[Goanet] A Race For Poverty

[Roland Francis]

There is nothing funnier than one poor and corrupt country taking pleasure in 
another poor and corrupt country surpassing it on the poverty criteria.

The strange thing is that country is rich in oil and the other country racing 
it to the bottom is rich in enterprise and brainpower not to speak of natural 
resources.

https://www.westafricanpilotnews.com/2022/03/12/india-overtakes-nigeria-as-worlds-poverty-capital/?fbclid=IwAR0wLGqcFMX69Kd5wTmDFebkj98cGiWI5N72yrYGV-kmIleDCpj2sszQDgM

Roland
Toronto.

[Goanet] Sudhir Patwardhan's X-Ray Vision (India Today, 15/7/2022)

[V M]

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/magazine/leisure/story/20220725-a-new-book-on-sudhir-patwardhan-shows-why-he-is-in-all-likelihood-india-s-greatest-living-painter-1975724-2022-07-15

In her introduction to *Sudhir Patwardhan: Walking Through Soul City*, the
mammoth volume that has follows and accompanies an excellent retrospective
at the National Gallery of Modern Art’s Sir Cowasji Jehangir Public Hall in
Mumbai from November 2019 to February 2020, the exhibition curator Nancy
Adajania writes, “I would advance the claim that, after M. F. Husain, it is
Patwardhan who commands the widespread attention of Indian viewers across
several generations.”

It is an apt comparison, and not just for that one reason. Both these
terrific artists, who were born roughly three decades apart in the
turbulent first half of the 20th century, have portrayed – and indeed
embodied - the story of modern India in ambitious narrative paintings that
only look better and more interesting with each passing year. This is
especially true in the case of Patwardhan, whose masterworks from the early
1980’s onwards always possessed a veritably canonical heft, but now, from
our 21st century vantage, we can clearly see that his pulsating,
indispensable oeuvre is amongst the best of our best, and perhaps the
greatest of all.

Adajania does justice to this consistently stunning corpus in her literally
monumental book (it is almost 500 pages long and weighs nearly 4 kilos).
Explaining her approach, she writes that “In bringing together the various
phases of Patwardhan’s practice, this retrospective plays linear chronology
against the artist’s deep, recurrent preoccupations: his insistence on
crafting place from layers of memory, his engagement with the subaltern
figure in its vulnerability and strength, his curiosity about what brings
people together into various forms of collective formations and what tears
them apart.”

Here, it is essential to understand the twinned frames of reference that
bookend Patwardhan’s perspective, and inevitably his artistic practice as
well. In his mien and search for meaning, he is thoroughbred 1970s Indian
Left in the George Fernandes mould; grounded in Marx, Camus and Sartre, and
forged resolute by opposition to the Emergency. At the same time, he
graduated from the Armed Forces Medical College and started working as a
radiologist in Thane in 1975, which remained his “day job” for the
following three decades (from 2005, he has been a full-time artist).

The critic and curator Ranjit Hoskote - who happens to be married to Nancy
Adajania -  puts it beautifully vividly in his own excellent 2004 book, *Sudhir
Patwardhan: The Complicit Observer*: “Patwardhan the painter operated with
the same penetrating vision as Patwardhan the radiologist, diving the inner
events of an individual life from the physique that is presented before
him, reading the symptoms of an unease that burns beneath the skin and
remains occult even to the owner of that skin. Patwardhan has honed this
faculty of second sight for nearly four decades, bringing it to bear on the
self as constituted by the interplay between private impulses and social
relationships.”

Via Adajania’s meticulous compilation in *Walking Through Soul City*, we
can see that Patwardhan’s unusual calibre was already evident by the time
of his 1979 solo exhibition debut at Art Heritage -  Ebrahim and Roshen
Alkazi’s gallery in New Delhi -  and we also see just how quickly his
formal ambitions were substantially realized by early masterpieces like
Overbridge (1981), about which the art historian R. Siva Kumar (whose essay
is also in this book) writes with great insight that “the visible ripples
of fraternal empathy that run through these pictures are not strong enough
to integrate and turn everyone into a participant. These are not collective
assertions, but moments of subaltern coming together sprinkled with
individual despair and defeat.

The great thing about Patwardhan, of course, is those initial breakthroughs
were followed by more. Sometime after the passing of his direct forbears in
the Progressives – Gaitonde (2001), Souza (2002) and, especially, Tyeb
Mehta (2009) and Husain (2011) – it became increasingly obvious he was
probably our greatest living painter. *Sudhir Patwardhan: Walking Through
Soul City* makes that distinction explicit.

