[Goanet] DEATHS: novelist Margaret Mascarenhas, writer Bonaventure D'Pietro, Mike Ali of Karachi, and Dr Rose Maria Ann Luise D'Silva of North Carolina

[Goanet Obits]

The past few days have seen a spate of deaths of friends,
whom many in the Goanet family would have heard of, if not
known personally.

   AUTHOR AND NOVELIST MARGARET MASCARENHAS: On
   Sunday came news of the death of author, novelist,
   writer Margaret Mascarenhas.  She had been
   fighting cancer for a short while, and is among
   Goa's best known writers nationally and
   internationally.  Professor Peter Nazareth said
   from Iowa in a tribute:

   "I taught Margaret's *Skin* at least once a year
   and it was always a great favourite of the
   students, who did not find it difficult.  Most of
   them chose to write about it, and I know that one
   of the essays was published in an electronic
   journal.  Margaret had agreed to visit one of my
   classes after a conference on the East coast but
   she was not able to make it so she never got to
   Iowa.  We corresponded frequently and I heard her
   interviews on the laptop so I feel I knew her.  D.H.
   Lawrence had a famous injunction: Never trust the
   teller, trust the tale.  What Margaret wrote were
   global novels in which Goans played a part that
   was sometimes overlooked."

You can hear Margaret talk about her work, others talk about
her work, or even catch her sing here:
http://bit.ly/MargaretMascarenhas

Check out an updated Wikipedia page here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mascarenhas

* * * * * * * * *

BONAVENTURE D'PIETRO was getting ready to celebrate his 80th
birthday, with the release of a rare autobiography (few Goan
writers have managed this), when news came of his untimely
death. He was known as the James Hadley Chase of Konkani
writing.

Here's more about him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtggvchdcRw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZcYZnK9SSc

His autobiography was released on the day intended, last
Sunday, and is called 'Vattliechea Avazan: Mhoji Jivit Kotha'
(which might be translated as 'In the Shadow of the Gong: The
Story of My Life').

* * * * * * * * *

  MIKE ALI, the husband of Gorreti (with roots in
  Margao), was an enthusiastic supporter of the
  Goa and community causes in Karachi.

  We've know each other over the years, with his
  background in writing and more.  He recently wrote:
  "Our book, St.  Patrick's, a Journey of 175 Years
  -- 225 pages, 340 photos most in colour and many
  rare ones -- is finally being launched on Dec. 2,
  2018 by Joseph, Cardinal Coutts at St.  Patrick's
  Cathedral, Karachi.  I shall be mailing you a copy
  after Dec 2." And he always kept to his word.

  His departure was most untimely, as he had much
  much more to contribute.

* * * * * * * * *

Dr Rose Marie Ann Luise D'Silva (née de Sousa), 1937-2019,
was the wife of scientist Dr Themistocles Da Silva, who has
taken forward his deep interest in writing local histories of
his home village of Arossim, near Cansaulim, at the coastal
strip of Mormugao taluka.

Rose Marie D'Silva was born in Karachi, when it was British
India, and grew up in a close-knit Goan Catholic family and
community.  Her father Professor Leo Anthony de Sousa was a
charismatic intellectual man, a physics professor and church
organist, who became president of D.J. Sindh Govt. Science
College.  She was deeply affected by her mother's untimely
death when she was only seven years old and the eldest of
five children, and by the turbulent years after Partition,
with the city's designation as the capital of Pakistan.  She
completed a Master's degree in Chemistry, and taught in
college, always feeling responsible to her brothers and
sisters. A friendship forged through her father’s leadership
exchange visit to the US enabled her to live with a loving
family during her graduate work at the Catholic University of
America in Washington, D.C.

Rose Marie completed a Ph.D.  in organic chemistry, alongside
her fellow graduate student in the same lab, Themistocles
(Tim) D’Silva.  She did post-doctoral research at the
University of Rochester before they married in 1965, and
began their family near Worcester, Mass.  Later, she taught
organic chemistry in evening classes at what was then Morris
Harvey College.  She was known as a tough but fair teacher,
dedicated to making sure her students understood concepts.
In 1981 the family moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Rose Marie joined the Duke University Chemistry Department.

The D'Silvas have four children, Marisa D'Silva Whitesell
(Chapel Hill), Karena D'Silva (NYC and Chapel Hill), Carl
D'Silva (fiancée Joni Jacobsen, Chicago) and Marc D'Silva
(wife Chinar, Cambodia), and five grandchildren, Blaise, Romy
and Carmen Whitesell, and Caia and Eva D’Silva, as well as
two brothers, Terence de Sousa (California) and Bernard de
Sousa (England), 

[Goanet-News] DEATHS: novelist Margaret Mascarenhas, writer Bonaventure D'Pietro, Mike Ali of Karachi, and Dr Rose Maria Ann Luise D'Silva of North Carolina

[Goanet Obits]

The past few days have seen a spate of deaths of friends,
whom many in the Goanet family would have heard of, if not
known personally.

   AUTHOR AND NOVELIST MARGARET MASCARENHAS: On
   Sunday came news of the death of author, novelist,
   writer Margaret Mascarenhas.  She had been
   fighting cancer for a short while, and is among
   Goa's best known writers nationally and
   internationally.  Professor Peter Nazareth said
   from Iowa in a tribute:

   "I taught Margaret's *Skin* at least once a year
   and it was always a great favourite of the
   students, who did not find it difficult.  Most of
   them chose to write about it, and I know that one
   of the essays was published in an electronic
   journal.  Margaret had agreed to visit one of my
   classes after a conference on the East coast but
   she was not able to make it so she never got to
   Iowa.  We corresponded frequently and I heard her
   interviews on the laptop so I feel I knew her.  D.H.
   Lawrence had a famous injunction: Never trust the
   teller, trust the tale.  What Margaret wrote were
   global novels in which Goans played a part that
   was sometimes overlooked."

You can hear Margaret talk about her work, others talk about
her work, or even catch her sing here:
http://bit.ly/MargaretMascarenhas

Check out an updated Wikipedia page here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mascarenhas

* * * * * * * * *

BONAVENTURE D'PIETRO was getting ready to celebrate his 80th
birthday, with the release of a rare autobiography (few Goan
writers have managed this), when news came of his untimely
death. He was known as the James Hadley Chase of Konkani
writing.

Here's more about him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtggvchdcRw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZcYZnK9SSc

His autobiography was released on the day intended, last
Sunday, and is called 'Vattliechea Avazan: Mhoji Jivit Kotha'
(which might be translated as 'In the Shadow of the Gong: The
Story of My Life').

* * * * * * * * *

  MIKE ALI, the husband of Gorreti (with roots in
  Margao), was an enthusiastic supporter of the
  Goa and community causes in Karachi.

  We've know each other over the years, with his
  background in writing and more.  He recently wrote:
  "Our book, St.  Patrick's, a Journey of 175 Years
  -- 225 pages, 340 photos most in colour and many
  rare ones -- is finally being launched on Dec. 2,
  2018 by Joseph, Cardinal Coutts at St.  Patrick's
  Cathedral, Karachi.  I shall be mailing you a copy
  after Dec 2." And he always kept to his word.

  His departure was most untimely, as he had much
  much more to contribute.

* * * * * * * * *

Dr Rose Marie Ann Luise D'Silva (née de Sousa), 1937-2019,
was the wife of scientist Dr Themistocles Da Silva, who has
taken forward his deep interest in writing local histories of
his home village of Arossim, near Cansaulim, at the coastal
strip of Mormugao taluka.

Rose Marie D'Silva was born in Karachi, when it was British
India, and grew up in a close-knit Goan Catholic family and
community.  Her father Professor Leo Anthony de Sousa was a
charismatic intellectual man, a physics professor and church
organist, who became president of D.J. Sindh Govt. Science
College.  She was deeply affected by her mother's untimely
death when she was only seven years old and the eldest of
five children, and by the turbulent years after Partition,
with the city's designation as the capital of Pakistan.  She
completed a Master's degree in Chemistry, and taught in
college, always feeling responsible to her brothers and
sisters. A friendship forged through her father’s leadership
exchange visit to the US enabled her to live with a loving
family during her graduate work at the Catholic University of
America in Washington, D.C.

Rose Marie completed a Ph.D.  in organic chemistry, alongside
her fellow graduate student in the same lab, Themistocles
(Tim) D’Silva.  She did post-doctoral research at the
University of Rochester before they married in 1965, and
began their family near Worcester, Mass.  Later, she taught
organic chemistry in evening classes at what was then Morris
Harvey College.  She was known as a tough but fair teacher,
dedicated to making sure her students understood concepts.
In 1981 the family moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Rose Marie joined the Duke University Chemistry Department.

The D'Silvas have four children, Marisa D'Silva Whitesell
(Chapel Hill), Karena D'Silva (NYC and Chapel Hill), Carl
D'Silva (fiancée Joni Jacobsen, Chicago) and Marc D'Silva
(wife Chinar, Cambodia), and five grandchildren, Blaise, Romy
and Carmen Whitesell, and Caia and Eva D’Silva, as well as
two brothers, Terence de Sousa (California) and Bernard de
Sousa (England), 

[Goanet] [Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Teotonio R. de Souza, one of Goa's foremost historians

[Goanet Obits]

OBITUARY: Teotonio R. de Souza

[Compiled for Goanet by John Nazareth in Canada,
jhr_nazar...@hotmail.com]

Born 18 February 1947 in Goa - Died 20 February 2019 in Lisbon

  Teotonio Rosario de Souza was one of Goa's foremost
  historians. He completed his PhD in History from
  the University of Poona (1970-1977) and was a
  member of the Society of Jesus from 1967 to 1994.

He was one of the founders of the Xavier Centre of Historical
Research in Porvorim, Goa and was its Director from 1979 to
1994. He was PhD guide in History at the Goa University
1985-1994 and visiting Professor of Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth
(Pune) and Vidyajyoti (Delhi) 1980-1994. He left the Jesuits
and moved to Portugal where he joined the Department of
History, in the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e
Tecnologias in Lisbon in 1996, going on to serve as
Professor, Head and Chair 1999-2014.

John J. D’Souza recalls that "Dr. Teotonio helped to get
Goacom going when we started in 1995".

He was a native of the village of Moira in Bardez, Goa and
took the time to write a brief history of Moira and its
Church at the 350th anniversary of the Church’s founding in 1636.

  In November 2018, I had the good fortune to work
  with Teotonio when the Goan Overseas Association,
  Toronto was celebrating the 30th anniversary of its
  International Goan Convention where he was featured
  as part of the International Writers/Historians
  segment; little did we know then that this would be
  his swan song.

No short list can do justice to the contribution of Professor
De Souza to the written history of Goa. Among his book
publications were:

- Medieval Goa [1979, 1994 (Portuguese edition), 2009]
- Indo-Portuguese History: Old Issues New Questions (1983)
- Essays in Goan History (1988)
- Goa Through the Ages: An economic history  (1990)
- Jesuits in India: in Historical Perspective (1992)
  co-edited with C.J. Borges
- Goa to Me (1994)
- Goa: Roteiro histórico-cultural (1996)
- Vasco da Gama e a Índia (3 vols) (1989) co-edited with J.M. Garcia
- Goa -- Outgrowing Postcolonialism (2014)

Research articles by Dr. Teotonio R. de Souza:
https://grupolusofona.academia.edu/TeotonioRdeSouza
https://pt.scribd.com/user/723742/Teotonio-R-de-Souza

In the following link, Teotonio talks about his books with
Frederick Noronha, of Goa1556:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTn7qvjDjkU
Time: approx 20 mins.

When he passed away he was working on two publications: (1)
Herald Group intention to bring out in book format his
columns of opinion from 2008 till now; (2) An
autobiographical book.

When he was asked why he left the Jesuits, he said "I gave 26
of the best years of my life to Jesus and He will not forget
me."-- John Nazareth, Toronto, February 2019

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Teotonio R. de Souza, one of Goa's foremost historians

[Goanet Obits]

OBITUARY: Teotonio R. de Souza

[Compiled for Goanet by John Nazareth in Canada,
jhr_nazar...@hotmail.com]

Born 18 February 1947 in Goa - Died 20 February 2019 in Lisbon

  Teotonio Rosario de Souza was one of Goa's foremost
  historians. He completed his PhD in History from
  the University of Poona (1970-1977) and was a
  member of the Society of Jesus from 1967 to 1994.

He was one of the founders of the Xavier Centre of Historical
Research in Porvorim, Goa and was its Director from 1979 to
1994. He was PhD guide in History at the Goa University
1985-1994 and visiting Professor of Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth
(Pune) and Vidyajyoti (Delhi) 1980-1994. He left the Jesuits
and moved to Portugal where he joined the Department of
History, in the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e
Tecnologias in Lisbon in 1996, going on to serve as
Professor, Head and Chair 1999-2014.

John J. D’Souza recalls that "Dr. Teotonio helped to get
Goacom going when we started in 1995".

He was a native of the village of Moira in Bardez, Goa and
took the time to write a brief history of Moira and its
Church at the 350th anniversary of the Church’s founding in 1636.

  In November 2018, I had the good fortune to work
  with Teotonio when the Goan Overseas Association,
  Toronto was celebrating the 30th anniversary of its
  International Goan Convention where he was featured
  as part of the International Writers/Historians
  segment; little did we know then that this would be
  his swan song.

No short list can do justice to the contribution of Professor
De Souza to the written history of Goa. Among his book
publications were:

- Medieval Goa [1979, 1994 (Portuguese edition), 2009]
- Indo-Portuguese History: Old Issues New Questions (1983)
- Essays in Goan History (1988)
- Goa Through the Ages: An economic history  (1990)
- Jesuits in India: in Historical Perspective (1992)
  co-edited with C.J. Borges
- Goa to Me (1994)
- Goa: Roteiro histórico-cultural (1996)
- Vasco da Gama e a Índia (3 vols) (1989) co-edited with J.M. Garcia
- Goa -- Outgrowing Postcolonialism (2014)

Research articles by Dr. Teotonio R. de Souza:
https://grupolusofona.academia.edu/TeotonioRdeSouza
https://pt.scribd.com/user/723742/Teotonio-R-de-Souza

In the following link, Teotonio talks about his books with
Frederick Noronha, of Goa1556:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTn7qvjDjkU
Time: approx 20 mins.

When he passed away he was working on two publications: (1)
Herald Group intention to bring out in book format his
columns of opinion from 2008 till now; (2) An
autobiographical book.

When he was asked why he left the Jesuits, he said "I gave 26
of the best years of my life to Jesus and He will not forget
me."-- John Nazareth, Toronto, February 2019

[Goanet] [Goanet-News] Khadi camaigner Mangala Wagle... first lawyer in CRZ violation cases Gopal Tamba... Jet's star Luigi

[Goanet Obits]

Khadi, schools for the poor and more: Mangala Wagle
Written by Wendell Rodricks wendellrodri...@gmail.com
28 April at 10:25

I first saw Mangala Wagle fresh out of Catering College,
Bombay, at the ripe age of twenty. Ripe because finally after
years in school and college, I had a job. I was grown up. It
was 1980. Management Trainee to become Assistant Food and
Beverage Cost Controller in two years at the Centaur Hotel.
Rs700 a month. I was ripe... and rich.

The first department in a twelve-month cycle of departments
was The Receiving Department. A fierce yet kind grey-eyed
gent Mr Pawaskar was in charge. Everyone was terrified of
him. But he liked me. Got me my passport, application form
signed by Murli Manohar Joshi no less.

I asked him "who is that small lady in the sari with the big
fish?" It was a rather large fish. Taller than the blue-grey
eyed, under five feet lady. "The fish lady," he replied. And
that's how I called her. I did not know her name, nor cared
to know... nor ask. Till eighteen years later. Still... what
impressed me was that the little fish lady who supplied
Centaur and other hotels and restaurants were among tall men
and directing everyone about. She had a whole lot of titanium
in that widowed spine of hers. Calmly, she got her way every
single day. I did not speak to her. I was plain terrified.

Back to the future. 1998. By then, I switched careers, food
to fashion, moved base, Bombay to Goa, and went from
delicious obscurity to uncomfortable fame.

And there, in the dim light (the power was constantly going
off) of the Wendell Rodricks Couture Salon on the Rua de
Ourem in Fontainhas, Panjim, were two grey haired ladies. The
taller one introduced herself as Irene Heredia who introduced
the tiny one as Mangala Wagle. Then magically, the power
literally came back on and I could see them in full light.
The blue-grey eyes. OMG, the 'Fish Lady' is here.

  Irene Heredia spoke about Gandhi, Khadi, the
  Kasturba Gandhi Trust in Goa, blah, blah, blah. I
  warmed up to both ladies and fell in love with them
  as they giggled; clueless what they wanted of me.
  Banter bantered on. Then, Mrs Wagle threw the ball
  at me, "And what can you do for us?" The ball was
  in my court.

I like balls in my court. It gives me control and freedom to
do what the hell I want. This is like Chief Minister Rane
meeting me for the first time and saying "You should do our
Police uniforms." Bham. Three days later I was at his office
with sketches and six months later the country had the first
designer police uniforms (possibly a worldwide first). Or a
journalist unhappy with her lace frothy wedding gown asking
me at a drunken singing party in Bandra what I would do to
change the dress. She got a paper mini wedding dress with
paper roses two weeks later. Or Noel Lima Leitao telling me
he had one lakh to celebrate his new football team T-shirts.
He got a fashion show at the Marriott with Malaika Arora Khan
walking out with his entire Vasco Football Team to Freddy
Mercury's grand voice and Queen's "We are the Champions".

Irene Heredia and Mangala Wagle got a full-on fashion show at
the Mandovi Hotel Ballroom with models in Khadi. Not some
amateur production. The full 'lights camera action' deal
where everyone did it for free. Waluscha, Newton, Sandeep,
Lisel. A lovely line up of 'just discovered' Goan models. At
the end of it all Rs60,000 in the bank. Who can refuse a
tiny, blue-eyed, grey-haired lady who had a giggle, Grand
dreams, an enormous appetite and energy, generosity with a
natural desire to serve society? It was infectious.

I had not met the great Father of the Nation. He was
assassinated before my parents met. But I met Gandhi through
Mangala. She was the epitome of Gandhi. And I became her
besotted follower. After the show, she threw another ball at
me. "Now how can we celebrate?". That was easier than the
show. A varan bath (Maharashtrian dal-rice I craved for in
Goa) with kothambir vadi (those delicious morsels of fresh
coriander cooked in chickpea flour) lunch at her home, I
suggested. The dessert, a tender coconut jelly, ended up in
my third book *Poskem* (Chapter 2).

Yesterday when her son-in-law picked up his wife's (Mangala's
daughter Sheela Jaywant) cell and told me that Mangala had
passed away, that his wife Sheela was at the cremation
ritual, I was stunned. I called for my memoir *The Green
Room*, tore open the plastic cover and began to ruffle the
pages to get to the year I met Mangala. Midway, there was a
fold in the page at the spine that I had to tear open.
Unintended dog ear. Then flipped on. But I could not find the
page of the first Kasturba Gandhi show with Irene and
Mangala. Exasperated I went to my iPad and website and found
in the archive section the year of the show. Jan 1999. So
back I went to the book. And there... hair stand, goosebump
moment. At Page 209 which I had torn a few minutes earlier,
right at the top was 

[Goanet-News] Khadi camaigner Mangala Wagle... first lawyer in CRZ violation cases Gopal Tamba... Jet's star Luigi

[Goanet Obits]

Khadi, schools for the poor and more: Mangala Wagle
Written by Wendell Rodricks wendellrodri...@gmail.com
28 April at 10:25

I first saw Mangala Wagle fresh out of Catering College,
Bombay, at the ripe age of twenty. Ripe because finally after
years in school and college, I had a job. I was grown up. It
was 1980. Management Trainee to become Assistant Food and
Beverage Cost Controller in two years at the Centaur Hotel.
Rs700 a month. I was ripe... and rich.

The first department in a twelve-month cycle of departments
was The Receiving Department. A fierce yet kind grey-eyed
gent Mr Pawaskar was in charge. Everyone was terrified of
him. But he liked me. Got me my passport, application form
signed by Murli Manohar Joshi no less.

I asked him "who is that small lady in the sari with the big
fish?" It was a rather large fish. Taller than the blue-grey
eyed, under five feet lady. "The fish lady," he replied. And
that's how I called her. I did not know her name, nor cared
to know... nor ask. Till eighteen years later. Still... what
impressed me was that the little fish lady who supplied
Centaur and other hotels and restaurants were among tall men
and directing everyone about. She had a whole lot of titanium
in that widowed spine of hers. Calmly, she got her way every
single day. I did not speak to her. I was plain terrified.

Back to the future. 1998. By then, I switched careers, food
to fashion, moved base, Bombay to Goa, and went from
delicious obscurity to uncomfortable fame.

And there, in the dim light (the power was constantly going
off) of the Wendell Rodricks Couture Salon on the Rua de
Ourem in Fontainhas, Panjim, were two grey haired ladies. The
taller one introduced herself as Irene Heredia who introduced
the tiny one as Mangala Wagle. Then magically, the power
literally came back on and I could see them in full light.
The blue-grey eyes. OMG, the 'Fish Lady' is here.

  Irene Heredia spoke about Gandhi, Khadi, the
  Kasturba Gandhi Trust in Goa, blah, blah, blah. I
  warmed up to both ladies and fell in love with them
  as they giggled; clueless what they wanted of me.
  Banter bantered on. Then, Mrs Wagle threw the ball
  at me, "And what can you do for us?" The ball was
  in my court.

I like balls in my court. It gives me control and freedom to
do what the hell I want. This is like Chief Minister Rane
meeting me for the first time and saying "You should do our
Police uniforms." Bham. Three days later I was at his office
with sketches and six months later the country had the first
designer police uniforms (possibly a worldwide first). Or a
journalist unhappy with her lace frothy wedding gown asking
me at a drunken singing party in Bandra what I would do to
change the dress. She got a paper mini wedding dress with
paper roses two weeks later. Or Noel Lima Leitao telling me
he had one lakh to celebrate his new football team T-shirts.
He got a fashion show at the Marriott with Malaika Arora Khan
walking out with his entire Vasco Football Team to Freddy
Mercury's grand voice and Queen's "We are the Champions".

Irene Heredia and Mangala Wagle got a full-on fashion show at
the Mandovi Hotel Ballroom with models in Khadi. Not some
amateur production. The full 'lights camera action' deal
where everyone did it for free. Waluscha, Newton, Sandeep,
Lisel. A lovely line up of 'just discovered' Goan models. At
the end of it all Rs60,000 in the bank. Who can refuse a
tiny, blue-eyed, grey-haired lady who had a giggle, Grand
dreams, an enormous appetite and energy, generosity with a
natural desire to serve society? It was infectious.

I had not met the great Father of the Nation. He was
assassinated before my parents met. But I met Gandhi through
Mangala. She was the epitome of Gandhi. And I became her
besotted follower. After the show, she threw another ball at
me. "Now how can we celebrate?". That was easier than the
show. A varan bath (Maharashtrian dal-rice I craved for in
Goa) with kothambir vadi (those delicious morsels of fresh
coriander cooked in chickpea flour) lunch at her home, I
suggested. The dessert, a tender coconut jelly, ended up in
my third book *Poskem* (Chapter 2).

Yesterday when her son-in-law picked up his wife's (Mangala's
daughter Sheela Jaywant) cell and told me that Mangala had
passed away, that his wife Sheela was at the cremation
ritual, I was stunned. I called for my memoir *The Green
Room*, tore open the plastic cover and began to ruffle the
pages to get to the year I met Mangala. Midway, there was a
fold in the page at the spine that I had to tear open.
Unintended dog ear. Then flipped on. But I could not find the
page of the first Kasturba Gandhi show with Irene and
Mangala. Exasperated I went to my iPad and website and found
in the archive section the year of the show. Jan 1999. So
back I went to the book. And there... hair stand, goosebump
moment. At Page 209 which I had torn a few minutes earlier,
right at the top was 

[Goanet-News] DEATHS/TRIBUTES: Didier (Didi) De Melo, Dr Edward Rodrigues (JNU), Owen Lobo (Britto Class of 1977), Crispina Vaz (Cuncolim)

[Goanet Obits]

VERNA: Eduardo Francisco Dourado, Castelvaddo. Month's.

Goanet Obits is compiled by Frederick Noronha fredericknoron...@gmail.com

[Goanet] DEATHS/TRIBUTES: Didier (Didi) De Melo, Dr Edward Rodrigues (JNU), Owen Lobo (Britto Class of 1977), Crispina Vaz (Cuncolim)

[Goanet Obits]

VERNA: Eduardo Francisco Dourado, Castelvaddo. Month's.

Goanet Obits is compiled by Frederick Noronha fredericknoron...@gmail.com

[Goanet] A man of the cloth, who passionately loved the book: Fr Nascimento J Mascarenhas (78)

[Goanet Obits]

at Pilerne is called
'Rio dos Ribeiros' which irrigates the fields of Pilerne.

