Rosamund his wife is the eldest daughter of Bombay’s famous band leader of yore
and musician laureate of Bandra Gymkhana - Maurice Concessio.
Roland.
Toronto.
> On Oct 22, 2021, at 12:59 PM, Frederick Noronha
> wrote:
>
> Felix Flor passed away this morning. He was the husband of
Toronto Star answers the Ontario Premier’s reprimand to seemingly lazy new
immigrants in an outback Australian type racist manner. Doug Ford is a born
lout, an acolyte of Trump behaviour who would have been unemployable but was
fortunately born with a silver spoon and given the legacy of a
Apologies, his name was Jack Jersey.
He dressed and sang like Elvis Presley, recording this song in 1975 when Elvis
was 40 years old and he 34.
> On Oct 20, 2021, at 3:36 PM, Roland Francis wrote:
>
> An oldie beautifully rendered by Jack Dempsey a Dutch singer, composer and
&
An oldie beautifully rendered by Jack Dempsey a Dutch singer, composer and
lyricist, harmoniously accompanied by the Jordanaires, originally an American
gospel group that ably backed celebrated pop stars like Elvis Presley.
A favourite request on the erstwhile Radio Ceylon from Bombay’s young
An interesting slice of history in the State of Travancore, a once powerful
kingdom in the Indian subcontinent when there was no India and no Kerala.
The wealth of the Dutch East India Company, of Travancore and of the temples in
that region is mind-boggling.
Credit to Bernice Pereira for her
An International Council of Investigative Journalists investigates how The
Legion of Christ an organization involved in a pedophilia ring being
investigated by the Vatican, clandestinely diverts large amounts of money
through its trusts, into profitable New York rental apartments to avoid
Eddie, if you read Camillo’s post carefully, you will realize he is not talking
about his own mother but that of a priest he refers to as Fr Maneesh.
It does not detract from the point you are making, but needs pointing out.
Roland.
Toronto.
> On Oct 18, 2021, at 10:44 AM, Eddie D'Sa wrote:
Colin Powell both the hero and villain of the Gulf War and the Iraq Invasion
that led to first, the liberation of Kuwait and then to an invasion and
destruction of Iraq based on a falsehood, died at 84.
Although passing away from the effects of the Covid virus, he had an ongoing
condition of
India slipped to 101st position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 of 116
countries and is behind neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. In 2020,
India was ranked 94th out of 107 countries.
Eighteen countries, including China, Brazil and Kuwait, shared the top rank
with a GHI score of
It is clear from his presentation why renowned economist, Dr. Mohamed
El-Erian is such a strong influencer. He shared insights on: the global and
Canadian economy, the impacts of long-term inflation, where the USD is
going, the future of crypto currency, climate change, Central Bank rate
rises and
The following links:
1 The Tata purchase of Air India - price and conditions.
2 How and why the GOI snatched Air India from Tata Ownership in the 50s.
3. An airline industry exec opinion on the purchase.
Eric’s forward to me:
> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tata-pay-2-4-billion-104931270.html
Great presentation involving two famous Indian media personalities. Shekhar
Gupta was mature enough to prod Sanghvi ever so slightly to get the gush of
words that formed his answer.
Hearing it, slices the issues for the listener that can only come from people
who are in ringside seats of major
Tomorrow, Saturday is the start of a Canadian long weekend with Thanksgiving
Day on Monday being a national holiday.
What better to start it with than Roberta Sá singing about it, in duet.
A slow Brazilian samba rhythm sung softly by two of that country’s favourite
singers - Roberta Sá and
Chicken and arsenic.
That’s a horrible thought to chew on.
As global population grows, with larger parts of earth becoming uncultivable
thanks to climate change and as more ocean water gets polluted with plastic,
humans have no alternative but to increase food supply artificially, at any
Pretty Marisa Monte is one of Brazil’s celebrated chanteuses.
She sings of a break up that must take place because the good times in the
relationship have soured and both involved must be liberated to move on with
their lives.
Depois
https://youtu.be/vJWkWyJPFew
Roland.
Toronto.
