[Goanet] NEWS: 'Amend law to check Indian political defections'
'Amend law to check Indian political defections' By Ajit Sahi, Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Seventeen years after India framed a law to check political defections, politicians and pundits admit the legislation has failed to rein in politicians willing to switch parties at the drop of a hat. Nowhere is the lacuna more visible than in the western state of Maharashtra, where a string of political flip-flops has pushed the government to the verge of collapse. With both the ruling and opposition groupings claiming a right to rule the state on the strength of their numbers in the splintered state assembly, all the major parties have been forced to hide their legislators to prevent them from deserting. Those who have defected are being guarded round the clock by the new political masters. It looks as though the state's ruling Congress party and its ally the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are not willing to trust their own legislators. Even the opposition Shiv Sena and its ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, are keeping their flock under scrutiny. Politicians have very low moral values that reflect in their shameless defections, said V.B. Singh, director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. The anti-defection law has failed and needs to be changed. Added Congress leader Anil Shastri: There is a total degeneration of values, and there is no such thing as integrity or straightforward politics. The anti-defection law has outlived its purpose and urgently needs to be made stringent. The comments came even as the leading parties in Maharashtra packed off their legislators to different cities outside the state to keep them under virtual custody, fearing they would otherwise be bought over by rival parties. The Congress-led government of Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has been left tottering this week after a string of defections reduced it to a minority. Deshmukh must win a trust vote June 13 to stay on in power. As three NCP and one Congress legislator crossed over to the opposition Sena-BJP combine, the two leading ruling partners sent their legislators to the adjoining Congress-ruled states of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Congress legislators arriving at the airport in Karnataka capital Bangalore Thursday told reporters that they were on a sight-seeing trip. But clearly they had been moved away from the close range of Sena-BJP. They will return to Maharashtra capital Mumbai ahead of the June 13 trust vote. The Sena and the BJP are also planning to send off their 124 legislators to the neighbouring BJP-ruled Goa state to avoid retaliatory Congress-NCP poaching amid widespread charges and speculation that big money has been changing hands. Analysts say the state of affairs in Maharashtra points out the drawback in a landmark anti-defection law pioneered by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985. In a bid to check rampant defections that caused much political instability in India, Gandhi enacted a law that barred any defection until a third of a party's MPs or legislators decided to part ways. The law did slow down defections. Now more and more people are arguing that the main loophole in the law - that defection by a third of MPs or legislators is permitted - should go. Said columnist Sudheesh Pachauri: A defecting legislator or MP must resign his seat if he leaves his party on whose ticket he was elected. If he is as popular as he thinks he is, the people would elect him again. Congress leader Shastri agreed: This change in the anti-defection law is a must to end the menace of defections. Every defector must go back to the electorate to get the voters' approval for his decision. Admitted Singh: The anti-defection law has in a way become a facilitator for those who want to defect. Shastri said the law had not been designed to meet the challenges of a multi-party era. In 1985, when it was framed, the Congress was the dominant political party, and luring a third of such a large party was thought near impossible. But now there are parties with just half a dozen MPs and legislators in the house. The one-third clause makes no sense for them. Analysts say the cancer of defections reflects a complete erosion of principled politics that prevailed in the country during the freedom struggle against British rule. The days of Mahatma Gandhi and ethical politics are gone. Now it is all money power. Politicians are willing to be bought and sold like in a fish market, rued Singh. Added columnist Pachauri: Opportunism has become a positive value. Principles are now considered impractical. --Indo-Asian News Service =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join
[Goanet] Tagore's A Sufi Prayer