  One of the Ribeiro descendants went from Pilerne to
  Nagoa de Bardez and later settled himself in
  Saligao at Vhoddlem Morodd. His descendant is the
  late José Ribeiro, whose sons are Tom and Savio
  Ribeiro. The uncle Balkrishna Sinai was baptised
  and given the surname Cunha and a property in
  Arpora. He is the ascendant of José Gerson da
  Cunha, the famous author of The Konkani Language
  and Literature published in Bombay in 1881. We
  accepted the Professor's story without any
  questions or interruptions.

Saligaokars are proud to be referred as kole (foxes), Prof
Sousa went on to say. He narrated another story to showcase
the shrewdness of the Saligaokar.

Once upon a time, there was a Saligaokar who owned a leather
shop, selling all kinds of items made from leather, including
shoes. When he went abroad he came across a wholesaler of
shoes, with a wide range of shoes going very cheap. He bought
dozens of them. To avoid customs duty he mailed them in two
separate consignments, one containing shoes for the right-leg
only, and the other for the left.

When the parcels reached Panjim, they were not claimed. After
some time they were auctioned. None of the shoe merchants
present bargained because they thought they were useless.
The shrewd Saligaokar bought the parcels for a song, through
one of his friends, deceiving the customs officers by his
cleverness. Whether this story is true or not is, of course,
anyone's guess!

Though we wanted to hear more stories related to our village,
Professor Eduardo had to leave, and we too departed from the
scene. Memories linger on in our minds of those old days in
our beloved and "porzolit [shining] Saligao". One can only
hope that the present and future generations preserve the
sheen of the Goan village of the past.

* * *
Goanet Obits is edited and compiled by Frederick Noronha
fredericknoro...@gmail.com 91-9822122436

[Goanet-News] A man of the cloth, who passionately loved the book: Fr Nascimento J Mascarenhas (78)

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at Pilerne is called
'Rio dos Ribeiros' which irrigates the fields of Pilerne.

  One of the Ribeiro descendants went from Pilerne to
  Nagoa de Bardez and later settled himself in
  Saligao at Vhoddlem Morodd. His descendant is the
  late José Ribeiro, whose sons are Tom and Savio
  Ribeiro. The uncle Balkrishna Sinai was baptised
  and given the surname Cunha and a property in
  Arpora. He is the ascendant of José Gerson da
  Cunha, the famous author of The Konkani Language
  and Literature published in Bombay in 1881. We
  accepted the Professor's story without any
  questions or interruptions.

Saligaokars are proud to be referred as kole (foxes), Prof
Sousa went on to say. He narrated another story to showcase
the shrewdness of the Saligaokar.

Once upon a time, there was a Saligaokar who owned a leather
shop, selling all kinds of items made from leather, including
shoes. When he went abroad he came across a wholesaler of
shoes, with a wide range of shoes going very cheap. He bought
dozens of them. To avoid customs duty he mailed them in two
separate consignments, one containing shoes for the right-leg
only, and the other for the left.

When the parcels reached Panjim, they were not claimed. After
some time they were auctioned. None of the shoe merchants
present bargained because they thought they were useless.
The shrewd Saligaokar bought the parcels for a song, through
one of his friends, deceiving the customs officers by his
cleverness. Whether this story is true or not is, of course,
anyone's guess!

Though we wanted to hear more stories related to our village,
Professor Eduardo had to leave, and we too departed from the
scene. Memories linger on in our minds of those old days in
our beloved and "porzolit [shining] Saligao". One can only
hope that the present and future generations preserve the
sheen of the Goan village of the past.

* * *
Goanet Obits is edited and compiled by Frederick Noronha
fredericknoro...@gmail.com 91-9822122436

[Goanet-News] DEATH: Matilde Ferrao e Menezes (Miramar), Dr Osborn Viegas (Singapore), Fr Ambrose Pinto SJ (Bangalore)

[Goanet Obits]

DEATH: MATILDE FERRAO E MENEZES (mother of GoaCom founder
Marlon Menezes). Ex-Sesa Goa, ex-Commercial Bank of Kuwait.
Of Miramar, Panjim. Born 05-08-1939 and expired on 01-01-2018.
Loving wife of Jerry Menezes, mother/mother-in-law of
Marlon/Aldila, Jason/Gayle and Nella/Vittor. Daughter of late
Benedito/Inacia Ferrao (Aldona). Caring grandmother of
Rebecca, Brandon, Mark, Adam, Daniel, Rayan and Raul. Sister
of Luis, Anita and Felix. Sister-in-law of late Filomena,
Benilda and late Franco. Guardian to Nanu (Agostinho
Ribeiro). Funeral cortege will leave her residence on January
5, 2018, at 3.30 pm to Stella Maris Chapel, Miramar, for
Eucharistic celebration followed by burial at St Inez
Cemetery, Panjim. But service will be provided to and from
Chapel to Cemetery.

DR OSBORN VIEGAS, EX-UGANDA, CANADA AND SINGAPORE. Osborn
Viegas, MBChB, MD(Birm), FRCOG, FRANZCOG, DA(Irl). Retired
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Monash University. Of
220 Loyang Avenue, Block 220 #04-06 Loyang Valley Singapore
509067. "Ossy" had a massive heart attack on the morning of
January 2 and passed away at the Royal Darwin Hospital 16
hours later despite all the efforts of cardiologists,
interventional radiologists, and ICU staff. He will be buried
in Darwin, the family said.

  Born in March 1946 as the last of six children, Dr
  Osborn lived in Africa which, he has said, shaped
  his life and ambition and these aspects were
  strongly supported by his parents. He was strongly
  influenced by the integrity and compassion that his
  family physician displayed and his astute clinical
  assessments and treatment with the minimum of
  technology. He was also influenced by the mercenary
  manner in which his father was dealt with by an
  ophthalmologist who performed cataract surgery on
  him. Both these experiences gave him the impetus to
  read medicine if at all possible so that he would
  be able to practice within a code of conduct
  demanded by the profession. He graduated from
  medical school in March 1971 and barely eighteen
  months after this he got embroiled in the political
  chaos in Uganda that saw him evicted to the UK with
  virtually nothing more than the clothes he was in
  and a carefully concealed degree certificate and 50
  Uganda pounds to start a new life in a country he
  knew nothing about.

FR. AMBROSE PINTO, A REFORMER [indiancatholicmatters.org]:
Fr. Ambrose Pinto SJ, one of the sharpest brains among the
Jesuits and of the country passed away this morning at 7 am,
at Mallya Hospital, Bengaluru. He was 67. Born on November
11, 1950, he joined the Society of Jesus on July 1, 1968 and
was ordained on April 20, 1981. With his passing away,
Bengaluru has lost a great intellectual depth and a sharp
analytical mind.
An engaging writer, thinker and an activist intellectual, he
was known among all those who worked for Human Rights and
Dignity. He was a member of the Jesuit Core Team that studied
the current issues of the country.
The funeral will be held on Friday, 5 January at St Joseph's
Boys' High School Chapel, Museum Road, at 10.30 a.m. followed
by burial at Mt St Joseph Cemetery on Bannerghatta Road,
Bengaluru.
An M.A., Ph.D in Political Theory, Fr. Ambrose taught and
served in various capacities such as lecturer in in Political
Science, Principal, and Executive Director at St. Joseph’s
Institutions. He was a Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced
Study, Shimla and Principal at St. Aloysius Degree College,
Bengaluru.

  His critical research and consultancy studies
  positively impacted several people particularly
  from the marginalized sector. Among them were his
  socio-economic study on Dalit Christians in
  Karnataka; Evaluation of Minority Welfare
  Corporation Funding of the Ministry of Minority
  Affairs of the Government of India in 2000;
  Changing Identity of the Dalits in Karnataka -- a
  major project from the University Grants Commission
  2007 to 2010; Doddigunta Slum Survey with Grant
  from India German Social Science Society, New
  Delhi, among others.

He published and edited several books. Some of them are:

"Dalit Christians: A Socio-Economic Survey", Centre for
Non-Formal & Continuing Education, Bangalore 1993

Higher Education, Politics and Ideology, Books for Change,
2004, Bangalore

Dalits in Karnataka: In search of identity and equality,
Manak Publications, New Delhi 2014

Five Years of Saffron Rule in Karnataka, Manak Publications,
New Delhi 2015

Edited

Perspective in Jesuit Higher Education, Indian Social
Institute, Bangalore 1996
Dr. Pinto Ambrose and Arundhuti Roy Choudhury,

"Nuclearization of India: Myths, Beliefs and Facts", Indian
Social Institute, New Delhi 1998

State, Development & Alternatives, Indian 

[Goanet] DEATH: Matilde Ferrao e Menezes (Miramar), Dr Osborn Viegas (Singapore), Fr Ambrose Pinto SJ (Bangalore)

[Goanet Obits]

DEATH: MATILDE FERRAO E MENEZES (mother of GoaCom founder
Marlon Menezes). Ex-Sesa Goa, ex-Commercial Bank of Kuwait.
Of Miramar, Panjim. Born 05-08-1939 and expired on 01-01-2018.
Loving wife of Jerry Menezes, mother/mother-in-law of
Marlon/Aldila, Jason/Gayle and Nella/Vittor. Daughter of late
Benedito/Inacia Ferrao (Aldona). Caring grandmother of
Rebecca, Brandon, Mark, Adam, Daniel, Rayan and Raul. Sister
of Luis, Anita and Felix. Sister-in-law of late Filomena,
Benilda and late Franco. Guardian to Nanu (Agostinho
Ribeiro). Funeral cortege will leave her residence on January
5, 2018, at 3.30 pm to Stella Maris Chapel, Miramar, for
Eucharistic celebration followed by burial at St Inez
Cemetery, Panjim. But service will be provided to and from
Chapel to Cemetery.

DR OSBORN VIEGAS, EX-UGANDA, CANADA AND SINGAPORE. Osborn
Viegas, MBChB, MD(Birm), FRCOG, FRANZCOG, DA(Irl). Retired
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Monash University. Of
220 Loyang Avenue, Block 220 #04-06 Loyang Valley Singapore
509067. "Ossy" had a massive heart attack on the morning of
January 2 and passed away at the Royal Darwin Hospital 16
hours later despite all the efforts of cardiologists,
interventional radiologists, and ICU staff. He will be buried
in Darwin, the family said.

  Born in March 1946 as the last of six children, Dr
  Osborn lived in Africa which, he has said, shaped
  his life and ambition and these aspects were
  strongly supported by his parents. He was strongly
  influenced by the integrity and compassion that his
  family physician displayed and his astute clinical
  assessments and treatment with the minimum of
  technology. He was also influenced by the mercenary
  manner in which his father was dealt with by an
  ophthalmologist who performed cataract surgery on
  him. Both these experiences gave him the impetus to
  read medicine if at all possible so that he would
  be able to practice within a code of conduct
  demanded by the profession. He graduated from
  medical school in March 1971 and barely eighteen
  months after this he got embroiled in the political
  chaos in Uganda that saw him evicted to the UK with
  virtually nothing more than the clothes he was in
  and a carefully concealed degree certificate and 50
  Uganda pounds to start a new life in a country he
  knew nothing about.

FR. AMBROSE PINTO, A REFORMER [indiancatholicmatters.org]:
Fr. Ambrose Pinto SJ, one of the sharpest brains among the
Jesuits and of the country passed away this morning at 7 am,
at Mallya Hospital, Bengaluru. He was 67. Born on November
11, 1950, he joined the Society of Jesus on July 1, 1968 and
was ordained on April 20, 1981. With his passing away,
Bengaluru has lost a great intellectual depth and a sharp
analytical mind.
An engaging writer, thinker and an activist intellectual, he
was known among all those who worked for Human Rights and
Dignity. He was a member of the Jesuit Core Team that studied
the current issues of the country.
The funeral will be held on Friday, 5 January at St Joseph's
Boys' High School Chapel, Museum Road, at 10.30 a.m. followed
by burial at Mt St Joseph Cemetery on Bannerghatta Road,
Bengaluru.
An M.A., Ph.D in Political Theory, Fr. Ambrose taught and
served in various capacities such as lecturer in in Political
Science, Principal, and Executive Director at St. Joseph’s
Institutions. He was a Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced
Study, Shimla and Principal at St. Aloysius Degree College,
Bengaluru.

  His critical research and consultancy studies
  positively impacted several people particularly
  from the marginalized sector. Among them were his
  socio-economic study on Dalit Christians in
  Karnataka; Evaluation of Minority Welfare
  Corporation Funding of the Ministry of Minority
  Affairs of the Government of India in 2000;
  Changing Identity of the Dalits in Karnataka -- a
  major project from the University Grants Commission
  2007 to 2010; Doddigunta Slum Survey with Grant
  from India German Social Science Society, New
  Delhi, among others.

He published and edited several books. Some of them are:

"Dalit Christians: A Socio-Economic Survey", Centre for
Non-Formal & Continuing Education, Bangalore 1993

Higher Education, Politics and Ideology, Books for Change,
2004, Bangalore

Dalits in Karnataka: In search of identity and equality,
Manak Publications, New Delhi 2014

Five Years of Saffron Rule in Karnataka, Manak Publications,
New Delhi 2015

Edited

Perspective in Jesuit Higher Education, Indian Social
Institute, Bangalore 1996
Dr. Pinto Ambrose and Arundhuti Roy Choudhury,

"Nuclearization of India: Myths, Beliefs and Facts", Indian
Social Institute, New Delhi 1998

State, Development & Alternatives, Indian 

[Goanet-News] GOAOBITS: Two collegians die in Assagao mishap... Konkani writer Yusuf Sheikh... Fr Fanchu D'Souza...

[Goanet Obits]

GOA.OBITS 2OCT2017


COLLEGIANS DIE IN ASSAGAO MISHAP Youngsters who knew
them in Bardez and beyond, parents and others too were
shocked and plunged into grief following the death of two
college students in a road accident in the early hours of
Sunday. The two youth who died in the Assagao accident were
identified as Ethan Viegas of Savlem, Pilerne and Lee-Ann
Rocha of Calangute. Two others sustained injuries as the car
in which they were travelling in crashed into a residence
wall and the vehicle was severely damage. All were aged
between 19-21 years. See: http://bit.ly/AssagaoAccident

  In the social media, this led to discussions on
  road safety in today's Goa and youth trends, and
  also empathy for the families.

YUSUF SHEIKH, KONKANI WRITER: Architect Pravin K Sabnis, in
this tribute, pays tribute to Yusuf Abdulla Sheikh (1 Aug
1948 - 30 Sep 2017): Yusuf A Sheikh, former station director
of Doordarshan, served as programme executive at Akashvani,
Mangalore. He is known for his contribution to Konkani
literature, particularly as a poet, composing poems since
1965 right from his school days at St Joseph's Institute,
Vasco. Yusuf published his first book of poems entitled
Gantthi in 1982 and came out with many more books
subsequently which include 'Rong'ghai' and 'Divya Quran', a
translation of 30th chapter of Holy Quran in Konkani. Well
known for his lyrical poetry on love themes and for his
powerful poems on themes relating to the commonman, Yusuf's
poetry portrays pictures of society in different shades and
are aimed at social awakening. His poems find place in school
text books since last over the past 30 years and also feature
in anthologies published by the National Sahitya Akademy. He
was also associated with National Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi,
as a member of the Advisory Board. A huge number of his
lyrical compositions (songs) have been set to music and are
broadcast regularly from different stations of All India
Radio. Yusuf Sheikh has contributed articles, short stories,
poems, literary criticism, etc. to various leading
periodicals in Goa and also outside Goa. His poems, short
stories, talks, etc are broadcast from All India Radio,
Panjim, Mumbai, and Mangalore, and have been also telecast
from Doordarshan. He is an Akashvani Awards winner for script
and production of a radio documentary on the poder (baker).
He is also a Goa Kala Akademi Sahitya Puraskar awardee. he
was awarded the prestigious Antonio Pereira Puroskar for
lifetime achievement in serving the cause of Konkani through
the electronic and the print media. He was conferred Goa
State Award for literature 2012-2013 and was also awarded the
prestigous Kavita Trusts's Mathias Family Award.

Tributes were paid to Sheikh in the online media too.

* LONDON: Michael Fernandes, Wimbledon, London.
  Ex Gailey & Roberts, Nairobi. Died October 1, 2017.
  Beloved husband of Sarah. Loving Father/father-in-law
  of Lily/Gabe, Seby, Darryl, Charmaine/Gavin and Kevin/Suzette.
  Cherished Grandfather of Giles and Glen; Aaron, Curtis and Kane.
  Funeral date to be announced, Condolences to:
  dem_fernandes at hotmail.com; lilygabe at gmail.com 
  Goanet offers its condolences to long-time Goanetters
  Lily/Gabe (on the Goanet Admin Team).

* GOANETTER Jose Maria Miranda  of
  Borda informs of the death of his sister-in-law TEREZINHA
  BRAGANCA e MIRANDA in London. Ex Margao, Goa. Born 1 Feb
  1944. Beloved wife of Jose Vaz do Rosario Miranda (24C,
  Elsham Road London W14 8HB). Loving mother/mother-in-law of
  Miguel/Selma & Carlos. Doting grandmother of Isabelle.
  Daughter of late Eulalia / late Manuel Braganca,
  daughter-in-law of late Maria / late Dr. Miguel de Miranda.
  Sister/sister-in-law of late Mario/late Liberia, late Vasco
  / Virga, & Ivo/Pamela, sister-in-law of late Zito,
  Fr.Antonio (London), Sr. Maria (FMM), Francisco
  (Chico)/Marioneta, Roque/Doris, Jose Maria/Milena,
  Fatima/Caetano, Angelo/Sarita. Passed away under tragic
  circumstances (accident) in London. Mass held at Holy
  Spirit Margao on Sept 16, 2017 and Funeral Mass was held at
  12 noon at Our lady of Victories Church, Kensington London
  W8 6SA at on Sept 29, followed by burial at Mortlake
  cemetery at 2 p.m.

* AGASSAIM: Caitano Francisco Pereira b 1935
* ALDONA: Jose Carlos D'Silva. Prop St Rita Bakery, Carona. b 1935
* ASSAGAO: Bro JeevanAnil Kulaso b 1995 of Casa Pallotti.
* BRAZIL: Nazario Bernardo Colaco, b. 1929 of Vanxem-Loutolim.
  Husband of Regitha. Passed away peacefully in Brazil on
  Sept 29. Funeral will be held in Brazil.
* CANDOLIM: Isabella Cardozo, Escrivao Vaddo. Month's mind.
* CARMONA: Maria Eremita Carolina Carvalho e Cota (b.1924),
  mother of Serafino Cota of Carmona, Goa.
* CHINCHINIM: Luizinha Fernandes e Vaz (Jiji) b 1926.
* CHINCHINIM: Anastadia Dias, Azmaddi, Sarzora. b 1926.
* CHINCHINIM: Margarida Viegas e 

[Goanet] GOAOBITS: Two collegians die in Assagao mishap... Konkani writer Yusuf Sheikh... Fr Fanchu D'Souza...

[Goanet Obits]

GOA.OBITS 2OCT2017


COLLEGIANS DIE IN ASSAGAO MISHAP Youngsters who knew
them in Bardez and beyond, parents and others too were
shocked and plunged into grief following the death of two
college students in a road accident in the early hours of
Sunday. The two youth who died in the Assagao accident were
identified as Ethan Viegas of Savlem, Pilerne and Lee-Ann
Rocha of Calangute. Two others sustained injuries as the car
in which they were travelling in crashed into a residence
wall and the vehicle was severely damage. All were aged
between 19-21 years. See: http://bit.ly/AssagaoAccident

  In the social media, this led to discussions on
  road safety in today's Goa and youth trends, and
  also empathy for the families.

YUSUF SHEIKH, KONKANI WRITER: Architect Pravin K Sabnis, in
this tribute, pays tribute to Yusuf Abdulla Sheikh (1 Aug
1948 - 30 Sep 2017): Yusuf A Sheikh, former station director
of Doordarshan, served as programme executive at Akashvani,
Mangalore. He is known for his contribution to Konkani
literature, particularly as a poet, composing poems since
1965 right from his school days at St Joseph's Institute,
Vasco. Yusuf published his first book of poems entitled
Gantthi in 1982 and came out with many more books
subsequently which include 'Rong'ghai' and 'Divya Quran', a
translation of 30th chapter of Holy Quran in Konkani. Well
known for his lyrical poetry on love themes and for his
powerful poems on themes relating to the commonman, Yusuf's
poetry portrays pictures of society in different shades and
are aimed at social awakening. His poems find place in school
text books since last over the past 30 years and also feature
in anthologies published by the National Sahitya Akademy. He
was also associated with National Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi,
as a member of the Advisory Board. A huge number of his
lyrical compositions (songs) have been set to music and are
broadcast regularly from different stations of All India
Radio. Yusuf Sheikh has contributed articles, short stories,
poems, literary criticism, etc. to various leading
periodicals in Goa and also outside Goa. His poems, short
stories, talks, etc are broadcast from All India Radio,
Panjim, Mumbai, and Mangalore, and have been also telecast
from Doordarshan. He is an Akashvani Awards winner for script
and production of a radio documentary on the poder (baker).
He is also a Goa Kala Akademi Sahitya Puraskar awardee. he
was awarded the prestigious Antonio Pereira Puroskar for
lifetime achievement in serving the cause of Konkani through
the electronic and the print media. He was conferred Goa
State Award for literature 2012-2013 and was also awarded the
prestigous Kavita Trusts's Mathias Family Award.

Tributes were paid to Sheikh in the online media too.

* LONDON: Michael Fernandes, Wimbledon, London.
  Ex Gailey & Roberts, Nairobi. Died October 1, 2017.
  Beloved husband of Sarah. Loving Father/father-in-law
  of Lily/Gabe, Seby, Darryl, Charmaine/Gavin and Kevin/Suzette.
  Cherished Grandfather of Giles and Glen; Aaron, Curtis and Kane.
  Funeral date to be announced, Condolences to:
  dem_fernandes at hotmail.com; lilygabe at gmail.com 
  Goanet offers its condolences to long-time Goanetters
  Lily/Gabe (on the Goanet Admin Team).

* GOANETTER Jose Maria Miranda  of
  Borda informs of the death of his sister-in-law TEREZINHA
  BRAGANCA e MIRANDA in London. Ex Margao, Goa. Born 1 Feb
  1944. Beloved wife of Jose Vaz do Rosario Miranda (24C,
  Elsham Road London W14 8HB). Loving mother/mother-in-law of
  Miguel/Selma & Carlos. Doting grandmother of Isabelle.
  Daughter of late Eulalia / late Manuel Braganca,
  daughter-in-law of late Maria / late Dr. Miguel de Miranda.
  Sister/sister-in-law of late Mario/late Liberia, late Vasco
  / Virga, & Ivo/Pamela, sister-in-law of late Zito,
  Fr.Antonio (London), Sr. Maria (FMM), Francisco
  (Chico)/Marioneta, Roque/Doris, Jose Maria/Milena,
  Fatima/Caetano, Angelo/Sarita. Passed away under tragic
  circumstances (accident) in London. Mass held at Holy
  Spirit Margao on Sept 16, 2017 and Funeral Mass was held at
  12 noon at Our lady of Victories Church, Kensington London
  W8 6SA at on Sept 29, followed by burial at Mortlake
  cemetery at 2 p.m.

* AGASSAIM: Caitano Francisco Pereira b 1935
* ALDONA: Jose Carlos D'Silva. Prop St Rita Bakery, Carona. b 1935
* ASSAGAO: Bro JeevanAnil Kulaso b 1995 of Casa Pallotti.
* BRAZIL: Nazario Bernardo Colaco, b. 1929 of Vanxem-Loutolim.
  Husband of Regitha. Passed away peacefully in Brazil on
  Sept 29. Funeral will be held in Brazil.
* CANDOLIM: Isabella Cardozo, Escrivao Vaddo. Month's mind.
* CARMONA: Maria Eremita Carolina Carvalho e Cota (b.1924),
  mother of Serafino Cota of Carmona, Goa.
* CHINCHINIM: Luizinha Fernandes e Vaz (Jiji) b 1926.
* CHINCHINIM: Anastadia Dias, Azmaddi, Sarzora. b 1926.
* CHINCHINIM: Margarida Viegas e 

[Goanet] GoaObits: Joseph Allan Goveas (Karachi's music genuis), Yvette Rodricks (Ratlam), Mary Ataide (retired headmistress of Holy Trinity, Benaulim)....

[Goanet Obits]

GOA AND DIASPORA OBITUARIES
--
YVETTE RODRICKS (88) of RATLAM:

According to Louise and Neville Rodricks, this information came in via
Stanley at Ratlam. Yvette was 88 and was visiting her daughter Eureka
Mascarenhas (married to Desmond) in Bombay. She developed chest pains, and
was taken to a hospital where she was in the ICU for three days with lung
and kidney problems. She got back to a regular room, and told Stanley that
she wanted to go back to Ratlam, so he went back to arrange things. However
when he got home, he sadly got the call that his mother had passed away.