Spiritual, sensitive, ancestral and magical, Madonna has curated this music of
beating drums and swaying hips from the cultural traditions of Cabo Verde to
take it mainstream.
She gyrates and blends with the dance movements of the ‘batukeiras’ whose
instruments the Catholic Church once
Autumn or Fall is upon us and with temperatures a little above normal for this
time of year, we are still having end-of-summer excellent weather. Winter is
forecasted to be more severe than recent years but that’s not saying much
because recent winters were nothing like normal winters at all.
If you know how close Dubai is to the UK, then one must suppose the UK smells
too,
Dubai's leader ordered hacking of ex-wife's phone using Pegasus software,
British court rules - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-07/uk-court-says-dubai-ruler-ordered-ex-wifes-phone-hacking/100519778
The numbers are out and they point out to 13 Trillion dollars stashed away,
As Eric says, “I am holding my breath” to see the repercussions.
Terence Corcoran: Low taxes + no corruption = no Pandoras | Financial Post
Cesária Évora in her “morna” singing chant of Cabo Verde, sings of a lonely
lover stuck in her hometown of São Nicolau who has had no contact with her beau
but imagines him suddenly returning to São Tomé.
The voice of this world celebrated Grammy award singer is described as limpid
and weary
Here are Patricia and Melanie singing away any blues you may have today and
replacing it with peace and calm.
Among all who enjoy it will definitely be Mervyn Maciel.
The Bandra D’Silva sisters
https://youtu.be/uoVA7peYk0s
Roland.
Toronto.
That much money means as much as a few rusty coins in an old tin to the
Al-Thanis of Qatar.
Like all the other exposed wealthy people listed and to-be-listed in the
Pandora Papers, the underlying cause is greed.
In the Al-Thani family case I don’t know whether that greed can be traced to
the
There is a Portuguese grocer a little far from where I live (35 Kms), who sells
the best sausages you can get in Toronto and also the creamiest cheese
sauce-filled Bacalhau stuffed pie you can eat.
Only thing is, if the taste from a few scoops of the pie don’t take you to
heaven, the salt in
Roberta Sá asks her love to forget the time, forget the music and listen to her
for a moment.
The message is not what he wants to hear.
https://youtu.be/-Kv2uX8NSRU
Roland.
Toronto.
World Mental Health Day is on October 10th.
While many of us take care of our bodies (or at least our doctors do), very few
of us do the functions that calm our minds and alternate the activities that
stimulate it.
Here are a few views from a few people.
What does 'be kind to your mind'
Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in
unprecedented leak - ICIJ
Stunning revelations by The International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/global-investigation-tax-havens-offshore/
Roland.
A good explanation of what the Pandora Papers mean in an Indian context.
Explains personal and corporate trusts too.
As expected, there is s large contingent of Indian crooks, at least 380 of them
identified so far, in the global total.
Expect more names and more revelations but don’t expect
“The more than 330 current and former politicians identified as beneficiaries
of the secret accounts include Jordan’s King Abdullah II, former U.K. Prime
Minister Tony Blair, Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Kenyan
President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso, and
It’s a global data leak.
The leak shows how the wealthy and powerful are continuing to use offshore tax
havens to hide their ownership of assets and stash their cash, despite attempts
to reign in the industry. It’s estimated up to a tenth of the world’s wealth is
parked in offshore financial
Eastern Australia is having an extremely hard time. So Is Alberta and
Saskatchewan in Canada and Alaska and other parts in the US.
The common typical symptoms and results are:
1 Low vaccination rates and not maintains Covid norms.
2 Beds on floors of overcrowded hospitals.
3 Teenagers and other
An interesting article that explains how tastes change as food availability
changes and price reflects both, from BBC Future.
Imagine Lobster was once plentiful and a poor man’s food. Coffee, cocoa and
spices were the delights of royalty but can now be bought from any supermarket
shelf.
An excellent food and cuisine article as only the GOYA journal can write it.
We learn that the first Muslims settled in India as a result of coastal trade
and not of conquest which only followed later.
That the first Muslims in India were from Basra Iraq who came to trade and
later settled in
Thank you Frederick.
