[Goanet-News] Celebrating the Africander Goan ... in text and pics (FN)
Celebrating the Africander Goan ... in text and pics Reviewed by Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org The Africander -- as the Africa-settled Goan was known in our parts of Goa for much of the 20th century -- remains a little-understood animal. He (often she) was greeted with a mix of envy, incomprehension, disdain and bewilderment. Waves of Africander Goans returned back to Goa in the late 1960s and 1970s, only to see their children migrate to places like Australia or Canada in the 1980s and 1990s. For some reason, this vibrant, economically-important, well-educated and high-achieving community was inadequately studied in the past. There are nonetheless some writings available, even if hard to find. Dr Teresa Albuquerque's history of the Goans of Kenya; Peter Nazareth's and Braz Menezes' charming novels set amidst the expat Goan community and in Kenya and Goa; Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes' studies on Goan migration; retired schoolteacher's Blanche D'Souza 'Harnessing the Trade Winds'; a booklet published after the assassination of Pio Gama Pinto; the badly overlooked fiction of Violet Lannoy Dias, among others, all give an insight into the Goan world in Africa. Just out is Selma Carvalho's second book, and is entirely devoted to the Africa Goans of the yesteryears. She pieces together the story by conducting oral interviews, scouring through old newspapers in the libraries, and blending this together with her colourful twist of phrase. Elsewhere, Carvalho has explained the choice of the two dates that serve as her start- and end-point (1865 and 1976). These mark the date of the arrival of C.R. de Souza in Zanzibar and the last expulsion of Goans -- from Malawi -- respectively. Her book starts with Goa, very briefly setting the context for out-migration from here, and ends in the UK, where many of the ex-Africanders have since settled. On Page 2, Caetano do Rosario de Souza has arrived in Zanzibar, and its 1865. We learn of early Goan businessmen -- L.M. de Souza, M.R. de Souza, Souza Junior Dias, and others -- and Goan-run bars. By the late 1890s, we hear of the Sultan of Zanzibar's Goanese band. Quickly we run into the medical doctors; the key role of Goan doctors in Africa, products of one of the earliest medical schools in Asia, has already been commented on by scholars. Chapter 2 too has us in Zanzibar, but now between 1900 and 1920. The Goan photographer has reached a lot many parts of India and the world than we might suspect, and here too we encounter a Goan-run photography business. From fragments of memoirs, you can guess the role played by the African tailor. Some years down the line, we might dismiss as an urban myth the fact that a Goan tailor called Caetano Milagres (CM) Gomes created or adapted the Gomesi/Busuuti, the de facto national dress of women in Uganda! This was acknowledged a couple of years ago by the Uganda Monitor newspaper. Others took on roles in watch, clock and typewriter repairs (p.17) or ran hotels like D.B. Pereira's 32-bed Hotel Kitaruni. These Goans were followed by others who served as postmasters, clerks, newspaper managers and in other lines. In passing, we're told of the Goan Manuel de Souza of Arusha who eventually discovered Tanzanite. If you're reading hurriedly, you might miss out on the fact that Tanzanite is used as a gemstone, and naturally-formed Tanzanite is extremely rare. For more on this, and de Souza's role, check the Wikipedia for this gemstone. Carvalho takes us then to Mombasa (1895-1910), Nairobi (1899-1910), the White Highlands (1900-1925), the Goan Institute (1904-1920, across two chapters), Uganda (1900-1935), the civil service, religious life, the Dr Ribeiro Goan School (1915-1931), the Goan community, the Idi Amin-ordered Expulsion from Uganda (1972), the Goan expulsion from Malawi in 1976, till an epilogue that ends the story in Britain where many Africander Goans are now based. The strong point of this book is the amount of details it contains. Carvalho, being based in the UK, which probably has a better archive of colonial African newspapers than Africa does itself, has a headstart here. On the other hand, a strength can also become a weakness. The detail is so much, that one tends to loose sight of the forest for the trees. At times, one also gets the feeling that the 'facts' are arranged in a manner that support a thesis. For instance, the point about a new relationship being negotiated between the sexes in Goa even before the Codigo Civil of 1867 made gender equality a constitutional right had one quite lost. Bringing in Western music and the mando into this picture is even more confusion. So, what was it that brought a greater degree of equality among the genders (at that
[Goanet] Article: Goa-born designers promote 'kashti' saree in Bollywood
Madonna and other pop stars make a living while parading around their
underwear, so why not? In all depictions of the crucifixion, front and
centre of every Catholic Church, the Lord is depicted in his underwear.
So again, why not?
