[Goanet-News] COMMUNITY AUDIO: The story of Radio Mango ... Senza (Portuguese group) performs... Goan food habits... Cypriano Lopes on the media in Goa
* The story of Radio Mango, broadcasting in Konkani in Canada Milena Marques-Zachariah, the president/producer/host of the station which broadcasts in Toronto on Saturdays (7-9 pm) was in Goa. mil...@radiomango.ca https://archive.org/details/radiomango * Senza, a Portuguese band performs in Goa This was part of the recently-concluded Lusofonia festival 2016 at Panjim. Senza, a Portuguese group, comprehends a message of deep musical and cultural union. It's a music project created by Catarina Duarte and Nuno Caldeira, both from Portugal, after a three-month trip in Asia. In their music, it is possible to identify the meeting of different music styles, as well as the sonority of the several Portuguese speaking countries. It’s a music style which they call Lusophone fusion. The existence of musical influences from Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde and other Portuguese speaking countries makes Senza a unifying product of Lusophony, with potential to divulge the Portuguese language and culture. A fascinating story, with an original and astonishing sound." https://archive.org/details/senza * Health nutrition and Goan food habits, past and present. A talk by Valentina D'Souza. At the Xavier Centre of Historical Research's 'History Hour'. https://archive.org/details/ValentinaDSouza * Media in Goa -- a view from Cypriano Lopes. The programme executive of Doordarshan National (DD1) passed away this month, after a valiant battle with cancer for the past year-and-half. Weeks before his death, he spoke with Frederick Noronha, voicing his frank views of the media in which he worked for a quarter century. https://archive.org/details/cyprianolopes1 -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha | http://about.me/noronhafrederick | http://goa1556.in _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha _/ Goa,1556 CC shared audio content https://archive.org/details/goa1556 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
[Goanet-News] When a Goan recollects the Iraqi invasion (TNN)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/When-a-Goan-recollects-the-Iraqi-invasion/articleshow/51133152.cms When a Goan recollects the Iraqi invasion TNN | Feb 25, 2016, 10.05 AM IST Panaji: When Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in the wee hours of August 2, 1990, the strong community of around 25,000 Goans were caught unaware. Overnight they saw their peaceful streets transform into a war zone, their homes broken into and belongings stolen. Many left the country in tears with a single suitcase only to return and find their homes, razed to the ground. Recalling those tense days, A Veronica Fernandes, a freelance writer who moved to Kuwait from Candolim in 1975 never thought he'd make it through. He found himself face to face with Iraqi soldiers and underwent the traumatizing experience of being held at gun point on more than a one occasion. "We switched off the lights in our homes, hid and prayed for the firing to stop. It was a very traumatic experience for everyone," he recalls. On his return to Goa, after the borders were opened, some of the Kuwaiti Goan evacuees were deeply-affected to see the country that gave them employment opportunities being bombed, didn't sit back. Instead, a public meeting was called on November 3, 1990, at Tristao Braganca Cunha Memorial Hall, near Azad Maidan attended by 100 Kuwait evacuee Goans. The Goa-Solidarity Centre came into being and on November 12 they organized a rally on the streets of Panaji in support of Kuwait. "This rally was attended by hundreds of Kuwait evacuee Goans including Kuwaitis where Col Juma Kholifi, a prominent officer in the ministry of interior affairs delivered a very emotional speech. CNN too highlighted our efforts and the news reached the Kuwait embassy in Delhi and the Kuwait government in exile in Taif, Saudi Arabia," Fernandes who initiated the movement told TOI. The group sustained themselves through voluntary contributions refusing to accept outside financial contributions even refusing to align with the Progressive Democratic Front at the time. A number of meetings in the state city in the months leading up to Kuwait's Liberation were held including a night vigil in front of Panaji church on the eve of the start of the war for liberation and a victory rally on