a half to oblige meal
orders, 
never served water with it, was depleted of an electricity and
water source 
every few hours and didn't censure the family whose French
bulldog followed 
its owners into the pool (all in all, the pool was just not a
good place to 
be) Am I wrong to protest poor service in a land where sosegad
(easy going 
bordering on lazy) is a way of life? Is it discourteous to ask
for courtesy 
in Goa?

Before you send me letters of commiseration, there were
highpoints to the 
vacation... of the culinary kind. There are some of us who flock
to Goa to 
follow the freshest gourmet trails over (what one veteran Goa
tripper 
sordidly calls the hippie, hepatitis and acid trail).

My recommendation for the season is La Terrasse in little Baga
that dishes 
up a Marseilles seaport fare. The refined black and white
aesthetic is a 
refreshing change from the standard kitsch. And partners Eric
and Thierry 
(one dons a black robe, the other an apposite white) are
impeccable hosts. 
The music of Jeanne Morreau and Edith Piaf is just as elevating
as the 
gradient of the hillock it's on. Nice.





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Stress free Goa? Naah!

Arati Menon Carroll | February 07, 2006


A recent trip to Goa left me with a plaguing reflection: When it comes to
the conduct of kids on holiday, what is kosher and what is not?

Let me present the incriminating circumstances. I am striking a languid pose
by the pool of my hotel (more on that later) in sunny Goa, sipping at my
'special,' contemplating a plunge, when I spot a rather aggressive child
having a go at another, and then another, with a blunt instrument of some
sort, for what seemed like an extended period of time.

When the father of a bawling girl brought the injustice to attention of the
aggressor's mother, her reaction was: Things like this happen on holiday,
teach your child to hit back.

I choked on my straw.

Now the sight of naked children cavorting in and around a pool has always
unnerved me. It's like wearing white at Wimbledon. There is no exception to
pool-appropriate attire, even if you're a child.

One day (on the same holiday) an unclothed child and his parents made their
way to the water. Minutes later, the child had climbed out, was standing on
the edge and aiming an interminable spray onto his mother and the pool.

His father unhurriedly nudged him towards the nearest bush, but it was too
late to stop severe damage to the allure of the pool.

The mother maintained her sangfroid.

Suffice it to say my holiday was just not the same anymore. It must also be
mentioned (although I understand that this is almost definitely an
exception) that the only people who seemed to react negatively to this
display of smuttiness were people unaccompanied by toddlers.

The others continued their laps around the sullied pool.

This take-it-easy parenting style is great for parents who don't want the
stress that accompanies rule-breaking when on holiday, and unleashing kids
on holiday can be great for building their self-assurance and the process of
discovery, but how literally does one take 'chill-out in Goa' when it comes
to one's children? Is the solution child-free zones like in some parts of
Lanzarote? Or to just have kids of your own and develop empathy?

In fact, is holiday decorum on a general decline along with service in Goa?
My 'mini-boutique' hotel took an hour and a half to oblige meal orders,
never served water with it, was depleted of an electricity and water source
every few hours and didn't censure the family whose French bulldog followed
its owners into the pool (all in all, the pool was just not a good place to
be) Am I wrong to protest poor service in a land where sosegad (easy going
bordering on lazy) is a way of life? Is it discourteous to ask for courtesy
in Goa?

Before you send me letters of commiseration, there were highpoints to the
vacation... of the culinary kind. There are some of us who flock to Goa to
follow the freshest gourmet trails over (what one veteran Goa tripper
sordidly calls the hippie, hepatitis and acid trail).

My recommendation for the season is La Terrasse in little Baga that dishes
up a Marseilles seaport fare. The refined black and white aesthetic is a
refreshing change from the standard kitsch. And partners Eric and Thierry
(one dons a black robe, the other an apposite white) are impeccable hosts.
The music of Jeanne Morreau and Edith Piaf is just as elevating as the
gradient of the hillock it's on.

[Goanet] The British Are Coming

[Gabe Menezes]

http://oheraldo.in/comment/reply/9494

The British Are Coming

By V. M. de Malar
On a cloudless night, over 200 years ago, an agitated
silversmith rode out from Boston into the hinterland of
colonial America. Paul Revere took it upon himself to alert the
whole countryside that the homegrown revolution was about to face a
stern test, that troops were setting out to arrest the anti-colonial
leaders. The British are coming, the British are coming, his call
went out, and as Longfellow wrote in his
famous poem, in hour of darkness and peril and need, the people will
waken and listen to hear. The hurrying hoof-beat of that steed, and
the midnight message of Paul Revere.
To Goa in 2006, and an identical message is everywhere, the British
are coming, the British are already here. It's 200 years, the intimate
links have weathered End of Empire and the Brownwashing of Britain,
they trail through Karachi and Rangoon and Hong Kong, through Aden and
Kampala and Zanzibar, to London and Leicester. And now the wheel has
turned again, we've got the Brits spilling right into the heart of our
homeland. The British are coming, and it looks like they're going to
stay forever.
There are Brit artistes spinning around under the big top at Empire
Circus in Mapuca, this week, there's a band of Brit jazzmen making the
rounds. Dozens of Brit-run restaurants dot our coastal strip; there's
a couple of typical pubs, a host of fry-up joints, and a top end that
includes the Brit-run Sublime, at Baga. There's a Brit butcher turning
out miles of bangers from Arpora, and mounting scores of British real
estate consultants and agents, and Brit charity workers and dog
rescuers and lounge singers and yoga teachers.
This contemporary tide has been mounting for around 15 years, since
the first charter flights from Britain started to market this Konkani
sun-and-surf alternative to the usual lager-fuelled getaways to the
Canaries and Costa del Sol. And now it's turned into a fully-fledged
tidal wave, as British travellers to Goa outnumber other foreign
nationalities by close to ten to one, and thousands of UK citizens
have acquired property. Just this past weekend, the venerable Sunday
Times (of London) trumpeted Goa as hotspot of 2006, we're going to
see more Brits here than every before.
This widespread in-migration is startling, and new, but the mutual
opportunism and working relationship remains quite surprisingly
unchanged over 200 years. It started during the Napoleonic war, when
the Brits stormed over the border and set up garrisons on our soil
(there's a Dona Paula cemetery which dates back to this episode). They
discovered that Goans needed employment, because Portuguese India lay
stagnant. They also found that Goan Catholics had no food taboos, that
they had been trained to play western instruments in church and could
be persuaded to play secular tunes instead,  that Goans could be
counted on as reliable colonial intermediaries and proxies.
And so the love affair developed. Entire generations of Goans
(particularly from Bardez) ardently pursued opportunity in the British
colonies that then represented the world's greatest superpower. We
sought English-language education, at great relative cost, because it
gave us more opportunity than Portuguese, we traipsed out into British
India and British East Africa, into the British-run civil services and
Army. When the Brits built Bombay and Karachi, Goans were stalwart
assistants and administrators, and when they raised expatriate
families, Goans were always the most prized ayahs and nursemaids.
Today, there are at least 50,000 Goans in the UK, and we've several
high-profile NRG's there including the veteran Labourite, Keith Vaz.
And now we see the reverse happening, for the first time in India's
millennia of history, there are tens of thousands of Brits who have
moved here as a deep-felt lifestyle choice, who are having children
here and have no plans to go back. It's not all positives; there are
plenty of things we Goans need to watch out for in this ongoing
demographic surge from the U.K. But if we had a Goan Revere, a
Pandurang or Pedro of our own, his rallying cry about the Brits would
be heard quite differently. The British are coming; it's just the
latest twist in a very long relationship. The British are coming, join
the party.

