[Goanet] BAPA MHOJEA MOGALLA - Konkani devotional hymn

2020-08-05 Thread walter menezes
Dhonia Devan favo kelolea soglea denneam khatir VelroyFernandes gheun yeta aplo 
poiloch video, BAPA MHOJEA MOGALLA (Konknni bhokti-git)
[Velroy's first video on Youtube...dedicated to the Lord]

Hea bhokti-gitacho mull rochpi: Charles De Foucauld

Songitacho sangat: Grayston Vaz [] Keith Antao
Songitachi manddavoll: Joel Fernandes
Concept: Wynne Moraes [] Velroy Fernandes

Mixing: VEL-TUNED Studio [] Mastering: Darrel Mascarenhas

Video Editing: Evolution X Media (Benny Cardozo  Fernandes)
Colour Grading: Avit Psy Rush 

Bapa Mhojea Mogalla (Konkani Gospel Cover) Official Video 2020

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[Goanet] Konkani Christmas Carol

2013-12-24 Thread walter menezes
Dear all,

Listen to this Christmas Carol from the album, ZOIT-achim FULAM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x85EMEe-h8feature=youtu.be

Wishing you a Blessed Christmas!

walter


[Goanet] Interview with Enclidas de Elly

2013-10-28 Thread walter menezes
To,
The Moderator,
Goanet.
 
Sir,
 
Dalgado Konknni Akademi is
organizing Borovpeak Bhett ( Meet the Writer ) Programme on Wednesday,
30th October 2013 at TAG Hall, Campal, Panaji, Goa
at 4.30 pm.
 
The personality for the Borovpeak
Bhett is Enclidas de Elly, publisher and editor of Cine Times, a
Konkani weekly published from Mumbai.
 
In this regard, please find my
article EDITOR ELLY which first appeared on Gomantak Times, Goa
dated 4th November 2009 for your kind consideration on Goa Book Club.
 
walter menezes
 
 
EDITOR ELLY
 
He was born in Bombay
(now Mumbai), the fourth child in a family of seven. His mother always filled
his heart with abundant love, especially of Goa,
his homeland, and Konknni, the language of his forefathers. After his studies
in Delhi, he returned back to Bombay and spent 32 long and fruitful years
in the cause of the mother-tongue his mother taught him.
 
WALTER MENEZEScatches up with Enclidas de Elly, former
editor of Cine Timesand recipient of awards and recognitions
from Goan Review Art Foundation and Dalgado Konknni Akademi at his Ambaulim
residence in Quepem, where he is busy giving the final touches to his latest
offering, ‘Otmo Porot Zolmant Eta?’,  a
researched Konknni book on reincarnation.  
 
The slightest sound at the
compound gate of his modest residence off Ambaulim-Cuncolim road was enough to 
provoke
his ‘dog-squad’ into loud bursts of frenzied howling. Enclidas de Elly’s
weekly, like so many others, may have been a ‘watchdog’ once upon a time but
here, the fearsome-threesome ruled the roost.
 
‘They mean no harm,’ he explained
amidst the din. ‘But they take their time before they can be friends,’ he said,
leading me to his sitting-room through the back-door and the kitchen.
 
This was only my second visit but
once seated, the 1942-born boroinnar (writer) of nearly 250 Konknni 
short-stories in the Roman script spoke for more
than an hour about his life, his times and Cine
Times.
 
The Early Days
 
We were a big family then settled
in Marine Lines. Hanv chovtho (I was
the fourth)… amongst four brothers and three sisters. My father was a seafarer
but it was my mother who realized the need to keep her children ‘bonded’ to our
homeland through Konknni, our mother-tongue.
 
Every time the postman arrived
with a letter from my father mailed from some distant port, mother would
assemble us children and loudly read the contents to us. All letters were
always in Konknni. Later, I began reading the letters and then, even took to
replying as well. I think by the time I was seven, I was fairly good in reading
and writing Konknni in the Roman script.
 
In Father’s Shoes  
 
My father expired when I was only
eleven and life suddenly became miserable and difficult. But my mother was a
brave woman. Tinnem amkam voir kaddlim (She brought us up). Bombay
in those days was different and the city offered enough avenues to earn one’s
daily bread. Elliott de Elly, my elder brother, was at that time working for
the All India Radio in Delhi as Konknni newsreader and he felt it was his
responsibility now to give me ‘a proper education’. In 1956, I left Bombay for 
Delhi and stayed
with my brother in Western Extension Area, Karol Bagh, where I completed my SSC
through DelhiPublicCollege
and BSc through TB (Tej Bahadur) College. I also did a one-year course in 
Printing
Technology while I was there.
 
The Fever of Freedom
 
Those were wonderful years in Delhi. The struggle for Goa’s freedom was gaining 
momentum. Manoharai Sardesai,
Chandrakant Keni, Evagrio George and Alfred Braganza…they used to be in Delhi 
and were frequently
on AIR with Goa-related programmes. My brother had an intimate relationship
with them. The fever of freedom had consumed them all. My brother was
transferred back to Bombay, once Goa was liberated in 1961.
 
Gõychea Saibachea Porbe Disa…
 
This may come as a surprise but I
began my career as a printer-cum-compositor, first with Goa Times and later 
with Ave
Maria. Unlike present-day machines, working on a cylinder machine was quite
a tough job and although my spell in both these Konknni periodicals was brief
(nine months), the experience and knowledge gained was enough to land me in
Thakurdwar’s Rohit Printers where I immensely improved my Hindi, Marathi and
Gujarati.
 