March 12, 1991. After the war, the association led by Fernandes started a movement to get Kuwait's Prisoners of War freed, holding regular meetings in Kuwait and even pressuring the Indian government to intervene in Kuwait's support. Fernandes visited Delhi in 1995 and met with K H Khan, chairman of the Indo-Arab Friendship Society and both foreign ministers R L Bhatia and Salman Khurshid presenting them with memorandums. To commemorate the 25th Liberation Day of Kuwait, the Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Centre with Fernandes as its convenor is organizing a meeting at the Goa chamber of commerce and industry conference hall on Thursday where he will also release his autobiography 'From Coconut Trees to Oil Wells' published by Goa 1556. The book, he says, is dedicated to all Goans who brought prosperity home through their sweat and tears in distant Kuwait. ###
[Goanet-News] Demand for language rights... on Int'l Mother Language Day (Eric Ozario)
INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY Feb. 21, 2016 -- New Delhi and DELHI DEMANDS FOR LANGUAGE RIGHTS A Report Campaign for Language Equality and Rights (CLEAR), headed by Senthil Nathan, with a view to change India's Language Policy, had invited representatives of Indian languages to assemble in Delhi, on Feb. 21, 2016 -- the International Mother Language Day. Accordingly, representatives of 40 Indian languages addressed a Press Conference and released the 'Delhi Demands for Language Rights, at 1 pm, at the Press Club of India, Raisina Road, and at 5, that evening, gathered at Jantar Mantar and held a Candle-Light Vigil, to initiate the campaign to change India's Language Policy. The major demands are: 1. To declare all languages included in the VIIIth Schedule of the Indian Constitution (including Konkani), as Official Languages of the Union Government. 2. To include all languages recommended by the Mahapatra Committee in the VIIIth Schedule of the Constitution. 3. The Central and State Governments to protect and preserve tribal and lesser languages threatened with extinction. 4. Fight against the imposition of one language over the others, undertaken by the Central Government, specially Hindi. 5. Allow each language the right to choose their own script/scripts for literature in their language. The Delhi Demands were endorsed by the following, representing their languages -- Anand G. Karnataka (Kannada) Deepak Pawar Maharashtra (Marathi) Ganesh Chetan Karnataka (Kannada) Garga Chatterjee West Bengal (Bengali) Joga Singh Virk Punjab (Punjabi) Komakkambedu Himakiran Anugula Tamil Nadu (Tamil, Telugu) Mani M. Manivannan Tamil Nadu (Tamil) P. Pavithran Kerala (Malayalam) Priyank KS Karnataka (Kannada) Ravishankar Ayyakkannu Tamil Nadu (Tamil) Saket Shreebushan Sahu Odisha (Kosali) S. Senthilnathan (Aazhi Senthilnathan) Tamil Nadu (Tamil) Thamizneriyan Tamil Nadu (Tamil) Vasant Shetty Karnataka (Kannada) Eric Ozario Karnataka (Konkani) Vivek V. Karnataka (Kannada) Umakanthan P. Karnataka (Kannada, Tamil) Given the atmosphere of intolerance and imposition that we live in, in India today and especially in view of the fight for equal rights for all scripts of Konkani that we are fighting against the Kendra Sahitya Akademi, in the courts of law, this campaign for Language Rights has a great significance for the future of Konkani. I, therefore, entreat every Konkani organisation to join this campaign enthusiastically. The developments in this regard will be informed from time-to-time. I must place on record my sense of pride at the participation of the leaders and members of the Kanara Cultural Association, headed by its President, Smt. Lydia D’Almeida. In fact, it was a matter of great pride for me that Konkanis' was the largest contingent at the Candle-Light Vigil. I congratulate and thank them on behalf of Jago'tik Konknni So'ngho'tto;n. I once again remind every Konkani organisation to initiate the implementation of the Konkani Language Plan adopted six months ago. De'v bo'rem ko'rum. With warm regards, Eric Ozario Secretary General https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/25162511492/in/dateposted/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/24913078769/in/dateposted/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/25280746605/in/dateposted/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/24650157884/in/dateposted/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/24985180770/in/dateposted/