--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Piracy: Goa music industry loses Rs 100 cr

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=020726

Piracy: Goa music industry loses Rs 100 cr

NT Staff Reporter

Panaji Feb 6: Business in Goa, like in other parts of the country, is
no music to the ears of various companies manufacturing recorded music
cassettes and compact discs, thanks to the rampant piracy in the field
which forces an annual loss of Rs 100 crore on the local music
industry.

The music industry loses Rs 100 crore every year in Goa; Rs 50 crore
by way of physical piracy including software and another Rs 50 crore
amounting to royalty that should have been paid to the copyright
holders of the original sound recordings.

Incidentally, there was not a single raid connected to the music
piracy conducted in the state during last year. During the years
between 2001 and 2004, Goa police registered only 4 cases of
counterfeit recordings.

The Indian Music Industry (IMI), with an aim to improve upon the
discordant notes in the local music market, will be launching its
anti-piracy campaign in support of original and quality music in the
state on Valentine's Day, February 14.

A workshop for state police organised by the IMI and scheduled on
February 7 will further recommend setting up of an audio-video
anti-piracy cell as well as a roaming squad to counter the music
piracy, on the lines of states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala, besides
discussing various other related legal aspects.

The IMI will also appeal to the state government to reduce the Value
Added Tax on the music software from the existing 12.5 per cent to 4
per cent as implemented in the neighbouring state of Maharashtra.

This disparity in VAT on music items has unscrupulous elements buying
chunk of the music stuff in Maharashtra and selling it in black
market, in Goa, at rates slightly less than those charged by the
authorised music stores.

The head of the national Intellectual Property Rights (IPR),
'Supercop' Mr Julio Ribeiro who will conduct the workshop for local
police officials, told reporters, today that any performance of Indian
and international music from sound recordings, in public places or
commercial establishments, without prior license constitutes an
infringement of Copyright Act of 1957.

There are so many events taking place in Goa, round the year,
accompanied by playing of sound recordings originally belonging to
reputed music companies, he said, adding however no prior permission
for the same is sought or royalty is paid to the copyright holder.

Unfortunately, the police in the state and rest of the country have
their priorities for handling crimes; music piracy being placed at the
rock bottom of the priority list, Mr Ribeiro observed.

The general secretary of IMI, Mr Savio D'Souza, told reporters that
Goan artists and music companies need to contribute to the fight
against music anti-piracy. Goa, like each of the Indian states, has
its unique music and this music as well as the future of the new
upcoming Goan singers is in great danger with the music pirates slowly
encroaching Goa, he maintained.

Citing the examples of neighbourhood countries like Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, which have no music industry, Mr D'Souza
said that India would also follow their example if the menace of music
pirates is not curbed in time.

Presently, Pakistan has eight plants churning out the compact discs,
but the music written on them is 100 per cent pirated, and
unfortunately Indian, he informed.

Stating that India annually loses roughly about Rs 400 to Rs 500 crore
by way of music piracy, Mr D'Souza said that last year IMI had pumped
in Rs 4 crore, in support of its crusade against the music pirates.

An IPR team was also formed by IMI in 1996, headed by Mr Ribeiro and
constituting retired police and intelligence as well as army officers
to counter the menace.

Replying to a question, Mr D'Souza said that increasing number of FM
channels are no threat to the music industry as they complement good
music and further popularise it.

Meanwhile, Mr Amar Duragkar representing Saregama India Ltd, the
erstwhile HMV Company, said that in Goa, the pirates are eating into
30 to 40 per cent of the sales of video CDs of his company. The
losses faced by Saregama in audio sector, in Goa is much much more,
he informed.

The pirates are really destroying sales prospects of our new labels
which are receiving good response in market, he said, pointing out,
for example, the pirated music CDs of films such as Bluffmaster,
Kalyug and Holiday are presently selling like hot cakes.

Mr Ribeiro said, Music is a part of Indian culture and music pirates
would make us lose it; forcing the music companies to shut down as
they would no longer be able to identify, nurture and market new
artists and produce quality music.
--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Mass participation essential for new legislations to be effective

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=020723

Mass participation essential for new legislations to be effective

NT News Service

Mapusa Feb 6: The active and mass participation of people at the
grassroots level is essential if the two new legislations, National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and Right to Information Act
(RIA), are to be effective not only in curbing corruption but also in
boosting employment generation and wealth creation. This was the
consensus of a two-day workshop organised recently at Pune by the
National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad.

These are two epoch-making legislations, said NIRD Director General,
Mr V S Sampath at the workshop. But things like transparency are the
objectives of most legislations.

If the results are to reach the beneficiaries in the intended manner,
then all stakeholders must form a network and work together to
expedite the implementation of programmes that will benefit the
masses.

How applicable the NREGA is to Goa remains to be seen, but regarding
the RTI it is crucial in ensuring transparency in governance. The
state government is yet to constitute the State Information
Commissioner. The date for the implementation of RTI, stipulated by
the central government, expired on October 12, 2005.

