[Goanet] Covid deaths in Portugal
PUBLICO says there were 122 deaths from Covid-19 in Portugal in the past day. At one stage, Goa and Portugal were reporting about the same number of deaths -- say 7-8 per day. That was around September when Covid was peaking in Goa. Since then, Goa has not done anything laudable or noteworthy. Now the deaths in Goa are in the low single digits... despite all the irresponsible behaviour, millions of tourists, parties, raves et al. So what made the difference? Is it the weather? FN -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436
[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} What the numbers say, or don't, about a vaccine
Jan 11 Here in India, we are readying for the "rollout" of two corona vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin. While that's good news of course, there are some troubling aspects to this rollout, especially about their clinical trials. I've written before about trials and their mathematical nature, and it's in that spirit that I wanted to explore my concerns about these vaccines. This column appeared last Friday, Jan 8. Take a look: https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/what-numbers-say-or-don-t-about-a-vaccine-11610041019752.html Reactions welcome, as always. yours, dilip What the numbers say, or don't, about a vaccine Here's something worth forgetting about any vaccine for the Corona virus - though really about any drug. I'm talking about the notion that the vaccine will necessarily have no side-effects; that it will therefore be "100% safe". It's worth forgetting, because in this context, that is a meaningless number. For every drug known to mankind has some side-effects. They may not be serious, they may not affect you in particular, and even if they do, you may not notice them - but they're there, and some who use the drug will experience those side-effects. And since that's the case, the challenge for every company that produces a new drug is not to attain a mythical "100% safe" mark. Instead, it is to evaluate the risks and side-effects of the drug and weigh those against the benefits. It is to then make this knowledge available to customers who buy and use the drug. For just one example, a simple web search will tell you that taking one aspirin daily has at least these two possible side-effects: a stroke caused by a burst blood vessel, and gastro-intestinal bleeding. If those sound serious to you, you will wonder: Why is aspirin on the market at all, and prescribed regularly by doctors? Simple. Because it acts to reduce blood's tendency to clot. That's why taking an aspirin a day can prevent a heart attack in people already at risk of one, or who have already had one. We learned this when aspirin went through its clinical trials. The scientists conducting the trials concluded that the benefits generally outweigh the risks, and that's why aspirin is widely available. Though to be sure, there are still some experts who don't believe this; and in any case, you as a potential consumer of aspirin should weigh the risks and benefits yourself, before making a decision. Much the same analysis and reasoning apply to the vaccines against Corona that are now appearing. And that's how we should examine the claims about the vaccines against the Corona virus that are now being administered in India: Covaxin and Covashield. As we now know, these two vaccines have been approved for public use in India. One, Covaxin, was approved without any public disclosure of data from its trials. In fact, the other, Covashield's, claimed Phase-3 trial doesn't look like one either: as the health expert Dr Gagandeep Kang said recently, it is "what would be called a Phase-2 study in other parts of the world, i.e. for safety and immunogenecity and not for efficacy." Given all this, how should we react to the claims being made about these vaccines? Remember that these various trials are essentially statistical and mathematical exercises. Thus we should examine them in those terms and no other. "EFficacy", for example, is a measure of the ability of the vaccine to generate what we are all in search of, an immunity to the virus. We determine that statistically, after a large Phase-3 trial, often on tens of thousands of people. If two-thirds of them develop immunity, for example, we say the vaccine has a 67% efficacy. Only, we have no Phase-3 data for Covaxin. So we have no way of knowing what its efficacy really is. What we have instead are claims. The Drugs Controller General of India, VG Somani, was quoted in the Indian Express on January 6: "The Phase 3 efficacy trial [for Covaxin] was initiated in India on 25,800 volunteers and till date, approximately 22,500 participants have been vaccinated across the country and the vaccine has been found to be safe." What do we make of this statement? To start, note that it does not address the issue of efficacy at all, even though Somani calls it an "efficacy trial". After an "efficacy trial", we should see language something like this: "15,000 of the 22,500 vaccinated participants - 67% - have developed immunity to the virus." Instead, we get the claim that "the vaccine has been found to be safe." No measure of efficacy there. Though even "found to be safe" is merely a claim. It should have been supported by data from Covaxin's Phase-1 and Phase-2 trials, which were explicitly meant to test safety. We know this because of the mandatory submissions about those trials by Bharat Biotech - the creators of Covaxin - to the Government of India's "Clinical Trial Registry - India" (CTRI, at ctri.nic.in). According to those submissions, Covaxin's Phase-1 trial was registered on
