[Goanet] Gamble on Casinos for Mormugao (Times of India, 31/3/2018)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/time-to-gamble-on-casinos-for-mormugao/articleshow/63551171.cms Nitin Gadkari’s characteristic strongarm tactics were on display in Goa earlier this week when the Minister for Shipping threatened the closure of Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), claiming a los

[Goanet] Fake Art Proliferates (Times of India, 30/3/2018)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F03%2F30&entity=Ar00800&sk=88B167F0&mode=text In retrospect, an elementary canary in the coalmine about the brazen fraudulence of Nirav Modi appeared when the now-disgraced diamantaire began to parade hi

[Goanet] Whose Statue Is It Anyway? (an edited version ran in Times of India, 19/3/2018)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F03%2F19&entity=Ar00201&sk=43113EDE&mode=text Back in 1948, when the toweringly great polymathic scholar of Goan origin, D. D. Kosambi published his definitive critical edition of Shataka Trayam by Bhart

[Goanet] The Solar Paradigm (Times of India, 13/2/2018)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F03%2F13&entity=Ar00800&sk=C04C66D4&mode=text Two spectacular co-ordinated events scheduled during French president Emmanuel Macron’s debut visit have underlined where the Indian government can legitimat

[Goanet] Anatomy of a Failed State (TOI, 8/3/2018 - International Women's Day)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F03%2F08&entity=Ar01208&sk=1FFEDE3D&mode=text Every so often, a single data point pierces through volumes of statistics to reveal the heart of a complicated socio-economic landscape. One such moment of t

[Goanet] The importance of being North Indian (Times of India,

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F03%2F03&entity=Ar00404&sk=1508F7D2&mode=text Ever since Vijai Sardesai’s headline-making comments about north Indian tourists (which came laced with unnecessary epithets) last month, there has been a s

[Goanet] The Question of Apologies (Times of India, 27/2/2018)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F02%2F27&entity=Ar00220&sk=5BBA3DFF&mode=text An interesting can of worms has been split wide open by the citizens of Lisbon a couple of months ago, when they voted to build a memorial to the victims of

[Goanet] India and the World: The Meaning of Goa (Times of India, 17/2/2018)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/india-and-the-world-the-meaning-of-goa/articleshow/62953954.cms Look at the map from the perspective of land borders, and India’s smallest state is an insignificant pinprick of territory tucked away on a western coastal extremity of the subcontinent. Bu

[Goanet] Playing Chicken with Global Health (Times of India, 16/2/2018)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F02%2F16&entity=Ar00800&sk=DEB2B2F7&mode=text Anyone who remembers eating chicken in India just two decades ago can easily recall the difference between what was available then, and the now-ubiquitous br

[Goanet] Hope For Goa's Biodiversity (full text) Times of India, 10/2/2018

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/hope-for-goas-biodiversity/articleshow/62856862.cms There is wonderful wildlife news in India’s smallest state. Last week, this newspaper first reported that a family of smooth-coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) has taken residence in the spring-fe

[Goanet] Patriotism for Scoundrels (original title), Times of India 3/2/2018

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-other-face-of-patriotism/articleshow/62761944.cms Way back in 1775, the Scottish diarist and biographer James Boswell tells us the prominent English litterateur Samuel Johnson uttered these penetrating words, “patriotism is the last refuge of a sco

[Goanet] Water Warnings from Cape Town to Karnataka (TOI, 1/2/2018)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/water-warnings-from-cape-town-and-karnataka/articleshow/62731398.cms Later this year, Cape Town in South Africa faces an unthinkable situation. Barring a climactic miracle, this prosperous, famously beautiful coastal city with over four million resident

[Goanet] Obituary for Landeg White in The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/22/landeg-white-obituary?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks My friend and former colleague Landeg White, who has died at his home in Portugal aged 77, was an academic and poet, one of the most versatile and prolific of the Africanists who began work in the post-ind

[Goanet] The End of Goa's Real Estate Boom (Times of India, 20/1/2018)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F01%2F20&entity=Ar00400&sk=BBF14B11&mode=text For 20 years, Goa’s property prices only rose. The only question has been how fast rates will tick higher. Sums demanded and received per square metre more t