The two-day workshop on 'Transparent and accountable implementation of
rural development schemes' especially the NREGA and the RTI, was
organised in collaboration with the National Centre for Advocacy
Studies (NCAS) and Unique Features. Held at the the Yashwantrao Chavan
Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune, the workshop
hosted participants from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat,
Chattisgarh and Goa.

With the participants having contributed their inputs and shared their
experiences, the recommendations of the workshop were summed up by
NIRD professor, Dr S Rajakutty. One was that the scope of the manuals
on the Right to Information should be enlarged to provide for greater
awareness at the grassroots level.

Organisation of workshops at the state level and the sub-state level,
preparation of simple and clear IEC (Information, Education and
Communication) material for wider dissemination and simultaneous
sensitisation of senior government officials was also recommended.

The workshop recommended that the message of the two legislations
should be disseminated to the grassroots level through a close
co-ordination between the government, Panchayati Raj institutions and
elected representatives on one side, the citizen groups, activists and
the media on the other side, besides the community itself.

Some sessions were especially illuminating. Capt A V Deshpande, IAS
(Retd) of Yashada, explained in detail Section 4 of the Right to
Information Act under which, public authorities are required to
proactively publish information concerning the organisation,
functions, duties and so on. The proactive disclosure requirement
under Section 4(1)(b) of the Act came into force with the enactment of
the Act on June 15, 2005. In any case, the public authorities had to
comply with the provisions of the Act within 120 days from the
enactment.

Some of the experiences shared by the participants were touching. Ms
Soumya from the Majdoor Kissan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Rajasthan,
explained how under the RTI Act, their volunteers had unearthed scams
regarding the allocation of work and payment of dues to very poor
beneficiaries of the NREGA in the rural Rajasthan.

Worse was their confrontation with the powerful men, including
sarpanchas and ministers responsible for siphoning off funds through
the NREGA. Similar experiences were related by volunteers monitoring
the NREGA with the help of the RTI Act in Thane district of
Maharashtra.

While the arrogance and high-handedness of authorities still continue,
participants expressed hope that with the greater participation of the
masses in these two legislations, citizens will be empowered enough to
force authorities towards transparent governance.
--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Dilip Sardesai to be felicitated

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Dilip Sardesai to be felicitated
HERALD CORRESPONDENT

TALEIGAO, FEB 6 - Former India cricketer Mr Dilip Sardesai, who played
for India in mid-70s, will be felicitated on the day of the
India-England one-day international to be held on April 3, at Nehru
Stadium, Fatorda.  

Announcing this, the outgoing GCA president Mr Dayanand Narvekar
informed Dilip Sardesai has been the only Goan cricketer to represent
the country at the international level and we thought of felicitating
this great personality.

Mr Sardesai will be awarded Rs 5 lakhs for his achievement.  We have
sent a proposal to the Sports Authority of Goa to contribute the 50
percent of the amount and the rest would be done by GCA, Mr Narvekar
said before continuing In case the SAG does not agree the GCA is ready
to contribute the total amount for this great player from Goa.

[Goanet] Mega Musical Show

[Kuwait-Goa Tiatristanchi Sonvstha]

Hello Goanet,

Please post the following announcement on your portals.  Thanks for your 
kind cooperation.


Gracy
KGTS Managing Committee-2006


Kuwait-Goa Tiatristanchi Sonstha will present their 3rd Mega Musical Show 
Ostad Tiatrist a tribute to Konkani Tiatr and Tiatrist, on 24th February, 
2006. A posse of super selected musicians from Kuwait team up with the hosts 
and galaxy of Konkani artistes Trio Kings, Francis de Tuem, S. Lemos, Joe 
Rose, Comedian Augustin and Comedian Domnic will dazzle the audience in a 
spellbinding musical journey to the golden era of Tiatr. Limited entry 
passes available with KGTS Members and Raja Stores.


KGTS Managing Committee-2006

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[Goanet] Re: Gabriel on ins kadamba

[jose colaco]

From: Gabriel de Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gilbert,
A contract is a contract - is it not? So what are the reasons for the Navy 
to renege on it?
Since the feast days (2 in number) are fixed days , cannot the Navy make an 
allowance for those two calendar dates and transform them into open days 
for the sake of the visiting pilgrims? 




Dear Gabriel,

I believe that you might be in error. I agree with Gilbert Menezes. Goans 
have NO contractual rights visavis Anjediva. Contractual rights can only be 
enforced in a civil society  governed by the Rule of Law.


A valid contract is between two parties who are equal in the eyes of the 
law.  One cannot have a contract when one of the parties considers itself 
(based on Gilbert's postings) 'above the law'.


Remember now ...this is 2006. The powers can read your email, listen to your 
cell phone conversation, put a video camera in your living room - ALL in the 
name of defence of the nation.


BTW: Until you physically see the contract (if there was one), you are 
incorrect to conclude that the Navy reneged on it. What if there wasn't a 
contract?


How do you know that the NAVY did not BUY Anjediva ? Someone may have sold 
it, for all you know


And,  what is a couple of crores here and there, and the odd uninhabited 
island between lberated 'friends'?


'Liberating forces' have the right of way viz. the right of way in Tibet 
1950, and other places which have been liberated since.




jc

Gabriel...do remember to read :  http://www.colaco.net/1/HarderTalk1961a.htm

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[Goanet] Fwd: re: JINDAL, Jose, GEORGE ani GMC

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

--- jose colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 4. To make GMC a success, the following criteria
 must be in situ:
 

May I add, the Dean and all the heads of departments
must be prepared to handle a broom and clean up if
there is no-one else around to do it at the time.
This attitude must percolate through all the lower
levels as well.  
 
Yep, initially it might create a union issue, but soon
the idea will click.
 
Animals (other than the human kind) must be barred
from the hospital environs. 
 
Get the windows cleaned and ban paan.
 
Businesses like Wendell and Pintos (these come to mind
at the moment) should take a hand in the maintenance
and provision of landscaped areas (recovery is also
dependent on environment, not just medicines). 
 
Cheers,
 
Gabriel.
 