[Goanet] Schedule for Monday 18th July 2022

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12:00 AM

Rosary - Joyful Mysteries


12:23 AM

Why is Change Good for You? - Talk by Fr Bennet Aranjo SDB


12:55 AM

Hymn - Tuje Upkar Dhonia - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)


1:00 AM

Mass in Konkani for Sunday


2:00 AM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister


2:26 AM

Devachem Utor - 2 Samuel - Avesvor 5 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


2:34 AM

The Earth - Our Home - Sand Mining


3:05 AM

Bible Project - Day of the Lord


3:11 AM

Career Guidance - Chartered Accountancy


3:31 AM

Hymns - St Anthony's HS , Galgibaga


3:36 AM

Entrepreneur - Floyd Vales interviewed by Basil D'Cunha


3:54 AM

Our Father - Khasi


4:00 AM

Outreaches and Offshoots of the CCR - Bishop Francis Kalist


4:40 AM

Hymns - Sacred Heart of Jesus HS, Anjuna


4:44 AM

Catholic Teaching on War - Fr Donato Rodrigues


5:10 AM

Song - Corona Duvens - Brijesh Vaz


5:14 AM

Jezuchea adharan, mogache ghorabe bandhum-ia - Fr. Joseph da Silva


5:31 AM

Hymn - Zoi Pritimog Vosta - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)


5:33 AM

Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 64 -Dista Toxem Nasta - Fr Pratap Naik sj


5:41 AM

The Dangers of an unforgiving heart - Edmund Antao


6:10 AM

Choir - Our Lady of Succour Church, Socorro


6:20 AM

Dev Amkam Kiteak Pekhoita - Dominic Rodrigues


6:49 AM

Psalm 103 - Read by Alfwold Silveira


6:55 AM

Sokalchem Magnnem - Somar Wk 2 & 4


7:00 AM

Praise and Worship - SJVSRC Old Goa


7:15 AM

Morning Prayer - Monday Wk 2 & 4


7:18 AM

Devachem Utor - 2 Samuel - Avesvor 5 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


7:26 AM

Bhajans 1


7:58 AM

Kolakarachi bhett - Valentino Fernandes interviewed by Meena Goes


8:26 AM

Music - Glory to You followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem


8:58 AM

Goal Post Ep 4 - Savio Medeira interviewed by Jovito Lopes


9:25 AM

Choir - Our Lady of Succour Church, Socorro


9:35 AM

Ongoing Repentance - Tak by Kenneth D'Sa


10:04 AM

Pastoral Letter Deron Rodrigues K


10:19 AM

Our Father - Hindi


10:23 AM

Kristi Vorgunnik Novsornni - Orlando D'Souza


10:48 AM

Song - Amcho Sobit Modgovam- Carmel Youth , Margao


10:53 AM

Talk - Jezu bhaxen kaltim zaum-ia - Fr Joseph Silva


11:06 AM

Kakuticho Ters - Talk by Br Malvino Alfonso OCD


11:20 AM

Intercessions in English


11:27 AM

Angelus - English


11:30 AM

Mass in English followed by Daily Flash


12:15 PM

Pope's Intention in Konkani


12:18 PM

Goychea Futtbolachea Vostad - Socrates Carvalho interviewed by Daniel de
Souza


12:50 PM

Indian Dance - Tu Parmananda Sarvasvarupa


1:01 PM

What's Cooking ? - Episode 15 - Hosted by Meena Goes


1:30 PM

Hymn - Saviour of the World H.S. Loutolim


1:33 PM

Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi - Edvin Fernandes interviewed by Daniel F. de Souza


2:06 PM

Wireless Ministry - Talk by Fr. Solomon Rodrigues


2:26 PM

Prayer while travelling - St Joseph Vaz


2:28 PM

God's Love - Talk by Dr Silvia Noronha


2:50 PM

Gaddie-Vahonan Vechea Vellar Bhagevont Zuze Vazache Mozotin Magnnem


2:52 PM

Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 9


3:00 PM

Abundant Life - Broken Crayons can still Colour -Prof Nicholas D'Souza


3:30 PM

Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam


3:41 PM

Youthopia - Sanger Serrao - Saxaphone - interviewed by Richa Carneiro


4:00 PM

Rosary - Joyful Mysteries


4:24 PM

Song - Aradhana - Justina and Brian Colaco


4:30 PM

Senior Citizens Exercises - 10


4:57 PM

Kovita - Mog - Manisha Pereira


5:00 PM

Career Guidance -Institute of Maritime Studies, Bogda


5:30 PM

Literally Goa - Clifford W. De Silva interviewed by Frederick Noronha


5:56 PM

Aimorechen Magnnem


6:00 PM

Mass in Konkani followed by Jivitacho Prokas


6:45 PM

The Thesis Dr Layla Mascarenhas interviewed by Bambino Dias


7:30 PM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister


7:56 PM

Prayer - Alone with none but Thee, my God


8:00 PM

Tell Me a Story - Eps 72 - Samson reveals the Answer to the Riddle


8:08 PM

Loving God with all your heart- Godfrey Pereira


8:38 PM

Pastoral Letter Deron Rodrigues E


8:51 PM

Devachem Utor - 2 Samuel - Avesvor 6 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