[Goanet] Wikileaks dumped all files
Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton's emails D, McCain's being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic. Happy Digging! Here you go, please read and pass it on. https://file.wikileaks.org/file/... These are Clinton’s emails: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/clinton-emails/ Index file! https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbclid=IwAR2U_Evqah_Qy2wxNY12FMqFC5dAFUcZL5Kl4FIfQuMFMp8ssbM46oHXWMI Send to everyone you can as fast as you can! They were able to let it out because trump declassified it all today -- Frederick Dsouza
[Goanet] You’re On Your Own
UK’s British Foreign Office tells British-Iranian hostage: You Have No Right To Our Help. British citizens who are wrongfully jailed and tortured abroad will have 'no legal right to consular assistance' or protection from the state, the United Kingdom's (UK) Foreign Office recently wrote in a letter to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's lawyers. Arrested in Iran in 2016, Mrs. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 41, is a British-Iranian dual-national and charity worker. She has been jailed for five years on accusations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian regime. The UK's Government stated that it had no legal obligation to assist citizens dishonestly accused of a crime while travelling with a British passport. Despite UN experts finding that Zaghari-Ratcliffe's mistreatment in detention amounts to torture, Sarah Broughton, the head of consular affairs within the Foreign Office, said the government "cannot investigate torture or mistreatment allegations." Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet] Schedule for Tuesday 12th January 2021
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Tuesday 12th January 2021 12:00 AM Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries 12:24 AM Catholic Quiz - St.Francis Xavier conducted by Mysticka Deniz 12:40 AM Povitrponn - Talk by Ivy Ferrao 1:00 AM Mass in Konkani for Monday 2:00 AM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister 2:25 AM Nokhetram - Team Tanchi Chuk Kosli? 2:51 AM Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi - Fr Luis Gomes interviewed by Daniel de Souza 3:45 AM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 11 - Dog Xejari - Fr Pratap Naik sj 3:55 AM Gonvllik Citticher Boska 2020-21. Intro by Archbishop 4:16 AM Jesus Name above all names - Colin Calmiano 4:44 AM Bangalore Mens Choir 5:42 AM Couples Prayer - English 5:45 AM Catechism for Confirmation 6:10 AM Apologetics -Mary - Adv. F.E. Noronha 6:47 AM Music - Bavarth - Fr Eusico Pereira 6:51 AM Hymn - Deva Mhojea Deva - Fr Ronaldo Fernandes 6:57 AM Morning Prayer - Tuesday Wk 1 & 3 7:00 AM St Joseph Vaz - Novena 6 , Sancoale Konkani followed by Jivitacho Prokas 8:05 AM Sokalchem Magnnem 8:10 AM Couples Prayer - English 8:15 AM St Joseph Vaz - Novena 6 , Sancoale English followed by Daily Flash 9:20 AM Devachim Vakhann'nni - Cassino D'Costa 9:50 AM Through Mary to Jesus - Eps 4 - Fr Jude Carrasco S.J. 10:13 AM Alcoholics Anonymous Presentation 10:41 AM Entrepreneurship - Rohini Gonsalves interviewed by Basil D'Cunha 11:04 AM Announcements - St Joseph Novena and Feast (English) 11:11 AM Hymn -Xelliank Hanv Dar - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 11:14 AM Prayer to St. Joseph by Pope Francis 11:16 AM Intercessions (English) 11:30 AM St Joseph Vaz - Novena 6 , Sancoale English followed by Daily Flash 12:35 PM Talk - If my people - Alfwold Silveira 1:05 PM Consecrated Life - Precious Blood Missionaries 1:30 PM Career - Women in the Maritime World - Robert Shane VazCapt. 1:51 PM Nattkulem - Amcho Fuddar - Fr Milagres Dias 2:10 PM Announcements - St Joseph Novena and Feast (Konkani)) 2:19 PM What's Cooking? Season 2 Episode 5 2:35 PM Documentary - Scanner 2:53 PM Faith Magic of Heart - Talk by Sr Shilpa 3:06 PM Comedy - Night School - Meena Goes, Julius Mesquita - 3rd Anniv 3:15 PM Xapai - Xamaichem Magnnem 3:17 PM Magnificat (Konkani) 3:21 PM Song - My Hero - Jerson Fernandes 3:30 PM Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam 3:40 PM Povitrponn - Talk by Ivy Ferrao 4:00 PM Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries 4:24 PM Reflection on the Gospel - Dominicans 4:30 PM Senior Citizens Exercises - 7 4:53 PM Prayer for Healing from Cancer 5:00 PM Praise and Worship - Magno Menezes - SJVRC 5:24 PM Tell me a Story - Episode 5 - 5:33 PM Catechism for First Holy Communion -18 5:51 PM Prayer for India 3 5:55 PM Go Corona Goa... Christmas is here - Beverly Mendonca 6:00 PM Angelus - English 6:02 PM Bhagiancher Niyall V - Br Malvino Alfonso ocd 6:17 PM Intercessions (Konkani) 6:30 PM Novena 5, Our Lady of Succour and Good Success, Nagoa 7:30 PM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Orkache Mister 7:55 PM Our Father - Marathi 8:00 PM Literally Goa - Miguel Braganza interviewed by Frederick Noronha 8:30 PM Marian Reflections -8 - DCC 9:00 PM Prayer before Bessed Sacrament - Ursulines Siolim 9:40 PM Ratchem Magnem 9:57 PM Praying in Tongues - Talk by Colin Calmiano 10:54 PM Hymn - Deva Mhojea Deva - Fr Ronaldo Fernandes 11:02 PM Bangalore Mens Choir Donations may be made to: Beneficiary name : CCR GOA MEDIA. Name of Bank : ICICI Bank Branch Name: Panaji Branch RTGS/NEFT Code : ICIC015 Savings Bank Account No : 262401000183
[Goanet] Rediscovery of India: Bhopal (Conde Nast Traveller) ORIGINAL TEXT