Hi, There's so much hatred and hunger for power at the moment in the world. Seems fanatics of all sorts, though mainly lead by the religious types, are using religion and freedom to destroy and kill. Regardless of the purpose, the cause or their beliefs, it's a shame that the biggest gifts of life and love are stomped upon. What would the winner of a battle do after the victory? Would they live life in love and harmony? Would that be possible after having killed another, after having destroyed another? Would the winner's religion be proclaimed as the 'right' religion? Even though I have tremendous faith in humans, I'm calling upon the great architect to look down and put a stop to the evil by some humans, and the immaturity to ignore the same by many others. Deep within there's a hope and a plea, that the rules of life would step aside just for a while, so that goodness would take over and make it all fine. So a part of me wanted to talk to GOD and say 'look down and fix this', while the other half wants to tell my fellow humans that they too should stop and simply ask GOD to do the same. Basically wanting each one of us to feel so close to GOD, and in our OWN personal way, that it awakens some sort of a Sufi soul within us. A soul that strips itself naked of everything that man has made and with every drop of innocence and sincerity whispers a Sufi prayer. This is my Sufi prayer. Even though I hope that you like it, more sincerely I hope that it wakes up the child within you to say a simple prayer, to gift God your own prayer, all because I want the world to be a better place and want us all to be better humans. After all, we are to date (and will always be) the greatest creation there ever has been. Remember that and respect it all around. Welcome to my new book A Sufi Prayer ( http://www.goacom.com/tagorewww.goacom.com/tagore ) Tagore www.goacom.com/tagore One World, One Religion, One Race. One Colour, just a different face =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] CYBERFILE: E-spamming at election time
E-spamming at election time --- Elections 2002 in Goa will come to be known among cybersurfers as the one which lead to a whole deal of spamming. The BJP sent out its propaganda to thousands of email subscribers in the state. Whether they wanted it or not. This would probably only increase the irritation-levels of persons finding their mailboxes crowded with unsolicited BJP mail. There were complaints from many sides. The party got to Dishnet's accounts too, and its spam came through here too. This is a note sent in to this columnist, from one reader: Would like to ask you whether our email address with Goatelecom aren't confidential? There is no directory on emails address. How did they give it to BJP party to send us mail? My full email box was flooded with their mails. Another party which emerged as netsavvy -- leave aside its impact (or lack of it) on the election results -- was the newly-formed Goa-Suraj. It set up its web-site months in advance. It also interacted with overseas Goans via cyberspace relatively effectively, notwithstanding the misunderstandings that are wont to come up in anything Goan. Moral of the story? Of course, how net-savvy one is, is perhaps in no way related to the results in the polls. Link to Calangute - For those from Calangute, check out a new (and still small) mailing-list that keeps you in touch with the beach-village via email. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/calangutenet or to join the list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fighting virus -- This is an update again linked to cyber-Calangute, and brought to our attention courtesy journalist Joaquim Fernandes. Check out www.goa4all.com, which is being called a made-in-Calangute site, and has an interesting unique-selling point (USP) in these days where computer Windows virii spread like wildfire. This site has a special 'virus rescue' section. Designed and run by TotalWebSolutions, a company that specialises in web site design, it hopes to evolve into a free portal owned by Vilanova Lobo. Lobo's argument is that when hit by a virus, we don't know what to do and normally spend lots of money of technicians. Many problems can easily be solved by following the simple steps provided on this website, says he. www.goa4all.com/virlist.htm lists newly-found virus, and explains what damage a particular virus wrecks. It offers tips to configure anti-virus software, and cope with the problem. Goa4all.com says its personnel are now available on msn chat for free online consultations on virus related problems, normally in the mornings. Their id is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course, with so many known persons in this business (including Sachin Chatte, who's battling this plague while not radio-jockeying on All India Radio's FM channel) it's hard to put it this way. But fighting Windows virii can be a real losing battle. One's own solution is simple: shifting to the GNU/Linux computer operating system. This has kept my computer, touch wood, virus-free for over a year. All the .exe or .pif or other virii files coming in, simply don't affect it because of this interesting operating system. Unfortunately, GNU/Linux has the image of being a OS for computer geeks. That's what it once was. It is now fast changing. Admittedly, there is still need for much more support services at the grassroot-level, to ensure that people can easily install and run GNU/Linux. Nonetheless, the Goa-based India Linux Users Group (ILUG) has some 190 members on its website. Quite a number, indicating the interest in this new and innovative, and above all 'free' operating system. Check groups.yahoo.com./group/ilug-goa. To join the group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Football fans - Arunava Chaudhuri's indianfootball.com site recently claimed to have crossed 100,000 hits. This site was launched in April 1998, and would be of interest also to Goa fans of football. (ENDS) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
goanet-digest V1 #4057
