[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day......Among My Souvenirs by Connie Francis 1959

[Gabe Menezes]

A favourite among many in Nairobi/East Africa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L__1goqraqU

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Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet-News] New books related to Goa (Goa,1556)

[Frederick Noronha]

Gift a set to someone in Goa:

* Beyond Bandra: A Mac view of the world at large [Edwin Fernandes]
* Goa: A Post-Colonial Society Between Cultures [Rochelle Almeida, Ed]
* Sita Valles: A Revolutionary Until Death [Leonor Figueiredo, Tr: DA Smith]
* Under the Mango Tree: Short stories from Goa
* The Luso-Indian Stethoscope: Shirley Louise Gonsalves

Details at:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds4inxLVYAASjOR.jpg:large

Frederick Noronha.
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[Goanet-News] Goa Today, Dec 2018. Dr Nandkumar Kamat, cinema, Batora, etc...

[Frederick Noronha]

Goa Today, Dec 2018. Buy your copy from the newsstands (in Goa)
Editor: Vinayak Naik vinayaknai...@gmail.com
---

* Edit: Trading in Readymade MLAs
* Edit: Crooked Comparison in Cricket!
* Letters from Frank de Barros (Brisbane), Melson FM Louis (Mungul),
  John Eric Gomes (Porvorim), Aires Rodrigues (Ribandar)
* GR SINGBAL: Critical Crisis in Joblessness
* JOHN ERIC GOMES: Such is Life
* JAY DUBASHI: Planned Failure
* AVF FERNANDES: A Saint for Our Times (Pope Paul VI)
* DR JOE D'SOUZA: What Makes Our Universe Work
* MIGUEL BRAGANZA: Young Entrepreneurs
* ALBERTINA ALMEIDA: #MeToo, Male Entitlement, and Goa
* DR MEENACSHI MARTINS: Women Power to the Fore

  --[COVER STORY]
* PROF MANOJ-SUMATI R. BORKAR: My Cinematic Inclination
* ROHIT BHANDIYE: Konkani Cinema's Striking Surge
* ANNALIE GRACIAS: Coming Up, IFFI 2018
* GOVIND S POTEKAR: IFFI Is Here Again
  ---

* DR JAIME RANGEL: St Xavier's HSS and PTA, a Shining Example
* INTERVIEW: Dr Nandkumar Kamat: In Perpetual Pursuit of Knowledge
* MARYANN LOBO D'MELLO: Towards Positive Mental Health
* SMITA BHANDARE KAMAT: The Sleepy Head
* PACHU MENON: Lustrous 'Logo' of Loutolim
* ANNALIE GRACIAS: Giving New Dimension to Giving
* EDGAR MENEZES: Beauteous Batora (Curtorim's pride)
* HETA PANDIT: Goa is a Two-Way Street
* SHEELA JAYWANT: First Term is Over
* SHARLAINE MENEZES: 'Teeny' Ingenuity
* BERNADETTE D'SOUZA: Old Flames
* SUJATA DABOLKAR: My Visit to Trondheim
* CEDRIC SILVEIRA: Spectacular 'Special Olympian'
* SAIEE DHARGALKAR: Scaling the Picturesque Chandreshwar Parvat
* DR GILES GOMEZ: There is a Political Storm Brewing in Goa's Teacup
* Kishoreda Comes Alive
* A 'First' For Goa
* Art at its Best at Sunaparanta
* Stately Summit of Start-Ups
* OBITS: Pandit Tulsidas Borkar, Ramesh Veluskar, Sadashiv Shirsat
* Digital Goa. GCCI Consumers' Affairs Committee.

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[Goanet] Reggae.... could the mando reach there?