  Ratlam, known historically as Ratnapuri (lit. gem
  city), is a city in the northwestern part of the
  Malwa region in today's Madhya Pradesh state of
  central India. The city of Ratlam is the
  administrative headquarters of Ratlam district,
  which was created in 1947 after the independence of
  India. Founded by Captain Borthwick in 1829, Ratlam
  was one of the first commercial cities established
  in Central India. The city quickly became known for
  trading in opium, tobacco, and salt, as well as for
  its bargains called Sattas. Before the opening of
  the Rajputana State Railway to Khandwa in 1872,
  there was no better place to trade than in Ratlam.
  The city is known for its love of food, its taste
  particularly the world popular salty snack 'Ratlami
  Sev'. It is also known for its pure gold and saree
  market. [Info courtesy: Wikipedia]

The funeral was scheduled at St Anne's Church in Ratlam, on Saturday.
Stanley and Jenny are the parents of Isabella (16) and Ronaldo (10).
Stanley's sister Iris (Rodricks) Peters was also in Bombay. She lives in
Ratlam and has gone back to teaching in Morning Star School. Tel:
011-78-79-50-10-72. Condolences to Stanley via his daughter Isabella:
isabellarodricks12...@gmail.com

JOSEPH ALLAN GOVEAS
---
Formerly of Misquita Garden, Randal Road, Karachi. In loving
memory of our dad, Joseph Allan Goveas. The Legend lives no
more! A teacher, an Old Patrician & Karachi's music genius,
Allan Goveas passed away in Canada. Our sympathies to his
wife and children. A tribute circulated via John Gois said:
"Allan it was through you we saw many musicians come to
light. You will always be remembered."

Viewing was held at Turner and Porter Funeral Home from 4:00
pm to 7:00 pm on Sunday, September 17, 2017. Address: 1981
Dundas St. West, Mississauga ON, L5K 1R2 (Neweduk) Tel:
905-828-8000. Funeral Mass was at St. John of the Cross
Church from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, September 18,
2017. Address: 6890 Glen Erin Drive, Mississauga L5N 2E1 Tel:
905-821-1331

After mass family and friends gathered at the Assumption
Catholic Cemetery to inter his remains followed by a short
reception at St. John of the Cross Church Hall. He will be
dearly missed by his grieving wife, sons, daughters-in-law, &
grandchildren. In particular, Joseph Allan Goveas was
remembered for having introduced many to music and whose
legacy will live on forever.

LEO FERNANDES OF MONTREAL
-

Leo Fernandes husband of Linda (Pinto)  and brother in law of
Ron (Joy) Pinto passed away at the Heart Institute in
Montreal on Friday Sep. 15, 2017 at 1 p.m. Our heartfelt
sympathies to the Fernandes and Pinto families. May Leo’s
soul rest in peace

JULIET FURTADO IN MISSISSAUGA
-

It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Juliet
Furtado in Mississauga, Canada on September 16, 2017. Wife of
(late) Antonio Furtado, loving devoted mother of Placy, Grace
(John), Thelma (Ronney), Angela (Johnny). Beloved grandmother
to Andrea, Charlotte, Joshua, Stefanie, Zachary, and Renee.
Loving great-grandmother of Marcus and Ava. [Via John Gois]

* CORTALIM-SOTRANT: Maria Apolonia Fernandes alias Mary
   Torcato Ataide. Retired headmistress of Holy Trinity,
  Benaulim. b 1928 d Sep 18, 2017. Wife of late Pedro Miguel
  Jose Torcato Ataide, mother of Beulah Athaide, mother-in-law
  of Alaric Gomes (GULF NEWS, Dubai). Grandmum of Elmer and
  Eldon. Funeral details to be announced.

* AMBAULIM-QUEPEM: Joao Mauricio Pereira (Marlex), first
  birthday in heaven.
* BALLI: Vishwanath Vithal Faldesai, Ballimath. husband of
  Vishwalata, father of Dr Vishwajit and Dr Neena,
  Vikrant and Vidhi.
* BENAULIM: ANtonio Jose Gracias, Vas VAddo, 1st anniversary.
* BETALBATIM: Orfalinda Fernandes (Olfin). Month's mind.
* CHINCHINIM: Oastler Kevin Pereira, Vellor, Dessua. b 1999
* CHORAO: Lion Louis Joseph Toscano, Condolence from the
  Lions Club of Chorao.
* CURTORIM: Marcelina Estibeiro (Mexica) of Raia/Curtorim.
  W/o Lester Pereira, daughter of late Martinho/Eugenia
  Estibeiro, sister of Enefa, Movil Estibeiro. Died
  under tragic circumstances. b 1978. Funeral Tuesday.
* DEMPO GROUP: Vishwasrao V Dempo, 2nd anniversary
* DIR OF 

[Goanet-News] GoaObits: Joseph Allan Goveas (Karachi's music genuis), Yvette Rodricks (Ratlam), Mary Ataide (retired headmistress of Holy Trinity, Benaulim)....

[Goanet Obits]

GOA AND DIASPORA OBITUARIES
--
YVETTE RODRICKS (88) of RATLAM:

According to Louise and Neville Rodricks, this information came in via
Stanley at Ratlam. Yvette was 88 and was visiting her daughter Eureka
Mascarenhas (married to Desmond) in Bombay. She developed chest pains, and
was taken to a hospital where she was in the ICU for three days with lung
and kidney problems. She got back to a regular room, and told Stanley that
she wanted to go back to Ratlam, so he went back to arrange things. However
when he got home, he sadly got the call that his mother had passed away.

  Ratlam, known historically as Ratnapuri (lit. gem
  city), is a city in the northwestern part of the
  Malwa region in today's Madhya Pradesh state of
  central India. The city of Ratlam is the
  administrative headquarters of Ratlam district,
  which was created in 1947 after the independence of
  India. Founded by Captain Borthwick in 1829, Ratlam
  was one of the first commercial cities established
  in Central India. The city quickly became known for
  trading in opium, tobacco, and salt, as well as for
  its bargains called Sattas. Before the opening of
  the Rajputana State Railway to Khandwa in 1872,
  there was no better place to trade than in Ratlam.
  The city is known for its love of food, its taste
  particularly the world popular salty snack 'Ratlami
  Sev'. It is also known for its pure gold and saree
  market. [Info courtesy: Wikipedia]

The funeral was scheduled at St Anne's Church in Ratlam, on Saturday.
Stanley and Jenny are the parents of Isabella (16) and Ronaldo (10).
Stanley's sister Iris (Rodricks) Peters was also in Bombay. She lives in
Ratlam and has gone back to teaching in Morning Star School. Tel:
011-78-79-50-10-72. Condolences to Stanley via his daughter Isabella:
isabellarodricks12...@gmail.com

JOSEPH ALLAN GOVEAS
---
Formerly of Misquita Garden, Randal Road, Karachi. In loving
memory of our dad, Joseph Allan Goveas. The Legend lives no
more! A teacher, an Old Patrician & Karachi's music genius,
Allan Goveas passed away in Canada. Our sympathies to his
wife and children. A tribute circulated via John Gois said:
"Allan it was through you we saw many musicians come to
light. You will always be remembered."

Viewing was held at Turner and Porter Funeral Home from 4:00
pm to 7:00 pm on Sunday, September 17, 2017. Address: 1981
Dundas St. West, Mississauga ON, L5K 1R2 (Neweduk) Tel:
905-828-8000. Funeral Mass was at St. John of the Cross
Church from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, September 18,
2017. Address: 6890 Glen Erin Drive, Mississauga L5N 2E1 Tel:
905-821-1331

After mass family and friends gathered at the Assumption
Catholic Cemetery to inter his remains followed by a short
reception at St. John of the Cross Church Hall. He will be
dearly missed by his grieving wife, sons, daughters-in-law, &
grandchildren. In particular, Joseph Allan Goveas was
remembered for having introduced many to music and whose
legacy will live on forever.

LEO FERNANDES OF MONTREAL
-

Leo Fernandes husband of Linda (Pinto)  and brother in law of
Ron (Joy) Pinto passed away at the Heart Institute in
Montreal on Friday Sep. 15, 2017 at 1 p.m. Our heartfelt
sympathies to the Fernandes and Pinto families. May Leo’s
soul rest in peace

JULIET FURTADO IN MISSISSAUGA
-

It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Juliet
Furtado in Mississauga, Canada on September 16, 2017. Wife of
(late) Antonio Furtado, loving devoted mother of Placy, Grace
(John), Thelma (Ronney), Angela (Johnny). Beloved grandmother
to Andrea, Charlotte, Joshua, Stefanie, Zachary, and Renee.
Loving great-grandmother of Marcus and Ava. [Via John Gois]

* CORTALIM-SOTRANT: Maria Apolonia Fernandes alias Mary
   Torcato Ataide. Retired headmistress of Holy Trinity,
  Benaulim. b 1928 d Sep 18, 2017. Wife of late Pedro Miguel
  Jose Torcato Ataide, mother of Beulah Athaide, mother-in-law
  of Alaric Gomes (GULF NEWS, Dubai). Grandmum of Elmer and
  Eldon. Funeral details to be announced.

* AMBAULIM-QUEPEM: Joao Mauricio Pereira (Marlex), first
  birthday in heaven.
* BALLI: Vishwanath Vithal Faldesai, Ballimath. husband of
  Vishwalata, father of Dr Vishwajit and Dr Neena,
  Vikrant and Vidhi.
* BENAULIM: ANtonio Jose Gracias, Vas VAddo, 1st anniversary.
* BETALBATIM: Orfalinda Fernandes (Olfin). Month's mind.
* CHINCHINIM: Oastler Kevin Pereira, Vellor, Dessua. b 1999
* CHORAO: Lion Louis Joseph Toscano, Condolence from the
  Lions Club of Chorao.
* CURTORIM: Marcelina Estibeiro (Mexica) of Raia/Curtorim.
  W/o Lester Pereira, daughter of late Martinho/Eugenia
  Estibeiro, sister of Enefa, Movil Estibeiro. Died
  under tragic circumstances. b 1978. Funeral Tuesday.
* DEMPO GROUP: Vishwasrao V Dempo, 2nd anniversary
* DIR OF 

[Goanet] DEATH: Eva Vogl Nunes Gracias (Germany)

[Goanet Obits]

Death:  Eva Vogl Nunes Gracias
Germany
Wife of Olencio,  mother of Isabel and Sonia, expired on 26th June, 2017 at
Walldorf, Germany.
Funeral will take place at Walldorf on 28th July 2017, at 11.30 am.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walldorf]

[Goanet] Clare de Sousa, co-founder, CGN / Basil DeSouza (drummer), ex-Karachi

[Goanet Obits]

Via Michael Ali on Facebook:
March 4 at 7:19pm

Prayers are requested for Clare de Sousa, beloved wife of Patrick de Sousa
(formerly of Karachi) of Silver Spring, Maryland, passed away on March 2,
2017.

Clare was an admirable person with a gentle spirit and loving nature. She
was a person of great character whose company we cherished, and whose
memory will forever be in our hearts.

Viewing will be held from 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM, on March 11, 2017, at Our
Lady of Grace Church, 15661 Norbeck Blvd., Silver Spring, MD 20906. Tel.
301-924-4927. Funeral Mass at 11:00 AM., followed by burial at the Gate of
Heaven Cemetery, 13801 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20906. Tel.
301-871-6500.

Clare and her husband, Patrick de Souza are co-founders of Catholic Goan
Network. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CGMNet/info

* * *

Basil DeSouza h/o of Marie f/o Elsa and Elaine, who passed way in Montreal
after suffering two sudden hearts attack on Feb 24. He was formerly of
Karachi and was a professional drummer. He was 79. He is predeceased by his
sisters, Tessie (Theresa) Rossiter,  Colleen Green   and  Pinky
(Genievieve) Breach.

[Goanet-News] DEATH: Journalist-activist Lester Fernandes (55), Porvorim, Goa

[Goanet Obits]

By Sandesh Prabhudesai
sandeshprabhude...@gmail.com

Lester Fernandes, a journalist and activist, expired on Tuesday, after
brief illness. He was 55.

Fernandes was a member of a pioneering team which started the *Weekender*,
the Sunday tabloid edition of the *Gomantak Times* under the editorship of
Ashwin Tombat.

He was known for his news features and feature stories on varied subjects.

Later the *Weekender* team members formed a firm called Wordsworth
Communications and published city-wise publications *Panjim Plus*, *Margao
Plus*, *Mapusa Plus* and *Investor Plus*.

Fernandes was also one of the leading activists of Progressive Students’
Union in 1980s and also later worked in youth and workers’ movements.

His roles in several street plays staged by Sangharsh Natya Manch in those
days are still remembered.

Being an activist, he had then moved into holding workshops for students,
youth and professionals.

[Goanet] DEATH: Journalist-activist Lester Fernandes (55), Porvorim, Goa

[Goanet Obits]

By Sandesh Prabhudesai
sandeshprabhude...@gmail.com

Lester Fernandes, a journalist and activist, expired on Tuesday, after
brief illness. He was 55.

Fernandes was a member of a pioneering team which started the *Weekender*,
the Sunday tabloid edition of the *Gomantak Times* under the editorship of
Ashwin Tombat.

He was known for his news features and feature stories on varied subjects.

Later the *Weekender* team members formed a firm called Wordsworth
Communications and published city-wise publications *Panjim Plus*, *Margao
Plus*, *Mapusa Plus* and *Investor Plus*.

Fernandes was also one of the leading activists of Progressive Students’
Union in 1980s and also later worked in youth and workers’ movements.

His roles in several street plays staged by Sangharsh Natya Manch in those
days are still remembered.

Being an activist, he had then moved into holding workshops for students,
youth and professionals.

[Goanet-News] Centenarian Joanita Lopes (Mississauga), Anne Sequeira (Toronto), Marina Rodrigues (Saligao)

[Goanet Obits]

A CENTENARIAN IN MISSISSAUGA
---

AUG 1: From: Judy Lopes 

We regret to announce that Joanita (Maria) Lopes (September
19, 1912--July 28, 2016) passed away peacefully, surrounded
by her loving family, at Cawthra Gardens Nursing Home
[Mississauga] on Thursday July 28th, 2016 at the age of 103.

  Beloved wife of the late Lawrence, loving mother of
  Leo (Lisa), Lenny (Judy), John (late Marian), and
  Alba (late Frankie) D'Silva. Adored grandmother to
  Sandra, Stephanie, Renee, Melanie, Ann-Marie, and
  Laura. Proud Great Grandmother to Sabrina, Robin,
  Benjamin, Daniel, Grace, Sydney, Mya and Olivia.
  Cherished sister of the late Sylvester (Emily) De
  Souza, Teresa (late Vincent) D'Guerra, late Marcus
  (Connie) DeSouza.

Visitation:  Scott Funeral Home, 420 Dundas St. E, Mississauga, Tuesday
August 2nd from 2-4pm and 6-9 pm.
Funeral Mass: St. Patrick's Church, 921 Flagship Dr. Mississauga,
Wednesday August 3rd at 11:00 am.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to St. Anne Church
Parra (cheque to be made to the Parra Association), or Pilar
Society in Goa.

MAY HER SOUL REST IN ETERNAL PEACE

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

TORONTO: ANNE SEQUEIRA June 17,1946-August 1, 2016

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our
dearest Anne surrounded by family. Beloved wife of Emmanuel,
daughter of Amy Moniz, loving mother of Errol (Sharon) and
Keith (Joanne), devoted grandmother of Nicholas, Daniel,
Colin and Kate and sister of Alban (Gloria) Moniz.

  Her boundless faith in God and strength were an
  inspiration for our family. We would like to thank
  the dedicated physicians and nurses of Credit
  Valley, Mount Sinai and Princess Margaret
  hospitals.

Family and friends will be received on Wednesday, August 3rd
from 5-9 p.m. at Chapel Ridge Funeral Home, 8911 Woodbine
Ave., Markham.

Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday, August 4th at 11 a.m.
at Epiphany of Our Lord Church, 3200 Pharmacy Ave., Toronto.

Received via: Rudy Fernandes r...@fernandesfamily.ca

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

MONTH'S MIND: SALIGAO - GOA

In loving memory of Marina C Rodrigues (26 July 1941-15 July 2018)

Dear friends, thank you for joining us in the eternal
farewell to our beloved wife and mother, Marins Rodrigues, on
the 16th of July 2016. We once again thank you for all your
prayers, floral tributes and condolence messages.

  A Eucharistic celebration will be held for the soul
  of our beloved wife/mother Marina Rodrigues on
  Tuesday 16th August at the Mae De Deus Church,
  followed by the blessing of her gravel. Tribute
  from her husband Tony and children Monica, Morgan
  and Michelle.

Received via her daughter Monica Monteiro
monco...@hotmail.com in Canada (alumni of Lourdes Convent,
Saligao 1970s).

[Goanet] Centenarian Joanita Lopes (Mississauga), Anne Sequeira (Toronto), Marina Rodrigues (Saligao)

[Goanet Obits]

A CENTENARIAN IN MISSISSAUGA
---

AUG 1: From: Judy Lopes 

We regret to announce that Joanita (Maria) Lopes (September
19, 1912--July 28, 2016) passed away peacefully, surrounded
by her loving family, at Cawthra Gardens Nursing Home
[Mississauga] on Thursday July 28th, 2016 at the age of 103.

  Beloved wife of the late Lawrence, loving mother of
  Leo (Lisa), Lenny (Judy), John (late Marian), and
  Alba (late Frankie) D'Silva. Adored grandmother to
  Sandra, Stephanie, Renee, Melanie, Ann-Marie, and
  Laura. Proud Great Grandmother to Sabrina, Robin,
  Benjamin, Daniel, Grace, Sydney, Mya and Olivia.
  Cherished sister of the late Sylvester (Emily) De
  Souza, Teresa (late Vincent) D'Guerra, late Marcus
  (Connie) DeSouza.

Visitation:  Scott Funeral Home, 420 Dundas St. E, Mississauga, Tuesday
August 2nd from 2-4pm and 6-9 pm.
Funeral Mass: St. Patrick's Church, 921 Flagship Dr. Mississauga,
Wednesday August 3rd at 11:00 am.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to St. Anne Church
Parra (cheque to be made to the Parra Association), or Pilar
Society in Goa.

MAY HER SOUL REST IN ETERNAL PEACE

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

TORONTO: ANNE SEQUEIRA June 17,1946-August 1, 2016

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our
dearest Anne surrounded by family. Beloved wife of Emmanuel,
daughter of Amy Moniz, loving mother of Errol (Sharon) and
Keith (Joanne), devoted grandmother of Nicholas, Daniel,
Colin and Kate and sister of Alban (Gloria) Moniz.

  Her boundless faith in God and strength were an
  inspiration for our family. We would like to thank
  the dedicated physicians and nurses of Credit
  Valley, Mount Sinai and Princess Margaret
  hospitals.

Family and friends will be received on Wednesday, August 3rd
from 5-9 p.m. at Chapel Ridge Funeral Home, 8911 Woodbine
Ave., Markham.

Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday, August 4th at 11 a.m.
at Epiphany of Our Lord Church, 3200 Pharmacy Ave., Toronto.

Received via: Rudy Fernandes r...@fernandesfamily.ca

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

MONTH'S MIND: SALIGAO - GOA

In loving memory of Marina C Rodrigues (26 July 1941-15 July 2018)

Dear friends, thank you for joining us in the eternal
farewell to our beloved wife and mother, Marins Rodrigues, on
the 16th of July 2016. We once again thank you for all your
prayers, floral tributes and condolence messages.

  A Eucharistic celebration will be held for the soul
  of our beloved wife/mother Marina Rodrigues on
  Tuesday 16th August at the Mae De Deus Church,
  followed by the blessing of her gravel. Tribute
  from her husband Tony and children Monica, Morgan
  and Michelle.

Received via her daughter Monica Monteiro
monco...@hotmail.com in Canada (alumni of Lourdes Convent,
Saligao 1970s).

[Goanet-News] OBIT: Demi -- A Liberal, Caring and Justice-Driven Face of Goan Christianity

[Goanet Obits]

A Liberal, Caring and Justice-Driven Face of Goan Christianity

FN

Someone reading him online once accused Desmond de Sousa of
being an "angry young priest", possibly even a young upstart who
was critical of the Church in Goa. But Demi, as he was known
to his friends, clarified, without missing the irony: "Let me
assure one and all, I'm 73 years old this September [2012],
54 years a Redemptorist and 46 years a priest Among my
many illustrious students who have become my superiors over
the years are bishops, including the present Archbishop of
Goa, with whom I enjoy a very cordial relationship."
[http://bit.ly/1ZZ8xAg]

Demi came from a priviledged background, yet he spoke boldly
and without mincing words -- like the prophets of old --
against injustice and for the poor. His family has played a
prominent role in village affairs in Saligao (I remember the
'Saligao Bulletin' sold for 15 paise in the 1960s and a book
called *Floreata Saligao* authored by his septuagenarian dad
C. Hubert de Souza). And yet he was one of the few priests at
the frontlines of the ramponkar agitation in the 1970s in Goa.

If you saw him cycling along the humid roads between Porvorim
and Saligao (as he did till a few years back), you would
hardly guess that he had been the globe-trotting Executive
Secretary of the Office of Human Development (OHD) of the
Federation of Asian Bishops (FABC) for over 10 years during
the 1980s and co-ordinated the Asia-Pacific national offices
of Caritas Internationalis.

  Demi passed away suddenly and without any
  prolongued illness on May 14, 2016, on the
  operating table, during emergency angioplasty,
  after suffering a massive heart attack just a few
  hours earlier. "Those of us who knew him well and
  met him often are in shock at how suddenly and
  unexpectedly it all happened," wrote Mario
  Mascarenhas, activist who had been an associate of
  Demi decades ago.

He was a friendly, concerned, helpful and outspoken man. When
he had something to say even about the Church, he said it
without mincingi words; you would scarcely guess that the
criticism came from a man of the cloth. In a 2012 article he
wrote for Goanet Reader [http://bit.ly/1TdilrN], titled 'The
Challenge to the Church in Goa: Revivalism or Renewal?' Fr
Desmond de Sousa CSsr acknowledged the colonial roots of the
Goan church and wrote:

  ...The clergy generally find it extremely difficult
  to accept a more participative, co-responsible and
  socially committed Church with the laity The
  laity however, are deeply divided about the pace
  and direction of change that renewal demands. A
  paradigm shift in faith formation is needed. They
  need a more inductive reflection on the daily
  realities of life to discover the challenge of God
  acting within these realities, rather than the
  traditional deductive process of learning abstract
  truths of faith by heart.

  ...Some of the more enlightened laity support and
  participate in the renewal process as a genuine and
  necessary expression of the Catholic Church in Goa.
  But the vast majority are caught up in the
  revivalist spiritual awakening that is sweeping Goa.

  ...Will the Church in Goa continue to operate as a
  decrepit, colonial Church or become transformed
  into a vibrant, indigenous Church? Renewal of the
  Church or Revivalism in the Church -- that is the
  question. The caliber of the Church's leadership
  will be severely tested by the question of whose
  perspective will ultimately triumph!

He worked at the grassroots and on picket lines, and he
understood it. Elsewhere, Demi narrates his experiences in
meeting the young Matanhy Saldanha, the
activist-turned-politician who ironically played a crucial
role in helping the BJP return to power in Goa in 2012. He
says: "In the early 1970s during a retreat to college
students in Belgaum, I first met this rather shy, aloof,
silent 20 plus-year-old, who immediately struck me as
different. His friends made fun of him because he had dreams
of entering politics when he returned to Goa. Which
20-year-old is so focused in life?"

"Immediately I recognized his rather unusual name when
reading the news about the leader of the agitation against
Zuari Agro Chemicals polluting the land and then the sea
around Velsao. In 1975, when I was transferred to Goa, I made
it a point to renew our acquaintance. By 1977-78, I was
heavily involved with him in the Ramponcar agitation."
[http://bit.ly/1WBQnq7]

Some time around 1980, Fr Demi motivated a group of about
half-a-dozen young nurses, many if not all trained at the
prestigious St Martha's of Bangalore known for creating
nurses with a commitment. He got them to take their skills to
the rural area of Pernem in 

[Goanet] OBIT: Demi -- A Liberal, Caring and Justice-Driven Face of Goan Christianity

[Goanet Obits]

A Liberal, Caring and Justice-Driven Face of Goan Christianity

FN

Someone reading him online once accused Desmond de Sousa of
being an "angry young priest", possibly even a young upstart who
was critical of the Church in Goa. But Demi, as he was known
to his friends, clarified, without missing the irony: "Let me
assure one and all, I'm 73 years old this September [2012],
54 years a Redemptorist and 46 years a priest Among my
many illustrious students who have become my superiors over
the years are bishops, including the present Archbishop of
Goa, with whom I enjoy a very cordial relationship."
[http://bit.ly/1ZZ8xAg]

Demi came from a priviledged background, yet he spoke boldly
and without mincing words -- like the prophets of old --
against injustice and for the poor. His family has played a
prominent role in village affairs in Saligao (I remember the
'Saligao Bulletin' sold for 15 paise in the 1960s and a book
called *Floreata Saligao* authored by his septuagenarian dad
C. Hubert de Souza). And yet he was one of the few priests at
the frontlines of the ramponkar agitation in the 1970s in Goa.

If you saw him cycling along the humid roads between Porvorim
and Saligao (as he did till a few years back), you would
hardly guess that he had been the globe-trotting Executive
Secretary of the Office of Human Development (OHD) of the
Federation of Asian Bishops (FABC) for over 10 years during
the 1980s and co-ordinated the Asia-Pacific national offices
of Caritas Internationalis.