https://www.cntraveller.in/story/time-travelling-through-the-heart-of-india-madhya-pradesh-bhopal/ Dawn blurs velvet at Bhimbhetka. The pitch admits a diamond glimmer, then softens. Here are veils of sandstone, sculpted by aeons of wind and water into loops, swirls, crevices, narrow pathways. An eruption of birdsong and animal calls, and some place deep inside your consciousness begins transmitting an insistent signal to seek out safety. Those gut feelings presage these most ancient rock shelters in the world, from where our earliest ancestors zig-zagged towards the present day. The rising sun reveals the verge of human history. In its World Heritage citation, UNESCO says Bhimbhetka “reflects a long interaction between the people and the landscape, as demonstrated in the quality of its rock art [which] appears to date from the Mesolithic Period right through to the historical period. The cultural traditions of the inhabitants of the twenty-one villages adjacent to the site bear a strong resemblance to those represented in the rock paintings.” It is an understated way of saying the site represents an unbroken civilizational strand stretching past the dawn of recorded time. By now, we all know to be wary of absurdly inflated claims about India’s “glorious past”. But when it comes to Bhimbhetka, believe the hype. Here, separately remarkable factors converge: unrivalled scale, extending through at least 750 separate shelters which spill over 10 kilometres; dazzling arrays of carvings and paintings created over many thousands of years; the undisturbed proximity and living presence of the very peoples whose ancestors crafted these testaments. Above all else is sheer, frankly incredible antiquity. The excellent *Encyclopedia of Stone Age Art* says Bhimbhetka is “four times older than the Blombos Cave art [in South Africa] the next oldest site of Stone Age art. Geological investigations of the prehistoric sites by renowned archeologists have established that this rock art pre-dates the Acheulean culture of the Lower Paleolithic era, and must therefore date from at least 290,000 BCE. However, once more advanced dating methods become available, it is conceivable that these petroglyphs will turn out to be much older - perhaps originating as early as 700,000 BCE.” Those are mind-boggling dates, when you consider the Harappan era began in 3300 BCE, and the palpable weight of all those years makes walking into Bhimbhetka an unforgettable, travel experience. Millenia unravel with each step: depictions of ceremonial parades yielding to more primal drawings of rhinoceros and bears. Then just palm-prints. Eventually you arrive at the smoothed cupules that are the single oldest artworks created by mankind. I did not anticipate their impact. They pierced to the core of my being, leaving me shaken. We headed directly back to Bhopal in wordless silence. By this point in our trip, several days after arriving in Madhya Pradesh, *Conde Nast Traveller India*’s Contributing Photographer Arjun Menon and I were already accustomed to the unexpected. We are travel veterans who have visited scores of countries – our last trip together was to Nagaland – and tend to being cocksure about what can be expected in India. But from the moment we arrived at its first-rate little airport, Bhopal confounded us. It was improbably clean, traffic moved without interruption, the signage was excellent, and everyone was supremely well-mannered. We kept waiting for the fatal flaws to be revealed, but that never happened. Realization slowly dawned this is an India that works, hidden away in plain sight in the geographical heart of the subcontinent. In his landmark, gorgeously written 1983 book *Answered by Flutes: Reflections from Madhya Pradesh*, Dom Moraes says “the Bhopal area has always been haunted by life. Plants, animals and people have inhabited it since prehistory, then, generation by generation, gone back into the black and fertile soil. Glaciers and wind once carved out the landscape: the glaciers melted and turned into rivers, the rivers dried up and left few relics. The effect of all these evanescences is to populate the countryside around the city with a host of memories of the Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim dynasties, enshrined in myth and, sometimes, in stone. The memories travel back beyond the frontiers of known history, to when the Bhopal district was a place without a name.” Those impressive annals are punctuated by two significant inflection points. The first occurred 1000 years ago during the rise of Raja Bhoja (he ruled from 1010 to 1055), who physically altered the landscape by building a massive earthen dam across the Kolans river to create the Bhojtal (Upper Lake). This cultural catalyst, is described by Sheldon Pollock in his magisterial *The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India* as “the most celebrated poet-king and philosopher-king of his time, and perhaps of any Indian
[Goanet] Inventing India (but losing Hindustan), Mint Lounge 11/01/2021