The video is revealing, shocking and disturbing often like the very emotions
that truths produce in us.
It has its share of humour too.
“There was holy prostitution and plain prostitution. Holy prostitution was when
the Temples put out prostitutes whose fees served as
Memories of Tony.
https://archive.org/details/it-schools
Moira on a Motorcycle
https://youtu.be/yydERUkS1Nk
Roland.
Toronto.
From the CNN:
Hi
It’s a game of chicken with the global economy.
The United States is heading for a cliff over the need for Congress to lift the
ceiling on how much the US government can borrow. If things go wrong, the
reverberations will be felt far beyond US shores.
Since the US
He left us a little better world.
Godspeed Tony.
Read on FB that Tony passed away.
Roland.
Toronto.
“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40
years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle
East that has no oil!”
—Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel, at a state dinner honoring Chancellor
Willy Brandt of West Germany (June 10,
Emiliano was a gentle human being.
He never stopped having a Portuguese-era Goan personality with the charming
accent that went along with it, despite living in Bombay for 15 years and
meeting all kinds of people - from the laloo-pandoos to the urbane and
sophisticated.
The only people who
My wishes for a smooth and quick recovery.
Tony is a lovely guy!
Roland.
Toronto.
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Frederick Noronha
> wrote:
>
> Tony de Sa's daughter Anna Marie de Sa responded to say: "My dad Tony de Sa
> is critical. Very, very sick."
>
> This is really sad. Please keep
You THE LOST SERVICE PROVIDERS OF BOMBAY
The way we live and work undergoes significant change over time. Occupations
that once flourished are now mostly forgotten as they do not contribute to the
livelihood of most people anymore. Here are 4 such trades that once employed
many in Bombay but
Nelson, didn’t get your meaning.
What are you actually saying.
Roland
> On Sep 26, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Nelson Lopes wrote:
>
> Your Excelkency
> After much hesitation and rumination i decided to share with you the
> feelings of parishioners at large , as i gathered
> I seek your indulgence
The pandemic has made many people become “researchers”.
Example:
Questioning Tom the anti-vaxxer: Have you taken the vaccine?
Not yet, I am still researching it!
Roland.
Toronto.
What have we as global citizens learnt from the decision that the US made to
release Meng Wanzhou the Huawei heiress without due process?
1. China’s tactics worked. If they had not taken the two Canadians hostage, the
US would never had released Meng even after 3 years. Example Guantanamo.
2.
This has been a feature of Goan life for more than just a couple of
generations, with two important differences between then and now.
a) Usually in a household of 4 or 5 siblings, no more than 1 or 2 emigrated
overseas. Only a few of all Goans who left, returned to retire and die. All
those
I know you must have created a scholarship or award in memory of your son. But
that may have been out of your own desire for it as much as to remember him.
What did your son love, or be happy about.
A dance, a picnic, a talent show, a tiatr?
Organize it on a one-off or an annual basis? He would
What is it?
It’s a consequence of the pandemic during which employees who have been aware
of Work-Life Balance suddenly think it is the most important aspect of their
employment.
It entails quitting their job without hesitation if it looks to them that their
employers don’t much value their
An interesting link.
Beyond a few stray and casual times, when in India, I didn’t have the
opportunity of coming closely in contact with any converted Christian
Maharastrian Brahmins. That may be because as the article says, most tried to
conceal their Christian background.
I feel sorry for
Please read “monkey throwing darts” instead of:
Money throwing darts.
The Facts:
1. China’s real estate accounts for a quarter of GDP.
2 Evergrande the defaulter is the second biggest real estate company in China.
3. China has massive US$ debt in the trillions.
The Good Part:
1. Evergrande is a real estate company, not an investment bank like Lehman
Brothers in
Raymond De Souza is a Catholic parish priest in an Ontario Church, a Chaplain
at Queens University and on the teaching faculty of the Departments of
Education and of Economics at the University. He is a religious columnist at
the National Post, one of the country’s major newspapers and a
To bring down the completely insensitive Goa Govt.
CHAPATI MOVEMENTNT
The freckled, round and harmless looking chapatis had British officials in
quite a tizzy and terrified
In 1857, tensions in British occupied India were at an all-time high.