[Frederick Noronha]

UNESCO‏Verified account @UNESCO 14h14 hours ago
BREAKING #Reggae music of #Jamaica has just been inscribed on the
#IntangibleHeritage List! Congratulations!
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01398  #LivingHeritage
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[Goanet] Photos and short report of the two days Bal melavo (children's festival) by Konkani Bhasha Mandal's Vidya Bhuvan Konkani Shala

[Anwesha singbal]

Konkani Bhasha Manual's Vidya Bhuvan Konkani Shala celebrated it's annual
'Bal Melavo' in Ravindra Bhavan, Margao. The annual two days festival is
efforts by the management as well as the parent teachers association to
boost the creative skills of the students. This year's sessions included
craft from coconut leaves, clay modelling, theatre, science experiments,
dance, paper crafts and games session. Dr. Desh Prabhudesai was the chief
guest at the inaugural session while Dr. Varun Carvalho was the chief guest
at the concluding session of the event.

Re: [Goanet] The Pope's slushy sentiments are not enough

[Shiraz Durrani]

Very well put, Eddie. Few have the wisdom or courage to document the facts as 
you have done.  You speak for the dead and the dying.  I stand with you. 


_
shiraz


> On 29 Nov 2018, at 17:02, Eddie  wrote:
> 
> Mr Argham, you seem to be unduly moved by Pope Francis's outpouring of 
> concern for the family.
> He uses well chosen words to sway the emotions:  'emotional health, 
> purification of the spirit, liberation of the heart...'
> 'Evil is a poison that intoxicates and kills.'  [can these be translated into 
> Konkani?]
> 
> SO WHY DOES HE ALSO NOT MENTION THE EVIL EPIDEMIC OF CHILD SEX ABUSE BY 
> THOUSANDS OF HOLY CATHOLIC PRIESTS who destroyed so many families round the 
> world?
> WHY DID HE HIMSELF NOT TAKE A FIRMER LINE IN DISCIPLINING SUCH PRIESTS?
> And the children included those forcibly taken from their non-white (native) 
> parents into boarding schools (in Canada, Australia, Pacific Islands, etc)
> And Pope Francis should also apologise for the HISTORIC INJUSTICES to the 
> native of the Americas and elsewhere. It started with Catholic Christopher 
> Columbus's brutal treatment of the natives, followed by hordes of Euro 
> 'settlers' who took over the Americas and went on a spree of massacres and 
> land grab.
> For example, the Spanish forced the natives to mine the silver in Potosi 
> (Bolivia) and transport to Spain. Ten million natives died from the back 
> breaking labour. Similar with gold shipments.
> In the Pope's adopted country, Argentina, the Spanish & Italian settlers went 
> on horseback and systematically massacred the natives. (This was recorded by 
> Darwin while on his voyage in the ship Beagle.) As a result, Argentina has a 
> surprisingly few native Indians to be found. I twice wrote to Pope Francis to 
> comment on this but there was no reply.
> 
> Note how the Popes viewed early colonialism:
> 1) Pope Leo X, presented King Manuel (Portugal) with a sword in 1515 with the 
> words:"Receive this warlike  sword in your victorious hands. With this, you 
> will wage wars under the most happy auspices… May you use your force and 
> power against the infidels…having received through this gift the help of 
> heaven, you may bring back abundant spoils and triumphs.”
> 
> 2) It was the dissolute Alexander VI whose Bull of 1493 gave Spain and 
> Portugal the right for “barbarous nations (to) be invaded and brought to the 
> faith”. He took it upon himself to divide the New World between Spain and 
> Portugal.
> Pope Alexander reportedly used the first gold brought from the Americas to 
> decorate the ceiling of Santa Maria Maggiore.
> 
> 3) Alexander’s reign was known for its orgies. One of the more spectacular 
> ones was organised by his son Cesare on 31 October 1501. The pope was the 
> only other male invited. His daughter Lucrezia was present. 50 of Rome’s top 
> prostitutes danced a striptease before the two men, finally flopping naked 
> around the pope’s table and scrambling for chestnuts thrown to them by the 
> Borgias.
> The pope loved his children. With his ill-gotten wealth, he could offer them 
> the best education. He also officiated at their weddings.
> One can go on.
> ---
> WILL ANY POPE COMMENT HONESTLY ON THE MANY SHAMEFUL EPISODES OF CATHOLIC 
> CHURCH HISTORY?
> 
> Eddie
> 
> 
> -Original Message- From: Devak Argham
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 2:19 PM
> To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
> Subject: FAMILY, PLACE OF FORGIVENESS ...
> 
> Please look at the speech that was read yesterday by the Pope.
> Regardless of religion, see how Pope Francis has beautifully written
> about the family.
> 
> FAMILY, PLACE OF FORGIVENESS ...
> 
> ©  There is no perfect family.
> ©  We do not have perfect parents, we are not perfect,
>We do not marry a perfect person or we do not have perfect children.
> ©  We have complaints from each other.
> ©  We are constantly disappointed.
> ©  There is no healthy marriage or healthy family without the exercise of 
> forgiveness.
> ©  Forgiveness is vital to our emotional health and spiritual survival.
>Without forgiveness, the family becomes an arena of conflict and a 
> fortress of evil.
> ©  Without forgiveness, the family becomes sick.
> ©  Forgiveness is the asepsis of the soul, the purification of the spirit and 
> the liberation of the heart.
>He who does not forgive does not have peace in his soul or communion with 
> God.
> ©  Evil is a poison that intoxicates and kills.
>etc etc 

