[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Hlíðarfjall

[Rajan Parrikar]

Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Hlíðarfjall'

Iconic mountain and its many moods.

The handsome Hlíðarfjall is part of the Krafla volcanic system in the
Mývatn area of north Iceland. This "rhyolite lava dome" was "formed in
sub-glacial eruptions some 2-3 years ago" (vide Iceland by
Thor Thordarson and Armann Hoskuldsson, Classic Geology in Europe
series, Terra Publishing, 2002).


You may view the latest post at

https://blog.parrikar.com/2019/04/19/hlidarfjall/

Warm regards,

Rajan Parrikar
parri...@yahoo.com

[Goanet] BJP's Dynasty Test in Goa: Will It Endorse Parrikar's Son's Legacy Bid? (Devika Sequeira, TheWire.in)

[Goanet Reader]

BJP's Dynasty Test in Goa: Will It Endorse Parrikar's Son's Legacy Bid?

In Goa, the BJP is currently up
against a curious dilemma: will
it encourage Utpal Parrikar's
claim to his father's political
legacy, or will it make a moral point?

PHOTO: Utpal and Abhijaat Parrikar at their father's funeral.
Credit: Narayan Pissurlekar

By Devika Sequeira
devikaseque...@gmail.com

Politics
18/Apr/2019

‘Dynasty' and the perpetuation of ‘family rule' have figured
prominently in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election
offensive, helping him pillory the Gandhis and more recently
the Abdullahs and Muftis in the Jammu leg of his campaign.

But in Goa, the BJP is currently up against a curious
dilemma: will it encourage Utpal Parrikar's claim to his
father's political legacy, or will he be denied the ticket
for the by-election to Manohar Parrikar's seat to make a
moral point of it?

  Utpal, the older son of the former Goa chief
  minister, is currently campaigning for BJP's Lok
  Sabha candidates. But he is also the "front-runner"
  -- his media supporters claim -- for the BJP
  nomination to contest the Panaji assembly seat that
  fell vacant after Manohar Parrikar's death last
  month. The Panaji election will be held on May 19.
  Voting for the two Goa Lok Sabha seats and three
  other by-polls takes place on April 23.

Also read: Not Just Congress, BJP and Regional Parties Play
Dynasty Politics Too
https://thewire.in/politics/dynastic-democracy-congress-bjp

>From a complete outsider to politics, diligently distanced
from both party affairs and running of government by the
former CM, Utpal has shot to political prominence in less
than a month of Manohar Parrikar's passing away. Soon after
their father's death, both Parrikar's sons, Utpal and
Abhijaat, made public their intent "to continue his legacy of
service and dedication to the state and the nation".

The statement took family friends completely by surprise,
giving the former Goa RSS chief Subhash Velingkar a handle to
take a dig at Utpal, saying he was "a thorough gentleman" but
hardly "political material". Velingkar who was once close to
Parrikar said the former chief minister "had never nurtured
his sons for a future in politics. He didn't even allow them
to set foot in the Sachivalaya."

  But the 39-year-old Utpal who has a masters in
  engineering from the US and runs a business in
  manufacturing bone implants for the export market
  has proved a quick learner and politically astute
  to seize the day, aware no doubt as everyone is, of
  the BJP's paucity of leaders in Goa post-Parrikar.

PHOTO Utpal Parrikar. Credit: Narayan Pissurlekar

Utpal's first test will be getting the nomination. Will the
Modi-Shah power centre be willing to field him in an election
right away and invite criticism of perpetuating 'family raj',
a slogan coined by the BJP itself to pin down the Congress in
Goa's 2012 election?

Even if the BJP does indeed give Utpal the Panaji ticket, the
bigger test will be to get past the main opponent, Babush
Monserrate.

  With the Goa Forward Party (GFP), a partner in the
  BJP-led government, till a day ago, the
  unpredictable Monserrate is a veteran of many
  political contests and a well-travelled politician
  in the sense of changing parties at least five
  times. He's won elections several times from other
  constituencies but lost out narrowly to the BJP in
  Panaji in March 2017. When Parrikar returned to
  head the Goa government in 2017, Monserrate
  withdrew from the contest in the June 2017 by-poll
  in what was seen as "match-fixing" to allow the
  former defence minister an easy contest against the
  Congress.

