[Goanet-news]24 DEC 2004: GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS

[Joel D'Souza]

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GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
December 24, 2004

'FILM DOES INJUSTICE': The government's contention that the film on Goa's
liberation struggle was accepted by the freedom fighters in the State was
totally false, Vasant Molio, president of Goa, Daman and Diu Freedom
Fighters Association said yesterday. Making a strong case for the immediate
withdrawal of the controversial VCD, which seeks to 'distort history', he
said the government should tender an apology to freedom fighters for the
objectionable film. (GT)

THE MISSIONARIES WERE BRUTAL: ANGLE: Margao-based 80-year-old Bhiku Pai
Angle, a veteran stage artiste, student of history and one of the doyens of
Marathi movement in Goa - a witness to the proselytisation efforts of the
erstwhile Portuguese rulers has come out in strong support of the government
and has wholeheartedly endorsed its actions in telecasting the CD Goa KA
Swadhinta Sangram in all schools in the State. The conversions were led by
ST Francis Xavier earlier, he said. (GT)

A THIRD-RATE, PATHETIC FILM: When GT invited Goan poet and historian Dr
Manoharrai Sardessai to watch the 68-minute 'documentary' on Goa's
liberation struggle, he refused saying that he had watched the film a year
back and found it terribly disappointing. It's a third-rate, pathetic film
and I don't want to watch it again. Such a film shouldn't be shown in Goa.
(GT)

CONG TO AGITATE: The North Goa District Congress Committee has decided to
launch an agitation at various levels to seek the withdrawal of the VCD on
Goa's freedom struggle. (GT)

EX-PM NARASIMHA RAO DEAD: Mr PV Narasimha Rao, the architect of India's
economic reforms and the first prime minister outside Nehru-Gandhi clan to
complete a full five-year team in office, died in New Delhi after a bout of
serious illness for the last fortnight.

ONE COMMITS SUICIDE OVER LOVE AFFAIR: A 21-year-old boy from Chinchinim, who
recently returned from abroad, allegedly committed suicide on Thursday after
his girl friend reportedly preferred to end the relationship, police
disclosed. (H)

BJP MEMORANDUM TO GOVERNOR: A memorandum presented by the State unit of the
BJP to the Governor, Mr SC Jamir, on December 23, condemned the Opposition
Congress party for causing constant hindrances to the government and its
functioning by way of Opposition which is far from being constructive. (NT)

PRISON REPORT SUBMITTED: A report on the state of prisons in Goa, compiled
by a four-member commission, was submitted to the Bombay High Court of Goa
on Wednesday. The commission was appointed in the wake of a petition filed
by undertrial Richard D'Souza who questioned several alleged wrongs on the
part of the State prisons' administration. (GT)

GOODS DESTROYED AT VASCO: Goods worth around Rs.50,000 were destroyed in a
fire at the home of an elderly man, Custodio Menezes from Colaco Arcade on
the main Vasco-Baina road. While ironing his clothes at around 3.30 pm, it
was reported that the elderly man got drowsy and fell asleep. The fire
started and slowly spread across the whole room. (H)

THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTES TO FR OLAVO: Thousands of people paid their last
tributes to the director of the Diocesan Centre for Social Communications
Media of Archdiocese of Goa, Fr Olavo Velho Pereira, as his body was laid to
rest at Benaulim on December 23. In his speech, the Archbishop, Rev Filipe
Neri Ferrao said that the Archdiocese had lost a talented priest who had
contributed much for the growth of the society through his various talents.
As a pilgrim, Fr Pereira gave his entire life for his flock and crushed
himself till the end of his journey in order to attain eternal life, he
added. (NT)

SCOPE FOR MUTUAL FUNDS IS TREMENDOUS: KURIAN: With NRI money flowing into
Goa there is a tremendous scope for mutual funds in Goa, stated AP Kurian,
chairman, Association of Mutual Funds in India. Speaking at a press
conference, Kurian said that over the years the Mutual Fund market has grown
in India. Today we have an investment worth 1,50,000 crore and world's
prominent players working in India, he said. (GT)

BODY FOUND: A highly decomposed body of an unknown person was found hanging
to a banyan tree, behind the military camp at Dhavlim in Ponda. (NT)

MMC WORKERS GO ON STRIKE: Work at Margao Municipal Council office was
totally paralysed after lunch break on Thursday (December 23) when all
employees of the Council went on strike in protest against an assault on one
of their colleague. MMC chairperson Kamilini Painguinkar speaking to the
press stated that the protest was 

Re: [Goanet]Congrats... Valentine de Souza

[Frederick Noronha(FN)]

This report was published in 'Examiner', the Catholic community 
publication from Mumbai (Bombay). They're talking about the Sacred Heart 
church located in Santa Cruz (Mumbai). FN

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha wrote:
While on one hand I join Fred in congratulating Valentine for the 
fellowship which he has been awarded, on the other I must confess that I 
am flabbergasted with Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz). Will Fred or someone 
else please explain? Is it that the Santa Cruz parish is dedicated to 
the Sacred Heart? I ask this because Santa Cruz actually means Holy 
Cross. -

- Original Message -
From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: goanet@goanet.org
Cambridge Fellowship for Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz) Parishioner
Valentine de Souza, Editor of the Express Computer weekly newsmagazine, and
a parishioner of Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz) has been awarded the prestigious

[Goanet]Re: Chickens coming home to roost!

[Tariq Siddiqui]

--- Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 People know WMDs were not found after the regime 
 change.  The question is, what happened to the WMDs
 not accounted for.  Mr. Albuquerque steadfastly dodges
 this question.

Don't you find it a tad bit hypocritical of accusing Ronald of dodging this
question?

Did you ever think that this question should be answered by those who led this
country into a war?

But of course, this question will never be asked or answered because all the
chickenhawks know there are no WMDs.

Instead, this argument is changed to one of democracy and freedom and those who
called out the liars for what they were, are asked to answer for the missing 
WMDs and accused of subverting democracy.

-Tariq

[Goanet]Re: Chickens coming home to roost!

[Mario Goveia]

TO: Joe Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Joe Lobo says to Halur Rasho:
The problem  with living next door to a giant like the USA...not very unlike 
how Pakistan has to live with a populous (prolific...as in population growth) 
with Mother India next door, as one has to shift, as the heavier neighbour 
moves, to avoid  being  squished (or squashed as they say in proper 
English.)but as Chairman Mao of Chinese history said, All power grows out 
of the barrel of a good gunand you americans now hold the gun on the UN 
and any one who dares to defy the future designs of your oil-provider for the 
future  Texas presidentand like the British Empire who  thought that the 
planet belonged to them ...the  future will present small problems.

Mario replies:
Where does one start to respond to something like this?  Are we being just a 
tad cynical here, Joe?  Are you pulling our legs, huh?

By the way, did Chairman Mao really say that it had to be a good gun?  I 
thought he said any old gun would do.  Anyway, I digress.

I didn't know we Americans held a gun on the UN!  Must not be one of 
Mao's good guns, because the last time I checked, Kofi Annan, who has 
obviously not read UN resolution 1441, said that the US-led liberation of
Iraq was illegal, France had threatened to veto any consequences on Saddam 
for not complying with that resolution, no matter what,  the UN was refusing 
to go along with the US's proposal to qualify the killing in Darfur as a 
genocide, and Kofi Annan was refusing to turn over evidence in the oil-for-food 
scam to the US.  In 1991, the UN would not let the US go after Saddam beyond 
the Kuwait border.  What kind of gun is that, huh Joe?  Not very good, I'd say.

And what kind of retaliation did we see from the EVIL oil-provider-for-the-
future Texas president? Opposition to the calls for Kofi Annan's resignation,
at least until the investigating committees had finished their jobs.  Strange 
way for the EVIL Texas president to behave if he thinks like the British that
the planet belongs to the US.

Also, the last time I checked, it was Pakistan that was threatening to use its 
nuclear arsenal if India even thought about attacking it.  Not something
someone worried about being squished, or squashed, would say, is it Joe?

I don't know where you live, Joe, but the US is less dependant on foreign oil 
than most of the European countries as well as Japan and China.  Plus we have a
lot locked up that we are not using right now that can access in a pinch.  So, 
if we do guarantee that world oil supplies will not be disrupted, it is those
countries that will benefit the most.  Unless you think that the world can run 
on empty?

Furthermore, if the US really wanted to capture mid-east oil, why did they walk 
away from Kuwait and Iraq in 1991, when they had their oil basically in US
control?  Something to think about, huh Joe?

Finally, regarding thinking like the British that the planet belongs to them, 
can you put together for us a list all the countries that are US colonies?  My
memory must be failing, but I can't think of even one.

And please don't say Canada, Joe, because Tim and Mervyn will really go nuts.

[Goanet]Re: Chickens coming home to roost!

[Ronald Albuquerque]

Upon reading this post, I decided to re-read the news article previously 
referenced.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/10/22/divide_seen_in
_voter_knowledge/'

The last few lines are particularly apt here, in regards to this post. People 
have a hard time admitting the discrediting of the reasons given to go to war 
in Iraq. In fact, they still maintain the reasons are completely valid - 
despite all the evidence to the contrary.

This is very counter-intuitive. From a pure sociological point of view, I 
wonder why this is so. Is it because in general, some people have a hard time 
admitting that they could be wrong? Or are there other reasons?

The lines are excerpted below:
...
the dissonance among Bush voters reflects the country's difficulty coming to 
grips with the discrediting of the rationale for the Iraq war.This period will 
really stand out as when the US went to war on assumptions that turned out to 
be incorrect, he said. The body politic is still struggling to come to terms 
with that.
...

   From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: Re: Chickens coming home to roost!
   [...]
   Yes, no WMDs have been found in Iraq.  However,
   neither has there been any accounting of what happened
   to the WMDs Iraq had.  There has been some speculation
   in reports, but no one knows for sure.
   [...]
   Bush voters are using common sense.
   [...]
   The question is, what happened to the WMDs
   not accounted for.