[Goanet] the Insect Apocalypse is here

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[Goanet] Fwd: Giving Tuesday

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[Goanet] DGP MUST FREE GOA POLICE FROM THE POLITICAL ROT

[Aires Rodrigues]

Nobody will agree with our DGP Dr Muktesh Chander’s statement that those
‘short tempered police personnel’ is on account of ‘defect in training’.

It is no secret that alike all other government jobs the recruitment to the
police force  has not been on merit but solely on political patronage with
most police personnel from the constabulary to the officers rank having
paid a huge amount to politicians for manipulating their selection.

Besides, in rank contravention to the mandate of the Supreme Court that the
working of the police should be free from any political machinations, we
have seen how Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has over the years been
virtually running the police force while misusing the Crime Branch and the
Anti-Corruption Branch as his weapons to merrily target his political
opponents. Contrary to law, the ruling Ministers and MLAs are able to get
officers of their personal choice posted in their police stations.



It is pertinent to also note that the Police personnel in Goa are being
made to work very long hours amidst pathetic and very appalling working
conditions.On account of the long hours of work related stress, a lot of
the police personnel are grappling with serious health problems like
hypertension, diabetes and depression. The working and living conditions of
the police at some of the police stations and barracks is so very inhuman.



Our DGP Muktesh Chander must with a very heavy hand stem out the current
political interference in the working of his force while also ensuring that
the police personnel especially the constabulary are treated in a very
humane way. Only then will we have a very professional police force and the
much needed good policing in Goa.



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[Goanet] Goa Today, Dec 2018. Dr Nandkumar Kamat, cinema, Batora, etc...

[Frederick Noronha]

Goa Today, Dec 2018. Buy your copy from the newsstands (in Goa)
Editor: Vinayak Naik vinayaknai...@gmail.com
---

* Edit: Trading in Readymade MLAs
* Edit: Crooked Comparison in Cricket!
* Letters from Frank de Barros (Brisbane), Melson FM Louis (Mungul),
  John Eric Gomes (Porvorim), Aires Rodrigues (Ribandar)
* GR SINGBAL: Critical Crisis in Joblessness
* JOHN ERIC GOMES: Such is Life
* JAY DUBASHI: Planned Failure
* AVF FERNANDES: A Saint for Our Times (Pope Paul VI)
* DR JOE D'SOUZA: What Makes Our Universe Work
* MIGUEL BRAGANZA: Young Entrepreneurs
* ALBERTINA ALMEIDA: #MeToo, Male Entitlement, and Goa
* DR MEENACSHI MARTINS: Women Power to the Fore

  --[COVER STORY]
* PROF MANOJ-SUMATI R. BORKAR: My Cinematic Inclination
* ROHIT BHANDIYE: Konkani Cinema's Striking Surge
* ANNALIE GRACIAS: Coming Up, IFFI 2018
* GOVIND S POTEKAR: IFFI Is Here Again
  ---