9:00 PM

Adoration - Fortitude - Fr Saturnino Colaco


9:27 PM

Ratchem Magnem


9:44 PM

Concert - Vem Cantar 8 to 11 yrs


10:20 PM

On the Third Day - Eps 4 - Bio Insecticides for Pest Management - Nelson
Figueiredo


10:51 PM

Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 26


11:01 PM

Velrose Pereira interviewed by Danile de Souza


11:37 PM

Museum of Christian Art (Conservation)


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[Goanet] Goa’s Rainbow Revolution

[V M]

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Goa%E2%80%99s-Rainbow-Revolution/191825

In his fascinating new essay *How Goa Became LGBTQ Friendly*, the
wonderfully thoughtful journalist Vikram Doctor (who moved to Assagao after
the onset of Covid-19) notes that Goa “without much fanfare, has become one
of the most queer-friendly places in India.”

Doctor possesses a magisterial long view of LGBTQ rights (the popular
acronym stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and those who are
questioning their sexual or gender identity), and their great contemporary
inflection point in 2018, when the Supreme Court decriminalized the
colonial-era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, terming it “irrational,
arbitrary, and incomprehensible.”

Getting to that point was not easy. Doctor notes “one of the problems with
fighting Section 377 was finding examples of people charged and convicted
under it. Most of those who had been charged were lacking in the means, or
will to appeal to High Courts, so their cases did not become public
knowledge. Even more just succumbed to the threat – and paid to settle
their cases.”

This was a real problem: “because these cases weren’t recorded, the
evidence of use of Section 377 wasn’t there. This left activists open to
the charge that they were fighting to change a law that was rarely used.
Early in the course of the case a bench of the Delhi High Court had even
dismissed the case for lack of standing on the part of activists, and it
was only on appeal to the Supreme Court that the High Court was charged
with hearing it again.”

As it so often is, Goa would different. In 2007, the Colva police arrested
UK tourist Desmond Hope – who was visiting with his partner Frank Lacey -
on the steps of Our Lady of Mercy church, where he was sitting with an
Indian man. Thus began the standard shakedown –the first fabricated charge
was of attempting to rob the sacristy, and the bribe demanded was Rs. 1800.
Then, after figuring out he was a foreigner, the extortion was upped to Rs.
10,000. Finally, after suspecting some gay angle, “Hope was harassed,
called a ‘homo’ and wasn’t allowed to use the toilet, forcing him to soil
himself.”

Now things got truly shameful. Doctor quotes Arvind Narrain and Alok Gupta
(it is from Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on the Law) that “when Lacey
finally traced Hope to the police station [he] immediately informed the
British Consulate in Goa, who called the police station and spoke to the
notorious Inspector Uday Parab in charge of the case. This made Parab
angrier. Within two hours of the phone call, a false and fabricated case
against Desmond under Section 377 was registered.”

This part of the story will make any Goan feel truly ashamed: “Lacey was
called by Parab with a new offer – for 10 lakhs the whole case could be
closed. He was told this happens routinely with the Russians, and
everything could be arranged…The police then proceeded to act with complete
prejudice in the matter – with Parab regularly calling to see if they were
ready to pay.”

Doctor writes “it was all playing out in a way that has become sadly common
in a state, with fears about corruption about Goa’s culture being used to
cover up rather more real issues of corruption in the police force and
organized rackets targeting tourists.” But that is not where the story
ends, because “on 15th March the case came up before Justice N. A. Britto,
who fairly clearly recognized what had been going on.”

With impressive clarity, Justice Britto ridiculed the Colva police’s
contentions, and – specifically noting Section 377 was under challenge -
delivered the unambiguous ruling that “it cannot be said that the offence
committed is grave and punishment provided is severe, so as to deny bail to
the applicant.” Hope walked free.

Albeit barely remembered in Goa, but Doctor writes that it “gave proof of
both the use and misuse of the Law. Even more, the fact that a High Court
judge like Justice Britto could see through the police’s tactics, and note
the law was currently being challenged, was a heartening sign that the
battle against Section 377 could be won some day.”