[Goanet]Re: Re: Goa government donates Rs 21 lakh to Marathi film 'Shwaas'

[Stephen Fernandes]

will konkanni get what ? 
Stephen

--- floriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dear Gabriel,
 
 You want to know -  Where's Konkani gone???
 Simply ... DOBEAN 
 
 Floriano
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Gabriel de Figueiredo
  
   --- Eddie Verdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
Goa Govt donates Rs 21 lakh to 'Shwaas' PANAJI: The Goa government on
   Thursday announced an aid of Rs 21 lakh to the producers of Marathi
   film Shwaas which has been selected as India's entry to the Oscars.
  
  
  Marathi? Where's Konkani gone? 
  Gabriel.

[Goanet]NOITE DE NOEL - Christmas Seasons' Traditional Entertainment in Kuwait

[blandino viegas]

NOITE DE NOEL - Christmas Seasons' Traditional Entertainment in Kuwait

'NOITE  DE  NOEL'

Chinchinim Villagers' Association, with expertise in organising Christmas 
season entertainments, are all set to present NOITE DE NOEL  at Hotel Faker 
El Deen (Fakhruddin) Palace, Dawliah Complex, Behind old KAC Bldg., Kuwait 
City,  on 24th December 2004 from 9:00 p.m. onwards.

One of Kuwait's leading bands IMPRESSIONS and DJ Mario in attendance. 
Following the success of last year's, Chinchinim Villagers' Association will 
give you the very best to rejoice and give an opportunity to fellow Goans to 
wish one another the good tidings of Christmas.

To add to the ambience, Santa Claus with lighten up your spirits with loads of 
gifts, surprises and prizes all through.  For admission passes pls contact B.M. 
Viegas 2454371, 2994806, 6474189, Michael 6798105, Albert 5613340 and Jose 
6406672 or any Chinchinim Villagers Association member.


Passes are also be available at LIMRA CARGO SERVICE (MR. TONY - GOLDEN GOA) 
Tel:  6575653, 9581491,4820619 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Season's Greetings from the President  Organizing Committee
Chinchinim Villagers' Association - Kuwait

[Goanet]Fwd: Noman Konkani Palkachea Razamchea Raza-nk (A Tribute to the Kings of Kings of the Konkani Stage)

[GoaWorld.Com]

-- Forwarded message --
From: www.goa-world.com/goa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:30:45 -0800 (PST)

www.goa-world.com/goa/about_goa/

Wishing One and All

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Cajetan Godinho salutes and pays rich tributes to


The Kings of Kings of Konkani Stage


 


Soglleank anvddeun

KHUXEALBORIT NATALAM ANIK NOVEM VOROS

Cajetan Godinho noman korta

Konkani palkachea Razamchea Raza-nk


  
Noman Konkani Palkachea Razamchea Raza-nk

-  A Tribute to the Kings of Kings of the Konkani Stage
 

1

 
Bhangaracho avaz tuzo, amkam portun kednanch aikonk meuchonam Suadik  ghirest 
utramnim vinlelim tujim kantaram, kanar amchea sadounchinam Tum palkar ubo 
rautogoch, palkachi sobitai vhadtali, to dekhavo portun amkam dischonam Tuzo 
zago palkar sodanch rito urtolo, konnamcheanuch bhorunk zaumchonam.

Tujim kantaram aikotoch, mortali amchea kannamchi tan anik bhuk Duensak sampdon 
mornan tuka ghiraslo, konkani mogiank zali dukh Donia sorguimchem raz taka favo 
kor, bhogsun kosli zalea zalear chukh Tum zaun aslo konkani palkacho Raza, 
Goemkaramchem sukh.

Kantorist titloch ghirest partist, tiatr anik songit buroupi, tiatrist
tum unche dorjecho Kednanch guntunk zaumchonam jhelo, tujea hozara voir 
kantaramcho Itiasant poili konkani cassette anik musical show dakoun, maan zodlo
tuvem soglleamcho Alfred Rose, 'Melody King' kantoristamchea mollar, tum 
RAZA RAZAMCHO

 
Festachea disa ganvchea bhurgeamcho tiatr astalo, tum soiro kolakar koso, 
soglleamchea  tiatranim nestalo  Tiatr suro zalo khoro, pun soglo lok tujich  
vatt polleat rautalo Tujea fiat motoracho avaz aikotoch, feuneom ghalun, 
fogotteo laun tuka eukar ditalo Tujem ek comedy anik decent kantar aikotoch, 
soglo lok dadoxi zatalo

Manuel Aguiar zalo 'M.Boyer', zodtogoch eka English film actorachem tuvem nanv 
Tuje tiatr pollounk lok uppotteo ghali, marun etale danv Porva kelinam tuje 
bolaikechi, mhattarponnar passun palkak veng marun raulo, xebaski dita tuka 
goemcho ganv Atamchea tiatristank tum zaun asa, ek vhodlem lissanv.

Voznadik anik riti dekhivont tiatr 'Ekuch Rosto', 'Sounsar Sudorlo', molladik 
vaur tuzo Soglleamchea tonddar khelltat tuje suadik cant, toxoch ugddass eta 
Goemche convent, tujea kantaracho Huxear comedian, kantorist, partist, tiatrist 
tum soglleamchea mogacho M.Boyer tiatramchea mollar, tum khoddegant tiatr 
buroinar RAZA RAZAMCHO

 
3 

Tatristamchem painnem, sobit Benaulim ganvant tum zolmolo Ph.D. xinkop korun, 
sadem uloun, sadem nesson, sadeponnan tum jielo Zomnir tan stagir haddun, 
khelltiatrank tuvem atvoch rosto dakoilo Tuvem palkar kelelim tore torechim 
vizmitam polloun, konkani sounsar dipkoulo.

Kitlem ghirest tujem buroup, konnuch amkam palkar disonk nam, tea panvdear 
paulolo Khoreanuch tum Goemcho 'Shakespeare', dusro Rosario  amkam kuimsor 
meutolo Cancer piddechea ujeant lastanam passun, tuvem tuzo vaur chalo dorlolo
Anikui palkar zaitim noulam korunk, monant tum chintun aslolo

Auchituch dori tuntli, tujea jivitacho 'Patang' varear ubonk laglolo 'Ekech 
Ratri', 'Ami Fator' zale, konkani palkacho buddhivont 'Surya', mornamchea 
doriant buddon, 'Uzvadd Paloulo' 'Thank You Doctor', tuzo molladik vaur sodanch 
amchea kallzant urtolo Rosario Rodrigues khelltiatristamchea mollar, tum 
RAZA RAZAMCHO


Bombaimchi Hindi film industry voir kadlea, Goemchea huxear muzgamnim Tannim 
kelolo molladik vaur, sangon khobar korunk zainam sade utramnim Tantlo famad 
musician Chris Perry, amchi Konkani bhas voir dovorlea, music buroun 
bhangarachea solphanim
Aiz tum amche modem nam, tujem suadik music anik kantaram aikon, dukham bhortat 
dolleanim

Kitle zannank tuvem tujea music anik kantaramnim, nachoile anik hanssoile 
Sopnant aslelea porim amkam, kednam kongotte anik  kednaim, lisboa pavoile 
Songittachea sounsarant, tuvem zaite zannank nove nove roste dhakoile 16 
vorsamchi divli asli, 'Bai Lornank' porzollit noketr korun, Konkani mogiank 
tumi dipkaile

Zaite music director sangtat, tum mhun music director unche dorjecho Ek famad 
maestro mhunta, tum zaun aslo mhunon 'Maestro –  Maestromcho' Khoreanuch tum 
vortolo  musician, soglea goemkaramche  avddecho Chris Perry songittachea 
mollar, tum RAZA RAZAMCHO


  Boroupi/Written by: 
Cajetan Godinho – soccer legend at Soor Grounds - Kuwait
   
(c) www.goa-world.com 22/12/2004
  

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[Goanet]Re: Lyrics Needed ! All the best Gilroy Britto - now get singing ! www.goa-world.com/goa/kantaram/

[GoaWorld.Com]

- Forwarded message from Domnic Fernandes Dhahran/SA -

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:19:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Domnic Fernandes Dhahran/SA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi Gilroy!

Here is the requested song “MIRA-MIRA” from late Chris Perry’s Album 
CARNIVAL IN GOA,” sung by Seby F:

One, one, one …..
Two, two, two …..
Three, three, three …..
Four, four, four …..
Five, five, five …..
Six, six, six …..
Seven, seven, seven …..
Eight, eight, eight …..
Nine, nine, nine …..
Ten, ten, ten, ten, ten …..
Eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven …..
Twelve, twelve, twelve, twelve, twelve …..

Mira!  Tuvem mhaka fottoilem mhungo?
Mhaka tuvem kett kelem mhungo?  Hum, hum, hum, hum.hum-m-m-m-m 
.

Mira-Mira, Mira-Mira!
Mira-Mira, Mira-Mira!
Mevta mhunn sanglelem Mapxeam Sukrara
Atam horam zavun gelim gho bara
Khuim pavlem?  Mojem Mira?

Nistem farovta khuim tansak
Lagtoch goreachea ghansak
Hanv poir Ponnje gelolom dansak
Thuim farovlom mogachea fassak

Mira-Mira, Mira-Mira!
Mira-Mira, Mira-Mira!
Mevta mhunn sanglelem Mapxeam Sukrara
Atam horam zavun gelim gho bara
Khuim pavlem?  Mojem Mira?

Tambddea korachem neslelem
Eklench kuxik tem boslelem
Kuch korun mhaka hanslelem
Tednam kalliz hem mogan tachem laslelem

Mira-Mira, Mira-Mira!
Mira-Mira, Mira-Mira!
Mevta mhunn sanglelem Mapxeam Sukrara
Atam horam zavun gelim gho bara
Khuim pavlem?  Mojem Mira?

