[Goanet] Shivaji, Marathas, relations of another era, and politics of today: Audrey Truschke in History Today

[Frederick Noronha]

Shivaji, a 17th-century Maratha king, is a hero of modern India. In Mumbai,
both the airport and central railway station bear his name. Soon, he will
greet those who arrive by sea to Mumbai as the world’s largest statue. A
major political party calls itself the Shiv Sena, meaning 'Shivaji’s army',
and often vehemently defends the hero -- dead for more than 330 years --
from insults and defamation. Shivaji is famous, above all, for opposing the
Mughal Empire in the mid- to late- 1600s. Part of his appeal is as the
underdog. The Mughals controlled one of the largest, wealthiest empires in
the early modern world and Shivaji’s comparatively modest forces were a
persistent thorn in their side. But the core reason for which Shivaji
remains a hero is religious: Shivaji was Hindu and the Mughals were
Muslims. In Shivaji's day, religious differences did not determine
political alliances; in fact, the Mughals had amicable relations with
numerous Hindu rulers and Shivaji likewise allied with Muslim kingdoms. In
contemporary India, however, some members of the Hindu majority disparage
Muslims with increasing fervour and the modern myth of Shivaji is of a
strong Hindu warrior who fought Islam. -- Audrey Truschke, in 'Censoring
Indian History' p. 14 | History Today | August 2017
https://www.academia.edu/t/a-LMCkeu9-beSUEM/33968609/Censoring_Indian_History_in_History_Today

[Goanet] Dr Raghunath Mashelkar at the @ Swantantryaveer Savarkar Smarak Sabhagriha

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx6PmW_vU9A=331s

[Goanet] This Is Straight out of Orwell's 1984

[Fidibus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrKs_vduiKU

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[Goanet] Local V/S national dailies

[Nelson Lopes]

Local V/S National news papers

There are National dailies that devote largely to National  and
International coverage for the readers, The readers subscribing these
dailies want a broader outlook and lesser dose of local occurrences. But
the local dailies are expected to cover mostly local happenings,
Unfortunately the so called local papers have smattering news coverage of
events at hand and expose   large   space to National and International
news. Hence the difference between local and National dailies is blurred.
The subscribers are forced on what they are not expecting to be informed
about, Hence the local news papers should meet the expectations of
subscribers rather than taking them for granted .. Some local editions are
appearing as National dailies in their layout and content .It is
unfortunate that front page  is plastered with advertisement, which
normally used to conveyed important headlines. The gory details of crimes,
receive undue prominence and affect readers sensitivities. The
advertisement coverage to sustain  the costs is cutting on news and hence
readers are also subscribing indirectly towards advertisement  revenue The
advertisement section should be separated from news sections The reporting
of local content is really at a discount for subscribers of local dailies.
This pattern of coverage is a recent innovation much to the disappointment
of subscribers It is heartening that at least one popular  english daily is
considering this aspect most seriously and hence its popularity however
selective it may be, but it is still a readers choice

Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

[Goanet] Does India Want A War?

[Roland Francis]

Eddie,
Not surprising, considering that the BJP has convinced itself that India is a 
superpower despite half the population  having to use the great outdoors for 
their biological needs. 

India is currently in a hostile standoff with China in the Doklam area of 
Bhutan. Matters have reached a stage where China is openly threatening to 
militarily humiliate the Indian Armed Forces.

There are two pressures in India exerting themselves against the Chinese and in 
favour of armed skirmish, including even a short war.

One is the Indian Armed Forces. Within, there is poor leadership due to 
politically motivated out of turn appointments to top positions for two decades 
or more. Secondly there is a huge gap in officer positions since bright young 
men unlike previously, no longer desire a career in the Forces. Thirdly the Air 
Force and the Army are poorly equipped due to bureaucratic bungling in 
procurement along with corruption in the arms-buying process, a fairly recent 
phenomenon, both at top positions in commands and in the bureaucracy. After all 
India is globally one of the biggest arms buyers. This has led to soldiers and 
pilots having to make do with poor operational equipment. However the top brass 
see an opportunity in a battle defeat to be able to ride the civilian backlash 
to push for more spending to rearm in the manner and to the standards that they 
once took for granted. 