https://lifestyle.livemint.com/how-to-lounge/books/how-the-invention-of-india-eroded-the-idea-of-hindustan-111610285710735.html In her new, outstanding *Voices of Dissent:An Essay* (Seagull Books, Rs. 499), the eminent historian Romila Thapar describes how the advent of colonialism meant “a dramatic change” in how wildly diverse religious practices from across the subcontinent were understood and categorized. Inherently heterodox “beliefs, codes and worship were force-fitted to emphasize uniformity. That is how “Hinduism was reconfigured by colonial scholarship and came to include everything non-Islamic barring Christianity and Zoroastrianism.” Thapar says this revivalism introduced new “characteristics similar to the Abrahamic religions – Islam and Christianity. The Hindu was identified by the fact of his ancestry and the origin of his religion coming from within the territories of India – the current British India – and the Hindu, being of the majority religion, was therefore the primary citizen.” In the process, “the enviable flexibility of the earlier religion in its various phases has been leached out” and the resultant “Hindutva is not Hinduism as it was nor the religion as is.” *The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India* by Manan Ahmed Asif (Harvard University Press) expands on and explores these very questions: what important ideas were effaced due to centuries of colonial machinations that were calculated, and often minutely engineered, to sway the “natives”? How does the fallout of those processes continue to persist, detract and distract even today? In his dazzlingly erudite pursuit of these veins of inquiry, the 49-year-old Associate Professor of history at Columbia University has delivered us an intellectual tour de force, with evidence and arguments arrayed in lock-stepped sequence to define, understand and resolve the mystery posed by his very first line, “What happened to Hindustan?” Asif makes the case that for at least 1000 years, it was perfectly understood by most people of the subcontinent – including those living in almost every part of what is today India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – that they were “Hindustani” (the term never had any religious connotation). He writes, “European travelogues, histories, philological works, operas and plays that wanted to signal their authenticity or knowledge of ‘Oriental languages’ would also use this same word, with its varied spellings, as the “local” name of the subcontinent. Yet, in the early nineteenth century, the word Hindustan begins to fade.” This was an exceptionally momentous loss in the realms of meaning. Asif argues that “erasure of the precolonial idea of Hindustan has meant that it is taken as a truism that there was no coherent concept of peninsular India before British domination.” In the process, all the original implications of the word have disappeared, and – as in Savarkar’s oft-repeated slogan of “Hindu, Hindu, Hindustan” – it has become comprehensively co-opted by chauvinistic nationalism. It can be quite tricky to rebut this conventional wisdom, even if it is blatantly false. Asif notes, “To study the erasure of concepts or ideas is a difficult task, especially when it happens gradually and when the erased concepts are replaced by some hegemonic or majoritarian truth.” Thus, “how does one, then, write the history of something that is not even realizable as missing or cannot even be fully articulated? Colonization refuses the colonized access to their own past.” *The Loss of Hindustan* marshals considerable resources – there are several hundred sources in its 32-page Bibliography – to challenge the received wisdom of the “colonial episteme”, the “domain of knowledge constituted beginning in the 16th century by the Portuguese, French, Dutch, German and British about the subcontinent” that “under guise of a purported universalism – the field of world history – stripped ‘Hindustan’ from geography and supplanted it with another concept, ‘India. It concludes, “Europe’s making of ‘India’ itself as a geography, and the ways in which historical change takes place in that geography, is the first and necessary act of political forgetting of Hindustan.” In an interview with *Scroll.in*, Asif has recently said that he wanted “to make naked the construction of the ways in which colonialism has elided, obfuscated and compartmentalised the history of the subcontinent, of Hindustan… We have to enter the archive that itself has to be decolonised [and think] about how black and brown bodies and how women are erased from such citational apparatus.” These aims resound with familiarity for followers of *Chapati Mystery*, an online platform established by Asif in 2004 to focus on “the histories and cultures of Hindustan.” Over the years, he and several co-authors, most notably the Vermont-based artist, writer and translator Daisy Rockwell, have continually plumbed the crucial fault lines and fissures in the way South Asian histories and
[Goanet-News] Caridade Damaciano Fernandes
Caridade Damaciano Fernandes >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Caridade Damaciano Fernandes (1904 -- 7 October 1948) was a prolific Konkani-language novelist and a pioneer of prose fiction writing in that language. He has been called "the father of Konkani novels".[1] Caridade Damacian died on October 7, 1948, but his legacy is still remembered and celebrated.[2] Contents 1 Achievements 2 Works 3 Other contributions 4 Life 5 Works 6 Legacy 7 External links 8 References Achievements At a function held in October 2019, he was celebrated as a "novelist, journalist, song composer and celebrated literary son of Goa" and also called the "Romansincho Bapui" or Father of Konkani Novels.[1] This function was held in the parish hall of his village of Aldona in Goa.[1] Caridade Damacian was also editor of the English-language weekly published in Bombay, called The Emigrant. [1] D'Lima identifies The Emigrant as being a "Konkani-English weekly" published by E.C. Carvalho.[2] Caridade Damacian died on October 7, 1948, but his legacy is still remembered and celebrated.