*How Goa Became LGBTQ Friendly *is in the monsoon issue of *The Peacock
Quarterly* from the Entertainment Society of Goa (where I am on the
editorial team), under the chairmanship of the chief minister. More than
just symbolically, that fact in itself is highly creditable for India’s
smallest state, perfectly illustrating the trajectory of LGBTQ rights into
the mainstream of our polity.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”
preached Martin Luther King. At least in in this case it did. People
changed their minds. One person who substantially made it happen was
Wendell Rodricks, the late fashion designer and proud Goan cultural
activist who stood up for equality with an irresistible combination of
flamboyance and great dignity.

In 2002, Rodricks became one of the first openly gay Indian celebrities,
after his 

[Goanet] OFFICIALS SHOULD PROMOTE TOURISM NOT BECOME TOURISTS

[Aires Rodrigues]

The Government’s decision to promote Goa as a Tourist destination in China,
Australia, Canada, Italy and South Korea is another misconceived waste of
public funds. It will only be a free junket for the Tourism Minister and
his entourage only further burdening our already empty State coffers.

The Government over the last many years has been needlessly squandering
crores of rupees on organizing such road shows across the world to promote
Goa for Tourism. Instead, if the government had cared to improve the
crumbling infrastructure, Goa would have sold itself. In the current sordid
state of affairs with garbage strewn all over even on the beaches which are
also infested with stray dogs and cattle, the high end decent tourist will
not care to step in.

Haphazard planning, improper sanitation, and the uncontrollable stray
animal menace all over is projecting Goa in bad light. Nothing more needs
to be said about our pathetic and perilous roads.

Besides, Goa now branded as the gambling capital has become a very safe
haven for the narcotic trade and the flourishing menace of prostitution.
The alarming increase in Crimes has further made our once serene Goa, now a
very unsafe destination.

Much needed sustainable infrastructure improvement, safety, and facilities
that all the people, hosts as well as tourists can avail themselves of must
be paramount. This will be the best form of promotion instead of our
tourism officials venturing into the unknown for their own pleasure, while
flogging a dead horse. Good quality, well spending tourists will not come
to experience low class facilities. Reality must match expectations!
Adv. Aires Rodrigues

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[Goanet-News] 48. The Army Commander and COAS Visit Vassalo e Silva (Valmiki Faleiro)

[Goanet Reader]

48. The Army Commander and COAS Visit Vassalo e Silva

Valmiki Faleiro

Lieutenant General (later General and Chief of Army Staff) JN
Chaudhuri GOC-in-C Southern Command, together with AOC-in-C
Air Vice Mshl EW Pinto and BN Mullik of the IB, took a
helicopter from Belgaum to Goa the following day, 20 December
1961. Lt Gen Chaudhuri visited Major General Vassalo e Silva
at Vasco da Gama at 2 pm.

  Born into an aristocratic Bengali zamindar family
  that produced several great names in law, medicine
  and literature, Lt Gen Chaudhuri was a grandnephew
  of the first non-European Nobel laureate in
  literature, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore and was
  trained at the UK's Royal Military College at
  Sandhurst.  He was a batch mate of latter day
  Pakistan President, Gen Ayub Khan.

Gen.  Carlos de Azeredo, then a Captain, was with Maj Gen
Vassalo e Silva and was the official interpreter.  In his
book 'Trabalhos e dias de um soldado do império (Work and
days of a soldier of the empire)' he says, "General Chaudhuri
entered the cell alone and cordially greeted Vassalo.
Vassalo wanted to stand up to compliment [salute] the Indian,
but the latter rested his hand on his shoulder and did not
let him. He [Lt Gen JN Chaudhuri] pulled up a chair and sat
down. He had words of praise for the Portuguese forces."

Colonel CA de Morais says that Lt Gen Chaudhuri congratulated
Maj Gen Vassalo e Silva for the combats in Mapusa, Bicholim,
Diu and Daman. "Despite the scarce means the Portuguese
[forces] had reacted well against the action by the Indian
troops." The GOC-in-C said that he had ordered POWs from Diu
to be evacuated to Goa.  Lt Gen Chaudhuri "ended the meeting
saying that if he [Maj Gen Vassalo e Silva] wanted anything
he could request the Indian camp commander [Major (later
Lieutenant Colonel) Earl William ('Bill') Carvalho, the first
camp commander]" (Morais, A Queda da Índia Portuguesa, 2nd
edition 1995, Page 151).

Lt Gen Chaudhuri told Vassalo e Silva that his wife, Fernanda
Pereira Monteiro e Silva, was well and safe and that
Government of India would soon be sending her to Lisbon.