Muzganim vazovop pettoilem
Nachonk taka hanvem uttoilem
Kallzak mojea hanvem fottoilem
Ani mogachem kordui tuttoilem

Mira-Mira, Mira-Mira!
Mira-Mira, Mira-Mira!
Mevta mhunn sanglelem Mapxeam Sukrara
Atam horam zavun gelim gho bara
Khuim pavlem?  Mojem Mira?

I love you, mojea Mira
I’ll wait for you, Oh! Oh! Mira!

Good luck, Gilroy!

 
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA

__

Gilroy Britto - All the best to you and your band for the New Year's Eve 
Programme

Thanks Mr. Domnic Fernandes for your contribution, as always.  Season's 
Greetings to you and all in S.A.

- Goa-World.Com Team



From: electronikgod
Subject: [Gulf Goans] Lyrics Needed !
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:58:55 -

HI friends!Hope you all  are well !..Was wondering if anyone of you would have 
the lyrics to this goansong 'MIRA MIRA' ... if so can you please email it 
tome [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Id really appreciate it. I need thisbefore the 
31st please, if possible.Please contact me for a 3 piece band in the UAE. We 
have a new yearseve show and hence the request. the mobile is 050 6943411Merry 
Christmas and a bright New Year !take it easy

Gilroy

[Goanet]Re: Goa of My Dreams - Dr. Hubert Gomes

[Floriano]

COMMENTS:

It is not everyday that someone writes what Dr. Gomes has written above.
Indeed, Goans are a confused lot, maybe in most  aspects,  but politically
confused, definately yes a one hundred percent. And we do not have to go
far. Just a few days ago the education department has come out with a 'Goa
Liberation' VCD  which has and will confuse Goans even more, to the point
that they could go raving mad. This controversy has already tasted a
calamity in the sad demise of the trusted lieutenant of Archbishop of Goa,
Fr. Olavo Pereira. Then again, Goans prefering  to 'wish' rather than
'want', is entirely true. If one wants something bad enough, one is ready to
work hard, even to the extent that  it might kill him. But the desire to
want something badly drives people to excell. Goans (Bahujan Samaj) were so
obsessed with suspicion towards the Brahimins and Catholics that post
liberation they allowed a pipe dreamer in Bandodkar to ruin Goa and their
own daily bread (read agriculture). That obsession has resurfaced now in
full circle with a few bigotted and brainless Goans trying to undo what 450
year took to make it happen. And they call themselves Goa's freedom
fighters. If Goans are sensible, which they aren't, they could bring in a
revolution in the Goan political arena and drive these shameless usurpers of
power and pelf into the arabian sea to drown. But this is not going to
happen. We Goans are a breed that is 'suscegad' first, 'crabs in our
mentality' second and people who will give away even our 'kastis'  if
someone would praise us and our kastis enough.

Needless to say,  I propose three cheers to Dr. Hubert Gomes. May his tribe
increase in leaps and bounds before it is too late for our own bloody Goan
good.

Floriano
www.goasu-raj.org

[Goanet]Goa-World.Com Team (Kuwait) congratulates Silviano C. Barbosa on the release of his novel The Sixth Night

[GoaWorld.Com]

Silviano C. Barbosa's novel The Sixth Night


A Goan novel “THE SIXTH NIGHT” written by Goan author (based in Canada), 
Silviano C. Barbosa, was released at Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim, Goa on 21st 
December 2004 by Margaret Mascarenhas.
 
The novel portrays the travails of a Catholic girl growing up in traditional 
Goa of the 1950s during the last decade of the Portuguese rule.  Linda Cardoso 
derives immense pleasure from the simple village life steeped in customs, 
traditions, feasts and celebrations. Until…she comes face to face with ugly 
caste discrimination inflicted on her people for centuries. An old Goan custom 
declares that the goddess who visits the child on the sixth night after birth 
determines the destiny of the child forever. Was it her destiny to be 
beautiful, lively and excel at everything and yet be unhappy?

May be the goddess had not felt welcome enough… She falls hopelessly in love 
with a foreigner, only to lose him abruptly during the Indo-Portuguese conflict 
of 1961.   Left alone, ostracized, helpless and pregnant with a half-Portuguese 
love-child, she struggles with thoughts of despair, single motherhood and the 
pain of separation as life drags her through three continents ultimately 
landing her in a new country – Canada.  A story of love, hate, jealousy and 
intrigue – great insights into Goan life, traditions and customs. Will bad 
karma haunt her all her life? Or will her steely determination and innate 
goodness change what was written on The Sixth Night?  

The book starts with a detailed nostalgic background of the Goan village life, 
slowly taking the reader to a fast life of a Liceista at Liceu Nacional Afonso 
de Albuquerque in the Cidade de Goa, Pangim, where the novel reaches its climax 
and the protagonist feels the after-effects of Indian invasion/Goan liberation, 
and from there the last part of the book takes the reader through complexities 
in life through the U.K. Portugal and Germany and finally to Canada. 

The preview readers have already hinted at the possibility of a Bollywood movie 
based on the story. With heavy doses of nostalgia, humour, usage of Konkani and 
Portuguese words to give the novel an authentic touch of a life in pre-
liberation Goa, the novel is a feel-good kind of a story, which rewards the 
reader for going through over 300 pages of interesting intellectual, social, 
and political stimulation, deductive reasoning, logical conclusions, and 
historical exclusions.  

Silviano Barbosa, who now lives in Toronto, Canada, after leaving Goa 33 years 
ago, still finds time to be in touch with his mother-tongue Konkani and Goan 
culture.  He has already produced a sold-out Konkani album “Classic Goa - Hits 
of the Millennium” which has sold over 4000 cassettes and CDs when he visited 
Goa in 1999. He wrote the lyrics of all the songs on this album, some of which 
you can still hear on Goa’s FM Radio. 

This novel is his second contribution to Goa’s growing cultural heritage, with 
his unconditional love for Goa.  


For details on how to obtain your copy of the Novel, contact: Goa Raj Books,   
14 Lakeview Colony,  Miramar, Panjim, Goa, India  Tel: 2463242 Email: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 



Goa-World.Com Team (Kuwait) congratulates Silviano C. Barbosa

[Goanet]Re: SONG ON FOOTBALLER CRISTIANO JUNIOR

[Felicio Fernandes]

Hello Veronica,

We booked the entry gate passes for the fabulous entertainment and not for the 
condolence meeting. Ask the trio to render the said song at your residence   

Don’t disappointed us

Felicio Fernandes-Salmiya

[Goanet]67 MINUTES OF GOA'S HISTORY

[Miguel Braganza]

Dear Netters,

The timing of the fatwa [dated 17 December,2004]from the Goa Directorate of
Education and the distribution of the infamous VCD personally by some of the
taluka level functionaries on 18 December,2004, speaks volumes in what it
does NOT say.

The VCD was available with the Directorate of Education from 12
December,2002[ according to a Pressnote issued yesterday by the Director].
The Directorate had the Film Censor Board clearance[ atleast for the
original Ramesh Deo version]Why was it sent to the schools at the eleventh
hour? Was it like cutting of the Rain trees at DB Marg Campal in the dead of
the night under the cover of darkness when the permission to cut had
been issued by the Forest Dept? Or was it like cutting the trees near old
GMC without permission on a Sunday and obtaining ex-post facto permission to
regularize the cutting the trees on the following Monday , when challenged?
If the version circulated to the schools  for compulsory display [ a
compliance report has been officially asked for in Tiswadi taluka by the
ADEI]  has CBFC certificate, why is it not displayed at the beginning of the
'documentary' film in the officially circulated VCDs ???

The local press has carried the Directorate of Educations version along with
the Congress protest, as can be seen in part below. Please look up the full
text on the website www.navhindtimes.com to see the full version.
Navhind Times on the Web: Goa, Tuesday, December 21, 2004 .  Main Page, Goa


 Congress demands withdrawal of CD on Goa’s freedom struggle
NT Staff Reporter
Panaji Dec 20: The Congress today condemned the CD
of documentary film Goa Freedom Struggle, released by the education
department, for “sowing the seeds of communal hatred” and demanded immediate
withdrawal of the CD from Goan schools.

..
PHOTO  Pilgrims standing in a queue for the Exposition at Se
Cathedral on Saturday.Joaquim Fernandes
--
  Keni stresses need to protect Goa’s cultural legacy  NT
Staff Reporter
  Panaji Dec 20: The noted Konkani writer and former editor of
Rashtramat, Mr Chandrakant Keni has said that the next generation will have
to make efforts for preserving the self-respect and cultural legacy of Goa
by maintaining the secular fabric and unity, in the fast- changing times.


  a.. Awareness campaign on child abuse launchedNT News
Service
  Margao Dec 20: Goa has witnessed a number of cases of sexual
abuse in last couple of months, where young children were the victims.
taking cognizance of this, the Law Graduates’ Guild and G R Kare College of
Law, Margao, have planned a series of child abuse awareness programmes.The
campaign was flagged off at 3 p.m. from Colva on Sunday on the occasion of
Goa Liberation Day, where many NGOs, social workers, senior advocates and
others took part. Colva has been selected as the venue for the campaign as
recently a series of child abuse cases, including rapes, have been reported
from the area.