The other pressure for war comes from the BJP itself. Stung by the accusations 
of targeting unarmed and docile minorities, they have a strong need to prove 
themselves by bullying neighbouring countries and showing their strength in 
armed conflict. Modi himself is a silent rabble rouser but also a practical 
man. He knows that in China he has met a more than superior adversary and he 
knows as his recent statements show, that he is very well aware that rabid 
corruption has eaten away the strength of his country. Once the economy stops 
performing well, he knows that the rust will show. How far Modi and a few other 
BJP top guns are able to push back the rabble rousers is to be seen. One can 
only hope they do.

On top of all this there is a political undercurrent of frustration with an 
inability to engage a violent and unstable Pakistan due to their threat of 
nuclear 'first strike'. With the Chinese who are infinitely more sensible, they 
are confident that there will be no nuclear involvement. Therefore at worst, 
the Indians will face the PLA and in their Hindu Rashtra fervour, they are 
ready to take on the risk, however huge. 

Unlike America where the return of body-bags triggers a huge political price 
for decision makers ending in their rout at the hustings, in India where value 
for life is far less, patriotism and nationalism is whipped up to add to the 
general lethargic perception of "So what, that is the risk of joining up. There 
are more than 1 billion of us anyway".

Roland Francis
Toronto.

> On Aug 10, 2017, at 11:48 AM, BT Yahoo Mail  wrote:
> 
> The passage appears in the Sanskrit textbook "Sukritika Volume-3" in chapter 
> eight, which is about the achievements of the country's first prime minister 
> Jawaharlal Nehru."What famously came to be known as Sino-India war of 1962 
> was won by India against China," the book says according to the report. "

[Goanet] Photographic treasures from India

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40801659
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[Goanet] India: Thousands across India march in support of science

[Fidibus]

http://www.nature.com/news/thousands-across-india-march-in-support-of-science-1.22439

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[Goanet] Did you know? India beat China in the 1962 War [Says school textbook]

[BT Yahoo Mail]

In Hindu Rashtra, anything goes.Turning history on its head, the Sanskrit 
textbook for class VIII distributed in several CBSE-affiliated schools in 
Madhya Pradesh says that India won the 1962 war against China, The Times of 
India reported today.The passage appears in the Sanskrit textbook "Sukritika 
Volume-3" in chapter eight, which is about the achievements of the country's 
first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru."What famously came to be known as 
Sino-India war of 1962 was won by India against China," the book says according 
to the report. "During Jawaharlal Nehru's tenure as Prime Minister, China waged 
war against India in the year 1962. With efforts of Nehru, India defeated 
China."The 1962 India-China war, which began on 20 October 1962, ended a month 
later on 21 November after China declared a ceasefire. It has gone down in 
history as a decisive victory for China.The error in the Sanskrit textbook has 
come to light at a time when India and China are locked in one of the deadliest 
standoffs in decades at the Doklam plateau. In the midst of rising tensions, 
the Chinese media has published editorials reminding India of its defeat in 
1962, with Defence Minister Arun Jaitley retorting that India had "learnt a 
lesson" from the war and the Indian armed forces are "fully capable" today.Read 
more: 
Sanskrit Textbook In Madhya Pradesh Says That India Beat China In The 1962 War: 
ReportEddie

Re: [Goanet] The Global Meltdown (Times of India, 10/8/2017)

[Frederick Noronha]

Apparently, this isn't correct ...

On 10 August 2017 at 07:35, V M vmin...@gmail.com [goawriters2] <
goawrite...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-global-
> meltdown/articleshow/59994037.cms
>
> On Monday this week, the eminent author (and part-time Goa
> resident) Amitav Ghosh tweeted an alarming video file of a flaming
> palm, writing, "I am told it is so hot in Kuwait that trees are
> spontaneously combusting." Just last month, that desert country
> registered the "hottest temperature ever recorded on earth", an
> astonishing 54 degrees Celsius.
> Posted by: V M 
>

According to http://www.snopes.com/62-degree-celsius-kuwait-tree-fire/

* The highest temperature on record, according to the World Meteorological
Organization, was 56.7°C (134°F) on 10 July 1913 in Furnace Creek,
California.
* The highest temperature in Kuwait, 54°C, was recorded in Mitrabah in July
2016.
* The weather in Kuwait hovered around 50°C during July 2017
* This video was actually shot in Madinah, Saudi Arabia and shows a palm
tree that was struck by lightning.

