[Goanet] tambdimati: the Goa review

Dear Friends, Please check out the newest community media venture from Goanet. tambdimati: the Goa review is an online review of art, culture, news and opinion relating to the smallest state in the subcontinent. Stop by at www.tambdimati.com Best regards, VM

[Goanet] Boycott Rajiv Desai!

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[Goanet] to Roland Francis

The snide, insinuating tone is not appreciated. Everything I've written about Bomra's has been run on Goanet over the course of several years. I write for publications with strict codes of conduct that forbid freebies, discounts and complimentary meals. For the record, I have eaten dozens of meal

[Goanet] a little more about bawmra jap

http://www.tambdimati.com/what-good-is-a-goan-man-who-cant-clean-a-fish/ --- NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services' Copies now available at: GOA: Literati (2277740), Other India (2263306), Br

[Goanet] Abolish Section 377 (from O Heraldo, Sept 20)

There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Abolish Section 377 by V. M. de Malar (From O

[Goanet] A Goan Falls in Iraq (O Heraldo, Sept 22)

There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. A Goan Falls in Iraq by V. M. de Malar (From O

[Goanet] The Garbage Chronicles (Heraldo, Sept 26)

There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. The Garbage Chronicles by V. M. de Malar (O

[Goanet] disgraceful, dishonest attacks

Hello Goanet, There are two very important things to remember when looking at the disgraceful baying against M. F. Husain which has had the effect of hounding a grand old man from his homeland. 1) Few in the ragged mob of Husain-bashing extremists have actually seen the paintings they are so eage

[Goanet] Husain and Hanuman

Dear Sachin, The painting of Hanuman and Sita that you are talking about is the one reproduced at the top of this webpage: http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~nair/husain.php. 1) There is nothing sexually explicit about this image, by any definition of the words "sexually explicit." You are using inappro

[Goanet] Magnificent heritage building damaged by storm/neglect

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[Goanet] Aparanta April 21: Eunice de Souza, 'How Goa invented the Sound of India', and the Mustard Seed Arts Company

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[Goanet] This Is The End (O Heraldo, 16/4/23)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/This-Is-The-End/203866? No need to wait for history to judge this disgracefully incompetent government, and its catastrophic mismanagement of India’s smallest state. The evidence is everywhere: ravaged hillsides, grossly overbuilt coastlines, an utterly

[Goanet] Postcard from Mussoorie (O Heraldo, 20/5/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Postcard-from-Mussoorie/205228 Highly unexpectedly, I found Goa on the minds of many in Mussoorie this weekend, during this spectacularly situated little Himalayan mountainside city’s 200 th anniversary celebration. Next week, our tourism minister Rohan Khaunte is sch

[Goanet] Pride of Goa (O Heraldo, 28/5/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Pride-of-Goa/205523 No writer better represents the stunning retrieval and renaissance of Konkani – the central pillar of Goan identity - than Damodar Mauzo, whose acceptance of the 57th Jnanpith Award yesterday at Raj Bhavan was an historic milestone in

[Goanet] State of Confusion (O Heraldo, 30/6/2023)

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/viewpage.php?edition=oHeraldo&edid=OHERALDO_GOA&date=2023-05-30&pn=1#Page/15 On my recent visit to Pondicherry, the contemporary plight of Goa was constantly being referenced as the cautionary tale that former French India wanted to avoid at all costs. It is a strategy t

[Goanet] The Plastic Tsunami

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/articlepage.php?articleid=OHERALDO_GOA_20230611_6_1&width=385px&edition=oHeraldo&curpage=6 Earlier this week on World Environment Day on June 5, the Goa government unveiled a new public art installation at Miramar that was explicitly intended to highlight the devastating

[Goanet] If He Could Turn Back Time (Times of India Plus, 12/6/2023)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-goa-cm-is-talking-about-wiping-out-portuguese-influence/articleshow/100897928.cms?from=mdr Earlier this week on June 6, at an event in the coastal village of Betul that commemorated the 350th anniversary of Shivaji’s coronation, the chief minister of G