[Goanet] Modi's Middle East Magic (Times of India, 18/1/2018)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F01%2F18&entity=Ar00408&sk=6ED3CD5E&mode=text This week, another remarkable chapter in India’s distinguished diplomatic record in the Middle East is being written by Narendra Modi. With considerable glit

[Goanet] Saint Joseph Vaz in context (Times of India, 20/9/2014)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-to-Sri-Lanka-From-Blessed-Vaz-to-Acharya-Kosambi/articleshow/42927389.cms Well-deserved celebration in Goa as the longstanding candidature of native son Joseph Vaz has finally been approved for sainthood. He will be "the first saint to Sri Lanka" bu

[Goanet] 2018: The Year of living Dangerously (original text) Times of India, 12/1/2018

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F01%2F13&entity=Ar00408&sk=D55E291A&mode=text Just a few days into the New Year, and it is already clear this is a critical juncture for Goa. Ever since the new millennium dawned nearly two decades ago,

[Goanet] Suella Fernandes Rises Again (original title) Times of India, 11/1/2018

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F01%2F11&entity=Ar00510&sk=53AFA2BD&mode=text Huge diaspora news for Goa this week, as Suella Fernandes was selected by the beleaguered UK prime minister Teresa May to serve as a minister in her newly re

[Goanet] The Emperor's New Airport (Times of India, 11/1/2018)

https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2018%2F01%2F11&entity=Ar01100&sk=9E59B40D&mode=text Every day that passes in Goa, there are more reminders of the lasting messages underlying the classic Hans Christian Anderson tale about a vain emperor surro

[Goanet] Suella Fernandes is named Minister in UK

huge congratulations to Suella Fernandes, the MP from Fareham who has just been named a Minister in the UK Parliament by Teresa May. the specific job is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Department for Exiting the European Union, which makes sense because the 37-year-old is leader of the "h

[Goanet] Nony Singh + Dayanita Singh @ Bento Miguel (Jan 7, 6PM)

In The Genes: Nony Singh and Dayanita Singh in conversation about making Family Archives. JAN 7, Sunday at 6pm @ Bento Miguel building in San Tome (at the foot of the old Patto Bridge). Everyone welcome, entrance is free for all. Please come for this official closing event for #KonkaniSurrealism

[Goanet] JAN 5 - Free Arts Events @ Bento Miguel, #KonkaniSurrealism

Jugneeta Sudan is curating an evening of poetry, art and music at Bento Miguel, Fontainas, the Goan art pavilion 'Konkani Surrealism' from the Serendipity Art Festival All are invited! Entry free! Friday, 5th Jan, 2018 4:45-5:45pm Colours of Goan Poetry A number of different languages coexist in

[Goanet] Sewage Crisis in Smart City (Times of India, 30/12/2017)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/sewage-crisis-in-goas-very-own-smart-city/articleshow/62301337.cms Take a wrong turn in the casuarina groves lining Miramar beach early in the morning, or during peak tourist hours near sunset, and you could be surprised with a rude twenty-one bum salut

[Goanet] Indian Christmases (Hindustan Times, 24/12/2017)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/an-indian-christmas/story-K0tV83DZD1FRzvcMM8XPbP.html Christmas celebrations in India include both local practices and universal customs. And each city or state has its own unique style of merrymaking. Come December, and there is a mood of celebration in t

[Goanet] The Invisible River of Konkani Surrealism (original title + full text), Times of India 23/12/2017

http://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2017%2F12%2F23&entity=Ar00423&sk=DFA61C83&mode=text On 17 December, the young Goan artist Bhisaji Gadekar walked slowly through the large-scale group exhibition of his peers on display at the beautifully recons

[Goanet] KONKANI SURREALISM: Curated Walks @ Bento Miguel, 20/21/22 December

Dear Friends, Over the next three days, at 5 pm, I will conduct curated walks through the Goan art group exhibition that is part of the ongoing Serendipity Arts Festival. The venue is Bento Miguel building, near the old Post Office, and just next to the foot of the old Patto Bridge. All are welcom