[3] Caridade Damacian has been called one of the "gems" of Aldona, a North Goa village from the sub-district of Bardez, which became known as the village of priests, nuns and tiatrists (Konkani dramatists). Alfred Rose, also from Aldona, called Fernandes the Romansincho Pai (The Fahter of the Konkani Romans Novels).[2] D'Cruz quotes the noted Indian Express former editor Frank Moraes as saying He has only to pick a page and a pen and ideas from his imaginative mind flow to his pen in a cascade.[2] Works Caridade Damaciano Fernandes' first book was Armida, published in 1931. For some years, he wrote and published a small book every week from the Victoria Printing Press in the city then called Bombay. The book was published each Wednesday, and priced one anna (or six paisa), one-sixteenth fraction of a rupee.[2] His last book was Goenchem Colvont, or The Goan Prostitute, written in the year of his passing in 1947, and printed by the Mapusa-based Tipografia Laxmi. His birth-date is unknown.[2] It is believed that after writing his work, he would consult with the three medical-doctor Elvino de Souza brothers. Brazinho Soares Kalafurkar, a Santa Cruz, Goa, based collector of the Konkani printed word, has said that Fernandes wrote and (probably self-published) around 101 romans novels.[2] Other contributions Caridade Damacian is known to have composed diverse songs for the plays staged by village youth for the Christmas season, usually between December 26 to January 6.[2] He is credited with having started the Bhurgeanchem Fest (Feast for Children) at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, in honour of St Luis Gonzaga, near his home in his ward. He composed a hymn which is still sung by people of his ward on the occasion.[2] Life Caridade Damacian was the only child of Manuel Fernandes (from Maina, Goa) and Maria M Mascarenhas (from Corjuem). Caridade Damacian was from the Maina ward of Aldona, and the son of a farmer.[2] His mother was a cook, who went from house to house offering her services at cooking and making Goan sweets.[2] He became a seaman, married Maria Luisa de Souza, and had no children. He lived for most of his adult life in Bombay, and rose to literary fame in the 1930s. He was married to Maria Luiza de Souza of Parra, and after her husband's death, she worked as a cook in other people's homes to earn a living.[2] Their home was in front of the Sacred Hearts of Jeasus and Mary Home for the Aged, and they were childless.[2] Their original home has been sold and a new one taken its place.[2] When he died, he was just 44 years of age, and was buried in the Aldona cemetery. In that short time, he wrote over a hundred Romans, as the Konkani action novel has been called.[2] Works Caridade Damacian edited the Bombay English-Konkani weekly The Emigrant. He wrote around 100 novels and novellas. Many were around thirty pages and sold for the low price of one Indian anna.[4] Their content focused on gripping tales of adventure and romance, featuring stereotyped characters, love-scenes, and endings characterised by poetic justice.[5] His most noted novels are Julus Patxai, Armida, Ankvaricho Cheddo, Rio Rita, and La Beatrice.[5] His last work was Goenchem Kolvont, published in 1947.[4] Legacy It was announced in 2019 that Caridade Damacian would have a street named after him in Aldona.[6] External links Translation of a magazine cover story on the author, written by Felix D'Cruz, translated by Sonia do Rosario Gomes References Desk, N. T. (27 October 2019). "DKA remembers the father of Konkani novels". The Navhind Times. Retrieved 11 January 2021. D'Cruz, Felix (January–March 2019). "Caridade Damaciano Fernandes Taka 'Romansincho Pai' Mhunn Pachartale. Translated by Sonia Do Rosario Gomes". Goycho Pormoll: 67 onwards. "Remembering son of soil". The
[Goanet] Caridade Damaciano Fernandes
Caridade Damaciano Fernandes >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Caridade Damaciano Fernandes (1904 -- 7 October 1948) was a prolific Konkani-language novelist and a pioneer of prose fiction writing in that language. He has been called "the father of Konkani novels".[1] Caridade Damacian died on October 7, 1948, but his legacy is still remembered and celebrated.[2] Contents 1 Achievements 2 Works 3 Other contributions 4 Life 5 Works 6 Legacy 7 External links 8 References Achievements At a function held in October 2019, he was celebrated as a "novelist, journalist, song composer and celebrated literary son of Goa" and also called the "Romansincho Bapui" or Father of Konkani Novels.[1] This function was held in the parish hall of his village of Aldona in Goa.[1] Caridade Damacian was also editor of the English-language weekly published in Bombay, called The Emigrant. [1] D'Lima identifies The Emigrant as being a "Konkani-English weekly" published by E.C. Carvalho.[2] Caridade Damacian died on October 7, 1948, but his legacy is still remembered and celebrated.[3] Caridade Damacian has been called one of the "gems" of Aldona, a North Goa village from the sub-district of Bardez, which became known as the village of priests, nuns and tiatrists (Konkani dramatists). Alfred Rose, also from Aldona, called Fernandes the Romansincho Pai (The Fahter of the Konkani Romans Novels).[2] D'Cruz quotes the noted Indian Express former editor Frank Moraes as saying He has only to pick a page and a pen and ideas from his imaginative mind flow to his pen in a cascade.