[Goanet] Hidden Truths (O Heraldo, 25/6/2023)

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/articlepage.php?articleid=OHERALDO_GOA_20230625_6_2&width=377px&edition=oHeraldo&curpage=6 Parashuram and Portugal are reliable distractions in India’s smallest state, where governance has effectively collapsed, and the economy is unable to provide decent jobs. Unemploym

[Goanet] Whose Passport Is It Anyway? (TOI+. 6/7/2023)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-three-times-more-goans-surrendered-their-passports-than-punjabis/articleshow/101504611.cms A poignant scene plays out at Azad Maidan in Panjim every weekday morning. This pleasant tree-shaded old square (it was called Largo Afonso de Albuqerque until 1

[Goanet] Goa's Art Tragedy (O Heraldo, 9/7/2023)

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/articlepage.php?articleid=OHERALDO_GOA_20230709_6_2&width=406px&edition=oHeraldo&curpage=6 Superb works by Goan artists supply many highlights in ‘Maharaja’s Treasures’, an excellent exhibition drawn from the Air India collection of modern and contemporary art, that open

[Goanet] Nicole-Ann Lobo on Amancio D'Silva (originally published in Parmal from Goa Heritage Action Group)

What is it about *Ballad for Goa* that draws me in? When I listen to its aching melody, why does my heart break? The composition arouses emotions in me that are hard to place, a certain sadness that, despite its implausibility, feels deeply personal. And of all six tracks on *Hum Dono*, each self-s

Re: [Goanet] Uday Bhembre's Faith on Fire (O Heraldo, 15/7/2023)

Apologies for the incorrect attachment in the previous email. This one has today's column --> On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 8:14 AM V M wrote: > https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Uday-Bhembre%E2%80%99s-Faith-on-Fire/207518 > > There is something certifiably miraculous about this cultura

[Goanet] Anatomy of Collapse (O Heraldo, 23/7/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/Anatomy-of-the-Kala-collapse-How-escalated-contracts-were-given-with-escalating-episodes-of-negligence/207860 Earlier this year, just a few days after it was inaugurated by MK Stalin, I visited the Keeladi Museum outside Madurai in Tamil Nadu. Built across two acres, t

[Goanet] Art in the Age of Climate Change (O Heraldo, 29/7/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Art-in-the-age-of-climate-change/208101 When torrential rains set in over Goa earlier this month, the volcanically talented artist Praveen Naik found it too humid to use his favourite paints on paper and canvas, but kept working in different genres “to explore my unco

[Goanet] Souza (and Moraes) in 1961 - O Heraldo, 6/8/2023

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Souza-and-Moraes-in-1961/208518 Take a long look at the unforgettable masterpiece by Francis Newton Souza printed with this column, because it’s the first – and quite possibly last – time it will be freely available in the public eye, having surfaced fro

[Goanet] Celebrating the New Fado de Goa (O Heraldo 12/8/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Celebrating-The-New-Fado-de-Goa/208865 By now we are accustomed to being blown away by the musical genius of Sonia Shirsat, who has traversed an improbable journey from Ponda and Panjim to become a truly spectacular fado singer, and one of the foremost global ambassad

[Goanet] The Danger Zone (O Heraldo, 17/9/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/The-Danger-Zone/210677 Rain continues to fall in Goa this weekend, but just across the border in Karnataka it is painfully clear the monsoon has failed. Earlier this week, the Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, who heads the state sub-committee on disa

[Goanet] Anjali Arondekar's Experiments with Abundance (O Heraldo, 23/9/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Anjali-Arondekar%E2%80%99s-experiments-with-abundance/210942 It is only now, six long decades after decolonization, that some of the inconvenient truths about Goa’s complicated histories - which pose continual, and indeed often insuperable challenges to the prevailing