Goa-born designers promote 'kashti' saree in Bollywood
http://www.goanews.com/news_disp.php?newsid=4265
PTI, PANAJI | 14 September 2013 18:37 IST
Goa-born designer sisters Riddhi and Siddhi Mapxencar are happy with
their styling of actress Ileana D'Cruz in the forthcoming Bollywood
movie 'Phata Poster Nikla Hero'.
The designers have depicted Ileana as a Marathi 'mulgi' (a typical
Marathi girl) in a dance sequence where she wears a 'kashti' saree.
We were given a brief about the whole song. Ileana was to be depicted
as a Marathi mulgi in a kashti saree (a traditional Marathi style of
saree).
It was a dance sequence number so we had to pre-stitch the drape and
give it a whole feel of the real draped kashti, Riddhi said.
Siddhi said the colour of ensemble had to be bright and vibrant keeping
in mind mood of the song. Also, there were rigorous dance movements
which had to be performed by Ileana so pre-stitched kashti saree was a
perfect choice.
The designer duo has styled some of the top names in the Hindi film
industry including Katrina Kaif ('Ek Tha Tiger'), Sonam Kapoor ('Thank
You' and 'Players') and Akshay Kumar ('Oh My God').
Riddhi said they managed to execute the assignment for 'Phata Poster...'
in a day's time. Film work is usually done on short time bounds. It was
work of a few days though we managed it skillfully in a day's time.
Asked to compare between fashion and dress designing for films, Siddhi
said, ramp is mostly theme-based and we have control over style, ideas
and colour.
Film scripts and looks are predetermined, so we have to imbibe the
requirements smartly and at the same time maintain our touch.
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Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Stanislaus Cool (Tony Noronha)
Wonderfully remembered Tony Noronha. Alexandra Terrace was still one of the centers of Goan and Anglo-Indian Byculla years after the time you talk about. I remember Julio Ribeiro standing smartly below the building talking to admiring Goan friends in his crisp Deputy Commissioners Police uniform. He's probably six four or five but to us teens he looked in his police boots about seven feet tall. How we have evolved. Imagine young boys died of unhygienic food and water in the boarding house of St. Stanislaus and the parents quietly mastered their grief. Today thank God such an event will not pass like it did. Bandra had started developing from the times you remembered it, but even in my time which was many years later than yours, it was still half a village. Chuim, Ranvar and Shirley-Rajan, still hamlets in a suburb of a big city. Today, no more than five percent of all Bandra has those quaint bungalows belonging to the D'Mellos and the Pereiras most of whom occupy a flat or two in modern concrete monstrosities. Film star bungalows that will easily fetch 100 million dollars or more, exist side by side with two bedroom flats in highrises each of which is worth 4 to 5 million dollars, abutting hutments that have no running water or sewage systems. In Bandra, like the rest of Bombay the most conspicuous have always consisted of the very rich and the very poor. The middle class although sizeable just blends in, putting their shoulders to the plough, totally without a voice. The politicians only listen to the rich or the poor. Shabaash again Tony Noronha. Roland. Toronto. On 2014-07-05 12:22 PM, Goanet Reader goanetrea...@gmail.com wrote: Stanislaus Cool Tony Noronha When I first arrived in Bombay in 1937, it appeared too vast to my nine-year-old head. I had never been in a city that was well-lit and abuzz till 8.30 pm. I was brought to the city by our Goan vicar, Fr Jose Remedios, after two years of kindergarten at the Fatima Convent in Grande Daman. But it was really my mother, a nanny to some British and American children in Bombay, who had set the tempo for my life when she'd got me admitted me to St Stanislaus School in Bandra. I arrived in school on April 30, 1937, at the start of summer vacations. There were only about 50 of us left in the boarding; the rest of the 600 boarders had gone home. The very next day, I set out on my first holiday on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway to the Jesuit house in Lonavala. We climbed hills, and marveled at canals that supplied water to Bombay below. A month later, we were back in school and plunged into a schedule packed with prayer, class-work, study time, recess, meals, hockey, football, cricket and non-stop disciplining from 6 am to 9 pm. Brother Benovent, a Spanish seminarian, whipped us if we broke rules or dodged our books. But our mischief always found a channel, especially in coining nicknames. In a bungalow at the southern tip of the school, lived kanya (squint) with his two pretty daughters, pets and fowls. Our senior boarding prefects, Armando Menezes and Joaquim, were dubbed as Romeo and Juliet, and our principal and Chemistry teacher -- the short and round-faced Fr Ribot -- was nicknamed Cobalt for the undue stress he laid on the word. Our choir master was the ancient looking Fr Irach. I enjoyed being lead soprano with Joe Verhoven, an Anglo-Indian boy, but hated having to stay back for Christmas or Easter midnight Mass while the other boys were holidaying at home. On Sunday mornings we swam in the school pool, and in the evenings strolled around Juhu Beach, Pali Hill, Land's End, Santa Cruz and Khar. These places had acres upon acres of greenery and only a few houses. It was a bit like revisiting Goa. Then came the war that changed our lives. We were forbidden from reading the newspaper, yet names like Hitler and Churchill kept cropping up in