[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: HERO TRI-NATION FOOTBALL SERIES TO BE HELD IN MUMBAI

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



Please find below the report regarding the forthcoming Hero Tri-Nation
Football Series which is to be held in Mumbai from August 19, 2017 to
August 24, 2017.



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*NEW DELHI:* India begin their campaign in the Hero Tri-nation Football
Series against Mauritius on August 19 at the Mumbai Football Arena,
Mumbai. India
will play their second match against St. Kitts and Nevis on August 24.



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[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: MEDIA ACCREDITATION FORM FOR HERO TRI-NATION FOOTBALL SERIES

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



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Re: [Goanet] Among the Good Believers - Atheism vis-a-vis Religion

[Roland Francis]

These were bad people doing bad things.

Regards.

Roland.

> On Aug 10, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Marshall Mendonza  wrote:
> 
> Roland Francis:
> In the normal world, good people do good things and bad people do bad
> things, but With religion, good people do bad things. It poisons everything.
> 
> Response:
> Roll call of people who did not practice religion yet caused the most
> deaths/ destruction / misery in the last 2 centuries:
> Stalin
> Mao
> Pol Pot
> Hitler
> Kim Il Sung
> Jinnah
> Advani
> Savarkar (his ideology hindutva)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marshall

Re: [Goanet] The Global Meltdown (Times of India, 10/8/2017)

[Roland Francis]

In Canada too, there is proof of weather change.

In the past few years, there has been a marked departure of normal weather 
patterns although gradual, when compared to the time I came here over 25 years 
ago.

In the last 3 years in Toronto for example, the winters have been very mild and 
the summers frequently interspersed with rain, cloudy weather and less than hot 
average temperatures. This is in addition to what you have been reading about 
icebergs as big as small countries cracking and splitting from the main solid 
ice canopy at the North Pole, playing havoc on wildlife and humans (indigenous 
people) there.

In a global warming scenario, Canada is the best naturally equipped country to 
withstand its ill effects but in the very long run, this can't be good for us 
either. We are, even if little affected, a part of the human condition.

Roland Francis
Toronto

> On Aug 10, 2017, at 3:40 AM, Gabe Menezes  wrote:
> 
>> On 10 August 2017 at 03:05, V M  wrote:
>> 
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-
>> global-meltdown/articleshow/59994037.cms
>> 
>> Everywhere, there's more evidence that the world is in climatic
>> meltdown. On Monday this week, the eminent author (and part-time Goa
>> resident) Amitav Ghosh tweeted an alarming video file of a flaming
>> palm, writing, "I am told it is so hot in Kuwait that trees are
>> spontaneously combusting." Just last month, that desert country
>> registered the "hottest temperature ever recorded on earth", an
>> astonishing 54 degrees Celsius.
>> 
> 
> 

[Goanet] Among the Good Believers - Atheism vis-a-vis Religion

[Marshall Mendonza]

Roland Francis:
In the normal world, good people do good things and bad people do bad
things, but With religion, good people do bad things. It poisons everything.

Response:
Roll call of people who did not practice religion yet caused the most
deaths/ destruction / misery in the last 2 centuries:
Stalin
Mao
Pol Pot
Hitler
Kim Il Sung
Jinnah
Advani
Savarkar (his ideology hindutva)

Regards,

Marshall

[Goanet] SMILE........................................... IT'S WEEKEND (10/08/2017)

[CAJETAN DE]

COULD HAVE……

Premnath & Rajnath were business partners, they both had Sardarjis as their 
personnel drivers. One fine day, they were having an friendly argument about 
whose driver is more stupid and fool. So Premnath called his driver:-

Premnath: Oye Utpal Singh.
 Utpal Singh: Ji Sir-ji.
 Premnath: Take this 100 rupees, go to the Showroom and buy a Mercedes Benz car 
for me.

Utpal Singh: Ok-ji, I will go right now.

Premnath: See how stupid-fool he is, he went to buy a Mercedes for only 
Rs.100/=.
 Rajnath: But still I say my driver is more stupid-fool.

Rajnath called his driver Jaspal Singh:

Rajnath: Jaspal Singh, Go home and check if I am there.
 Jaspal Singh: Ok sure-ji, I will check and come.