[Goanet] Slimed by South Delhi (O Heraldo, 1/10/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/Slimed-by-South-Delhi/211407 Last week, the grand new Parliament building inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as ‘the temple of democracy’ was grossly befouled by his own party comrade Ramesh Bidhuri, the Lok Sabha representative from South Delhi. In an abusiv

[Goanet] Reap in Joy: Brahms Requiem in Goa (O Heraldo, 7/10/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Reap-in-Joy-Brahms-Requiem-in-Goa/211677 The stunning revival of Goa’s centuries-old choral tradition crests another landmark next week, when the 100-singer Stuti Choral Ensemble performs Johannes Brahms’ unconventional masterpiece “Human Requiem” at three of our most

[Goanet] Madness at Miramar (O Heraldo, 15/10/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Madness-at-Miramar/212114 Even worse than the shockingly incompetent brutalization of Panjim’s interior roads and public spaces is the badly planned and even worse executed orgy of destruction underway on the city’s ancient riverfront. This hugely damagi

[Goanet] Henry Threadgill: Failure is Everything (O Heraldo, 21/10/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Henry-Threadgill-Failure-is-Everything/212405 Non-stop encomiums and accolades have already piled high for *Easily Slip into Another World*, an incandescent new autobiography from the iconic African-American composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill, but her

[Goanet] Never Again? (O Heraldo, 29/10/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Never-Again/212806 Soon after daybreak on Simchat Torah – an important Jewish holiday signified by “rejoicing under adversity” on October 7 earlier this month – the British-Goan-Israeli artist Solomon Souza was startled to hear the relatively rare sound

[Goanet] Unveiling the Wonders of the Modo Goano (O Heraldo, 4/11/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Unveiling-the-Wonders-of-the-Modo-Goano/213104 Controversy overwhelms all public conversations about the oft-violent and coercive processes by which the majority of “natives” in the Estado da Índia became Catholic in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the truth is conve

[Goanet] Adeus, amcho António (O Heraldo, 12/11/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/Adeus-amcho-Ant%C3%B3nio-Costa/213497 The final analysis is yet to be written, but we already know that António Costa’s shock resignation earlier this week brought an end to one of the most impressive political innings of the 21st century. When this master politician

[Goanet] Portuguese Racism through the Looking Glass (O Heraldo, 18/11/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/PORTUGUESE-RACISM-THROUGH-THE-LOOKING-GLASS/213769 It’s not something to take very seriously as yet, but the distinct uptick in racism in Portugal has begun to target Goans in that country, as seen in the poster alongside this column, which began circulating widely on

[Goanet] Oedipus Next (GQ, Dec 2023)

https://www.gqindia.com/content/panjim-based-writer-and-dad-to-three-boys-vivek-menezes-explores-the-dynamics-of-modern-fatherhood After two baby boys as beloved as can be, my wife and I assumed the next one would be a girl. Everyone expected it: our parents and siblings, the cross-cultural web of

[Goanet] What Child Is This (O Heraldo, 24/12/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/What-Child-is-This/215628 Today of all days we cannot turn away. This evening at midnight, countless millions of people in every part of the world will celebrate the birth of “whom shepherds guard and angels sing.” That is Palestine, where there will be

[Goanet] Mapping the Future in Bengaluru (GQ, December 2023)

https://www.gqindia.com/content/bengaluru-unleashes-a-new-creative-impetus-that-matches-its-energy-and-ambition A curious paradox has reigned in Bengaluru since it began boiling with money after liberalization in 1991, and the famously bucolic “Garden City” became the epicentre of India’s globaliz

[Goanet] Standing with Giants (O Heraldo, 30/12/2023)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Standing-with-Giants/215855 Such pleasure and privilege for me earlier this week, to help launch *Hope for Sanity: Selected Writings of Julio Ribeiro 2002-2021* in conversation with the 94-year-old author (and distinguished police officer and civil servant) in his anc