conversations. Vegetables had gone missing from the plate and meat was served on-the-bone in curries. Ten of us third-class boarders had it even harder; we could eat only after polishing spoons and serving the rest of the children in the refectory. But since my mother was a widow, I received a 50 percent concession in fee. I paid five-rupees -- half the Bombay-Goa train fare at the time. Our boarding cooks, in a hurry to feed 600 hungry boys, dumped sacks of grain directly into cooking vats wheeled around in trolleys, making roach wings and rat excreta regular accompaniments with our meal. Sooner than later, we paid the price. In February and March 1944, Bombay was hit by a typhoid epidemic. About 200 of us boarders were down with a fever. Dr Silveira, who normally attended to us, said it was malaria. It was only after 20 of us -- mostly Goan boys preparing for the eighth standard or
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[Goanet] Goa news for July 6, 2014
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Bikinis to blame for sex crimes on Goa's beaches, says minister - The Guardian lanning/travel-news/minister-calls-for-bikini-ban-at-goa-beaches-20140703-3b9hy.htmlMinister calls for bikini ban at Goa beaches http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNHd3Q2X0HHUCKfZyXUocyJPefs-cgclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778547690433ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/02/bikinis-blame-sex-crimes-goa-beaches-minister *** Goa Governor, Questioned By the CBI in AugustaWestland Chopper Deal, May ... - NDTV tates/goa-governor-wanchoo-resigns/article6177847.eceGoa Governor Wanchoo resigns http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNFB0mHgw6BMP4isUgJ5muBYZVeVZQclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778549136609ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/goa-governor-questioned-by-the-cbi-in-augustawestland-chopper-deal-may-resign-552903 *** Relief for former Goa CM, son in corruption case - The Hindu ane-booked-former-goa-cm-goa-police-bribery-charge--18721.htmlFormer Goa CM Pratapsingh Rane booked by Goa Police over bribery charges http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNGkdZbwu4w8A_gY4_9qHHjt6Dzfwwclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778550023164ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/relief-for-former-goa-cm-son-in-corruption-case/article6180718.ece *** Wear a Loin Cloth if You Oppose Western Attire: Designer Wendell Rodricks ... - NDTV kirts and bikinis in order to protect Goan culture refuses to die down, with designer Wendell Rodricks asking him to to wear a loin cloth to work, skip chillies, tomatoes ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNHlab7LE7Z1e3gYClxhnOYn4jljMQclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778549066872ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/wear-a-loin-cloth-if-you-oppose-western-attire-designer-wendell-rodricks-open-letter-to-goa-minister-553092 *** VVIP helicopter deal: CBI records statement of Goa Governor BV Wanchoo - Economic Times onomic TimesNEW DELHI: Carrying on with its probe into allegations of over Rs 360 crore bribe paid in the purchase of VVIP helicopters, the CBI today recorded statement of Goa Governor B V Wanchoo as a witness. His questioning comes a week after former West ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNFWoocn8DcshLJiKaQSYfteiQLYAAclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/vvip-helicopter-deal-cbi-records-statement-of-goa-governor-b-v-wanchoo/articleshow/37766383.cms *** Congress to present mini-skirt to Goa minister - Indian Express kirt to Goa's Public Works Department Minister Sudin Dhavalikar, who wants a ban on girls from wearing short skirts to nightclubs, as, he says, they are a threat to the Goan culture. The Congress would formally send ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNHzjx5K3X4t54Ihmz6e2SRFI_CcOQclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/congress-to-present-mini-skirt-to-goa-minister/ *** Air Asia no longer cheapest option for Goa-Bangalore route - Times of India aking aviation industry with its astonishingly low promo ticket fares, Indo-Malaysian budget carrier Air Asia no longer appears to be the cheapest way to fly the Goa-Bangalore ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNGRPlXzmuN8g7Z9hcG_Pd1baIp1Nwclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778550030207ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Air-Asia-no-longer-cheapest-option-for-Goa-Bangalore-route/articleshow/37824275.cms *** Ten children taken unwell in Goa school - Daijiworld.com Mauthuser=0ned=us http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNFIzpzIlqwuxTZ-_ZYzBlg6u9g1iAclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=246337 *** Goa governor BV Wanchoo resigns - Hindustan Times ear-old Wanchoo sent his resignation after he received a call from Union Home ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNF6F4FAXTRN1-dti3pkSS8TZfJ1VAclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331ei=fIq4U_TQO9HzggeDi4HAAwurl=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/indiatemplate/goa-governor-bv-wanchoo-resigns/article1-1236817.aspx *** Goa to host Durand Cup for first time - Zee News ovember, the first time the prestigious football tournament is being organised outside Delhi, where it was shifted over seven decades ago. A dozen teams will clash in the main ...a class=
[Goanet] FRATERNITY of FOOLS SAVES GOAN COPTEL
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Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Down Memory Lane: Snakes, in Goa...