The Goa Government's priority is apparently in bastardizing history so much
that
it does not  tell it like it was printed in its own publications and school
textbooks issued by the very same Directorate of Education. I quote from 
HISTORY  CIVICS Standard Five text book issued by the Directorate of
Education Governement of Goa in 2002 [ i.e.under the same BJP dispensation
in Goa]which my son currently studies in a school aided by the Government of
Goa. I quote from the text verbatim [ 'all capitals for emphasis' mine]
from page5

Quote Chapter 2 EARLY RULERS-II.
  GOA UNDER THE VIJAYNAGAR AND BADAMI RULE:
In the 14th century, Goa was a great trading centre. It imported good
quality horses from Persia and Arabia. These horses were in great demand in
the Deccan. The rulers of both,Vijaynagar and Badami were at war with each
other. Both wanted Goa mainly because of the HORSE TRADE. So Goa was at
different times OCCUPIED by the rulers of Vijay nagar and Badami.
GOA UNDER BIJAPUR:
Yusuf Adil Shah brought Goa into the Kingdom of Bijapur. He was a powerful
ruler. He encouraged agriculture , art and literature. He was TOLERANT  to
all religions.Under him, Hindus were given religious freedom. Some of them
were given high civil and military posts.
Yusuf Adil Shah developed the PORT OF GOA by constructing a main road from
the jetty of River Mandovi at OLD GOA right up to the PALACE of Adil Shah
[present Secretariat] for trade and commerce. The PORT of Old Goa later
became the capital city under Portuguese rule.  Unquote

Chapter-3 has this to say.
 Quote. After 1498, Portugal 

[Goanet]Subject: Creating Goa-centric petitions

[Marie D'Souza]

FN asked :-Can we think of some petitions for Goa?

I suggest - Improvement of Administration of Jails
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet]The Ungrateful Indian

[graceful]

The Ungrateful Indian
 
  October 19, 2003
 
 
  Permit me to draw a picture of an average persons daily morning
  routine.
 
  1. An early raiser wakes up and puts the light on (i.e. consumes
  electricity).
  Let us assume that this person consumes electricity worth 20
paise in
  doing
  so. Maybe 2 paise get added to the Reliance treasury.
 
  2. This person then lights up the cooking gas or puts on the
  percolator for
  the first cup of tea or coffee. Let us assume that
LPG/electricity
  worth 20
  paise is used. Another two paise may get added to the Reliance
  treasury.
 
  3. Our common man now wants warm water for bathing. Again, he
either
  consumes LPG/electricity (maybe he uses wood). Another 10 paise
  probably
  finds it way to the Reliance treasury. Drainage pipes are made of
PVC.
  Maybe, another two hundred odd rupees has already found its way
to the
  Reliance Treasury.
 
  4. Now this person puts on some clothes. Yes, you guessed it
right.
  Polyester fiber is the route through which rupees hundred may
have
  already
  found its way to the Reliance treasury.
 
  5. Now this person wants to make some phone calls to organize his
  day. Some
  more revenue may find its way to the Reliance treasury.
 
  6. How about some news on television. Thanks to convergence and
  electricity, some more revenue might have found its way to the
  Reliance
  treasury.
 
  7. This person now logs in into his mail accounts. Convergence and
  electricity
  again.
 
  8. Now our person is ready for breakfast. LPG/electricity this
time
  (or is
  the person using wood).
 
  9. Newspapers have arrived and surprisingly, not contributed to
the
  Reliance
  treasury. Something must be quickly done about this anomaly.
 
  10. At last our person is ready to go to work. Gets into/onto the
  vehicle
  and starts the engine. Yes, you are right about petrol/diesel
(did
  somebody
  say naphtha? SSS  that is the most closely guarded
national
  secret).
 
  And the never ending saga of every persons daily morning routine
goes
  on.
 
  Looking at the above list one can realise that the two W's, water
and
  wood,
  are in urgent need of proper management and channelisation and
one
  would
  also remember that the Great man spoke about these two W's. The
Great
  man
  had said that he wished that he had another twenty years of life.
He
  would
  have ensured that no person in the country would have lacked for
the
  two W's
  (no mention of Reliance Treasury).
 
  How many people are aware of this yeomen service that the
Reliance
  Group is
  providing and intends to provide to each and every person in
India.
  Such
  unparalleled commitment to service and such unprecedented concern
for
  the
  people of India. And yet, there are those amongst us who
repeatedly
  create
  obstructions in the path of this glorious group. We obstruct the
  disinvestment of HPCL/BPCL. We insist on restricting the call
  forwarding
  facility offered by Reliance Infocomm (Group of Ministers' should
  immediately overcome this by permitting unified license). The
  Honorable
  Prime Minister of our country is giving the golden quadrilateral
to
  the
  people and the Reliance Group is ready to complement the Prime
  Minister's
  efforts with their pipes. Reliance Energy is eager to provide
  electricity
  to Maharashtra (never mind if it is only a few selected cities
that
  are the
  cash cows of MSEB). They are so kind and considerate that they
have
  willingly left a major portion of the state for MSEB. Why is MERC
  dragging
  its feet? Despite these difficulties the group continues to offer
  their
  humble services to the people of India. And the people of India
are
  being so
  ungrateful to the Reliance Group. How can we rectify this?
 
  We must insist that the name of Reliance Group be inserted into
our
  national
  anthem along with Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, Maratha, Dravida.
After
  all
  aren't they Bharata Bhagyya Vidhata? Our Honorable Minister for
  Information
  Technology has said and I quote
 
  Should we block technologies or practices because they violate
  existing
  laws and regulations? Should we clutch on to laws and regulations
  till they
  are disregarded into complete meaninglessness? Or should we put
the
  new
  possibilities to work?
 
  I totally agree with our Honorable Minister. Old order must make
way
  for the
  new. I suggest that we should replace the Ashok Chakra on our
  National Flag
  with the Reliance emblem. Our National pledge can be redrafted to
  read as
  under:
 
  India is my Country. All Indians are my brothers and sisters. I
love
  my
  country and I am proud of its Reliance Group.
 
  That seems to be the new order anyway. If there are too many
hurdles
  in the
  path of Disinvestment we should form a Ministry of Entrustment
and
  entrust
  all our public sector companies to the Reliance Group. I am sure
that
  there
  is nothing in our laws and the statutes of our public 

[Goanet]Some FFs need bangles!

[Miguel Braganza]

To,
The Editor,
Gomantak Times,
Panaji

Sub: Nothing objectionable,only factual says Nagesh Karmali. GT dated
23.12.2004 page 1.

Dear Sir,

Can one really call a person,  who is unwilling to come on record about his
views on the Goan freedom struggle in a FREE Goa[ currently under a
pro-hindu BJP dispensation] that is a part of an INDEPENDENT  India, a
FREEDOM FIGHTER? Such persons are better off wearing green and red glass
bangles on their arms. If they cannot speak, the truth or otherwise, with
their names on record in a country that enshrines the Freedom of Speech in
its Constitution, they are unlikely to have dared to work against the
dictatorial regime of antonio Oliviera de Salazar. The tamra patra that they
have fraudulently obtained to benefit from the pension and reservation
schemes should be returned to the Government.

These so called 'Freedom Fighters' may one day want us to believe that
'Admiral' Thimmaya [a Camotim ?] defected from the Bijapur Kingdom, worked
with the Vijaynagar Kingdom and Vasco da Gama[1502 to1508] and then led
Afonso de Albuquerque to attack Goa in March ,1510, to liberate it from
its Muslim ruler[Adil Shah]. His descendents can then be eligible for
pension and other benefits given to freedom fighters. Seems like
Dr.Olivinho Gomes shares this line of thought on the liberation of Goan
hindus by Thimmaya with Portuguese assistance.Even Nagesh Karmali fled the
field while we were discussing this worthy historical figure after the
infamous Mala PNKS incident which he co-led with Rajendra, the son of his
friend and co-scrutinizer of the infamous VCD, Subhash Velingker.

I have had the misfortune to interact with the late Shri Vishwanath
N.Lawande in 1983 and 1984 when he was the incumbent President of the
Freedom Fighters' Association of Goa. He was developing the land at
Matne[Sindhudurg taluka of Maharashtra] across the border from
Maulinguem-Bicholim which is now Capt.Lobo's Hideaway.The work was of
re-directing the course of the river and he was using a bulldozer from the
Government of Goa; both acts were patently illegal.He was using one anguta
shaap[Thumb impression illiterate man] called Dhaktu Shirodkar from
Bicholim  and the Sanjivani Society as  fronts to defraud the Indian [not
Portuguese] Government.

He attempted to bribe me[ then just in the second year of Government
service] with Rs.10,000/- [then equal to 10 months worth of my high status '
four figure salary' ] to get his work done partly off record. When he did
not succeed, he made a complaint against me to my Controlling Officer. It is
then that I fully understood what my father had told me when I asked why he
was not applying for the 'tamra patra' when it would benefit one more
generation through reservation in professional colleges and jobs [I was in
school when I asked him]. He said,  I was jailed in 1955 for possessing
Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography 'My Experiments with Truth'. I was not really
a freedom fighter; neither are these rogues who were jailed for crimes and
are now masquerading as Freedom Fighters.Do you want your father to be
counted among rogues? What the Portuguese could not do with jeep-borne
police was done by an amoeba traveeling in a mosquito.The late V.N.Lawande
was killed by malaria. May his soul rest in peace. There are ,of course,
genuine freedom fighters whom I met through my father, who was a co-prisoner
with the late Bhausaheb Bandodkar and a fan of his until death.

If there is a connection of Inquisition [ in the 18th and 19th century] with
the freedom struggle in Goa [mostly in the late 19th and 20th century], let
the so-called  freedom fighters tell us what it is--and stand by it on
record. If Damodar Mauzo can write his name and let his phot be published
when taking a stand in favour of his Christian brethren in Goa, can these
persons[ men may be too strong a word to describe them] not stand by their
bigoted views? I stand by what I write and in witness whereof I write my
name.

Yours sincerely,

Miguel Braganza
Mapusa-Goa.
9822982676

[Goanet]Ideas for stamp designs

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

Do you have a good idea for the design of some interesting stamp? If so, 
please send in your suggestions, with an explanation in about 150-words 
to:

Chief Post Master General
Maharashtra Circle
Mumbai 41
Goa could do with a decent representation in stamps. (For those curious, 
read Robert S Newman's study of the representation of Goa in Portuguese 
stamps, in his essay titled 'Orientalism for Kids', in his book published 
by the Other India Press.)

FN

Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia
Freelance Journalist  P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436

[Goanet]Re: Chickens coming home to roost!