Discontented Indians, sick and tired of an
When we buy food - whether it be cooking oil, fresh fish or spices - we trust
that the product we are getting matches what’s on the label. It turns out that
sometimes our trust is misplaced.
Around the world, a new type of organised crime is flourishing: Food fraud.
Food fraud is a highly
The entire family were in IT, parents were high falutin’ Ontario Government
employees, much above average salaries, super benefits and yet the desire to
cheat arose.
The funds were payments meant for alleviation of economic hardship affecting
the public due to Covid-19. Whisked away through
Valmiki never disappoints.
Goa history made alive.
“Indian National Congress at its Working Committee meeting at
Wardha in August 1946 resolved, "Goa has always been and must
inevitably continue to be a part of India ... What its
future status will be in a free India can only be determined
in
Has any survey other than cursory interviews been conducted to determine how
these students become toppers in public or board exams despite coming from
little known schools with scant resources.
Is it the motivation of poverty, or focus on a goal, or hard work and
application or just the right
. The integrity and secrecy of your ballot will be paramount.
No matter your physical ability to vote, the overriding concern is to help you
to actually vote.
The results will be announced in a couple of hours after polls are closed.
Roland Francis
416-453-3371
> On Sep 19, 2021, at 3:03 PM, Freder
Linken, I love Xaxti-isms, having heard them every summer holiday in my
mother’s house in Loutulim when school vacationing from Bombay. These isms are
often though not always, of Portuguese origin, corrupted by Konkani usage.
Capostade is one such word. Apparently a direct translation means
Like a Prayer - Madonna cover by VonDuggal family
https://youtu.be/qwtfwTMI24I
Roland.
Toronto.
In his well-thought out article, Stan Grant of ABC News, Australia, discusses
several issues that concern us all. He makes valid points and asks a question
for Australia which suddenly faces an immediate issue that every country in its
own turn will have to face. India particularly may try to
An Irving Berlin 1950 number harmoniously sung by the D’Silva sisters of Bandra
- Patricia Affonso and Mélanie Duggal.
A difficult number to sing that requires the skill of a Perry Como, but these
ladies have the pipes for it and beat him at his game.
Patricia and Melanie
Some Canadian music in a playlist that would go well with a quiet summer late
night after-dinner legs-on-the-armchair relaxation.
Discover Adult Alternative bands and hear Taylor Swift, Arcade Fire, The
Sheepdogs, The Wallflowers and The Black Keys alongside some of Canada's
greatest
Here is the link Ivan.
https://www.iicsa.org.uk/helping-protect-children-sexual-abuse-now-and-future
Roland.
Toronto.
> On Sep 18, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Ivan Pereira wrote:
>
> Mervyn,
> I have been a member of the World Conference of Religions & Peace (WCRP)
> since inception in Canada, &
Good headline summary.
Will it continue?
Roland.
Toronto.
> On Sep 18, 2021, at 4:49 AM, Eddie Fernandes
> wrote:
>
> 1: Great British Bake Off. More secrets about the contestants including
> Crystelle Pereira
> 2: India withdraws e-visa facility for Canada, UK nationals
> 3: £399pp – 5-star
01:47:53 -0400
> From: Roland Francis
> To:?goa...@goanet.org
> Subject: [Goanet] Religious Groups Found Wanting
> This is an important topic that has been rightly brought to public
> attention. ?Sexual or any other abuse has to be corrected and regulated.
> ?We're going throug
This report is about the UK but it is certainly occurring in other parts of the
world too.
A recent inquiry into a wide range of religious organizations based in the
United Kingdom found a number of issues in how such organizations handle abuse
allegations. The Independent Inquiry into Child
t 7:13 PM, Frederick Noronha
> wrote:
>
> Er?
> https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/web/research/specializations/ee1
> https://www.theweekendleader.com/Success/2652/holiday-homes.html
> FN
> ᐧ
>
> On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 03:08, Roland Francis
> wrote:
>
>> No
Not that it matters to your post and I could be wrong, but IIT Bombay does not
offer any telecommunications specialization. There are other colleges in Bombay
that offer that particular specialized engineering degree, most famous of which
is VJTI.
