SILVIANO BARBOSA BAGS ManGo AWARD: The Radio Mango [http://radiomango.ca] 2017 Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to Silviano Barbosa for extraordinary vision, exceptional accomplishments and exemplary dedication towards keeping Konkani language and culture alive in Canada on June 23, 2017! Some links to Silviano Barbosa, his work and uploads:
Sweet Fantasy - LORNA Lyrics: Silviano Barbosa Lovely English/Konkani Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po58bDxOtss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgS6wT7khE ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/user/goaput https://www.youtube.com/user/goaput/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0 Serah Barbosa & Samson Santimano - a tribute to Chris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L8_HvYGtbo Serah Barbosa and others - Konkani Tiatr Comedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT4vJTTMJhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTnnNsRxys4 A REQUEST TO Silviano in Canada and anyone with the capacity to do so (including Isidore Dantas in Pune/Mumbai, and Gable who sells books on learing Konkani in Mahim): please consider setting up some learn-Konkani tutorials or live sessions via Skype, Youtube, archive.org or whatever channel. There have been many expats who have been repeatedly requesting for this... LYRICS WANTED: Colin D'Cruz, the Bombay-returned extremely talented and helpful one-man mission to promote musical talent this side of the Mandovi (and far beyond) is searching for the lyrics of this song: Vem Vem Minha flor (O ABC do Coraçao) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRBUyzDY-EM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE4eB3vqR1g If you can help, please share it via goa...@goanet.org with a cc to colinbass...@hotmail.com SPECULATION OVER O'COQUEIRO: ItsGoa: Is the iconic O’Coqueiro going to shut down? (After the Supreme Court’s order banning sale of liquor along highways, the iconic O’Coqueiro restaurant in Porvorim is facing its most potent threat yet. The central government has moved to acquire nearly 4-lakh square metres of land along the soon-to-be expanded National Highway 17 (New NH 66) with stretches of prime land along the highway earmarked for acquisition.) http://www.itsgoa.com/iconic-ocoqueiro-going-shut/ CHANGING EQUATION OF GOA, ITS NEXT GEN OF EXPATS: Talks by Edgar Vales, president of the Casa de Goa, and Jose Maria Mueller e Sousa, young Goan-Portuguese searching for his roots. Case de Goa: http://www.casadegoa.org/ Audio recording of the full function: https://archive.org/details/edgarvales-josemariamullersousa GOA, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANCY AND THE 1960S: Margao (Goa)-based chartered accountant Ganesh Daivajna, an octogenarian, looks back on his life and times in the South Goa capital, an ever changing place in the 1960s till the current times. The story of the challenges of his life, his encounter with a changing Goa and the chartered accountancy profession (besides Lions and educational activity). https://archive.org/details/daivajna A PORTUGUESE WRITER IN GOA, 18TH CENTURY: Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805) was a Portuguese Neoclassic poet, writing at the beginning of his career under the pen name Elmano Sadino. Via the Goa-Research-Net [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net] scholar Susana Sardo [ssa...@ua.pt] reminds us that Bocage also spent some of his time in Goa, though probably not very happily! See the Wikipedia page: "n 1786 he was appointed guarda-marinha in the Portuguese India navy, and he reached Goa by way of the colony of Brazil in October. There he came into an ignorant society full of petty intrigue, where his particular talents found no scope to display themselves; the glamour of the East left him unmoved and the climate brought on a serious illness. In these circumstances he compared the heroic traditions of Portugal in Asia, which had induced him to leave home, with the reality, and wrote his satirical sonnets on The Decadence of the Portuguese Empire in Asia, and those addressed to Afonso de Albuquerque and D. João de Castro. The irritation caused by these satires, together with rivalries in love affairs, made it advisable for him to leave Goa, and early in 1789 he obtained the post of lieutenant of the infantry company at Damão, India; but he promptly deserted and made his way to Macau, where he arrived in July–August. According to a modern tradition much of the "Os Lusíadas" had been written there, and Bocage probably travelled to China under the influence of another classic Portuguese poet, Luís de Camões, to whose life and misfortunes he loved to compare his own. Though he escaped the penalty of his desertion, he had no resources and lived on friends, whose help enabled him to return to Lisbon in the middle of the following year." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Maria_Barbosa_du_Bocage OFFTOPIC: PAPILLON (film): Papillon is a 1973 American crime drama prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the best-selling autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière. The film stars Steve McQueen as Henri Charrière ("Papillon"), and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega. Because it was filmed at remote locations, the film was quite expensive for the time ($12 million), but it readily earned more than twice that in the first year of public distribution. The film's title is French for "Butterfly," referring to Charrière's tattoo and nickname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillon_(film) FULL FILM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLg7GB5Kw00 VIDEO -- Queen Victoria's Last Love - Channel 4 In 1897, Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee - the first British monarch to do so. But beyond the grand celebrations on London's streets, a war was raging between Victoria and her court over her relationship with her Indian servant Abdul Karim. Victoria's friendship with her Scottish servant John Brown is a familiar story. Her relationship with Karim is less well known but produced even greater shockwaves in the palace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIFXSEQG1MU Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Karim_(the_Munshi) Centre working on social media policy to monitor anti-India activities; 66A with a new name? https://www.medianama.com/2017/06/223-government-social-media-policy/ NYLON 6,6: LEST WE FORGET: In 1989, Dupont the world's largest Nylon manufacturer, paid an estimated $1 million a month in fines and law suit settlements for environmental and public health infractions in 1989 in the US. In 1988, the multinational giant decided to set up a plant near Ponda in Goa, to manufacture Nylon 6,6. But the local people revolted. Check the full video here: https://goenchimathi.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/nylon-66-lest-we-forget/ GOA UNIVERSITY syllabus of the MA (English) Programme https://www.unigoa.ac.in/uploads/syllabus/1_syllabus_MA_English.pdf TAMBDDI BHAJI IN OL' BLIGHTY? Mervyn Maciel <mervynels.watuwashamba and gmail.com> sent Goanet@Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/groups/goanet/] a photo and said: "Thought I'd send you this photo of my favourite vegetable which we managed to grow in our allotment [in the United Kingdom] a few years ago...." Photo shows Mervyn and his wife Elsie, octogenarians both, behind their crop in their allotment which they ran till very recently. Roland Travas informs that he grew it in Jamaica too! http://bit.ly/TambddiBhaji ================================================= Send your tips and suggestions to fredericknoron...@gmail.com with the subjectline of CLIPPINGS-GOA. We'll share it worldwide. 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