[Mario Goveia]

TO: Mervyn Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mervyn writes,
There used to be a time when a teenager in Terre Haute, Indiana could look 
forward to a bright future. Ever since Bush started giving tax breaks to 
American companies exporting jobs to Canada, India and China, the job situation 
has become bleak. In fact, about the only job available to the American 
teenager there today, is to wear a uniform. The choice being: either volunteer 
for a uniform from one of the services or a uniform from McDonald's. Sadly, 
both jobs pay the same minimum wage.

Mario replies:
Bush has done nothing as you mention.  This is typical bovine excrement from 
the Globe  Mail.  All American companies have always had the same tax 
advantages, and virtually no restrictions on how they do business. The US 
economy, after the economic slowdown in 2000-2001 and the shocks of 9/11 has 
the fastest rate of job growth among all western countries, includion
Canada, so I have no idea what you are nattering on about Terre Haute.

The US  unemployment rate is 5.4%, whereas it is almost 7.5% in Canada and 10% 
in the major European countries (France, Germany, Spain  Italy), so put
away that feni bottle, Mervyn.

Taxes by themselves have nothing to do with jobs being outsourced, which is 
shown by the fact that the US has gained far more jobs from insourcing by 
foreign companies than they have lost to outsourcing.

Mervyn writes:
I am a sucker for any request to teach people to read and write. Hence most on 
my money goes to Goa and Tanzania. My contribution to the teenagers of Terre
Haute was out of pity.

Mario replies:
It always amuses me when someone from a less developed country that we support 
and protect pities us.

Mervyn writes:
US legislators believe that any attack on N. America is a direct attack on the 
US. My hats off to the Canadian lobby that has successfully propagated this.
It leaves us with much more money to spend on education, health and social 
services.

Mario replies:
Our taxes pay for your ability to talk nonsense about us.

Mervyn writes:
It does not surprise me at all that you stopped reading The Globe and Mail ONLY 
after you were told by other sources that the newspaper is full of blatant
propaganda, not a respectable newspaper.

Just in case you are not aware of it, most Goanetters rely on their own 
intelligence to make such decisions.

Mario replies:
No one had to tell me this.  All I had to do was compare what they were writing 
with a number of sources of information now available to us.

As long as Goanetters are not reading the propaganda newspapers they will be 
all right

Marvyn writes:
My folks, both in their seventies, migrated here only after their cronies 
assured them that they would receive better medical treatment than in Tanzania
(where medical treatment is free too.) They have not been disappointed.

Mario replies:
I'm glad they're OK.  You should talk to the hundreds who come to a border 
state like Ohio because they cannot wait for a medical procedure in Canada, 
even if it's free.

Mervyn writes:
Thanks for your concern.
As a small business owner, I am sure you have experienced how medical insurance 
premiums can almost break the profitability of a business. I am also sure
you are aware that American businesses are setting up operations in Canada 
because the Canadian health policy allows such companies to achieve a distinct
competitive advantage:

Mario replies:
I seriously doubt anyone is moving their business from the US to Canada just 
for the health care system.  If this were so, all the offices and manufacturing
operations of foreign companies spreading out across the US would be going to 
Canada.

[Goanet]Re: Chickens coming home to roost!

[Mario Goveia]

Tim de Mello writes:

I would like the people in Darfur, Sudan from being killed and brutalized by 
the Janjawwed. They have suffered more than the Afghans and the Iraqis.  I
think they need to be free and democratic - like us.

Please have a word with GWB on behalf of us poor and ignorant Goenkars, could 
you? Perhaps you could suggest that he look in the mirror before he gives you 
his response.

Mario Goveia replies:

Tim, I didn't know that the Goenkars had made you their spokesman.  When you 
call Goenkars poor and ignorant, you are probably referring to yourself, but
insulting the whole community.  Anyway, I will try and explain to you what is 
going on.  The US gives more aid to Sudan and to the continent of Africa than 
the rest of the world combined.  That includes all of Europe and Canada.

Since you are a Canadian, I assume you have already asked the Canadian Prime 
Minister why Canada is not helping the beleagured Sudanese, which is why you are
now turning for help to the US.  Somehow, I wonder if this has even occurred to 
you.

Has it occurred to you to question why Kofi Annan has let hundreds of thousands 
of his fellow-Africans die in Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, all on 
his watch?  What are the liberal French, Dutch, Brits and Belgians doing to 
help Africa, which they controlled during colonial days?  And what has Canada
done lately to help anyone, though they did send a token force to Afghanistan, 
but only after the Taliban were routed.   Canada always shows up after the
primary fighting is over.

You critics cannot have it both ways.  You cannot object to the intervention in 
Iraq and then ask why the US has not intervened in Sudan.  The US is the
only country that has declared the atrocities in Sudan a genocide, which would 
trigger UN action, whereas Canada and the rest of the UN is refusing to go 
along.

It is the UN's primary job to resolve international conflicts, not the US's, 
which only acts as a last resort.  If you were not so determined to be a critic
of the US you would know that the US does not intervene anywhere without giving 
the UN a chance to resolve a conflict.  In Iraq there was a 12 year
period from 1991 to 2003 where the UN tried to get Saddam to comply with its 
demands before the US acted, after Saddam was given an ultimatum in UN 
resolution 1441.

In Sudan the UN is supposed to be the one that intervenes first, before the US 
can legally act.  The US has been trying for months to get the conflict in
Sudan to be declared a genocide, which would trigger UN action, but Canada and 
the rest of the UN is refusing to go along.

Since people like you may also wonder why Iraq went to the head of the line 
over Iran and N. Korea, the same applies.  The UN and the Europeans are 
currently negotiating with Iran, and the UN and other neighboring countries are 
currently negotiating with N. Korea.  There are no UN ultimatums on the table so
far, whereas there was one in the case of Iraq.

[Goanet]RE: All Colin Powell's fault!

[Mario Goveia]

Tariq,

Because you have run out of ideas, you have now fallen
back on demanding that an old and ill person like
myself go to Iraq, which is what I called stupid (I
apologize for using this word) and insensitive (which
is a word I stand by).  Let me turn that around.
Since you are far younger and healthier than I am, why
aren't you in the middle-east to defend the Muslim
radicals you seem to sympathize with from the
Americans and Israelis?  You obviously know how to get
there.

I cannot understand how anyone who comes from India
can oppose the liberations of Afghanistan and Iraq,
when over 50,000 innocent Kashmiris have been killed
since 1947 by the same jihadi mentality we are seeing
in the middle-east, trying to get their way by force.

Believe me, I can understand why some people may
disagree with one or another US policy or action, but
some of you seem to be having such a hard time
accepting the fact that some of the details you want
so hard to be right about are now moot.

Let's say you all are hypothetically correct about all
your assertions.  Are you suggesting that we
Afghanistan back to the Taliban, and Iraq to Saddam
and the Baathists?

What amazes me is that none of you seem to express any
concern for the plight of Muslims who were being
brutalized in Afghanistan and Iraq by Muslim tyrants
all these years.  Don't you acknowledge the difference
between most Muslims who are peace-loving as the Quran
teaches, and the radicals who want to control events
by force, and have now added Saudi Arabia to their
list?  A local Imam tries so hard to convince us that
Islam is a peaceful religion.  I told him that we were
convinced about the religion, now how about trying to
convince the jihadis, the only ones who don't seem to
have gotten the message?

Re: [Goanet]Congrats... Valentine de Souza

[Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha]

While on one hand I join Fred in congratulating Valentine for the fellowship
which he has been awarded, on the other I must confess that I am
flabbergasted with Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz). Will Fred or someone else
please explain? Is it that the Santa Cruz parish is dedicated to the Sacred
Heart? I ask this because Santa Cruz actually means Holy Cross. -
Thanks.

Jorge

- Original Message -
From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: goanet@goanet.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:41 PM
Subject: [Goanet]Congrats... Valentine de Souza


Cambridge Fellowship for Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz) Parishioner

Valentine de Souza, Editor of the Express Computer weekly newsmagazine, and
a parishioner of Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz) has been awarded the prestigious
Wolfson College Press Fellowship for 2004-05. He will shortly be leaving for
Cambridge, UK, where he will pursue a research project on the Role of the
Media in Bridging the Digital Divide. The Fellowship was awarded under the
Chevening Scholarship scheme of the British Council.

The term Digital Divide refers to the gap that exists between people who can
afford and are capable of using modern information technology (including
computers and the Internet), and those who are unable to do so because they
lack sufficient finance and/or education. The field of Information and
Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) studies this phenomenon,
and millions of dollars are spent every year on projects attempting to
bridge the digital divide and bring the benefits of the information
technology revolution to the have-nots.

Through his research, Valentine de Souza is endeavouring to prepare a
blueprint for a website or journal or nodal agency that will serve as a
central repository for information on all ICT4D projects worldwide and track
their progress.

Mr de Souza had earlier been awarded the Madhu Valluri Memorial Foundation
'IT Journalist of the Year' award for 2002.

[Goanet]Ready?

[Sr. Margaret]

Are you Ready ? 

Do you remember where you stored the wrapping paper?

Do you have all the addresses for those you'll be sending cards to?

Do you have your calendar up to date, so you won't miss any special dinners
or gatherings?

Have you thought of special gifts for all your loved ones ?

Have you found just the rights cards, to send to your loved ones?

Have you told your loved ones you love them? 

Will you share the true meaning of Christmas with everyone you know?

Will you count your blessings, count your friends, and give thanks?

Will you take time to enjoy, the joy that is Christmas ?

[Goanet]Goa and migrants

[Gabe Menezes]

From: Bernado Colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: goanet@goanet.org
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa and migrants

Santoshi,
Living so many years in Goa I am left landless. Could
you offer me some pennies for the land deal. (I do not
have a ration card). Communism in China has become Red
Capitalism. Across the border in Zhuhai, the Chinaman
goes about in Merks. Would you like a job as a
chauffer? BTW did you know that Goa is colonized by
impearlist bharat?
B. Colaco
RESPONSE:
Indians and Chinese cannot work together, please click on the link below, on 
the reasons why

http://www3.sympatico.ca/shinjitai/brown_guy.WMV

Cheers,

Gabe.

