[Goanet] Goa news for November 14, 2012

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*** Goa get three points from drawn match against Jammu and
Kashmir - Times of India
rm spinner Shadab Jakati grabbing four wickets, before settling
for a draw and three points on the basis of first-innings lead
on the final day of their Ranji Trophy match against Jammu ...
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*** Life of Pi to open International Film Festival in Goa next
week - India Today
elegates-Over-12000-and-counting-says-Wagh/articleshow/17201400.cms">Iffi
delegates: Over 12000 and counting, says Wagh
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*** Goa industrial development corporation panel to probe plot
ownership by its staff - Times of India
onstituted sub-committee headed by chief minister Manohar
Parrikar, who is also the chairman of the ...
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*** Sporting Clube de Goa welcome three new foreign recruits -
Goal.com India
eague season. Ekendra Singh's side have only a solitary win from
five matches. Their below-par performances have been attributed
to the absence of foreign players. The club management have ...
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*** Bob Geldof, Goa and the Maldives: take offense where you can
find it - Reuters India (blog)
uters India (blog)Irish rockstar Bob Geldof's remark that he got
his "best drugs" from Goa has come under attack from a right
wing Hindu organisation which has accused him of hurting
national sentiments. While tourism industry players in Goa have
said that Geldof'‚¬„¢s ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHBXjOfGUjU7mOsZKmnqzum8k0LYA&url=http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2012/11/12/bob-geldof-goa-and-the-maldives-take-offense-where-you-can-find-it/

*** Quark 2013 @ BITS Goa- Quantum Leaps is here! - AOL
elive the Streets died down that BITS Goa is preparing to host
its Annual Technical Fest, Quark 2013-Quantum Leaps, spanning
three days, from 1st to 3rd February,2013. The preparations for
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*** Goa's fishy problem: falling haul blamed on preying
jellyfish - TwoCircles.net
oCircles.netBy Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, IANS,. Panaji : If fish is
on your food menu during a Goa visit this year, you are in for
competition. Swarms of toxic jellyfish have suddenly surfaced in
Goa's inland waters, preying on small fish and fish larvae,
especially ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGDZREqbbINnypPmQY02zY6Lum7Pw&url=http://twocircles.net/2012nov12/goas_fishy_problem_falling_haul_blamed_preying_jellyfish.html

*** Indian council of agricultural research assures help in
setting up agriculture ... - Times of India
mes of IndiaPANAJI: Indian council of agricultural research
(ICAR) has assured its assistance to Goa government in setting
up an agriculture college in the state and has okayed a proposal
to set up an examination centre for students pursuing agro
courses. These ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNG9QsCrkRtOifeA440AIldDM00DZg&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Indian-council-of-agricultural-research-assures-help-in-setting-up-agriculture-college/articleshow/17201342.cms

*** Dim Diwali for Goa - Herald Publications
erif">A senior official said the 400 kilovolt ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNG6JwA8ONN-9yFzNLSsyIWxIMW46Q&url=http://oheraldo.in/News/Main%20Page%20News/Dim-Diwali-for-Goa/66921.html

*** Saarn to be swept back into Goan households - Herald
Publications
ize: medium; text-align: justify;">If one goes by plans mooted
by the Goa Handicraft Corporation, the broom may once again find
its way in Goan household. The first GHRSSIDC board meeting
under the chairmanship of Lavu Mamledar has resolved to ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEJkI6GHU5FaL36r-VNle8yHQZRgw&url=http://oheraldo.in/News/Main%20Page%20News/Saarn-to-be-swept-back-into-Goan-households/66920.html


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Re: [Goanet] Never a dull moment

[Mervyn Lobo]

Venantius J Pinto wrote:

[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Festival of Lights

[Rajan P. Parrikar]

Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Festival of Lights'

My Diwali night near the Arctic Circle.