goanet-digest Saturday, June 8 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4057 - In this issue: [Goanet] June issue of GoaNow [Goanet] REVIEW/ Pundalik Naik's *The Upheaval* [Goanet] CYBERFILE: E-spamming at election time [none] [Goanet] Goans Making Headlines in USA. See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 11:11:21 +0530 From: Luiza de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] June issue of GoaNow Dear News readers, Just to inform you that the June issue of GoaNow is online at www.goacom.com/goanow/ Some interesting articles this month: EdWords LOOKING FORWARD: Hoping for the best from the new set of MLAs... mainly hoping that they will stick together Cover Story FRACTURES PERSIST IN MANDATE: The Goa Assembly poll results threw up a hung Assembly Election Results Detailed Results of the 10th Goa State Assembly Polls 2002 Point Blank CORRUPTED DEMOCRACY: Tony-Correia-Afonso's view of what happens in politics today GoaSPICE The usual and slightly unusual sights we saw in Goa during the current sweltering summer Goa Books Some new Goa Books including the famed Fish, Curry, Rice Konkani-English Dictionary Continuing with a series of new words to add to your Konkani-English Dictionary Greetings A load of good wishes to those celebrating special occasions Urba (Konkani Webzine) Konknni Kotha, Kovita ani lekh - - Luiza GOACOM -- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 05:10:13 -0600 (MDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] REVIEW/ Pundalik Naik's *The Upheaval* From Deccan Herald May 26 Book Review/ Pundalik Naik's 'The Upheaval' The Spell of Doom By Manohar Shetty 'The Upheaval' by Pundalik N. Naik; translated from the Konkani by Vidya Pai; Oxford University Press, N Delhi; Rs 295; Pp144. To fully understand the power and pathos of this novel, a little background on the iron ore mining industry in Goa may be useful. After the Second World War, the Portuguese regime realised that war ravaged Japan would require enormous quantities of iron and steel to rebuild the devastated country and its economy. The colonial power also understood that it was in its own long-term interests to rope in more local Goans with a stake in its future growth. The Portuguese shrewdly granted a few Goans, mostly small businessmen and war profiteers, generous 99-year leases for the mining of iron ore. After the Liberation of Goa in 1961, the Government of India turned a benevolent eye on these miners, and on renewal of the licenses, even granted them huge tax concessions. These miners have since diversified and prospered enormously, but they have also left irreparable scars on the landscape of Goa. Hundreds of hectares of forest land have been virtually decimated by mining activity and legions of families have been affected by the pollution of the Bicholim, Khandepar, Madei and other rivers caused by the erosion of waste dumps, the discharge of mine pit water and other effluents from environmentally unsound open cast mining. Visitors to Goa, bedazzled by the coastline and its 'Iberian ambience' will be shocked and appalled by this wholesale depredation of the land in the mining belts of Bicholim, Pissurlem, Pale, Codli and other areas in the interiors of Goa. Pundalik Naik's novel is set in this grim backdrop, chronicling in detail the decay of a self-sufficient agricultural community with the impassive invasion of the mining industry. Naik's novel, the first to be translated from Konkani, created something of a sensation when it appeared in 1977. No other writer in Goa had portrayed in such graphic and brutal detail the ruinous fallouts on small agricultural holdings by the bulldozers of big industry. Pandhari, the protagonist of the novel, is the first to fall into the tempting shaft. Just before the auspicious day of sowing, Babuso, a wily and unscrupulous go-between, approaches him for his services as a load-bearer and to hire his bullock-cart to carry ore from the mines. Pandhari succumbs to the allure of quick money and in an instant becomes a bonded labourer and the bullocks, which once ploughed the life-sustaining fields, become a transport vehicle, the cart laden with the metallic spoils of the pillaged land. Pandhari's wife Rukmini, remonstrates with her husband for forsaking his 'gods and his duties for money'. But this is met by an angry drunken blow from Pandhari, which sets the direction for the rest of the novel. Naik assembles a cast of true-to-life characters in his riveting and realistic story: the school teacher Savlo who is forced to close down and leave in exile as the children of the village abandon their education to work in the mines; Abu, the sentinel
Re: [Goanet] Goans Making Headlines in USA.
I either read or was told that Dinesh is a Goan from Bandra, Mumbai. His father used to work for Johnson and Johnson. I know a woman in Toronto who knew the family as she too lived in Bandra. I was under the believe he is of East Indian origin. Eugene Correia __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] Dinesh Origins.
Dinesh grew up in a home his parents owned, next door to my grandmother, on Dr. Peter Dias road, Bandra, parish of St. Andrew. His parents raised him as an Evangilical Christian, and he is not a Roman Catholic. He was named campaign coordinator with the Catholic Church by Bush Sr., an example of the right wing's cynicism, then rewarded with the White House job. He is very Goan, my mother and he belong to the same D'Souza-Sheth clan in Assagao, Socoll Vaddo. Thank you, Eugene, for the occasion. eric. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO:Discussion on the results of the Goa Assembly Elections.
