[Goanet] Mother of Raul Fernandes passes away in Dubai.
TEREZINHA FERNANDES, WIFE OF LATE CELESTINO RAFAEL FERNANDES (C.R), (EX NAIROBI) PASSED AWAY IN DUBAI ON 25 AUGUST 2002. MOTHER OF RAUL (DUBAI), MARLENE (DUBAI) AND MATILDA (DUBAI), MOTHER IN LAW OF VILMA, CLYDE AND EUGENE (ALL DUBAI), GRANDMOTHER OF CASSANDRA, RAUL (JR), CHRISTOPHER, DYLAN, ANDREA AND SHAUN. FUNERAL WILL BE HELD IN ST INEZ CEMETRY IN PANJIM GOA. DATE AND TIME WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER. EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] fwd-rene =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] LPG CONSUMERS OF GOA PROTEST
LPG CONSUMERS OF GOA PROTEST CUM SOLIDARITY DHARNA AT PANJIM on Monday 26th August 2002 from 10.30am to 12.30pm opp. the fisheries Dept. As you may be aware the problems faced by LPG consumers have been increasing all over Goa, whether it is the forcible sale of Stoves to consumers, the arrogant behaviour of the agents and their delivery staff, excess billing, non issue of bills, no mechanical check, or no proper response to emergency calls on leaking cylinders. But the most pressing problem faced by the consumers is NO HOME DELIVERY and complaints from various villages about this issue have been made to the Civil Supplies Dept. The most recent cases have been Nuvem in South Goa and Nerul in North Goa where recently consumers have got together and formed a Forum to represent their problems. While in areas like Tivim and Aldona the consumers continue to get street delivery although the forums in these villages have represented their case to the Director of Civil Supplies and the officials of the Hindustan Petroleum. The situation has worsened over the last six months as the Sales officer of Hindustan Petroleum has been avoiding all meetings convened by the Director of Civil Supplies despite many notices. Finally under pressure the Company was represented by the HP Plant Manager who could not provide answers to any of the queries of the Forums 1. Why is the HP dealer M/s Kavlekar charging consumers Rs.2/- extra in Saligao/Sangolda/Socorro/Aldona/Nerul when the official rate is Rs.238/60 2. Why did HP not inform the Tivim/Revora/Colvale consumers that the Tivim dealer M/s Sameer Gas is no longer under suspension but actually terminated. 3. How did HP transfer consumers from its dealers to BP dealers in North South Goa without informing each individual consumer nor through a press advertisement. 4. Why are the HP dealers not being instructed that it is Company policy that consumers must get Home Delivery and why no action is forthcoming. As the situation is worsening for individual LPG consumers in many villages of Goa we have decided to highlight the problems during the ongoing Assembly Session so that the Goa Govt. may intervene and take necessary action against this public sector company. --MAIN PROBLEMS No home delivery of LPG cylinders. Overcharging on refills. No issuing of bills. No mechanical check up as required every two years. Not attending to emergency calls has been the problem faced by consumers of HPC all over Goa. Diversion of domestic LPG cylinders to commercial outlets. No Customer Service Office of Hindustan Petroleum in Goa to redress LPG consumer problems (Goan LPG Consumers have to make references and visits to Hubli /Belgaum and Dharwad) The Goa Govt. must take cognizance of the dissatisfactory services provided to the LPG consumers by the dealers of the petroleum companies and issue appropriate notices to their head offices the Petroleum Ministry officials to immediately improve their services. This intervention will help redress the problems faced by the LPG consumers especially the issue of HOME DELIVERY OF GAS CYLINDERS thereby bringing relief to women and senior citizens who have to struggle to get their cylinder refills. Todays Dharna has participation from consumers forums from different parts of Goa and is co-ordinated by GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK (GOACAN) Goa Desc Resource Centre, 11 Liberty Apts. Feira Alta, Mapusa 403 507 Ph:252660 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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 #4238
goanet-digest Monday, August 26 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4238 - In this issue: [Goanet] Saligao Garbage Report [Goanet] Testins [Goanet] Happy 8th birthday Goanet! [Goanet] 26 AUG: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS [Goanet] Mother of Raul Fernandes passes away in Dubai. [Goanet] LPG CONSUMERS OF GOA PROTEST See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 16:42:14 +0530 From: Francis Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Saligao Garbage Report GARBAGE DUMPING ISSUE Saligao resolves to block access; to build own segregation system A large gathering of Saligao villagers, in a recent meeting held at the Saligao Panchayat Hall, resolved to stop the dumping of garbage on the top of the Saligao hill, by blocking acess to it. The meeting convened by the Saligao Consumers and Civic Cell and the Panchayat, also decided that the village would also construct its own garbage collection and segregation system, for which land of around 500 sq meters is in the process of being identified. The project which has been designed by