 
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[Goanet] Re: Gabriel on ins kadamba

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

--- jose colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
 A valid contract is between two parties who are
 equal in the eyes of the 
 law.  One cannot have a contract when one of the
 parties considers itself 
 (based on Gilbert's postings) 'above the law'.

OK.  I accept that.  When I wrote my piece, I was
thinking of the documents cited in
http://www.colaco.net/1/Anjadiva.htm

Perhaps, I was wrong in assuming that a civilian could
question the might of the armed forces. I have been
indeed liberated!

Cheers,

Gabriel de Figueiredo.   



 
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[Goanet] The Solar point formula

[Antonio Menezes]

All human beings on earth have their own individual  solar points.

A Solar point  is a point within the tropics where the sun shone
directly( the noon time )  at the precise moment of one's birth.

To understand  better the individual's solar point ,  one has to know
the movement  of the sun from one  tropic to another.  At this stage
it is worth remembering  that sun can shine directly only within the
tropical zone i.e.  between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of
'Capricorn

The sun shines directly  on the equator  on the 20th of March and on
the 22nd September each year, these dates being called  the equinoxes
. The sun is on the Tropic of Cancer  on the 21st June  and on the
Tropic of Capricorn on the 22nd December  each year,  the dates being
called  the summer and winter solstices.

An individual, if he knows the time of his birth, can easily pinpoint
the exact location  of the sun  ( noontime )  at the time of his
birth.

It does not matter in which part of the world  an individual was born,
what is important  is the local time of one's birth e.g.  a person was
born in India  say at 12 noon on the 21st of June, 1934.  At this
moment , the sun shone directly in the Jabalpur area i.e. latitude 23
and half degrees north and longetude 80 degrees east ( actually it is 
82 and half degrees  east, but for the sake of easy calculation it is
taken as 80 degrees east. )

From this moment  in time, this particualar  individual 's solar point
 will move north to south , and south to north latitude wise and  from
east to west  longetude wise.

On the 22nd December,1934 his solar point was on the Tropic of
Capricorn at longetude 77and half degrees east, and on the 21st June ,
1935 it was on the Tropic of Cancer at 75 degrees east i.e.
longetudewise the solar point moves 5 degrees west each year.

Since the total longetudes number360  on earth and the solar point
moves 5 degrees west longetudinally  every year,   in 72 years ( i.e.
the allotted span of one's useful life )  on the 21s June, 2006 his
solar point will be back in the Jabalpur area i.e. at 23 and half
degres east  of latitude and 80 degrees east longetude where it all
started.  The 360 degrees longetudes  divided by the yearly movement 
west of 5 degrees  gives exactly 72 years of  bib lical span of 3
score and twelve.

The earth' tropical zone, like the rest of the earth,  consists of
land mass and the seas.  The individual's solar point  moves freely on
over the land mass and over the seas.  However, there are two periods
in one's life when the solar point moves entirely on the land in
Africa for about 4 years and  also completely  over the waters of the
Pacific Ocean for about 20 years.

An individual can easily calculate these two eventful  periods in his
life i.e. Africa and the Pacific Ocean and arrive at some vague
outlines  of his past and the present life.

Good luck and happy hunting.

antonio

[Goanet] Court acquits Mala vandalism accused

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.digitalgoa.com/ca_disp.php?id=547

Court acquits Mala vandalism accused

Feb 6 - JMFC Shekhar Parab today acquitted four accused in infamous
Mala vandalism case.

Those who are acquitted are freedom fighter Nagesh Karmali, Vilas
Satarkar, Raju Velingkar son of RSS leader Subhash Velingkar and
former state body builder champion Datta Palekar.

It may be noted that on Revolution Day i.e. 18 June 2004, the foursome
had allegedly led a crowd which went on rampage to destroy name plates
of roads and houses bearing Portuguese names.
--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

Comment: Well, well, well if no one is willing to come forward to
finger these guys, what do you expect???

[Goanet] NCP sends Tripathy to douse the fire in Goa

[D'Souza, Avelino]

NCP sends Tripathy to douse the fire in Goa
(The Economic Times (India) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
February 6, 2006

PANAJI: In a bid to check infighting at its Goa unit, the NCP high
command has sent state in-charge Chandrakant Tripathy on a
trouble-shooting mission, party sources said Monday.

Tripathy, who arrived here on Sunday, met NCP's Goa chief Wilfred
D'souza. He also met with MLA Francisco Pacheco, who had expressed
unhappiness over Mr D'souza's style of functioning.

It's not a trouble-shooting exercise. In every party there is difference
of opinion and I am here to listen to the views of partymen. I have come
to see how the party can expand in Goa, Mr Tripathy said.

Mr D'souza and Mr Pacheco were at loggerheads, with the latter accusing
the former of not taking any initiative for the party's growth in Goa.
Mr Pacheco, in his recent meeting with NCP leader and Maharashtra deputy
CM RR Patil, had said not even a membership drive had been held.
   
I am more concerned about the membership drive. There are many people
interested in joining the party, Mr Tripathy said after meeting Mr
Pacheco. Emphasising that everything will be normal in NCP's Goa unit,
Mr Tripathy said, NCP is like a family and there are small problems in
every family which are settled.

About Mr Pacheco supporters demand that Mr D'souza quit as deputy CM, he
said the NCP constitution didn't speak of 'one man, one post' ideology.

[Goanet] Holiday poopers?

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Holiday poopers?
Business Standard

Arati Menon Carroll / Mumbai February 4, 2006


A recent trip to Goa left me with a plaguing reflection: 
When it comes to the conduct of kids on holiday, what is kosher and what
is not? 

Let me present the incriminating circumstances. So I am striking a
languid pose by the pool of my hotel (more on that later) in sunny Goa,
sipping at my special, contemplating a plunge, when I spot a rather
aggressive child having a go at another, and then another, with a blunt
instrument of some sort, for what seemed like an extended period of
time. 

When the father of a bawling girl brought the injustice to attention of
the aggressor's mother, her reaction was: Things like this happen on
holiday, teach your child to hit back. I choked on my straw. 

Now the sight of naked children cavorting in and around a pool has
always unnerved me. It's like wearing white at Wimbledon, there is no
exception to pool- appropriate attire, even if you're a child. One day
(on the same holiday) an unclothed child and his parents made their way
to the water. 