Greetings to all on the occasion of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights.
Fittingly, I got to experience quite a show last night in cold, icy Mývatn in
north Iceland.











You may view the latest post at
http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2012/11/13/festival-of-lights/

Best regards,
Rajan P. Parrikar
parri...@yahoo.com

[Goanet] Goa's First Revolt against the Portuguese - Armstrong Vaz.

[eric pinto]

 
 
  OhMyNews 2012.11.6   
 
  
Goa's First Revolt Against the  Portuguese 
India's forgotten 1583 uprising in Cuncolim  
Armstrong Vaz    
Jhansi, a small city in the northern Indian Uttar Pradesh,  is gearing up to 
celebrate the 150th anniversary of India's  "first war of independence" next 
year. The 1857 war for  independence from British rule has been well documented 
in  history books.

Unlike other parts of India, however, 
  Goa, a small state on the western coast, was ruled by the 
  Portuguese from 1510 to 1961. British rule ended in 
  1947.

An uprising against the colonial Portuguese 
  rulers launched by a small village -- Cuncolim -- some 48 
  kilometers from the state capital of Panjim in 1583 has gone 
  largely unnoticed.

The Portuguese first conquered Goa 
  in 1510 and Cuncolim was the first uprising that the 
  Portuguese had to face in Goa apart from the organized armies 
  and rulers who fought different wars with them over a period 
  of time.

The villagers of Cuncolim, comprised mostly of 
  Khastriyas (a warrior caste) who rendered services for 
  different armies of different rulers, fought the war over 
  forceful conversions and the destruction and defiling of 
their 
  temples and places of worship.

But the Cuncolim revolt 
  may soon find its way into local history books if the 
  assertions of Shantaram Naik, who is from the village, are 
  reliable. A lawmaker who is a member of Rajya Sabha, the 
Upper 
  House (India has two houses of parliament) has said the 
  Cuncolim revolt will find its way into the school 
  curriculum.

The revolt took shape as a popular 
  rebellion against invading Portuguese who came to the village 
  accompanied by Jesuits, an order of Roman Catholic priests, 
  and destroyed temples and defiled Hindu religious 
  places.

The villagers retaliated by organizing 
  themselves. Five Jesuits lost their lives along with five 
  laymen.

The five priests have since being canonized by 
  the Roman Catholic Church as martyrs, but the laymen have not 
  received such treatment. (See Catholic-forum.com and 
Newadvent.org for more  information.)

The murdered priests were canonized 
  because their bodies, despite being left in the well for a 
few 
  days, did not emit any foul smell. Rather, they emitted 
  "special aromas," which was the only factor in their 
  canonization process.

A "martyrs' chapel" was erected, 
  dedicated to the priests and layman killed in 1583. Another 
  chapel, some 500 meters away, which is dedicated to St. 
  Francis Xavier, the patron saint of Goa, was the site where 
  the bodies of the murdered priests were dumped in a 
  well.

The well still stands today inside the chapel and 
  is opened for people to view once a year during the feast of 
  St. Xavier, celebrated in the first week of 
  December.

The Cuncolim villagers had to face the fury 
  of the Portuguese for having killed the five priests and five 
  laymen. The Portuguese destroyed orchards in the village and 
  unleashed many atrocities on the local population. More 
  trouble was in store for them.

The village chieftains 
  were invited for talks at a fort in the neighboring village 
of 
  Assolna, where the church of Assolna stands today. All but 
one 
  was executed. The one who survived did so by escaping through 
  a toilet hole to swim across the "River Sal" and fleeing to 
  the neighboring Karwar district, which now forms part of the 
  southern state of Karnataka.

As part of the memory of 
  the murdered village chieftains, Cuncolim as recently as five 
  years ago erected a "chieftains' memorial" thanks to the 
  initiative of Vermissio Coutinho, who took the lead in the 
  building of the memorial. The chieftains' memorial stands 
  close to the martyrs' chapel.

