[Goanet-news] Goa news for August 4, 2006
Happy Birthday: St Britto's, which is 60 years old. Celebrations at St Jerome's Church Mapusa 11 am on July 30, 2006. Football match Loyola's vs. Britto's 11 am on July 31, 2006 at the school grounds. http://bmxgoa.com Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Moving beyond malls: Piramal looks at realty options (Business Standard India) The group plans to expand into western India with projects in Goa, Pune and Nagpur. Having exited the countrys first mega mall #148; Crossroads #148; Rajeev Piramal, managing director of Peninsula Land Management, is looking at creating footprints outside the city. http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php? autono=100457leftnm=0subLeft=0chkFlg= *** Goa allots land for pharma, biotech SEZs (Business Standard India) Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) has allotted more than 12 lakh sq mt land for a pharma special economic zone (SEZ) at Keri in Ponda taluka, and another 6 lakh-plus sq mt for biotech parks. http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php? leftnm=11bKeyFlag=INautono=3720 *** Mininig cos to construct bridge in Goa (The Economic Times) PANAJI: Mining companies will join hands to construct a bridge across a river in Goa's mining belt to facilitate the ore transport, officials said. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1844249.cms *** Notices to foreigners in Goa purchasing property (New Kerala) Panaji: The Goa government today issued public notices to foreigners purchasing properties in the state, cautioning them against the violations of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999. http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnewsid=1341 *** Goa to set up Film City (New Kerala) Panaji, Aug 1: The Goa government plans to set up a film city or film park in the state to provide exposure to local artists and open up new employment avenues, Industries Minister Luizinho Faleiro said today. http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnewsid=376 *** Mining just got easier in Goa (New Kerala) Panaji: Mining in Goa has just got easier with the state government giving the green signal to the Goa Infrastructure Development Corporation Pvt. Ltd. (GIDC) to build a four-lane bridge across the Usgao-Pale area of North Goa to facilitate the transportation of ore. http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnewsid=579 *** Beautiful traditional music (Navhind Times) #152;Kandolechim Kirnnam the cultural troupe from Candolim, Bardez, Goa have been participating in the #152;mando competitions organised by the Goa Cultural and Social Centre and have bagged the #152;mando award eleven times for original compositions, as well as the traditional ones. http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=080827 *** Churchill opposes equal status to Marathi (Navhind Times) Panaji, Aug 2: Even as protagonists of Roman Konkani, Devanagari Konkani and Marathi are debating the latest decision of the Congress legislative party, the South Goa MP, Mr Churchill Alemao has added his own colour to it by demanding that Marathi should not be given status of official language. http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=080816 *** Garbage disposal: CCP, other civic bodies get show-cause notices (Navhind Times) Panaji, Aug 2: The Goa State Pollution Control Board has once again issued show-cause notices to all 13 municipal bodies in the state including the Corporation of the City of Panaji, for not complying to the Solid Waste Management and Handling Rules 2000, which directs them to collect, segregate, treat and dispose of the solid waste generated in their respective jurisdiction. http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=080817 *** E Bengal agree to release Periyar for India U-20 camp (Navhind Times) Margao, Aug 2: Kolkata giants East Bengal have agreed to release India U-20 player Vimal Periyar for the ongoing camp in Goa for the SAFF football tournament to be held in Sri Lanka from August 16. http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=081017 Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php ___ Goanet-news mailing list Goanet-news@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-news-goanet.org
[Goanet-news] What's on in Goa... biodiesel demo... scholar loans... breast cancer ... Zai Whitaker
Happy Birthday: St Britto's, which is 60 years old. Celebrations at St Jerome's Church Mapusa 11 am on July 30, 2006. Football match Loyola's vs. Britto's 11 am on July 31, 2006 at the school grounds. http://bmxgoa.com Check updates: http://www.gabbly.com/indialists.org/mailman/listinfo/goajourno TODAYINGOA: FRI 04AUG2006 11 am Interest-free loans to students/scholars, at new secretariat, Porvorim. TODAYINGOA: FRI 04AUG2006 3 PM: Bio-fuel test production at Pilar. CM Pratapsing Rane to visit. UPCOMING EVENTS: Breast cancer awareness prog on 05AUG2006 4.30PM atHotel Nova Goa.Tata Memorial docs to be present. Thanks to Vijay D'Souza for the tip. UPCOMING EVENTS 06AUG06 11 a.m . by Zai Whitaker, who is an author of several children's books including The Boastful Centipede and Other Creatures in Verse, Cobra in my Kitchen, Salim Ali for Schools, Andamans Boy and Kali and the Rat Snake. Literati, Calangute. Diviya Kapur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zai is a teacher and writer. She has worked at the Chennai Snake Park and Crocodile Bank, and at Abacus Montessori School, Chennai. She lived and taught in beautiful Kodaikanal for thirteen years. She is also part of a team that helps women of the Irula tribe of hunter-gatherers and snake catchers. UPCOMING EVENTS: 06AUG2006 Condolence meet for TU leader Narayan Palekar, 3 PM IMB Hall. UPCOMING EVENTS 06AUG2006 10 am Hiroshima Day at 269 Hilltop, Pandavaddo, Chorao Islands. 10 am. Rahul Tripathi, Sabina Martins, Amrut Kansar, Floriano Lobo, Matanhy Saldanha to speak. UPCOMING EVENTS: MON 07AUG2006 Lecture on Right to Info and related matters. Balleshwar Rai, IAS, Chairman, Public Grievances Commission New Delhi and former CS, Goa. Followed by 30 mins QA. Menezes Brag Hall 5 pm. UPCOMING EVENTS: 12AUG06. One-day workshop on Right to Information. 