Thanks for this very valuable information Joaquim Vaz On Saturday, 5 July 2014 2:49 AM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoron...@gmail.com wrote: Don't miss this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTRx9AXJbgg and this is 2004! https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@goanet.org/msg09503.html ...and btw, Goanet is completing 20 years this year! [Goanet]If ever you encounter a snake in Goa... go for a phone https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=goa...@goanet.orgq=subject:%22%5BGoanet%5DIf+ever+you+encounter+a+snake+in+Goa...+go+for+a+phone%22 Frederick Noronha (FN) https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=goa...@goanet.orgq=from:%22Frederick+Noronha+%28FN%29%22 Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:00:10 -0800 https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=goa...@goanet.orgq=date:20040224 See this listing. FN On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Alvares wrote: hi fred i am sending this list ... it is the best compilation of snake catcher phone numbers you'll get, fully updated! it has got the areas mentioned also so that people in margoa don't waste their time calling people in porvorim! if you can't then load it up on goanet and spread it around forest dept campal 2228772 amol naik 2605672 9822158715 (savorda sanguem cancon cuncolim molem) venkatesh sansgiri 2550922 9822150355 margoa philip fernandes 2787300 9422062503 margoa oldrin pereira 9850450120 aldona sharad chari 2293193 Aldona prasad kassikar 2459322 bambolim girish kelakar 2343826 (res) 2314435(off) ponda neil alvares 2402957 3116183 9822158688 nerul sainath shirodkar mapusa (forest dept) 2265772 nitin savant 9822486098 2414278 porvorim aaron lobo 2412265 9822135019 porvorim amrut singh 2363803 9422062503 bicholim rama bagi 2382163 valpoi vivek parodkar 2369224 sankelem keri nirmal kulkarni 3107079 keri surla sunil korajkar, 2253715 9822123042 mapusa aaron fernandes 9822176756 mapusa rahul alvares 2278740 parra( calangute, mapusa porvorim) best wishes Rahul -- --- February 2004 | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Goa India 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | Email fred at bytesforall.org 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | Writing with a difference 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | ... on what makes *the* difference 29 | http://www.bytesforall.org --- ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## -- FN P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 http://goa1556.in
[Goanet] Travel advice to UK nationals travelling to Goa and other parts of the world
Hi readers To remind everyone, the UK government has a website to offer advice to their nationals before they leave the UK and travel to different parts of the world. One item they advise on is Safety and Security and the link for India is: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/india/safety-and-security For ease of reference, given below is what it says about Goa. Quote If you’re staying in a hotel on the smaller roads in the Candolim-Calangute belt, take particular care when walking to or from the main road. There have been reports of bag-snatchings on these roads since the beginning of 2012. The thieves are usually on motorbikes, with headlights on full-beam to blind their victims. Throughout Goa there have been reports of drinks being spiked and travellers, including British nationals, subsequently being robbed, sexually assaulted or dying. In 2012, 29 British nationals died in Goa. Some of these deaths were attributed to drug/alcohol abuse. There has been a series of high-profile incidents in Goa of alleged rape against foreign nationals, including Britons. Avoid beaches after dark. There is a risk of being attacked by packs of stray dogs, robbed or sexually assaulted. Female travellers should observe and respect local dress and customs. Unquote At the moment, Goa is an internatonal and domestic tourist destination but if the cases of robbery, sexual assaults and rape continues to rise dramatically, I hope we do not become like Mombasa in Kenya. Mombasa was once an international tourist destination enjoyed by many but those of us living in the UK will recall how not so long ago tour operators (based on British government advice) recalled all their customers at short notice to