noted architect Dean D'Cruz, will consist a large pit made up of many compartments to store the various types of garbage after it is separated into glass, plastic, etc. Speaking at the meeting Nicholas Sequeira, member of the SCCC, pointed out that the Government had yet to earn the confidence of the people as it has been speaking of a garbage segregation, disposal and recycling plant for over a decade but till today have failed to set up such a plant. It is therefore that residents of villages near sites like Curca, Sonsoddo have raised strong objections due to pollution created, he said. He pointed out that the Government is planning to convert the Saligao plateau in a dumping site for the entire North Goa and warned that in years to come the water table of Saligao would be polluted. Mr Sequeira recalled the assurance given to Saligao MLA Dr Wilfred D'Souza, by the Chief Minsiter, Mr Manohar Parrikar, on the floor of the Goa Assembly, that dumping would stop. However he said that SCCC has learnt that acquisition procedures of land needed for the purpose is continuing and that all the garbage generated by the highly densely populated tourist destination Calangute, continues to be dumped unabated, through Saligao. He urged that a need to find a solution to the vexed issue is most urgent. Garbage is here to stay and it is we people who are generating it. We must find an alternative site, he said, declaring that the fight is against dumping but favoured segregation and disposal and recycling. Mr Sequeira hoped that their proposed segregation project would help Saligao take a lead in trying to help solve the garbage issue at the micro level, making the village a role model for other villages. The garbage from this roof covered pit, which would be protected by a high fencing, would then be sold to a garbage contractor for disposal and recycling, he explained. Eminent Goan environmentalist and scientist, Dr Nanda Kumar Kamat in a strongly and emotional speech urged the people of Saligao to be vigiliant and too stand up for their rights in order to make a difference and to be an example for the children of today. He warned that the irreversible effect of the pollution caused by garbage dumping would be felt not today, but in 5 to 10 years from now, which will than be too late. He pointed out that the water table of Saligao will be polluted by lead compounds, toxins, pharmaceutical waste etc. and disclosed that there is no technology in the world to purify or clean the water of polluted wells. The fields of Saligao, its natural water spring and the fauna and flora would be damaged. He explained that the nature of the soil on the Saligao plateau where the garbage is being dumped, is basically made up of redish rock laterite which has the characteristics of a sponge. He said that during monsoons the poisonous substances from the decomposed garbage collected over the years would gradually seep through the soil till it hits the water table. To prove his statement he disclosed that wells in villages of Pilerne, Nehrul and Verem were polluted from wastes of the hill top Pilerne industrial estate and displayed indepth reports carried out by his students. Dr Kumar told the gathering that the Government of Goa has no right to force garbage from anywhere in Goa into Saligao against the wishes of the village panchayat. This is the against the constituition. The Gram Sabha is the parliament of the people, he said. The Government has a lot of funds but is not ready to come out with a professional report and work a solution. This is a tragedy of Goa, he lamented and added that Government assurances cannot be guaranteed as
[Goanet] NEWS: Prayers, flowers mark Mother Teresa's birthday
Prayers, flowers mark Mother Teresa's birthday By Krittivas Mukherjee, Indo-Asian News Service Kolkata, Aug 26 (IANS) Special prayer meetings, floral tributes and charity to the poor marked the celebrations of the 92nd birth anniversary of Nobel Prize winning missionary Mother Teresa here Monday. People from various sections of the society were seen visiting her tomb at Mother House, the headquarters of Missionaries of Charity (MoC), the order founded by the revered nun in 1949. Visitors placed floral wreaths and lighted incense sticks on the marbled tomb. Scores of schoolchildren filed in to a hall that is the nun's final resting place and placed wreaths. They also said a prayer. We are observing certain routine rituals on this day, one MoC sister said. The sisters said the whole order was nostalgic and marking the day with a renewed pledge to work harder for the poorest of the poor. Special prayer meetings had been arranged in the memory of Mother Teresa, who is being considered for sainthood by the Vatican. Several city clubs and voluntary groups distributed clothes and food packets to the destitute. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. She came to Calcutta, now Kolkata, on January 6, 1929, and began a life dedicated to serving the poor and dying, earning her the sobriquet saint of the gutters. She founded MoC in 1949, a year after which it received the Vatican's approval. Mother Teresa received the Nobel peace prize in 1979 and died here September 5, 1997. Presidents, heads of states, kings and queens, attended her funeral. Recognising the life of true Christian service that she lived, the papacy ordered the start of the process to declare her a saint. The initial phase of the papal inquiry into her life ended last year and the findings along with details of a miracle she had performed had been sent to the Vatican. If the same is accepted, she will be beatified (declared a blessed soul) and the final stage of canonisation (sainthood) can begin. It is being widely hoped that she would be declared a saint in record time because of the reputation she enjoys. Mother Teresa is the 14th person to be considered for sainthood from India. Earlier, St. Thomas of Tamil Nadu, Francis Xavier of Goa, John D'Britto of Tamil Nadu and Gonzalo Gracia of Mumbai had been anointed saints. Five people have been beatified but await sainthood, while four had passed the first stage of veneration. --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-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] brieFNcounters: Ivo Coelho, Salesian provincial
BRIEfnCOUNTERS: IVO COELHO, SALESIAN PROVINCIAL 'FOOTBALL, EMPLOYMENT... THIS COULD BE THE LANGUAGE OF OUR YOUTH TODAY' His colleagues describe the new Salesian provincial for Goa as young and dynamic. Fr Ivo Coelho, SDB, would obviously have his work cut out for him as this religious order seeks to make its work more relevant to the life and times of the people of Goa. Fr Coelho can be contacted via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Extract from an interview: - What are the Salesians plans for expanding their educational network in Goa over, say, the next 5-10 years? - As yet we do not have an organic plan and vision. However, we have begun the process of working out such a plan. We are presently engaged in implementing a process called Participatory Strategic Planning (PSP). This is a question of listening to and becoming aware of people's needs, finding out our own capacities, and then deciding which of those needs we can meet. We want the expansion plans to develop from such a process, rather than from a top-down process where we decide what people need. - How much of these plans would be specially targetted at the poor? - I am hoping that our prime energies will be targeted at the poor. In Benaulim, for example, we suddenly became aware that most of the Church agencies and activities manage to touch a very small percentage of the youth -- those who are willing to come for these activities, those who are willing to venture into our structures and institutions. But there are so many on the fringes, so many in Benaulim itself who will never walk into a place like the Don Bosco Animation Centre. We want to reach out to these, and we are aware that we will need a mastery of Konkani as well as new strategies and fresh thinking. We need to speak the language of these youth. Perhaps that language is football, perhaps that language is employment. In Sulcorna too, the whole community took part in a 'Participatory Rural Appraisal' of one of the villages near our campus. An immediate outcome was to open up our school to the children of this village. But more than direct intervention, we are hoping that we will be able to help people discover their own potential, their own abilities to take their lives into their hands. Maybe we will be able to help with whatever training is needed for this. That will be our new educational venture. - What were the factors that led to the delay in the expansion of Salesian education in Goa in the past? - At a certain point in the past, we felt that Goa was well catered to by other Church agencies, and that the Salesians could concentrate on other areas. This is perhaps one of the main factors that led to the delay of our expansion in Goa. Another factor is that we have been busy by and large within our institutions, and within these institutions the language tends to be English. Without a mastery of Konkani, it is impossible to reach out in Goa. A third factor is that we were slow in perceiving the needs of the youth in Goa, and so a 'vision' for Goa has not been forthcoming. I am hoping that the proposed Participatory Strategic Planning exercise will help offset this. - What do you'll peceive as being the most pressing needs of students today in a state like Goa? - I have the impression that the drop-out rate is alarmingly high. We need to strengthen the educational network. We need to involve parents in the work of education. We need to invest in the formation of good and committed teachers. Perhaps we need to invest also in mundane things such as transport. Above all, we need to make school a pleasant place to be in. School must stop being a prison for the energies of our children. It must be a place where their best energies find expression and creative outlet. - Are middle-class parents willing to pay higher fees for the professional education of their children? If so, could this be utilised to subsidise the education of the poor? - I am unable to say, but it is an idea that is worth looking into. Social responsibility is an idea whose time has come. People may be ready to contribute to a good cause. And ultimately all 'charity' really gives returns: the more the opportunities, the more the possibility of education and employment, the more
[Goanet] STUCK IN LIMBO.