9.30 to 5.30. Kare Law College. Prof Sairam Bhat 9890073039. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 2715510. Overview of RTI Act, functioning mechanisms, etc. UPCOMING EVENTS: 13AUG2006: Osteoporosis detection camp. St. Andrew's Parish, Vasco da Gama. 10 am. Dr. Wilfred D'Sa as consulting specialist. Register: 9822487832 USEFUL LINK: Goa Education Development Corporation. EDC House, Mezannine Floor, Panjim 2425574 or 75. http://www.gedc.nic.in GOAJOURNOLINK: Nadia Tina Menezes is back in town after a longish (and successful!) stint in Mumbai. 9326020208. USEFUL INFO: Who's who at the Goa University. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GoaRTI/message/53 UPCOMING EVENTS: Health Minister Dayanand Narvekar to visit his constituency, hear public grievances Aug 7 aft Aldona panchayat, Aug 9 Soccour and Penha de Franca, Aug 11 Salvador do Mundo. NEWSALERT: GoG announces applications from landholders in 'Special Economic Zones' for industrial purposes will be recommended to the Centre. Details from Directorate of Industries Trade and Commerce, Udyog Bhavan. -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 4000+ copylefted photos to share from Goa http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ ___ Goanet-news mailing list Goanet-news@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-news-goanet.org
[Goanet-news] Goanet Reader: Troubled Global Village: Nervousness On Both Sides Of The Divide
Happy Birthday: St Britto's, which is 60 years old. Celebrations at St Jerome's Church Mapusa 11 am on July 30, 2006. Football match Loyola's vs. Britto's 11 am on July 31, 2006 at the school grounds. http://bmxgoa.com Troubled Global Village: Nervousness On Both Sides Of The Divide Goa's multiculturalism is now raising an ugly head, laments Vivek Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's Foundation Day at the Mater Dei Institute in Saligao, Goa’s second-oldest English medium school, and a smiling quartet of 11-year olds whirls and bobs to the classic Konkani pop song, 'Juliana'. Their show is part of an annual ritual dating back to 1909, almost a full century of neatly uniformed students strutting their stuff and being rewarded with treats. But examine the picture a little closer, and it's apparent that there's something new happening under the Goan sun. One of the twirling little girls is local, another from North India. The third is European, from Portugal, and in the middle of things is Patharpron (Noon) Kong King, Thai-born, Goa-raised, just one of hundreds of foreign children being brought up and educated in a Goa that's suddenly morphed from sleepy getaway to global tourism hotspot. Cleta Lobo became headmistress of Mater Dei in 1968, at the age of 19, appointed after the death of her father (and school founder), Anicleto FX Lobo. She recalls that there were always one or two foreign students through the hippie era of the 1960s and '70s. That trickle has turned into a flood in the last decade, and storied Mater Dei's student body is now nearly 50 per cent international, with 22 nationalities represented. Lobo used to be charged with instilling conservative values in an almost entirely Goan Catholic student body. Now she deals with problems like racist behaviour directed at a Nigerian student by his European classmates. It's a formidable challenge to integrate students from all over the world into an academic environment that prepares all of them to take the demanding ICSE board exams. But Lobo is unfazed. They come here because we can manage, because we are equipped to deal with them. Goa has surfed the waves of globalisation before. European colonialism kicked into action here first, in 1510, and ended here last, with a chequered 451 years in between. At the end of the sixteenth century, the port capital of Estado da India was bigger and much richer than Paris, London and Lisbon. It attracted travellers and traders from every corner of the known world, bestrode the richest international trading routes ever established, and ruled as capital of a vast maritime empire stretching from Japan to Africa. That heyday faded as fast as it developed, but connections to the outside world remained. Goans poured out of the economically stagnant colony to find employment abroad -- in Portuguese and British Africa, the Far East and Latin America. Mater Dei owes its existence to global Goan aspirations. It provided reliable English-language education to entire generations of Goans with parents working abroad; its graduates include civil servants in every country in the Anglophone sphere. Noon Kong King's parents have no doubts about Mater Dei’s cosmopolitan credentials. Henry Pfeiffer, a German, adopted Noon and her younger sister when he married their mother, Chawee. We are very happy with their education here, he said. It is a better, happier and more mixed environment for them to grow up in than Germany or Thailand. Pfeiffer believes that the girls’ prospects are better in Asia, that an Indian childhood provides a future competitive advantage. Goa offers his small, tight-knit family the twin advantages of great business opportunity and idyllic surroundings. I moved to Goa to retire, actually, he said. But when I had spent some time here I could see that there was money to be made, almost lying there on the ground all around me. It seemed lazy not to simply pick it up. The couple now operates Oriental, a well-established Thai restaurant in Candolim that’s developed a loyal following and a solid reputation for meticulously prepared Thai food. But Oriental is now on the move as a new cadre of moneymen and entrepreneurs have descended on Goa over the past two years. The contract that Pfeiffer had with his landlord has been discarded, and the new owners have plans for serious expansion that don't include him. He's scouting for a new location in a highly constricted marketplace that includes real hordes of competitors, each looking for a piece of the action. As Goa's prospects have risen sky-high, so have accompanying tensions. There's great nervousness on both sides of the insider-outsider divide, feeding