  Lieutenant General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, OBE,
  then drove to Panjim in an army jeep, accompanied
  by Air Vice Mshl Ehrlich Pinto and BN Mullik.  On
  the way, the trio encountered a duo of White men
  happily motoring along, oblivious of what was
  happening around.  The White duo was stopped and
  quizzed.  They told the Indian military officers
  that they were German and not Portuguese -- and
  felt quite safe at the hands of the Indian jawan.

Hearing that, Air Vice Mshl Pinto pulled out two bullets from
his personal weapon and, showing them to the two Germans,
said, "These bullets are illiterate.  Can they recognise your
nationality?"

Lt Gen Chaudhuri burst into laughter. He then politely told
the Germans that they would be better off home and remain
indoors until the situation settled down. The Germans made
an about turn and vanished [this episode is borrowed from
Major General VK Singh's History of the Corps of Signals,
Volume III, Chapter 3.]

Lt Gen Chaudhuri and his companions then visited hospitals in
Panjim and assured the wounded POWs that no harm would come
to them. He ordered due medical attention and supplies be
given to them. The party then returned to Dabolim and
helicoptered back to Belgaum.

  Later, Chief of Army Staff, General Pran Nath
  Thapar visited Maj Gen Vassalo e Silva at the POW
  camp in Vasco da Gama.  Gen Thapar was younger
  brother of Dr.  Daya Ram Thapar, IMS, Director
  General Armed Forces Medical Services, father of
  famed TV anchor/journalist Karan Thapar who was
  married to a Colaço from Margao, uncle of historian
  Romila Thapar and journo Romesh Thapar, and
  granduncle of tiger conservationist Valmik Thapar.
  The son of a Diwan at Lahore in pre-Partition
  India, Gen Thapar was a product of UK's Royal
  Military College, Sandhurst, and later of the
  Imperial Defence College, London.

The meeting was warm and cordial. Vassalo e Silva was soon
shifted to a better house in the woods at the Alpha POW Camp
at Ponda (he remained at Alpalqueiros, Vasco da Gama, less
than ten days).  Indian Major Cezar PF Lobo, a pilot with the
Air Observation Post of the Artillery Regiment, a Goan from
Aldona fluent in the Portuguese language, was tasked to take
charge and look after the VIP POW.

  Major General KP Candeth was appointed Military
  Governor, with RCVP Noronha, ICS/IAS, as Chief
  Civic Administrator and GK Handoo, IPS, as Special
  Advisor.  Brigadier Donald Viegas of Curtorim, then
  a Colonel at Army HQ, was sent to Goa on 21
  December 1961 to assist the Military Governor.
  Lieutenant 

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[Goanet-News] Communal harmony, system of jurisprudence do make a difference

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Communal harmony, system of jurisprudence do make a difference

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The thirty-fifth anniversary of Goa Statehood Day was
recently celebrated, on May 30. During a function held to
mark it, Goa Governor. P.S. Sreedharan Pillai appealed to
all present, and to Goans in general, to study, in depth, the
communal harmony and the system of jurisprudence that existed
in Goa till 1961 and even for some while later.

  There has been no comment on this appeal till now.
  As far as one is aware, nobody from the Government
  nor among the politicians has bothered to give a
  serious look to what the Governor has said.
  Possibly, they might not even have understood what
  his suggestion was since, most of them were born
  after 1961 and are unaware about how peaceful the
  Goa of that time was.

Governor Sreedharan Pillai deserves our thanks and praise for
having opened eyes to the reality of Goa before 1961.
Although the role of the Governor is limited, with regard to
the Administration of the State, yet his words are an
eye-opener. I hope Goans will take his words seriously and
try their best to study their past, because from the past we
can draw lessons for the future.

In this article, I will try to delve on these two concepts:
communal harmony and the system of jurisprudence which
prevailed in Goa before 1961.

Communal harmony constitutes the hallmark of Goa. In this
land, people of various religious denominations and even
atheists, have lived in peace and harmony. History tells us
that during the Ashoka Empire, Buddhism prevailed in Goa for
around six centuries.

  The caves at Arvalem and a statue of the Buddha,
  which was found in Colvale and is presently at the
  Heras Institute, Mumbai, is proof enough.  There is
  a huge Jain tank with niches at Naroa.  An Armenian
  Cross was found in the ruins of Velha Goa port
  area, thus signalling the existence of St.  Thomas’
  Christians at Goa Velha and we also find the
  claimed ruins of a Jewish Synagogue at Curca.  All
  this shows that our communal harmony is
  multi-secular and even multi-millennial.

Goa being a trade zone even before the arrival of the
Portuguese, temples, mosques and synagogues were co-existing
in Old-Goa. There is no record that there was any communal
trouble among any religious denominations.