IIT does offer signal processing as a subfield
He was definitely a nice guy from Nova Scotia in the Canadian Maritimes,
married to a Goan woman who died a few years before him. After many years in
Goa, he sort of returned home in Halifax to die.
May have been a Jesuit or a lecturer in a Jesuit College before he married,
since he was fond
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) is the easternmost province in
Canada and was the last to embrace Confederation and join the country as late
as 1949. It consists of the island of Newfoundland and continental Labrador,
both home to a population of about half a million.
The people
The Goa Govt is made up of nothing but a bunch of financial idiots. All they
know is how to pocket bribes and commissions.
The situation could have been avoided by:
1. Let your employees get their mortgage from the banks after they have passed
the “stress” test. Meaning their borrowing can meet
A Country and Western gypsy style classic written by Kris Kristofferson and
Freddie Foster, it tells of a travelling duo of a man and his retarded woman
friend called Bobby McGee. At last tiring of her, he leaves her by the roadside
one night and she dies.
The song is about freedom of the road
The founder of modern-day Dubai, Sheikh Rashid, was once asked about the future
of his country and he replied:
“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son
rides a Land Rover and my grandson will ride a Land Rover, but my great
grandson will have to ride a
The late Sheikh Rashid of Dubai, father of the present ruler was a wise and
kind man. He was a coastal dwelling ruler unlike his contemporary, the late
Sheikh Zayed another kind and neighbouring ruler, the Emir of Abu Dhabi who was
more of a Bedouin, a desert roving Arab more at home in a tent
The is the excerpt of Edwin Fernandes’ book “Beyond Bandra” which he meant to
include in his recent post.
September means it's that special time of the year again, the birthday of
"Saibini Mai" of the Mount in Bandra, celebrated as the Bandra Feast. This is
also the time to get nostalgic of
Look forward to the excerpt from your “Beyond Bandra”.
Roland.
> On Sep 16, 2021, at 4:59 AM, Edwin Fernandes wrote:
>
> Hi Roland,
>
> Delightful narrative. Nirmala Mary Rego was our immediate neighbour in Juhu
> for over 23 years.
> You are right. There used to be a lot of fights between
The 1889 postcard sent by someone in Goa to Mr Braganza in Ajmer, a British
India railway town is being sold on eBay.
Who wrote that postcard and what did it contain? Let’s speculate.
While it could be any relative or friend seeking a job in the Railways,
assuming Braganza was a man of some
The 1889 postcard sent by someone in Goa to Mr Braganza in Ajmer, a British
India railway town is being sold on eBay.
Who wrote that postcard and what did it contain? Let’s speculate.
While it could be any relative or friend seeking a job in the Railways,
assuming Braganza was a man of some
https://youtu.be/4TMLm446LZE
He doesn’t mention the fights that occurred with the “heros” that came to the
fair.
Betcha the narrator would be one of them.
Roland.
Toronto.
That’s what life is all about. Succinctly expressed by a pretty Singaporean
saleswoman when I told her the shirt she was selling me was much lesser in
price than the same one I bought somewhere else.
But this time I am referring to food, specifically pork, not clothes.
In Amboli, Bombay once,
Canada on the other hand, has 14 million pigs to a population of 38 million
people, while Iowa itself the biggest pig producer state in the US has 24
million pigs to a human population of only 3 million. 8 times pigs to people in
that farming state.
Goa sausages sell for 12 to 15 dollars a
Dear Ivan,
Please don’t treat these as corrections, they are merely slight ‘adjustments’.
1. The Dalai Lama would not be pleased to be associated with a South American
pack animal.
2. Manitoba is the largest producer and exporter of pork in Canada, not Quebec.
Regards.
Roland.
Toronto.
> On
Police speaking of the attack:
In my grandfather’s time:
We’ll beat the bas**ards black and blue so they won’t dare do it again.
In my father’s time:
We’ll lock them up and throw away the key.