catch their flights back to the UK. Had they not followed this, their travel insurance would have be invalidated. Insurance companies should also look and recommend destinations specially medical tourism. In Goa, just like Spain and Greece, private doctors behave like car mechanics and before treatment demand to know how they are going to be paid and what insurance or credit card their patient has rather than putting their patient's needs first. The Government of Goa needs to do everything in its power to stem the growing menace of illiterate men and others who roam our beaches like stray dogs disrespecting the dignity of women. If not already done so, they need to bring in enforceable criminal laws to end this problem and make Goa safe again. The security and safety of all citizens and visitors, both men and women should be given the utmost importance not just by the Government of Goa but by everybody currently living in Goa. Unless this is done, this will not be an open letter to any minister, it will be an open and shut case on tourism and the revenue it generates. The average patriotic visitor coming home to Goa from the UK will need to spend a minimum of GBP 1,000 (near enough one lakh INR) per person for a two week holiday. This includes approximately GBP 390 in UK air taxes, the rest being on air fare, visa, accommodation, food, presents, etc. and the last thing they want after their daily grind to work is to be robbed in their homeland on vacation. Melvyn Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom 6 July 2014
[Goanet] More on snakes... some ten years later
Someone wrote to me: Catch snakes and do what with them ? Eat them ? I have plenty of snakes of all varieties in my neck of the woods, from Cobras, Russells Pit Viper, Pythons, Rat snakes etc. They don't bother me and I dont bother them. They are part of nature and have a role to fulfill. Why trouble the poor creatures. They slither out of the way and sometimes my dogs chase them away. But I have never had an encounter with them over the last 13 years, though I have thick jungle around me. Later in the evening, TS/MM (that is, Tarika and Suhail, Mario and Muriel) of AnotherGoa shared their very neat and updated list, and made it a point to clarify: FORWARDED MAIL BEGINS ::: Attached are 4 lists of snake rescuers (not catchers!) that many people have helped us compile over the years. They are not updated, but they are all we have at present. We have used them at awareness programmes on identifying, handling and rescuing snakes, conducted in schools, parishes, neighbourhood groups and other institutions all over Goa. Hope they still are of use. Might be best to wait for Rahul's updated list. Once again, we would like to acknowledge what these committed wild life conservationists have done for Goa, Nirmal Kulkarni included, who has also taught us so much. This is what we always acknowledged at the end of our handouts: Sources: Rahul Alvares (Creepy Times), Clinton Vaz (Wild Goa), Suneel Korajjkar (Green Cross). Many thanks to these path-breaking conservation teams for their committment to Goa's wild life environment. Want to save Goa, our environment and wildlife?...join END OF FORWARD ::: PS: Ten years ago, we could get away calling them snake catchers. Today that would be politically incorrect. -- July 2014 FULL MOON 12/07 NEW MOON 26/07 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr SaP +91-832-2409490 1234 5 M +91-9822122436 6789 10 11 12 W http://goa1556.in 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 T @fn on Twitter 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 R Saligao, Goa, India 27 28 29 30 31Stay in touch. I reply email.
[Goanet] About our health.
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[Goanet] Brasilia...another of FIFA's soccer venues.
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[Goanet] What happened to the plans to reopen the Mumbai-Goa passenger shipping service?
Hai, I was looking at pics of yesteryears, a.o. of the 'Konkan Shakti': http://goenchimathi.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/3488367084_b9d693af3e_o.jpg (I took on it, in 1974) Then I stumbled on this: http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Mumbai-Goa-liner-set-to-sail-again/articleshow/21131739.cms Service was to be started end of 2013 ... and then? Another GGD? (Grand Goa Dellusion ;-) Doewie, p+5D!
