[Goanet]Demand for Roman script revives Goa Konkani controversy
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/aug72005/national16254200586.asp DH News Service Panaji: The war of words over the latest demand that the Roman script be also accorded official recognition has divided Konkaniwadis in Goa. It is 18 years since Goa got its official language, Konkani. But the victory hard won could now be undone, say Konkani stalwarts who are watching in alarm as the pitch is being raised to adopt the Roman script for the language in Goa and Maharashtra. A multiplicity of scripts would hinder rather than promote the Konkani cause, say some of its leading writers in Goa. Devanagari is officially recognised as the script for Konkani by the Sahitya Academy and the state government. ?When the need is to remain united, such a demand will only divide the Konkani people,? says Sahitya Academy member Damodar Mauzo. Some 5 million people in the Konkan region stretching from Maharashtra to Kerala speak the language. Steering the case for the adoption of the Roman script Fr Pratap Naik, director of Thomas Stephens Konkanni Kendra believes an injustice was meted out to ?large sections of the Konkani people who knew Konkani only in the Roman script?, when the decision was taken to adopt only Devanagari in Goa. ?Eighteen years down the line we are confronted with the reality: Devanagari has not taken root in Goa. It is also obvious that the script became a tool for Saraswats to corner posts and positions,? he told Deccan Herald. The Jesuit priest was pivotal in getting the First Canara Konkani Convention in December 2004 to adopt a resolution backing the use of the Roman script. A similar resolution was adopted by a largely Christian convention in Mumbai some weeks ago, and is expected to find favour at Monday?s meeting in Margao. Going backwards Fr Naik, who has developed an orthography for Konkani in Roman script using modified international phonetic symbols denies he is steering Goa?s language debate to a communal impasse and insists that the Saraswats have failed Goa?s Konkani cause. ?Konkani is alive in Goa purely because of the Catholic schools. Where are the Konkani schools run by the majority community?? he asks. Angered and hurt by his accusations, Goa?s Konkani writers have questioned the priest?s motives. ?He succeeded in dividing the Konkani people in Karnataka and wants to do the same here,? says Mauzo. Former editor and writer Uday Bhembre believes Goa would be better off emulating Kerala Konkanis who have worked diligently to replace the Malayalam script with Devanagari use. ?To debate over the script at this point would be going backwards,? says journalist Raju Naik. He also dismisses the contention that writers in the Roman script are denied grants and literary prizes. The church, which has so far steered clear of the debate, could be compelled at some point to take a stand on the issue. The church runs 125 Konkani medium primary schools here. All of them teach in the Devanagari script. ?We have no official position on the script,? said church spokesman Fr Loyola Pereira -- Regards, Carlos
[Goanet]NEW AIRLINE IN GOA'S SKIES
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/Aug42005/national175551200583.asp Kingfisher to start Goa service >From B S Arun DH New Service, New Delhi: With the start of its Goa service, the airline would cover 65 per cent of the corporate travel routes, a company official said... it already flies between Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Bangalore and Mumbai-Bangalore. Kingfisher Airlines (KA) will add Goa to its route map as it will fly between the popular tourist destination and Mumbai twice a day from August 11.