[Goanet] Last Call for Paradise? (original title) Mint Lounge, 16/12/2017

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/Uk7po1iVrXJB6SF4oyrdKP/A-Goans-guide-to-Goa.html Dark clouds of foreboding begin to gather in the Goan imagination precisely when India’s smallest state emerges from its overcast monsoon blanket. For a few precious weeks, everyone has enjoyed near-total respite from

[Goanet] Smart Lessons from Art City Panjim (Times of India, 16/12/2017)

http://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2017%2F12%2F16&entity=Ar00401&sk=81B37F88&mode=text This weekend, another unprecedented cultural bonanza erupts across the pocket-sized capital city of Goa, with a sensational banquet of options in multiple ven

[Goanet] The Politics of Belonging (Times of India, 14/12/2017)

http://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2017%2F12%2F14&entity=Ar01000&sk=FEFF67EA&mode=text Huge relief this week in thousands of homes in Goa, and across the state’s far-flung global diaspora, as the beleaguered British prime minister Theresa May sh

[Goanet] Another Ocean Warning (Times of India, 5/12/2017)

http://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2017%2F12%2F05&entity=Ar01000&sk=D14E79AB&mode=text The only surprise is that anyone is surprised. Last weekend’s tidal surge due to the cyclonic storm Ockhi trashed at least 100 beach shacks up and down Goa’s

[Goanet] Goa's Last Stand (Times of India, 02/12/2017)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/future-of-goa-depends-on-its-hinterlands/articleshow/61886425.cms We are just into the peak tourism season that extends through December to February, and a glaring problem has already made itself apparent. Flights are full, and the beaches are crowded,

[Goanet] No Room For Complaceny on Women's Safety (Times of India, 2/12/2017)

http://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIGO%2F2017%2F12%2F02&entity=Ar01200&sk=15E3D63A&mode=text Surveys and statistics can be highly deceiving. One prominent example is the recent finding that Goa ranked highest in the country in the first-ever ‘gender v

[Goanet] IFFI's Irresistible Idea of India (Times of India, 26/11/2017)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/iffis-irresistible-idea-of-india/articleshow/61801056.cms Open mikes plus open minds add up to a beautiful thing. Right in the middle of the 48th edition of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi), which continues to buzz with colour and charm o

[Goanet] Panjim's Cultural Capital (Times of India, 21/11/2017)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-emergence-of-panaji-as-a-cultural-capital/articleshow/61740735.cms All the world fits so beautifully in Panaji every November, when the International Film Festival of India (IFF) rolls out its annual banquet of superb world cinema. Delegates and cin

Re: [Goanet] Waterway to Heaven (National Geographic Traveller, November 2017)

2017, 3:53:58 PM CST, V M wrote: > http://www.natgeotraveller.in/majuli-a-waterway-to-heaven/ > Nobody should go to Majuli the way I did. Any sane and reasonable > person should take the safe route—direct passage by a comfortable fast > ferry from Jorhat on the southern bank of the t

[Goanet] Waterway to Heaven (National Geographic Traveller, November 2017)

http://www.natgeotraveller.in/majuli-a-waterway-to-heaven/ Nobody should go to Majuli the way I did. Any sane and reasonable person should take the safe route—direct passage by a comfortable fast ferry from Jorhat on the southern bank of the turbulent Brahmaputra. Alas, I am not that guy, and neve

[Goanet] ‘Portuguese architecture’ in Goa has little to do with the Portuguese (Scroll, 13/11/2017)

https://scroll.in/magazine/856585/portuguese-architecture-in-goa-has-little-to-do-with-the-portuguese-and-everything-to-do-with-goa Goa’s remarkable and unique colonial-era built heritage is comprehensively misunderstood and wilfully misrepresented. The most common error is to view the Latinate ar

[Goanet] Travel Special: Ilhas de Goa (Mint Lounge, 10/11/2017)

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/gFtyYLgxQDaZ0MgRHaLQfJ/Travel-Special-Ilhas-de-Goa.html The antedeluvian islands that sprawl unbelievably lush in the main channel and tributaries of Goa’s Mandovi river are a time capsule of the original virtues that define the character and culture of India’s famo