The subsequent execution 
  of the chieftains -- cold-blooded murder -- did not diminish 
  the fighting and valorous qualities of the villagers. After 
  the Khastriyas of Cuncolim failed to match the superior armed 
  force

Re: [Goanet] Food for Thought

[Jose Colaco]

On Nov 13, 2012, at 1:37 AM, PAES  wrote:

> FOOD FOR THOUGHT
> Portuguese occupation of Goa was wrong.
> Forced conversions to Christianity were wrong. 
> Now, ask any Goan whose ancestors were converted: ‘Do you repent you are now 
> a Christian as a result? 
> The resounding answer (in my opinion) will be “NO”.

RESPONSE:

1: occupation of a land which does not belong to oneself is always wrong.
2: uninvited occupation is worse.
3: one way to correct a wrong is to ask the occupied about their wishes.
4: that process is called a referendum.

5: forced conversions to ANY religion (even by way of the 
imposition/imprisonment in eternal bondage courtesy the apartheid Caste System) 
is wrong.

6: the good thing about forced conversions to Christianity is that a number of 
'converted' folks (as in Carambolim) never really converted except in Surname. 
These folks 'came out' in 1962.

7: The vast majority of those who jump up and down about being forcibly 
converted to Christianity in Goa, have not yet converted back to Hinduism or 
Islam. They just flap their wings like those who cursed the Portuguese and yet 
migrated to Portugal.

8: Some oppressed Hindus migrated to Buddhism with Dr. Ambedkar.

9: amcho ole_xac will advise us when he plans to recommend a referendum for T. 
Berta.

10: until that time, it is chop suey ani ' chourisan'  for us.UNLESS we 
finally decide to work and study hard, use our talents and uplift ourselves.

jc

Re: [Goanet] Gonzaga Coutinho - Rajan and Prema

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

Allow me to paraphrase a new-testament quote: You, Jose Colaco, believe because 
you have been there and seen; blessed are those that have not seen, yet 
believe. For the rest, it is a myth or individual imagination.
 
(Try explaining that you have flown in an aeroplane to one who has never heard 
of, or even seen a plane -  crackers, he will think - how can one fly or sit in 
a box that can fly? Example: see Planet of Apes)


>
>From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا 
>
>To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"  
>Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2012 3:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [Goanet] Gonzaga Coutinho - Rajan and Prema
>
>I would submit that the "elegant Goan era" is, at best, a myth of our
>collective (or individual) imagination. It is as "real" as the Golden Age
>that we love to hark back to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age] or a
>kind of cycle of yugas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age#Hindu]
>which lives on in our beliefs.
>

Re: [Goanet] Kedna - Gonzaga Coutinho

[Roland.francis]

Thanks for the lyrics Edward.

I shall encourage Toronto bands like the Goa Amigos to include this in their 
Konkani music repertoire.

What a pleasure to sing or dance to it.
Roland.Edward Verdes  wrote:I think this is a new 
dulpod as I too have not heard it before,
As you can also see in the lyrics, words like sms and email.
This song I first heard in Band of the sand Lynx CD - Spirit of Goa, which
was
Released in 2008. I think Gonzaga has taken it from there...

Kedna 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGU5Avgjjj4

Kednam gho kednam, tum go yetelem,
Uskean tujea kalliz mojem sukhon go gelem }x2

Moga tum ye ye ani gopan maka ghe...x4

Kitlo teomp gelo pun hanv azun rautam tuka,
Devuch zannam tum kiteak maka gho sotaita,
Dis ani rath focot tuzoch ugddass maka yeta,
Ek tori phone kor nam zalear sms dadd go maka,
Ek tori phone kor nam zalear sms dadd go maka.