[Goanet]Rain-soaked Goa ? nature at its best
http://www.hindu.com/2005/08/07/stories/2005080701461200.htm Anil Sastry Dudhsagar Falls, true to its name, resembles an ocean of milk PANAJI: To see Nature at its best during the monsoon one has to be in Goa. Blessed with a charming coastline on its west and the Western Ghats on its east, it presents a beautiful blend of coastal beauty and the wilderness. While the Arabian Sea at the height of its ferocity coupled with the unabated rain would at times unnerve a newcomer, the cloud-clad thick evergreen forests on the mountains present a stunning view. Though deforestation has had its impact on the monsoon, Goa still has a thick cover of evergreen forests, extending over 50 per cent of its geographical area. Despite having a belated start, the monsoon here brought 210 cm of rain till August 5 this year as against the average annual rainfall of 277 cm. Depending mainly on tourism, the state has tapped the monsoon advantage. Almost all hotels and the state-run Tourism Development Corporation have been offering the `monsoon package' at almost half the seasonal price. As a result, most of the popular beaches here were packed with tourists despite heavy rains, though the Mumbai deluge had an impact on the inflow this year. However, the hinterland that offers an altogether different experience still remains to be exploited. Many estate owners have started providing lodging and catering facilities but arrivals have yet to pick up. To have a taste of the hinterland during the monsoon is to travel by train between the Madgaon-Londa section. A number of trains - Goa Express, Amaravati Express, Vasco-Yeshwantpur bi-weekly express and Vasco-Chennai weekly express pass through this difficult terrain, offering an unrestricted view of the forests and mountains at their best to a traveller. The main attraction would be none other than the stunning Dudhsagar Falls on the Goa-Karnataka border. True to its name, Dudhsagar resembles an ocean of milk from top to bottom. Said to be the highest waterfalls in the country, Dudhsagar drops from a height of 600 metres from the Deccan Plateau through a near vertical cliff to enter the coastal region. In summer it can be reached by a kutcha road, which becomes unusable during rains as it is submerged by swollen streams. So trains are the only option. Besides, the entire stretch between Kulem (Goa) and Castlerock (Karnataka) is worth seeing during the monsoon. While overflowing streams every 100 metres, cloud-clad green mountains and chill winds greet a traveller, thin layers of cloud embrace him at times if he is standing at the door of the coach. --- Regards, carlos
[Goanet]Aitaracheo Kaskutleo: Please abide by 'dress code'
Please abide by 'dress code' Kuddichem prodorxonn (exhibition) korpi sarkelea angvostrancher bondi poddlelean aijkal Aitarachea Misant choddxim tornattim igorjent disonant. Cheddvamchim mottvim kolsanvam, dimbie voir itlem mottvim skirt-am, ugtte goleache polke (blouses) ani ttight fitt T-shirts nhesnnank lagun, igorjek vochpi zannttea bhavartanchim ani kherit bhaxen tornattea cheddeachim monam, Misachea magnneacher thironant. Mumbaiche Arkidiocezichea Kardinal Ivan Dias-an povitr zagear kuddichem prodoxonn kortelea zagor (vulgar) angvostracher koddok avazan suchnapotr (circular) uzvaddak haddlelean nhoi Mumbaimnt, punn akhkhea Goeant Igorjechea vhoddilanim mottea proman mannsugechea nhesnnacho dress code aplea firgozkaramchea (parishioners) nodrek haddla ani amche ixtt Lapit; hanchea ganvchea Padre Vigaran to poilo chalik laila. Lapita-chea ganvchea igorjent dor Aitarak don Misam astat. Poilem Mis sokallchea so vaztam. Hea Misak, vauraddi lok subeij dista ani jea loka thaim borim kimtichim angvostram nant tovui lok poilea Misant vantto gheta. Dusrem Mis atth vaztam. Adim hea Misant tornatteancho aspav subeij astalo. Novi-novi modi nhessun chedde-cheddvam igorjek distalim, punn halichea disanim igorjent