[Goanet] This is my Island in the Sun (Mint Lounge, 10/11/2017)

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all. —Christopher Columbus Before anything else, my family is defined by islands. As far back through the many centuries that we know our roots, they have been sunk deep in the

[Goanet] Who Cries for Butterflies? (Times of India, 10/11/2017)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/who-cries-for-butterflies/articleshow/61584619.cms They are disappearing in front of our eyes, and no one can tell how much our lives will change without them. All over the world, scientists are recording a dramatic "ecological Armageddon" that is show

[Goanet] Review: The Book of Chocolate Saints (Scroll.in, 9/112017)

https://scroll.in/article/857045/fiction-check-cultural-history-check-elegy-check-jeet-thayils-new-novel-is-utterly-satisfying Just 50 pages into Jeet Thayil’s absorbing, determined *The Book of Chocolate Saints*, one of the recurring voices in the novel (part of which is depicted as a series of i

[Goanet] The Story Of: Millennials Rising (Hindustan Times, 4/11/2017}

http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/the-story-of-millennials-are-driving-a-unique-series-of-festivals-in-goa/story-sb4g5RNv1HdRc2uJaNgf7O.html They are the most derided generation. Millennials (who were born between the 1980’s and the beginning of the 21st century) are routinely accused

[Goanet] Of Cultures and Authenticity (Times of India, 4/11/2017

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/of-cultures-and-authenticity/articleshow/61510265.cms Misconceptions and misfired communications have created unnecessary complications for a welcome cultural initiative by Delhi-headquartered Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA). This premier

[Goanet] The Downhill Journey of Indian Travel Writing (Mint Lounge, 3/11/2017)

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/uugt5JCxjH7rWKTrPl2zbL/The-downhill-journey-of-Indian-travel-writing.html I was hooked from the first lines I ever read of Anil Yadav’s shambling, hilarious travel book, Is That Even A Country, Sir! Journeys In Northeast India By Train, Bus and Tractor (originally w

[Goanet] Bakibab Borkar in Irish

http://roghaghabriel.blogspot.in/2017/11/cloigini-bhraislead-murnain.html

[Goanet] Book Review: From Delhi to The Den: The Story of Football’s Most Travelled Coach

http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/review-from-delhi-to-the-den-the-story-of-football-s-most-travelled-coach-by-stephen-constantine/story-cHOXe0ctjnuG1s7SP6lxzJ.html Even by the abysmal standard of Indian sports, the men’s national football team is a disappointment. Despite enjoying huge populari

[Goanet] The renaissance of classical music in Goa (original text) Times of India 26/10/2017

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-renaissance-of-classical-music-in-goa/articleshow/61245126.cms One good teacher can change the world. After centuries of neglect and decline, Goa’s western classical music scene is experiencing spectacular revival that is largely directly attributab

[Goanet] Vishnu Wagh in Irish translation...

http://roghaghabriel.blogspot.in/2017/10/danta-conspoideacha-vishnu-wagh.html note: translator and poet Gabriel Rosenstock will attend GALF2017 goaartlitfest.com

[Goanet] Goa's Greatest Museum Needs Our Help (original title) Times of India, 18/10/201

The greatest Indian painter of the 20th century was born in Saligao, but was never happy about it. Francis Newton Souza had suffered a scarring bout of smallpox at a young age, about which he wrote, "Better had I died. Would have saved me a lot of trouble. I would not have had to bear an artist's t

[Goanet] Prasad Lolayekar and his stellar achievements (Times of India, 16/10/2017)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/prasad-lolayekar-and-his-stellar-achievements/articleshow/61094307.cms After more than a decade of stellar service at Goa's department of art and culture, Prasad Lolayekar will leave to take over the department of higher education. We can expect an imme

[Goanet] Viva Vindaloo: Goan cuisine is finally getting its place in the sun (Scroll.in, 11/10/17)

https://scroll.in/magazine/853305/viva-vindaloo-goan-cuisine-is-finally-getting-its-place-in-the-sun-and-in-top-restaurants For the residents of Mumbai, the arrival of O Pedro: Goan Bar & Restaurant in the Bandra-Kurla Complex commercial district probably feels like just another glamorous restaura

[Goanet] Last Requiem for Goa Tourism?