  Demi passed away suddenly and without any
  prolongued illness on May 14, 2016, on the
  operating table, during emergency angioplasty,
  after suffering a massive heart attack just a few
  hours earlier. "Those of us who knew him well and
  met him often are in shock at how suddenly and
  unexpectedly it all happened," wrote Mario
  Mascarenhas, activist who had been an associate of
  Demi decades ago.

He was a friendly, concerned, helpful and outspoken man. When
he had something to say even about the Church, he said it
without mincingi words; you would scarcely guess that the
criticism came from a man of the cloth. In a 2012 article he
wrote for Goanet Reader [http://bit.ly/1TdilrN], titled 'The
Challenge to the Church in Goa: Revivalism or Renewal?' Fr
Desmond de Sousa CSsr acknowledged the colonial roots of the
Goan church and wrote:

  ...The clergy generally find it extremely difficult
  to accept a more participative, co-responsible and
  socially committed Church with the laity The
  laity however, are deeply divided about the pace
  and direction of change that renewal demands. A
  paradigm shift in faith formation is needed. They
  need a more inductive reflection on the daily
  realities of life to discover the challenge of God
  acting within these realities, rather than the
  traditional deductive process of learning abstract
  truths of faith by heart.

  ...Some of the more enlightened laity support and
  participate in the renewal process as a genuine and
  necessary expression of the Catholic Church in Goa.
  But the vast majority are caught up in the
  revivalist spiritual awakening that is sweeping Goa.

  ...Will the Church in Goa continue to operate as a
  decrepit, colonial Church or become transformed
  into a vibrant, indigenous Church? Renewal of the
  Church or Revivalism in the Church -- that is the
  question. The caliber of the Church's leadership
  will be severely tested by the question of whose
  perspective will ultimately triumph!

He worked at the grassroots and on picket lines, and he
understood it. Elsewhere, Demi narrates his experiences in
meeting the young Matanhy Saldanha, the
activist-turned-politician who ironically played a crucial
role in helping the BJP return to power in Goa in 2012. He
says: "In the early 1970s during a retreat to college
students in Belgaum, I first met this rather shy, aloof,
silent 20 plus-year-old, who immediately struck me as
different. His friends made fun of him because he had dreams
of entering politics when he returned to Goa. Which
20-year-old is so focused in life?"

"Immediately I recognized his rather unusual name when
reading the news about the leader of the agitation against
Zuari Agro Chemicals polluting the land and then the sea
around Velsao. In 1975, when I was transferred to Goa, I made
it a point to renew our acquaintance. By 1977-78, I was
heavily involved with him in the Ramponcar agitation."
[http://bit.ly/1WBQnq7]

Some time around 1980, Fr Demi motivated a group of about
half-a-dozen young nurses, many if not all trained at the
prestigious St Martha's of Bangalore known for creating
nurses with a commitment. He got them to take their skills to
the rural area of Pernem in 

[Goanet-News] DEATH: Paulo Varela Gomes (64) -- a long-time friend of Goa

[Goanet Obits]

Teacher, researcher and writer Paulo Varela Gomes from
Portugal died on the morning of April 30, 2016, aged 64,
after a long battle with cancer. In Goa, he was better known
as a popular Delegate of the Fundacao Oriente at Fontainhas,
Panjim, a post he held over two separate stints.

"Writer and historian of architecture, Varela Gomes was born
in 1952. He is the author of a work of research in the field
of the history of architecture and art," wrote Rita Colaco,
in a tribute to Gomes, on the RTP Noticias site
[http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/cultura/morreu-paulo-varela-gomes_a915163]

In May last year, he wrote and published a text entitled
"Dying is harder than it looks". This text presents a rare,
impressive and long testimony of his experience with cancer.
His disease had already been diagnosed as being in very
advanced degree.

In the past four years, Paulo Varela Gomes devoted himself
exclusively to literature, having published four novels and a
book of chronicles, published by China Ink
[http://tintadachina.pt] according to a tribute in the
Portuguese media.

Among his much appreciated work was 'Whitewash, Red Stone: A
History of Church Architecture in Goa' (available on
amazon.in) and Era Uma Vez em Goa ('Once Upon A Time in Goa',
fiction, set in the 1960s, in Portuguese).
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25050099-era-uma-vez-em-goa

Below is the text of an interview published in Goa:
---
Goa has "tradition, a good architectural college, some good
practitioners" -- Paulo Varela Gomes

INTERVIEW: GOA, SEEN FROM THE OUTSIDE

  Paulo Varela Gomes says he has "lived five lives".
  As a child, until nine, was his first life. Then
  his parents were arrested as a result of a failed
  revolution against Salazar's regime. "My father was
  seriously bullet-injured and spent six years in
  prison, and my mother two, I became an adolescent
  at my grand-fathers house. This was the beginning
  of my second life, largely resulting from political
  events (although I was also a hippie, hitch-hiked
  across Europe, attended rock-festivals, the usual
  stuff)," he explains.

Readers here would of course know him as the friendly, even
popular, Delegate of Fundacao Oriente, in Fontainhas.  But he
had also been involved in the student's movement against the
dictatorship and the colonial war, was arrested as were many
others ("but spent only three weeks in jail").

After the 1974 revolution, this second life of his continued:
he managed to finish a degree in history, but mostly was a
teacher's union leader and a card-carrying member of the
Communist party.

In his fourth life, he left a position as a teacher, did
several things -- being an art critic, journalist, pop music
writer, author and presenter of two television documentaries
(one of which about the Portuguese in India), left the
Communist party, did a post-graduation in art history,
started teaching architectural history at the university of
Coimbra, curated an international exhibition...  and became
the second delegate of Fundação Oriente in Goa in 1996.

  His "fifth and present life" began when he left Goa
  in 1998 to complete his PhD and become a
  full-fledged academic, only interrupting his
  academic life in 2006 when he came to Goa as
  delegate of Fundação Oriente for the second time.
  "And now, I am preparing myself to enter my sixth
  life: early retirement and doing... Who knows, only
  the future will tell," he told Frederick Noronha in
  an interview. Excerpts:

FN: You spent two fairly long stints in Goa. What did you
appreciated the most about in this region?

The extraordinary kindness of its ordinary people and of part
of its elite, and the extraordinary resilience of all of
those who did not give up on democracy, sustainable
development and the beauty of Goa.

FN: As far as Goan attitudes go, what upsets you the most?

  First, the fact that, like in other countries (eg
  Portugal), for fear of the unknown, people do not
  manage to shake off bad politicians. Second, the
  self-delusions that maintain Goa on the disaster
  path (like the idea that it is uniquely beautiful
  with its "pristine beaches", etc, etc). Third, the
  way people sometimes simply give in to thugs in
  high places or in the streets.

FN: How do Goan attitudes contrast, in your view?

People, considered collectively, act pretty much the same way
everywhere.  We all belong to one species.  My answer to your
first question highlights what I think is different in Goa.

FN: What are the positive things about the working atmosphere
in Goa, and that back home (Coimbra)?

In Portugal, conditions are extremely difficult from the
economic point of view and it is very hard to spot any
"positive thing".  

[Goanet] DEATH: Paulo Varela Gomes (64) -- a long-time friend of Goa

[Goanet Obits]

Teacher, researcher and writer Paulo Varela Gomes from
Portugal died on the morning of April 30, 2016, aged 64,
after a long battle with cancer. In Goa, he was better known
as a popular Delegate of the Fundacao Oriente at Fontainhas,
Panjim, a post he held over two separate stints.

"Writer and historian of architecture, Varela Gomes was born
in 1952. He is the author of a work of research in the field
of the history of architecture and art," wrote Rita Colaco,
in a tribute to Gomes, on the RTP Noticias site
[http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/cultura/morreu-paulo-varela-gomes_a915163]

In May last year, he wrote and published a text entitled
"Dying is harder than it looks". This text presents a rare,
impressive and long testimony of his experience with cancer.
His disease had already been diagnosed as being in very
advanced degree.

In the past four years, Paulo Varela Gomes devoted himself
exclusively to literature, having published four novels and a
book of chronicles, published by China Ink
[http://tintadachina.pt] according to a tribute in the
Portuguese media.

Among his much appreciated work was 'Whitewash, Red Stone: A
History of Church Architecture in Goa' (available on
amazon.in) and Era Uma Vez em Goa ('Once Upon A Time in Goa',
fiction, set in the 1960s, in Portuguese).
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25050099-era-uma-vez-em-goa

Below is the text of an interview published in Goa:
---
Goa has "tradition, a good architectural college, some good
practitioners" -- Paulo Varela Gomes

INTERVIEW: GOA, SEEN FROM THE OUTSIDE

  Paulo Varela Gomes says he has "lived five lives".
  As a child, until nine, was his first life. Then
  his parents were arrested as a result of a failed
  revolution against Salazar's regime. "My father was
  seriously bullet-injured and spent six years in
  prison, and my mother two, I became an adolescent
  at my grand-fathers house. This was the beginning
  of my second life, largely resulting from political
  events (although I was also a hippie, hitch-hiked
  across Europe, attended rock-festivals, the usual
  stuff)," he explains.

Readers here would of course know him as the friendly, even
popular, Delegate of Fundacao Oriente, in Fontainhas.  But he
had also been involved in the student's movement against the
dictatorship and the colonial war, was arrested as were many
others ("but spent only three weeks in jail").

After the 1974 revolution, this second life of his continued:
he managed to finish a degree in history, but mostly was a
teacher's union leader and a card-carrying member of the
Communist party.

In his fourth life, he left a position as a teacher, did
several things -- being an art critic, journalist, pop music
writer, author and presenter of two television documentaries
(one of which about the Portuguese in India), left the
Communist party, did a post-graduation in art history,
started teaching architectural history at the university of
Coimbra, curated an international exhibition...  and became
the second delegate of Fundação Oriente in Goa in 1996.

  His "fifth and present life" began when he left Goa
  in 1998 to complete his PhD and become a
  full-fledged academic, only interrupting his
  academic life in 2006 when he came to Goa as
  delegate of Fundação Oriente for the second time.
  "And now, I am preparing myself to enter my sixth
  life: early retirement and doing... Who knows, only
  the future will tell," he told Frederick Noronha in
  an interview. Excerpts:

FN: You spent two fairly long stints in Goa. What did you
appreciated the most about in this region?

The extraordinary kindness of its ordinary people and of part
of its elite, and the extraordinary resilience of all of
those who did not give up on democracy, sustainable
development and the beauty of Goa.

FN: As far as Goan attitudes go, what upsets you the most?

  First, the fact that, like in other countries (eg
  Portugal), for fear of the unknown, people do not
  manage to shake off bad politicians. Second, the
  self-delusions that maintain Goa on the disaster
  path (like the idea that it is uniquely beautiful
  with its "pristine beaches", etc, etc). Third, the
  way people sometimes simply give in to thugs in
  high places or in the streets.

FN: How do Goan attitudes contrast, in your view?

People, considered collectively, act pretty much the same way
everywhere.  We all belong to one species.  My answer to your
first question highlights what I think is different in Goa.

FN: What are the positive things about the working atmosphere
in Goa, and that back home (Coimbra)?

In Portugal, conditions are extremely difficult from the
economic point of view and it is very hard to spot any
"positive thing".  

[Goanet] Remembering Oslando de Souza, the man behind the charming 'poilo paus' (first rains)

[Goanet Obits]

OSLANDO -- THE GOAN FOLKLORIST (Two tributes)

Fr Nascimento J Mascarenhas
pays tribute to Oslando de
Souza, who passed away in
Mumbai, and whose funeral is
being held in that city on
Sunday, Feb 21, 2016.

If Catholic Goans can claim to have music in their blood,
then credit should go to the Portuguese who taught their new
converts in the 16th century to sing church music to the
accompaniment of the violin played by the newly-trained
choirmaster. Over the ensuing years, the violin became the
core instrument of any musical group -- from the simple house
party to the classical orchestra.

Oslando de Souza was one of Goa's most renowned exponent of
Goan traditional and folk music. He was born in Abadan
(Persian Gulf) in 1930 where his father, Franklin de Souza,
was employed in an oil company. His mother Flory nee de
Mello, also was from the ward of Arrarim in Saligão.

Oslando was brought to Saligão when he was just about one
year old, and did his entire schooling in Mater Dei after the
mandatory Portuguese schooling in the village 'aula'. During
his younger days, learning to play the violin was almost a
ritualistic routine for the village Catholic boys, and
Oslando's summer holidays were spent in the village parochial
school learning music notations. It is here that the school
'mistir' became Oslando’s first violin tutor.

Later, he had the good fortune of being tutored by Anselmo
Mascarenhas (paternal uncle of the author, who we read about
in a guest article earlier), "a violin teacher par
excellence: according to Oslando.

After matriculating from high school, Oslando joined St.
Xavier's College-Bombay for the B.A. course, but gave up half
way to take up a promising job in a multinational firm -- a
career that lasted 40 years from the age of 21 until he
retired in a managerial position at the age of 60 years.

In Bombay, Oslando did not attend any school of music as he
did not intend to pursue a career in music, but his
proficiency in sight-reading of music notations attracted him
to church choirs wherever he resided and other secular choirs
like the Madrigals' Choir under the direction of the renowned
Victor Paranjoti.

  Meanwhile, his grounding in the violin attracted
  him to various classical instrumental orchestras in
  Bombay as an amateur performer. As a young man,
  Oslando's favourite musical instrument was the
  violin until the guitar became the rage with the
  advent of the Beatle era. So he taught himself to
  play the guitar and soon became good enough to
  teach others.

It helped him learn music harmony, which knowledge he
used to make musical arrangements for four voices and lead
his own English choral groups.

Oslando's love for Goan music has made him one of Goa’s noted
folklorists. As an accomplished singer-guitarist, composer,
music arranger and conductor all rolled into one, he produced
several albums of Portuguese and Goan folk music and
performed on All India Radio/TV on several occasions.

  His greatest contribution to Goan Folk music is his
  book, The Goan Konkani Folk & Art Songs that
  encapsulates the history of Christian Goan Folk
  Music and explains the origins of the Dulpods and
  Dekhnis and the birth and evolution of the Mandó in
  a form that is comprehensible to the common man.

For those who can read music, there's a section containing
music and lyrics of the most popular traditional folk and art
songs listed under various "ready to sing" segments.
Oslando's involvement in music has been a lifelong hobby that
he pursued with passion and as a true labour of love.

* * *

See
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/7163942842

---

The 'Poilo Paus' man is back...

  From Colaba in Mumbai, Oslando has long been a
  beacon for promoting Goan traditional song and
  music. He describes himself as a Goan folklorist,
  singer-guitarist, composer, music arranger and
  conductor "all rolled into one".

  In past decades, Goans would remember the nostalgia
  and pride with which the Saligaokar created popular
  songs like 'Poilo Paus' (The First Rains). Probably
  only when the heart yearns from afar for tiny Goa
  can such music pour forth.

Recently, the multi-faceted artiste came out with a new book,
titled 'The Christian Goan Konkani Folk and Art Songs: A New
Perspective'. Below are excerpts of an interview with
FREDERICK NORONHA:

FN: Please tell us about the book? How would you describe it?

The book consists of three parts. The first is an essay on
what Christian Goan folk-music is all about. What you always
wanted to know about the origins of the Dulpod, the Mando and
the Dekhni, but didn't know whom to ask. All this is answered
in this essay.

  Part 2 contains the music and lyrics of the most
 

[Goanet-News] Remembering Oslando de Souza, the man behind the charming 'poilo paus' (first rains)

[Goanet Obits]

OSLANDO -- THE GOAN FOLKLORIST (Two tributes)

Fr Nascimento J Mascarenhas
pays tribute to Oslando de
Souza, who passed away in
Mumbai, and whose funeral is
being held in that city on
Sunday, Feb 21, 2016.

If Catholic Goans can claim to have music in their blood,
then credit should go to the Portuguese who taught their new
converts in the 16th century to sing church music to the
accompaniment of the violin played by the newly-trained
choirmaster. Over the ensuing years, the violin became the
core instrument of any musical group -- from the simple house
party to the classical orchestra.

Oslando de Souza was one of Goa's most renowned exponent of
Goan traditional and folk music. He was born in Abadan
(Persian Gulf) in 1930 where his father, Franklin de Souza,
was employed in an oil company. His mother Flory nee de
Mello, also was from the ward of Arrarim in Saligão.

Oslando was brought to Saligão when he was just about one
year old, and did his entire schooling in Mater Dei after the
mandatory Portuguese schooling in the village 'aula'. During
his younger days, learning to play the violin was almost a
ritualistic routine for the village Catholic boys, and
Oslando's summer holidays were spent in the village parochial
school learning music notations. It is here that the school
'mistir' became Oslando’s first violin tutor.

Later, he had the good fortune of being tutored by Anselmo
Mascarenhas (paternal uncle of the author, who we read about
in a guest article earlier), "a violin teacher par
excellence: according to Oslando.

After matriculating from high school, Oslando joined St.
Xavier's College-Bombay for the B.A. course, but gave up half
way to take up a promising job in a multinational firm -- a
career that lasted 40 years from the age of 21 until he
retired in a managerial position at the age of 60 years.

In Bombay, Oslando did not attend any school of music as he
did not intend to pursue a career in music, but his
proficiency in sight-reading of music notations attracted him
to church choirs wherever he resided and other secular choirs
like the Madrigals' Choir under the direction of the renowned
Victor Paranjoti.

  Meanwhile, his grounding in the violin attracted
  him to various classical instrumental orchestras in
  Bombay as an amateur performer. As a young man,
  Oslando's favourite musical instrument was the
  violin until the guitar became the rage with the
  advent of the Beatle era. So he taught himself to
  play the guitar and soon became good enough to
  teach others.

It helped him learn music harmony, which knowledge he
used to make musical arrangements for four voices and lead
his own English choral groups.

Oslando's love for Goan music has made him one of Goa’s noted
folklorists. As an accomplished singer-guitarist, composer,
music arranger and conductor all rolled into one, he produced
several albums of Portuguese and Goan folk music and
performed on All India Radio/TV on several occasions.

  His greatest contribution to Goan Folk music is his
  book, The Goan Konkani Folk & Art Songs that
  encapsulates the history of Christian Goan Folk
  Music and explains the origins of the Dulpods and
  Dekhnis and the birth and evolution of the Mandó in
  a form that is comprehensible to the common man.

For those who can read music, there's a section containing
music and lyrics of the most popular traditional folk and art
songs listed under various "ready to sing" segments.
Oslando's involvement in music has been a lifelong hobby that
he pursued with passion and as a true labour of love.

* * *

See
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/7163942842

---

The 'Poilo Paus' man is back...

  From Colaba in Mumbai, Oslando has long been a
  beacon for promoting Goan traditional song and
  music. He describes himself as a Goan folklorist,
  singer-guitarist, composer, music arranger and
  conductor "all rolled into one".

  In past decades, Goans would remember the nostalgia
  and pride with which the Saligaokar created popular
  songs like 'Poilo Paus' (The First Rains). Probably
  only when the heart yearns from afar for tiny Goa
  can such music pour forth.

Recently, the multi-faceted artiste came out with a new book,
titled 'The Christian Goan Konkani Folk and Art Songs: A New
Perspective'. Below are excerpts of an interview with
FREDERICK NORONHA:

FN: Please tell us about the book? How would you describe it?

The book consists of three parts. The first is an essay on
what Christian Goan folk-music is all about. What you always
wanted to know about the origins of the Dulpod, the Mando and
the Dekhni, but didn't know whom to ask. All this is answered
in this essay.

  Part 2 contains the music and lyrics of the most
 

[Goanet] A simple lady, a tragedy queen and a friend (Obituary: Ophelia Cabral, by Anthony Veronica Fernandes, GoaKranti)

[Goanet Obits]

By Anthony Veronica Fernandes
averonicaf...@hotmail.com

It is with deep sorrow that I write these few lines on the
death of my friend Ophelia Cabral, in Mumbai on Friday.

Ophelia was one of the best female tiatrists among the galaxy
of artistes of the yesteryears. I saw her acting for the
first time somewhere in 1958 when she came to Goa with C.
Alvares' troupe to act in his tiatro *Axez*.

  This was a masterpiece of Alvares's mighty pen
  where Ophelia played a powerful role as the young
  fiancée of Alvares. In fact at that time she was
  perhaps not even twenty as I was told. But she had
  a star's body and attractive looks.

At that time she was acting in the company of other female
Bombay-based artistes, namely Cecilia Machado, Philomena Braz
and Violet. It was a very critical time during that period as
the enmity between India and Portuguese India was at its peak
and to travel between Bombay and Goa was very complicated.
Yet Alvares managed it with his troupe.

One of the reasons for C. Alvares' tiatros becoming instant
hits was the introduction of some of the best lookers of that
era, whose presence on the stage mesmerized the audience.

Ophelia Cabral easily fitted into that segment.

My friendship with Ophelia grew when we in Kuwait brought her
and her artiste daughter Babli to participate in the show
'Ghor Bhandlem -- Ghorabo Moddlo' (Built A House, Ruined A
Family) which we organized in Kuwait. It was scripted and
directed by the renowned playwright, the late Rosary Ferns.

She stayed at my place in Kuwait City along with her
daughter. During this time I noticed in her some
extraordinary discipline. She would never inconvenience me in
my house for anything. She maintained her needs to the bare
minimum. She would very rigidly maintain her regular schedule
of getting up from her bed at 3 a.m. and going into deep
prayer, which was her strong solace.

In that show in Kuwait, she played a very good role and
rendered a very good Portuguese song which earned her lot of
admiration from the full-house audience, a majority whom had
come only to see her.

When she entered the stage for her first entry, she was given
such a rousing reception by the audience that it was turned
out to be the most exciting standing ovation lasting about
six to seven minutes.

  Seeing this, she broke down and was unable to
  control her tears. The audience also didn't stop
  clapping, and screamed her name with shouts of
  "Ophelia, we love you". I don't think such a mighty
  standing ovation was received by any other
  tiatrist.

During her stay at my place, it was great to see her
innumerable fans queuing up at my door to meet her and
appreciate the role she played in raising the standard of
Konkani tiatro. The Konkani Heritage Kuwait honoured her in
one of the city hotels in the midst of Goans and other
Konkani speaking people residing in Kuwait.

She was very good in tragic roles. Precisely because of this
the Editor of The Goa Times Dr. Simon Fernandes named her The
Tragedy Queen.

Ophelia's tragic role of 'Kuddem Anita' (Blind Anita) in
Alvares' tiatro, and the sorrowful Canto 'Anita' was the most
memorable song she rendered. In Boyer's 'Besaum' (Blessings)
she was at her zenith. Again, in Alvares' 'Patki Nhoi Ghatki'
(Not A Sinner, A Traitor), her performance as the wife of
Alvares was most exciting. These are only a few instances of
her genius.

In her death, the Konkani stage has lost a great artiste of
the type of which we will not easily get again. May her soul
rest in peace and may the heavenly father give courage to her
only daughter Babli, son-in-law and the grand child to bear
this colossal loss.

   -- A.Veronica Fernandes, Candolim, Goa. Tel:+91-7507394349
http://goa-kranti.blogspot.in

[Goanet-News] A good Samaritan -- remembering Terence Francis Mazarelo (Eldoret, Kenya; Velim, Goa)

[Goanet Obits]

Godfrey JI Gonsalves
gonsalvesgodfre...@yahoo.co.in

  A month ago, a good Samaritan passed away in the
  serene woods of Gorcomoroda, Velim, Goa. He was
  just 62. Baptized Terence Francis Mazarelo, and one
  of the twin sons of his late parents, he was born
  and bred in Eldoret, Kenya.

[Eldoret is a principal city in western Kenya, elevated to
between 2100-2700 metres above sea level (7000–9000 feet). It
is currently the fastest growing town in Kenya, the second
largest urban centre in midwestern Kenya after Nakuru and the
fifth largest urban centre in Kenya.]

After his parents returned to Goa in the late sixties, or in
1968 to be precise, he schooled and graduated in Commerce at
Panjim. He was an entrepreneur by vocation who ventured to
set up a fabrication workshop at Khareband, Margao, called
the Techno Engineering Works.

Later  he ventured into the distribution of IMFL
('Indian-made foreign liquors) and wines under the name and
style of Estampco Wines.

However, in the inner recesses of his conscience he knew that
service to humanity, given his penchant for the law, would
endear him well to those who needed him the most. He would
initially sort out grievances of all those that approached
him. He guided many. Even the revenue officials -- locally
called 'talathis' -- would discreetly seek his assistance to
dispose cases or draft letters.

  He would plead on behalf of those who needed his
  services in the administrative cum quasi judicial
  forum. He was indeed a 'barefoot advocate' of the
  oppressed. His mature advice in sorting out
  personal issues, matters of marital discord, youth
  going astray, land matters etc won him admiration
  from many.

He soon earned the sobriquet of 'Papa' and accepted this
appellation. At his work place in Khareband, Margao or at his
native place in Velim in the later years, he would begin the
day browsing through the local English dailies. The Navhind
Times appealed to him the most and he maintained in his attic
the newspapers of well over thirty years.