Rajnath: See my driver is more stupid-fool. He can't even realize that how can 
I be at home, if I am here.

Utpal Singh and Jaspal Singh met on their way:

Utpal Singh: My boss is so stupid, he gave me Rs.100/= to buy a Mercedes car, 
he does not even know that today is Sunday and all showrooms are closed.

Jaspal Singh : My boss is even more stupid, He sent me to check if he is at 
home, but he has a cell phone, he could have called home and check if he is 
there.

Cajetan de Sanvordem
Kuwait.

Re: [Goanet] Demonetization in India ... and elsewhere

[Patrice Riemens]

Does Demonetization Work?

http://blog.mondato.com/global-demonetisation/

"While the Indian government's dramatic and surprise demonetisation 
campaign garnered most of the headlines, India is not the only country 
in the world potentially headed on a path (however long it may be) 
towards a cashless society. Some analysts are already predicting that 
Sweden could be totally cashless as soon as 2030 (see the video below), 
but it is the country's banks that have led the transition. In China 
too, it is the private sector and the market that have catapulted that 
country into the top-flight of cashless-ready economies."


...

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] After Fighting Against Goa's Casinos, Parrikar Gives Them What They Want (Devika Sequeira, thewire.in)

[silviabraganca]

The information is very clear, deap and consistent.How to pay with a duty of 
justice for this lmportant information?Please...Silvia Bragança 


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1994!"  Subject: [Goanet-News] After Fighting Against 
Goa's Casinos, Parrikar Gives Them What They Want (Devika Sequeira, thewire.in) 
After Fighting Against Goa's Casinos, Parrikar Gives Them
What They Want
BY DEVIKA SEQUIERA ON 07/08/2017

The floating casinos are
expected to be relocated to
Mopa and will help BJP sell its
controversial new airport
project.

A floating casino off Panaji in Goa. Credit: Devika Sequeira

Panaji: Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar recently made an
announcement in the state's legislative assembly: all
offshore casinos would have to shift to land-based operations
within three years if they wanted to continue doing business
in Goa. The decision, long expected despite the stock
denials, is what the big players in the casino industry had
been betting on all along, and it exposes the BJP's
doublespeak on the gambling business in Goa.

  There are currently six offshore and ten land-based
  casinos in play here, but live gaming (with dealers
  opposed to slot machines), where the stakes can go
  really high, is permitted only on the floating
  casinos, which makes the transfer and renewal of
  their licences such a lucrative business.

Jaydev Mody's Delta Corp Ltd is the biggest player in the Goa
casino business. It runs three offshore casinos, Deltin
Royale, Deltin Jaqk and Deltin Caravela as well as the
onshore Deltin Suites Casino Hotel at Nerul. The Ashok
Khetrapal fronted group is the next big casino operator with
Casino Pride and Casino Pride 2 anchored in the Mandovi.
Pride also runs the land-based Casino Paradise at Porvorim
and Casino Palms at Baga.

Faced with mounting protests over the BJP government granting
permission for a sixth offshore casino in the River Mandovi
after the party had earlier campaigned against them, a
providential occurrence spared Parrikar's blushes in the
monsoon session of the Goa assembly. On July 15, a new casino
vessel M. V. Lucky Seven, fully outfitted to commence
business as the Big Daddy Casino, drifted off course in
stormy weather and ran aground at Miramar beach (near Panaji)
where it is currently stuck, turning into a photo-op for
tourists. Operations to refloat and tow it away are currently
underway.

  Lucky Seven is promoted by the controversial former
  Haryana minister Gopal Kanda. The Tanzanian flag
  passenger vessel was brought to Goa by Golden Globe
  Hotels Pvt Ltd (GGHPL), a company started as a
  subsidiary of Kanda's defunct MDLR airline. There's
  very little information to be found on GGHPL or its
  businesses, but sources in the company said that
  Kanda, his son and son-in-law hold a majority stake
  in it and in their current interest in the casino
  business in Goa.

Kanda's foray into casinos here goes back to 2009 when he
bought the Leela group's Casino Rio for a reported amount of
Rs 30 crore. Leela had managed an offshore gaming licence in
2006 but the business never set sail. Neither did it under
Kanda, and in 2013 the government towed away the abandoned
vessel for owing the authorities Rs 12 crore in casino
licence fees. The fee with fines had mounted to Rs 50 crore
by 2017.