[Goanet] Another Annus Horribilis? (O Heraldo, 7/1/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Another-Annus-Horribilis/216193 Good governance has always been elusive in Goa, but the past decade has been an unmitigated disaster for the people, culture, environment and democracy in India’s smallest State. It didn’t have to be this way, after a good

[Goanet] The Changing Faces of Brand Goa (O Heraldo, 13/01/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/The-Changing-Faces-of-Brand-Goa/216490 Michelle Mendonça Bambawale’s charming and unique book launch in Siolim last week was an interesting illustration of the newly charged and changed-up post-pandemic cultural landscape of Goa. The event unfolded at sunset under coc

[Goanet] Make Vivek Great Again (Mint, 18/1/2024)

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/vivek-ramaswamy-s-best-shot-at-power-is-as-trump-s-campaign-partner-11705508835333.html An absurdist scenario has played out for months in the bizarrely binary racial politics of the US, with one Indian-American identifying as “Black” in the vice-presi

[Goanet] An Unprepared Generation? (O Heraldo, 21/1/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/An-Unprepared-Generation/216841 The latest Annual Status of Education (ASER) report from Pratham – one of the largest and most respected NGOs – has compiled an important data set on students in rural areas between the ages of 14-18, from the generation w

[Goanet] Not Belonging with Geetanjali Shree (O Heraldo, 27/1/2024(

https://www.heraldgoa.in/details.php?n_id=217076 On January 22nd earlier this week - an historic day filled with complicated feelings - I had the distinct privilege and pleasure of talking and walking across the breadth of Panjim from Campal to Fontainhas in the company of the brilliant Hindi-lang

[Goanet] GALF 2024: Different Ways of Belonging (O Heraldo, 10/2/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/GALF-2024-Different-Ways-of-Belonging/217608 At the age of 67, on my invitation as one of the organisers of *Aparanta*, the path-breaking 2007 art exhibition with an activist agenda, the great Bombay Goan poet and professor Eunice de Souza did her first public reading

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[Goanet] India's Global Exodus (O Heraldo, 3/3/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/India%E2%80%99s-Global-Exodus/218478 Here’s one of the most startling facts about our rapidly changing world: in 2023 alone, the United States caught and expelled 96,917 illegal immigrants from India along its borders with Canada and Mexico, an astonishi

[Goanet] Life Support for the Old GMC (O Heraldo, 9/3/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Life-Support-for-the-Old-GMC/218714 It was not so long ago, but few people like to remember the magnificent Old Goa Medical College building on the Mandovi riverfront was given to Delhi-based realtors in 2007 to remake into “an upscale shopping mall.” This was done at

[Goanet] Follow the Money (O Heraldo. 17/3/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Follow-the-Money/219044 In what may yet be seen as the last gasp of India’s constitutional democracy, the Supreme Court’s rulings against the billion-dollar flow of anonymized electoral bonds have unexpectedly ripped the lid off an extraordinarily sordid

[Goanet] In Dibrugarh with Damodar Mauzo (O Heraldo, 30/3/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/In-Dibrugarh-with-Damodar-Mauzo/219565 Just one month after our own Goa Arts + Literature Festival, it was an honour to be invited alongside the beloved laureate of Konkani literature Damodar Mauzo to the first-ever Dibrugarh University International Literature Festiv

[Goanet] Souza, Again (O Heraldo. 31/3/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Souza-Again/219606 Just in time for his 100th birthday on April 12, the brilliant one-of-a-kind son of Saligao and all-time great artist Francis Newton Souza is back in the headlines. On March 20 at Christie’s auction house in New York, 36 of the late ma

[Goanet] The Emperor's New Tree (O Heraldo, 14/4/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/The-Emperor%E2%80%99s-New-Tree/220134 Adding insult to injury in the ongoing massacre of green cover across the State, the giant old banyan tree uprooted at midnight from St. Inez for an alleged “Smart Road project” has been conspicuously relocated to th

