[Goanet] Keith Vaz Headlines: Prosecution or Persecution? (Times of India, 9/11/16)

2016-09-10 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Keith-Vaz-Headlines-Prosecution-or-Persecution/articleshow/54271395.cms A sensationalist media tempest continues about Keith Vaz, longest-serving UK Member of Parliament of (Goan) Indian origin, after a questionably legal newspaper sting caught the marri

[Goanet] Fwd: Gypsy Goddess: Meena Kandasamy book launch @ ICG, June 15 (6pm)

2014-06-10 Thread V M
EXCLUSIVE RELEASE: The Goa Arts + Literary Festival team is delighted to host the India launch of 'The Gypsy Goddess', the debut novel by acclaimed poet/writer/activist Meena Kandasamy, at International Centre Goa (www.internationalcentregoa.com/) at 6pm on June 15. All are warmly invited. 'The G

[Goanet] Letter from Lisbon: Lessons for Goa

2014-07-17 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Letter-from-Lisbon-Lessons-for-Goa/articleshow/38502391.cms The news from Portugal is full of doom-and-gloom on its foundering economy, but you would not know it from walking the streets of Lisbon. Of course, data doesn't lie: Portugal's debt is more th

[Goanet] Of Goa and Literature: Unexpected Growth + Dividends

2014-07-19 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Of-Goa-and-literature-Unexpected-growth-and-dividends/articleshow/38637759.cms Meena Kandasamy had many suitable places to choose for her book launch last month. The brave, brilliant poet, translator and activist's first novel was already garnering serio

[Goanet] Goa's heritage under threat: The ongoing museum scandal

2014-08-04 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/Goas-heritage-under-threat-The-ongoing-museum-scandal/articleshow/39445523.cms This column is repeatedly compelled to point out no part of India treats its own artistic and cultural legacy more disgracefully than Goa. It's an ongoing problem lasting gene

[Goanet] Modern Day Freedom Fighters: Claude + Norma Alvares

2014-08-08 Thread V M
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/1P5V4SptPe1ZwGUQEi1zYL/Norma-Alvares--Claude-Alvares--The-power-of-two.html Freedom from plunder | Norma Alvares & Claude Alvares Looking back on four decades of marriage and an intensely close working relationship with his wife, the Padma Shri awardee Norma Alvare

[Goanet] Giving Voice to India, Again

2014-08-08 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Giving-voice-to-Goa-again/articleshow/39908968.cms Is there any place anywhere with such a disproportionately significant relationship to music as Goa? It's hard to think of any serious contender. The most recorded musician in the world is Asha Bhonsle,

[Goanet] Giving Voice to India, Again

2014-08-09 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Giving-voice-to-Goa-again/articleshow/39908968.cms Is there any place anywhere with such a disproportionately significant relationship to music as Goa? It's hard to think of any serious contender. The most recorded musician in the world is Asha Bhonsle,

[Goanet] Where is Goa in India's Internet Big Bang?

2014-08-16 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Where-is-Goa-in-Indias-internet-Big-Bang/articleshow/40311761.cms 2014 has already seen a cataclysmic shift in Indian politics with the rise of Narendra Modi's BJP, but even that milestone takes second place to another, related phenomenon—by the end of t

[Goanet] Cecil Pinto, script doctor

2014-08-29 Thread V M
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/9n9YFf7araO0jO8TxFQCqL/Homi-Adajania-Love-and-longing-in-Goa.html?utm_source=copy) ..."Cecil Pinto, who is a Goan writer, was my bouncing board for accuracy and cultural research, but then I pushed it into a fictitious space"

[Goanet] Reverberations in Goa from China’s property market collapse

2014-09-06 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Reverberations-in-Goa-from-Chinas-property-market-collapse/articleshow/41812544.cms Reverberations in Goa from China’s property market collapse TNN | Sep 5, 2014, 12.30AM IST Vivek Menezes Bankers and investors around the world are extremely nervous th

[Goanet] Kashmir Floods + the Mattoos

2014-09-08 Thread V M
Dear friends, One of the most delightful participants at the last two Goa Arts + Literature Festivals has been the elegant, outspoked Neerja Mattoo - writer, educator, and literary activist of Kashmir. She and her husband, the tough Mr. Mattoo never left the valley despite the lengthy times of tro

[Goanet] Preparing for the inevitable: Goa in the age of climate change

2014-09-13 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Preparing-for-the-inevitable-Goa-in-the-age-of-climate-change/articleshow/42380437.cms Heart-breaking images from Kashmir dominate the news. The fairytale Himalayan valley is drowning under the worst floods in memory. The Jhelum river burst bunds, and wa

[Goanet] Goa to Sri Lanka: From Blessed Joseph Vaz to Acharya Dharmanand Kosambi

2014-09-19 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-to-Sri-Lanka-From-Blessed-Vaz-to-Acharya-Kosambi/articleshow/42927389.cms Well-deserved celebration in Goa as the longstanding candidature of native son Joseph Vaz has finally been approved for sainthood. He will be "the first saint to Sri Lanka" but

[Goanet] an Indian city worth emulating

2014-09-24 Thread V M
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/aizawl-for-example/99/ Aizawl, for example Sanjoy Hazarika A visitor to Aizawl, state capital of Mizoram, will drive through hills wrapped in green and swathed in mist. But as she nears the capital, the landscape changes. Multistoreyed buildings jo

[Goanet] must-read article on who funds the arts + why we should care

2014-09-25 Thread V M
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4313691c-3513-11e4-aa47-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3EIwjJktw Who funds the arts and why we should care By Rachel Spence Anyone passing through Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall one recent Saturday might have witnessed an unscheduled performance by a group of people writhing beneat

[Goanet] our Bhai Mauzo at Frankfurt Book Fair

2014-09-26 Thread V M
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/goan-writer-invited-to-participate-in-frankfurt-book-fair/article6445393.ece?homepage=true Goan writer, Damodar Mauzo, has been invited to participate in the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) as part of a five-member Indian Writers’ delegation. The other

[Goanet] Charles Correa: India's Next Bharat Ratna?

2014-09-29 Thread V M
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Charles-Correa-Indias-Next-Bharat-Ratna/articleshow/43744567.cms Another milestone in Charles Correa's already spectacular career last week, when the $300 million Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre opened in Toronto. The museum was designed by 86-year-ol

[Goanet] 2014 Goa Arts + Literary Festival will be best ever

2014-09-29 Thread V M
http://www.navhindtimes.in/galf-2014-promises-goans-broad-literary-treat/ Full version of official release: The fifth anniversary edition of the pioneering Goa Arts and Literary Festival will be its best ever, with strong delegations from Australia, Singapore, Nepal and Pakistan, as well as the f

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