Also read: Manohar Parrikar: A Legacy Marred by Political
Compromises and U-Turns
https://thewire.in/politics/manohar-parrikar-goa-legacy

But this is a different ball game, Monserrate told The Wire.
"Come what may, I will be contesting the Panaji seat."

Monserrate joined the Congress on Thursday to get the party's
nomination for the constituency. His campaign is already in
top gear, he says. He scoffs at Parrikar junior's legacy bid.

Manohar Parrikar, he says, never mentioned his sons, and it
was in fact former BJP MLA Siddarth Kunkolienkar who nurtured
the constituency in Parrikar's absence. Let the voters decide
if they want to continue with the legacy or opt for
development, which is lacking in the capital city, he says.

Goa Forward Party's Babush Monserrate. Credit: The Wire

What makes Monserrate a tough opponent is his grip on the
city's municipal corporation where his panel holds the
majority. Parrikar had held the Panaji seat from 1994, but in
two elections his margins of victory were a narrow 1,000-odd
votes over the Congress, often necessitating backroom deals
between the BJP leader and 

[Goanet] Request for Blood Donors / Card @ Saligao

[Dominic Fernandes]

 Greetings !

I wanted to put out a request on behalf of my sister, a inmate at the Mae
De deus home at Saligao.

She will be undergoing a knee replacement surgery on 1st May and has been
advised by Doctors to get two blood donor cards just in case transfusion is
needed.

The doctor feels that the chances of transfusion being needed are very less
however they just want to take extra precaution.

The following persons can be contacted :

Sr Annette - 09689023760

Dominic (my self) - 9004600648

[Goanet] Good Friday Procession in the City - Panaji Church

[JoeGoaUk]

 

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8bXOcPFxQk

18 June Road, Dr. Pissurlekar Road, M G Road, Azad Maidan, Chapel behind 
Mandovi Hotel etc

Pics - 40+ 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/40677827943/in/dateposted-public/
Church
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/46728838905/in/photostream/

Our Lady 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/40677820013/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/47644469281/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/47644470441/in/photostream/

Meal of the day
Pez and salt fish
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[Goanet] Goa Police women force struggle to arrest a lone Nigerian woman

[armstrong augusto vaz]

Goa Police women force struggle to arrest a lone Nigerian woman
Four years after 200 African nationals, largely Nigerians, ran riot at
Porvorim, bringing the NH 17 to a grinding halt for over four hours
and destroying police and public property, Goa police has failed to
make any progress in taming the Nigerians.
If earlier it was the men here it seems to be a case for a Nigerian
girl who is beyond the control of the Goa women police force.


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

https://youtu.be/5NRFw0mSY88

Alcohol induced Goa fights caught on camera


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZDezUhNBQ


Goan heritage houses face slow death in face of modernisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9rSRN8Bcmk

Bull fighting festival in Mapusa market creates havoc for traders and onlookers

Max Cabral and Steffi Goes heat up the political climate in Goa from London


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SzpF7tPD68

[Goanet] SANTOSH TROPHY REPORT: SERVICES DOWN 10-MAN KARNATAKA IN THRILLING PENALTY SHOOTOUT

[AIFF Media]

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Dear Colleagues,



Please find the report below.



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SERVICES DOWN 10-MAN KARNATAKA IN THRILLING PENALTY SHOOTOUT



*LUDHIANA: *Services huffed and puffed and finally got over the line in a
thrilling penalty shootout against a 10-man Karnataka side in the second
semi-final of the Hero Santosh Trophy at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana
on Friday.



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[Goanet] An alumni network for those who studied at Rachol....