ievnchim, gaiob zaleant. Are khoim gelo? Na re thoim? Lapit-ache bail nhannient thavn boballtali, punn Lapit, bolkamvant bosun xezarchea Cazmiracheo gozaleo aikotalo. Ietam, ietam, bailek zap dili ani Casmirok bori rat magun, mukhlem dar bondd korun bailexim ghelo. Kiteak ulo kori? Tannem bailek vicharlem. Kitlo vell re tuka? Thondd laglem mhaka. Nhannient ietanam tuvalo haddcheak visorlim. Choll vegim, tuvalo matxe haddun di. Lapit nidhche khuddant gelo. Kativelo tuvalo hatant kaddtana, tannem bailechi nightie polleli. Lagim aslea mezar kator disli. Mhaka hangasoruch sukoitolo? Kitem korta re bhitor? Tuvalo haddunk gellea monxacho potttoch na tem pollevn, Lapitachi bail porot ekdam boballli. Ailom, ailom. Kativelo tuvalo vhorun baile koden divn to vochunk kori, titlean tinnem vicharlem Keddov konna thaim uloitalo?. Socorin timaimlo natu, Cazmir ailolo. Don Aitar zale, igorjichea gaion mondollant (choirs group) disona to. Toch nhoi, ganvantle dusrim tornattim chedde-cheddvam, Aitarachea Misan bhag ghetlolim disonant ani tachem kharan mhollear igorjek ietana mannsugen nhesun iepacher, amchea Padri Vigaran avaz uthailelean Aitarachea misak vochonaslelea patkeak hem sogllem koxem kollta? Amchem ghor igorjek tekhun asa. Vigaracho sermanv mika velean niddlea kodden kanar bosta. Bolkavantuch bosun fashion show-ak ailelim models dolle bhor pollevnk melltalim. Tannim Aitarachea Misak ievnchem bond kelelean, hanvem sokallchea dha horam uprant utthpachem dorlam. Him tornattim kitem somzotat? Aitarachem Mis ek fashion parade mhonn? Fatt ugtti aslelim angvostram ghalun igorjent ietat ani tanchea fattlean ubhe aslelea dadleamchea monant lingi chintnam gusmolun tanchem Mis piddear kortat. Dekhunuch ho tugelo ghov Aitatachea Misak vochona. Puro, puro. Chodd uloilo. Sonvara ratim, borench xekoilear dusrea sokallim koxo utthunk zatlem? Ostoreanim hat kapim T-shirts ani bhitorlea cheddechi dheg diso pasun ttight kolsanvam nheslelim pollevn, mhojea oslea bhavarteamchem monant vaitt chintnam ietatuch. Chintnachea patkak boli zavncho nhoi mhunn, hanv sumanantle heram disanim igorjek vetam. Mhojem Mis, Jezu Kristachea povitr ieneamcho dobajo mhonn somzotam. "Vegllea-vegllea dobajeam khatir vegllim vegllim angvostram astat. Parttiek ghalelim hodddim ugttim angvostram igorjen sobhonant. Piknikek nhestele kopdde dukhest zagear upkaronant. Khellachim angvostram offisant nhesso nant. Ghorant nheslelim ratchim angvostram bhair sokallchea passoiek chollonant, Lapitachi bail aple lamb kens pustanam ghombirponnin ghorkara thaim uloitali Ordem hor odik zalem kens pusunk laglear. Kitle pavtti tuka suchoilem te mottve korunk. Tras zatat. Kens mhoje tokler asat. Tuka tras kosle? Hanv zanam tuka koslo vell zata to. Konnem sanglam mhojea morean ubo ravunk? Choll, tuje peg kor. Tea mhonnosor mhoje angar kopdde choddoun jevnachi toeari kortam Lapit kuznant gusun freezinli thond Bislery soda mezar dovorta. Glassant double peg Royal Stag whiskey vottoita. Opener ghevn soda ugoddchea vellaruch, L-A-P-I-T, nidhchea khuddintlean ek zobordosten marleli killoch tachea kanar sadovtta. Tanchea kazari jivitant Lapitachea bailen keddnach apurbaechea nanv-an (pet name) taka ulo marunk naslo. Punn aiz poilech khepek tichea mostokantlo bhezo konnem tori kenchchun kaddlelea porim dislem. Lapitache bailen ghoddghoddea avaza sarkeli killoch marleli tedna, ghorantleo vostu bhuimkamp zalle vorim hallleo. Hi zobordost killoch khitea khatir ti, Lapit bhes bori zanam aslo. Tannem fuddlea tuvanank fuddo korcho aslo, tea mhonnosor glassan votoilole double peg ghott-ghott korun tallea sokoll denvoile. Nhannientli bhair sortana ghuttlailo tuvalo toxoch angar
[Goanet]RE: Goa permanent venue for IFFI - Rane Govt
[Gilbert Lawrence, Aug 6] By any chance did you mean to say "cyber" Goans instead of "native" Goans at the end of this particular line? Why indeed is there such a big disconnect between cyber Goans and native Goans? Might be worth discussing on goanet.