[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] Fifteen Sunday of the Year
06-Jul-2014 Dear Friend, Each and everyone of us looks forward to the weekly break and to a longer rest after a long stint of study or work. Holidays and breaks are something we anticipate especially when we are physically and mentally fatigued. However, we sometimes have the experience that we come back more tired rather than rested after a packed holiday! When we take a break do we also take a break from religion? Is God very much part of our break? Can we find rest and relaxation in the Lord? Have a restful relaxing weekend with Jesus! -Fr. Jude Sunday Ref: Fifteenth Sunday - 'Preparing the soil to receive God's word!' 13-Jul-2014 Readings: Isa. 55: 10-11; Rom.8: 18-33; Mt. 13: 1-23; The first reading from the Book of Isaiah reminds us that God cares for the earth by sending rain to make it fruitful. He cares for us by sending His saving word, which is intended to bear fruit in our lives. Isaiah reminds us that God's word is powerful and productive. God said: Let there be light and light was made! His word is as powerful today as it ever was! But the power of His words can be lost if we do not listen, if we do not pay attention to them, if we do not believe, if we do not love! A Chicago novelist, John Powers, wrote a book called 'The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God.' It's about a boy named Tim Conroy. Tim is in the process of growing up, and it's proving to be a tough job. One day Tim confided to a friend: I came from a family of practicing Catholics. But do you know something? The more I practice the worse it gets. All of us feel like Tim, at times. Maybe we aren't getting worse, but we aren't improving much either. Think of it this way. By the time we are 25, we have heard God's word read and explained about a thousand times. After all these times, why haven't we improved more than we have? The answer to this question may lie in the parable Jesus tells us in today's gospel. Maybe the problem is not in receiving God's word. The problem is in treasuring it and putting it into practice. Mark Link in 'Sunday Homilies' The Gospel reminds us that the Sower sowed seed four times, three of which did not meet with success but the fourth one more than made up, it gave abundant fruit. God does not tire of sowing the seed, and He keeps sowing it in different ways. God does not give up on us! His word comes to us through peoples, situations and events that speak to us in our hearts. The most important word is the word of love! I have loved you with an everlasting love. Some of us who are parents and teachers have perhaps seen the seeds we have sown bearing fruit in the lives of children committed to our care. In our own lives too we know that some seed was sown by our parents, friends and significant persons that have borne fruit. Let's keep on planting ... and let's hang on.. The seed will bear fruit! Today, words are cheap and often empty. We say so many things that we do not mean. Words have lost their power and so we don't believe people's words. We often doubt and question what we hear. We even doubt and question God's word! Jesus the Incarnate Word spoke with power and authority: Be thou healed and the blind and the lame were healed! Jesus said to Lazarus lying in the grave: Come forth! And Lazarus came back to life! His word is as powerful today as it ever was! I can have the best possible Radio or Television set but if it is not tuned in all the lovely music and interesting channels are lost or distorted. Am I tuned in on God? Words become more powerful when we know and love the person who utters them. We know the difference between reading a letter of a stranger and reading a letter of a friend, receiving a telephone call from an unknown person and getting a call from a dear friend. Know the Author? Met the Author? A young student picked up a costly book and started reading it. After reading a couple of pages she was bored and flung it on the shelf. Months later her mother saw her avidly reading the book for hours and days. What happened? How come the book is so interesting now? she asked. Mum, I met the author! her daughter replied. The more we believe in His Word the more we will experience its power. The word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty. Christo-therapy I am reminded of a priest who wrote a book on what he called Christo-therapy In that book he shared his own experience. He had lived an ordinary life and nothing special had happened to him. After some years in the ministry he was feeling depressed and fell sick. This depression carried on for some time and began to worry him. He went from doctor to doctor but to no avail. No remedy would cure him. Someone told him of an old Hindu doctor who lived in the vicinity of his parish, who they claimed was very good. The priest decided to try him and went to his clinic. The doctor examined him and listened to the story of his prolonged
[Goanet] Down Memory Lane - by Danielf F. De Souza
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Re: [Goanet] Travel advice to UK nationals travelling to Goa and other parts of the world
On Jul 6, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Melvyn Fernandes mel...@orange.net wrote: In Goa, just like Spain and Greece, private doctors behave like car mechanics and before treatment demand to know how they are going to be paid and what insurance or credit card their patient has rather than putting their patient's needs first. My dear Melvyn, Are you suggesting that private doctors in Goa should not be doing that? Or that it is, in some way, unethical to do that? Additionally, should private doctors expect to be compensated (reasonably) for their services? If so, how else do they ensure that they will be compensated ? jc