Minutes later, the child had climbed out, was standing on the edge and
aiming an interminable spray onto his mother and the pool. His father
unhurriedly nudged him towards the nearest bush, but too late to stop
severe damage to the allure of the pool. The mother maintained her
sangfroid. 

Suffice it to say my holiday was just not the same anymore. It must also
be mentioned (although I understand that this is almost definitely an
exception) that the only people who seemed to react negatively to this
display of smuttiness were people unaccompanied by toddlers. 

The others continued their laps around the sullied pool.  This
take-it-easy parenting style is great for parents who don't want the
stress that accompanies rule-breaking when on holiday, and unleashing
kids on holiday can be great for building their self-assurance and the
process of discovery, but how literally does one take chill-out in Goa
when it comes to one's children? Is the solution child-free zones like
in some parts of Lanzarote? Or to just have kids of your own and develop
empathy? 

In fact, is holiday decorum on a general decline along with service in
Goa? My mini-boutique hotel took an hour and a half to oblige meal
orders, never served water with it, was depleted of an electricity and
water source every few hours and didn't censure the family whose French
bulldog followed its owners into the pool (all in all, the pool was just
not a good place to be) Am I wrong to protest poor service in a land
where sosegad (easy going bordering on lazy) is a way of life?  Is it
discourteous to ask for courtesy in Goa? 

Before you send me letters of commiseration, there were highpoints to
the vacation... of the culinary kind.  There are some of us who flock to
Goa to follow the freshest gourmet trails over (what one veteran Goa
tripper sordidly calls the hippie, hepatitis and acid trail). 

My recommendation for the season is La Terrasse in little Baga that
dishes up a Marseilles seaport fare.  The refined black and white
aesthetic is a refreshing change from the standard kitsch. And partners
Eric and Thierry (one dons a black robe, the other an apposite white)
are impeccable hosts. The music of Jeanne Morreau and Edith Piaf is just
as elevating as the gradient of the hillock it's on. Nice.

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[Goanet] Goanet Reader: From stethoscope to keyboard... an expat novel set in the US (Cornel DaCosta)

[Goanet Reader]

FROM STETHOSCOPE TO KEYBOARD: AN EXPAT NOVEL SET IN THE U.S.

On Thin Ice.
A novel by Meena and Gilbert Lawrence

Review by Cornel DaCosta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On receiving this novel via the Internet, I enjoyed reading
it entirely on my computer screen. This was a novelty for me,
but clearly, in the future, similar reading material may be
available on paper only if one chooses to generate or obtain
a printed copy.

From the start, in the novel, we are offered graphic accounts
of the snow and ice terrain where the Reddy family spent some
of their winter leisure in the region around and beyond the
small city of Utica in upper New York State.

The outdoor life much enjoyed by the foursome of father, (a
doctor by profession), mother, and two teenage sons is
explained in considerable detail, especially, their
enthusiasm for the sport of ice hockey and their
participation in team games against rival local teams.

The two sons and the father participate fully and
enthusiastically, with strong encouragement from the mother,
until such time when reservations are expressed among family
members about the wisdom of the father extending himself so
vigorously in the highly demanding sport.

Following gentle persuasion, Dr Reddy concedes that he ought
to consider an alternative sport on ice and is soon drawn
towards curling. He engages in this pursuit as intensely as
he did in ice hockey and soon masters the finer points of the
sport to participate well in local competitions.

The novel succeeds in making sport fairly central and
pleasurable in the lives of family members. There is an
implicit and explicit determination to be thoroughly
disciplined in sport as well as in dedication to education
and becoming productive citizens in their new country of
settlement from their origins in Bombay, India.

  Sport is therefore, one vehicle through which
  integration or incorporation into American society
  is largely accomplished. For a Brit like me, it is
  fascinating to note the significant importance for
  many newcomers to the USA to become 'American' as
  rapidly as possible, quite unlike comparable
  parallels with the British scene in the UK.

Any reader of the novel would clearly note, in my view, the
self-appraisal sincerely expressed which seems to say,
haven't we been very positive and done well here?

However, some reflective analyses within the novel of the
advantages and disadvantages of making the immigrant move
from India to the USA would clearly not have been amiss. 
Such a perspective has perhaps been marginally overlooked,
even though there are good descriptions of the preparation
and consumption of Indian food in the family and in
neighbourhood social settings. There is however, an
unmistakable message in the novel that, South Asian
immigrants to the USA have invariably been industrious and
have contributed positively to many aspects of American society.

On returning from a vacation recently in British Columbia,
Canada, which included an awe-inspiring time in the Rockies,
I noted a lot of similarity in BC with the impressive terrain
as depicted in On Thin Ice around Utica. Thus, my planned
return to British Columbia is likely to be shelved, for now,
in favour of a visit to Utica, much closer than the ten-hour
flight to British Columbia from the UK.

The dimension in the novel relating to Dr Reddy's dedication
to his work as an oncologist and his concern for the
well-being of his patients reflects commitment to hard work
and a personal and family philosophy of resolute endeavour.

That this facet is shared positively with the local immigrant
and host community is very evident. The novel is also well
utilised to advance the lay person's knowledge of cancer
generally, how to cope with it and what preventable steps
need to be considered in society. In this respect, there is
indeed an excellent and valuable medical and social message
for all who come across the novel.

Clearly, the wise decision to work and live in a small city
like Utica helps the Reddy family greatly to engage fully in
varied social settings through the use of quality time, which
may not have been available in the city of New York itself.

I have encountered discussion recently, on the concept of the
short novel in the quality press. Increased support appears
to be offered to the short story and novel when traditionally
the mighty tome has held pride of place in the minds of
readers, metaphorically privileging the marathon, or the
1500m, over the 100m. In this sense, from memory, I recall
Aida Edemariam arguing persuasively that, in a short novel,
every word, every turn, every thought matters and that it's a
quality of concentration hard to sustain over a longer novel.
Thus, I was able to glean that, if they are good, short
stories and novels resonate far beyond their size, as is the
case with On Thin Ice.

  Whilst reading the novel, I did grapple with the
  question as 

[Goanet] Refs meet today, red card unlikely

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Refs meet today, red card unlikely
Indian Express
MICKY AIGNER

PUNE, FEBRUARY 6: The posturing by both sides suggests a confrontation
but the reality is that when the AIFF's nine-member Emergency Committee
meets in New Delhi tomorrow to discuss the Fransa Pax crisis, they are
likely to work out a compromise.  The stakes are too high for either
side to risk pushing the envelope too far. 