In my time:
They will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
At the present time, quoting the
An eclectic collection of Goa-themed songs with a jazz flavour by a diverse mix
of artistes for the recent Goa Day. Many I have heard before, some new. All
done with zest and verve.
Colin D’Cruz is to modern day Goa music as Mario Miranda was to cartooning. I
know little about him, hear his
Sent to me citing a credit to Goutam Bhattacharya. But he is a sports
journalist and associate editor of Ananda Bazar Patrika.
I tried to trace the authorship but it is very difficult to find. The starting
line “End of a Spectre...” is from the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels.
It is
There’s an old and of late vibrant community of Orthodox Christians in Toronto
and other Canadian cities.
While originally they comprised of Ukrainian and Armenian immigrants who fled
from communist and Turkish rule, they are now considerably bolstered by Arab,
Eastern European and Russian
More than four decades ago and until I left, I used to get my bespoke trousers
and suits at Goan Art Tailors.
There were several textile stores nearby, owned by Iranian-Qatari merchants
from where I used to purchase high quality all-wool English suiting. Then 100
metres away I would go to
Dear Stephen and Bernice,
You both assume the callers are some North Indian buyers.
The numbers shown on the calling telemarketers’ phones are all spoofed. Meaning
with the right software you can show your caller ID as any number you choose
from any part of the world including your own. The
I am not too much of a Sinhala or Sri Lankan Baila genre music fan but someone
tell me this is not Goan music!
Violey, Violey
https://youtu.be/uWV2UEwBPWQ
Roland.
Toronto.
To all you jet setting Goanetters, avoid flying in the Boeing 737 Max, one of
the most purchased aircraft when airlines upgrade their flying stock.
Nothing is sacred anymore:
Manufacturers lie.
The FAA ignores defects.
Airlines economize.
Be prepared to be startled.
Akash Mangueshkar’s lilting Konkani version of a 90’s Hindi hit song of a man
pining for a woman whose memories are his only keepsake.
https://youtu.be/Awba-YaywJs
The original by Lucky Ali.
https://youtu.be/dWqb-WqbGh8
Roland.
Toronto.
28 year old Yohani de Silva is a recent Sri Lankan singing sensation. The
original song in Sinhala and Tamil, sung by Yohani and Satheesevam, is a hit
throughout several South and South-East Asian counties and has been sung in
those countries in as many languages as are prevalent there.
Here
Here’s the link of Mary Anderson singing Ave Maria at the Lincoln Memorial in
1939x
https://youtu.be/BtWLZYFfbis
Roland.
Dear Mervyn, first of all let me say you are a credit by far and by all
measures to the Goan community. You have, through your books, given us a very
good glimpse of the times in which you were at the top of your game. I have not
met you in person but I know if I did, it would not be anything
For the Feast of the Nativity on September 8, an angelic soprano voice of
Australian Mirusia Louverse together with the magical strings and direction of
André Rieu from a Thomas Aquinas tribute to the Eucharist.
https://youtu.be/4tIsTmUOODo
Roland.
Toronto.
It makes no sense for the international media to follow each and every step the
Taliban is taking.
Akundzada is the new PM. Baradar is his deputy.
The Taliban will be less restrictive with women now.
The Taliban are shooting in the air.
The Taliban will allow people with passports and visas to
Composed in 1933 with different lyrics, the version we know was first published
in 1948.
It’s become a pop standard since, being played in dance halls, railway
institutes, the erstwhile Radio Ceylon, everywhere English songs were sung and
in Canadian Care Homes to this day where seniors will
What better way to end the short stretch of Friday to Monday holidays that
commemorate the Labour Day weekend and heralds the end of Summer than 4
beautiful Rumanian women playing the Frenchman Georges Bizet’s aria Habañera
from the opera Carmen.
Although International Labour Day is in May, in
A slow but beautiful piece by Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA in 2018, smoothly
backed by the trumpet sound of Arturo Sandoval.
“The word andante describes a relatively slow, moderately paced tune. Your
piano teacher might tell you to play a piece andante. The word andante,
particularly common in
https://youtu.be/0YfiSgX07-I
Roland.
Toronto.
https://youtu.be/0q2gW2BrbtA
Roland.
Toronto.
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