(link not available...) This weekend, the first charter flight of the tourism season arrives at Dabolim from Russia’s capital city of Moscow. But instead of cheer or celebration for this official starting point of the high-demand months that will last until next summer, there is plenty of reason f

[Goanet] Book Review: Reliving Kafka in Hyderabad (Hindustan Times, 29/9/2017)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/review-comeuppance-by-james-tooley/story-xBRleeEFEi2XADRPR2Ah6N.html Soon after Franz Kafka’s death in 1924, the writer’s literary executor Max Brod ignored his friend’s instructions, and published a slim novel written a decade earlier. Der Process (The Trial),

[Goanet] From Raia to Rohingya: The Politics of Intolerance (Times of India, 23/9/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/From-Raia-to-Rohingya-The-Politics-of-Intolerance/articleshow/60800719.cms Goa's social harmony suffered a severe blow this week after an aggressive minority of local residents positioned themselves as adamant opponents of a proposed Muslim graveyard (ka

[Goanet] Another Goa Art Failure (Times of India, 19/9/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/another-goa-art-failure/articleshow/60752034.cms This week, yet another Goan art masterpiece will disappear forever from our collective sight, possibly never to be seen again in public. This is a superb portrait in oils by Antonio Xavier Trindade (1870-1

[Goanet] Crown Jewel (Hindustan Times, 16/9/2017

http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/hit-play-two-connoisseurs-have-amassed-a-collection-of-video-art-that-will-stun-you/story-nRtcBCKmQDGdNbmfXJ31BL.html Years ago, I was living on a houseboat moored on the Nile riverbank, in western Cairo. Nearby was an enigmatic, shrouded structure. In

[Goanet] Goa's Fishy Tales (Times of India, 15/9/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goas-fishy-tales/articleshow/60702850.cms There are two universal traits of the Goans . Konkani is their mother tongue, and they all relish fish. Theirs is

[Goanet] Goa's First Global Poet -- Luis de Camoes (Times of India, 16/9/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Paying-ode-to-Goas-first-global-poet-Luis-de-Camoes/articleshow/60704944.cms Later this year, a landmark new book will be released, one of the most important in the long history of India's contact with Europe, including the crucible of globalization in

[Goanet] Goa's Population Problems (Times of India, 09/09/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goas-population-problems/articleshow/60438635.cms Recently, Goa's transport minister (and leader of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party) Sudin Dhavalikar finally acknowledged the state's most explosive and inconvenient truth, which an entire generation of

[Goanet] Konkani Conundrums (original title) - Mint Lounge 8/9/2017

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/AJVHke7VvvvVPerV1jv8WO/Konkani-a-language-in-crisis.html *SlowlyThey killed our language.Today these same ones tell us:This is your mother-tongueWork for it!Take her to victory!Install her on the throne!”* — Excerpt from 'My Language' from Sudhir Sukta by Vis

[Goanet] Voice of reason will now be heard more fiercely: Damodar Mauzo (Times of India, 7/9/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/voice-of-reason-will-now-be-heard-more-fiercely-damodar-mauzo/articleshow/60399384.cms Along with thousands of their colleagues across India, the writers and intellectuals of Goa have expressed widespread shock, revulsion and anger over the assassination

[Goanet] Crossroads of History: Goa, Georgia & Queen Ketevan (Times of India, 2/9/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/crossroads-of-history-georgia-goa-a-queen/articleshow/60342050.cms One is India's smallest states on the Konkan coastline of western India. The other is a country in the Caucasus region, where Europe spills into Asia. You might guess there is very little

[Goanet] Vishnu Surya Wagh and ‘The Worm of Casteism’ (Times of India, 28/8/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/vishnu-surya-wagh-and-the-worm-of-casteism/articleshow/60250391.cms Give the tiger of St Andre due credit. It has been more than a year since Vishnu Surya Wagh was struck by a debilitating heart attack that took him away from his highly visible gadfly ro