  This in itself should have been grounds enough to
  not renew Kanda's licence. But the Parrikar
  government renewed it all the same, using the ruse
  of a court order to justify the decision. In
  reality, however, it was the state's advocate
  general who told the high court of Bombay at Goa
  that the government would "favourably consider" the
  Kanda company's application for renewal.

All the casino licences in Goa -- both off-shore and land
based ones -- were dished out by gung-ho Congress
governments, with former chief minister Pratapsingh Rane and
former home minister Ravi Naik being the key players in this
high stakes game of licence roulette. This uncomfortable
fact, as much as the Congress' role in the mining scam,
provided the BJP its biggest ammunition for the 2012 state
assembly election which it won with a clear majority.
Parrikar would turn up at anti-casino protests with RSS
supporters, and doing away with casinos went to the top of
his party's 2012 manifesto, even as behind the scenes
assurances were reportedly given that they would be allowed
to carry on with business as usual.

Once in government though, the commitment by the BJP to move
the casinos out of the Mandovi and regulate the trade was
never seen through. The promise to set up a gaming commission
has not seen 

Re: [Goanet] The Global Meltdown (Times of India, 10/8/2017)

[Gabe Menezes]

On 10 August 2017 at 03:05, V M  wrote:

> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-
> global-meltdown/articleshow/59994037.cms
>
> Everywhere, there's more evidence that the world is in climatic
> meltdown. On Monday this week, the eminent author (and part-time Goa
> resident) Amitav Ghosh tweeted an alarming video file of a flaming
> palm, writing, "I am told it is so hot in Kuwait that trees are
> spontaneously combusting." Just last month, that desert country
> registered the "hottest temperature ever recorded on earth", an
> astonishing 54 degrees Celsius.
>

RESPONSE: Some more from USA
'Heed the Warnings.' This Hurricane Season Is Looking Worse Than Usual
http://time.com/4893376/hurricane-season-forecast-noaa/?xid=homepage

-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] The Global Meltdown (Times of India, 10/8/2017)

[Gabe Menezes]

On 10 August 2017 at 03:05, V M  wrote:

> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-
> global-meltdown/articleshow/59994037.cms
>
> Everywhere, there's more evidence that the world is in climatic
> meltdown. On Monday this week, the eminent author (and part-time Goa
> resident) Amitav Ghosh tweeted an alarming video file of a flaming
> palm, writing, "I am told it is so hot in Kuwait that trees are
> spontaneously combusting." Just last month, that desert country
> registered the "hottest temperature ever recorded on earth", an
> astonishing 54 degrees Celsius.


COMMENT: We had non stop rain here yesterday and sometimes quite heavy.
Some parts of the country got a months rainfall in one day!

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day.....Cliff Richard - La Mer (beyond the sea)

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQe3KV2_kg

G



-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Photographic treasures from India.

[Con Menezes]

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-40801659

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[Goanet] The Global Meltdown (Times of India, 10/8/2017)

[V M]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-global-meltdown/articleshow/59994037.cms

Everywhere, there's more evidence that the world is in climatic
meltdown. On Monday this week, the eminent author (and part-time Goa
resident) Amitav Ghosh tweeted an alarming video file of a flaming
palm, writing, "I am told it is so hot in Kuwait that trees are
spontaneously combusting." Just last month, that desert country
registered the "hottest temperature ever recorded on earth", an
astonishing 54 degrees Celsius. Neighbouring Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
and Syria also recorded highest-ever temperatures recently. It's
becoming painfully apparent the entire Middle East is inexorably
turning too hot for comfortable existence. The first cradle of human
civilization could eventually become an abandoned moonscape.

At the same time, Europe is suffering a calamitous summer, with
temperatures holding above 40C across the continent. This devilish
heatwave, inevitably called 'Lucifer', has already killed several
people. In Serbia, train tracks became so warped from the baking sun,
that service was halted. Runaway wildfires are raging in Bosnia,
Macedonia and Croatia simultaneously, following another deadly set of
blazes which killed dozens in Portugal. Romania's capital city of
Bucharest has alerted all citizens to stay indoors during afternoon
hours, while at least half of Spain remains on identical emergency
alert. Another sign of disruption: Italy's grape harvest for
wine-making started a full month earlier than anyone can remember
happening in the past.