Re: [Goanet] SANJIT RODRIGUES HAS A LOT TO ANSWER
- Original Message - From: Aires Rodrigues airesrodrigu...@gmail.com To: goanet goa...@goanet.org Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 3:55 AM Subject: [Goanet] SANJIT RODRIGUES HAS A LOT TO ANSWER Every government officer is required under Rule 18(1) (ii) of the CSS (Conduct) Rules, 1964 to annually file a statement of all his immovable assets. They are also required to obtain prior sanction before acquiring any immovable assets. Sanjit Robert Rodrigues who is glued to the post of Managing Director of Goa State Infrastructure Corporation for a record over five years also holding additional charge as Commissioner of City of Panaji had on 15th March 2010 in a signed declaration stated that he did not own any immovable property. However in a statement on 19th June 2014 Sanjit Rodrigues has declared that he owns a 130 sq mt flat at Landscape House of Lords in Miramar besides two flats admeasuring 132.43sq mts and 95.44 sq mts respectively also at an exclusive complex Sapna Habitat in Porvorim. This has been all revealed in the information obtained from the Personnel Department at the Secretariat under the Right to Information Act. As per the documents in that statement dated 19th June 2014 Sanjit Rodrigues has given the present value of his 130 sq mt flat at Miramar as a mere 15 lakhs while he has given the value of his 132.43 flat at Porvorim as Rs 19,29,020 while that of his other flat at Porvorim admeasuring 95.44 sq mt as Rs 14,11,160. Sanjit Rodrigues has misled the government that the value of his three flats together is under 50 lakhs when the value today would be almost three crores if not more. Interestingly as per the other documents also obtained under RTI Act, by a declaration made on 27.09.2002 Sanjit Rodrigues sought government permission to purchase that 130 sq mt flat at Miramar at a cost of Rs 15 lakhs for which two lakhs he would pay from his personal savings, five lakhs by a loan from his mother and sister and the balance eights lakhs through a bank loan. Incidentally Sanjit Rodrigues was the Chief Officer of the then Panaji Municipal Council when he bought that flat at Landscape House of Lords in Miramar. On 20th May 2008 Sanjit Rodrigues further sought sanction to buy a 132.43 sq mt flat at Sapna Habitat at a cost of Rs 19,29,020 for which Rs six lakhs would be paid by way of a loan from his father and sister and Rs 3,29,020 from his personal savings while Rs 10 lakhs by a bank loan. On 4th November 2010 Sanjit Rodrigues again sought government permission to purchase a 95.44 sq mt flat also at Sapna Habitat in Porvorim at a cost of Rs 14, 11,160 to be paid by a loan of seven lakhs from his father and sister while the remaining amount was to be paid from his and wife’s personal savings. There needs to be a detailed vigilance probe into all these three transactions involving Sanjit Rodrigues as all the three flats have been grossly undervalued by him. Besides there needs to an inquiry into the trail of the money he says was by way of loan from his father, mother and sister. Is it all a cock and bull story? The very astute and smooth operator that he is Sanjit Rodrigues has ably been on the right side of every Chief Minister regardless of the party in power. Like a busy bee he has been able to pocket and occupy all plum honey loaded posts. Many officers in the Goa Administration are on fake or forged degrees but for Sanjit Rodrigues the only saving grace is that his B.Com degree and Catering diploma are both not adulterated. Sanjit Robert Rodrigues joined the Goa Civil Service as Junior Grade officer in March 1997. Prior to that from 1995 he was a Trainee Chef at the Taj Fort Aguada Beach Resort. So if you want to grow rich Bill Gates or the Ambanis may be no inspiration. Sanjit Rodrigues with all those spicy tricks may be the ideal person to prescribe you the right recipe to amass wealth. N. Suryanarayan who within a few years took voluntary retirement and Sanjit Rodrigues are not the only officers who have excelled in piling up assets. Such officers need to be ruthlessly flushed out of the administration. Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had vowed that it would be Zero tolerance to Corruption. Possibly what he really meant was Zero action against Corruption. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires
[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day.....
The Drifters - Come on Over to My Place ( 1965 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmRRBHNo4ZU g -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] Celebrating the Africander Goan ... in text and pics (FN)
Celebrating the Africander Goan ... in text and pics Reviewed by Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org The Africander -- as the Africa-settled Goan was known in our parts of Goa for much of the 20th century -- remains a little-understood animal. He (often she) was greeted with a mix of envy, incomprehension, disdain and bewilderment. Waves of Africander Goans returned back to Goa in the late 1960s and 1970s, only to see their children migrate to places like Australia or Canada in the 1980s and 1990s. For some reason, this vibrant, economically-important, well-educated and high-achieving community was inadequately studied in the past. There are nonetheless some writings available, even if hard to find. Dr Teresa Albuquerque's history of the Goans of Kenya; Peter Nazareth's and Braz Menezes' charming novels set amidst the expat Goan community and in Kenya and Goa; Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes' studies on Goan migration; retired schoolteacher's Blanche