Yet you wouldn't believe that from what was being said today.  ''Replay
or split points. No two ways about it'', said Fransa-Pax chairman Mickky
Pacheco. 

Put it to him that there's a risk of a decision that will make
Fransa-Pax history and his response is clear: ''I don't care. They
(AIFF) are at fault.'' The onus is now on the committee. There are five
Goan representatives on the panel: Goa Football Association president
Shivanand Salgaocar (ex-officio member), GFA secretary Savio Messias
(special invitee), Dempo Sports club president Srinivas Dempo, Sporting
Clube president Peter Vaz and AIFF general secretary Alberto Colaco. In
theory, Fransa should breathe easy.  But Salgaocar and Pacheco share a
rocky relationship, particularly when the Fransa boss accuses Salgaocar
of influencing referees, and Colaco is a man who goes by the book.
Messias, who has already said that Fransa's withdrawal would be a great
loss to Goan football, and Vaz, a man known for fair play, would be more
amenable to Fransa's case. Dempo is abroad and is likely to miss the
meeting. 
That effectively leaves the decision-making to four: AIFF president
Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, DSA secretary Nasir Ali, Indian Football
Association secretary Subrata Dutta and Zee Sports' CEO Gary Lovejoy. 

The AIFF has already begun working on a compromise, and its recent
actions show it's not in favour of confrontation. After categorically
stating that Fransa's matches could not be rescheduled, late Saturday
night the GFA were told that the Febuary 6 and 9 matches against
Sporting Clube and Salgaocar were put off.  And its statement that Vasco
SC and Churchill Brothers were on standby should Fransa be kicked out
appears to be a bluff. Vasco have denied being officially informed of
this; on the contrary, the club has received a fax from the AIFF with
details of the NFL Second Division beginning on February 22.

[Goanet] Remo returns to rock Bollywood

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Remo returns to rock Bollywood
HindustanTimes.com
Diganta Guha/ HT City
Kolkata, February 6, 2006

The last time we spoke to Remo Fernandez, arguably India's first pop
star, he expressed his dissatisfaction over the musical style of
Bollywood. But Remo is back in Bollywood, singing a number called Sacchi
baat hai in Rajat Kapoor's forthcoming Mixed Doubles, a film that talks
about modern marriage.
The last time the Goa-based singer did a Bollywood project was in 2002.
He sang the title song in Vipul Shah's Amitabh Bachchan-Akshay Kumar
starrer, Aankhen.

So, has he changed his mind? I have not 'returned' to Bollywood! I have
just sung one song for a film, which is not at all mainstream Bollywood.
I shall continue to sing the odd song if it inspires me, he says
firmly. Remo has his preferences cut out - Bollywood will always be a
side line for me - my main body of work, my main passion will always
remain my own music, my own albums.

Remo tells us the reason why he decided to sing the number scored by
Saagar Desai. It is very difficult to tell a joke through melody and
rhythm, but Saagar Desai did just that with this song. I found the
composition brilliantly funny, and of course the lyrics by Sharat
Katariya added yet another dimension to the humour, he says. 

He continues, Besides, I love Rajat Kapoor's style of filmmaking.  All
in all it was a wonderful experience recording this song right in the
middle of the Mumbai floods, wading to the recording studio in knee deep
water.
Remo may not agree to work in Bollywood frequently, but he does approve
of the way things are shaping up in the industry. Bollywood is doing
well, it has finally started breaking away from old formulas. Of course
most of the experiments are again copies of Western films, and our
actors have cultivated this irritating habit of imitating American body
language, and our scripts still have a long way to go - but at least a
movement towards the right direction has finally started, he says.

Remo is looking forward to the release of his forthcoming album Muchacha
Latina. It is ready and due for release by end February or beginning
March, he says. He has already shot the music video and am in the
process of giving final touches to the distribution deal with a good
record company.

Re: [Goanet] GOA PLANS FOR A380, VEGAS STEERS CLEAR

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

--- Philip Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/business/2006/jan/23/520008974.htm
 l
 
 January 23, 2006
 
 Airbus wouldn't fly in Las Vegas
 
 Aviation director: Changes at McCarran too costly
 By Richard N. Velotta
 Las Vegas Sun
 
 Las Vegas puts out the welcome mat for more than 37
 million people a year,
 and about half of them arrive by air.
 But when it comes to the world's biggest airliner,
 Clark County officials
 have a different message: Stay away.
 The aviation world was in awe when the mammoth
 Airbus A380 developed by
 European consortium Airbus S.A.S. took off for the
 first time last April.

I first thought this was a natural American Not
invented here reaction.  

But on reading further, I came to understand the
logistics of loading/unloading some 500-800 
passengers (depending on configuration of the
aircraft), can be mind-boggling. Catering and
baggage-handling also come to mind, besides the
required toilet and refuelling facilities mentioned in
the article.

Cheers,

Gabriel de Figueiedo.
Melbourne - Australia.

P.S. Australia's international airports are preparing
their facilities to handle the A380, one of which has
already toured Australia last November to celebrate
QANTAS 85th anniversary.

See:

http://www.melair.com.au/about_airport/media_releases_item.asp?id=248

http://www.melbourne-airport.com.au/about_airport/development.asp

Melbourne is likely to be the first Australian city
ready for the new Airbus A380 super jumbo. 
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/18/1105810913948.html

World's biggest airliner the A380 arrives in
Melbourne. 
http://invest.vic.gov.au/News/News/A380.htm



 
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[Goanet] Goa also wants infrastructure action

[Gabe Menezes]

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1403359.cms

Goa also wants infrastructure action
SMITHA VENKATESWARAN

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 07, 2006 12:46:02 AM]
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GOA: Goa, which is no doubt the most sought-after tourist destination
in the country, plans to develop world-class infrastructure to attract
industry. The state, which already has many industrial estates, wants
to develop SEZ pockets to boost exports and industrial growth. The
state government plans to invite players in the food-processing and
pharma sectors to set up shop here. It's also thinking of an apparel
park to boost trade and fashion.