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[Goanet]Openings for AIRHOSTESSES on KINGFISHER AIRLINES
Saturday 06/08/2005 Dr Vijay Mallya, the young dynamic globe trotting Member of the Rajya Sabha (upper House of India's Parliament)who earned the sobriquet the "King of Good Times" as Chairman of the United Breweries Group of Companies and now Kingfisher Airlines which commenced operations in May 2005 was quizzed by this writer on how girls from Goa could get in as Airhostesses on his Kingfisher airlines ? This was an obvious question for reasons below. Dr Mallya had set his eyes on Goa, which he proudly stated is the land of his family roots even though they had migrated to Bangalore Karnataka several years ago -- Now with frequent visits to his mansion at Candolim Bardez Goa ( Velhas Conquistas ) just facing the five year old beleagured River Princess -- and setting up his fledging political outfit -- the Janata Party in Goa -- intended to harness the power of the youth who now constitute nearly 65% of the Indian population and seek entry in Goa's political cauldron;--- the man who controls this mega industry and will now launch the inaugural Goa Mumbai flight on 11 August 2005 1340 hrs IST was quick to email this reply: *** --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:on 25/06/2005 Dear Mr.Gonsalves, I thank you for the graciousness of your letter to me. You can forward all applications to my HR department on the email address - [EMAIL PROTECTED] , I assure you that all applications are looked at quickly and thoroughly. Once again, I thank you for the acknowledgement and compliment implicit in your letter, and I hope you also have the opportunity to fly Kingfisher Airlines so on. regards, Dr. Vijay Mallya, MP Chairman and Managing Director Kingfisher Airlines Limited A UB Group Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 16/06/2005 Dr Vijay Mallya Hon'ble Member of RS Chairman & MD United Breweries Ltd BANGALORE Sir, Sub: Openings for Airhostesses on KF Airlines Kindly recall our brief meeting in Our lady of Grace Church Hall Margao 10/05/2003 launching of "Vision for Goa " seminar and the launch of your Janata Party in Goa, at Mariotts. Sir there have been requests from teenagers (girls) wondering how to get about as Trainees - Airhostess or allied openings for girls in your esteemed airlines. They have clicked on Careers -- of your website www.flykingfisher.com but no indication for posting applications online for Airhostesses is available. Could you kindly advise. With all best wishes for your airlines GODFREY J I GONSALVES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Borda Margao Goa *** So this is a great offer for girls in Goa to take up opportunities in the airlines. All you need is a courteous disposition and above all promoting the unique Goan hospitality. Travel Kingfisher and -- fly the good times. let the Goan flag fly high up in the skies. For more details log on to www.flykingfisher.com GODFREY J I GONSALVES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hillside Apts Borda Margao Goa __ Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com
[Goanet]Best overall performance award to Punjab & Goa
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1453659,0008.htm Punjab walked away with the best overall performance award among bigger states while Goa took the top honours in the small states category at the Chief Ministers' Conclave organised by the India Today Group. Kerala and Himachal Pradesh were the first and second runners up respectively among big states, while Delhi was followed by Pondicherry among small states. Bihar was ranked lowest among big states while the dubious place among small states belonged to Meghalaya. Punjab was also top ranked in four categories viz budget and prosperity, infrastructure, agriculture and consumer market. Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat gave away the awards at a glittering function organised to unveil the third annual ranking of Indian states here. The annual 'State of the States' survey claims to objectively rank states considering their performance on eight counts viz macro-economic performance, agriculture, size of consumer markets, education, health, law and order, infrastructure and investment scenario. Kerala took the top honours in law and order, primary health. It also fared better than other big states on critical yardsticks of governance viz education and health. Gujarat was ranked number one in the 'Best Investment Environment category' and on the 'Economic Freedom' scale. Chhattisgarh was adjudged as the 'Best Facilitator' for business, Tamil Nadu for being the 'Best Protector' while Maharashtra the 'Best Regulator.' Himachal Pradesh had the best primary education facilities, while Jammu and Kashmir was found to have the lowest poverty - Regards, Carlos
