[Goanet-News] IN VERSE: Motherland by Marcos Catao cata...@yahoo.com
M O T H E R L A N D Marcos Catao cata...@yahoo.com MOTHERLAND is where you are born MOTHERLAND is where you've grown Where the spirit blossomed MOTHERLAND is the warmth that binds A bond of all the people Who are not related Yet feel the warmth Of that flame that glows. MOTHERLAND is the piece of land Bathed in filial sweat The bed of fragrant flowers Sprouting from love'.s care.. MOTHERLAND is not a lil' piece of paper Bandied as Passport MOTHERLAND does not dim E'en if seemingly asleep In an undesired exile. MOTHERLAND is what seems In the voice to quiver When one returns home After a long stay out. MOTHERLAND is not forgotten E'en in the moment of the last breath Try then never to demerit The MOTHERLAND where you were born For it is the greatest gift The Good LORD on you has endowed. Dedicated to GOA, our unique and unforgettable MOTHERLAND Translated from the original Portuguese “A PATRIA”, featured in a recent book of poems ”Pedrinhas na Areia: poemas fortuitos de saudades d'outrora” (Pebbles in the sand: random poems of nostalgic memories)
[Goanet-News] Book Release: Time traveller one George Menezes
Time traveller one George Menezes Mumbai Mirror | Aug 28, 2013, 12.35 PM IST Columnist, humorist, satirist, former diplomat and an 'outspoken Lay conscience' of the Catholic church, George Menezes's sixth book is about to hit the stands. An anthology of his various works, The Naked Liberal, pieces together George's eventful life from the 30s to the present decade. So if you have the former IAF pilot talking about his experiments with politics and pot, there are also vignettes of an elegant society in Bombay, Goa and Paris, with rare photographs, letters and anecdotes as a bonus. Eighty-four-year-old George, now a resident of Bandra, has interesting plans for the launch. We hear two Mumbai bravehearts - traffic warden Anita Lobo and Major General Ian Cardozo - will do the honours. Lobo needs no introduction to readers of this newspaper - she was one of the Mirror Heroes thanks to her integrity and commitment toward implementing traffic rules in the suburbs. Cardozo, a 1971 Indo-Pak war hero who lost a leg in a landmine explosion, went on to become the first disabled officer in the Indian Army to command an infantry battalion and then a brigade. Time to top up your reading list? Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/Time-traveller-one-George-Menezes/articleshow/22115309.cms Goanet A-C-E! goa...@goanet.org
[Goanet-News] NEWS: Police finally crack an arrest in the Narendra Dabholkar murder, pick up suspect from Sanatan Sanstha (India Today)
Police finally crack an arrest in the Narendra Dabholkar murder, pick up suspect from Sanatan Sanstha INDIA TODAY ONLINE NEW DELHI, AUGUST 28, 2013 | UPDATED 23:10 IST Eight days after anti-superstition crusader Narendra Dabholkar was gunned down outside a temple in Pune, the city Crime Branch has finally picked up a suspect in the murder case. A special team of the Pune Crime Branch probing the murder of Dr Narendra Dabholkar has taken a sadhak of 'Sanatan Sanstha' into custody from the organisation's Goa headquarters. 31-year-old Sandeep Shinde was picked up from Hindu organisation Sanatan Sanstha's headquarters at Ramnathi in Ponda on Wednesday at around 5 pm. The team included seven members, who were assisted by Ponda police in the operation. The team consisted of Crime Detection Branch of Faraskhana police station, led by ASI Geet Bagwade. This is the first arrest in the reformist's shocking murder, days before the Anti-Superstition Bill he was campaigning for was passed in the Maharashtra Assembly. Sanatan Sanstha has already been in the news for gloating on Dabholkar's death, though they denied any connection with the murder. In a front-page statement in its daily mouthpiece Sanatan Prabhat, Sanatan Sanstha leader Jayant Athavale said births and deaths are pre-destined and everybody gets the fruit of their karma. Instead of dying bedridden through illness, or after some surgery, such a death for Dabholkar is a blessing of the almighty, Athavale said in the statement. Dabholkar was shot dead by unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants Tuesday 7.30 a.m. near Omkareshwar Temple in Pune while he was on his morning walk. Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/narendra-dabholkar-murder-first-arrest-from-sanatan-sanstha/1/304283.html Who was Narendra Dabholkar? http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/who-was-narendra-dabholkar/1/300347.html
[Goanet-News] Political parties... and the Indian diasporic population
Political parties in India have also shown greater enthusiasm in courting the diasporic population. All Indian parties have used the rhetoric of nationalism while engaging the diaspora, but there are significant differences among them. The Congress Party has generally emphasized the economic aspects of the diaspora's relationship to India and has used strong nationalist rhetoric to mobilize the overseas population for economic investment. Occasionally, it uses anti-Pakistan rhetoric in the context of representing the interests of India in international forums or in the United States. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made serious attempts to mobilize overseas Hindus in support of its ideology of a Hindu nation, along with following the economic-investment framework to attract the diaspora. Hindu nationalism or Hindutva -- an ideology that propagates the establishment of India as a religious Hindu nation -- has been systematically promoted among overseas Indians. There have been organized attempts in the United States to mobilize funds and other resources for the Hindutva cause. The ideology has tried to tap into the need of Hindu Indian immigrants for a cultural-religious identity in an American society defined primarily by racial identity (Rajagopal 2000). Although nationalism is a common theme in the attempt to attract diasporic communities to the country of origin, it is a particular kind of narrow, religion-based nationalism that has been part of the BJP's diasporic discourse. -- From The Limits of Transnational Mobilization: Indian American Lobby Groups and the India-US Civil Nuclear Deal (Sangay Mishra) in *Indian Diaspora and Transnationalsm* edited by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo, Michiel Baas, Thomas Faist. Rawat Publications, 2012 ISBN 978-81-316-0515-8 -- FN Land +91-832-240-9490 Cell +91-982-212-2436 f...@goa-india.org f...@goa-india.org