I paced the coridoors of the Mapuca Police Station some months ago waiting for the PI to return. He, I was told, had left on a mission. I then sighted a women pacing about in the courtyard like a man outside a delivery room waiting for the results. As I was free, I approached her and asked her what the matter was. I like to listen to the stories these foreigners have to tell when I meet them at the Police Station. On arriving in Goa, one told me that his luggage was missing. One had his passport and the other had lost his. This is a common tale which rarely has a happy ending as the loot, as I call it, is rarely traced as there are no clues and the problems of summoning the bus drivers and assistants is too laborious. Goa, is a hot place as far as the weather goes and the incentive to solve mysteries does not exist. A few competent police officers succeed in solving crimes like Insp. Clouseau or Sherlock Holmes, but this cuts into the booty of the criminals and the lickbacks of corrupt police officers. The result - transferred to a remote corner where one rarely hears of this valiant Police Officer. This stops his promotion and dampens his incentive. This time, the women (a French women) pacing in the courtyard tells me that her friend has been arrested for possession of drugs and she is waiting for the police to release him as the Judge has heard his plea and ordered him to be released on bail. His passport is impounded. After some time, he comes out and I speak with him in French and recognise that he is from Quebec. My French is a mixture of French from France and Quebec. It helps to communicate with people all over. I know Quebec and have a good knowledge of their politics. I have spoken with past politicians like Guy Tardiff, Claude Charon and Rene Levesque. I have preferred the cultured manners of the only cultured North Americans (Quebec) to the Anglos. The released man tells me that his name is Yannick McGuire (a mixture of Irish and French blood) and I remember Yannick Noah who was a tennis champion of Cameroonian and French blood. He is surprised by my typical Quebec expletives. He is friendly. Yannick had left his heating and ventillation enterprise and had travelled to Goa. He admitted that he liked to smoke a joint of flagrant weed (marijuana) and had rented a room in Vagator. The owner had a duplicate key as most do. He is surprised when a policeman comes to his place and without a warrant (no one has rights in a Democratic India as no one is Democratic) and searches his place. They find a small quantity of hashish at first which he admits is his and then come upon another bigger amount which Yannick swears has been planted in his room and he suspects is the work of the owner of the house who also has the key to his room. Three months have passed and he is unable to leave to return to Canada. His enterprise he told me when I met him lately was defunct, his passport being in the possession of the police. He has offered to place a bond of 2 lakhs (money his family can raise and send to him) as surety, promising to return for the final judgement. They have refused and he wonders when he will gain his freedom. I offer him my house in Salvador do Mundo to stay. He comes to see it but finds it far from the haunts he prefers in Vagator and the sea. Poor Yannick, he is stuck in a place he does not want to. He cannot afford to live in Goa and he does not know how long he will be at the mercy of the Indian Penal Court. Justice delayed in Goa is justice denied and the owner of the house has scored points with the police who he has maliciously assisted to prove to the authorities that they are doing their job of arresting drug adicts. Edgar Martins =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Latin Church in India: Another myth of Portuguese first?