The government plans to set up an SEZ for education. Goa already has
several institutions which offer management education. For instance,
BITS Pilani, a premier engineering institute, has a branch in Goa. We
are looking only at non-polluting units. Creating SEZs will be an
incentive for such units to set their base in the state, said
industries minister Luizinho Faleiro.

But while the state is yet to come up with a SEZ policy, there are
protests from various sections. The industry minister insists that
final licences will be given to companies only if 80% of their
employees are `sons of the soil'. Industries located in SEZs may enjoy
many benefits, including full exemption of power duties, sales tax,
turnover tax and other levies.
Developing SEZs will help Goa to improve its road network, the water
supply system and air linkages, thereby creating an internationally
competitive and hassle-free environment. Between 1993 and '04, many
industries enjoyed a tax holiday. During this period, many MNCs like
Kodak, Richardson Vicks, Benchemie, Bosch group and Siemens began
production in the state. Growth hit a slow patch when the tax holiday
ended.

Post-tax holiday, only seven MNCs have invested in the state, compared
to more than 30 during the tax holiday regime. Nitin Kunkoliker,
chairman, Goa Chamber of Commerce Industries, said, India lacks a
good export base and SEZs can be used to develop the state into an
internationally competitive exporting hub.
--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

Re: [Goanet] CONTROVERSY: When a priest's story says something about society

[Bernado Colaco]

THALMAN P PEREIRA is a lawyer based in Vasco da Gama,
and has
long been a student activist. He is the son of Goa's
prominent trade union leader of the 'sixties Gerard
Pereira
and freedom fighter Dr Luisa Pereira. This essay was
published in the HARBOUR TIMES, a publication brought
out by
Baburao Revankar from Vasco.

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Should read as Dr. Geraldo Pereira. What is Gerard???

BC



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[Goanet] Mopa Airport: Full Transparency Essential

[Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com]

Mopa Airport: Full Transparency Essential 
by Nandkumar Kamat 
  
EVERY growing economy needs infrastructural force
multipliers. At some stage of development and economic
growth it needs to look at the trends and chart its
course for the future. Otherwise it would be condemned
with stagnation.Goa has maintained one of the highest
rates of economic growth in the country for more than
a decade. The growth in tourism sector is astounding.
The tiny state of Goa earns 22 per cent of the
country’s foreign exchange or on an average annually
Rs 2,500 crore from tourism. So, for the central
government, development of tourism related world class
infrastructure in Goa would be a guaranteed money
spinner. 
  
The tourism industry would maintain its tempo if the
transportation and sanitation infrastructure is
improved. Goa inherited a grossly underdeveloped
transportation infrastructure from the Portuguese.
After liberation there was rapid development of the
roads, the inland waterways and the Mormugao
international harbour. But it took three decades for
getting a broad gauge railway track and a considerable
effort to complete the environmentally unsound
realignment of the Konkan Railway. 
 
There was a centrally sponsored scheme to build a
world class fishing harbour but it met with stiff
opposition by the people who were satisfied with the
‘status quo’. How does Goa propose to strengthen its
transportation infrastructure to support the
industrial and economic growth and the import and
export of goods and services?
There is still no state transportation policy. There
is no progress over the plan scheme of inter-modular
transportation network. After some initial enthusiasm,
there is absolute neglect of the inland waterways --
the lifeline of minerals-based economy. The government
has admitted that the specifications of the so called
national and state highways are not up to the mark.
However the goods and passenger traffic has shown a
phenomenal increase.
Traffic congestion in the main cities, Panaji, Mapusa,
Margao and Ponda demonstrates the total collapse of
the inadequate infrastructure. There is meagre
government investment in the improvement of public
transportation. I wish the state government could
invite Mr Jaime Lerner, ex-mayor of Curitaba, world’s
best managed city in a Portuguese speaking
country-Brazil, to learn how urban transportation is
efficiently planned and managed.
 
A visit to Curitaba, Brazil, would open the eyes of
our politicians. Infrastructural planning needs
imagination and innovation. It has to be transparent.
But this is not the case when a mega-project like the
proposed Mopa international airport is under
consideration.
The government entrusted the work of preparing the
techno-economic feasibility report to the Canada-based
International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). ICAO
also brought in Airport de Paris International (ADPI)
to assist it in their work. It gave a technical
presentation to the steering committee in July 2005.
This was followed by an economic feasibility report in
August 2005 which the government discussed and
accepted in September 2005.
Then the movement began to finalise the tender
documents. In October 2005, the ICAO team met the
civil aviation secretary in New Delhi. The global
tenders for inviting _expression of interest were
supposed to be floated in December 2005-January 2006
but apparently the decision has been withheld in view
of the constitution of the committee on Janauary 27,
2006, by the civil aviation ministry on Mopa airport
under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Mr
Pratapsingh Rane.
 
The committee has people’s representatives therefore
they need to first disclose the details of technical
and economic feasibility reports. The ICAO-ADPI
reports need to be made public because most of the
controversies take place due to lack of transparency
and the veil of unwanted secrecy.
There is still no news about the commissioning of the
environmental impact assessment, which is a massive
time consuming task. All that is selectively disclosed
to the media is a land requirement of 54 lakh square
metre, an airport design with a single runaway and
taxiways, projected traffic of 10 million passengers
by AD 2035 , expenditure of $ 200 million with
state-central equity participation of 26 per cent.
 
There is absolutely no suggestion regarding a
rehabilitation policy or a rehabilitation plan for the
people to be displaced from the project. If the newly
appointed panel sits behind closed doors and then
takes a decision then it would not be acceptable to
the people. The government must table the copies of
the ICAO reports on the floor of the assembly when it
meets on February 13.
The consultants have been paid handsomely from the
public funds so the reports are public documents and
not military secrets. The Mopa airport is civil
international airport and it would get broad support
if the government adopts a fully pro-people and
transparent policy at every level of 

[Goanet] AICHEA DISSAK CHINTOP - Fevrerachi 7vi, 2006!

[domnic fernandes]

Budh divop borpacho pavs kosso.  Jitlo movallaien poddta, titlo to motiche 
kholaek rigta.


(Advice is like snow.  The softer it falls, the deeper it sinks into the 
mind.)


Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA

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[Goanet] Goanetters meet in London!