- WELCOME TO FRIDAY BALCAO - Dear Cybergaonkars on GoaNet, We continue with FRIDAY BALCAO on 14th June from 4pm. to 6pm. at No. 11, Liberty Apartments, Feira Alta, Mapusa Goa Ph. 252660 TOPIC: Discussion on the results of the Goa Assembly Elections. If you would like to receive a one page SYNOPSIS of each Balcao session in the year 2002, you could SUBSCRIBE for the invitation cum synopsis by sending Rs. 65/- to cover printing cum mailing costs. You can also GIFT SUBSCRIBE for a relative or friend in Goa/India. best wishes, Lillian D'Costa FRIDAY BALCAO BOOKLET :Now available for RS.70/- only Buy your personal copy and gift one to your relatives, neighbours and friends. The information handbook that is a must in every Goan home. === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Working On Issues Of Development Democracy === =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
goanet-digest V1 #4058
goanet-digest Saturday, June 8 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4058 - In this issue: [Goanet] NEWS: 'Amend law to check Indian political defections' [Goanet] Tagore's A Sufi Prayer Re: [Goanet] Goans Making Headlines in USA. [Goanet] Dinesh Origins. [Goanet] LINK Plant World 2002 at Mapusa [Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO:Discussion on the results of the Goa Assembly Elections. See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:14:15 +0530 (IST) From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: 'Amend law to check Indian political defections' 'Amend law to check Indian political defections' By Ajit Sahi, Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Seventeen years after India framed a law to check political defections, politicians and pundits admit the legislation has failed to rein in politicians willing to switch parties at the drop of a hat. Nowhere is the lacuna more visible than in the western state of Maharashtra, where a string of political flip-flops has pushed the government to the verge of collapse. With both the ruling and opposition groupings claiming a right to rule the state on the strength of their numbers in the splintered state assembly, all the major parties have been forced to hide their legislators to prevent them from deserting. Those who have defected are being guarded round the clock by the new political masters. It looks as though the state's ruling Congress party and its ally the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are not willing to trust their own legislators. Even the opposition Shiv Sena and its ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, are keeping their flock under scrutiny. Politicians have very low moral values that reflect in their shameless defections, said V.B. Singh, director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. The anti-defection law has failed and needs to be changed. Added Congress leader Anil Shastri: There is a total degeneration of values, and there is no such thing as integrity or straightforward politics. The anti-defection law has outlived its purpose and urgently needs to be made stringent. The comments came even as the leading parties in Maharashtra packed off their legislators to different cities outside the state to keep them under virtual custody, fearing they would otherwise be bought over by rival parties. The Congress-led government of Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has been left tottering this week after a string of defections reduced it to a minority. Deshmukh must win a trust vote June 13 to stay on in power. As three NCP and one Congress legislator crossed over to the opposition Sena-BJP combine, the two leading ruling partners sent their legislators to the adjoining Congress-ruled states of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Congress legislators arriving at the airport in Karnataka capital Bangalore Thursday told reporters that they were on a sight-seeing trip. But clearly they had been moved away from the close range of Sena-BJP. They will return to Maharashtra capital Mumbai ahead of the June 13 trust vote. The Sena and the BJP are also planning to send off their 124 legislators to the neighbouring BJP-ruled Goa state to avoid retaliatory Congress-NCP poaching amid widespread charges and speculation that big money has been changing hands. Analysts say the state of affairs in Maharashtra points out the drawback in a landmark anti-defection law pioneered by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985. In a bid to check rampant defections that caused much political instability in India, Gandhi enacted a law that barred any defection until a third of a party's MPs or legislators decided to part ways. The law did slow down defections. Now more and more people are arguing that the main loophole in the law - that defection by a third of MPs or legislators is permitted - should go. Said columnist Sudheesh Pachauri: A defecting legislator or MP must resign his seat if he leaves his party on whose ticket he was elected. If he is as popular as he thinks he is, the people would elect him again. Congress leader Shastri agreed: This change in the anti-defection law is a must to end the menace of defections. Every defector must go back to the electorate to get the voters' approval for his decision. Admitted Singh: The anti-defection law has in a way become a facilitator for those who want to defect. Shastri said the law had not been designed to meet the challenges of a multi-party era. In 1985, when it was framed, the Congress was the dominant political party, and luring a third of such a large party was thought near impossible. But now there are parties with just half a dozen MPs and legislators in the house. The one-third clause makes no sense for them.