«YESTERDAY, AUGUST 22, 2002 WAS THUS THE DAY OF THE 502nd ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST LATIN-RITE CATHOLIC MASS ON INDIAN (AND ASIAN) SOIL.» (Jorge de Abreu Noronha) With reference to the above info that appeared on Goanet a couple of days ago, I wish to draw attention to some developments in European Church history of the 13th and 14th centuries that brought Latin Church to the East as a result of the actitivities of the Franciscan and Dominican Orders a couple of centuries before the arrival of the Portuguese on the scene. The Papacy took this opportunity to establish diplomatic links with the great Khan (Mongol) as a strategy of crusades to win ally on the rear. The archdiocese of Khanbaliq was established on this occasion. John de Monte Corvino, Jordan Catalani de Severac, Odoric Pordenone, John of Marignoli from Florence are the best known missionary figures in this venture. They passed through India and established missionary outposts in India. Jordan was a Dominican and Frenchman from Severac. Pope of Avignon named him Latin Bishop of Quilon (Episcopus Columbensis). In his travel correspondence published as Mirabilia Descripta he mentions small Christian communities on the Northwest coast of India, and refers to 10,000 Catholics and appreciates the quality of their faith and also to difficulties they faced under the Muslim rulers. Jordan visited South India and mentions about quarrels between the Christians of St. Thomas and the Jews. But it is from John of Marignoli that we have more details about the Latin Church of St. George at Quilon where he spent nearly a year and half. He celebrated the Easter of 1348 there. The rise of Timur and the advance of Islam in the East, as well as the problems of schism in the Western Church put an end to the missionary efforts of the Latin church in the East during this period. Those needing more info about the First Latin Church in India (Asia) could consult: A.M. Mundadan, History of Christianity in India, Vol. 1 ( Bangalore, 1989) or Christianity in India: A History in Ecumenical Perspective ed. by H.C. Perumalil, C.M.I. and E.R. Hambye, S.J. (Allepey, 1972), =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] THE CITY OF PANAJI CORPORATION BILL 2002 - PRESS STATEMENT
26th. August, 2002 1700 hrs. To, Editor, HERALD/GOMANTAK TIMES/NAVHIND TIMES/PUDHARI Press Statement : THE CITY OF PANAJI CORPORATION BILL 2002 ( Bill No. 13 of 2002) Having had sufficient interaction with the cross-section of the citizens of the affected areas such as the prominent citizens of Panjim City, citizens of Porvorim and Santa Cruz, and relying on the news media reports as well as the Bill No. 13 of 2002, the GOA SU-RAJ PARTY has based its stand on the Bill as under: That the proposed Bill is sought to be introduced in a tearing hurry by the government and as such people of the affected areas do harbour suspicions of political manipulations. That, like the previous Goa Ground Water Bill - 2001, where the Canal Officer alone was bestowed with sweeping draconian powers, this Bill too provides for the post of a government appointed Municipal Commissioner acting as the principal executive officer of the said Corporation with such widespread sweeping powers and duties that the entire Bill seems to have been designed for the post of the Commissioner itself, and who is expected to be a super-human being, making the post of the Mayor and the Dy. Mayor insignificant. At a glance, this Bill looks like a ONE MAN SHOW the 'MAN' being there solely at the pleasure of the government. That the NGPDA's very existence is made redundant by removing its jurisdiction from the area of the said Corporation. That the delimitation by itself, at this initial stage smacks of political maneuvering and of settling political scores, in the absence of the disclosure of the benefits and the advantages of such a move. If, the advantages of having the Corporation outweighs the advantages of continuing with the existing Municipal Council , these are lost by virtue of the undue haste with which this Bill is sought to be introduced without even taking the Panjim Municipality and the affected Panchayats into confidence. That the government should refrain from getting this Bill passed in the Legislature in undue hurry, for it certainly deserves a critical second glance. Rather, this Bill should be referred to a Select Committee constituted on a wider spectrum of intellectuals, professionals and civic administrators to iron out the many inherent inconsistencies. The very fact that the designations of the elected members of the said Corporation have been maintained as Councilors instead of Corporators indicates that the proper application of mind has been absent during the drafting of this Bill in the same manner that the previous Goa Ground Water Bill was drafted. For Goa Su-Raj Party Sd/- (Bernard D'Souza) Spokesperson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] World Goa Day-2002............Celebrations in Portugal
