Re: [Goanet] Music by the late Basilio Magno, a Goan based in Spain (photo of CDs)
Yes, I remember Basilio Magno well and his role in helping Goa Sudharop launch World Goa Day, see https://www.goasudharop.net/worldgoannetwork On Friday, July 23, 2021, 03:34:45 PM PDT, Frederick Noronha wrote: https://flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/51318117035/in/datetaken/
[Goanet] India floods: rescuers search for survivors among mud and debris
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/24/india-floods-rescuers-search-survivors-among-mud-debris?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
[Goanet-News] Music by the late Basilio Magno, a Goan based in Spain (photo of CDs)
https://flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/51318117035/in/datetaken/ -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ FN * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ See a different Goa here, via _/ https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
[Goanet-News] Today... at 7 pm, a discussion on Goa, Wikipedia initiatives, tech solutions for Konkani translations etc ...
It's today :: Goa Wikipedia Weekkend Sat 24.7.21 7pm - On Saturday, July 24 at 7 pm IST, Wikimedians of Goa User Group meets online with Ashwin Baindur to discuss community issues including making the Konkani Wikipedia initiatives inclusive to all scripts and dialects in Goa and beyond, and WikiLambda lexeme preparations (which offers a promising field of machine translation for the future), and could shape the Wikipedia as we know it. Ashwin is also a candidate for the upcoming Wiki community seat elections. To get the link to join please contact +91-9822122436 or join the Wikipedians group at https://chat.whatsapp.com/G9iSiZjPNJv6UvECpP9Wsp Google Meet joining info (click on this link) after 6.45pm Video call link: https://meet.google.com/uze-okgx-wuq 1. Ashwin Baindur 2. Fredericknoronha 3. Tanmay Pereira Naik 4. Nikhil 5. JosephAssisFernandes aka LaffinJoe 6. Fr Luis 7. Sharbelle Fernandez 8. Rhea U Bangalokar 9. Harriet Vidyasagar 10 Anup V Shanbhag 11 Jordain de Mello 12 Praveen Wikipedia 13 Denzil Simoes 14 Fr Loiola 15 Salvador DKA 16 John Noronha 17 Maria Menezes 18 John Aguiar 19 Saadia Furtado 20 Kelly Furtado 21 Lui 22 Donna Alvita 23 Please add your name here [If your name is inadvertently not on the above list, don't worry. All are welcome. This list is only meant to encourage others to join in.] -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ FN * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ See a different Goa here, via _/ https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
[Goanet] JUNGLE RAJ IN PANAJI
In a blatant and highhanded act the BJP has illegally defaced public property in Panaji with party flags and posters all over. Equally culpable are the officials of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) who have abdicated in their duty and have conveniently chosen to turn a blind eye to all this illegality. The same CCP is always quick to punish and penalize small traders for even minor breach of law. The now cash rich BJP should have led by example by applying for the required permissions and paying the requisite fees. If the party in power does not follow the law, nobody else would. Adv. Aires Rodrigues C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.in
[Goanet] Today... at 7 pm, a discussion on Goa, Wikipedia initiatives, tech solutions for Konkani translations etc ...
It's today :: Goa Wikipedia Weekkend Sat 24.7.21 7pm - On Saturday, July 24 at 7 pm IST, Wikimedians of Goa User Group meets online with Ashwin Baindur to discuss community issues including making the Konkani Wikipedia initiatives inclusive to all scripts and dialects in Goa and beyond, and WikiLambda lexeme preparations (which offers a promising field of machine translation for the future), and could shape the Wikipedia as we know it. Ashwin is also a candidate for the upcoming Wiki community seat elections. To get the link to join please contact +91-9822122436 or join the Wikipedians group at https://chat.whatsapp.com/G9iSiZjPNJv6UvECpP9Wsp Google Meet joining info (click on this link) after 6.45pm Video call link: https://meet.google.com/uze-okgx-wuq 1. Ashwin Baindur 2. Fredericknoronha 3. Tanmay Pereira Naik 4. Nikhil 5. JosephAssisFernandes aka LaffinJoe 6. Fr Luis 7. Sharbelle Fernandez 8. Rhea U Bangalokar 9. Harriet Vidyasagar 10 Anup V Shanbhag 11 Jordain de Mello 12 Praveen Wikipedia 13 Denzil Simoes 14 Fr Loiola 15 Salvador DKA 16 John Noronha 17 Maria Menezes 18 John Aguiar 19 Saadia Furtado 20 Kelly Furtado 21 Lui 22 Donna Alvita 23 Please add your name here [If your name is inadvertently not on the above list, don't worry. All are welcome. This list is only meant to encourage others to join in.] -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ FN * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ See a different Goa here, via _/ https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
[Goanet] ARE WE WORTHY OF DEMOCRACY?