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RaiturchemDaiz/

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[Goanet] CCR TV Schedule for 20th April 2019

[CCR TV]

CCR TV GOA
Cable Channel of God's love

Kindly pass around the word to your friends and relatives in any part of
the globe that they can keep track of all the CCR TV output (including our
archives) via the simple-to-use,
free-to download CCR TV app from the Google Playstore.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4

Schedule for Saturday, 20th April 2019

12:00 Midnight
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

12:30 AM
Career Guidance - Veterinary Science

01:00 AM
Health Matters - Diabetes -Dr Marina Vaz

01:30 AM
Music - Vakhann'nni 1 followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem

02:00 AM
Praise and Worship - Fatorda 2 followed by Daily Prayer to the Holy Spirit

02:30 AM
Bhajans 4

03:00 AM
Nimanni Sat Utram Jezuchim - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

03:30 AM
Good Friday - Talk by Fr Kelwin Monteiro sj

04:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

04:30 AM
Bhavarth - Talk by Victor Mascarenhas

05:30 AM
LSS - You Shall be my Witnesses - Savio Mascarenhas

06:15 AM
Loneliness of Jesus - Dr Brenda Nazareth Meneze

06:30 AM
Jezucheo Tin Tallneo - Fr Pio Furtado sfx

07:00 AM
Bhajans 4

07:30 AM
Music - Vakhann'nni 1 followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem

08:00 AM
Praise and Worship - Fatorda 2 followed by Daily Prayer to the Holy Spirit

08:30 AM
Saibin Mai - Ines Demello

09:00 AM
Announcements

09:02 AM
Couples Prayer - Konkani

09:05 AM
Our Father - Garo

09:10 AM
Povitrponn - Talk by Ivy Ferrao

09:30 PM
Adoration - Fr Oscar Nazareth op - Panjim

10:00 AM
A Choral Meditation- The Chamber Singer- Pune Concert

10:40 AM
Music - Maria Maria - Ivy Ferrao

10:45 AM
De-Coding the  Holy Week - Easter Saturday/Sunday

11:00 AM
Word of God - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

11:20 AM
Scripture Studies 2 - Fr Edson

12:00 PM
Abundant Life - Behold I make all things new - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

12:30 PM
Msgr fr Alex Rebello interviewed by Prof Nicholas D'Souza

01:00 PM
LSS - You Shall be my Witnesses - Savio Mascarenhas

01:45 PM
Commitment to Holiness through Prayer - Fr Fernando da Costa

02:30 PM
Christian Leadership - Leela Moraes

02:50 PM
De-Coding the  Holy Week - Easter Saturday/Sunday

03:00 PM
Divine Mercy - Konkani 1

03:15 PM
Seven Sorrows of Mary - Fr Pio Furtado sfx

03:30 PM
Mother Mary - Talk by Fr Eremito Rebelo

03:45 PM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 28  - Chovg Bhiku  - Fr Pratap Naik sj

03:55 PM
Music- Goddvaiechea Kallza - Victor Da Costa

04:00 PM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

04:25 PM
Reflection on the Gospel- Dominican Media Mission

04:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises -5

05:00 PM
Tell me a story - Prodigal Son

05:15 PM
Reading the Bible - Talk by Francis D'Souza

05:30 PM
Career Guidance - Goa College of Pharmacy

06:00 PM
Angelus - English

06:02 PM
Health Matters - Dr. Steffi Dias Sapeco - Homoeopathy

06:35 PM
Youthopia - Shweta Sequeira - Boutique interviewed by Mysicka Deniz

07:00 PM
Angelus - Konkani 2

07:02 PM
Prayer for India 2

07:05 PM
Couples Prayer - English

07:20 PM
De-Coding the  Holy week - Easter Saturday/Sunday

07:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

08:00 PM
Suffering - Talk by Fr Oscar Nazareth op

09:00 PM
Ratchem Magnem

09:15 PM
Concert - Pilar Academy - Are You there?

11:00 PM
Holy Hour - Fr Gabriel Coutinho - Vasco0

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[Goanet] Family stranded in India after airline is grounded finds way out - for £5,500

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/jet-airlines-norwich-family-5-500-india-flights-1-6005795
-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] The in-between world of the African Goans

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/the-in-between-world-of-the-african-goans-1555659088733.html
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Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: PUNJAB RIDE LAST-GASP HARJINDER GOAL TO ENTER SANTOSH TROPHY FINAL

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



Please find the report below.



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*PUNJAB RIDE LAST-GASP HARJINDER GOAL TO ENTER SANTOSH TROPHY FINAL*


*LUDHIANA: *Punjab made it through to their 15th Hero Santosh Trophy final
on Friday at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana, beating traditional rivals
Goa by a 2-1 margin.