[Goanet]Traditional Mando/Dulpod (Please name some popular M/F Names )
Goan Traditional Mandos/Dulpods and use of Males/Females names: Can you name some popular names used? This is what I remember so far: ROZ or Roza Tamdde ROZA tuje pole Dukani bhortai moje dolle Papachem lisens asa zalear polle Kazar zaumcheak moje kodde. == SISILIA (Cecilia) SISIL-u mojem nanvum Cheddvam bhitor cheddum curioz hanvum Tum curioz-u zaleari.. == JIMMY JIMMY Jimmy moga kalliz rauta tuka Tumch mozo fuddaracho raza == LUCY Maim mak' saikol ghen di-ghe Bhovonk zai mum-ghe LUCY barobori Do you remember any? How about Jakin, Filu, Zuan, Ritin ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For info on Konkani VCDs (Films, Tiatr, Comedies and films on GOA...) http://konkani-vcd.swiki.net/1 ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[Goanet]Goa permanent venue for IFFI - Rane Govt
Looks like the present Congress Govt is pretty much in lock-step with the prior Goa govt of the BJP about IFFI and the MOPA airport! Yes, a few supposed "pre-conditions" by Mr. Rane. This would suggest, that about 80-90% of Goa's elected representatives are in favor of these projects. Where does that leave the opinions of most of the cyber-Goans? The tourists-businesses and the "silent working majority of native Goans" appear to have won the argument. My philosophical question: Why is there such a big disconnect between the Goans in cyber Goa and the native Goans about whom and whose "interest" native Goans write about. I am sure some will respond saying, "the elected representatives do not represent the interest of the native Goans," as some journalists (in the press and in cyber-Goa) have written. Well in that case the journalist should contest the election against these politicians and let the electorate / resident Goans decide whose policies and economics they would prefer. That's the way it is done in democracy and not through personal denigrating newspaper articles/editorials asking the politician "to step down." Defeat him/her in the polls!!! Perhaps now that Goa's two major political parties have spoken, the majority of cyber-Goans can work to make these even greater success stories instead we being our usual "naysayers". Kind Regards, GL Rane govt sets pre-condition on holding IFFI The Chief Minister, Mr Pratapsing Rane has set a pre-condition for the central government to declare Goa as permanent venue of the International Film Festival of India for giving state's consent to hold the 36th IFFI. The I&B ministry has already announced its IFFI schedule. "If the Union cabinet declares Goa as permanent IFFI venue, we will welcome holding the IFFI in Goa," Mr Rane remarked. The government would sign memorandum of understanding for holding 36th IFFI only if the central government declares Goa as permanent venue of the IFFI in the country. Mr Rane said this would help Goa in long way instead of co-hosting the IFFI for one or two years. Mr Rane said the I&B ministry has agreed to equally share expenditure on the 36th IFFI, but the government was of the opinion that it would be wasteful expenditure on the festival by co-hosting it for one or two years. Infrastructure created for the IFFI like multiplex, roads should be of permanent nature and not for one or two years, and in view of this the government has set the pre-condition to give its consent, Mr Rane stated. However, Mr Rane said he was extremely happy over the Planning Commission allocating additional funds for Goa and that these funds were sufficient to clear pending IFFI bills. A bill of three hotels running into around Rs 1 crore is pending, he informed and added that the government has to settle contractors' bills, which run into crores of rupees, Mr Rane informed. Asked whether the government proposed to set up an inquiry commission to look into the expenditure on IFFI-related projects, Mr Rane said the government would soon decide the course of action to be initiated into the IFFI-expenditure. He stated engineering audit over the Kala Academy is in progress, and that all other 11 contractors involved in IFFI-related projects would be disengaged. The Chief Minister revealed that the Entertainment Society, Goa, the body created to co-host the IFFI, would continue to exist. He said the government would soon re-constitute the ESG. On the Mopa airport, Mr Rane informed that the 800 sq. km land is being acquired at the Mopa plateau in Pernem taluka and technical feasibility report has been prepared by the Airport de Paris. He said the government would invite bids from reputed firms for the proposed international airport by December. Mr Rane said the airport would be built with public-private participation and would be given on BOOT basis. Though he said the estimates are yet to be prepared, the estimated cost on the construction would be around Rs 1000 crore.