[2] Works Caridade Damaciano Fernandes' first book was Armida, published in 1931. For some years, he wrote and published a small book every week from the Victoria Printing Press in the city then called Bombay. The book was published each Wednesday, and priced one anna (or six paisa), one-sixteenth fraction of a rupee.[2] His last book was Goenchem Colvont, or The Goan Prostitute, written in the year of his passing in 1947, and printed by the Mapusa-based Tipografia Laxmi. His birth-date is unknown.[2] It is believed that after writing his work, he would consult with the three medical-doctor Elvino de Souza brothers. Brazinho Soares Kalafurkar, a Santa Cruz, Goa, based collector of the Konkani printed word, has said that Fernandes wrote and (probably self-published) around 101 romans novels.[2] Other contributions Caridade Damacian is known to have composed diverse songs for the plays staged by village youth for the Christmas season, usually between December 26 to January 6.[2] He is credited with having started the Bhurgeanchem Fest (Feast for Children) at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, in honour of St Luis Gonzaga, near his home in his ward. He composed a hymn which is still sung by people of his ward on the occasion.[2] Life Caridade Damacian was the only child of Manuel Fernandes (from Maina, Goa) and Maria M Mascarenhas (from Corjuem). Caridade Damacian was from the Maina ward of Aldona, and the son of a farmer.[2] His mother was a cook, who went from house to house offering her services at cooking and making Goan sweets.[2] He became a seaman, married Maria Luisa de Souza, and had no children. He lived for most of his adult life in Bombay, and rose to literary fame in the 1930s. He was married to Maria Luiza de Souza of Parra, and after her husband's death, she worked as a cook in other people's homes to earn a living.[2] Their home was in front of the Sacred Hearts of Jeasus and Mary Home for the Aged, and they were childless.[2] Their original home has been sold and a new one taken its place.[2] When he died, he was just 44 years of age, and was buried in the Aldona cemetery. In that short time, he wrote over a hundred Romans, as the Konkani action novel has been called.[2] Works Caridade Damacian edited the Bombay English-Konkani weekly The Emigrant. He wrote around 100 novels and novellas. Many were around thirty pages and sold for the low price of one Indian anna.[4] Their content focused on gripping tales of adventure and romance, featuring stereotyped characters, love-scenes, and endings characterised by poetic justice.[5] His most noted novels are Julus Patxai, Armida, Ankvaricho Cheddo, Rio Rita, and La Beatrice.[5] His last work was Goenchem Kolvont, published in 1947.[4] Legacy It was announced in 2019 that Caridade Damacian would have a street named after him in Aldona.[6] External links Translation of a magazine cover story on the author, written by Felix D'Cruz, translated by Sonia do Rosario Gomes References Desk, N. T. (27 October 2019). "DKA remembers the father of Konkani novels". The Navhind Times. Retrieved 11 January 2021. D'Cruz, Felix (January–March 2019). "Caridade Damaciano Fernandes Taka 'Romansincho Pai' Mhunn Pachartale. Translated by Sonia Do Rosario Gomes". Goycho Pormoll: 67 onwards. "Remembering son of soil". The
[Goanet] The Shimmering Tides (Are Nothing To Celebrate), Mint 11/1/2021
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/the-curious-case-of-the-glowing-beaches-11610294858330.html Just over a month ago in remarkable unison, several separate communities arrayed on India’s coastline alongside the Arabian Sea reported the presence of sparkling waves – the technical term is bioluminescent – which looked like they were embedded with blue-green glitter, and kept rolling up to the shore one after another every night. Sizable crowds assembled to admire this “magical effect” at Juhu Beach in Mumbai, and Udupi and Mangalore in Karnataka, as well as the Kochi waterfront in Kerala. In my home state of Goa, the shimmering tides surfaced on the north and south beach belts, as well as the Mandovi and Zuari river estuaries. But no one cheered, because they came accompanied by dense swarms of jellyfish, including species known for being toxic. Over just two end-November days, 90 tourists were stung badly enough to require treatment, after which the panicked authorities stopped releasing data. Before and afterwards, as clearly visible from where I live near Miramar beach in the pocket-sized capital city of Panjim, thousands of these gelatinous creatures continued washing up every day, with innumerable others bobbing offshore. The two phenomena – glitter and jellyfish, beauty and danger – are inextricably interlinked. Together, they represent yet another pressing warning about the ill-health of our oceans, which is profoundly connected to broader planetary trends of dangerously deteriorating ecological systems. At the base of the problem is drastically dwindling oxygen in the Arabian Sea - a phenomenon known as hypoxia – which allows the malodorous, bioluminescent “sea sparkle” *Noctiluca Scintillans* to flourish, which in turn leads the population of jellyfish and salps (another gelatinous creature) to explode, eventually disrupting the intricate food chain. We have been seeing warning signs for years, but what is now playing out along the Konkan and Malabar coasts indicates a perfect storm of devastating factors has already taken shape. “I wish I could sound optimistic, but I think the Arabian Sea ecosystem is past its tipping point,” says Dr. Joaquim Goes, of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Earlier this year in May, he joined nine co-authors (they