[Goanet]MERRY X'MAS n A FLOURISHING NEW YEAR.

[Jyotiba Patil]

My beloved Friends,
Wishing u very JOYFUL XMAS n A FLOURISHING NEW YEAR.
Thanks  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet]Year Planners

[albertina almeida]

Dear Friends,

Bailancho Saad has just brought out the 2005 Wall Planner on the theme
Freedom from fear, empowered women, an empowered society, an empowered
world. Of size about 18 by 22, the Planner has voices on the said theme
which will remain flashed throughout the year.

The Wall Planner while being an utility item is also a fund-raiser for
Bailancho Saad and contributions from Rs. 10/- onwards for each planner are
welcome.

When u give someone a year planner, u will be
A)  contributing to the expenses involved in the activities of Bailancho
Saad
B) spreading the messages of  justice, peace, equality, sustainability,
dignity and hope AND
C) gifting someone something they can use

If u are interested, the Planners are available with Bailancho Saad at SF-4,
Goa Housing Board Residential and Commercial Complex, Block A, Opposite Goa
Housing Board Office, Journalist Colony, Near Sai Service, Porvorim OR at
519, Citicentre, Near KTC bus-stand, Panaji, or U can also e-mail us your
address where we can reach u the same.

Best wishes of the season and for the coming year

albertina
for Bailancho Saad







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[Goanet]Radio news... 7.20 bulletin highlights from All India Radio, Panjim

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

* PVNarasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India, dies at 86.
  Seven days mourning declared in India.
* BJP president Arlekar accuses Congress of trying to destabilise
  Goa government, by misusing the Governor's name for the purpose.
* Goa government okays financial grants for pre-primary private schools
  run in the non-English (Konkani or Marathi) medium, of upto Rs 100,000
  per year. This scheme is applicable in the talukas of Canacona,
  Pernem, Sattari, Sanguem, Pernem and Bicholim.
* Ranji Trophy, Goa versus Tripura.
  Tripura first innings 158 for five; Goa 288 in first innings.
FN

Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia
Freelance Journalist  P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436

Re: [Goanet] Goa and migrants

[Bernado Colaco]

Santoshi,

Living so many years in Goa I am left landless. Could
you offer me some pennies for the land deal. (I do not
have a ration card). Communism in China has become Red
Capitalism. Across the border in Zhuhai, the Chinaman
goes about in Merks. Would you like a job as a
chauffer? BTW did you know that Goa is colonized by
impearlist bharat?

B. Colaco


 --- Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 --- Bernado Colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
 I was thinking of buying land in Pernem.
 
 
 Do you have the money? Or do you blow it all in the
 illegal casinos? Do you get paid a minimum wage in
 the
 sweat labor camps of communist Macau? 
 
 
 Do you think the Shiv Sena will allow that? Do you
 have any strings to pull? 
 
 
 Against Shiv Sena your contacts with the Chinese
 mafia
 should help. Hindi Chini bhaiee bhaiee.
 
 
 When did you come from the Caucases to Goa?
  
 
 I was born in Goa under foreign occupation and
 colonial oppression. What about you?
 
 
 Wow you are fluent Portuguese writer learnt any
 lessons from Agente Monteiro?
  
 
 My Portuguese is not as good as your Red Chinese. I
 didn't have a chance to meet Agente Monteiro. He
 jumped in a well out of fear and cowardice when a
 Bharati Jawan came after him, init?
 
 Cheers,
 
 Santosh
 
  





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[Goanet]Consumer Awareness Action on Mobile Towers

[Goa Desc]

-
Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660
Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/
--- 

---
Consumer Awareness Action on Mobile Towers
---
On the occasion of  observance of National Consumer
Rights Day in Goa, Consumer Forum volunteers from
Assolna, Betalbatim, Benaulim, Cansaulim, Cuncolim,
Loutolim, Majorda, Navelim, Nuvem  Velim under the
banner of Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network
(GOACAN) held a Awareness Action in Margao to highlight
the consumer concerns about the installation of Mobile
Towers in residential areas.
The slogan of the action was If you do not respect our
Right to Know, then we will enforce our Right to say NO.
A detailed memorandum was submitted to the Collector 
Chairman of the South Goa District Consumer Protection
Council.
It may be noted that in recent weeks there have been a
number of cases wherein citizens from various Village
Panchayats and Municipal Councils have raised
objections about the installation of Mobile Towers in
residential areas such as in Benaulim, Orlim, Curtorim,
Colva, Cuncolim, Maddel  Fatorda.
In fact there has even been a Public Interest Litigation
Writ Petition (PIL) filed by the President of the Maddel
Social Welfare Committee before the High Court
of Bombay at Goa demanding a clear cut policy on Mobile
Towers from the Goa Govt. and that the Service Providers
(Cell Phone Operators) give full detail of their plans to the
local community.
Critical questions concerning the health effects and
safety of radio frequency (RF) electro-magnetic radiation
eminating from mobile towers need to be answered. There
are fears  doubts that long time exposure of RF radiation
will cause cancer (leukemia), brain tumours, increased
blood pressure, damage to eye sight and reduced
mental concentration.
There has been no effort from the cell phone operators
to clarify to the residents and consumers the safety
aspects of the mobile towers. Infact, instead of providing
information and dealing with the genuine concerns of
the residents and consumers, there has been absolute
silence in this regard. Moreover we have noticed that Municipal
Councils and Village Panchayats are unilaterally giving
licences for the installation of Mobile Towers in residential
areas without consulting the local community either through
ward meetings or the Gram Sabha.
Also, the Cell phone manufacturers are not fully informing
cell phone users about the precautions to be taken when
using the instruments so as to avoid the impacts of radiation.
It may be noted that  the Consumer Protection Act 1986
guarantees consumers the following rights:
the right to be informed about the quality, quantity etc. of
goods and services so as to protect the consumer.
the right to be protected against the marketing of goods
and services that are hazardous to life and property.
the right to consumer education.
The memorandum to the Collector  Chairman of the
South Goa District Consumer Protection Council with
copies to the The Chief Secretary, Govt. of Goa,
Director of Panchayats, Director of Municipal Administration,
Director of Health Services, Chairman, Goa State
Pollution Control Board, covers the following proposals:
That the Directorate of Panchayats must issue
specific instructions to the Village Panchayats that no
licence for the installation of a Mobile Tower in a
residential area be issued without clearing the proposal
at the Gram Sabha.
That the Directorate of Municipal Administration must
 issue specific instructions to the Municipal Councils that
 no licence for the installation of a Mobile Tower in a
 residential area be issued without discussing the
 proposal in the ward meeting.
That the Directorate of Health Services, Goa State Pollution
Control Board, Department of Science  Technology and Chief
Inspector of Factories  Boilers should jointly monitor the
implementation of the guidelines  recommendations of the
World Health Organisation (WHO).
Cell phone Companies must undertake community education
about the safety measures carried out with regards radiation
hazards and the mobile tower location.
Cell phone Companies must make Consumer Safety a priority
in Goa since they do business in the State.
The Goa Govt. must constitute a scientific body to act
as a regulatory mechanism to assess, monitor
and control the radiation exposure from Mobile Towers.
Cellular Companies must give an undertaking to the
community that should any harm be caused to
human life and environment by the Mobile Tower then
the same will be dismantled.
(GOACAN Press Release)
---
GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK

[Goanet]TRUTH HURTS BUT LETS BE OPEN ABOUT IT

[Aires Rodrigues]

Many fellow netters have been writing to me privately in support of the
campaign to get to the bottom of the Ribandar Church  Molestation case. They
say that their own independent inquiries confirm the allegations made.

I would appeal to these concerned netters to take the courage and directly
express their views and convictions on goanet for the benefit of all. We are
fortunate to have a forum where one can openly express his or her views
unlike some of the print media which has its business and other compulsions.

The Ribandar Church Molestation case is just a part of the bigger problem
that has gripped many other parishes in Goa. I have nothing personally
against Fr. Newton Rodrigues. I have never turned down any of his request
for donations inspite of never having received a receipt for any of the
contributions made.

But when a 13 year old girl is molested no sensible person could sit back in
silence. The victim's mother confirmed to me that the incident had happened.
The victim and the mother also spoke to Ms Auda Viegas of Bailancho Exvott
who later submitted a report of the incident to the police. Now months later
to say that the complain was filed with the police on pressure cuts no ice.

We would do more damage to our religion by silently and cowardly  enduring
the wrongs and the injustice that may be going on in our places of worship.
Churches, Temples and mosques are sacred places for the public. They cannot
and should never be allowed to be run as a Private Limited Company.

For those who may not be aware the Children's Court is located on the first
Floor , Shram Shakti Bhavan, Pato Plaza, Panaji

Aires Rodrigues
Ribandar

[Goanet]Goa Netters meeting on 21/December

[Vincent Andrade]

Good Day Everyone !

As all of you are aware some of us netters met up at Club Vasco de Gama
yesterday (21st Dec) at Ernesto's (Run by Ernesto s/o the Great Late Roberto
Alvares - my good friend who I used to meet up mostly at the Red n Black
dance at Panjim - I understand that now he is the King Momo at the Carnival
Parades in Heaven).

It was a beautiful afternoon with about 20 of us meeting up (didnt count the
exact number) and putting a face to the picture of persons we had made up
only in our minds.

Following are the few goa netters that i met up with :

Frederick Noronha - Ever Smiling 'Fred' was the quiet 'Master of Ceremonies'
and introduced everyone to everyone. He did not seem to be the 'biased'
moderator that I thought he was. A very down to earth man smiling always.
Fred as to your question about why I am not on the Catholics Mailing List -
will reply some other time.