Of course, there's no need to look far away for evidence of global
warming and catastrophic climate change. This monsoon season, everyone
can tell Goa has experienced more sunny days than cloudy, and received
just barely two-thirds its normal share of rain. Just across the
border, Karnataka staggers through the worst drought in five decades,
caused by its fourth consecutive failed monsoon. Chief minister
Siddaramaiah has declared a water emergency in 160 of 176 talukas.
Over Goa's other border, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis recently
promised, "In two years we can make Maharashtra drought free." But by
his own government accounts, nearly 30,000 villages are officially
registered as drought-afflicted.

Fadnavis's Maharashtra tallied an astonishing 852 farmer suicides in
just the first four months of this year, adding to an utterly tragic
national epidemic that is directly linked to global warming caused by
climate change. A few days ago, scientist Tamma Carleton (of the
University of California) released an eye-opening study associating
rising temperatures with nearly 60,000 farmer suicides in India. She
found an increase of even just one degree resulted in 67 additional
people killing themselves, while timely rainfall immediately
corresponded to drops in the death rate. Carleton writes, "This effect
occurs only during India's agricultural growing season, when heat also
lowers crop yields. I find no evidence that acclimatization, rising
incomes, or other unobserved drivers of adaptation are occurring."

The enormous scale of looming disaster is underlined by another
important international study published a few days ago by the journal
'Science Advances'. Drs Eun-Soon Im (Hong Kong University), Jeremy S
Pal (Loyola Marymount University) and Elfatih Eltahir (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology) warn "the most intense hazard from extreme
future heatwaves is concentrated around densely populated agricultural
regions of the Ganges and Indus river basins. Climate change, without
mitigation, presents a serious and unique risk in South Asia, a region
inhabited by about one-fifth of the global human population, due to an
unprecedented combination of severe natural hazard and acute
vulnerability."

This stunning, highly depressing analysis is predicated on 'wet bulb
temperature' (WBT), which factors in the cooling effects of humidity.
Once WBT crosses 35 degrees, humans get no relief by sweating, and
even perfectly fit people sitting in the shade will die after a few
hours of exposure. According to the 'Science Advances' study, if
current patterns of unchecked carbon emissions hold, that disastrous
scenario is sure to unfold in India in this coming century, exposing a
minimum of 4% of the national population to "unsurvivable six-hour
heatwaves of 35C WBT". Major cities like Lucknow and Patna are likely
to be wiped out, and tens of millions will die. It will be the end of
India as we know it.

There is a tiny glimmer of hope, however. The authors caution that 35C
WBT "killer heatwaves" need not occur if the nations of the world
manage to reduce carbon emissions in line with their own global Paris
climate change agreements. Here, it is to China and India's immense
credit that each is almost guaranteed to meet its assigned goals,
thanks to hugely impressive realignment to green technologies. Eltahir
of MIT points out that the highly dangerous (but not quite fatal) 31C
WBT level 

[Goanet] EMPOWER THE YOUTH

[Aires Rodrigues]

The Goa Government as a matter of rule should ensure that there is a total
ban on any extensions in service and contract appointments to the retired.
Every extension in service or contract appointment given beyond the
retirement age is a cruel and grave injustice to the Youth. It is also a
severe prejudice to those unemployed aspiring to join the government
service and to the young officers awaiting promotion.



No one is indispensable and steps should be taken well in advance to
replace those retiring. There are however some officers who just will not
retire as they cannot live without feasting on government perks and
freebies.  All good things need to come to an end. And there is something
known as “retired life” which many government officers unfortunately cannot
come to terms with.



We need to invest in our youth and give them a chance. The power,
diversity, and potential of our youth could energize the bureaucracy into a
vibrant engine to tow Goa out of the woods.



The great American writer Robert Heinlein had said “Age is not an
accomplishment, and youth is not a sin”.



Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

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[Goanet] After Fighting Against Goa's Casinos, Parrikar Gives Them What They Want (Devika Sequeira, thewire.in)

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After Fighting Against Goa's Casinos, Parrikar Gives Them
What They Want
BY DEVIKA SEQUIERA ON 07/08/2017

The floating casinos are
expected to be relocated to
Mopa and will help BJP sell its
controversial new airport
project.