Then, he would resort to taking up 'matters' on behalf of his
clients. He would draft, convey and plead without the legal
jargon adopted by legal luminaries. But that was no hindrance
to him in conveying the point he intended to make. Burning
the midnight oil to prepare briefs was his forte, which
explained his passion about legalities.

On May 6, 2000 a group of citizens gathered at the Fatima
Convent, Margao, to form a non-governmental organization. It
was christened as the South Goa Public Interest Action Group.
It was got registered. From among the initial enthusiasts,
the actual members trickled to a small number but the few
that remained were indeed dedicated to the cause of social
service -- in public interest.

Terence Mazarelo believed in the principles he laid down for
the NGO. Those serving ought to contribute ten percent of
their income for social causes. Members ought to remain
apolitical as far as interaction with the Government in power
was concerned. He believed that for an NGO to be successful
there was a need to have a 24x7 dedicated helpline, and that
too was set up.

With all this the NGO grew up in the past 15 years and he
remained the undisputed, unanimously-elected president of the
group until his sudden demise. He owed his legal acumen to
his friend philosopher and guide the ex-Advocate General of
the State of Goa Subodh Kantak, who he was in touch even on
the eve of his demise.

  The NGO he headed took up several issues with the
  Government, whether it was the issue of helmets,
  ground water resources, the Regional Plan, casinos,
  NRIs, etc. Terence Mazarelo submitted views on
  behalf of the group in writing, for or against. He
  gave more importance to resort to dialogue
  negotiations and very rarely encouraged one to get
  onto street oriented agitations -- and if at all
  only to show solidarity for a cause.

He remained a confirmed bachelor and, while he cared and
shared with others, his own health discreetly took a toll.
Some owing to actions of his own, over indulgences or
neglect. He was cautioned rebuked but to no avail. There were
several instances when he was in and out of hospital but that
did not deter him from his social work, for that took
priority over his health.

Unfortunately on that fateful day he complained of uneasiness
in the morning and was rushed to Hospicio Margao, where he
breathed his last. His demise left all of us dumb-stricken.
Nevertheless his leadership qualities and well entrenched
principles will inspire generations to come.

The good die young and so did he.

Contributed to Goanet by:
GODFREY J. I. GONSALVES,
BORDA, MARGAO, 403 602, GOA. (INDIA)
+91 98221 58584 (24 HRS)
gonsalvesgodfre...@yahoo.co.in

[Goanet] A good Samaritan -- remembering Terence Francis Mazarelo (Eldoret, Kenya; Velim, Goa)

[Goanet Obits]

Godfrey JI Gonsalves
gonsalvesgodfre...@yahoo.co.in

  A month ago, a good Samaritan passed away in the
  serene woods of Gorcomoroda, Velim, Goa. He was
  just 62. Baptized Terence Francis Mazarelo, and one
  of the twin sons of his late parents, he was born
  and bred in Eldoret, Kenya.

[Eldoret is a principal city in western Kenya, elevated to
between 2100-2700 metres above sea level (7000–9000 feet). It
is currently the fastest growing town in Kenya, the second
largest urban centre in midwestern Kenya after Nakuru and the
fifth largest urban centre in Kenya.]

After his parents returned to Goa in the late sixties, or in
1968 to be precise, he schooled and graduated in Commerce at
Panjim. He was an entrepreneur by vocation who ventured to
set up a fabrication workshop at Khareband, Margao, called
the Techno Engineering Works.

Later  he ventured into the distribution of IMFL
('Indian-made foreign liquors) and wines under the name and
style of Estampco Wines.

However, in the inner recesses of his conscience he knew that
service to humanity, given his penchant for the law, would
endear him well to those who needed him the most. He would
initially sort out grievances of all those that approached
him. He guided many. Even the revenue officials -- locally
called 'talathis' -- would discreetly seek his assistance to
dispose cases or draft letters.

  He would plead on behalf of those who needed his
  services in the administrative cum quasi judicial
  forum. He was indeed a 'barefoot advocate' of the
  oppressed. His mature advice in sorting out
  personal issues, matters of marital discord, youth
  going astray, land matters etc won him admiration
  from many.

He soon earned the sobriquet of 'Papa' and accepted this
appellation. At his work place in Khareband, Margao or at his
native place in Velim in the later years, he would begin the
day browsing through the local English dailies. The Navhind
Times appealed to him the most and he maintained in his attic
the newspapers of well over thirty years.

Then, he would resort to taking up 'matters' on behalf of his
clients. He would draft, convey and plead without the legal
jargon adopted by legal luminaries. But that was no hindrance
to him in conveying the point he intended to make. Burning
the midnight oil to prepare briefs was his forte, which
explained his passion about legalities.

On May 6, 2000 a group of citizens gathered at the Fatima
Convent, Margao, to form a non-governmental organization. It
was christened as the South Goa Public Interest Action Group.
It was got registered. From among the initial enthusiasts,
the actual members trickled to a small number but the few
that remained were indeed dedicated to the cause of social
service -- in public interest.

Terence Mazarelo believed in the principles he laid down for
the NGO. Those serving ought to contribute ten percent of
their income for social causes. Members ought to remain
apolitical as far as interaction with the Government in power
was concerned. He believed that for an NGO to be successful
there was a need to have a 24x7 dedicated helpline, and that
too was set up.

With all this the NGO grew up in the past 15 years and he
remained the undisputed, unanimously-elected president of the
group until his sudden demise. He owed his legal acumen to
his friend philosopher and guide the ex-Advocate General of
the State of Goa Subodh Kantak, who he was in touch even on
the eve of his demise.

  The NGO he headed took up several issues with the
  Government, whether it was the issue of helmets,
  ground water resources, the Regional Plan, casinos,
  NRIs, etc. Terence Mazarelo submitted views on
  behalf of the group in writing, for or against. He
  gave more importance to resort to dialogue
  negotiations and very rarely encouraged one to get
  onto street oriented agitations -- and if at all
  only to show solidarity for a cause.

He remained a confirmed bachelor and, while he cared and
shared with others, his own health discreetly took a toll.
Some owing to actions of his own, over indulgences or
neglect. He was cautioned rebuked but to no avail. There were
several instances when he was in and out of hospital but that
did not deter him from his social work, for that took
priority over his health.

Unfortunately on that fateful day he complained of uneasiness
in the morning and was rushed to Hospicio Margao, where he
breathed his last. His demise left all of us dumb-stricken.
Nevertheless his leadership qualities and well entrenched
principles will inspire generations to come.

The good die young and so did he.

Contributed to Goanet by:
GODFREY J. I. GONSALVES,
BORDA, MARGAO, 403 602, GOA. (INDIA)
+91 98221 58584 (24 HRS)
gonsalvesgodfre...@yahoo.co.in

[Goanet] OBITUARY: Miguel Mateus - who restored paintings and sculptures in Goa

[Goanet Obits]

Via Cláudia Pereira claudiaper...@gmail.com on Rede Indo

Miguel Mateus, who restored paintings and sculptures in Goa, lost his
battled to cancer, at 58, on June 12, 2015.

When I met him at the Santa Monica Convent in Goa, he had spent hours daily
for several weeks to give life to the eyes of a sculpture of Christ.  I
never thought that the fact that some find that images speak with us is due
to the persistent and perfectionist work of a conservationist, like Miguel.

On several days, in the evening, he took care of the hand of a saint, as you
can see in the video.  Yes, for several days trying to breathe life into the
hands of the image of a saint.

In 2002, the year he first went to Goa, I was fascinated by the Chapel on
the Hill (Capela do Monte) and the colours inside, especially the reds.  I
learned that Miguel Mateus and his team had just restored it.  Now when I
remember how that red is the same as the setting sun, it evokes Miguel's
dedication to the art may be contemplated for generations.

One concern in the last days of Michael is that the paintings of the
Viceroys gallery can continue to be studied and restored, a project that
came in an article in National Geographic (2014).  My appeal is to
request that these images be resarched through a partnership between
Portugal and India.

On the Portuguese World we can feel the effort of Miguel Mateus, along
with colleague José Pestana, other staff and various entities of the church
and the preservation of heritage in the preservation of the Convent of Santa
Monica.  Miguel made bridges and, informally, graduated from a school of
restoration and conservator-restorers.  I hope that this school will
continue, with support for the Christian art of Goa ready to continue for
decades to come.  We can see and hear the Miguel Mateus in the Convent of
Santa Monica, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5COmD2Ot0feature=youtu.bet=21m10s

This is my tribute to the conservator-restorer Miguel Mateus.

ORIGINAL POST: http://bit.ly/1cVd0Bg

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Miguel Mateus - who restored paintings and sculptures in Goa

[Goanet Obits]

Via Cláudia Pereira claudiaper...@gmail.com on Rede Indo

Miguel Mateus, who restored paintings and sculptures in Goa, lost his
battled to cancer, at 58, on June 12, 2015.

When I met him at the Santa Monica Convent in Goa, he had spent hours daily
for several weeks to give life to the eyes of a sculpture of Christ.  I
never thought that the fact that some find that images speak with us is due
to the persistent and perfectionist work of a conservationist, like Miguel.

On several days, in the evening, he took care of the hand of a saint, as you
can see in the video.  Yes, for several days trying to breathe life into the
hands of the image of a saint.

In 2002, the year he first went to Goa, I was fascinated by the Chapel on
the Hill (Capela do Monte) and the colours inside, especially the reds.  I
learned that Miguel Mateus and his team had just restored it.  Now when I
remember how that red is the same as the setting sun, it evokes Miguel's
dedication to the art may be contemplated for generations.

One concern in the last days of Michael is that the paintings of the
Viceroys gallery can continue to be studied and restored, a project that
came in an article in National Geographic (2014).  My appeal is to
request that these images be resarched through a partnership between
Portugal and India.

On the Portuguese World we can feel the effort of Miguel Mateus, along
with colleague José Pestana, other staff and various entities of the church
and the preservation of heritage in the preservation of the Convent of Santa
Monica.  Miguel made bridges and, informally, graduated from a school of
restoration and conservator-restorers.  I hope that this school will
continue, with support for the Christian art of Goa ready to continue for
decades to come.  We can see and hear the Miguel Mateus in the Convent of
Santa Monica, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5COmD2Ot0feature=youtu.bet=21m10s

This is my tribute to the conservator-restorer Miguel Mateus.

ORIGINAL POST: http://bit.ly/1cVd0Bg

[Goanet] Remembering Emiliano... who passed away in Goa (Remediana Rodrigues, NT)

[Goanet Obits]

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/goa-net/conversations/messages/20865

www.navhindtimes.com dated February 16, 2002

Emiliano: Goa's Versatile Musician

by REMEDIANA RODRIGUES

LIFE is what you make of it. This is epitomised by Emiliano Da Cruz, the
irrepressible, innovative and versatile musician on the Goan music scene.
When asked who is behind his success he says, It's not necessary that there
has to be someone else behind your success. Its basically you, yourself.
Like I am behind my own success. I have learnt one thing in life that one
should never let go off one's ideas. Ideas are the foundation of all
realities. What I have achieved today is because of my ideas and my faith in
them.

If you are looking for something slow, rhythmic, soothing and yet lively and
plainly instrumental with music authentically Goan, then Emiliano's music
may well be your choice. For Emiliano recognition didn't come easy. Born in
Curtorim, music was obviously a part of Emiliano's life from an early age
due to his father who gave him sound musical training at a very tender age.
His musical talents were initially nurtured by maestro Paulo and later on by
other music maestros.

As a student of Escola Technica his group 'Young Cabaleros' won the first
place at a competition organised by the Centro Informativo Cultural
Indo-Latina. Around the same time his mando composition Eklench sandlem
tunvem mhaka won the first place at the All Goa Mando Festival.

Emiliano gave violin recitals on AIR in light western classical music and
seriously considered taking up music as a profession. He got his first break
to play the violin in the Hindi film industry with Shankar-Jaikishan. With
his Latin-American pop group 'Gay Cabelleros' he played at many hotels in
Bahrain.

He's been playing music all his life but began serenading at an Italian
restaurant. Apparently the manager of the restaurant heard about me through
somebody and asked me to play there. So I asked a friend of mine for some
brochures of the restaurant. In the brochures I saw musicians playing the
violin, accordion, mandolin, guitar, etc and so I got the idea of forming a
string trio - Emiliano's trio.

Emiliano had the great privilege to serenade VIP's like Indira Gandhi, Zail
Singh, President Venkataraman, Margaret Thatcher, Pierre Trudeau of Canada,
Bob Hawks of Australia, King Hussain of Jordan, Queen Beatrice of the
Netherlands and many other dignitaries at the Commonwealth meet. I asked
the manager to give me a list of all the countries from where the different
world leaders were coming and the first song we sang at each table was a
song from that country. They were so impressed, he recollects with tears in
his eyes.

Emiliano got his first break as the music director of the Konkani film
Girestkai. Rajesh Roshan, the famous music director from Bollywood was so
impressed with Emiliano's Konkani songs that he appointed him as his junior
assistant. Emiliano worked with Rajesh Roshan for three years during which
he wrote obligato for many songs including Yaarana, Lootmar, and so on.

He received an award for the Best Band Music from captain Nath of th
Shipping Corporation of India during his musical trip to Singapore. Over 100
songs were recorded with music arrangements by Emiliano for various Konkani
cassette producers. He has serenaded VIP's for various festivals in India
and abroad. I have performed 18 times abroad, in London, Berlin, Portugal,
Macau, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Maldives and Nepal. My Trio presently comprises of
myself, Avelino Cardozo and Mario Menezes. I have produced five albums
namely Golden Melodies of Goa, Goenchem Ambit Tik, Goa se Aye hai, Best of
Emiliano and Kuwaitkar Novro.

His music gives one serene and blissful pleasures and a sense of
contentment. Through his music albums, he intends to revive Goan music and
to retain its identity. His albums, are a fusion of Latin and Indian music.
He says, Goa is influenced by Latin culture. Music is in our blood and we
cannot do without it. There are numerous dance and music academies in Goa.
In fact music performances have become tremendous money-spinners. Many young
men and women make a living by singing or playing some kind of an
instrument.

Like most other musicians, Emiliano says his path to fame was not as smooth
as most people try to make it sound. Though his parents were traditionally
musicians, they had not wanted their son to make music his profession.

How is Emiliano as a person? Emiliano is a jovial man full of fun and
warmth. By nature he is a very generous man and goes out of his way to help
people find themselves in the music world. So what is there left that he'd
still like to achieve? I'd love to make loads of albums, he says simply.
But I don't want to get stuck in a trap of releasing albums only. May be if
I could release one album that could stand the test of time that would be
the ultimate triumph.

[Goanet-News] Remembering Emiliano... who passed away in Goa (Remediana Rodrigues, NT)

[Goanet Obits]

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/goa-net/conversations/messages/20865

www.navhindtimes.com dated February 16, 2002

Emiliano: Goa's Versatile Musician

by REMEDIANA RODRIGUES

LIFE is what you make of it. This is epitomised by Emiliano Da Cruz, the
irrepressible, innovative and versatile musician on the Goan music scene.
When asked who is behind his success he says, It's not necessary that there
has to be someone else behind your success. Its basically you, yourself.
Like I am behind my own success. I have learnt one thing in life that one
should never let go off one's ideas. Ideas are the foundation of all
realities. What I have achieved today is because of my ideas and my faith in
them.

If you are looking for something slow, rhythmic, soothing and yet lively and
plainly instrumental with music authentically Goan, then Emiliano's music
may well be your choice. For Emiliano recognition didn't come easy. Born in
Curtorim, music was obviously a part of Emiliano's life from an early age
due to his father who gave him sound musical training at a very tender age.
His musical talents were initially nurtured by maestro Paulo and later on by
other music maestros.

As a student of Escola Technica his group 'Young Cabaleros' won the first
place at a competition organised by the Centro Informativo Cultural
Indo-Latina. Around the same time his mando composition Eklench sandlem
tunvem mhaka won the first place at the All Goa Mando Festival.

Emiliano gave violin recitals on AIR in light western classical music and
seriously considered taking up music as a profession. He got his first break
to play the violin in the Hindi film industry with Shankar-Jaikishan. With
his Latin-American pop group 'Gay Cabelleros' he played at many hotels in
Bahrain.

He's been playing music all his life but began serenading at an Italian
restaurant. Apparently the manager of the restaurant heard about me through
somebody and asked me to play there. So I asked a friend of mine for some
brochures of the restaurant. In the brochures I saw musicians playing the
violin, accordion, mandolin, guitar, etc and so I got the idea of forming a
string trio - Emiliano's trio.

Emiliano had the great privilege to serenade VIP's like Indira Gandhi, Zail
Singh, President Venkataraman, Margaret Thatcher, Pierre Trudeau of Canada,
Bob Hawks of Australia, King Hussain of Jordan, Queen Beatrice of the
Netherlands and many other dignitaries at the Commonwealth meet. I asked
the manager to give me a list of all the countries from where the different
world leaders were coming and the first song we sang at each table was a
song from that country. They were so impressed, he recollects with tears in
his eyes.

Emiliano got his first break as the music director of the Konkani film
Girestkai. Rajesh Roshan, the famous music director from Bollywood was so
impressed with Emiliano's Konkani songs that he appointed him as his junior
assistant. Emiliano worked with Rajesh Roshan for three years during which
he wrote obligato for many songs including Yaarana, Lootmar, and so on.

He received an award for the Best Band Music from captain Nath of th
Shipping Corporation of India during his musical trip to Singapore. Over 100
songs were recorded with music arrangements by Emiliano for various Konkani
cassette producers. He has serenaded VIP's for various festivals in India
and abroad. I have performed 18 times abroad, in London, Berlin, Portugal,
Macau, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Maldives and Nepal. My Trio presently comprises of
myself, Avelino Cardozo and Mario Menezes. I have produced five albums
namely Golden Melodies of Goa, Goenchem Ambit Tik, Goa se Aye hai, Best of
Emiliano and Kuwaitkar Novro.

His music gives one serene and blissful pleasures and a sense of
contentment. Through his music albums, he intends to revive Goan music and
to retain its identity. His albums, are a fusion of Latin and Indian music.
He says, Goa is influenced by Latin culture. Music is in our blood and we
cannot do without it. There are numerous dance and music academies in Goa.
In fact music performances have become tremendous money-spinners. Many young
men and women make a living by singing or playing some kind of an
instrument.

Like most other musicians, Emiliano says his path to fame was not as smooth
as most people try to make it sound. Though his parents were traditionally
musicians, they had not wanted their son to make music his profession.

How is Emiliano as a person? Emiliano is a jovial man full of fun and
warmth. By nature he is a very generous man and goes out of his way to help
people find themselves in the music world. So what is there left that he'd
still like to achieve? I'd love to make loads of albums, he says simply.
But I don't want to get stuck in a trap of releasing albums only. May be if
I could release one album that could stand the test of time that would be
the ultimate triumph.

[Goanet] Pilar priest Peter Raposo (44) passes away at Ohio

[Goanet Obits]

  PANJIM, Goa [March 15, 2015]: Fr Peter Raposo,
  former editor of the Pilar Society Konkani weekly
  Vauraddeancho Ixtt, currently teaching at the Ohio
  University, suddenly passed away on 13 March
  following a massive heart attack.

He was 44.

The Pilar Society announced that his end came at 6.30 am IST
Saturday after he complained of uneasiness.  Though he
momentarily improved following medical attention, he
eventually collapsed and breathed his last on the way to
hospital.

The  Caranzalem-born dramatist-musician priest, who played an
active role in the production of film-maker Pooja Bhatt's
movie Holiday had completed his Masters in Organizational
Communication and Training and Development at DePaul
University at Chicago and, in 2012, was awarded a scholarship
by the Ohio University.

From June 2006-2010,  Raposo served as the Secretary to
Telespore Cardinal Toppo of the Archdiocese of Ranchi in
North India, where his handling of the post as Secretary drew
appreciation from the Cardinal.

As an associate professor of  Communication at the
University, he was popular amongst students and was currently
pursuing the third year of doctoral studies, where he was
readying his final doctoral thesis on Servant leadership as
opposed to leadership propagated by the world.  The priest
pointed out that Christ's style leadership was selfless and
that style can help even political leaders today.

Earlier, in his post doctoral thesis at the University on the
importance of communication in the Church, he produced a
paper 'Priest as Teacher: Understanding Source Credibility.'
It was published in the Journal of Communication and Religion.

  If we are not credible , no one will accept our
  teachings.  Our credibility comes from being
  witnesses and bearers of the Gospel values.  When a
  priest communicates this dimension of self, the
  encounter occurs, Raposo had argued.

The priest said that his stint in Ohio University has been
the most challenging and interesting phase of his 17 years of
priestly vocation for which he was unprepared.

For  more details
Fr Feroz Fernandes  +91-9822136720
Fr Anthony Castello +91-9421155103

* * *

[Goanet celebrates Peter Raposo's life by sharing some of his
writing... done around a decade ago, when he was editor of *Ixtt*]


Since 1889, almost a hundred Romi Konkani papers or
periodicals
have been published. Why did not a single one survive?

[MEDIA]

Romi dailies -- a lost cause?
By Peter Raposo, sfx

  So far, almost a hundred Romi Konkani papers or
  periodicals have been published at different point
  of time since the year 1889.  Undentechem Sallok by
  Eduardo Bruno de Souza was the first Romi Konkani
  periodical that started in 1889.  Initially this
  paper started as a monthly but later came out as a
  fortnightly and lasted till 1894.  Most of these
  periodicals were weekly, fortnightly or monthly
  with an exception of few dailies.

In all there, there were a total of around nine dailies that
thrived -- at different points of time -- in Romi Konkani
journalism.  Started in 1907 in Mumbai, by Bernard Francisco
Cabral, Sanjechem Noketr is the first daily in Romi Konkani.

Later, in 1932, Antonio Vicente da Cruz started Concani
Bulletin, another daily paper in Mumbai.  These two dailies
were followed by Goan Observer (a Konkani-English daily)
started in 1933 by Joao Lazarus de Souza and Emigrant by
Inacio Caitano, which was started in 1934 as a weekly but
later was published as a daily.

These dailies were all flagged off on a high note, but there
apparently wasn't enough steam to keep going.  Besides, these
being mostly a one-man show business, after a short span of
time they all closed.  This was the first phase of the daily
papers.  Most of these papers did not follow any rules of
grammar or syntax.  Portuguese words crept in extensively.

  The second phase of the daily papers began in 1963
  soon after Goa's Liberation.  Felicio Cardozo
  started Sot in Margao.  This was followed by
  Divtti, which started in 1967 of which Felicio
  Cardozo, again, was the first editor.
  (Incidentally, Sot and A Vida, a Portuguese daily,
  joined forces and combined to form Divtti).

In 1970, Gomantak Private Limited started Uzvadd in Panjim.
This was edited by Evagrio Jorge.  In 1982, Novem Goem was
started and Gurunath Kelekar became its first editor.
Goencho Avaz is the last Romi Konkani daily on our list,
which was started by Fr.  Freddy D'Costa in 1989.

This second phase saw changes come in by way of language
used, grammar and syntax.  Many writers emerged during this
period.  

[Goanet-News] DEATH: Dr Shankar (Priti) Kamat (Dr Xencora Camotim), 93, Lisbon

[Goanet Obits]

Dr Shankar (Priti) Kamat (Dr Xencora Camotim), 93, a successful senior
advocate, a respected member of the Bar and a nationalist, the eldest son
of late Prof Babusso Kamat and late Smt Indira Kamat, passed away
peacefully in Lisbon on December 11, 2014. Deeply mourned by wife Fernanda,
son Dinar, daughter Nitah, sister Kunda, grandchildren and a large circle
of relatives, friends, admirers andcolleagues. [Received via Dilip D'Souza 
di...@alumni.brown.edu]

[Goanet] DEATH: Dr Shankar (Priti) Kamat (Dr Xencora Camotim), 93, Lisbon

[Goanet Obits]

Dr Shankar (Priti) Kamat (Dr Xencora Camotim), 93, a successful senior
advocate, a respected member of the Bar and a nationalist, the eldest son
of late Prof Babusso Kamat and late Smt Indira Kamat, passed away
peacefully in Lisbon on December 11, 2014. Deeply mourned by wife Fernanda,
son Dinar, daughter Nitah, sister Kunda, grandchildren and a large circle
of relatives, friends, admirers and colleagues. [Received via Dilip D'Souza
di...@alumni.brown.edu]

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Edgar B. D'Souza R.I.P. (1973 - 2014)

[Goanet Obits]

Edgar B. D'Souza R.I.P. (1973 - 2014)

The proverb goes that a prophet is never honoured in his own land. This was
the case I think with Edgar Boniface D'Souza who died on the 3rd of June
after a brief illness: not very many people in his native village of Moira
had an idea as to what Edgar was like and what he did.

Born in 1973, Edgar was a generation younger than me but we got to know
each other due to Moira-Net, the village mailing list started by Frederick
Noronha of which he wasonce a dynamo. This was around 2007 and later I
became friends and came to know a little about this man who diedso
heartbreakingly young leaving his mother to survive him. MN was also the
reason why we grew distant but that's another story.

Edgar came from a prominent family of Povoacao, Moira, and his late father
Tony held an important Govt post while his mother Melita was a bank
official. But he himself tended to be a little introverted in the best
Jungian tradition, and even when he dropped into a village restaurant,
after greeting those he knew, he would usually prefer to read a book rather
than engage in gossip with other customers.