* DR JAIME RANGEL: St Xavier's HSS and PTA, a Shining Example
* INTERVIEW: Dr Nandkumar Kamat: In Perpetual Pursuit of Knowledge
* MARYANN LOBO D'MELLO: Towards Positive Mental Health
* SMITA BHANDARE KAMAT: The Sleepy Head
* PACHU MENON: Lustrous 'Logo' of Loutolim
* ANNALIE GRACIAS: Giving New Dimension to Giving
* EDGAR MENEZES: Beauteous Batora (Curtorim's pride)
* HETA PANDIT: Goa is a Two-Way Street
* SHEELA JAYWANT: First Term is Over
* SHARLAINE MENEZES: 'Teeny' Ingenuity
* BERNADETTE D'SOUZA: Old Flames
* SUJATA DABOLKAR: My Visit to Trondheim
* CEDRIC SILVEIRA: Spectacular 'Special Olympian'
* SAIEE DHARGALKAR: Scaling the Picturesque Chandreshwar Parvat
* DR GILES GOMEZ: There is a Political Storm Brewing in Goa's Teacup
* Kishoreda Comes Alive
* A 'First' For Goa
* Art at its Best at Sunaparanta
* Stately Summit of Start-Ups
* OBITS: Pandit Tulsidas Borkar, Ramesh Veluskar, Sadashiv Shirsat
* Digital Goa. GCCI Consumers' Affairs Committee.

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[Goanet] The Pope's slushy sentiments are not enough

[Eddie]

Mr Argham, you seem to be unduly moved by Pope Francis's outpouring of 
concern for the family.
He uses well chosen words to sway the emotions:  'emotional health, 
purification of the spirit, liberation of the heart...'
'Evil is a poison that intoxicates and kills.'  [can these be translated 
into Konkani?]


SO WHY DOES HE ALSO NOT MENTION THE EVIL EPIDEMIC OF CHILD SEX ABUSE BY 
THOUSANDS OF HOLY CATHOLIC PRIESTS who destroyed so many families round the 
world?

WHY DID HE HIMSELF NOT TAKE A FIRMER LINE IN DISCIPLINING SUCH PRIESTS?
And the children included those forcibly taken from their non-white (native) 
parents into boarding schools (in Canada, Australia, Pacific Islands, etc)
And Pope Francis should also apologise for the HISTORIC INJUSTICES to the 
native of the Americas and elsewhere. It started with Catholic Christopher 
Columbus's brutal treatment of the natives, followed by hordes of Euro 
'settlers' who took over the Americas and went on a spree of massacres and 
land grab.
For example, the Spanish forced the natives to mine the silver in Potosi 
(Bolivia) and transport to Spain. Ten million natives died from the back 
breaking labour. Similar with gold shipments.
In the Pope's adopted country, Argentina, the Spanish & Italian settlers 
went on horseback and systematically massacred the natives. (This was 
recorded by Darwin while on his voyage in the ship Beagle.) As a result, 
Argentina has a surprisingly few native Indians to be found. I twice wrote 
to Pope Francis to comment on this but there was no reply.


Note how the Popes viewed early colonialism:
1) Pope Leo X, presented King Manuel (Portugal) with a sword in 1515 with 
the words:"Receive this warlike  sword in your victorious hands. With this, 
you will wage wars under the most happy auspices… May you use your force and 
power against the infidels…having received through this gift the help of 
heaven, you may bring back abundant spoils and triumphs.”


2) It was the dissolute Alexander VI whose Bull of 1493 gave Spain and 
Portugal the right for “barbarous nations (to) be invaded and brought to the 
faith”. He took it upon himself to divide the New World between Spain and 
Portugal.
Pope Alexander reportedly used the first gold brought from the Americas to 
decorate the ceiling of Santa Maria Maggiore.