[Goanet]Goanet Reader: Remembering Anthony Gonsalves: Goa's rich musical past
Remembering Anthony Gonsalves: Goa's rich musical past BY NARESH FERNANDES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Midway through Manmohan Desai’s classic 1977 film about three brothers separated at birth, a man in a top hat and a Saturday Night Fever suit leaps out of a giant Easter egg to inform the assemblage, "My name is Anthony Gonsalves." The significance of the announcement was lost under the impact of Amitabh Bachchan’s sartorial exuberance. But decades later, the memory of that moment still sends shivers down the spines of scores of ageing men scattered across Bombay and Goa. By invoking the name of his violin teacher in that tune in 'Amar Akbar Anthony', the composer Pyarelal had finally validated the lives of scores of Goan Catholic musicians whose working years had been illuminated by the flicker of images dancing across white screens in airless sound studios, even as acknowledgement of their talent whizzed by in the flash of small-type credit titles. The arc of their stories -– determined by the intersection of passion and pragmatism, of empire and exigency -– originated in church-run schools in Portuguese Goa and darted through royal courts in Rajasthan, jazz clubs in Calcutta and army cantonments in Murree. Those lines eventually converged on Bombay’s film studios, where the Goan Catholic arrangers worked with Hindu music composers and Muslim lyricists in an era of intense creativity that would soon come to be recognised as the golden age of Hindi film song. The Nehruvian dream could not have found a more appropriate harmonic expression. A few months back, a friend called to tell me about a new character he’d discovered in a story published by Delhi-based Raj Comics: Anthony Gonsalves. On the page (and accessible only if you read Hindi), Anthony Gonsalves is part of the great Undead, the tribe doomed to live between the worlds. It wasn’t always like this. In his prime, Anthony Gonsalves was a mild-mannered guitar player who had devised a magical new sound known as ‘crownmusic’. But his jealous rivals tortured him to death so that they could steal his work. Now the magnificently muscled superhero emerges from the grave each night to prevent the desperate from committing suicide and to rid the world of evil, informed of imminent misfortune by his pet crow. Repeated calls to Raj Comics failed to disgorge the phone number of Tarunkumar Wahi, the creator of the series, so I was unable to establish how the comic-book character had come to get his name. But I couldn’t help thinking how the predicament of the leotard-clad figure was not unlike that of the real Anthony Gonsalves, whose home in the sleepy Goan village of Majorda I had visited only weeks earlier: both had attempted to connect disparate worlds and both had been left with the gnawing dissatisfaction of a mission unfinished. Thirty years after he quit the film industry in 1965 to avail of a travelling grant from Syracuse University in upstate New York, Anthony Gonsalves continues to arouse the curiosity of his contemporaries. He departed at the height of his popularity and, even after he returned from America a decade later, never swung his baton again. In fact, he scarcely bothered to let his former colleagues know that he was back. As I met with musicians in Bombay and Goa in an attempt to piece together a portrait of their lives and work in the studios, many of them insisted that he was still in America -– if indeed he was still alive. The 77-year-old maestro offered no explanations for his seclusion. His speech was slow and his thoughts sometimes incoherent, as if confirming rumours that he’d suffered a nervous breakdown in America when he realised that he wouldn’t be able to make a living as a composer in a country whose music colleges turn out thousands of aspiring composers every year. But in moments of clarity (which formed most of the three hours we chatted), Gonsalves pulled out photographs and yellowing newspaper clippings to take me back to the time in the mid-1960s when he’d attempted to merge the symphonies of his Goan heritage with the Hindustani melodies and rhythms he had come to discover in the film studios. In this, Gonsalves’ ambition outstripped that of his contemporaries. Goan musicians had been sought after by film composers since the ’40s, when AB Albuquerque and Peter Dorado teamed up with a Sikh saxophone player named Ram Singh to form the ARP Party -– an acronym that in those uneasy years also stood for Air Raid Police. The source of their appeal lay across a yawning musical chasm: while Indian classical music has a melodic basis, Western classical music -– in which Goans had been rigorously trai
[Goanet]Goanet Reader: Remembering Anthony Gonsalves: Goa's rich musical past