Kednam gho kednam, tum go yetelem,
Uskean tujea kalliz mojem sukhon go gelem }x2

Moga tum ye ye ani gopan maka ghe...x4

Tum khoim assa, kitem korta kainch maka khobor nam
Utor maka diun gelem mozo usko tuka  nam
Tuzo vhodd sintiment zala gho maka
Ek tori chitt boroi nam zalear email dhadd gho maka

Kednam gho kednam, tum go yetelem,
Uskean tujea kalliz mojem sukhon go gelem }x2

Moga tum ye ye ani gopan maka ghe...x4

Edward Verdes

-Original Message-
From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org
[mailto:goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org] On Behalf Of Roland Francis
Sent: 12 November 2012 05:13
To: 'Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!'
Subject: [Goanet] Kedna - Gonzaga Coutinho

Here's a catchy number, very lively and one I have not heard before.

&feature=related

Would readers please inform of its origins and whether it is a well known
song.

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] mea culpa

[Ana Maria Fernandes]

Dumping Cruz de Milagres 20 crore project on goans is nothing but murder of 
freedom. We christians are really fanatics or nana boil. tokli halloi re boila, 
halloitam saiba. How much will our priests and religious contribute ? Mea culpa 
somia 

[Goanet] This 'iffi hangar' vry expensive o what?

[JoeGoaUk]

Satus: 6th Nov
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk62/8181692782/sizes/l/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk62/8181693314/sizes/l/in/photostream/

erected at a cost of Rs.123 lakhs ?
And the cost likely to go higher upon completion as in many other govt. 
projects.
Hangar likely to be used for 4+4 hours only, it is worth?
 
Earlier, such event took place at Kala academy auditorium (once in Margao 
Ravindra Bhavan)
Capacity of this Hangar is upto 3 times more than KA Auditorium
 
Opening /Closing ceremony is usually for VIPs and invitees only
 
Satus: 12th Nov
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk62/8181694024/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk62/8181694784/sizes/l/in/photostream/

1 min clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-bnn5M07PI

iffi starts 20th Nov. 2012

joego...@yahoo.co.uk 

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[Goanet] Food for Thought

[PAES]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Portuguese occupation of Goa was wrong.
Forced conversions to Christianity were wrong. 
Now, ask any Goan whose ancestors were converted: ‘Do you repent you are now a 
Christian as a result? 
The resounding answer (in my opinion) will be “NO”.
If that be so, two ‘wrongs’ did lead to make one ‘right’. 
Is that right?
Bennet Paes

[Goanet] Dempo college tops music charts!

[Jazz Goa]

Dempo college festival's theme song produced by Jazz Goa, enters world latin 
charts at No.1
http://www.soundclick.com/genres/charts.cfm?genre=Latin&subgenreID=221¤tpage=1

Re: [Goanet] Gonzaga Coutinho - Rajan and Prema

[Jose Colaco]

 Frederick FN Noronha wrote:
 Episodic evidence (experiences with the GMC, for instance) are hardly what we 
can base our arguments on. 

For instance, I almost died of DIPHTHERIA in the Goa Medical College (shortly 
after its Escola Medica) days in the mid-1960s. My kid had his tongue neatly 
healed with minimum  fuss earlier this decade.

 So did my daughter when it came to dealing with a foot accident. But are we 
comparing ORANGES and ORANGES? 

Or just trying to make our own (biased) political point? 

COMMENT:

1:  Thank You FN for comparing a ( comparatively recently) serious 
immunisable-against  illness with (at least in the second example of yours ) an 
accidental one.

2:  Yes, yours is the classic example of APPLES and ORANGES.

3:  NO, the criticism of the  "cow shedification" of the GMC facilities  in 
'recent' times is NOT a political point.

4: Filth, cats and dogs (or for that matter crows and unchanged blood-stained 
sheets) have NO place INSIDE a hospital. (The blood being from a previous 
patient, the situation being a non-emergent on)

5: You would do well to review your own exposé (despite its poor research and 
co-relationship to medical reality and other flawsy) on GMC that you submitted 
for publication in the Goa Today.

jc