3) Alexander’s reign was known for its orgies. One of the more spectacular 
ones was organised by his son Cesare on 31 October 1501. The pope was the 
only other male invited. His daughter Lucrezia was present. 50 of Rome’s top 
prostitutes danced a striptease before the two men, finally flopping naked 
around the pope’s table and scrambling for chestnuts thrown to them by the 
Borgias.
The pope loved his children. With his ill-gotten wealth, he could offer them 
the best education. He also officiated at their weddings.

One can go on.
---
WILL ANY POPE COMMENT HONESTLY ON THE MANY SHAMEFUL EPISODES OF CATHOLIC 
CHURCH HISTORY?


Eddie


-Original Message- 
From: Devak Argham

Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 2:19 PM
To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
Subject: FAMILY, PLACE OF FORGIVENESS ...

Please look at the speech that was read yesterday by the Pope.
Regardless of religion, see how Pope Francis has beautifully written
about the family.

FAMILY, PLACE OF FORGIVENESS ...

©  There is no perfect family.
©  We do not have perfect parents, we are not perfect,
We do not marry a perfect person or we do not have perfect children.
©  We have complaints from each other.
©  We are constantly disappointed.
©  There is no healthy marriage or healthy family without the exercise of 
forgiveness.

©  Forgiveness is vital to our emotional health and spiritual survival.
Without forgiveness, the family becomes an arena of conflict and a 
fortress of evil.

©  Without forgiveness, the family becomes sick.
©  Forgiveness is the asepsis of the soul, the purification of the spirit 
and the liberation of the heart.
He who does not forgive does not have peace in his soul or communion 
with God.

©  Evil is a poison that intoxicates and kills.
etc etc 

[Goanet] FAMILY, PLACE OF FORGIVENESS ...

[Devak Argham]

Please look at the speech that was read yesterday by the Pope.
Regardless of religion, see how Pope Francis has beautifully written
about the family.

FAMILY, PLACE OF FORGIVENESS ...

©  There is no perfect family.
©  We do not have perfect parents,
- we are not perfect,
We do not marry a perfect person or we do not have perfect children.
©  We have complaints from each other.
©  We are constantly disappointed.
©  There is no healthy marriage or healthy family without the exercise
of forgiveness.
©  Forgiveness is vital to our emotional health and spiritual
survival. Without forgiveness, the family becomes an arena of conflict
and a fortress of evil.
©  Without forgiveness, the family becomes sick.
©  Forgiveness is the asepsis of the soul, the purification of the
spirit and the liberation of the heart.
 He who does not forgive does not have peace in his soul or communion with God.
©  Evil is a poison that intoxicates and kills.
©  Keeping heartache in your heart is a self-destructive gesture. It's
autophagy.
©  Those who do not forgive are physically, emotionally and spiritually ill.
For this reason, the family must be a place of life and not a place of death;
 a place of paradise and not a place of hell;
A healing territory and not a disease;
 an internship of forgiveness and not guilt.
 Forgiveness brings joy where sorrow has brought sadness; of the
Healing where sorrow has caused the disease.

¤ Pope Francisco

Please send to all the families you know. This could help extinguish
some family battles!

[Goanet] Panaji to Old Goa, entire journey - 28.11.18 Novena, feri - pics and video

[JoeGoaUk]

 
Video: Panaji to Old Goa, entire journey - 28.11.18
St. Francis Xavier feast Novena Day 5.  Road journey starts from Panaji Kadamba 
Bus Stand KTC to Old Goa via Ribandar pato, Sao Pedro etc. 
Also seen Multi-level car park, Mandovi bridges, Divya circle IFFI, Ribandar 
Causeway ponte de Linhares, Chorao - Divar Ferry etc 
You can skip first 15 minutes to jump to Old Goa 

Video: https://youtu.be/PmD5yfo4Wu4

More pics here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/45180494045/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/45180489165/in/photostream/

Feri / feast fair
Kaddio-boddio khajem
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/32221031828/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/31153200407/in/dateposted-public/
Chonne
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/46042072952/in/dateposted-public/
Cheurisam
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/31153205527/in/dateposted-public/

[Goanet] BRIEF REPORT OF ROUND TABLE ON #MeToo: What Ails the Prevention and Redressal System re Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

[Albertina Almeida]

ROUND TABLE ON #MeToo

Organized by SAAD AANGAN and INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, GOA, on 25th November,
2018,

at International Centre Goa.