After the arrival of the Portuguese, although they demolished
all the mosques from the city of Old Goa early on, and later
many temples in the Portuguese-ruled areas of Goa of that
time, communal harmony continued to prevail in Goa till date
and constitutes the hallmark of the State.

  It is very unfortunate that, of late, the same is
  being sought to be disturbed by various statements.
  This should not be allowed to happen at any cost,
  but on the contrary, all should be proud of it and
  promote it.  We need to show the other States that
  various linguistic, religious and cultural
  denominations indeed can live in peace and harmony
  with each other in this State.

From where did that communal harmony come to be recognized as
one of the constituent elements of Goan identity? This
question will lead us to the second part of the Governor's
appeal -- the system of jurisprudence which prevailed in Goa
pre-1961 and a little later.

Goans are unique and continue to be known the world over as
among the most peaceful people without exaggeration.  For
millennia, they have lived a community life in their village
communities, Ganvkaris or Comunidades (in Portuguese) and it
is this 'community spirit' that makes them 'different'.

The system of the Village Communities, Ganvkaris/Comunidades
has been based right from its beginning on a concept of
jurisprudence which was similar to the concept of Roman
Jurisprudence, where decisions were arrived at democratically
during the village community meetings.

When the Portuguese arrived in Goa in 1510, the system of
Roman Jurisprudence was formally adopted in Goa and was part
of it till 1961. David Sinclair in 'History of India'
(Madras 1896) and G. Duncan M. Derret in his chapter on Hindu
law in Goa: A contact between Natural, Roman and Hindu laws,
speak of this kind of jurisprudence.

  In the Roman concept of Jurisprudence, the people
  have a say in the governance and laws, while in the
  British concept of Jurisprudence which was followed
  in India during British domination, people have no
  say because the Queen/State is supreme.  In
  Portuguese Goa the opinion of the people mattered.
  The British Jurisprudence has been followed in
  India even after 1947 and in Goa after 1961.  The
  basic difference between the earlier Jurisprudence
  and the present 

[Goanet] 48. The Army Commander and COAS Visit Vassalo e Silva (Valmiki Faleiro)

[Goanet Reader]

48. The Army Commander and COAS Visit Vassalo e Silva

Valmiki Faleiro

Lieutenant General (later General and Chief of Army Staff) JN
Chaudhuri GOC-in-C Southern Command, together with AOC-in-C
Air Vice Mshl EW Pinto and BN Mullik of the IB, took a
helicopter from Belgaum to Goa the following day, 20 December
1961. Lt Gen Chaudhuri visited Major General Vassalo e Silva
at Vasco da Gama at 2 pm.

  Born into an aristocratic Bengali zamindar family
  that produced several great names in law, medicine
  and literature, Lt Gen Chaudhuri was a grandnephew
  of the first non-European Nobel laureate in
  literature, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore and was
  trained at the UK's Royal Military College at
  Sandhurst.  He was a batch mate of latter day
  Pakistan President, Gen Ayub Khan.

Gen.  Carlos de Azeredo, then a Captain, was with Maj Gen
Vassalo e Silva and was the official interpreter.  In his
book 'Trabalhos e dias de um soldado do império (Work and
days of a soldier of the empire)' he says, "General Chaudhuri
entered the cell alone and cordially greeted Vassalo.
Vassalo wanted to stand up to compliment [salute] the Indian,
but the latter rested his hand on his shoulder and did not
let him. He [Lt Gen JN Chaudhuri] pulled up a chair and sat
down. He had words of praise for the Portuguese forces."

Colonel CA de Morais says that Lt Gen Chaudhuri congratulated
Maj Gen Vassalo e Silva for the combats in Mapusa, Bicholim,
Diu and Daman. "Despite the scarce means the Portuguese
[forces] had reacted well against the action by the Indian
troops." The GOC-in-C said that he had ordered POWs from Diu
to be evacuated to Goa.  Lt Gen Chaudhuri "ended the meeting
saying that if he [Maj Gen Vassalo e Silva] wanted anything
he could request the Indian camp commander [Major (later
Lieutenant Colonel) Earl William ('Bill') Carvalho, the first
camp commander]" (Morais, A Queda da Índia Portuguesa, 2nd
edition 1995, Page 151).

Lt Gen Chaudhuri told Vassalo e Silva that his wife, Fernanda
Pereira Monteiro e Silva, was well and safe and that
Government of India would soon be sending her to Lisbon.

  Lieutenant General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, OBE,
  then drove to Panjim in an army jeep, accompanied
  by Air Vice Mshl Ehrlich Pinto and BN Mullik.  On
  the way, the trio encountered a duo of White men
  happily motoring along, oblivious of what was
  happening around.  The White duo was stopped and
  quizzed.  They told the Indian military officers
  that they were German and not Portuguese -- and
  felt quite safe at the hands of the Indian jawan.