Cecil Pinto - The guy who wanted to advertise his 'florist' business on
goacom. Very Jovial Character who missed Aires () so much at the meet-up
(pl read Fred's post this morning about Cecil's calls to Aires). Eddie
Verdes of SA - if you are reading this - I met up with Cecil first time.

Tony Correia Afonso - The 'Big Shot' from Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd that I
knew of as a student of MES College was there with his wife Marina. He used
to be the Chief Guest at our college functions on several occassions.

Silviano Barboza - 'Babush' as we know him is also a regular Chatter on
Goacom chat. A very unassuming man - talented that he is. He released his
book The Sixth Night at the meet-up and was kind enough to autograph a
complementary copy for me in exchange of which I have promised him a couple
of CDs of Mangalorean Konkani Hits. Babush and me goa long way and have
interacted a lot on goanet as well as on chat and it was a great pleasure
meeting him in person. Babush is a great lover of Konkani Music and has also
produced a konkani music album called Classic Goa (if i got the name
right) which also included songs sung by Lorna.

Vivek Menezes - aka VM was there too - a lookalike of Sabeer Bhatia (the
Hotmail guy). VM is a Hot Male too. He declined to be photographed - dunno
why !

Desmond Nazareth - Originally from Mangalore - he is into film making and
told me he makes documentaries and films (not the commercial bollywood
ones). Quiet guy with a half Sai Baba hairdo.

Melinda Powell - We all thought she was married to an Englishman (Lord Baden
Powell) or an American (Colin Powell) - actually she is married to a south
indian who is a Master Mariner and presently sailing with a Hong Kong based
Company. I have a special affinity for anyone who is in the same business as
me (Shipping). I expected Melinda to be this snooty, pouting woman (she is
an ex-Air India Air Hostess and Air Hostesses always have had a bit of head
weight) - but she turned out to be just the opposite - sweet, smiling and
gentle. Good going Melinda.

Bosco - Goanet Volunteer remembered exchanging mails with me and was there
with his writing pad taking down the names of all those who had turned up.

Daniel De Souza - He is from Vasco and I was meeting him for the first time
though he is a vasco-car like me. Daniel happened to travel back to vasco
with me after the meet-up and we had the opportunity to discuss issues
pertaining to Goacom on our drive back.

Joel D'Souza - the guy who sends us all the news clippings was accompanied
by his son. Joel is the quiet behind the scenes man who was busy clicking
all the action on his digital camera. I am sure he will have some of the
pics circulated soon. Keep up all the good work Joel and thanks for your
daily clippings.

I also met up with Vivian D'Souza, Mario fernandes, Mario Dias, Margaret
Mascarenhas, Brian Pinto, Floriano Lobo - those are the names I can
recollect and many others too.

Though I expected more members to show up - It was all in all a very nice
afternoon and well worth the 7 + 7 hours drive from Mangalore and Back.

Thanks once again to everyone who made a difference at Ernesto's.

Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year in advance.

With Warm Wishes,
Vincent Andrade
Mangalore

[Goanet]Media and corruption -- from watchdog to lapdog

[Frederick Noronha]

From watchdog to lapdog

http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/502/502%20rajdeep%20sardesai.htm

RAJDEEP SARDESAI

IN the end, all it took for me to be compromised as a journalist was one box
of mithai at Diwali time. I had been in the profession barely a few months
when the editor sent me off on an assignment to do a story on how film
personalities and sports stars were being used as brand ambassadors. In the
course of the story, I interviewed the usual suspects - advertising gurus
and product managers. Two weeks after the story was published, one of the
managers whose product had been written about rang up to tell me how much he
had enjoyed the story.

A week after, at Diwali, I received a box of sweets from the manager. A
fortnight later, he rang up again, this time to inquire if the newspaper
could do a story on a client of his. I put him onto our business desk, a
story was filed by the business reporter, and since then every Diwali, there
is one box of sweets I am assured of.

In the years since being a cub reporter, I have realised that a mithai box
is only loose change in the institutionalised corruption that is part of the
journalistic profession. From the Maharashtra politician who plies you with
a basket of grapes every season, to the airlines boss who upgrades you from
economy to business class, to the restaurateur who offers you a free meal
for two - the side benefits which come with being a pen-pusher or a
recognised television anchor can take various forms.

In each instance, the system operates on a clear quid pro quo. The
politician who sends you grapes is only ensuring that you remember to be
kind to him the next time he stages a walkout in Parliament. The airlines
boss has made certain that any criticism of his attempts to curb competition
a re not made public. And the food chain owner is making sure that when he
invites your magazine to write about his restaurant, he will get virtually
free ad space in the news columns.

Indeed, much of the matter in the colour supplements that have now become
essential accompaniments to mainstream broadsheets thrives on the principle
that there is no publicity like free publicity. So, whether it is fashion
shows or the opening of a restaurant or a film premiere, there is a pool of
journalists who will be more than happy to play along with the party.

In particular, when it comes to celebrity journalism in the country today,
the lines between reportage and public relations are slowly getting blurred.
Film producers take journalists to outstation shoots so that glowing
articles can be written on the stars of the film, or else, a three minute
story can be flashed on prime time news. Publishers invite reviewers to wine
and cheese evenings so that the author can be given a three column colour
spread the next day. Sports management companies invite sports writers and
channels to cover an exhibition match in Goa so that a bit of publicity for
the sponsor's product can be mixed with adequate sun and sand.

Take also the so-called ad supplements that are now frequent additions to
all newspapers. Most of these supplements are little more than large dollops
of public relations with a small spoon of editorial matter. For example,
journalists are taken on a full, all-expenses paid holiday for the Dubai
shopping festival. The newspaper gets ad revenues, the festival gets
publicity, and the journalist gets a perfect junket. Or, the supplements
that celebrate one year of the NDA in power, or the birthdays of Jayalalitha
or a Bal Thackeray. The newspaper editors might argue that such supplements
are revenue earners, but the fact is that they do end up compromising
editorial integrity (notice how the words 'sponsored feature' that accompany
such supplements are usually tucked away in a corner).

Or take some of the so-called hardcore corporate reporting in the country
today, both in newspapers and on television. The arrival of the pink paper
was seen by many at the time as a welcome break from the stodgy business
reporting that focused on commodity prices and business handouts. But there
is a growing trend within a section of the upmarket business papers and
business programmes on television to appear less as detached observers of
corporate news and more as partisan cheerleaders. The 'backpresent' concept
at the end of a press conference that certain business houses seem to have
perfected - whether in the form of an expensive pen or even better, a
holiday for the family in a resort, or best of all, company shares - is only
a reflection of how corporate journalism can be compromised.

As indeed can the political journalist who enjoys the privilege of
travelling with the prime minister or the president on an official tour to
Brazil or Malaysia or some other equally exotic location. The external
publicity department in the ministry of external affairs has perfected the
art of ensuring that a journalist is kept suitably lubricated at all times.
How is the Black Label whisky and 

[Goanet]Cecil's Sermao

[Anthony Barretto]

Hi Cecil 

You sound good. 

But I am certain if you wanted to justify my post
(about Margaret  Mario) you could probably have found
even better arguments to support. Well it depends on
which side of the fence you prefer to be.

Happy Christmas and a Wonderful 2005.

Tony Martin 




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[Goanet]Dabolim /or Mopa?

[Philip Thomas]

Today's Herald (Dec 23) has an article on p. 2 titled  feasibility report
on Mopa airport in Jan . It says that pursuant to an agreement signed by
the state government with the International Civil Aviation Organisation
(ICAO)  of Montreal, Canada, last year (i.e. 2003),  and a visit some weeks
ago of government officials to Montreal, the ICAO is planning to begin a
techno-feasibility study of Mopa airport on site from Jan 10. The study will
take 5 (five) months. Following submission of the report the state
government will thereafter proceed to further the process of setting up the
international airport.

Re: [Goanet]Congrats... Valentine de Souza

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

 --- Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 
 Valentine de Souza, Editor of the Express Computer
 weekly newsmagazine, and 
 a parishioner of Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz) has been
 awarded the prestigious 
 Wolfson College Press Fellowship for 2004-05. He
 will shortly be leaving for 
 Cambridge, UK, where he will pursue a research
 project on the “Role of the 
 Media in Bridging the Digital Divide”. The
 Fellowship was awarded under the 
 Chevening Scholarship scheme of the British Council.
 

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Re: [Goanet]Cheapie Brits visiting Goa along their butlers, chefs and cooks

[Frederick Noronha(FN)]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote:
Fred, the issue here was we were shown one set of
menus with one set of prices, and when charged, we
were charged a different higher price.  It would have
been OK *if* we were shown the higher prices at the
very start, which is when we would have made up our
minds whether to eat there or not.  And it wasn't a
Rs 20.00 a rice plate place either - a bit more
upmarket than that.
That's my point! You got over-charged (read cheated). I get overcharged 
whenever they come to know I'm a non-local. It has nothing to do with the 
fact that low budget tourists don't pay luxury taxes -- which Miguel 
pointed out.

Here? Where? In India or in Goa? We're going
completely off-track from the topic.  I won't go
further into details except to state that sufficient
food for the common man in Goa was not a problem in
the 50s, contrary to India's situation.
I don't know who you would count as the 'commonman' of 
Portuguese-ruled colonial Goa, but a lot of comment that looks at those 
times without Lusostalgia suggests that apart from a pampered but tiny 
upper middle-class, the vast majority found life tough.

Or would you see this as an incorrect view? FN

[Goanet]To all Cybergoemkars - A Slice of the Portuguese cake

[Thalmann Pereira]

  XVII PCP CONGRESS ASSERTS

  It Is A Time Of Revolutionary Potential
  Sitaram Yechury


  THE 17th Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) has made a rich
  analysis of the current international situation. Noting that the Congress
is
  being held at a time of fierce all out imperialist offensive, the
Political
  Thesis adopted by the Congress concludes that we are living through a time
  of great retreats and danger of historic regression but also of strong
  resistance and revolutionary potential.