The Round Table on #MeToo organized by Saad Aangan in collaboration with
International Centre Goa, on International Day to End Violence Against
Women, had the participation of a diverse group of people speaking out
their lived experiences from different locations – as survivors, hand
holders, supporters, bystanders, members (internal and external) of
Internal Complaints Committees, Local Complaints Committees, presenting
officer in an inquiry, representatives of women’s, transgender, persons
with disability, domestic workers, and civil society organisations,
advocates, counselors, and lecturers and concerned citizens. It was
recognized that while all women are vulnerable to sexual harassment,
different women are differently placed in protecting themselves from it.

Even as there were different opinions on #MeToo, it was acknowledged that
#MeToo has catalyzed and provoked thinking on the limitations of due
process as provided in the law, lack of transparency, accountability, and
the lens from which experiences of sexual harassment are being viewed, and
has crumbled the power of perpetuating sexual harassment taking advantage
of the silence that has surrounded sexual harassment at the workplace.
Participants noted the social and economic factors, including familial
pressures, inhibiting women from lodging complaints or approaching the
Complaints Committee after the lapse of substantial period of time, and
that these reasons cannot be dismissed.

There was consensus on the need for different boundaries in the context of
different work locations - where the nature of work may blur some
boundaries. It was felt that in each context, there have to be protocols in
place. However the issues of boundaries and sense of male entitlement are
itself something that need reflection, discussion, more conversations
around.

Participants specially articulated that the role of the State and the role
of the employer cannot be forgotten and that the abdication by the State of
its role in proactively disseminating information, enabling and ensuring
access to local complaints committees and internal complaints committees,
constitution of internal complaints committees, in conducting age
appropriate sexuality education in educational institutions, is
contempt-worthy. They remarked that ensuring rights of women were low
priority with the State.

The pushback, kind of trauma and victimization that survivors and
supporters of survivors go through was vividly articulated, and gave a
strong sense of the failure of the systems to understand and grapple with a
range of issues from inappropriate interventions, to the ignorance or
negligence or disregard or insensitivity of the internal complaints
committees, where the woman is treated as a liar till proven innocent, to
the non-constitution of committees, and lack of awareness creation and
capacity building about the prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual
harassment at the workplace, and ambiguity about budget allocation for
implementation and monitoring of the Act.

The social determinants of vulnerability such as housing of domestic
workers, the ageist and ableist gazes, the pressures on workers not to
unionize, also came under scrutiny.

Good practices of employers organizing meetings and being responsive to
draw protocols to prevent sexual harassment at the workplace, and also
application of the law to cases reported after three months with good
reason, were also shared by participants. Potential of Legal Services
Authorities creating awareness about the law, and also legal aid clubs, and
creation of educational material and orientation modules to effectively
sensitise were also discussed.

A key observation was the ironical invisibility of the complainant,
presenting officer, and even the internal complaints committee itself to
the employer once the inquiry is completed and sometimes even while the
inquiry is in progress, and the non-intimation to them about the status of
the complaint. The hesitation by employers to organize any orientation
programmes, or to organize them in a haphazard manner, was also highlighted
by participants.

The marshalling of provisions for women, such as confidentiality and
conciliation, to support the Respondent, the intimidation of legal
language, the heavy burden placed on complainants to produce evidence, the
application of criminal case standards to inquiries in complaints of sexual
harassment, were areas of concern expressed.

It was felt that the challenge is to ensure procedures through which the
rule of law prevails with due consideration to the special needs of
survivors of sexual harassment and principles of natural justice.



(Albertina Almeida)
(Galileo Fernandes)

for Saad Aangan   for
International Centre, Goa



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