[Goanet] Galvanizing Cry (Mint Lounge, 19/4/2024)

Remember the dead But do not mourn over them Because yesterday’s jasmines have dried. Forget not tomorrow’s birds. Though the knife is coated with honey Let not your tongue run over it. The hook lies hidden inside the bait Never forget it. The new life is begging from you. Give her in large handful

[Goanet] Renewing Goa’s French Connections (O Heraldo, 20/4/24)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Renewing-Goa%E2%80%99s-French-Connections/220375 An old and significant cultural crossroads hits another high point in its revival this evening, with the first edition of Thinnai Stories, an online series of conversations hosted by the distinguished Indo-Malagasy writ

[Goanet] Libby de Liberdade (O Heraldo, 28/4/2024)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/LIBBY-DE-LIBERDADE-/220727 In less than a month on May 25th, the great Libia “Libby” Lobo Sardesai will celebrate her 100th birthday. Unfortunately, like her childhood friend the late artist Francis Newton Souza – the two Goans grew up close to each othe

[Goanet] Back to the Future (GQ India, April/May 2024)

https://www.gqindia.com/content/goas-buzziest-restaurants-praca-prazeres-and-larder-folk-traverse-the-european-continent-for-inspiration Just over a year ago, I found Ralph Prazeres uncharacteristically pensive behind the counter of his lively bakery-café near my home in Panjim, one of the post-pa

[Goanet] Fwd: We are hiring - Music Educators

-- Forwarded message - From: Indian Music Experience Museum Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024, 10:29 Subject: We are hiring - Music Educators To: Western Keyboard, Western Guitar, Karnatik Vocal & Semi-Classical View this email in your browser

[Goanet] Olympics of Bullying: Where is Peng Shuai? (Dhaka Tribune, 28/1/2021)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/01/28/olympics-of-bullying-where-is-peng-shuai Starting one week from today on February 4, the Beijing Winter Olympics begins another chapter of the world’s engagement with an unstoppably ascendant China. It is going to be an exceptionally fraught event – e

[Goanet] Silence in Nagaland (Dhaka Tribune, 4/2/2021)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/02/03/silence-in-nagaland So many things have changed in our world, as we continue to hurtle into the unprecedented. But that is much less the case just over 500 kilometres across the Bangladesh border in India’s spectacularly beautiful state of Nagaland, wh

[Goanet] Parrikar's Legacy: The Trashing of Panjim (Outlook, 4/2/2021)

https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/india-news-how-goa-trashed-the-legacy-of-former-cm-manohar-parrikar/305391 On December 18, regular evening walkers on Miramar beach along the Arabian Sea waterfront of Goa’s tiny capital city of Panjim were shocked to stumble upon an entirely unexpected

[Goanet] Who is afraid of Muskan Khan? (Dhaka Tribune, 11/2/2021)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/02/11/who-is-afraid-of-muskan-khan Almost 100 years ago in his journal of resistance *Young India*, Mahatma Gandhi presciently wrote that “in spite of a multitude of separate jurisdictions, our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test

[Goanet] Trouble in Paradise: Goa's Unemployment Crisis (Mint, 11/2/2021)

https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/rising-unemployment-saga-in-goan-paradise-11644516419105.html On a crisp winter evening in the North Goa village of Tivim, things are heating up on stage as Manoj Parab launches into his trademark fiery denunciation of vote bank politics that favour outsiders

[Goanet] Whose Hijab is it Anyway? (Dhaka Tribune, 25/2/2021)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/foreign-affairs/2022/02/24/dhaka-seeks-delhis-cooperation-to-resolve-outstanding-issues We are well into the third decade of the 21st century, but much of India is still stuck looking backwards in yet another medievalist orgy of navel-gazing about women’s clothing (and

[Goanet] War and Peace and Vladimir Putin (Dhaka Tribune, 4/3/2022)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/03/04/war-and-peace “Kings are the slaves of history,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in *War and Peace*, his 1869 literary masterpiece that recalls the French invasion of Russia, and its socio-cultural aftermath as Napoleonic ideas penetrated Tsarist society. Tolstoy’s