A floating casino off Panaji in Goa. Credit: Devika Sequeira

Panaji: Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar recently made an
announcement in the state's legislative assembly: all
offshore casinos would have to shift to land-based operations
within three years if they wanted to continue doing business
in Goa. The decision, long expected despite the stock
denials, is what the big players in the casino industry had
been betting on all along, and it exposes the BJP's
doublespeak on the gambling business in Goa.

  There are currently six offshore and ten land-based
  casinos in play here, but live gaming (with dealers
  opposed to slot machines), where the stakes can go
  really high, is permitted only on the floating
  casinos, which makes the transfer and renewal of
  their licences such a lucrative business.

Jaydev Mody's Delta Corp Ltd is the biggest player in the Goa
casino business. It runs three offshore casinos, Deltin
Royale, Deltin Jaqk and Deltin Caravela as well as the
onshore Deltin Suites Casino Hotel at Nerul. The Ashok
Khetrapal fronted group is the next big casino operator with
Casino Pride and Casino Pride 2 anchored in the Mandovi.
Pride also runs the land-based Casino Paradise at Porvorim
and Casino Palms at Baga.

Faced with mounting protests over the BJP government granting
permission for a sixth offshore casino in the River Mandovi
after the party had earlier campaigned against them, a
providential occurrence spared Parrikar's blushes in the
monsoon session of the Goa assembly. On July 15, a new casino
vessel M. V. Lucky Seven, fully outfitted to commence
business as the Big Daddy Casino, drifted off course in
stormy weather and ran aground at Miramar beach (near Panaji)
where it is currently stuck, turning into a photo-op for
tourists. Operations to refloat and tow it away are currently
underway.

  Lucky Seven is promoted by the controversial former
  Haryana minister Gopal Kanda. The Tanzanian flag
  passenger vessel was brought to Goa by Golden Globe
  Hotels Pvt Ltd (GGHPL), a company started as a
  subsidiary of Kanda's defunct MDLR airline. There's
  very little information to be found on GGHPL or its
  businesses, but sources in the company said that
  Kanda, his son and son-in-law hold a majority stake
  in it and in their current interest in the casino
  business in Goa.

Kanda's foray into casinos here goes back to 2009 when he
bought the Leela group's Casino Rio for a reported amount of
Rs 30 crore. Leela had managed an offshore gaming licence in
2006 but the business never set sail. Neither did it under
Kanda, and in 2013 the government towed away the abandoned
vessel for owing the authorities Rs 12 crore in casino
licence fees. The fee with fines had mounted to Rs 50 crore
by 2017.

  This in itself should have been grounds enough to
  not renew Kanda's licence. But the Parrikar
  government renewed it all the same, using the ruse
  of a court order to justify the decision. In
  reality, however, it was the state's advocate
  general who told the high court of Bombay at Goa
  that the government would "favourably consider" the
  Kanda company's application for renewal.

All the casino licences in Goa -- both off-shore and land
based ones -- were dished out by gung-ho Congress
governments, with former chief minister Pratapsingh Rane and
former home minister Ravi Naik being the key players in this
high stakes game of licence roulette. This uncomfortable
fact, as much as the Congress' role in the mining scam,
provided the BJP its biggest ammunition for the 2012 state
assembly election which it won with a clear majority.
Parrikar would turn up at anti-casino protests with RSS
supporters, and doing away with casinos went to the top of
his party's 2012 manifesto, even as behind the scenes
assurances were reportedly given that they would be allowed
to carry on with business as usual.

Once in government though, the commitment by the BJP to move
the casinos out of the Mandovi and regulate the trade was
never seen through. The promise to set up a gaming commission
has not seen the light of day even five years later. What the
government did in effect, is facilitate more opaque
operations, allowing the state's Captain of Ports, rather
than the Centre's Director of Shipping -- as was the case
previously -- to licence the casino vessels, most of which are
not even seaworthy.

  In 2014, the BJP also reversed the law it had
  brought in to ban the transfer of casino licences
  when it allowed the Pride group to take over the V.
  M. Salgaocar & 

[Goanet] Solar powered tuk-tuk completes India to Uk trip.

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