include his wife, Dr. Helga do Rosario Gomes) in publishing an important study in the *Nature Scientific Reports* journal entitled *Ecosystem state change in the Arabian Sea fuelled by the recent loss of snow over the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau region*. It highlighted “exceptional changes” which “represent a significant and growing threat for regional fisheries and the welfare of coastal populations.” Even as recently as that paper earlier this year, the emphasis was still not on India, but remained focused on the opposite shores of the Arabian Sea, and countries like Oman where desalination plants, refineries and other industrial complexes have become choked by jellyfish. But even more dramatic are the effects in Yemen and Somalia, where there are strong suggestions that the Noctiluca blooms, and their strangling of fish supplies have greatly exacerbated food and economic insecurity, and thus triggered the ongoing social destabilization, militarism and piracy that roils the region. When his research was published, Goes did presciently tell me [see: https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/snowcaps-to-arabian-sea-how-algal-blooms-threaten-our-food-chain-11588510253145.html] that “exactly the same changes that we report along the coasts of Oman and Yemen are happening on a smaller scale not too far from our shores.” He had pointed out that Noctiluca was clearly present near Ratnagiri and Vengurla in Maharashtra, and – relating its potential impact to what was happening around him as Covid-19 peaked in New York City – warned unequivocally that “our planet’s alarm bells are ringing. There are very serious implications for India. All the hard-won economic gains of the past two decades could be wiped out now, just as the pandemic has done for the USA.” Fast forward just six months later, and now Goes is much more worried. He says the situation has become significantly worse. When I emailed him to tell him what has been happening on Miramar beach outside my home, he responded that it looked like an end game, which has “the propensity of short-circuiting the entire food chain, because when Noctiluca abounds the apex predators are not fish, but swarms of jellyfish and salps. The environmental and socio-economic costs can be huge as they clog the intake systems of all kinds of industrial plants, and also inflict huge economic losses on tourism and fisheries.” Goes pointed me to the newly published findings in *Reviews and syntheses: Present, past, and future of the oxygen minimum zone in the northern Indian Ocean*, which was published earlier this month in *Biogeosciences* by Dr. Tim Rixen of the Liebniz Centre for Tropical Marine
Re: [Goanet] Huge News . I am launching podcast : Dinesh Dsouza
On Sunday, January 10, 2021, 03:23:12 p.m. CST, Frederick Dsouza wrote: Huge News . I am launching podcast : Dinesh Dsouza https://youtu.be/LI3Dh8ir_BU -- Frederick Dsouza, Is Dinesh going to do this from jail or outside it?Mervyn
[Goanet] Goa Sudharop: Promoting & reviving Goa's traditions - the Goan "Pao"
Goa Sudharop is committed to the sustainable economic development of Goa and the preservation of Goan heritage and Goan traditions. We are pleased to support an online "Pao" making class this coming Saturday, January 16, 2021, from 5pm-9pm (Indian Standard time). This is a live class on Zoom which is available worldwide, so please adjust the time to your local time. This class is supported by Goa Sudharop (www.goasudharop.net) to promote the much loved Goan cultural tradition of Pao. Proud to state that more than 1000 Poders have been created in Goa and worldwide. Duration: Four-hour from 5PM-9PM IST online demonstration class on ZOOM with after class support once enrolled. Price: Rs. 2500/- (USD $39, Euro €35) Payment information will be informed on enrolling. Email: alisonjanel...@gmail.com or WhatsApp Alison on +91 8554054640 Due to the current Pandemic, it is not possible to conduct our in-person classes. In view of the importance that “MISSION GOENCHO PAO!!!” needs to go on, and also considering numerous requests from Goans and others all over the globe, it has been decided to hold online classes as outlined below. By increasing the number of Poders around the world and ensuring continuity in dissemination of the century’s old art and secrets, we can help the mission to save our precious Goan Pao from extinction. Minimum Equipment required: 1. Basic OTG Oven. 2. Dough Mixer/ hand kneading. 3. Weighing scale and other implements found commonly at home. Curriculum: Time tested and proven recipes including online support after the course and our Poder group membership where you will be continuously updated by shared innovations and experiences. Practical instructions include working with different kinds of healthy flours to make: a) SUR POIE (Age old tradition using Toddy instead of yeast). b) GOAN POIE also known as Kundia Bhakri) using yeast, wheat bran and Nachne (Ragi /finger millet). c) UNDES famous goan round bread. d) KATRE PAO (also known as KONCHECHE or REVDO) traditional to Ribandar, Old Goa and some other localized regions in South Goa. e) LADI PAO (square bread). f) KAKON ( Bangle bread). g) PAOZINHO stuffed and unstuffed. h) SWEET BUNS traditional goan. i) SLICED BREAD J)LAM PÃO ( Used for cutlet bread) Be a part of the mission, learn to make your own Goencho Pao at home and keep your families safe Visit https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/reviving-the-goan-pao-1561099238754.html
[Goanet] Caridade Damaciano Fernandes... who's that?