Hearing that, Air Vice Mshl Pinto pulled out two bullets from
his personal weapon and, showing them to the two Germans,
said, "These bullets are illiterate.  Can they recognise your
nationality?"

Lt Gen Chaudhuri burst into laughter. He then politely told
the Germans that they would be better off home and remain
indoors until the situation settled down. The Germans made
an about turn and vanished [this episode is borrowed from
Major General VK Singh's History of the Corps of Signals,
Volume III, Chapter 3.]

Lt Gen Chaudhuri and his companions then visited hospitals in
Panjim and assured the wounded POWs that no harm would come
to them. He ordered due medical attention and supplies be
given to them. The party then returned to Dabolim and
helicoptered back to Belgaum.

  Later, Chief of Army Staff, General Pran Nath
  Thapar visited Maj Gen Vassalo e Silva at the POW
  camp in Vasco da Gama.  Gen Thapar was younger
  brother of Dr.  Daya Ram Thapar, IMS, Director
  General Armed Forces Medical Services, father of
  famed TV anchor/journalist Karan Thapar who was
  married to a Colaço from Margao, uncle of historian
  Romila Thapar and journo Romesh Thapar, and
  granduncle of tiger conservationist Valmik Thapar.
  The son of a Diwan at Lahore in pre-Partition
  India, Gen Thapar was a product of UK's Royal
  Military College, Sandhurst, and later of the
  Imperial Defence College, London.

The meeting was warm and cordial. Vassalo e Silva was soon
shifted to a better house in the woods at the Alpha POW Camp
at Ponda (he remained at Alpalqueiros, Vasco da Gama, less
than ten days).  Indian Major Cezar PF Lobo, a pilot with the
Air Observation Post of the Artillery Regiment, a Goan from
Aldona fluent in the Portuguese language, was tasked to take
charge and look after the VIP POW.

  Major General KP Candeth was appointed Military
  Governor, with RCVP Noronha, ICS/IAS, as Chief
  Civic Administrator and GK Handoo, IPS, as Special
  Advisor.  Brigadier Donald Viegas of Curtorim, then
  a Colonel at Army HQ, was sent to Goa on 21
  December 1961 to assist the Military Governor.
  Lieutenant 

[Goanet] Communal harmony, system of jurisprudence do make a difference

[Goanet Reader]

Communal harmony, system of jurisprudence do make a difference

Visitacao B. Monteiro
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The thirty-fifth anniversary of Goa Statehood Day was
recently celebrated, on May 30. During a function held to
mark it, Goa Governor. P.S. Sreedharan Pillai appealed to
all present, and to Goans in general, to study, in depth, the
communal harmony and the system of jurisprudence that existed
in Goa till 1961 and even for some while later.

  There has been no comment on this appeal till now.
  As far as one is aware, nobody from the Government
  nor among the politicians has bothered to give a
  serious look to what the Governor has said.
  Possibly, they might not even have understood what
  his suggestion was since, most of them were born
  after 1961 and are unaware about how peaceful the
  Goa of that time was.

Governor Sreedharan Pillai deserves our thanks and praise for
having opened eyes to the reality of Goa before 1961.
Although the role of the Governor is limited, with regard to
the Administration of the State, yet his words are an
eye-opener. I hope Goans will take his words seriously and
try their best to study their past, because from the past we
can draw lessons for the future.

In this article, I will try to delve on these two concepts:
communal harmony and the system of jurisprudence which
prevailed in Goa before 1961.

Communal harmony constitutes the hallmark of Goa. In this
land, people of various religious denominations and even
atheists, have lived in peace and harmony. History tells us
that during the Ashoka Empire, Buddhism prevailed in Goa for
around six centuries.

  The caves at Arvalem and a statue of the Buddha,
  which was found in Colvale and is presently at the
  Heras Institute, Mumbai, is proof enough.  There is
  a huge Jain tank with niches at Naroa.  An Armenian
  Cross was found in the ruins of Velha Goa port
  area, thus signalling the existence of St.  Thomas’
  Christians at Goa Velha and we also find the
  claimed ruins of a Jewish Synagogue at Curca.  All
  this shows that our communal harmony is
  multi-secular and even multi-millennial.

Goa being a trade zone even before the arrival of the
Portuguese, temples, mosques and synagogues were co-existing
in Old-Goa. There is no record that there was any communal
trouble among any religious denominations.

After the arrival of the Portuguese, although they demolished
all the mosques from the city of Old Goa early on, and later
many temples in the Portuguese-ruled areas of Goa of that
time, communal harmony continued to prevail in Goa till date
and constitutes the hallmark of the State.