  World capitalism is not merely incapable of solving the major problems
  facing humanity but on the contrary is contributing to the exacerbation of
  misery and heighten exploitation. The Political Thesis notes:

  Capitalist globalisation's tragic consequences are there for all to see.
The
  world has become more unfair, less democratic, more dangerous and unsafe.
  There is heightened exploitation, militarism and wars, an all-out attack
  against basic rights, freedoms and safeguards, an attempt to criminalise
  resistance to aggression. Meanwhile, the struggle and resistance of
  progressive forces, workers and peoples is asserting itself and becoming
  more diverse. The class struggle of the working class and working people
is
  intensifying. Peoples are confronting imperialist aggression with greater
  determination. In spite of its socially and politically heterogeneous
  nature, the anti-globalisation movement against neo-liberalism and war
is
  objectively anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist.

  INEQUALITIES IN GLOBALISED WORLD

  The report points out the glaring inequalities that have mounted in this
  phase of capitalist globalisation. The number of people living below the
  poverty line has grown in most developing countries with 1.1 billion
living
  on less than $1 a day. At the same time the combined wealth of the worlds
  50 biggest billionaires is equal to the combined GDP of all Sub Saharan
  African Countries where 688 million people struggle for survival. Current
UN
  figures put the number of hunger deaths at 36 million per year i.e. nearly
3
  million people die due to starvation every month. Over thirty thousand
  children die everyday from avoidable causes in the developing countries.
  Over 10 per cent of the worlds children between the ages of 10 to 14 are
  exploited as child labour and over 2 million are forced into the sex
  industry.

  Even in the developed capitalist world the conditions of the working
people
  have sharply deteriorated. The unemployed people in the OECD countries are
  today in excess of 50 million, unprecedented in the post Second World War
  period. Only 25 per cent of the worlds population holds 85 per cent of
its
  resources. The domination of international finance capital in this phase
of
  globalisation is clearly demonstrated by the fact that the financial
assets
  stand at about 300 per cent of each countrys GDP. It is this huge bubble
  that is leading the present phase of globalisation. The concentration and
  centralisation of capital continues to grow rapidly with multinational
  corporations controlling over two-thirds of worlds production as well as
  trade.

  The report notes that under these circumstances all the four major world
  contradictions are intensifying. Though the PCP does not deal with these
  contradictions as we do, but in terms of content they have analysed the
  movement of these contradictions noting the process of intensification.

  DRIVE OF IMPERIALISM

  Simultaneously, with intensifying economic exploitation the current
  international situation also highlights the political and military
hegemonic
  drive of imperialism.

  Three years after September 11, it has become obvious that the so-called
war
  on terrorism is essentially just a political and ideological disguise for
  imperialism's strategic goal of world domination. The problem of
terrorism -
  historically contrary to workers' and peoples' interests - is a real one,
  and needs to be consistently fought. But the war on terrorism waged by
the
  US and its allies - using methods of veritable State terrorism - only
  nourishes and extends it, rather than reducing and isolating it. Terrorism
  can be fought essentially by attacking its social-economic and ideological
  roots - exploitation, poverty, growing social inequalities and injustice,
  national oppression and plunder, cultural and religious persecution - not
by
  flouting International Law, systematically attacking rights, freedoms and
  safeguards, and with that excuse fostering racism and war.

  Stating that it is only through the strengthening of the global
  anti-imperialist struggle can this offensive be met, the PCP emphasises
that
  nothing can replace this struggle in each country. In the present phase of
  globalistaion, the defence of national sovereignty continues to be an
  essential factor of resistance against imperialist globalisation. Hence,
the
  struggle for socialism 

[Goanet]Non receipt of goanet digest

[Ereen P Colaco]

Hi there,



Hope u all r doing fine at yr end. 



Just to inform you that its been quite a while ( may be 4 days) I haven't recd. 
the digest. Was wondering if there is a problem at yr end. Would appreciate u 
looking into  the matter n sending the same.



Have a Merry Chirstmas and a Happy New Year.



Cheers

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[Goanet]Relevance of NGOs in Goa today (Goa Social Forum)

[Soter D'souza]

As an innovative way of celebrating 'Goa Mukti Din', a People's Symposium
was organized by the 'Goa Social Forum' on 18/12/2004 at T. B. Cunha Hall,
Panaji. The theme was 'Relevance of NGOs in Goa Today'. About fifty people
from various backgrounds ranging from Labour organization, judiciary, media
and academician and prominent NGO's participated and discussed and shared
there views on NGO scenario in Goa. The following was the outcome of
discussion.

1. NGOs should be the voice of the voiceless, after developing the
leadership among the marginalized they should take a back seat and allow the
emerging leadership to take over.

2. NGOs should be involved by the government in the policy formulation and
making process and not merely for the implementation of defined policy.

3. NGOs should develop cross sector network with larger base among the
oppressed section such as tribals, dalits etc. NGOs should not work against
each other as well as not compartmentalize the areas of operation and target
group.

4. NGOs should not be mere firefighters, but develop a strategy to counter
the socio-economic and political forces in society, through mutual exchange
of views and joint action.

5. NGOs should not merely become contractors to implement the government
programs.

6. NGOs look forward for a closer exchange of views and support from the
media and judiciary.

7. NGOs are not alternative to government, but have the responsibility of
bringing to light the deficiency in government policy.

In view of the critical role played by NGO groups those whose vested
interests are threatened by the awareness created by NGOs can not expected
to talk positively about NGOs and therefore they resort to labelling NGOs as
anti-government, anti- development, frustrated, always negative and so on.


Reggie Gomes   and  Soter D'Souza
(Organising Secretaries of Goa Social Forum)

[Goanet]GoanetReader -- Bishop Valerian D'Souza on the Church's mission

[GoanetReader]

The Mission Of The Church: To Humanize Society

By Bishop Valerian D'Souza

PUNE, Maharashtra (SAR NEWS) -- The German, Swiss and Austrian Jesuit
missionaries left behind a rich legacy in the fields of education and social
work. I have been a beneficiary of this experience as student, seminarian,
priest and bishop. I remember them with affection, aware of a sense of
challenge to live up to their expectations and to carry on their legacy.

What inspired them to leave the comfort and security of their country and
come and spend their lives in selfless service in the western region of
India? They came in 1854 at the invitation of Capuchin Bishop Anastasius
Hartmann. The Capuchins and Carmelites had worked for the community before
them. It was a period of the Padroado and Propaganda tussle.

These pioneers faced a long and dangerous voyage and many did not reach
India. While in India they had to look after a vast area from Quetta to
Hubli (Karnataka State). They travelled by bullock-cart and horseback. There
were scarcely any medical facilities on the whole, especially in the rural
areas. Quite a few young missionaries died before they could be taken to a
hospital miles and miles away.

Their accommodation was simple, sometimes primitive. The people, the culture
and the language were foreign to them. But they worked hard and persevered.
What was their driving motivation? It was Jesus and to continue his mission.
For this they were ready to sacrifice even their lives. The need to lift up
the Christian community impelled them to start schools. Within 20 years they
had started St. Patrick's School in Karachi, St.Mary's in Hubli, St.
Stanislaus and St. Mary's, St. Xavier's in Mumbai and also St. Xavier's
College in Mumbai.

St Patrick's School in Karachi had many political and religious luminaries
as students - Cardinal Valerian Gracias, Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro,
Archbishop Raymond, Bishop William Gomes et al. Gen. Musharaf and former
Deputy Prime Minister of India L K Advani were products of St. Patrick's.
Besides schools, the missionaries started social works and later inspired
other religious to start medical institutions.

What are the challenges we face looking over the last 150 years?

Like St Ignatius his sons must be gripped and fascinated by the Person of
Jesus. Their lives must be centered on Jesus. To proclaim the Kingdom
without proclaiming the King is meaningless. To be a Jesuit without deep
attachment to Jesus is to be a Jesuit in name only.

One of my earliest recollections as a young priest was in Harigaon mission
in Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. A young Jesuit was about to leave on
his motorcycle. There was a bedroll and luggage on the carrier. He informed
me he would be out for a week visiting mission stations. He would spend each
night under a tree. Every evening he would sit with the villagers and listen
to them. This would go on week after week.

The jeep has saved time but have we preserved the custom of spending the
evening and even the night in a village, being with the people, listening to
them?

Pioneering Spirit

The first missionaries had to be pioneers. They needed to be creative. They
experimented and failed at times, but they persevered.  They tried to read
the signs of the times and act accordingly.

Parish work was not the main charism, but they took up parishes to be in
touch with the people. They started institutions in response to the needs of
the people. Several boardings were set up for poor boys and Dynanamata High
School was launched with agricultural bias, technical schools to provide
immediate jobs for the boys, Snehasadan, an inter-faith dialogue center and
the Social Centre for the development of farming community.

Today we need that creativity. The world is changing so fast that we can be
left behind. We cannot rest on our laurels. What are the new initiatives
that are being planned?

Challenges in Education

Speaking to the bishops of USA in June 2004 Pope John Paul II reaffirmed,
Her many religious, educational and charitable institutions exist for one
reason only: to proclaim the Gospel. It is utmost important, therefore, that
the Church's institutions be genuinely Catholic: Catholic in their self
understanding and Catholic in their identity.

According to the Roman document on The Mission of Catholic Schools Oct
2002 the Catholic School must enable the students to raise great questions
concerning the meaning of life, the significance of reality, and a
responsible commitment to transform it in the light of the Gospel values and
modern culture. The poor and the marginalized must have a central place in
our educational programmes...

According to St Ignatius education can become an effective agent of
transformation. Our institutions can be and should be agents of change in a
society riddled with discrimination, corruption, denial of human rights,
greed for money, power, position, ethnic riots.President Abdul Kalam has
words of high praise for the Jesuits.  The