Once, in Alto Porvorim we ran into Roque Santan and co who were having lunch at O coquerio, my husband introduced us to him, he was very affable personality . My husband who was working on the construction phase of new Legislative Assembly complex that time invited him to the site, once in there he was a person who use to inquire in details, really true to his title ‘father of Goan Democracy, he was impressed to see river Mandovi just down the slope bellow and stretching his neck to find locate the old Secretariat across he said that he would prefer to get on a boat to come here from the other side as according to him bridges were not reliable, he was hinting to the collapsed Mandovi bridge and the failure of the legislature to frame rules to halt corruption in construction industry gone out of hand. So to say things are still collapsing in Goa, ‘Canacona Chaudi Building collapse’. …What a shame our legislature didn’t learn anything from the collapsed Mandovi bridge.
Message: 7 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:00:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeffery S. Nunes" <jefferys.nu...@yahoo.com> To: "goa...@goanet.org" <goa...@goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] ' father of Goan democracy ' Message-ID: <1389286801.48703.yahoomail...@web162404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Keep it up??research students and historians, you?ll are doing good,??give Goans more of this topic. We need it ?Its all going good. ? My friends ? I am a catholic and according to??my religion??Jesus son of God, all powerful was rejected by his own people. His seniors were so jealous of his claims, teachings and his miracles they got him killed. If it happened to Jesus, what is Roque Santana, ? Today ? See the trick they play, they say Roque Santana was a good person period but if we write of his valuable work they get jealous and wish to dethrone him. They are not fools they are over come by jealousy so they pass judgments in a hurry. ? I my self as a research student in Panjim, Goa in 2005 once??I was taking help of an elderly man who knew Portuguese, to my surprise this very man removed a whole page of archive document and forced it in his pocket, I reported this unbecoming to the supervisor right away who confronted him and we forcefully removed the page from his pocket. Be aware of this type of people who wish to wipe history. Translating Portuguese documents is a very hard task??for us today one such document says Nehru PM?s residence as Anand Bhawan instead of Teen Murti Bhavan I was able to recognized this mistake as I have been to New Delhi. ? Slip of??tongue is not a mistake, try to do good proofreading and do not rely on the computers for spell checks be careful when you copy and paste, do not edit in a hurry, I am telling you from my own experience ? not a big thing though. Give Goans more of this topic. Its all going good. ? Now about ?12th century ?Kadamba Jayakesi I??Southern capital headquarters and administrative center, Velliapura in present day Velim,?South Goa. ? We get very little information about Velliapura from the writings of George M. Moraes in Kadamba Kula, the history of Ancient and Mediaeval Karnataka. There is lot of information translated by Kannada language experts??from ancient stone inscriptions??on Velliapura of which they themselves don?t know the whereabouts of this place, ??as this place being under Portuguese is almost foreign to them. This place is very well known to small number of members of the ? Deccan Kadamba Coterie ? who visit Velim every year as pilgrim and link Roque Santana as the descendant of Hangal section of Kadamba's so i was in search of this link, I first visited Velim site in Sept of 2006, the compound gates were secured when I inquired with the neighbours??they directed me to a man who was looking after the house, he gave me the email address of Roque Santana ( roquesan...@legislator.com). I had written to Mr.RoqueSantana seeking an appointment at this site in Velim to which he replied to me that at that time he was in?USA?and he will get back to me when he returns to Velim, It was very sad to read the news from the news papers of his untimely demise. I wrote to his daughter Maria Suhashini once in London she gave me the London based house address of Venkatesh Upadhiaya who was member of the Coterie he never replied to me,?I wrote to one of his son's too in USA but no reply. People in Velim had told me that the road side direction stone went missing or destroyed in late 60?s and were never replaced by the Archaeological survey of India, A Velliapura??viragal found at Raia, South Goa in 1920?s tell that Jayakesi I in ?a battle?with?his rival to retain won a decisive victory in Velliapura which was his southern capital, three horse stables and few officials residences were destroyed in the battle according to the Kannada version the days following the victory the wife?s of the commanding officers or soldiers celebrated in the royal compound by lighting and floating ?ponti? in the royal pond ?Toloai? in front of the capital building. I came across a old Portuguese record that in 1922??a complaint was filed with the?Portuguese ?Regdor? by the ancestors of Roque Santana following the excavation of that toloai therefore I wanted some news from his side. ? Jayakesi I son of Shashtha-Deva was a very powerful ruler, 12 century copper carvings tell us that princes and lords from neighbouring kingdoms traveled in to?Chandrapur present day Chandor to?pay homage to Jayakesi who was the Sovereign of Konkan.? ? research students and historians use this write up for your research and help me to connect the dots. ? Jeffery. ?