  It is very unfortunate that, of late, the same is
  being sought to be disturbed by various statements.
  This should not be allowed to happen at any cost,
  but on the contrary, all should be proud of it and
  promote it.  We need to show the other States that
  various linguistic, religious and cultural
  denominations indeed can live in peace and harmony
  with each other in this State.

>From where did that communal harmony come to be recognized as
one of the constituent elements of Goan identity? This
question will lead us to the second part of the Governor's
appeal -- the system of jurisprudence which prevailed in Goa
pre-1961 and a little later.

Goans are unique and continue to be known the world over as
among the most peaceful people without exaggeration.  For
millennia, they have lived a community life in their village
communities, Ganvkaris or Comunidades (in Portuguese) and it
is this 'community spirit' that makes them 'different'.

The system of the Village Communities, Ganvkaris/Comunidades
has been based right from its beginning on a concept of
jurisprudence which was similar to the concept of Roman
Jurisprudence, where decisions were arrived at democratically
during the village community meetings.

When the Portuguese arrived in Goa in 1510, the system of
Roman Jurisprudence was formally adopted in Goa and was part
of it till 1961. David Sinclair in 'History of India'
(Madras 1896) and G. Duncan M. Derret in his chapter on Hindu
law in Goa: A contact between Natural, Roman and Hindu laws,
speak of this kind of jurisprudence.

  In the Roman concept of Jurisprudence, the people
  have a say in the governance and laws, while in the
  British concept of Jurisprudence which was followed
  in India during British domination, people have no
  say because the Queen/State is supreme.  In
  Portuguese Goa the opinion of the people mattered.
  The British Jurisprudence has been followed in
  India even after 1947 and in Goa after 1961.  The
  basic difference between the earlier Jurisprudence
  and the present 

Re: [Goanet] St. Roque's Chapel in Bandora, Ponda

[Linken Fernandes]

Linken-bab, I don't think the chapel is maintained with care. I just
happened to catch it at a time and in conditions when it looked its best.

Also, why do you want Goa Tourism to get involved? Tourism will mean more
trash, more garbage, liquor bottles, and loss of peace. Can we at least
keep a few spots to ourselves, unmolested from tourism?

Regards,

r

--

Hello Rajan,

>From my brief experience as a tour guide in the 80s, may I assure you that
visitors to what are considered religious places are quite respectful and
comport themselves with a dignity that my irreverence used to find quite
amazing. I also think these places are robust enough to withstand the
hordes descending on them at regular intervals, as witness the
comparatively still healthy state of the churches in Old Goa and the
Mangueshi and Shantadurga temples. Fortunately, visual spectacles are not
subject to the tragedy of the commons and I'm sure people will delight in
the sensory experience (wow!) of seeing St. Roque's from the vantage point
of your camera and the ambient light and awe-some mood that it captured
that morning.

[Goanet] Press note for kind favour of publication

[Gulab Marg]

To,

The Editor

--

Sub: Request to give Press Publicity.

Sir,

Gulab awards 2020 & 2021 and Felicio Cardoso Potrkarita Puroskar will be
presented to the winners on July 20, 2022 at a special function to be held
at Ravindra Bhavan’s Conference hall to mark the 69th birth anniversary of
the Founder editor of Gulab late Rev. Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa.

 Will be grateful if you kindly publish the Press Note in your esteemed
newspaper / new smagazine.

Attaching herewith an invitation for the function.

Thanking you.

Yours Sincerely

(Fausto V. Da Costa)

Editor - Gulab

[Goanet] St. Roque's Chapel in Bandora, Ponda

[Linken Fernandes]

The view, from an airplane, of the "Hrafntinnusker mountain in the
highlands of Iceland" was engaging enough (Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar -
Hrafntinnusker, below). But I was more entranced, and intrigued, by the
photos of St. Roque's Chapel in Bandora, Ponda, that an accompanying
weblink took me to. Three superb shots of the chapel in the early morning
light. But an ethereal Christian chapel smack in the centre of the
heartland of Hinduism in Goa?

I wonder if Goa Tourism's temple tour offers a glimpse of the chapel in a
brief respite from the overdose of Hindu temple architecture all around it.
While they are about it, a meandering drive all around Ponda would also be
worth it; I was in Bethora a couple of months ago and was entranced by the
view of hills and empty meadows here and there all along the drive past
Borim. This is a side of Goa we rarely see in our usual rambles along the
coastal belt.

Linken Fernandes

[Goanet] CSE training on Water and Waste for Communication

[CSE Training]

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[Goanet] NCP man arrested.

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2022/07/16/bes23-ga-land-grab-ncp-arrest.html