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[Goanet] LET GIRISH CHODANKAR AND FRANCISCO SARDINHA BE GOA’S VOICE IN THE LOK SABHA

[Aires Rodrigues]

Over the last five years Goa’s voice in the Lok Sabha has been totally
subdued if not lost, with the two dumb RSS indoctrinated Shripad Naik and
Narendra Sawaikar as our MPs.

Shripad Naik who has been representing North Goa for two long decades is a
proven total disaster with his very own admission that he despite being a
Union Minister failed to get an appointment to discuss the issue of the
Mining dependants with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Disenchantment with Shripad Naik is not only felt by the people of Goa but
also within a faction of the BJP close to Manohar Parrikar.  A recent video
where Parrikar’s nephew was heard criticizing Shripad Naik for his
inaccessibility and non-performance exposed the cracks in the party. The
time for change to replace a forlorn Shripad Naik with the dynamic and
popular Congress candidate Girish Chodankar is urgent and inevitable.

Less said the better on the South Goa MP Narendra Sawaikar who despite
being an Advocate has as a MP also been a proven tragedy.

To add to Goa’s misery, another political buffoon and an ITI mechanic Vinay
Tendulkar has been representing us in the Rajya Sabha. What a disgrace that
we are seen to be intellectually bankrupt at this rank of political
representation.

So, on 23rd April let us elect the dynamic, young and very unblemished
Girish Chodankar as our North Goa MP, while in the South of Goa let our
choice be the veteran and experienced Francisco Sardinha to be our voice in
the Lok Sabha.

In South Goa let us not waste our votes on AAP’s Elvis Gomes who has been
planted and fueled by the BJP to split the anti- BJP votes. Elvis Gomes
reportedly had two long  close door meetings ( one in the last week of
January 2019 and the other in mid Feb) with the then ailing Chief Minister
Manohar Parrikar where they worked out the modalities on how Mission
Salcette was to be outsourced to AAP’s Elvis Gomes. On that Golden
handshake, no more needs to be said as politics has today become the
scoundrel’s last resort.



Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

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[Goanet] The in-between African Goans (Mint Lounge, 20/4/2019)

[V M]

https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/the-in-between-world-of-the-african-goans-1555659088733.html











*Why do you call me “guest”When here I have my home,When here my father
lived and died,My mother too, and a brother?Their graves lie there within
this City’s bounds,Where I myself was born,My children too – all three of
them.Must they and I leave this land,Be strangers to itBecause your skin is
black and mine and theirs is brown,Your folk came here some scores of years
ere ours?*
   To the African: No Guest am I, by J. M. Nazareth
(1975)


At the cusp of the 1990’s, while meant to pursue graduate studies in
London, my attentions instead swivelled to an alluring young woman who had
been born in Kampala a quarter-century earlier, and our subsequent
courtship drew me into the in-between world of the African Goans. It was my
first extended encounter with these Indians twice removed, the first time
voluntarily from our collective palm-shaded Konkan homeland, but then with
haunting consequence from “good old days” in the British and Portuguese
colonies in Africa. The double exile was bedrock to their identity. I found
myself surrounded by men and women utterly riven with melancholy, whose
eyes brimmed with tears whenever the Swahili love song Malaika played
(which was often). Home was liminal, the heart was elsewhere. Only loss was
omnipresent.

It took some time to realize these collective doldrums were triggered by an
exceptional history, and there really is nothing else quite like the case
of the “Afrikanders” in the annals of globalization. In the first place,
they had poured out from Goa Africa in response to an urgent opportunity
which seems inconceivable from our 21st century vantage, what Sir Harry
Johnston (Special Commissioner in Uganda from 1899-1901) enthusiastically
referred to as “an America of the Hindu.” In her excellent ‘Community,
Memory, and Migration in a Globalizing World: The Goan Experience
1890-1980, the historian Margaret Frenz says these “subaltern elites”
became “an interstitial category, neither simply imperial handmaidens nor
subordinates, neither solely exploiters nor exploited. This makes them a
rather exceptional group…Goans played a remarkable role in the
administration of both the British and Portuguese Empires, constituting the
‘backbone’ of local government structures.”

