Young VIJAY D'CRUZ is a Goan who is Director of Music at the Indian Navy Band at the national level. You can e-meet him here while he was recently conducting most of the Beating the Retreat 2016 ceremony at New Delhi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH9Y-ay2H7A
Tune in to some of his other work here too: https://www.reverbnation.com/vijaydcruz Commander D'Cruz [vijaydcruz at gmail.com] is married to Nerita (nee Baptista), our former journalist colleague in Goa both in print and radio. Though his love is music, he has actually studied the computer sciences and grew up amidst the Goan community in Nagpur, which was once quite big. *DID YOU KNOW THAT?* Everyone knows that 'Saare Jahan Se Accha', a song which caught the imagination of post-Independence India, was based on the poem of the great poet, philosopher, academician, politician, barrister and scholar Shair-e-Mashriq (poet of the East)* Mohammed Iqbal * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal Did you know that this rousing song was set to music by the Calangute-born Antsher Lobo http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195650 983.001.0001/acref-9780195650983-e-0350 Even more unusual, another very stirring song, the *Pakistani national anthem [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aUu2cSH5B0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aUu2cSH5B0>]*, while credited to others, was probably also set to music by the Goan Tollentine Fonseca. See: http://www.goansofpakistan.org/anthem.htm But I must stop now. For, as they say, God too is a Goan :-) FN -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha _/ Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at https://archive.org/details/go a1556 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/