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they celebrate solemly and fervently the Holy Week, and maintain devotion to
certain shrines, and make annual pilgrimage to them, travelling many miles..
Basilio Magno (Spain)
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CYRILA PEREIRA WINS LONDON'S FRINGE REPORT AWARD
Croydon's Goan resident Cyrila Pereira, working for The Stage - a weekly
newspaper for the performing arts - as editorial office manager and Party
organizer, has won the Fringe Report Award 2006 for her excellent work on
the new year event,
will it be ours before it is totally devoured by the non-Goans, given the
tragedy that home-Goans are greedily selling their property to them, not
thinking of the future of their own children.
Keep up your good journalistic work.
May God bless you and our dear Goa.
Basilio Magno - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the heading Song
for Fr. Vaz:
It was a special song for a very special event, composd and presented by
Goa-born and Spain-settled lyricist Basilio Magno. The occasion was the
reception accorded to the patriach
of Goa Archbishop Raul Gonsalves at the club house of the Goan Overseas
Association
, His two thousandth birthday. -Alleluia!
His two thousandth birthday today we celebrate,
We Christians who live by our Faith,
Happy Bithday Jesus! Happy Birthday Jesus!
Happy Birthday to You.
(C) 1999 by Basilio Magno. Deposit Legal: MA-1446-1999
ANVDDETAM TUMKAM SOGLLEANK SONTOSBHORIT NATALAM
tujea lekh-ak.
Basilio Magno (Spain)
Pattietam ki tum hi kavita sintidd diun vachtoloi mhunn.
NOMAN ROMI LIP-EK
borovpi Basilio Magno (Spain)
Konknni bhaxe, tuk' kortanv ami noman!
Tum zali mhunn raj-bhas amchea ganvchi;
Tantun mellunk pavlem ghottok-raj amkam,
Tem zaun
WORLD GOA DAY HAS COME TO STAY
by Basilio Magno (Spain)
The World Goa Day celebrations going in its sixth year on 20 August 2005 is
a social triumph for the Goan cummunities the world over. It is a phenomenal
event born out of nothing, just few e-mail epistles by its
BRUSH UP YOUR KONKANI (6)
by Basilio Magno (Spain)
Firstly, I wish you all a Very Happy Easter.
Thanks for the many encouraging messages sent me to continue with this
simple column of mine. Its purpose though
is only to serve as an additional reminder that we have our
language Konkani
BRUSH UP YOUR KONKANI (5)
by Basilio Magno (Spain) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I must stress again that I am not trying to teach Konkani to anyone. I am
not that knowledgeable in that language. All I am trying is to keep alive
the flame of Konkani, like some others, on the Goan nets to serve