[Gabe Menezes]

Goanetter 'X'

arrives in London from Bombay on Sunday, 12 Feb.  Would like to meet
the UK GoaNetters. It would also be an opportunity for us to meet
Herman Carneiro, the Founder of  our raison d'etre, who will also be
there.



The location we have selected to meet, from 7 pm,  is the Glassy
Junction Pub, 97 South Road, Southall, UB1 1SQ. See:

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub1699.htm



At 9 pm we will adjourn to a restaurant nearby - venue will be decided
by those attending






We hope to see you and your partner there.



RSVP to either Gabe or Eddie.
--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet] Consumer Forum demands safety measures at Govt. construction site

[Goacan]

--Documented 
by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660Website: www.goadesc.org Email: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/-
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Consumer Forum 
demands safety measures at Govt. construction site

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The Cuncolim Civic and 
Consumer Forum in a representation to 
the Police Inspector Mr. 
Siddhant Shirodkar Cuncolim Police 
Station has requested 
police intervention to enforce all mandatory 
safety procedures at the 
project site of the Water Resources 
Department at Sanvorcotto, 
Cuncolim so as avoid any mishap 
till senior officers of the 
concerned Departments take necessary 
action.

On Thursday 2nd February 
Cuncolim Civic and Consumer Forum 
(CCCF) volunteers were 
alerted about a mechanized digger 
stripping 
the 
foliage, mud and laterite stones along the river front. 
Despite 
beingthe CuncolimFeast day CCCF volunteers rushed to 

the spot and found 
it was 
a project of the Water Resources 
Department. They also found 
the 
personnel of the contractor and 
the WRD Junior Engineer 
A.V. 
Prabhu were on the site.

What shocked the CCCF 
volunteers was that despite it being a 
Government project the 
mandatory procedures such as safety 
barricades 
along 
the work site, cautionary boards, information boards 
with details 
of 
Department undertaking the project, contractor’s 
details with 
emergency nos. besides commencement  completion 

of work details 
were 
not in place. More so no information board of 
the authorisationto 
the 
projectby the Cuncolim Municipal Council 
was in place even 
though 
it is in their jurisdiction.

On receiving intimation 
from the Forum, PSI Kavlekar visited the 
project site and after 
verifying the facts requested the Junior Engineer 
Prabhu and the Contractor's 
personnel to stop the work, proceed to 
the police station, give an 
undertaking that all the necessary safety 
procedures will be adhered 
to and only then the project work be 
resumed.

The CCCF is demanding that 
the four sides of the river front be 
barricaded with cautionary 
sign boards and night lamps on display 
as localresidents 
visit the river and sit along the banks for various 
purposes. CCCF is 
concerned that children due to curiosity tend to 
visit a project site when 
heavy earth moving machinery is in use and 
could be victims to a 
mishap.

It may be recalled 
thatthe Consumer Forum is already pursuing a 
case of criminal negligence 
case No. 48/04 ofCuncolim Police 
Station against a PWD 
Contractor and officials involved at the 
MPLAD project further ahead 
in the same river wherein a 4 year 
old girl Miss Venisha 
Fernandes, primary school student of Maria 
Bambina School lost her life on April 13th 2004 due to drowning in 
the project site pit which 
was not barricaded and no authorized 
boards were in 
place.

Copies of the 
representation to the Cuncolim Police Inspector 
have been sent to the Mr. 
Joaquim Alemao Hon. Minister for 
Urban Development,Mr. 
Filipe Neri Rodrigues, Hon. Minister 
for Water 
Resources., Mr. J.P.Singh Chief Secretary, 

D.A.Hawaldar, Director, 
Directorate of Municipal Administration, 

Chief Engineer, Water 
Resource Dept., South Goa District Collector, 

Dy.SP Mr. Tony M. Fernandes 
SDPO, Margao and Mr. Filonio Vaz, 
Chairperson, Cuncolim 
Municipal Councilamong others. 


CCCF has in the 
representation also stated that day and night 
monitoring will be 
undertaken at this project site bythe Forum 
volunteers to see that all 
safety procedures are strictly adhered 
to and willreport 
violations and discrepancies which amount to 
criminal negligence that 
may be noted at the project site. 

Press Release from the 
Cuncolim Civic and Consumer Forum
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Re: [Goanet] Goanet News Bytes * Feb 2, 2006 * Goa Knowledge Commission goesonline,seeks your views www.knowledgeforgoa.com

[Alfred de Tavares]

From: Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED],Goa's premiere mailing 
list,estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goanet News Bytes * Feb 2,2006 * Goa Knowledge 
Commission goesonline,seeks your views www.knowledgeforgoa.com

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:55:31 +0100


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In North Goa..., some areas till date are known to be
 owned by the successors of the then Count
of Pernem as well as the then Count of Mayem.


Comment: There was never a Count of Pernem, but a Viscount. Presently the
Viscount of Pernem is Jitendra Deshprabhu (during the Portuguese era of 
Goa,

Prabhu Deshprabhu used to be Porobo Desporobo).

In Heta Pandit, Annabel Mascarenhas and Ashok Koshy's book Houses of Goa
(forwarded by Gerard da Cunha), printed in 1999, in the description of The
Deshprabhu House, Pernem one can read on page 167: Jaya Deshprabhu boasts
of being the mother of the only Hindu Viscount in the world.

Jorge



Sorry Jaya to disabuse you:

Lord Sinha's mother  generations of Sinha daughters-in-law have also, 
indubitably, shared that dubious honour.


And there have been quite a few other Indian/Hindu  Muslim(?) lordlings 
created by a pandering Brittish crown for sycophantic servioces.


Alfred de Tavares

[Goanet] Conductor tried to kidnap school teacher in Vasco

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.digitalgoa.com/ca_disp.php?id=544

Conductor tried to kidnap school teacher in Vasco

Vasco police today foiled a bid to kidnap a school teacher from the
school in broad day light.
A 23-year-old bus conducted went to the school to kidnap the 25-year
old teacher, who travels by his bus every day, in a hired car.
However, as he was pulling the teacher towards the car, the staff
members raised alarm upon which he left the teacher and ran away.
As he was speeding the car to avoid chasers, he banged the car on the
way. Finally was caught by Vasco police. He is cooling his heels in
Vasco police lock up.

--
Salaam ali kum.

Gabe Menezes.
London, England