[Goanet] Start-ups and satellites: Nandini Singla on India’s ‘Golden Moment’ with Portugal (Times of India, 20/08/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Start-ups-and-satellites-Nandini-Singla-on-Indias-Golden-Moment-with-Portugal/articleshow/60126308.cms Timing is everything in history, especially when it comes to relations between nations. Genuinely transformational opportunities are immensely elusive,

[Goanet] Freedom (by Armando Menezes, 1902-1983)

Freedom Freedom is but a madman's dream, A dance along an endless lane. The slogans that you shout but seem To drown the clanging of the chain. Freedom is but a posturing, Before a necromantic glass; The old old song you newly sing, Falsetto, like an infant class. Freedom is greed, is violence,

[Goanet] Notes of a Native Son: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/notes-of-a-native-son-hansda-s-shekhar/articleshow/60027329.cms One of India's best young writers, and good friend of Goa, is fighting a cultural battle with significant implications for the rest of the country. On August 4, an irate crowd targeted the b

[Goanet] The Global Meltdown (Times of India, 10/8/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-global-meltdown/articleshow/59994037.cms Everywhere, there's more evidence that the world is in climatic meltdown. On Monday this week, the eminent author (and part-time Goa resident) Amitav Ghosh tweeted an alarming video file of a flaming palm, wri

[Goanet] "Sectarianism is political suicide in Goa" (HT, 5/8/2017)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/dog-whistle-rhetoric-aside-open-sectarianism-remains-political-suicide-in-goa/story-cFp73rVpcQGSzoIoyryifP.html Last Sunday, one of Goa’s favourite celebrations took place at the 16th century church of St. Anne, set like a massive diadem high above paddy fi

Re: [Goanet] State of Vice: Goa Becomes a Prostitution Destination (Times of India, 5/8/2017)

Dear Venantius, I do agree that the immense wealth of Indian philosophy and traditions cannot ever be ceded to any sect, even if the majority. Everything belongs to all of us, and we are equally tasked with defending against misuse or manipulation. Warm regards, VM On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 12:49

[Goanet] State of Vice: Goa Becomes a Prostitution Destination (Times of India, 5/8/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/living-in-a-state-of-vice-goa-turns-into-a-prostitution-destination/articleshow/59922069.cms Your own eyes can't be denied. A few days ago, Roshan Luke Mathias loaded a shocking video onto Facebook, which has quickly been viewed over 21,000 times. The cl

[Goanet] Wrong Perspective on Vermin (Times of India, 4/8/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/wrong-perspective-on-vermin/articleshow/59917749.cms During his historic trip across the USA to attend the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago in 1893, a prominent American disciple of Swami Vivekananda recorded the monk's rephrasing of how Hanuman

[Goanet] Makeshift the ground on which we stand: Eunice de Souza (HT, 31/7/2017)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/makeshift-the-ground-on-which-we-stand-eunice-de-souza-1940-2017/story-KBzHqxl7F02FrgQsuvZe4L.html Even before I met Eunice de Souza, she had me overawed, and more than slightly terrified of her. I later found out this was the natural state of being for generati

[Goanet] Goa's Culture Brokers (Times of India, 31/07/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goas-culture-brokers/articleshow/59846513.cms Just over two decades ago, the British politician Keith Vaz made a highly perceptive observation about his fellow Goans. In a speech delivered at a wedding in Sinquerim in 1995, the popular Labour member of p

[Goanet] Eunice de Souza had a Way of Belonging (Times of India, 30/07/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/eunice-de-souza-had-a-way-of-belonging/articleshow/59826857.cms A string of modern and contemporary Goan artists like F N Souza, Vasudeo Gaitonde and Angelo da Fonseca are universally acclaimed as world class, easily amongst the very best India has ever

[Goanet] Collapse of Goa's Own Ship of State (Times of India, 29/07/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/collapse-of-goas-own-ship-of-state/articleshow/59815302.cms Right now, it is highly recommended for every citizen of Goa to walk up to the hapless, grounded hulk of the ill-fated Lucky Seven casino boat, now digging ever-deeper into the broad sands of Mi