[Goanet] India Elections 2022: The Majoritarian Welfare Juggernaut

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/03/12/indian-elections-2022-the-majoritarian-welfare-juggernaut After this week’s stunning victories in four of five very different Indian states -- from gargantuan Uttar Pradesh to thimble-sized Goa -- the Bharatiya Janata Party under Prime Minister Narendr

[Goanet] By the Skin of its Teeth: How the BJP won Goa (News18, 12/2/2022)

https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/by-the-skin-of-its-teeth-how-the-bjp-won-goa-4867097.html In an interview with Rajdeep Sardesai just a couple of weeks before India’s smallest state went to the polls, regional news channel Prudent Media’s editor Pramod Acharya characterised his election forecas

[Goanet] Ukraine and the Lessons of History (Dhaka Tribune, 18/3/2022)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/03/18/ukraine-and-the-new-world-order On a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, is this by George Santayana: “Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” It may be a universal sentiment – some scholars credit it as “una

[Goanet] The Bread Wars of 2022? (Dhaka Tribune, 25/3/2022)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/03/25/the-bread-wars-of-2022 4000 kilometres south from the legendarily rich agricultural plains that spill between Russia and Ukraine, ancient neighbourhoods in Cairo are unexpectedly resonating with anxiety about pita bread. Egypt’s staple food for millen

[Goanet] How Can We Sleep When Our Beds Are Burning? (Dhaka Tribune, 1/4/2022)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/04/01/how-can-we-sleep-while-our-beds-are-burning A few days ago, the activist British journalist George Monbiot posted with palpable anguish on Twitter that it was “30°C above normal in the Arctic today [and] 40°C above normal in the Antarctic today. It wou

[Goanet] Beef in The Land of Humans (Outlook, 22/4/2022)

https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/national/beef-in-the-land-of-humans-magazine-192369 Way back in March 2015, two first-term BJP chief ministers forked widely apart on one of their party’s most cherished platform ideals. Deve­ndra Fadnavis was tweeting in jubilation about achieving “our dream”

[Goanet] Dayanita Singh: A Saligao Story (O Heraldo, 24/4/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Review/Dayanita-Singh-A-Saligao-Story/189060 Believe it or not, one of the highest-profile art events that will take place anywhere on the planet in 2022 was conducted earlier this week at the 92-year-old Saligao Institute, when Dayanita Singh launched *Let’s See*, her bri

[Goanet] Damodar Mauzo: The Laureate of Reconciliation (The Hindu24/5/2022),

https://www.thehindu.com/society/review-of-the-wait-and-other-stories-by-damodar-mauzo-people-like-us/article65532750.ece Extraordinary jubilation erupted across an entire range of literary communities when it was announced last December that Damodar Mauzo had won the 57th Jnanpith Award, the very

[Goanet] The Apostle of Indian Art (O Heraldo, 25/6/2022)

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/fullview.php?edn=oHeraldo&artid=OHERALDO_GOA_20220625_9_6 120 years after he was born on the serenely beautiful Mandovi river island of Santo Estêvão, the supremely talented modernist painter Angelo da Fonseca is finally edging into the global pantheon of immortals where

[Goanet] Last Gasp for Indian Democracy (O Heraldo, 27/6/2022)

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/articlepage.php?articleid=OHERALDO_GOA_20220626_4_1&width=390px&edition=oHeraldo&curpage=4 *The Economist* put it succinctly earlier this year, in its report entitled “The organs of India’s democracy are decaying” with an even more ominous subtitle, “It takes more than e

[Goanet] Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant (O Heraldo, 2/7/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Sunlight-is-the-Best-Disinfectant/191202 Musing about identity in *Democracy in America*, his 1840 classic of political analysis, Alexis de Tocqueville made the penetrating observation that “peoples always feel the effects of their origins.” He contended “if it were p