If you peep into his bio-data you'll find that he had studied at St
Britto's H. S. Mapusa, but later walked out of the educational system and
became an auto-didact. He suffered because our educational system does not
cater for those who are different. Edgar was not someone to suffer pedantic
teaching and he was seen as a rebel by a system which did not understand
him. But there was no denying he had a razor-sharp mind, honed on copious
amounts of reading.

In later life Edgar was conscious and bitter that his lack of formal
qualifications closed doors for him as he was deniedpositions where he
would easily have performed brilliantly.

In 1996 he dived into the world of work at Online Productivity Solutions
where he rose to be a Senior Programmer after 4 years and more importantly
made some lifelong friends; he also worked as a Copy Editor of 'Electronics
for You' publications; Technical Editor for Collabis Consulting; and
Documentations Manager for Techlarity Solutions in his corporate career. He
was an expert at Free Open Source Software and Systems Administration apart
from several programming languages.

For the last 5 years he worked from home as a freelancer and consultant as
he didn't want to move out of Goa, where he could easily have got very well
paid positions. As he wrote, “I live in Goa, India, and seek work that will
allow me to telecommute, so that I can contribute to projects without
leaving this beautiful corner of the world!”

Among computer techies he had quite a formidable reputation as a
perfectionist. He was able to grasp software issues and indeed all sorts of
problems easily; and coupledwith his experience he could easily deliver on
tasks which left big degrees floundering. Apart from his technical writing
abilities, he also possessed a fiery writing style which could tear an
enemy to shreds if he dared to play the fool with him.

But there were other sides to him which revealed his generosity, for
instance in his volunteering his time for Internet Linux Users Group – Goa
where he was a moderator. Through his leadership they came to my
college,among other places, to explain the ideas behind and use of Free
Open Source Software and the collaborative use of technology. It was his
energy which helped to break up and allot tasks to fellow members Arvind
Yadav, Stan Mathews, Ashley Delaney and Tony D'Sa to deal with the large
numbers of students to whom they gave an initiation into the concepts of
Linux.

And contrary to his reputation as a recluse in the village, he would be a
fun companion when he was in the midst of this congenial company, full of
all sorts of arcane and hi-tech jokes!

He suffered a horrible motorbike accident about two yearsago and had to be
bed ridden for quite a while. His mother Melita had to bear much of the
burden of looking after him almost singlehandedly, and now this. All our
support and prayers must go out to her as she grieves for her beloved son

Augusto Pinto
-- 
Augusto Pinto
40, Novo Portugal
Moira, Bardez
Goa, India
E pinto...@gmail.com
P 0832-2470336
M 9881126350

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Fr Tom Kocherry, India's 'social movement legend', dies at 76

[Goanet Obits]

India's 'social movement legend' dies
May 4, 2014 mattersindia.com

Thiruvananthapuram: Father Thomas Kocherry, an activist
priest who helped unite traditional fishermen globally, died
of cardiac arrest on Saturday. He was 76. He had survived
four heart attacks in the past.

The death occurred at the Redemptorist House in
Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala state in southern
India.  The funeral is scheduled for Monday at the Holy Cross
Church, Muttada, a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram.

  The tall, stocky, bald and clean-shaven priest
  helped found the Kerala Swatantra Matsyathozhilali
  (independent fish workers) Federation.  He was a
  bitter critic of globalization in India.  In 1999,
  he received the Sophie Prize, a Norwegian award for
  environment and development.

A year earlier, the United Nations presented him the Earth
Trustee Award for establishing the World Forum of Fishermen.

Fr Kocherry had made a mark as a union leader, anti-nuclear
activist and people's movement educator and became a legend
of social movement politics in India, says Richard Swift of
the New Internationalist Magazine who closely followed the
priest's activities spanning over four decades.

Swift recalled that the priest remained an inveterate
optimist despite getting scores of scars from many battles.
He recalled Fr Kocherry's slogan, Every fight, every
movement, every reform is an optimism.

  After four heart attacks, innumerable fasts and 16
  stints in jail, Fr Kocherry had shown no sign of
  slowing down.  His last battle was against the
  controversial Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil
  Nadu.  He supported the decision of two Catholic
  priests involved in the anti-nuclear movement, to
  fight the general election.

You cannot talk about social justice without talking about
the environment, Swift quoted Fr Kocherry as saying. There
can be no shortcuts, no depleting of natural capital. When
not campaigning, the priest traveled through southern India
conducting seminars for young activists.

The fifth of eleven children, Kocherry grew up in the
Backwaters region of Kerala, where poor fisher folk used
small boats to eke a living from the fresh waters that
parallel the Indian Ocean. The two influences on his early
adult life were the Church and the radical Left movement.

He studied bachelor's degree at St Berchmans College
Changanacherry and obtained law degree from the Law College,
Thiruvananthapuram. He was ordained a priest in 1971. He
began his priestly life in northern Indian states.

He and three other Redemptorist priests made their living as
part of the Shore Seine fishery, and helped organize health
clinics and nurseries among the poor fishers systematically
exploited by a series of wholesalers and merchants.

He was the first to oppose the use of mechanized boats in
fishing in India.

  In the late 1970s, Kerala fishers started to
  organize and assert their rights on a whole range
  of issues.  They set up an organization called the
  Kerala Independent Fishworkers Federation.  In 1981
  Kocherry and fellow leader Joyachan Antony went on
  an 11-day fast in favor of a Monsoon Trawl Ban (the
  breeding season for many varieties of fish) in
  Kerala.  Kocherry was arrested on trumped-up charges.

By 1982 the fish workers' struggle had gone national, with
Kocherry elected president of the National Fishworkers Forum.
In the mid-1990s he led a nationwide campaign to stop the
Indian government from opening up the country’s fishing
industry to large foreign trawlers. With 10 million Indians
dependent on a sustainable fishery for their survival, the
stakes were high. A militant campaign included marches, fasts
and blocking of major fish ports around the country.

The Indian government was forced to withdraw the legislation
-- one of the first and most significant victories against
corporate globalization.  Fr Kocherry, who went on to help
form the World Forum of Fisher People, understands the
tensions of fighting for the rights of the fishing community
in an era of declining global fish stocks.

  Although influenced by liberation theology and
  Marxist ideology, Fr Kocherry toward the end became
  very critical both of the Communist Party of India
  (Marxist) and the established Christian church.
  They become institutionalized, create dogmas and
  rituals and statues of their gods, they become
  power mongering or give in to the power of money,
  he explained.

For Fr Kocherry, the strength of a people's movement lies
elsewhere.  It must be from the bottom up.  The challenge is
to create an evolving revolutionary structure that never
becomes institutionalized or ossified by power, he used to
assert.

  Friends used to joke that a megaphone was stuck in
  Fr Kocherry's 

[Goanet] OBITUARY: Fr Tom Kocherry, India's 'social movement legend', dies at 76

[Goanet Obits]

India's 'social movement legend' dies
May 4, 2014 mattersindia.com

Thiruvananthapuram: Father Thomas Kocherry, an activist
priest who helped unite traditional fishermen globally, died
of cardiac arrest on Saturday. He was 76. He had survived
four heart attacks in the past.

The death occurred at the Redemptorist House in
Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala state in southern
India.  The funeral is scheduled for Monday at the Holy Cross
Church, Muttada, a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram.

  The tall, stocky, bald and clean-shaven priest
  helped found the Kerala Swatantra Matsyathozhilali
  (independent fish workers) Federation.  He was a
  bitter critic of globalization in India.  In 1999,
  he received the Sophie Prize, a Norwegian award for
  environment and development.

A year earlier, the United Nations presented him the Earth
Trustee Award for establishing the World Forum of Fishermen.

Fr Kocherry had made a mark as a union leader, anti-nuclear
activist and people's movement educator and became a legend
of social movement politics in India, says Richard Swift of
the New Internationalist Magazine who closely followed the
priest's activities spanning over four decades.

Swift recalled that the priest remained an inveterate
optimist despite getting scores of scars from many battles.
He recalled Fr Kocherry's slogan, Every fight, every
movement, every reform is an optimism.

  After four heart attacks, innumerable fasts and 16
  stints in jail, Fr Kocherry had shown no sign of
  slowing down.  His last battle was against the
  controversial Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil
  Nadu.  He supported the decision of two Catholic
  priests involved in the anti-nuclear movement, to
  fight the general election.

You cannot talk about social justice without talking about
the environment, Swift quoted Fr Kocherry as saying. There
can be no shortcuts, no depleting of natural capital. When
not campaigning, the priest traveled through southern India
conducting seminars for young activists.

The fifth of eleven children, Kocherry grew up in the
Backwaters region of Kerala, where poor fisher folk used
small boats to eke a living from the fresh waters that
parallel the Indian Ocean. The two influences on his early
adult life were the Church and the radical Left movement.

He studied bachelor's degree at St Berchmans College
Changanacherry and obtained law degree from the Law College,
Thiruvananthapuram. He was ordained a priest in 1971. He
began his priestly life in northern Indian states.

He and three other Redemptorist priests made their living as
part of the Shore Seine fishery, and helped organize health
clinics and nurseries among the poor fishers systematically
exploited by a series of wholesalers and merchants.

He was the first to oppose the use of mechanized boats in
fishing in India.

  In the late 1970s, Kerala fishers started to
  organize and assert their rights on a whole range
  of issues.  They set up an organization called the
  Kerala Independent Fishworkers Federation.  In 1981
  Kocherry and fellow leader Joyachan Antony went on
  an 11-day fast in favor of a Monsoon Trawl Ban (the
  breeding season for many varieties of fish) in
  Kerala.  Kocherry was arrested on trumped-up charges.

By 1982 the fish workers' struggle had gone national, with
Kocherry elected president of the National Fishworkers Forum.
In the mid-1990s he led a nationwide campaign to stop the
Indian government from opening up the country’s fishing
industry to large foreign trawlers. With 10 million Indians
dependent on a sustainable fishery for their survival, the
stakes were high. A militant campaign included marches, fasts
and blocking of major fish ports around the country.

The Indian government was forced to withdraw the legislation
-- one of the first and most significant victories against
corporate globalization.  Fr Kocherry, who went on to help
form the World Forum of Fisher People, understands the
tensions of fighting for the rights of the fishing community
in an era of declining global fish stocks.

  Although influenced by liberation theology and
  Marxist ideology, Fr Kocherry toward the end became
  very critical both of the Communist Party of India
  (Marxist) and the established Christian church.
  They become institutionalized, create dogmas and
  rituals and statues of their gods, they become
  power mongering or give in to the power of money,
  he explained.

For Fr Kocherry, the strength of a people's movement lies
elsewhere.  It must be from the bottom up.  The challenge is
to create an evolving revolutionary structure that never
becomes institutionalized or ossified by power, he used to
assert.

  Friends used to joke that a megaphone was stuck in
  Fr Kocherry's 

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Fr Vivian Lobo, SJ -- accomplished teacher, good administrator

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By Miguel Braganza

The sad news is that Fr. Vivian Lobo SJ passed away last night after a
brief illness.

He was hospitalized at Vision Hospital, Duler Mapusa, in .November, 2013
because of high urea in the blood and discharged after undergoing dialysis.
He was recuperating at the Jesuit Community in St. Britto, Mapusa.

Hailing from the village of Siolim, Fr. Vivian Lobo SJ was an accomplished
teacher and a good administrator. A good part of the English I write is
thanks to his grooming at St. Britto High School in the early and mid-1970s
when he was my teacher.

He was the Principal at Loyola High School  Junior College, Pune, from
1986 to 1990 and thereafter at Loyola High School, Margao, till 2007, when
Fr. Willaim Rodrigues SJ took over and he remained there as the Rector.

May his soul rest in peace.

The funeral cortege will leave the Priests' Residence, St. Britto High
School, Mapusa at 3.45 P.M. for the Eucharistic celebration at St. Jerome's
Church, Mapusa, follwed by the final rites.

ONLINE TRIBUTES/PHOTO AT
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lesagoa/?ref=tsfref=ts
LESAGoa (Loyola Ex-Students Association).

[Goanet] OBITUARY: Fr Vivian Lobo, SJ -- accomplished teacher, good administrator

[Goanet Obits]

By Miguel Braganza

The sad news is that Fr. Vivian Lobo SJ passed away last night after a
brief illness.

He was hospitalized at Vision Hospital, Duler Mapusa, in .November, 2013
because of high urea in the blood and discharged after undergoing dialysis.
He was recuperating at the Jesuit Community in St. Britto, Mapusa.

Hailing from the village of Siolim, Fr. Vivian Lobo SJ was an accomplished
teacher and a good administrator. A good part of the English I write is
thanks to his grooming at St. Britto High School in the early and mid-1970s
when he was my teacher.

He was the Principal at Loyola High School  Junior College, Pune, from
1986 to 1990 and thereafter at Loyola High School, Margao, till 2007, when
Fr. Willaim Rodrigues SJ took over and he remained there as the Rector.

May his soul rest in peace.

The funeral cortege will leave the Priests' Residence, St. Britto High
School, Mapusa at 3.45 P.M. for the Eucharistic celebration at St. Jerome's
Church, Mapusa, follwed by the final rites.

ONLINE TRIBUTES/PHOTO AT
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lesagoa/?ref=tsfref=ts
LESAGoa (Loyola Ex-Students Association).

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Rocky was a rock (by Michael Fisher)

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OBITUARY | Fredrick Rocque
Rocky was a rock

Michael Fisher
fisherted...@gmail.com

Fredrick Rocque (Rocky) began his journalism career in the
Navhind Times in Goa when he was in his 20s in the late
1970s.  In 1980, he left Goa for Bombay to work with The
Daily, a fiesty new tabloid then launched by Russy Karanjia,
which was also known as the Bull Dog from its mascot that
appeared on its masthead.  Since then he has been a
copy-editor and front page layout design expert.

On 31 December 1982, The Daily carried a Fredrick Rocque
bylined report on the front page: Priest Skips Last Rights
for Christmas Party.  While the news shocked the Catholic
community, the reporting fraternity got the feel what Rocky
could be, if he chose to.

His first byline report was in the Navhind Times: Learn to
Walk, recalls crime reporter Jamal.  Fermin D'Souza who was
his neighbour in Bahrain and in Canada, writes: Frederick
Rocque was known to all his close friends as Rock or Rocky,
sometimes Freddy.  His mile-wide smile that could light up a
room telegraphed his joyous nature.  Rock loved a good party
and was never one to say no to a good bash.  He was usually
the catalyst to pull old friends together, especially those
from his time in Bahrain who are now settled in Canada.

  Quick with a joke, Rock loved puns -- both in his
  work as a journalist as well as in his private
  life.  Like the time when George W.  Bush won in
  the US, Rock was working in magazines but couldn't
  resist calling up the newspaper (Gulf Daily News in
  Bahrain) editor to suggest this heading: By George,
  it's Bush!  And that was the front page heading the
  next morning.

Rock was also able to laugh at himself. It was a tough task
to get under his skin with even merciless barbs. He laughed
at his stature, his girt (not that he had any), his
brain-power (or lack thereof), the list could go on. You just
couldn't get him irritated.

Rock was also the first to lend a helping hand when one was
needed -- even when it was not needed.

One of the last things he told a friend (that's me) about a
couple of weeks before he fell to a cardiac arrest 18 months
ago was: ... you make me laugh.

Keep that laugh and that smile going, Rocky.

--
Michael Fisher is a based journalist, who has worked with a range of
newspapers within and outside India, and is now back in Goa.

[Goanet] OBITUARY: Rocky was a rock (by Michael Fisher)

[Goanet Obits]

OBITUARY | Fredrick Rocque
Rocky was a rock

Michael Fisher
fisherted...@gmail.com

Fredrick Rocque (Rocky) began his journalism career in the
Navhind Times in Goa when he was in his 20s in the late
1970s.  In 1980, he left Goa for Bombay to work with The
Daily, a fiesty new tabloid then launched by Russy Karanjia,
which was also known as the Bull Dog from its mascot that
appeared on its masthead.  Since then he has been a
copy-editor and front page layout design expert.

On 31 December 1982, The Daily carried a Fredrick Rocque
bylined report on the front page: Priest Skips Last Rights
for Christmas Party.  While the news shocked the Catholic
community, the reporting fraternity got the feel what Rocky
could be, if he chose to.

His first byline report was in the Navhind Times: Learn to
Walk, recalls crime reporter Jamal.  Fermin D'Souza who was
his neighbour in Bahrain and in Canada, writes: Frederick
Rocque was known to all his close friends as Rock or Rocky,
sometimes Freddy.  His mile-wide smile that could light up a
room telegraphed his joyous nature.  Rock loved a good party
and was never one to say no to a good bash.  He was usually
the catalyst to pull old friends together, especially those
from his time in Bahrain who are now settled in Canada.

  Quick with a joke, Rock loved puns -- both in his
  work as a journalist as well as in his private
  life.  Like the time when George W.  Bush won in
  the US, Rock was working in magazines but couldn't
  resist calling up the newspaper (Gulf Daily News in
  Bahrain) editor to suggest this heading: By George,
  it's Bush!  And that was the front page heading the
  next morning.

Rock was also able to laugh at himself. It was a tough task
to get under his skin with even merciless barbs. He laughed
at his stature, his girt (not that he had any), his
brain-power (or lack thereof), the list could go on. You just
couldn't get him irritated.

Rock was also the first to lend a helping hand when one was
needed -- even when it was not needed.

One of the last things he told a friend (that's me) about a
couple of weeks before he fell to a cardiac arrest 18 months
ago was: ... you make me laugh.

Keep that laugh and that smile going, Rocky.

--
Michael Fisher is a based journalist, who has worked with a range of
newspapers within and outside India, and is now back in Goa.

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Flaviano Dias, freedom fighter, journalist, ex-PTI bureau chief

[Goanet Obits]

 GUJ condoles Flaviano Dias' passing away

The Goa Union of Journalists condoles the death of senior journalist and
freedom fighter, Flaviano Dias.
Dias was a leading light in Goa's media fraternity for more than two
decades. He headed the Press Trust of India's Goa Bureau for over a decade
in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was also editor of the Goan news weekly Goa
Post.
Dias started his journalism career with the Free Press Journal in Mumbai
where he resided in his early years. He was deeply involved in Goa's
liberation movement and a member of the Goa Congress formed in the
metropolis to espouse the cause of Goa’s liberation from the Portuguese
colonial yoke.
He was also a close associate of the late Peter Alvares, an avid fan of
Goan Nationalist Dr Tristao Braganca e Cunha and a close friend of
Socialist Leader Madhu Limaye.
In Goa, Dias' contribution in the field of journalism, trade unionism in
the media industry and in the process of raising the professional standards
of journalism, are immense.
He is a former president and has greatly contributed in building the Goa
Union of Journalists into a strong professional body over the years. GUJ
will find it difficult to fill the void left by his passing away.
In this moment of great loss, GUJ conveys its deepest sympathy to his wife
and other family members and shares in their grief.
(Ends)

[Goanet] OBITUARY: Flaviano Dias, freedom fighter, journalist, ex-PTI bureau chief

[Goanet Obits]

 GUJ condoles Flaviano Dias' passing away

The Goa Union of Journalists condoles the death of senior journalist and
freedom fighter, Flaviano Dias.
Dias was a leading light in Goa's media fraternity for more than two
decades. He headed the Press Trust of India's Goa Bureau for over a decade
in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was also editor of the Goan news weekly Goa
Post.
Dias started his journalism career with the Free Press Journal in Mumbai
where he resided in his early years. He was deeply involved in Goa's
liberation movement and a member of the Goa Congress formed in the
metropolis to espouse the cause of Goa’s liberation from the Portuguese
colonial yoke.
He was also a close associate of the late Peter Alvares, an avid fan of
Goan Nationalist Dr Tristao Braganca e Cunha and a close friend of
Socialist Leader Madhu Limaye.
In Goa, Dias' contribution in the field of journalism, trade unionism in
the media industry and in the process of raising the professional standards
of journalism, are immense.
He is a former president and has greatly contributed in building the Goa
Union of Journalists into a strong professional body over the years. GUJ
will find it difficult to fill the void left by his passing away.
In this moment of great loss, GUJ conveys its deepest sympathy to his wife
and other family members and shares in their grief.
(Ends)

[Goanet-News] OBIT: Dr Jose Aleixo de Souza Proenca: the doyen of Goan pediatricians (Dr Francisco Colaco)

[Goanet Obits]

Dr Jose Aleixo de Souza Proenca: the doyen of Goan pediatricians

Dr. Francisco Colaço
dr_col...@yahoo.com
Margao.  Goa

  Dr. José Aleixo de Sousa Proença the doyen of Goan
  pediatricians died yesterday from a cerebral
  stroke, at his palatial home in Calangute.  Scion
  of a noble family he stood apart even in his youth
  because of his pristine qualities the result of
  excellent upbringing.

He joined the Lyceum and later took his medical degree from
Escola Médica de Goa.  He left for Portugal where he
specialized in Pediatrics.  He was a gold medalist and won
many other awards.  Later he decided to fine-tune his
expertise in Germany where he rose to great heights.  Here he
had the rare opportunity to brush shoulders with world
leaders in Pediatrics.

  When a glorious career beckoned this young
  promising pediatrician, Aleixo Proença decided to
  leave everything to return to Goa, his birth-place,
  the land he loved so dearly.  Setting foot in the
  Goan soil in mid-sixties he pioneered modern
  pediatrics in Goa at a time when newborn ICUs were
  not heard of.  He joined as a Head of Pediatrics at
  the Hospicio Hospital where he earned kudos and
  fame.  He was endowed with a clinical acumen which
  is rarely seen today.  What is more, he had
  qualities of head and heart that combined admirably
  to view every sick child with a humane approach.
  He had a very large practice.

Based in Margao he would hop to Panjim and Mapusa.  Everyone
longed for his healing touch.  He worked night and day and
never refused to attend anyone in need.  For him medicine was
a mission, a path to God.  Simple, unassuming, he had always
a kind word in his mouth.  There is an entire generation of
babies (now in their adulthood) who has had the good fortune
of having been treated by this gem of a man.  He pulled out
thousands of little children from the clutches of death.
Each of my three children grew under his watchful eye.  Many
a time we knocked at his door even in the dead of the night
and were never turned back.

He was an excellent colleague who belonged to the old
generation of doctors.  He practiced medicine with ethics.
He never criticized his colleagues, never took kickbacks,
never bothered about financial returns.

  He did immense charity through his many years of
  practice.  I remember the time when we used to sit
  together in the seventies.  That was the time I had
  purchased my first Echo machine and we had equipped
  ourselves to diagnose even rare pediatric heart
  disorders.  That was the dawn of Pediatric
  Cardiology in Goa.  Our work was hailed by other
  colleagues and even stalwarts from GMC like Prof
  Rao, Prof Philomena and Prof Mimi Silveira of the
  Departament of Pediatrics.  We also won encomium
  from other pediatric cardiologists in India.

Dr.  Proença suffered his first cerebral stroke when he was
at the peak of his career but recovered well and continued to
practice actively.  Sadly the last few years of his life were
plagued with cerebrovascular problems which impaired his
mobility and brought a lot of suffering to him.  Luckily he
was amply compensated by the immense love of his exemplary
wife Dr. Ema, his affectionate children, Ingrid, Vivek and
and Ivan and the three grand children.

As I go down memory lane and write these unpretentious lines
with tears in my eyes I find it difficult to do justice to
this giant of a man and the legacy he left behind.  His
funeral cortege will leave his residence, Porbavaddo,
Calangute at 4.00 pm Monday 13th January to St. Aleixo
Church for Eucharistic celebration at 4.15 pm.

Peace be to his soul.

--
January 12, 2014.

[Goanet] GOANET OBITS: + Roy De Souza from Slough, Berkshire

[Goanet Obits]

Received via: 
val.deso...@akzonobel.comhttp://lists.goanet.org/admindb.cgi/goanet-news2-goanet.org?sender=val.desouza%40akzonobel.com

Dear Family  Friends, we would like to announce the funeral for Roy De
Souza from Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom - brother of Gregory, Bela,
Edgar, Victor, Brian, Sandra  Alexander, husband of Valentina and father
of Daniella, Maria-Chantelle, Natasha  Kalina. His funeral will take place
on Friday, November 1st 2013 at 1.30pm at St Anthony's Roman Catholic
Church, Farnham Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 3AE, and thereafter to the
Slough Cemetry, Stoke Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 5AX. There will be a get
together after at Duffield House, Grays Park Road, Stoke Poges, SL2 4HX

Sincerely

Valentina De Souza
Phone: 01753 526398

[Goanet-News] DEATH: Irma Joao, Velim/Assolna/Tanzania

[Goanet Obits]

DEATH: IRMA PHILOMENA DE COTTA PINTO ALMEIDA JOAO
of Velim / Assolna / Tanzania

Expired on October 5, 2013.

  Beloved wife of late Francisco Xavier Martinho Joao (Francis John,
  retired headmaster, Don Bosco's, Calangute); beloved mother of
  Adv.  Lida Joao (Member, Child Welfare Committe-South/Assistant
  Professor PES College-Ponda) and Dr Zoya Joao (in-charge,
  Department of Pathology, Kamaxidevi Homeopathic Medical College,
  Shiroda).