Remembering Anthony Gonsalves: Goa's rich musical past BY NARESH FERNANDES Midway through Manmohan Desai’s classic 1977 film about three brothers separated at birth, a man in a top hat and a Saturday Night Fever suit leaps out of a giant Easter egg to inform the assemblage, "My name is Anthony Gonsalves." The significance of the announcement was lost under the impact of Amitabh Bachchan’s sartorial exuberance. But decades later, the memory of that moment still sends shivers down the spines of scores of ageing men scattered across Bombay and Goa. By invoking the name of his violin teacher in that tune in 'Amar Akbar Anthony', the composer Pyarelal had finally validated the lives of scores of Goan Catholic musicians whose working years had been illuminated by the flicker of images dancing across white screens in airless sound studios, even as acknowledgement of their talent whizzed by in the flash of small-type credit titles. The arc of their stories -– determined by the intersection of passion and pragmatism, of empire and exigency -– originated in church-run schools in Portuguese Goa and darted through royal courts in Rajasthan, jazz clubs in Calcutta and army cantonments in Murree. Those lines eventually converged on Bombay’s film studios, where the Goan Catholic arrangers worked with Hindu music composers and Muslim lyricists in an era of intense creativity that would soon come to be recognised as the golden age of Hindi film song. The Nehruvian dream could not have found a more appropriate harmonic expression. A few months back, a friend called to tell me about a new character he’d discovered in a story published by Delhi-based Raj Comics: Anthony Gonsalves. On the page (and accessible only if you read Hindi), Anthony Gonsalves is part of the great Undead, the tribe doomed to live between the worlds. It wasn’t always like this. In his prime, Anthony Gonsalves was a mild-mannered guitar player who had devised a magical new sound known as ‘crownmusic’. But his jealous rivals tortured him to death so that they could steal his work. Now the magnificently muscled superhero emerges from the grave each night to prevent the desperate from committing suicide and to rid the world of evil, informed of imminent misfortune by his pet crow. Repeated calls to Raj Comics failed to disgorge the phone number of Tarunkumar Wahi, the creator of the series, so I was unable to establish how the comic-book character had come to get his name. But I couldn’t help thinking how the predicament of the leotard-clad figure was not unlike that of the real Anthony Gonsalves, whose home in the sleepy Goan village of Majorda I had visited only weeks earlier: both had attempted to connect disparate worlds and both had been left with the gnawing dissatisfaction of a mission unfinished. Thirty years after he quit the film industry in 1965 to avail of a travelling grant from Syracuse University in upstate New York, Anthony Gonsalves continues to arouse the curiosity of his contemporaries. He departed at the height of his popularity and, even after he returned from America a decade later, never swung his baton again. In fact, he scarcely bothered to let his former colleagues know that he was back. As I met with musicians in Bombay and Goa in an attempt to piece together a portrait of their lives and work in the studios, many of them insisted that he was still in America -– if indeed he was still alive. The 77-year-old maestro offered no explanations for his seclusion. His speech was slow and his thoughts sometimes incoherent, as if confirming rumours that he’d suffered a nervous breakdown in America when he realised that he wouldn’t be able to make a living as a composer in a country whose music colleges turn out thousands of aspiring composers every year. But in moments of clarity (which formed most of the three hours we chatted), Gonsalves pulled out photographs and yellowing newspaper clippings to take me back to the time in the mid-1960s when he’d attempted to merge the symphonies of his Goan heritage with the Hindustani melodies and rhythms he had come to discover in the film studios. In this, Gonsalves’ ambition outstripped that of his contemporaries. Goan musicians had been sought after by film composers since the ’40s, when AB Albuquerque and Peter Dorado teamed up with a Sikh saxophone player named Ram Singh to form the ARP Party -– an acronym that in those uneasy years also stood for Air Raid Police. The source of their appeal lay across a yawning musical chasm: while Indian classical music has a melodic basis, Western classical music -– in which Goans had been rigorously trained in parish scho
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[Goanet]Paedophile Freddy Peats Australian accomplice Werner Wulf Ingo in Goa
-- Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660 Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/ -- -- Freddy Peats' accomplice in CBI custody -- Werner Wulf Ingo, an accomplice of notorious paedophile Freddy Peats, was today taken into custody by the special team of Central Bureau of Investigation from New Delhi following his extradition to India by the Australian authorities. Ingo, who hails from Australia, was arrested by the Australian police following an alert sounded by India after he was indicted in the case. The extradition treaty between two nation facilitated extradition of 54-year-old Australian national to India. The special CBI team was also assisted by the local CBI officials and a strong posse of the police was posted at the airport to prevent any untoward incident as the paedophile, who had evaded Indian law enforcing machinery for a long time, was brought by a plane. Later in the day, the CBI sleuths produced Ingo before a court in South Goa and was remanded to 15 days judicial custody by the judge. - The Navhind Times 6/08/05 page 1 - === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 2252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.goadesc.org -- Working On Issues Of Development & Democracy === -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.1/64 - Release Date: 8/4/2005