[Goanet] Gambling Away Goa (O Heraldo, 3/7/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Gambling-away-goa/191253 Chronology *Samajhiye*. After campaigning stridently against casino “dens of vice” in 2012, and winning big to install the political order that still holds ten years later, the late Manohar Parrikar was inaugurated as chief minis

[Goanet] Fortune Favours the Braverman (O Heraldo, 9/7/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/Fortune-favours-the-Braverman/191517 More obvious contenders to replace Boris Johnson were still being coy when Suella Fernandes Braverman seized the day on live television. While being interviewed by ITV’s Robert Peston on Wednesday night, the Attorney General for Eng

[Goanet] Goa’s Road to Ruin (O Heraldo, 10/7/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Goa%E2%80%99s-road-to-ruin/191549 It is raining gloriously in Goa, but it’s very hard for citizens to enjoy it because the roads have fallen apart to the worst condition in living memory. In the “bad old days of socialism” at least the dirt roads were fl

[Goanet] Goan Food, Going Global (O Heraldo, 16/7/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Goan-Food-Going-Global/191744 The ascent of Goan cuisine in the global imagination acquired interesting footnotes this week, as the latest edition of the wildly successful MasterChef Australia television series came to an end with Sarah Todd – who has based herself in

[Goanet] Goa’s Rainbow Revolution

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Goa%E2%80%99s-Rainbow-Revolution/191825 In his fascinating new essay *How Goa Became LGBTQ Friendly*, the wonderfully thoughtful journalist Vikram Doctor (who moved to Assagao after the onset of Covid-19) notes that Goa “without much fanfare, has become

[Goanet] Sudhir Patwardhan's X-Ray Vision (India Today, 15/7/2022)

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/magazine/leisure/story/20220725-a-new-book-on-sudhir-patwardhan-shows-why-he-is-in-all-likelihood-india-s-greatest-living-painter-1975724-2022-07-15 In her introduction to *Sudhir Patwardhan: Walking Through Soul City*, the mammoth volume that has follows and accompan

[Goanet] Making Mumbai: The Goa Story (O Heraldo, 23/7/2020)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Making-Mumbai-The-Goa-Story/192060 The burgeoning genre of big illustrated volumes on art and culture in India – often referred to as “coffee table books” – has an outstanding new addition. *Mumbai: A City Through Objects – 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museu

[Goanet] Is Nothing Sacred? (O Heraldo, 24/7/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Is-Nothing-Sacred/192100 Not even God is spared by the deeply disgraceful politicians of Goa, in their orgy of party-hopping and broken promises. There seem to be no limits to their shamelessness, sinking ever-lower with each passing week. Lies are piled

[Goanet] Reaching for Reconciliation (O Heraldo, 30/7/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Reaching-for-Reconciliation/192366 Surrounded by descendants of precolonial Canadians gathered in a pow wow circle, Pope Francis delivered an apology of great potency earlier this week in Maskwacis, Alberta. The pontiff said he was on “penitential pilgrimage.” That “w

[Goanet] Goa’s Missing Women (O Heraldo, 31/07/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/GOA%E2%80%99S-MISSING-WOMEN/192403 Such pleasure to hear Deviya Rane speak up for Poriem and the Goa Forest Corporation (where she is Chairman) in the assembly sessions earlier this month. The debutante legislator was not always right – such as her sugge

[Goanet] The Enduring Significance of Angelo da Fonseca (Scroll.in)

https://scroll.in/article/1028278/the-enduring-significance-of-goan-artist-angelo-da-fonseca-whose-work-was-erased-from-art-history “Better had I died,” wrote Francis Newton Souza about a debilitating childhood bout with smallpox that left his face permanently disfigured, “I would not have had to