Most beloved daughter of late Taumaturgo de Almeida (Vet  Mines, Tanzania)
and late Maria Ida Cotta de Pinto Almedia and daughter-in-law of late
Avertano Joao (Calcutta) and late  Matildes de Sousa.  Grand-daughter of
late Acacio Almeida (Administrator) and late Alarmina Santana Da Silva and
late Prof. Patrocinio de Sao Mathias Pinto (Chief Co-ordinator, Portuguese
Studies for South Goa), and late Gertrudes Santana de Cotta (proprietor of
Escola Primaria Gertrudes Cotta).

Sister/sister-in-law of Delia (Eucharistic Minister, Berkley)/Olinto Diaz,
Dr Gabriel de Almeida (Director, Mid-Michigan Medical Centre)/Rev Dr Jana
Lynn (Pastor, Lincoln Rd United Methodist Church), Dr Peter de Almeida
(Surgeon-Genysis Hospital)/Marianne (all USA). Sister-in-law of Maria
ARgentina/late Anacleto Jacques, Vespaziana/late Guilherme Vas,
Placedina/late Saturnino da Costa, late Delcie, Mary Goodwilla,
Belinda/Robert Ore (Mayor, Clendenin, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA).

Funeral cortege will leave Casa de Francisco Xavie Joao, Rua de Joao, Baga,
Velim at 3.45 on Sunday, October 13, 2013 for St. Francis Xavier's Church,
Velim for Eucharistic Celebration and burial.

Lida  Zoya would welcome condolence visits from 11.30 am onwards on Sunday,
October 13, 2013 at Casa de Francisco Joao, Baga, Velim.

###

Email contact  drzoe1...@yahoo.co.in

[Goanet] DEATH: Irma Joao, Velim/Assolna/Tanzania

[Goanet Obits]

DEATH: IRMA PHILOMENA DE COTTA PINTO ALMEIDA JOAO
of Velim / Assolna / Tanzania

Expired on October 5, 2013.

  Beloved wife of late Francisco Xavier Martinho Joao (Francis John,
  retired headmaster, Don Bosco's, Calangute); beloved mother of
  Adv.  Lida Joao (Member, Child Welfare Committe-South/Assistant
  Professor PES College-Ponda) and Dr Zoya Joao (in-charge,
  Department of Pathology, Kamaxidevi Homeopathic Medical College,
  Shiroda).

Most beloved daughter of late Taumaturgo de Almeida (Vet  Mines, Tanzania)
and late Maria Ida Cotta de Pinto Almedia and daughter-in-law of late
Avertano Joao (Calcutta) and late  Matildes de Sousa.  Grand-daughter of
late Acacio Almeida (Administrator) and late Alarmina Santana Da Silva and
late Prof. Patrocinio de Sao Mathias Pinto (Chief Co-ordinator, Portuguese
Studies for South Goa), and late Gertrudes Santana de Cotta (proprietor of
Escola Primaria Gertrudes Cotta).

Sister/sister-in-law of Delia (Eucharistic Minister, Berkley)/Olinto Diaz,
Dr Gabriel de Almeida (Director, Mid-Michigan Medical Centre)/Rev Dr Jana
Lynn (Pastor, Lincoln Rd United Methodist Church), Dr Peter de Almeida
(Surgeon-Genysis Hospital)/Marianne (all USA). Sister-in-law of Maria
ARgentina/late Anacleto Jacques, Vespaziana/late Guilherme Vas,
Placedina/late Saturnino da Costa, late Delcie, Mary Goodwilla,
Belinda/Robert Ore (Mayor, Clendenin, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA).

Funeral cortege will leave Casa de Francisco Xavie Joao, Rua de Joao, Baga,
Velim at 3.45 on Sunday, October 13, 2013 for St. Francis Xavier's Church,
Velim for Eucharistic Celebration and burial.

Lida  Zoya would welcome condolence visits from 11.30 am onwards on Sunday,
October 13, 2013 at Casa de Francisco Joao, Baga, Velim.

###

Email contact  drzoe1...@yahoo.co.in

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: Indian Church mourns death of former official (MattersIndia.com)

[Goanet Obits]

Indian Church mourns death of former official

Published: 1:53 pm, September 10, 2013

New Delhi: Fr. Thomas d’Aquino Sequeira, a Scripture scholar and Church
historian who advocated interfaith dialogue at grassroots, died of cancer
early today in the United States. He was 60.

Fr. Sequeira had served as the Deputy Secretary General of the Catholic
Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) for six years until May 31, 2012. He
then left to the United States for his doctoral studies while helping in
St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, Tracy, California.

A press note from the CBCI headquarters in New Delhi that the Goan priest
once headed said he was diagnosed with colon cancer in advanced stage two
months ago. He then underwent surgery and chemotherapy. The end came at
1:20 pm Monday local time (1:50 pm on Tuesday in India), said the press
note issued by Fr. Sequeira’s successor Fr. Joseph Chinnayan.

The note said the Indian Church received the news with deep sorrow. “The
CBCI Centre community deeply mourns the sudden demise of Fr. Thomas
d’Aquino Sequeira, whose fond memories, this community cherishes with love
and gratitude,” it added.

The funeral details are yet to be finalized as the body is to be flown from
the US to Goa in coming days.

Fr. Sequeira’s mother died on August 18 at the age of 92.

The priest was a promoter of interfaith faith dialogue at all fronts,
especially at parish level. He considered it as a blessing to be a minority
in India and used various forums to urged Indian Christians to shed their
minority complex.

According to him, the minority status was an invitation to join the
majority community for nation building.

The Church, he used to assert, had to engage all its pastoral structures to
form human communities where people of all religions work together for
common good.

He disapproved limiting interfaith dialogue to occasional meetings of
religious leaders, and encouraged such dialogue at village councils where
people come together to resolve common problems.

Fr. Sequeira was concerned about increasing attacks on Christians in India,
but often told Church groups instead of getting discouraged they should try
to remove general misconception about the community.

http://mattersindia.com/indian-church-mourns-death-of-former-official/

[Goanet] OBITUARY: Indian Church mourns death of former official (MattersIndia.com)

[Goanet Obits]

Indian Church mourns death of former official

Published: 1:53 pm, September 10, 2013

New Delhi: Fr. Thomas d’Aquino Sequeira, a Scripture scholar and Church
historian who advocated interfaith dialogue at grassroots, died of cancer
early today in the United States. He was 60.

Fr. Sequeira had served as the Deputy Secretary General of the Catholic
Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) for six years until May 31, 2012. He
then left to the United States for his doctoral studies while helping in
St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, Tracy, California.

A press note from the CBCI headquarters in New Delhi that the Goan priest
once headed said he was diagnosed with colon cancer in advanced stage two
months ago. He then underwent surgery and chemotherapy. The end came at
1:20 pm Monday local time (1:50 pm on Tuesday in India), said the press
note issued by Fr. Sequeira’s successor Fr. Joseph Chinnayan.

The note said the Indian Church received the news with deep sorrow. “The
CBCI Centre community deeply mourns the sudden demise of Fr. Thomas
d’Aquino Sequeira, whose fond memories, this community cherishes with love
and gratitude,” it added.

The funeral details are yet to be finalized as the body is to be flown from
the US to Goa in coming days.

Fr. Sequeira’s mother died on August 18 at the age of 92.

The priest was a promoter of interfaith faith dialogue at all fronts,
especially at parish level. He considered it as a blessing to be a minority
in India and used various forums to urged Indian Christians to shed their
minority complex.

According to him, the minority status was an invitation to join the
majority community for nation building.

The Church, he used to assert, had to engage all its pastoral structures to
form human communities where people of all religions work together for
common good.

He disapproved limiting interfaith dialogue to occasional meetings of
religious leaders, and encouraged such dialogue at village councils where
people come together to resolve common problems.

Fr. Sequeira was concerned about increasing attacks on Christians in India,
but often told Church groups instead of getting discouraged they should try
to remove general misconception about the community.

http://mattersindia.com/indian-church-mourns-death-of-former-official/

[Goanet-News] DEATH: Sharon Jacqueline D'Cruz, historian and young academician

[Goanet Obits]

   Very sad news: our young friend, academician and Goanet
   member Sharon da Cruz passed away in Goa today, following
   a brief illness.  Her funeral is in Siolim on Friday
   morning (11 am).  She was in her 30s...  not an age for
   someone with much promise to move on.  Sharon completed
   her PhD quite early on in her career, on the Franciscans
   in Goa, at the Goa University's history department in
   2003.  She took her work seriously, and had been published
   even in the prestigious Economic and Political Weekly some
   time back.  She taught at the Cuncolim (CES) college.  The
   last time we met was at Dr Carmo's seminar on the
   Portuguese language in Goa.  Despite her academic
   achievements, she was humility personified and an
   extremely helpful person.  My mobile phone carries SMSs
   from her, offering useful suggestions on the kind of books
   that students in Goa do need and could use.  Not only were
   these suggestions, but she was volunteering to work on it
   herself!  She always had a good word for other people's
   work, and had her own quiet way of encouraging others.  We
   will miss Dr Sharon.  Maybe there could be some way to pay
   tribute to her memory.  --FN

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Sharon Jacqueline D'Cruz, historian and young academician

By Miguel Braganza
braganza.mig...@gmail.com

Dr. Sharon D'Cruz e de Souza died on Thursday, July 25, 2013,
a week after she was detected to have a tumour in the brain.
Her funeral cortege will leave their home at Maina-Siolim for
Eucharistic celebration at Mary, Consolation of the
Persecuted Church, in Tropa, Sodiem-Siolim, Goa, on Friday at
11 A.M. followed by burial.

For those unfamiliar with the location of the Tropa Church,
it is off the main road from Cunchelim Church to Holy Cross
Convent High School, Sodiem and immediately beyond the
controversial Five Pillars Church.  Their residence is
about two km beyond the church on the road that links to Teen
Maddani stop, Camurlim.  Those coming in from the
Panjim/Porvorim side, can drive up the NH-17 bypass road from
Green Park hotel to the Tivim Industrial Estate gate on the
Colavalae road and then take the first left turn after the
first petrol pump at Gottnnicho Vall.  The road leads
straight to the Cunchelim Church [rear side], Go straight
along the main road.  It twists and turns, but do not leave
it till you reach the Five Pillars Church on the right side.
Then turn right into the narrow lane to the church.

  It was on Friday last, 19 July, 2013, that she was
  found unconscious in bed by her husband, Joseph
  Frank de Souza.  She was rushed to Wockhardt
  Hospital, Cuncolim (formerly the NUSI Hospital and
  later the Apollo-NUSI Hospital), where her medical
  history of vomiting the previous night and
  unconsciousness in the morning was presumed to be
  indicative of poisoning, until better sense
  prevailed and a brain issue was considered.

It was advised that she be rushed to Goa Medical College,
Bambolim, for appropriate treatment.  This in an era when
many people are under the misconception that the private
hospitals have better facilities and specialist doctors.
Dr. Sharon was by no means a poor person who could not
afford specialist care in a private hospital ...  if it was
available in Goa.  It was not.

She was operated at the GMC on the same day. the prognosis
was bad.  There was a long delay between the time she became
unconscious at home and her admission in GMC via the private
hospital.  Even before she was wheeled into the Operation
Theatre (OT), her chances of recovery were stated to be 1%.
The odds were stacked 99% against her.

We prayed and hoped for a miracle.  It did not happen the way
we thought it could be.  From being in a coma for six days,
her life came to a full stop this morning (Thursday in Goa).

Sharon was passionate about history ... and about it being
told the way it happened.  She worked hard on the research
for the book *Triumph of Secularism: Battle of the Opinion
Poll in Goa*, which she co-authored with Rajan Narayan.  What
went into print is not exactly what she would have liked it
to be...  but it is closer to the truth than what has been
dished out before that.

Sharaon was an active faculty member of Cuncolim Education
Society's College of Arts  Commerce, Cuncolim, Salcete-Goa,
and was the Chairperson/Convenor of the Students' Council and
Projects Committee among others.  She was associated with the
Xavier Center for Historical Research, Porvorim, and was to
be a part of the upcoming Bailancho Saad seminar besides
co-authoring a paper on migration of Bardezkars to Belgaum
with Dr.  Savio Abreu SJ, Director of XCHR.  Her passing into
history comes as a shock and most who called have expressed
their disbelief that she could leave us all so suddenly.

The good book tells us Death will come like a thief 
and it has now stolen 

[Goanet] DEATH: Sharon Jacqueline D'Cruz, historian and young academician

[Goanet Obits]

   Very sad news: our young friend, academician and Goanet
   member Sharon da Cruz passed away in Goa today, following
   a brief illness.  Her funeral is in Siolim on Friday
   morning (11 am).  She was in her 30s...  not an age for
   someone with much promise to move on.  Sharon completed
   her PhD quite early on in her career, on the Franciscans
   in Goa, at the Goa University's history department in
   2003.  She took her work seriously, and had been published
   even in the prestigious Economic and Political Weekly some
   time back.  She taught at the Cuncolim (CES) college.  The
   last time we met was at Dr Carmo's seminar on the
   Portuguese language in Goa.  Despite her academic
   achievements, she was humility personified and an
   extremely helpful person.  My mobile phone carries SMSs
   from her, offering useful suggestions on the kind of books
   that students in Goa do need and could use.  Not only were
   these suggestions, but she was volunteering to work on it
   herself!  She always had a good word for other people's
   work, and had her own quiet way of encouraging others.  We
   will miss Dr Sharon.  Maybe there could be some way to pay
   tribute to her memory.  --FN

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Sharon Jacqueline D'Cruz, historian and young academician

By Miguel Braganza
braganza.mig...@gmail.com

Dr. Sharon D'Cruz e de Souza died on Thursday, July 25, 2013,
a week after she was detected to have a tumour in the brain.
Her funeral cortege will leave their home at Maina-Siolim for
Eucharistic celebration at Mary, Consolation of the
Persecuted Church, in Tropa, Sodiem-Siolim, Goa, on Friday at
11 A.M. followed by burial.

For those unfamiliar with the location of the Tropa Church,
it is off the main road from Cunchelim Church to Holy Cross
Convent High School, Sodiem and immediately beyond the
controversial Five Pillars Church.  Their residence is
about two km beyond the church on the road that links to Teen
Maddani stop, Camurlim.  Those coming in from the
Panjim/Porvorim side, can drive up the NH-17 bypass road from
Green Park hotel to the Tivim Industrial Estate gate on the
Colavalae road and then take the first left turn after the
first petrol pump at Gottnnicho Vall.  The road leads
straight to the Cunchelim Church [rear side], Go straight
along the main road.  It twists and turns, but do not leave
it till you reach the Five Pillars Church on the right side.
Then turn right into the narrow lane to the church.

  It was on Friday last, 19 July, 2013, that she was
  found unconscious in bed by her husband, Joseph
  Frank de Souza.  She was rushed to Wockhardt
  Hospital, Cuncolim (formerly the NUSI Hospital and
  later the Apollo-NUSI Hospital), where her medical
  history of vomiting the previous night and
  unconsciousness in the morning was presumed to be
  indicative of poisoning, until better sense
  prevailed and a brain issue was considered.

It was advised that she be rushed to Goa Medical College,
Bambolim, for appropriate treatment.  This in an era when
many people are under the misconception that the private
hospitals have better facilities and specialist doctors.
Dr. Sharon was by no means a poor person who could not
afford specialist care in a private hospital ...  if it was
available in Goa.  It was not.

She was operated at the GMC on the same day. the prognosis
was bad.  There was a long delay between the time she became
unconscious at home and her admission in GMC via the private
hospital.  Even before she was wheeled into the Operation
Theatre (OT), her chances of recovery were stated to be 1%.
The odds were stacked 99% against her.

We prayed and hoped for a miracle.  It did not happen the way
we thought it could be.  From being in a coma for six days,
her life came to a full stop this morning (Thursday in Goa).

Sharon was passionate about history ... and about it being
told the way it happened.  She worked hard on the research
for the book *Triumph of Secularism: Battle of the Opinion
Poll in Goa*, which she co-authored with Rajan Narayan.  What
went into print is not exactly what she would have liked it
to be...  but it is closer to the truth than what has been
dished out before that.

Sharaon was an active faculty member of Cuncolim Education
Society's College of Arts  Commerce, Cuncolim, Salcete-Goa,
and was the Chairperson/Convenor of the Students' Council and
Projects Committee among others.  She was associated with the
Xavier Center for Historical Research, Porvorim, and was to
be a part of the upcoming Bailancho Saad seminar besides
co-authoring a paper on migration of Bardezkars to Belgaum
with Dr.  Savio Abreu SJ, Director of XCHR.  Her passing into
history comes as a shock and most who called have expressed
their disbelief that she could leave us all so suddenly.

The good book tells us Death will come like a thief 
and it has now stolen 

[Goanet-News] OBITUARY: A much loved headmistress, claimed in a road mishap

[Goanet Obits]

OBITUARY: A much loved headmistress, claimed in a road mishap

By Miguel Braganza
braganza.mig...@gmail.com

Another life has been needlessly lost due to a combination of
bad road design, narrow road, steep slope and a car driver's
hurry.  The poor crane driver is possibly suffering the
collateral damage...  for having tried to save the negligent
car driver who had moved into the path of the crane while
negotiating the turn.  Who was driving the car and why he or
she should not share the guilt of causing Jacinta's premature
death will, perhaps, never be asked.

Jacinta Fernandes, was a much loved person among anyone who
came in touch with her.  She touched lives beyond her
husband, Kevin, sons Nigel and Nolan and daughter, Rosanne,
whom we see every Sunday morning for the 7.15 am mass in the
St.  Britto school chapel.  She had even carved a niche in
the hearts of the people of Mandrem-Pernem, where she served
as the Headmistress of Our Lady of Rosary High School.  She
was much loved in the parishes of Mapusa and Bastora.

Her last rites were held at the St. Jerome Church, Mapusa
(Milagres Church).  The funeral cortege left her residence at
Birmottem ward, near the road junction between the roads
through Bastora from Green Park and Mapusa Tar junctions, of
Bastora at 4.00 p.m. on July 2, 2013.

  To most Britto Old Boys (BOBs), she was best known
  as the wife of BOB Kevin or sister-in-law of the
  twins, Fr.  Cedric Fernandes SJ (current
  Headmaster/Principal of St.  Britto High School,
  Mapusa and former Vice-Principal of Loyola HS,
  Margao) and Fr.  Cecil Fernandes SJ (former
  Vice-Principal of St.  Britto HS, Mapusa, currently
  at St. Paul's Campus, Belgaum).

Alumnae of St. Mary's Convent will perhaps know her as the
sister in law of Carol Fernandes e Souza,  Ruth Fernandes e
Sequeira, Renee Fernandes e Gama, all of whom grew up in the
house where now the Gomes-Catao building stands. Sr. Rosanne
AC and Sr. Carmella AC are the direct links to that house.

  BOB Cesar Cabral and BOB Bosco de Sa have
  volunteered as Traffic Wardens to help the Mapusa
  Traffic Police to regulate the traffic at peak
  hours at the Court-old St.  Mary's School circle at
  Feira Alta, Mapusa that our so-called 'Town
  Planners' of the North Goa PDA and Mhapsa Municipal
  Council are hell-bent to further aggravate by
  converting almost the entire heritage residential
  area of Altinho-Pamusa into C-2 Commercial
  Zone...  with inadequate, or without any, parking
  spaces in the new buildings that are being given
  occupancy certificates left, right and centre.

One hopes that the tragic death of Jacinta Fernandes in a
road accident will not be in vain, but will serve to open the
eyes of the Goa Government, the concerned authorities and
the people of Mapusa, if not of the whole state, to the need
for better traffic planning and execution.  May her soul rest
in peace with the assurance that the survivors will do their
bit to change their lives and be a bit more caring...  as
road users, at least.

--
Headmistress crushed under crane in Siolim

TNN | Jul 2, 2013, 07.17 AM IST

MAPUSA: The dangerous Marna-Siolim slope claimed yet another
life on Monday evening. This time it was that of school
headmistress Jacinta Fernandes, 56, a resident of Bastora.

  According to police, Jacinta, headmistress of Our
  Lady of Rosary High School in Mandrem, was
  returning home, when at the Siolim-Marna slope her
  two-wheeler was crushed by a crane proceeding
  towards Morjim.  Police said a car proceeding
  towards Mapusa came in the way of the crane and
  fearing collusion the crane driver turned left and
  hit the scooter driven by Jacinta and then a
  compound wall belonging to one Andrew Fernandes.

The impact was such that Jacinta was thrown inside the
compound and the scooter crushed under the crane. Police said
Jacinta was rushed to north Goa district hospital but
succumbed to injuries on the way. Anjuna police arrested
crane driver Sheikh Shadique.

  Locals alleged that this is an accident prone spot
  on the Siolim-Marna slope and has been claiming
  many lives but the authorities haven't bothered to
  address the issue.  The road is frequently used by
  commuters as it reduces the distance to Mapusa.

How many more lives need to be destroyed before the
government acts and rectifies bad road engineering? Sadashiv
Naik who travels on the road frequently asked.

We have seen many accidents at this spot. Heavy vehicles
should not be allowed on this road and the road could
bypassed from the killer spot to meet the main road,
Sodiem-Siolim sarpanch Nilesh Vaigankar said.

When contacted Mapusa traffic cell police inspector Salim
Sheikh said they have already 

[Goanet] OBITUARY: A much loved headmistress, claimed in a road mishap

[Goanet Obits]

OBITUARY: A much loved headmistress, claimed in a road mishap

By Miguel Braganza
braganza.mig...@gmail.com

Another life has been needlessly lost due to a combination of
bad road design, narrow road, steep slope and a car driver's
hurry.  The poor crane driver is possibly suffering the
collateral damage...  for having tried to save the negligent
car driver who had moved into the path of the crane while
negotiating the turn.  Who was driving the car and why he or
she should not share the guilt of causing Jacinta's premature
death will, perhaps, never be asked.

Jacinta Fernandes, was a much loved person among anyone who
came in touch with her.  She touched lives beyond her
husband, Kevin, sons Nigel and Nolan and daughter, Rosanne,
whom we see every Sunday morning for the 7.15 am mass in the
St.  Britto school chapel.  She had even carved a niche in
the hearts of the people of Mandrem-Pernem, where she served
as the Headmistress of Our Lady of Rosary High School.  She
was much loved in the parishes of Mapusa and Bastora.

Her last rites were held at the St. Jerome Church, Mapusa
(Milagres Church).  The funeral cortege left her residence at
Birmottem ward, near the road junction between the roads
through Bastora from Green Park and Mapusa Tar junctions, of
Bastora at 4.00 p.m. on July 2, 2013.

  To most Britto Old Boys (BOBs), she was best known
  as the wife of BOB Kevin or sister-in-law of the
  twins, Fr.  Cedric Fernandes SJ (current
  Headmaster/Principal of St.  Britto High School,
  Mapusa and former Vice-Principal of Loyola HS,
  Margao) and Fr.  Cecil Fernandes SJ (former
  Vice-Principal of St.  Britto HS, Mapusa, currently
  at St. Paul's Campus, Belgaum).

Alumnae of St. Mary's Convent will perhaps know her as the
sister in law of Carol Fernandes e Souza,  Ruth Fernandes e
Sequeira, Renee Fernandes e Gama, all of whom grew up in the
house where now the Gomes-Catao building stands. Sr. Rosanne
AC and Sr. Carmella AC are the direct links to that house.

  BOB Cesar Cabral and BOB Bosco de Sa have
  volunteered as Traffic Wardens to help the Mapusa
  Traffic Police to regulate the traffic at peak
  hours at the Court-old St.  Mary's School circle at
  Feira Alta, Mapusa that our so-called 'Town
  Planners' of the North Goa PDA and Mhapsa Municipal
  Council are hell-bent to further aggravate by
  converting almost the entire heritage residential
  area of Altinho-Pamusa into C-2 Commercial
  Zone...  with inadequate, or without any, parking
  spaces in the new buildings that are being given
  occupancy certificates left, right and centre.

One hopes that the tragic death of Jacinta Fernandes in a
road accident will not be in vain, but will serve to open the
eyes of the Goa Government, the concerned authorities and
the people of Mapusa, if not of the whole state, to the need
for better traffic planning and execution.  May her soul rest
in peace with the assurance that the survivors will do their
bit to change their lives and be a bit more caring...  as
road users, at least.

--
Headmistress crushed under crane in Siolim

TNN | Jul 2, 2013, 07.17 AM IST

MAPUSA: The dangerous Marna-Siolim slope claimed yet another
life on Monday evening. This time it was that of school
headmistress Jacinta Fernandes, 56, a resident of Bastora.

  According to police, Jacinta, headmistress of Our
  Lady of Rosary High School in Mandrem, was
  returning home, when at the Siolim-Marna slope her
  two-wheeler was crushed by a crane proceeding
  towards Morjim.  Police said a car proceeding
  towards Mapusa came in the way of the crane and
  fearing collusion the crane driver turned left and
  hit the scooter driven by Jacinta and then a
  compound wall belonging to one Andrew Fernandes.