[Goanet] The Last Monsoon? (Times of India, 22/07/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-last-monsoon/articleshow/59715021.cms Goa is most lovely at this time of the year. Soft raindrops fill the air, and the gentle, undulating landscape is mantled in infinite shades of green. The rivers flow swift and turbulent, down to the mud-flecked

[Goanet] Bad Decisions at Bondla Zoo (Times of India, 22/07/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/rethinking-bad-decisions-taken-at-bondla-zoo/articleshow/59705745.cms Who remembers Sarita the hippopotamus? Trucked into Goa from the Mysore zoo in 2013, she was "accidentally" killed by her mate last year, in their ill-suited enclosure at the Bondla zo

[Goanet] Rotten Heart of Goa's Scam Infrastructure (Times of India, 15/07/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/rotten-heart-of-goas-scam-infra-eating-away-at-public-money/articleshow/59601910.cms Every time light is shed on Goa's opaque decision-making, it becomes clearer the system is rotten to the core. Even as the state plunges dangerously further into debt, i

[Goanet] Goa’s casino cancer reaches the terminal stage (Times of India, 10/07/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goas-casino-cancer-reaches-the-terminal-stage/articleshow/59519422.cms Ironically, a Goan happens to be among the world's best-respected experts on the costs of casino culture. Jose Pereira Coutinho is the rarest of rare politicians - a non-Chinese who h

[Goanet] Modi Costa Bhai-Bhai (Times of India, 07/7/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/modi-costa-bhai-bhai/articleshow/59479980.cms Major stakes for Goa in last week's historic diplomatic breakthrough, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first Indian head of state to visit Portugal for a bilateral trip (Atal Bihari Vajpayee brief

[Goanet] Israel’s long-standing Goa connections (Times of India, 14/07/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/israels-long-standing-goa-connections/articleshow/59431607.cms Narendra Modi breaks new diplomatic ground yet again this week as he becomes the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel. There is huge symbolism involved, but also the cementing of very

[Goanet] Paradise Found: Minicoy Ahoy!

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/rNZBocg95erqDW7fxOxE4N/Paradise-found-Minicoy-Ahoy.html When my family first clambered aboard the MV Arabian Sea to head to Minicoy in 2016, we did so with considerable anxiety. It had proved impossible to wrangle anything useful about the tiny Indian Ocean outpost

[Goanet] The Wrong Kind of Cricket Test (Times of India, 24/06/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-wrong-kind-of-cricket-test/articleshow/59292834.cms Back in 1990, the nativist British politician Norman Tebbit, suggested that sections of the UK's population were insufficiently patriotic. He pointed out that the India, Pakistan and West Indies cri

[Goanet] Politics of Bull (Times of India, 23/06/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/beef-ban-is-purely-a-political-move-says-goans/articleshow/59280183.cms In 'Land of the Humans', one of the short stories in his widely acclaimed collection, 'Teresa's Man', eminent Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo writes about Halsid'du, a young boy from Ka

[Goanet] Goa and India fail on Diversity (Times of India, 17/6/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goa-and-india-fail-on-diversity/articleshow/59185436.cms Across the oceans in the UK, Enoch Powell must be spinning in his grave. In 1968, the late conservative politician gave a histrionic warning, "we must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permi

[Goanet] Zero Hour for Goa's Environment (Times of India, 16/06/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/gspcbs-analysis-of-the-states-air-and-water-quality-adds-up-to-a-healthcare-emergency/articleshow/59179558.cms The shimmering landscape of Goa is never more beautiful than in the rains. Majestic storm clouds power in from the raging sea. The sound of rus

[Goanet] Goa's Invisible Artscape (Mint Lounge, 16/06/2017)

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/TDKFe9CBOVofD9EZxlJamK/Goas-invisible-artscape.html With a single stroke in 2015, the mercurial artist and showman Subodh Kerkar plugged a gap that had bedevilled modern and contemporary Goan art for at least a century. It was a glaring historical lacuna—India’s sma

[Goanet] Goan Contingent Wins in UK Poll Upheaval (Times of India, 10/6/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goan-contingent-wins-in-uk-poll-upheaval/articleshow/59081567.cms Back in the 4th century BC, Greek philosopher Plato mused about democracy, "it is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder." It's a perfectly apt description of the ramp