But just when the going became genuinely good, then came the fall. After
the mother countries of the subcontinent wrenched freedom at midnight in
1947, decolonization loomed inevitable in the African colonies as well.
Here too the colonizers manoeuvred cynically to divide and rule. As the
advocate J. M. Nazareth summarized in his biting, mournful ‘Brown Man Black
Country: On the Foothills of Uhuru’ (Tidings Publications, 1981), “when the
drums of freedom sounded in India their echoes were heard in Africa. The
British lost no time in planting a wedge between Indians and Africans.
Suddenly they developed concern for the “native”…The greatest triumph of
European racism was the way it succeeded in deflecting African hostility
from the European to a helpless scapegoat.”

The Goans of Africa were blindsided and betrayed. Their universe of meaning
became calamitously disrupted. Even many decades later, the wary community
I encountered in London were almost visibly cloaked with the bitter lessons
of their forfeiture, still pulled tight against the winds of change. As Ivo
de Figueiredo writes in the wonderfully sensitive ‘A Stranger At My Table’
(DoppelHouse Press, 2019), his new memoir centered on his Kenyan Goan
father, “The harsh truth was that now my family became redundant people,
mere slag from the grinding wheel of history. They were a people with
origins, history, but no territory of their own. The empires that had
created them had gone and now they were left standing among the colonial
ruins under the scorching sun.”

Yet, there were some fantastic twists to the Afrikander saga. While the
majority fled westward in difficult circumstances – de Figueiredo’s father
eventually settled in Norway - many stayed, to plunge directly into
idealistic nation-building. One outstanding example is Mapusa-born Aquino
de Bragança, who was a leading campaigner for the freedom of Mozambique,
and was eventually killed in an unexplained plain crash while accompanying
President Samora Machel in 1986. About him, Nelson Mandela famously said,
“He was a great revolutionary. Aquino prepared the ground.” But there were
several other outstanding Afrikander anti-colonialist freedom fighters, two
of whom were similarly assassinated in murky circumstances, both of whose
memories have been kindled by recent books.

By far better known is the subject of Shiraz Durrani’s quirky, fascinating
‘Pio Gama Pinto: Kenya’s Unsung Martyr 1927-1965’ (Vita Books, 2018). This
selfless, unrelenting Kenyan patriot was hailed by the Indian communist
leader Romesh Chandra as “a bridge between India and Africa” who

[Goanet] A sentence of hate speech

[Bernado Colaco]

 There was no need for the priest to back down. The RSS makes death threat on 
Goans on a daily basis. It is time to clear Goa from this BJP, Congress, AAP 
who have come to milk Goa for the past 5 decades.
BC

From: Nelson Lopes <
It is surprising that the renowned preacher from Raia is delivering  a long a 
political speech about the  Misdeeds of  BJP Govt and how it is a threat to 
secular fabric of Indian Democracy. There is no gospel preaching in between and 
it is in the church premises All  the known facts are true  and there  is only  
emphasis in an an open and daring manner and are floating in public domain 
espoused by people of all shades scientist film actors recipients of awards  etc
But it is inside the church and not sure whether  it is a retreat  ceremony
The only isolated reference to Parikar about curse is blown out of proportion 
The handle to malign the priest and church is a convenient propaganda This 
content is mere sentence in an long speech lambasting the BJP for its sins of 
omissions and commissions
However it may not be justified remark but why not talk about the whole speech 
in context
The clips provide elaborate testimony of his outpourings of BJP rule of law and 
governance. And is very well articulated
If the same is repeated on a public platform it would certainly receive 
admiration  and applause and send shivers down the spines of BJP followers


  

[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: WITH ONE EYE ON WORLD CUP, HERO JUNIOR GIRLS' NFC SET TO GET UNDERWAY IN KOLHAPUR

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



Please find the report below.



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*WITH ONE EYE ON WORLD CUP, HERO JUNIOR GIRLS' NFC SET TO GET UNDERWAY IN
KOLHAPUR*


*KOLHAPUR (MAHARASHTRA):* A month on from the historic announcement of
India hosting the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2020, the Hero Junior
Girls' National Football Championship is all set to kick-off on Saturday
(April 20, 2019) in Kolhapur, Maharashtra – a city with a rich cultural
heritage that dates back to as early as the 17th century.



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