[Goanet] GOA DAY 2002
Rene, Here are two messages of support for GOA DAY from two of our Goa Sudharop Advisory Council members: From Romulus Pereira, California: I wish the international celebration of GOA DAY 2002 all success. It is heartening to note that Goans are setting aside a special time to remember our history and culture and gift it to future generations. From Melanie Moniz, California: I often wonder as a Goan mother of two whether my children will grow up in the USA and remember their Goan culture. More importantly I wonder if they will treasure it and then pass it on and share it with others. GOA DAY is a wonderful way to celebrate who we are and be proud to be Goan. For my childrens' sake and on behalf of other Goan parents, I want to thank all those who make GOA DAY possible around the world. It is time well spent and invested. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] From Goanet Admin
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[Goanet] Non-Catholic denominations in Kuwait
NON CATHOLIC DENOMINATIONS IN KUWAIT. In Kuwait City about 200 metres away from Roman Catholic Church there is a magnificent place where Non-Catholic Christian Churches are located, at the entrace of this place surrounded by a big all around wall it is written as The National Evangelical Church accommodating innumerable Christian denominations. Though a number of nationalities are involved in prayers in this Pious House yet they are all united under their respective congregations by one common factor that is Christian doctrine. The common unifying factor is Christ. On 31st May, Friday I had an opportunity to attend to the prayer service of one of the groups there known as Pakistani Urdu speaking Christians where special invitee was Pastor Don Pirozok from USA who was visiting Kuwait for a short period. Prior to that Friday Pastor Pirozok preached at Vineyard Ministry where Sister Lata conducts her preaching along with her Pastor husband Ramesh. Both of them are ably supported in their Christian Mission by their two youthful daughters, elder one in singing and the younger one in playing organ of course along with other singers and smart musicians. Besides this family, this Ministry is ably supported in its activities on Saturday and Sunday evenings prayers by a good number of followers. Sister Lata a middle aged lady formerly a Teacher by profession is enriched with biblical knowledge besides having abundant spiritual blessings. With her holy and mellifluent tongue flowing with quotations and incidents from the Bible she turns the entire congregation spell bound. In her preaching one can easily get lot of spiritual solace and knowledge too. She is blessed with Christian Healing Power and this was proved by many. Being a teacher (professor) she is a well read woman travelled many parts of the world in preaching the word of God. The holy power of her prayers and rich literary knowledge can be experienced on Saturdays and Sundays at 7.00 p.m. It was here in the Vineyard Ministry on Thursday 30th May I had the previllege of listening to Pastor Don Pirozok preaching and seeing him performing Healing Services for the innumerable Christians who attended his Service. It was surprising how the faithfuls flattened on the floor the moment he touched their heads and prayed over them. I have seen such incidents earlier also when Sister Lata prayed over the faithfuls. I have discussed this aspect with some priests and theologists to get proper explanation of this healing miracles but I got no proper reply. These services are attended by many practicing Catholics as well. Last year a Goan Priest Fr. Salvador was invited by Catholic Church to preach in Kuwait He was known in Goa at Siolim and elsewhere not only as a very good preacher but also a priest known to perform Healing Services which are very much required by the faithfuls. For this reason Catholics and other Christians flooding to Potta and elsewhere for receiving Healing Services. Unfortunately for many Catholics Fr. Salvador last year did not perform Healing Services openly but he announced in the Church that Every Eucharistic Celebration is a Healing Service which created no effect on congregation. During the Pakistani Urdu speaking service on Friday, the Pakistani Pastor spoke thus though our two countries India and Pakistan are facing each other for the likely war on Kashmir border yet we are gathered here in this hall under one banner of Christianity. It is Christianity that united us though in this congregation we have people from two countries India and Pakistan embracing one another but not opposing one another. Let us all pray to God to save our countries and unite our countries under peaceful banner as we are united today here in this hall under Christian banner. It was very nice to observe how peoples from both India and Pakistan prayed to defuse the tension on the border. In this Evangelical Church lot of world renown Gospel and Bible preachers are invited to preach the word of God in a manner totally different from the way regulars are preaching and they in turn create a very good impact on the minds and bodies of the believers. Last year another renowned Gospel preacher Rambabu from Andra/Bangalore came and preached the word of God to innumerable Christians. Rambabu a young preacher earlier as a Hindu fanatic was known to burn and kick the bible but finally himself got converted to Christianity and turned into a great Bible/Gospel preacher. When new faces are invited to preach the word of Lord then you feel more warmth in your Christian life otherwise with the same preachers throughout the year your spiritual life becomes monotonous. In this area among the different Christian denominations lot of charitable and social work is conducted. Recently lot of Indians were recruited by fake recruiting agency and once they were in Kuwait all of them were