[Goanet] Calling All Moderate Hindus (Times of India, 3/6/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/calling-all-moderate-hindus/articleshow/58968557.cms Tension and anxiety reigns across India as many parts of the country appear to be succumbing to mob rule by vigilante groups. Last week, two separate attacks in Jharkhand left seven dead, even as polic

[Goanet] Goan Literature spans the Globe (Times of India, 3/6/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goan-literature-spans-the-globe/articleshow/58968691.cms An intriguing milestone for Goan literature occurred in lakeside Lillehammer, in Norway, earlier this week. Headlining one session of the Norsk Litteraturfestival (the national literature festival

[Goanet] Leo Varadkar leads the way for Ireland & India (Times of India, 27/5/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Leo-Varadkar-leads-the-way-for-Ireland-India/articleshow/58867960.cms A political earthquake is shaking up Ireland, as 38-year-old Leo Varadkar piles up unassailable support for his campaign to take over leadership of the ruling Fine Gael party from the

[Goanet] Goa's Energy Catastrophe (Times of India, 24/5.2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goas-energy-catastrophe-the-state-is-reluctant-to-look-at-alternative-energy-options-despite-the-need-for-it/articleshow/58825685.cms Weeks to go before the monsoon, but Goa is already reeling from chronic power failure. Across the state, electricity com

[Goanet] Goa Mangomania (Scroll.in, 25/5/2017)

https://scroll.in/magazine/837450/goan-mangoes-are-the-best-in-world-history-proves-so-too Mango season is serious business in Goa. From the beginning of the year, denizens of India’s smallest state start anxiously scanning prized trees, especially those belonging to their neighbours. By March, te

[Goanet] Goa's Energy Catastrophe (Times of India, 24/5.2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goas-energy-catastrophe-the-state-is-reluctant-to-look-at-alternative-energy-options-despite-the-need-for-it/articleshow/58825685.cms Weeks to go before the monsoon, but Goa is already reeling from chronic power failure. Across the state, electricity com

[Goanet] High Stakes in the Panjim Race (Times of India, 20/5/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/high-stakes-in-the-race-for-panaji/articleshow/58757549.cms For the first time in well over two decades, Goa's pocket-sized capital city takes centrestage in the state's political scenario. Ever since Manohar Parrikar won in 1994, Panaji has remained jus

[Goanet] Silent Valleys: Bharat Sikka's 'Where the Flowers Grow' (Scroll.in, 10/5/2017)

https://scroll.in/magazine/838036/a-famous-fashion-photographer-turns-his-lens-on-kashmir-and-finds-profound-pain Amitav Ghosh entitled his searing book on climate change The Great Derangement for its impassioned analysis of how overlapping “modes of concealment” work together to obscure the publi

[Goanet] Naomi Duguid's 5th James Beard Award

One the world's finest and most celebrated food writers/photographers, Naomi Duguid has attended the last two editions of Goa Arts + Literature Festival. In 2015, she showcased the brilliant 'Burma: Rivers of Flavor', and last year we hosted the international launch of 'Taste of Persia: A Cook's Tr

[Goanet] Silk Road to Goa (Times of India, 18/5/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/silk-road-to-goa/articleshow/58723848.cms At the risk of losing out on a historic opportunity, India stands virtually alone in boycotting China's extraordinarily ambitious 'One Belt, One Road' (OBOR) logistics project to re-energize the millennia-old Sil

[Goanet] Selfies from Garbage Goa (Times of India, 13/5/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/selfies-from-garbage-goa/articleshow/58651338.cms Just below the water surface near Grande Island, opposite Dabolim airport, a carpet of trash stretches in every direction. Up on the little beach, and spread all around its picturesque vistas, the situati

[Goanet] Goa in Europe (Times of India, 12/5/2017)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goa-in-europe/articleshow/58645059.cms Huge relief around the world after Emmanuel Macron resoundingly defeated Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election on May 7. The new leader of France is just 39 years old, and represents a brand new party th

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