The impact was such that Jacinta was thrown inside the
compound and the scooter crushed under the crane. Police said
Jacinta was rushed to north Goa district hospital but
succumbed to injuries on the way. Anjuna police arrested
crane driver Sheikh Shadique.

  Locals alleged that this is an accident prone spot
  on the Siolim-Marna slope and has been claiming
  many lives but the authorities haven't bothered to
  address the issue.  The road is frequently used by
  commuters as it reduces the distance to Mapusa.

How many more lives need to be destroyed before the
government acts and rectifies bad road engineering? Sadashiv
Naik who travels on the road frequently asked.

We have seen many accidents at this spot. Heavy vehicles
should not be allowed on this road and the road could
bypassed from the killer spot to meet the main road,
Sodiem-Siolim sarpanch Nilesh Vaigankar said.

When contacted Mapusa traffic cell police inspector Salim
Sheikh said they have already 

[Goanet] Remembering: Pramod Kale... a grand, eccentric, learned and adventurous scholar of Sanskrit, Marathi and Goan theatre

[Goanet Obits]

H-ASIA
July 1, 2013

Promod Kale
**
*
Ed. note: I first met Pramod Kale in Minneapolis at the University of
Minnesota in, I think, 1972 shortly after he had joined the faculty there.
I believe my last visit was about 19 years later when we were both living
temporarily in Deccan Gymkhana neighborhood of Pune.  I never encountered
anyone quite like Pramod; an intellectual, possessed of a very sharp wit
and sense of humor.  In a Maharashtra when too much of the public culture
was full of pomposity and chauvinism, his wonderful irony and straight-
faced humor were always a delight.  I thank David Lelyveld for providing
an eloquent remembrance of Pramod.  I have tinkered with an item in the
preliminary bibliography, but otherwise, left David's sincere tribute.
   FFC
--
From: David Lelyveld dl1...@gmail.com

I pass along the sad news of the death of Pramod Kale, which I received
from his daughter Madhavi Kale last week. I've written the attached piece
for H-Asia.

David Lelyveld
William Paterson University (retired)
--

Pramod Kale, a grand, eccentric, learned and adventurous  scholar of
Sanskrit,
Marathi and Goan theatre and performing arts, died in Pune on June 23 as a
result of injuries that he sustained in March. It seems that he was hit by
a car or assaulted on the way home from a restaurant. He was 79 years old,
and had returned to Pune after many years in the United States and the
Philippines.

He first came to the United States in 1963 on a Fulbright to the Yale School
of Drama, and went on to complete a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in
1967. His dissertation, “The Natyaśastra of Bharata A Selective Critical
Exposition for the Western Theatre Scholar” was later revised for
publication
as The Theatric Universe: A Study of the Nāṭyaśāstra. (Bombay: Popular
Prakashan, 1974). After completing his Ph.D. he became an assistant
professor
of South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota, where he taught
Marathi.
During this phase of his career he also published English translations of
important Marathi novels, _Deva cālale_ (Farewell to the Gods) by D.B.
Mokashi
and _Vāvaṭaḷa_ (The Winds of Fire) by Vyankatesh Madgulkar. Among his
other
translations is the play Pidhijat (Dynasts) by Satish Alekar.

Pramod  returned to India in the 1970s, where he worked on educational
projects involving television and other media for the Ford Foundation,
UNESCO and other development organizations. During this period he
published an important piece on the early history of Marathi cinema,
Ideas, Ideals and the Market: A Study of Marathi Films” in the _Economic
and Political Weekly_.

Pramod Kale was the son of the distinguished writer, actor, film maker and
scholar K. Narain Kale (1904-74), a pioneer of early Marathi and Hindi films
of the 1930s as well as Marathi theatre and a founding faculty member of the
Film and Television Institute in Pune. Among K. Narain Kale’s many
achievements
was the development of European style theatre in Marathi, including his
translations of plays by Ibsen and Shaw. Perhaps in reaction to this
influence
and what he took to be the overly derivative nature of contemporary Marathi
(and Indian) theatre,  Pramod Kale devoted much of his later career to the
study of popular performance practices in Goa, especially the genre known as
_tiatr_, which is  based on Catholic religious themes and performed in
Konkani.
In addition to his publication on Goan culture, he also produced a
documentary
film in 1996, “Chandor, a Roman Catholic Village in Goa: Habitat and
Performances.”

The work of his wife, Professor Pratima Kale, a leading figure in
international
development, who has held major positions for Save the Children, UNICEF,
and the
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction and is now a professor at
Columbia, gave Pramod an opportunity to spend extended periods of time in
the Philippines, where he took great interest in performance traditions in
another Iberian-derived Catholic setting. He also taught there at Ateneo de
Manila and De La Salle universities.

In addition to Pratima Kale, he is survived by his daughter, the historian
Professor Madhavi Kale (formerly of Bryn Mawr, and presently moving to an
appointment at the University of Toronto - Scarborough and and his son
Rahul Kale, Assistant United States Attorney, Connecticut, and his
grandchildren. A man of restless curiosity, open mindedness, strong
opinions,
and a sharp sense of humor, he took delight in the variety of human
experience
and the ways people are able to create new ways of communicating with each
other across the boundaries of language and cultural tradition.

Preliminary Bibliography

The Natyaśastra of Bharata A Selective Critical 

[Goanet] REMEMBERED: Danzil Dias (Sarzora), Sr Zinia Pinto (Karachi)

[Goanet Obits]

A Christian forerunner... a pastor for the masses
-
OBIT: Danzil Oscar Serafio Dias

by Fr. Micael Fernandes

Danzil Oscar Serafio Dias continued to be popularly known as
Father Danzil to his very end.  That is a measure of the
imprint he left from 30-plus years of service to the Church
in Goa, often amidst opposition from the hierarchy.  He lived
ahead of his time, read the future much before his
contemporaries, and walked in his thoughts and actions as a
forerunner who at times was mistaken for a rebel.

  He was born September 4, 1941 at Sarzora-Chinchinim,
  the famed 'Granary of Priests' in Goa.  Danzil
  hailed from an ancestry that studded several
  priests.  Heeding the call of priestly vocation, he
  offered the prime of his life in service of the
  Church, with an ardent hope of ushering a new
  relationship in society, shorn of caste and class
  trappings, particularly among Goa's Catholic
  segment.

This was in line with the teachings of Christ, the Gospel
values and the decisions of Vatican II.

During his pastoral ministry, wherever posted as Assistant
Parish Priest or Chaplain, he set to root out man made
distinctions that divided the community.  He naturally took
the side of the underdog.

Society generally resists change and Danzil's path-breaking
'activism' naturally ruffled many feathers.  But the seeds
sown were germinating, sprouting and taking root.  In fact,
they were illuminating the greenery of the Goa Archdiocese.
Both clergy and lay people were attracted to Danzil's
innovative ideas to create a new Church environ in the Goan
scenario, in tune with Vatican II.

The 451-year feudal set up in Goa felt threatened. The plants
from seeds sown by Danzil were uprooted and transplanted on
different ground. The Council for Social Justice  Peace was
eventually established. This demonstrated that Danzil lived
and thought ahead of time.

He associated with different groups within the Church and in
the secular domain, conceiving and articulating ideas that
were ahead of the times.  Both civil and ecclesiastical
society realised the importance of his ideas, but only after
a long period, when society was on the threshold of another
socio-political relationship.

Danzil dedicated his life to bring about changes in
intra-Church hierarchical relations and improvement in the
living conditions of Goan clergy.  He strove to unite the
clergy under the banner of Catholic Priests Conference of
India (CPCI), an initiative that was 'hijacked' by the then
local representative of the CBCI through two lieutenants --
later duly rewarded, one as seminary Rector and the other as
pastoral institute Director.

The path of reformation propounded by Danzil, however, was
gradually implemented. He was marginalized. Ingrained with
certain values, he did not raise a ruckus, but quietly went
his own way.

  Danzil also strove to address the pathetic work
  conditions and insecurity of Church employees like
  sacristans and sextons.  He was friends with trade
  unionists like the late George Vaz, Subhash Jorge
  and Christopher Fonseca.  Church authorities
  eventually moved to improve working conditions and
  remuneration of its employees.

On Goa's larger social scene, Danzil played a key role to
bring together leaders of factions representing the backward
classes, particularly Gawdas, traditional fishermen, toddy
tappers and the like.

As a true follower of Christ, he made himself available to
the afflicted and the suffering -- whether individuals or
sections of the community -- and used his considerable
influence to get them succour and relief in their distress.

Always a man in a hurry, a man ahead of time, and a man for
others, he had little time for himself.  On the morning of
June 4, 2013, while in Margao and true to his trademark
style, Danzil departed from our midst quite unexpectedly,
quickly and without suffering, and yes -- ahead of time.  I
bow to the memory of a close friend and a true Christian.

--
* Fr. Micael Fernandes, MA, LLB, is an archdiocesan priest,
currently serving as Parish Priest at Batim, Tiswadi-Goa.  He
can be contacted via +91-9850 630 190

* Danzil
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/8992907059/in/photostream/



K a r a c h i

Former St Joseph's Convent School principal passes away

By Desiree Frances in The News, 6 June 2013

Karachi

Educationist, nun and former principal of St Joseph's Convent
School, Karachi, Sister Zinia Pinto, passed away here on
Tuesday night. She was 84.

The former mother superior of the Daughters of the Cross died
at 11.20 pm. She had been ill for some time due to her age.
Sister Zinia Pinto joined St Joseph's as a teacher in 1956.

Teachers, former students and well wishers remember the nun
fondly. Many broke out with comments on social media networks
after they heard the news.

Nava Zulfiqar, a former conventarian said, 

[Goanet] OBITUARY: Quentin Gabriel Coelho (55)

[Goanet Obits]

Quentin Gabriel Coelho
March 05, 1958 - May 26, 2013

Quentin Gabriel Coelho died at the Greenwhich Hospital, CT. while en route
to Canada with friends who were visiting from India.  He died doing what he
loved most, travelling with friends and visiting relatives and friends.

He knew his time here was limited and packed in more in these several years
since his cancer diagnosis than many do in a lifetime.  His health had been
deteriorating recently but, from all accounts, he managed to stay positive,
never complaining of the pains that were slowing him down.  Eventually, his
heart couldn't keep up with the pace he set for himself.

Quentin is survived by his wife, Pat and daughters Raquel (16) and Shauna
(14).  He leaves behind a grieving mother, Emily and younger siblings,
Kenneth (Charmaine), Christopher (Lynette, Clive  Collin), Christina
(Oswald  Crescenzio) Moraes and Elaine (Lincoln, Adam and Eleanor) Vaz.

Quentin is grieved by many extended family and friends spread across the
world who he endeavoured to keep in touch with across the miles. For those
who were friends of his on Facebook, you would have enjoyed the pictures he
uploaded of his travels around India on his recent trip home.

(Posted by Quentin's brother-in-law, Derek Coelho, on his Facebook page:)

Memorial Service for my brother-in-law Quentin Coelho-55 yrs. old (yes he
had the same last name) this Saturday morning at 9 a.m. at St. John's
Catholic Church in Columbia, MD. Spouse to my sister Pat and her daughters
Raquel (16) and Shauna(14). Keep them in your prayers!

http://memorialwebsites.legacy.com/QuentinCoelho

Contact for Quentin's brother:
Kenneth C Coelho, 7397, Lantern Fly Hollow Cres, Mississauga, Ontario. L5W
1K1. Canada Home # 905-956-0543
Cell# 416-315-1840

[Goanet] DEATH: Victor D'Souza (retired from Dubai Petroleum Co)

[Goanet Obits]

From: Joe Edward Vaz (ZADCO DR-WIIA) j...@zadco.ae
Subject: RE: Mae De Deus Feast in Abu Dhabi - Request

A son of Saligao Victor D Souza (retired from the Dubai Petroleum Co.) aged
61 years, passed away yesterday the 13th May, 2013 He is survived by his
wife Alice D'Souza dsouza.al...@hotmail.com, daughter Annabelle D'Souza and
son Walter D'Souza.

Victor is the son of Walter Wilfred D'Souza and Anna Marie D Souza.

Contacts: Alice D'Souza dsouza.al...@hotmail.com

Joe Vaz.
00971509936287

[Goanet] OBIT: A principal, mentor and friend (Anil Soares, SJ)

[Goanet Obits]

A principal, mentor and friend

Marie Soares pays tribute to Fr Anil Soares, S J of Poona Province, a
simple, humble and devoted priest who passed away last month.

On April 28, the day Fr Anil Soares died, his sister told me this
story. As youngsters together in Poona,we siblings would say 'Good
heavens, Anil aren't you going to sleep? Only to be told 'after I say
my prayers'. And there would Anil be, a mere stripling of thirteen,
kneeling with hand joined, eyes closed reciting his simple prayers.

Anil received the Call then, and when he died aged 66, just a year
short of the Golden Anniversary of his joining the Jesuits, many at
his funeral said simply, 'He was truly a good priest' indeed a rare
tribute these days and a well deserved one.

As one of the educationists Edward Soares, founder of the well known
St Thomas School, Aldona, Goa and Beatrice Soares, herself a school
teacher, it was inevitable that Anil adopted the teaching line after
joining the Jesuits at age 16.

His BEd and MEd were done from Poona University and he earned a
Masters Degree in English from Loyola University, Chicago.

He then served as Principal of St Britto's, Mapusa, Loyola High
School, St Vincent's and St Joseph's High School, Pune. He left his
mark on the numerous lives he touched- his
students knew him as a strict disciplinarian but also very fair and
impartial and never unkind.

The boys enjoyed his English and history classes. The teachers held
him in high esteem and the parents found him to be approachable,
sincere and genuinely concerned but completely impervious to
inducements and pressure.

When he died, he was 'Socius' (Assistant and Companion) to the
provincial, a most demanding post and one he performed with his usual
dedication.

Anil's commitment to his priestly calling was evident in his humility
and austerity. Despite his family's teasing, he went his simple way
only buying for himself the bare necessities, carrying for years a
well-worn cloth bag and wearing large spectacles of ancient vintage.
He never had his own bike and only recently acquired a cell phone
which he inherited from a fellow priest.

Anil always said he truly enjoyed pastoral work. Whenever possible, he
gladly lent a hand in one parish or another. He gave retreats and was
confessor for the nearby Religious communities who found him most
approachable, likeable and very kind.

He liked to visit the sick and the poor for whom he had a special
concern and very particularly devoted himself to his priest companions
when they were sick and alone.

Serious and earnest though he was, he took childlike delight in social
events and his happy chuckle and good humour are a pleasure to recall.
Though he held positions of authority, he was ever self-effacing and
never lost the common touch. In fact it embarrassed him hugely to be
praised and commended.

At his funeral, St Xavier's Church was packed to overflowing with priests, nuns,
ex-students and people from all over Pune.

They didn't come out of duty -- there was a palpable feeling of love,
deep regard and admiration for this man. There was no eulogy, no
paeans of praise and fine oration, just a little voice in people's
hearts that said. This was God's own good man. We were privileged to
have known him. How we wish we could be like him. COURTESY: Gomantak
Times.

[Goanet] OBITUARY - Nathaline Pereira - Mumbai

[Goanet Obits]

O B I T U A R Y

Nathaline Pereira
Khandivli - Mumbai
Died: 16 Jan 2010


Photo:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/0nY8wZM0kzYeziuDbNKy1Q?feat=directlink


Wife of: late Anthony Pereira

Mother/Mother-in-law of: Lurdin/Peter Fernandes, Edwin/Hilda, 
Ignatius/Philomena, Merwyn (Kuwait)/Janet


Loving Grand Mother of: Lloyd/Blossom, Lester, Paulie, Alister, Preston, 
Julius


Great Grand Mother of: Veruschka


Funeral cortege will leave her residence on 18th January 2010 at 8:30am 
for final burial at 9.00am at Our Lady of Remedy Church, Poinsur, 
Kandivli(W), Mumbai-India.



SOURCE:
Gulf-Goans e-Newsletter

[Goanet] OBITUARY: Dolly Fonseca

[Goanet Obits]

Dolly Fonseca

14 Jan: Brampton, Canada. DOLLY FONSECA. (ex-Kuwait). Passed away 
peacefully in Mississauga Hospital. Wife of late Sonny Fonseca (Ex-KOC). 
Loving mother of Susan, Sandra (Delves), Daphne (Aubrey) and Debbie 
(Tuan). Cherished Grandmother of Daniella and Tanya.


Family and friends will be received at the Ward Funeral Home Brampton 
Chapel, 52 Main Street South (Hwy 10), Brampton on Tuesday, Jan. 19. 
from 9:30 am followed by Mass at 11:00 am at St. Mary's Roman Catholic 
Church, 66A Main Street South, Brampton. Interment to follow at 
Assumption Cemetery.


Condolences to: sajfons...@yahoo.com or dsilvapinto8...@rogers.com [Info 
from Antonio Mascarenhas]



SOURCE: The Goan Voice - www.goanvoice.org.uk

[Goanet] MONTH'S MIND: Octaviano (Octo) Sequeira

[Goanet Obits]

MONTH'S  MIND

Octaviano (Octo) Sequeira
Cansaulim, Goa
(Ex-Commercial Bank of Kuwait 
 National Bank of Kuwait)
Died: Dec 09, 2009


Photo:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/1H3v5DfzBUl5uwXB_4xG4w?feat=directlink


There will be a Eucharistic Celebration for the soul of our beloved OCTO 
at the Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 
7:15 pm


Relatives and Friends kindly accept this as the only intimation.


SOURCE: Gulf-Goans e-Newsletter

[Goanet] OBITUARY - Arvind Moraes (Cuncolim, Goa)

[Goanet Obits]

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   Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

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Arvind Moraes
Cuncolim, Goa
(Babar Shipping)

Beloved Husband of Rosy (Gulf Air)

Loving father of Samantha  Sean

Brother/brother-in-law of Joseph/Joyce  Meena/Tony expired on Dec 20, 2009

Funeral leaves residence at 10:00am on Jan 9, 2010.

Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church, Dabul, Mumbai followed by burial at 
Haines Road Cemetery.



SOURCE:
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDEwLzAxLzA4I0FkMDA4MjI=Mode=GLocale=english-skin-custom

Obituary � Vinod Bakaya (ex-Air India, Kuwait)

[Goanet Obits]

O B I T U A R Y

Vinod Bakaya
(ex-Air India, Kuwait)
Died: 15 Nov 2009


Photo:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/GoanetBlog/Obits#5405290499076451394


Beloved husband of Simona (nee Fernandes) Bakaya

Everloving father of Vishal and Aakash Bakaya

Loving Son-in-law of  Tony (Martin Anthony Fernandes) and Rita Fernandes

Loving brother-in-law of Vilette Jennings, Youla Thomas, Vinita Fernandes, 
Valencia 
Fernandes, Abigail Mathias and Shane Fernandes.

Passed away peacefully in Kuwait on 15th November, 2009.

Funeral will be in Delhi (Noida) on 18th November 2009.



SOURCE: http://www.q8canada.com/obituaries.htm 

[Goanet] OBIT: Keegan De Souza (Toronto, Canada)

[Goanet Obits]

DE SOUZA, Keegan - November 11, 1979 - May 24, 2009 Son of Sabrina and Kenny, 
brother of Serena and Shannon, grandson of Maria Rita (late Michael), Grace 
(late 
Jack), nephew of Harriet (Felix), Sandra (Elmo), Mark (Lumen), Dunstan (Julie), 
Gorretti (Ashley), Jojo (Anna), Arlene (Freddie), Elaine (Eugene). Cousin of 
Cheryl, 
Marissa, Jairus, Dyelan, Joanna, Johann, Elisha, Brendan, Bronwen, Glorita, 
Marija, 
Alisha, Eshvita and Elroy.

Friends and family will be received at the Highland Funeral Home, 3280 Sheppard 
Ave. 
E. (West of Warden Ave.) on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 from 8-10 a.m. Funeral Mass 
at 
St. Aidan's Church, 3501 Finch Ave. E. (East of Warden Ave.) Wednesday, May 27 
at 
10:30 a.m.


http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/TheStar/obituary.aspx?n=Keegan-De-Souzapid=127674134

[Goanet] Obit: Peppina Conception De Souza Coutinho (Peppy)

[Goanet Obits]

Peppina  Conception  De Souza Coutinho  (Peppy)

She died peacefully surrounded by family on March 18th, 2009 at the age of 83.

Beloved wife of Ildefonso Eddy Coutinho. ex Mombasa, Kenya.

Mother/Mother-in-law of Edwin/Ranjana, Philomena/Joe, Ernest, Late Patricia, 
Pamela/Joe, Edward (Junior)/Pauline and Patrice.

Nana to Simi, Shreeti, Brian, Patsy, Alvin, Wayne, David, Vanessa, Hayley, Ryan 
and 
Jules.

Great-grandmother to Maya, Amber, Devin and Chloe.

Sister to Late Bertha, Late Octaviano, Late Lily, Late Regina and John.


Visitation

Family will receive friends at Ogden Funeral Home, 4164 Sheppard Ave. E 
(Sheppard 
and Midland), Toronto, Canada on Friday, March 20th between 2 and 4p.m.  6:30 
and 
8:30p.m.


Funeral

A funeral mass will be held on Saturday, March 21st at 10:30am at St. Barnabas 
Catholic Church, 10 Washburn Way (Sheppard and Neilson), Toronto, Canada


Burial/Reception

Burial and reception to follow at Christ the King Cemetery, 7770 Steeles Ave E. 
(Steeles and Reesor), Toronto, Canada


If desired in lieu of flowers, donation may be made to St. Vincent de Paul 
Society.

May her sould rest in eternal peace.





SOURCE: Trevor 

[Goanet] Death: Fredrick Charles Barboza

[Goanet Obits]

Death: Fredrick Charles Barboza ( December 28, 2008)

Parra, GOA. FREDRICK CHARLES BARBOZA. Beloved husband of Benny. Loving 
father/father-in-law of Edna/Tony Fernandes (Canada), Lourdes/Leo Kapoor 
(Parra, Bardez), Dorothy/Francis Soares (Canada), Cynthia/Pascal Noronha 
(Canada), Jude/Juliana Barboza, grandfather of Denise, Denzil, Dahlia, 
Kevin, Karen, Nicholas, Amanda, Michael, Julius, Jason and Jessica, Great 
Grandfather of Jeremy. The Funeral Mass will be held at St. Anne's Church, 
Parra, Bardez, Goa, on Monday December 29, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.


Fredrick is the father-in-law of Goanetter Tony Fernandes, alumnus of St 
Anthony's High School, Monte de Guirim, Goa (Class of 1964)

Condolences to :

Edna Fernandes  ednafe...@hotmail.com
Lourdes Kapoor   leokap...@hotmail.com
Dorothy Soares   fsoa...@rogers.com
Cynthia Noronha wildflo...@sympatico.ca
Jude Barboza  jude.barb...@hotmail.com


Besides being active in the tiatr fraternity, Fredrick was also a 
businessman in Mumbai (Bombay). A tribute to Fredrick Charles Barboza can be 
found at:

http://tonferns.blogspot.com/2008/12/freddy-barboza.html



Goanet Obits
http://www.goanet.org

[Goanet] Obituary - Dollorosa D'souza (Dolly )

[Goanet Obits]

Dollorosa D'souza (Dolly)

Born: June 9, 1933
Died: August 13, 2008 (Toronto, Canada)

Wife of Late Nelson V. D'souza (Ex-Kuwait Airways, Kuwait)

Mother of Glenn/Sharon (Kuwait), Derrick/Sandra (Kuwait), Audrey/Late 
Vincent Noronha (Toronto), Deborah/Hubert (Doha), Karyn/Christopher 
(Toronto), Bertrand (Toronto)


Grandmother of Calvin, Lou-ellen, Nathan, Clayton (Kuwait),
  Ryan, Tara, Tasha, Shawn,  Rachel (Toronto)
  Ashton  Aaron (Doha)


Visitation/Wake:
Saturday, August 16, 2008
8:30 am to 10:30 am
The Simple Alternative
1057 Brock Road
Pickering, ON L1W 3T7


Funeral Mass:
Saturday, August 16, 2008
11:00 a.m.
Holy Redeemer Catholic Church
796 Eyer Drive
Pickering, ON



http://www.goanet.org 

[Goanet] Obituary: Mrs Catarina De Souza e Fernandez

[Goanet Obits]

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   Tri Continental Film Festival 2008
  July 25 - 30, 2008
  Goa, India

 http://www.moviesgoa.org/page/tri_continental/
   http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricon/schedule_2008.pdf
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MRS CATARINA DE SOUZA e FERNANDEZ

Perth Australia. Ex-Anjuna Goa-Dadar Mumbai

Born Anjuna Goa 1937 wife of late Fermino, mother of Boney (Mumbai) Madonna 
 Sybil Grandmother of Desiree, Steffi, Valany and Reuben (all in Australia) 
Shaunin Kimberly (Mumbai) sister of Eremita (UAE) Aunt of Fred (UK) Margaret 
 Blaise (USA) Jospehine (UAE)


Passed away 14 July.

Mass and Rosary on Monday, 21 July at 4.00pm at Holy Cross Church, Cnr. 
Ommanney Street  Carter Street. Hamilton Hill 6163 WA.


Body will be flown to Mumbai India for the funeral.


Source: Albert Da Cruz