[Goanet] The Radical Designs of Anupama Kundoo (GQ, August 2022)

https://www.gqindia.com/live-well/content/how-can-architecture-help-solve-social-environmental-and-economic-crises-berlin-based-architect-anupama-kundoo-has-the-answer On the 8th of October 2020, even as much of the rest of the world stayed locked down against the devastating first wave of the glo

[Goanet] Tambde Roza in Australia (O Heraldo, 6/8/2020)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Tambde-Roza-in-Australia/192617 An unexpectedly stirring debut riveted attention in the Australian Parliament last week, when Zaneta Mascarenhas made her inaugural speech as the newly elected MP for Swan (it’s part of Perth in Western Australia). We have become accust

[Goanet] Patriotism for Dummies (O Heraldo, 7/8/2020)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/Opinions/Patriotism-for-Dummies/192659 The *tiranga* in this 1955 photograph isn’t quite visible, but it flew boldly in the hearts and minds of all four men who are beaming with pride just below. Second from left is Morarji Desai, the doughty freedom fighter and Chief

[Goanet] 75 Years of Being Goan in Pakistan (O Heraldo, 13/8/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/The-Karachi-connection75-Years-of-being-Goan-in-Pakistan/192857 Late tonight “at the stroke of the midnight hour” it will be Independence Day across the border, and Tollentine (Tolli) Fonseca’s stirring arrangement for the Qaumī Tarānāh will begin to play across the l

[Goanet] Bungling the Jungle (O Heraldo, 14/8/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Bungling-the-jungle/192887 As if the last surviving remnants of Goa’s green cover were not already under extreme duress, the state forest minister Vishwajit Rane (he also holds the health, town and country planning, urban development, and women and child

[Goanet] The Dictator Who Would Not Die (O Heraldo, 20/8/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/The-Dictator-Who-Would-Not-Die/193088 Earlier this month, the British writer and documentary film-maker Matthew Teller wrote a viral thread on Twitter that started like this: “Exactly 54 years ago, 3 Aug 1968, Portugal’s authoritarian prime minister António de Oliveir

[Goanet] The Question of Loot (O Heraldo, 21/8/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/The-question-of-loot/193122 It is extremely pertinent that the word “loot” entered the English language during the 18th century from Hindustani - the mother language of both Hindi and Urdu – soon after the 1757 Battle of Plassey delivered Bengal to the B

[Goanet] Radharao Gracias: Roundtrip to Majorda (O Heraldo, 27/8/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Roundtrip-to-Majorda/193349 In his handwritten manuscript for the classic 1942 novella *L'Étranger* (which is usually translated into English as *The Stranger*), Albert Camus penned a most penetrating insight, “fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” The

[Goanet] Goa is Fracturing (O Heraldo, 28/8/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Goa-is-fracturing/193393 An unusual interview with Damodar Mauzo in the latest issue of *Outlook Magazine* is yet another warning sign that Goans are drifting apart in fundamental ways, with dreadful implications for the future. Speaking to Mayabhushan N

[Goanet] The Ballad of Edgar and Sita (O Heraldo, 3/9/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/The-Ballad-of-Edgar-and-Sita/193593 Of all the remarkable true-life lore of freedom fighters from Goa, who have stood up to demand equality in at least ten different countries, the case of Sita Valles in Angola is exceptionally dramatic. As the veteran Portuguese jou

[Goanet] Suella Rising, Again! (O Heraldo, 4/9/2022)

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Suella-rising-again/193631 Save the malingering shambles of Boris Johnson himself, there is no more telling example of failing upwards in UK public life than Suella Fernandes Braverman, the wildly – some used to say irrationally - ambitious Attorney Gene

[Goanet] India's Best Restaurant + India's Best Bar + my "new" Goa food picks (GQ, September 2022)

https://www.gqindia.com/live-well/content/gq-hype-india-best-restaurant-and-best-bar ON THE MORNING OF 28 March 2020, just four days after India plunged into “the world’s strictest lockdown” to combat COVID-19, chef Avinash Martins set up to cook in front of his phone camera in the garden of his

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