World Goa Day-2002 Celebrations in Portugal * Jorge de Abreu Noronha This year the World Goa Day is being celebrated in Portugal as Goa, Daman and Diu Day. In fact, while out of the six existing associations two have members from all the former Portuguese possessions in India (Goa, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar-Haveli), another draws its members from all the above territories except Goa and the other three dedicate themselves exclusively to Goa. So, young Constantino Hermanns Xavier, the main enthusiast behind these yearly celebrations, had the bright idea of putting together an organising committee with one member from each of the associations. All of them agreed to work together and to put up items contributed by all - hence the new name for the Day. And why were Dadra and Nagar-Haveli left out in that name? The answer is simple: under the Portuguese these two enclaves formed part of the district of Daman and so, whenever at this end one speaks of Daman, one automatically thinks of Dadra and Nagar-Haveli as well. The programme of the celebrations was drawn so as to encompass three days - friday (August 16) night, the whole of saturday (17) and tuesday (20) evening, the latter being the actual Goa Day in commemoration of the memorable parliamentary vote of August 20, 1992 placing Konkani in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution. On the night of the 16th there was a public show in Lisbon's Teatro da Trindade, attended by about six hundred and fifty persons who were entertained for two beautiful hours commencing 9.30 p.m. The two-part programme included, in the first part, Casa de Goa's Ekvat group performing six pieces from its repertoire (an opening light song, one instrumental, two mandos, one lullaby and one special arrangement of the dekhni) and the Goa, Daman, Diu Choral Group giving us renditions of three exquisite Daman and Silvassa (Nagar Haveli) songs in the local Portuguese creole, three equally exquisite Diu songs also in creole, three songs from the Malacca, East Timor and Macao creoles and a closing Daman hymn dedicated to the river Damanganga or (its Portuguese name) Sandalcalo; in the second part, after the intermission, the stage was taken by the Surya group which, starting with a musical, went on to a Goa, Goa song, a Gonvllim dance, the short Rahjan Premma operetta, a Kunnbi dance, a sung and danced mando and a dekhni. The show ended with the assemblage of all the three groups on the stage for the final Adeus korcho vell paulo. Before the show and during the intermission one could visit a photo, prose, poem and drawings exhibition put up by youth. On saturday morning a group of 100 persons could tour Lisbon's selected places related to the former Portuguese India. In three buses gracefully ceded by the city's municipal corporation, we traversed the city during about three hours along such places as the Goa, Damao and Diu squares, Margao Street, Abade Faria, Professor Gama Pinto, Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes, Agostinho Lourenco, Aniceto do Rosario, S. Francisco Xavier, Garcia de Orta Roads or Avenues and the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital. One also passed on a street called Rua dos Soldados da India (Soldiers of India Street). A group picture was taken at Praca de Goa (Goa Square). The tour was followed by a lunch at one of the city's popular restaurants. The evening then belonged to the Youth. They met in a get-together at Casa de Goa's garden terrace with a superb view over the Tejo river and the Ponte 25 de Abril and for a carrom tournament at the Casa de Goa's halls. Altogether 50 youngsters had an agreeable evening conversing, eating snacks and sipping cold drinks. Eight pairs contested at the carrom boards, the first prize going to the Rosario Monteiro / Sandra Monteiro duo. There were well produced brochures for both the Music/Song/Dance show and the city tour. The programme continued on tuesday (August 20) evening with a cultural session at 7.00 p.m., followed by a closing dinner at Casa de Goa's Xanti restaurant. The cultural session, at Casa de Goa's conference hall, consisted of interventions by Catarina Portas (whose book Goa - Historia de um Encontro [Goa - Story of an Encounter], printed in Coimbra in October 2001, immediately hit the bookstores), Jose Eduardo Agualusa whose book Um Estranho em Goa [A Stranger in Goa] also was and is a hit, Goan journalist Oscar Mascarenhas and Paulo Varela Gomes, a former Delegate of Fundacao Oriente in Panjim. The hall was overpacked, attendance being estimated at roughly 140 persons. After the introductory note by Constantino Hermanns Xavier, Varela Gomes spoke at length on the burning topic Who killed Tanuja Naik?. He read (and commented upon) a good selection of cuttings from the Goan newspapers on the not yet clarified mystery surrounding the case of Tanuja Naik who was recently shot dead at Marcaim. One of the main issues arising from the press reports, police news releases and various debates was the Goans vs non-Goans
