[Goanet] The Chicalim Kerfuffle (Fr. Bolmax)

[Rajan Parrikar]

First of all, I don’t read Goanet anymore and only come here for the
very occasional post. For years it has become an echo chamber for
anti-Hindu rants (disguised, of course), all of them low-IQ. I reached
a point where I couldn’t motivate myself to stay on, even in my usual
post-only mode.

I haven’t followed the Fr. Bolmax brouhaha in detail but have
familiarized myself with the general theme. My take:

- Fr. Bolmax has every right to express his views on Shivaji or black
hole thermodynamics. It is a right that must be affirmed and supported
by all sensible citizens.

- Whether it is appropriate for Fr. Bolmax to utter these views and
opinions from the pulpit is for his flock and/or church authorities to
decide. As a non-Catholic, it is none of my business so long as the
speech concerned is lawful (that is, does not call for violence,
unrest, and speech that Indian law explicitly prohibits). Nothing in
Fr. Bolmax’s utterances was outside the ambit of lawful speech, so far
as I can tell.

- “Hurt feelings” is a bs criterion. In a free society we must be
prepared for speech that may not be pleasant to our ears, speech that
may tear down our icons and idols, even religious ones. “Hurt
feelings” is not grounds for arresting anyone. Stop being such
delicate weenies. You have the freedom, too, to respond with your own
speech.

- As a rightwing Hindu fundamentalist, Hindutva-vadi,
patriarchy-loving, and bamon, I hold Shivaji in the highest regard. He
valiantly fought for and defended Hindu civilization against
barbarians that wanted to destroy it. He was also among the first to
enunciate the idea of Swaraj, later clarified and amplified
effectively by Lokmanya Tilak.

- If you do not share my own estimation of Shivaji Maharaj, fine. You
are entitled to your views.

In summary: Leave Fr. Bolmax alone. He shouldn't have to even apologise.

Best,


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12:00 AM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

12:23 AM
Song - My Hero - Jerson Fernandes

12:30 AM
The Church - God's plan - a talk by Sarita Nazareth

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Sunday

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

2:22 AM
Devachem Utor - Stotram - Avesor 117 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:23 AM
Phishing in Troubled Waters - Cybercrime - Episode 3

2:57 AM
Saint Robert Bellarmine - Quote

3:00 AM
Youthopia -  Chriselle Fernandes interviewed by Lucius De Almeida

3:30 AM
The Thesis  Dr. Jessica Fernandes e Pereira interviewed by Bambino Dias

3:54 AM
Music - Maria Maria - Ivy Ferrao

4:00 AM
Creative Strokes - Yolanda De Souza

4:28 AM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 19

4:30 AM
Wealth out of Waste - Flower Making

4:53 AM
Our Father - Aramaic

5:00 AM
Kakluticho Bapui - Puppet Show

5:18 AM
DRAG - Avelino De Sa

5:28 AM
Prayer of children for their parents

5:30 AM
Kumsar - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

6:00 AM
Football and Spirituality - Alfwold Silveira

6:24 AM
Saint Gregory Nazianzen - Quote

6:25 AM
In conversation with Fr Tony Alex MGL -   by Ivy Ferrao

6:52 AM
Poem - A Heart Like no other - Larissa Rodrigues

6:55 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem  -  Somar Wk 2 & 4

7:00 AM
Praise and Worship -   Magno Menezes - SJVRC

7:31 AM
Morning Prayer  - Monday Wk 2 & 4

7:34 AM
Devachem Utor - Stotram - Avesor 118 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

7:39 AM
Abundant Life -Sin is worth leaving - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

8:03 AM
Love, Marriage, Sex - Talk by Colin Calmiano

9:06 AM
Prayer while travelling  -  St Joseph Vaz

9:10 AM
Falling in Love - Chastity - Hosted by Judie D'Cunha

9:43 AM
Communion in Hand or on Tongue by Fr Melito D Costa

9:50 AM
Hymn - Porje Mhoje - Frazer Andrade

10:00 AM
Music - Vakhann'nni 2  followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem

10:30 AM
Kumsar - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

11:00 AM
Secularity and Holiness - Giorgio Mazzola

11:20 AM
Intercessions - English

11:27 AM
Angelus - English

11:30 AM
Mass in English

12:15 PM
Jivitacho Prokas

12:18 PM
Prayer - Alone with none but Thee, my God

12:20 PM
Heads Held High - St. Mary's High School

12:51 PM
Jezuk  ani Tachea Utral mandun gheum-ia - Fr Joseph Silva

1:00 PM
Activists of Goa -Norma Alvares  interviewed by Daniel F. de Souza

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Bhajans 1

2:30 PM
Creative Strokes - Yolanda De Souza

3:00 PM
In conversation with Fr Tony Alex MGL -   by Ivy Ferrao

3:27 PM
Prayer of children for their parents

3:29 PM
Saint Teresa of Avila - Quote

3:30 PM
Divine Mercy Chaplet (E)

3:39 PM
Prayer - You are My Refuge Lord

3:42 PM
Synodal Journey with Mary - Sr Luisa Bothelo GHIC

3:50 PM
Vocation Story - Sr Sushma Kullu

4:00 PM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

4:23 PM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 17

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 9

5:00 PM
Career Guidance - Merchant Navy - Seascan

5:31 PM
Entrepreneur - Suraj George interviewed by Basil D'Cunha

5:56 PM
Aimorechen Magnnem

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Mass in Konkani

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Ximpientlim Motiam -Bhag 261 -  BUDDHACHI MURTI  - Fr Pratap Naik sj

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Song - Amcho Sobit Modgovam- Carmel Youth , Margao

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Pastoral Letter 2023-2024 - Dr. Aida A. P. Dourado in Konkani

7:14 PM
Saint Claire of Assisi - Quote

7:15 PM
Pastoral Letter 2023-2024 - Dr. Aida A. P. Dourado in English

7:27 PM
Pope's Intention in Konkani

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

7:52 PM
Hymn -St Rita's HS - Maina, Curtorim

8:00 PM
Goal Post -Gavin Araujo - Alaric Gomes

8:30 PM
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Adoration 11 - St Anthony Church, Siolim

9:29 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:46 PM
Khell 2  - Kalliz

10:31 PM
Our Father - Sadri

10:35 PM
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10:55 PM
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[Goanet] Souza (and Moraes) in 1961 - O Heraldo, 6/8/2023

[V M]

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Souza-and-Moraes-in-1961/208518

Take a long look at the unforgettable masterpiece by Francis Newton Souza
printed with this column, because it’s the first – and quite possibly last
– time it will be freely available in the public eye, having surfaced from
nowhere in the catalogue for this month’s auction of modern and
contemporary Indian art from the Glenbarra Art Museum (in Japan) and the
Pundole Family Collection of the eponymous Mumbai gallery and auction house
(www.pundoles.com).

At the time he painted ‘Hunger’ in the early 1960s – in its full extent, it
is a full-frontal nude – the daring genius from Saligao had already
successfully vaulted from Goa to JJ School of Art in colonial Bombay (from
where he was expelled for outspoken nationalism) and then, via sheer guts,
directly into London’s post-WWII artistic hothouse. He was the first
international star of modern Indian art and championed by the likes of John
Berger. From the Pundole’s catalogue: “Souza had achieved both fame and
critical acclaim…in 1964, a leading critic, Mervyn Levy, described him as
“one of the most vigorously stimulating and committed painters of our time.”

Souza earned that reputation – directly alongside Lucian Freud and Francis
Bacon – with blockbuster canvases, possessed with visceral power that must
be experienced to be believed. But of even more interest to us in Goa is
another item also on offer at this auction: an entire sketchbook from 1961,
with 76 pencil-on-paper drawings of inestimable value to Indian art
history. If we lived in any kind of just world, and the state of Goa had
its act together even minimally, this sketchbook would be on permanent
display in Souza’s beloved homeland, instead of merely winging in and out
of sight. Next year is the great pioneer’s 100th birth anniversary, and
it’s an incomprehensible disgrace his legacy continues to languish
unacknowledged where it matters most.