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[Goanet] Black Spartacus Rides Again (Hindustan Times, 4/1/2020
https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/review-black-spartacus-by-sudhir-hazareesingh/story-Ol3CDuJpiDCOkgIqGbqgQJ.html Einstein famously said about Gandhi that “generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked the earth.” That assessment rings equally true from virtually every page of Sudhir Hazareesingh’s stellar, deeply engrossing *Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30). The founding father of Haiti – winningly described here as “the first black superhero” – skyrocketed from slave to general, led the anti-colonial revolution that established just the second nation in the Americas (after the US), and left an outsized impact that has continued to reverberate impactfully throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and still thrums with great potential for our contemporary moment. It is true this “Black Napoleon” never exactly fell out of history, although his life and legacy came under concerted attack from the fateful moment when he helped to liberate the slaves of the French-ruled Caribbean territory of Saint-Domingue (it shares the island of Hispaniola with what is now the Dominican Republic) in the last decade of the 18th century. Still, it’s fair to say that Louverture has been mostly ignored by generations of post-colonial historians, though part of the reason is undoubtedly the imposing presence of the great Trinidadian scholar C. L. R. James’s 1938 classic, *The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and The San Domingo Revolution.* In his preface to that book, James puts it characteristically straight, “In 1789, the French West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France and was the greatest individual market for the European slave-trade. It was an integral part of the economic life of the age, the pride of France, and the envy of every other imperialist nation. The whole structure rested on the labour of half-a-million slaves.” Then everything changed, after this giant (almost entirely Africa-derived) captive population revolted in 1791. James recounts that, “the slaves defeated in turn the local whites and the soldiers of the French monarchy, a Spanish invasion, a British expedition of some 60,000 men, and a French expedition of similar size under Bonaparte’s brother-in-law.” Their fight for freedom stands out as “the only successful slave revolt in history” and “one of the great epics of revolutionary struggle and achievement.” What is more, “the individual leadership largely responsible for this unique achievement was almost entirely the work of a single man.” That man shines incandescent in Hazareesingh’s tour de force, which has brought an immense amount of new material into the general public domain. The distinguished author, who is a fellow at Oxford’s Balliol College, previously specialized in French intellectual and cultural history, and admits in his acknowledgements that he had “never ventured into the history of French colonialism in the Caribbean.” But there’s also an intriguing biographical element– his roots in the Indian ocean island of Mauritius – that has worked rather serendipitously. As far as this reader is concerned, it’s that perspective which has wound up yielding the most original and penetrating insights in *Black Spartacus.* “I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a free man,” wrote Toussaint à Bréda, who grew up bonded property of the sugar estate that gave him (and its other slaves) his last name. His remarkable capacities became apparent early. Eye-witnesses attest “by the age of twelve he had become the fastest runner, the most agile climber and the best swimmer of all the young slave children of the surrounding estates.” He was an exceptionally skilful rider known as “the Centaur of the Savannah” and simultaneously profoundly engaged with his African roots (his father was a kind of nobleman-captive) as well as Catholicism, about which Hazareesingh notes his variant “was tinged with a specifically creole egalitarianism which challenged the colony’s existing racial hierarchy.” This is a crucial point, which *Black Spartacus* parses with creditable sensitivity, “Toussaint did not suffer from an inferiority complex about his blackness, and his contempt for the white slave system of ancient-regime Saint-Domingue was profound. He had first-hand experience of its brutality, inhumanity and racism, as well as its immorality [but] his view of human nature was not racialized. His encounters with Jesuit missionaries, and later with Bayon de Libertat [an early, trusting boss] nourished his enduring belief that there was a capacity for goodness in all human beings. This is perhaps one of the areas where Toussaint formed spiritual links – mediated through voudou and Catholic traditions – with the culture of the indigenous Taino Indians, who were renowned for their gentleness and their love of nature.” >From a rebel base in 1797 came