DEMOCRACY REQUIRES TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY The Supreme Court frustrated with dealing with 10 parties in Bihar polls not updating their criminal anticedents nor legislature taking any action lamented that parties will not act against criminalization of politics! The recent cabinet expansion by the PM with 77 ministers has 42% with declared criminal anticedents. Parties swear by "winnable" candidates. We now have Parliament in session and the Pegasus snoopgate where the government will not admit to survellience on political rivals, reporters, anyone crticizing/impediment to government despite competent foreign forensic and local circumstantial evidence. Similarly denying in Parliament that there were any deaths due to oxygen shortages on procedural and technical grounds! This they cannot get away with because there are deaths and people involved seen worldwide live on Television and democracy is all about people who will not tolerate this blatant denial by the Centre and the States who simply cannot tell the truth because they say India is growing fabulously under the decisive leadership of the PM, and everyone is jealous wanting to tarnish India's image. So no need to see how demonitization achieved its aim and at what costs, lockdown with 4 hrs notice before midnight caused migrant exodus ,trauma and avoidable deaths also due badly handled second Covid wave, Delhi riots, farmers agitation etc all of which government claims to have no specific records! The statements in Parliament are there now for all to see and for the nation to act to be worthy of democracy! Farmers are still agitating against an arrogant and stubborn governemnt who is oblivious of the trauma and pain of families involved just really for demonstrating its strength and ego. It is such a simple procedural matter for a buldozing majority government who pay lip service to the plight and sufferings of the powerless and poor! The petrol hikes and soaring high prices of essentials pauperizing the suffering people during these Covid and monsoon days with resultant deaths and terrible roads, crumbling infrastructure etc is unforgivable and must have consequences!
[Goanet] McCarthyism and India’s Moment of Truth (Dhaka Tribune, 24/7/2021)
https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/07/24/op-ed-mccarthyism-and-india-s-moment-of-truth Sometimes, all it takes to change the course of history is a single act of conscience. That’s what happened on June 9, 1954 in the USA, during yet another inquisitorial public hearing in Joseph McCarthy’s persecution of innocent Americans as anti-national communists, an inherently unfair process where – as the Harvard law dean Ervin Griswold aptly summarized – the Senator from Wisconsin was "judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one." On that day, McCarthy still towered at the height of his notoriety and reach, but all that came crashing down after the Boston lawyer Joseph Welch (he was representing the Army) responded spontaneously to the accusation that one of the young members of his own team was communist: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" That sincere, homespun appeal stunned the national television audience, and McCarthy’s popularity evaporated to nothingness overnight. In short order, he was censured by his colleagues, then ostracized by his own Republican party. Just three years later in 1957, he died at 48, still confused about where he had gone wrong. Who and what is going to make the difference in India in 2021, where the convenient routine is now to label any criticism of the ruling party as emanating from “Urban Naxals” who are thereby rendered fair game to face the menacing arsenal of the state? It’s impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy - just like no one quite anticipated the rapid demise of McCarthy’s reign of terror - but there are many indications that we might have arrived at an important tipping point for India’s own cynical alarmists. Just like the American drama that played out nearly 70 years ago, overreach will be their comeuppance. This entire, widely developing scenario is nicely encapsulated by the furore that erupted this week over revelations that many Indians – journalists, politicians, and a range of others – have been targeted by sophisticated spyware surveillance that its Israeli manufacturer has attested is only sold to “vetted” state actors (which implies the user is the intelligence apparatus in New Delhi). As has been splashed all over global media, “The Pegasus Project is a ground-breaking collaboration by more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based media non-profit, with the technical support of Amnesty International, who conducted cutting- edge forensic tests on mobile phones to identify traces of the spyware.” Many governments have responded angrily to the revelations, but it is only in India that the knee-jerk response yet again invoked a fanciful “Red Scare.” This was the Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who made himself an instant social media laughing stock by holding a press conference to declare “We all know the role of Amnesty. They are encouraging left-wing terrorism in India. This is a well-designed conspiracy to defame Narendra Modi, and the Indian parliamentary system. I will demand that Amnesty International’s activity should be immediately banned.” Immediately afterwards, the eager politician tweeted “Amesty International is infamous for its long history of hatching conspiracies against India's democratic fabric & its leadership. I strongly condemn this conspiracy and demand ban on activities of such organisations which are hell bent on defaming & harming our nation.” Sarma’s grandstanding ignores the reality that India is only one of the countries identified as a likely NSO client (the others are Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Togo, and the United Arab Emirates). But assertions like that are one bedrock characteristic of McCarthyism: it requires no due process. Just allegations are enough, and the process is punishment in full. In its editorial immediately following the Pegasus revelations, The Indian Express noted “The new minister for Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, has said that the outing of the list is a bid to “malign Indian democracy and its well-established institutions” [and] Home Minister Amit Shah has spoken darkly of “disruptors” and “obstructors” and recycled his own disturbing formulation from an earlier time, “aap chronology samajhiye…” But this time, the editorial continued, “The ministers cannot point the finger away by invoking worn spectres. The growing impression [is] that red lines have been breached, for government or its agencies to target political opponents, dissidents and activists. This is about the constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy of individuals, and also about more than that. The Pegasus allegations have cast a shadow on the integrity of institutions.” They