Although Goa was liberated, we in Bombay were getting stories of a sinister 
design
to make Goa a part of Maharashtra. We decided
it was time to stand up. Our younger generation was moving away from Konknni,
our mother-tongue. It was important that we renewed that bond again if we had
to ward off the threat.
 
There was this sick unit, Rex
Printing Press, in Chandanwadi. We brought it on rental basis and on December
3, 1963, Gõychea Saibachea porbe disa (on the feast day of St. Francis Xavier), 
we launched Cine Times, a 12-page demi-size Konknni weekly in the Roman script,
priced at an unbelievable ten paise! 
 
The Pages of Cine Times
 
We aimed to give quality and
variety to our readers

[Goanet] Music group from Quepem

2012-07-26 Thread walter menezes
Dears,

Check the video clippings of young musicians from Quepem, who performed during 
the felicitation programme of SSC top rankers on 22nd July, 2012 at the Quepem 
Sports Complex. The function was organized ny Nav Yug Vikas Manch, Quepem

L-R: Valery D'Costa, Kiransha Velingker, Keith Azavedo, Rohan Silveira and 
Quentin Mascarenhas

Links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xwxrobZK0feature=channellist=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CiRE65Fl88feature=channellist=UL

Walter Menezes


[Goanet] Voice of Quepem

2012-07-01 Thread walter menezes
A new blog which contains news reports and the legal impediments surrounding 
the Quepem Church, which the parishioners are unaware of, can be found at 
http://voiceofquepem.blogspot.in/
Walter Menezes


[Goanet] My yahoo account has been hacked

2010-03-28 Thread walter menezes
To, 
The Moderator,
Goanet.

Dear Sir,

My following account has been hacked:

walter_mene...@yahoo.com

Letters have been sent to all my friends on the mailing list that I am stranded 
in UK and in urgent need of money.

May I inform your readers that I am safe and very much in Goa.

Walter Menezes,
Quepem, Goa.


[Goanet] QUEPEM CHURCH: 183 Not Out! Should it be pulled down? - Part I

2008-05-12 Thread walter menezes

QUEPEM CHURCH: 183 Not Out! Should it be pulled down?
By Walter Menezes

For a number of years now, the parishioners of Quepem have spent 
considerable time and energy debating over an issue that has so far not 
yielded any concrete solution: should the 183-year old Holy Cross Church be 
'pulled down' to make way for a new and a modern church?


In the last week of April, 2008, the Parish Priest of the Church, Rev. Fr. 
Mario Vaz, who took charge last year, undertook a journey to all the wards 
of the parish in a fresh attempt to know the 'pulse' of the people, with a 
videographer in tow.


And while the parishioners look forward to the formal meetings to discuss, 
threadbare and in length, the various issues that need to be settled, this 
article is only an attempt to enlighten the reader about the history of the 
church, the 'Rococo Period' during which it was built and towards the end, 
offer a few suggestions.


I must admit that I am not an architect or a historian but I love Goa and 
its hills and heritage. And every time a tree is felled, a hill raped or an 
ancestral house razed to make way for 'concrete boxes', my heart bleeds.


THE CHURCH

The Holy Cross Church of Quepem was founded in 1825 by the Cathedral Dean 
Rev. Jose Paulo da Costa Pereira de Almeida. A chapel in the beginning and 
filial to the church of Paroda, it was made a parish by provision of 
5.2.1833. After repairs the church was re-opened for the worship on 
6.7.1889.


Quepem, as we know, was incorporated in Goa along with the territories of 
Ponda, Zambaulim, Canacona, Paroda, Mulem and the Fortress of Cabo de Rama 
only in 1782, in an agreement signed between the Portuguese and the Rei of 
Sundem.


Google search reveals that Dean Rev. Almeida or 'Deão', as he is 
respectfully known in Quepem even now, arrived in Goa in 1779 along with the 
Archbishop, Dom Frei de Santa Catarina, famously known as the 'barefooted 
friar'. The Archbishop died in the Palácio do Deão and his mortal remains 
are in the Church of Quepem.


Bestowed with exceptional faculties of intelligence, 'Deão' rapidly rose to 
positions of responsibility and in 1787 shifted his residence from Old Goa 
to Quepem and founded a hamlet. He established, at his own expense, a public 
market, hospital, other facilities and the Church for the benefit of the 
inhabitants, as inscribed on the pyramidal structure in the churchyard. 
(to be continued)


==
The above article appeared in the May 8, 2008 edition of the Gomantak Times, 
Goa




[Goanet] SANNY DE QUEPEM

2007-11-15 Thread walter menezes

* GOANET  C * O * M * M * U * N * I * T * Y  E * V * E * N * T *

  Xavier Center of Historical Research  presents  HISTORY HOUR

   TOPIC:  Waste Wise - An Interactive Awareness Presentation
on Waste Management in Goa

  SPEAKER:  Clinton Vaz - November 16, 2007 - 5:30pm

  VISIT: http://tinyurl.com/222757

A tribute to Sanny

GOODBYE, SANNY
GOODBYE

goodbye, sanny
goodbye

there is mail
in my mailbox
but without your posts
it looks empty
and sure we miss you
aplenty

you did your bit
and more than that
and gave your very best
to everyone around
for to give is godly
and all that is not given
is lost
says an old indian proverb

the bard of avon once said
life is a stage
and that is where you stood
on goa day
singing your heart out 
before a captivating audience

but only the lord knew
and none
how sudden
and 'drama'tic
your 'exit' would be

goodbye, sanny
goodbye

walter menezes,
quepem, goa


  

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