The 1961 sketchbook is beautiful and amazing: a proliferation of drawings
vividly illustrating where Souza came from (classically rendered
portraits), what was on his mind (Picasso! Toulouse-Lautrec! Religion!
Sex!) and his playful, productive state of being: one drawing is by his
daughter Karen (now Keren, the mother of next-generation
Goan-British-Israeli prodigy Solomon Souza) ,and the cover riffs on the
artist’s path-breaking little book *Words & Lines *(1959, Villiers) that
had so recently made his reputation as one of the most interesting creative
forces in the Anglosphere.

Here's what the Pundole’s catalogue says about this tiny treasure trove:
“these sketches are insightful, as they document an important process of
systematic experimentation that reveal an artist confident in his skin,
keen to stretch his own artistic boundaries, yet in a manner that remains
true to his own artistic vision.”

For sure, these drawings are an invaluable insight into an artist’s inner
world, as Souza set himself up to paint supercharged canvases like Hunger
to make him famous. Here is Edwin Mullins in 1964: “One cannot walk into a
roomful of Souzas without at once being forced to participate in certain
passions and fears which make these violent distortions of the visual world
explicable and sympathetic. Frequently these passions are not only violent
but destructive, as though each painting liberated the artist from a
private nightmare…his most successful work seems to contain something of an
emotional clash – vulgarity and tenderness, or agony and wit, pathos and
satire, aggression and composure. They have some of the sheer inventiveness
of Picasso – and the same unresolved tumult.”

The auction catalogue doesn’t mention it, but Goa shows up early in this
sketchbook, and there are shades of Souza’s ancestral culture throughout.
We already know he was thinking about home a lot in that fateful year of
decolonization, and the swift military decapitation of the 450-year-old
Estado da India. He painted several important paintings as it was
happening: an extraordinary grotesque of roses rimmed with barbed wire, and
The General (1961), another rarely-seen masterpiece in the vein of Hunger.

That isn’t all, as we know from Dom Moraes – whose father Frank Moraes was
the pre-eminent newspaper editor of India in those years – from *Never At
Home*, the second volume of his brilliant autobiography, “Towards the end
of that year, 1961, there were rumbles in the English press about what was
happening off the western coast of India. They evoked some echoes in me,
since Goa, the place in question, had been the home of my forefathers.”

Moraes  has a highly dubious take on the history of his ancestral land:
“The Portuguese had been slothful and slack for more years than anyone
could remember. They had arrested and imprisoned a few people who had
clamoured for independence, but they had been otiose rather than
oppressive. It was reasonably clear that most Goans wanted the Portuguese
out, but this was largely 

[Goanet] ACUTE SHORTAGE OF TEN RUPEES NOTES

[Stephen Dias]

ACUTE SHORTAGE
OF TEN RUPEES NOTES

STEPHEN DIAS
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
9422443110
BAY VIEW
DONA PAULA
5TH AUGUST 2023

THE reluctance of the RBI to print ten rupees notes which is used by the
common men in a big way is uncalled for. It may be stressed that the common
men use in a big way this denomination for their daily purchased for
necessary items which cost just ten rupees each or less or has to be given
as change. It should also to be noted that the ten rupees coin which is
being minted although lasting may eventually go out of circulation if the
value of the metal used to mint this coin eventually becomes more than ten
rupees it is worth thus leading to the fact that has occurred before that
that these coins are melted so that the metal value is made use of this
action by the people who melt it cannot be curbed and thus the ten rupee
coin which is quite heavy weighing grammes could shortly be worth more
for the metal used than ten rupees and hence go out of circulation.
Also the higher the number of coins of Rs. Ten minted, the higher will be
the shortage if melted for the value of the metal. The RBI should print Rs.
10/- notes to avoid this acute shortage of Rs.  10/- notes that is
presently in circulation causing great inconvenience to the common men.
Banks of all states and Union Territories in India should be immediately be
replenished with Rs 10/- notes to streamline its circulation, and replace
torn and soiled notes. END

[Goanet] VIDEO: Business Goa... and a Goa heritage quiz

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Magazine in Goa, getting into the media and the quizzing network
https://youtu.be/Z3ccaDRjOOQ

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Goa Heritage Quiz... finals
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