D'Souza 'Harnessing the Trade Winds'; a booklet published after the assassination of Pio Gama Pinto; the badly overlooked fiction of Violet Lannoy Dias, among others, all give an insight into the Goan world in Africa. Just out is Selma Carvalho's second book, and is entirely devoted to the Africa Goans of the yesteryears. She pieces together the story by conducting oral interviews, scouring through old newspapers in the libraries, and blending this together with her colourful twist of phrase. Elsewhere, Carvalho has explained the choice of the two dates that serve as her start- and end-point (1865 and 1976). These mark the date of the arrival of C.R. de Souza in Zanzibar and the last expulsion of Goans -- from Malawi -- respectively. Her book starts with Goa, very briefly setting the context for out-migration from here, and ends in the UK, where many of the ex-Africanders have since settled. On Page 2, Caetano do Rosario de Souza has arrived in Zanzibar, and its 1865. We learn of early Goan businessmen -- L.M. de Souza, M.R. de Souza, Souza Junior Dias, and others -- and Goan-run bars. By the late 1890s, we hear of the Sultan of Zanzibar's Goanese band. Quickly we run into the medical doctors; the key role of Goan doctors in Africa, products of one of the earliest medical schools in Asia, has already been commented on by scholars. Chapter 2 too has us in Zanzibar, but now between 1900 and 1920. The Goan photographer has reached a lot many parts of India and the world than we might suspect, and here too we encounter a Goan-run photography business. From fragments of memoirs, you can guess the role played by the African tailor. Some years down the line, we might dismiss as an urban myth the fact that a Goan tailor called Caetano Milagres (CM) Gomes created or adapted the Gomesi/Busuuti, the de facto national dress of women in Uganda! This was acknowledged a couple of years ago by the Uganda Monitor newspaper. Others took on roles in watch, clock and typewriter repairs (p.17) or ran hotels like D.B. Pereira's 32-bed Hotel Kitaruni. These Goans were followed by others who served as postmasters, clerks, newspaper managers and in other lines. In passing, we're told of the Goan Manuel de Souza of Arusha who eventually discovered Tanzanite. If you're reading hurriedly, you might miss out on the fact that Tanzanite is used as a gemstone, and naturally-formed Tanzanite is extremely rare. For more on this, and de Souza's role, check the Wikipedia for this gemstone. Carvalho takes us then to Mombasa (1895-1910), Nairobi (1899-1910), the White Highlands (1900-1925), the Goan Institute (1904-1920, across two chapters), Uganda (1900-1935), the civil service, religious life, the Dr Ribeiro Goan School (1915-1931), the Goan community, the Idi Amin-ordered Expulsion from Uganda (1972), the Goan expulsion from Malawi in 1976, till an epilogue that ends the story in Britain where many Africander Goans are now based. The strong point of this book is the amount of details it contains. Carvalho, being based in the UK, which probably has a better archive of colonial African newspapers than Africa does itself, has a headstart here. On the other hand, a strength can also become a weakness. The detail is so much, that one tends to loose sight of the forest for the trees. At times, one also gets the feeling that the 'facts' are arranged in a manner that support a thesis. For instance, the point about a new relationship being negotiated between the sexes in Goa even before the Codigo Civil of 1867 made gender equality a constitutional right had one quite lost. Bringing in Western music and the mando into this picture is even more confusion. So, what was it that brought a greater degree of equality among the genders (at that
[Goanet] Eng. Filipe Nery Rodrigues award
Eng.Filipe Nery Rodrigues award Instituted by friends,admirers and well-wishers of erstwhile longest serving M.L.A, Velim Concstituency, since 2006, under the auspices of People of Chinchinim Trust. This year`s awardees are; Ms Jasiel Fernandes, 2-Ms Muriel Jeswina Lacerda students of St. Mary of the Angels` High School Chinchinim 3- Master Megenzy Rebello. St Xavier`s High School, Velim; The prize amount of Rs 7000= for the first student at SSCE March 2014 of Assolna, Velim, Chinchinim (Mount, Mary`s, St Mary`s) is being shared for the first time with score of 84.5% each, Ever since its inception, St Mary`s have claimed it maximum number of times and Regina Martyrum, Assolna, Mount Mary`s and St Xaviers H.S. Velim bagged once each Nelson Lopes Chairman P.C.Trust Click here to Reply or For Click here to Reply or For
[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day.....
Hey there, this is all the way from Wimbledon, home of A.E.L.T.C. what a finale, the best man won...no connotations but this is just for you! Have played this before, just heard it on a T.V. Advert, I like this so here goes agin. K.D.Lang -Don`t let the stars get in your eyes ( Orvsha) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfjW9fLvd8w This is the one that swept Nairobi all those years ago, as featured in the Advert Perry Como - Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmkg_E2evbg g -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
Re: [Goanet] FRATERNITY of FOOLS SAVES GOAN COPTEL
'Fraternity of Fools' 'Fraternitas stulti in perpetuum' (Fraternity of Fools forever) Not the muttachem cop/coptel! (Not the cup of piss) The sycophant: Ek mahana vichar Saar. Ame badha bhartiyo che!!! Lets settle for the Konkani, Lembddo: (in Gujarati: A great idea Sir. We are all Indians now!!!) + + + + + + + + + Venantius J Pinto On 7/5/14, Alfred de Tavares alfredtava...@hotmail.com wrote: http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=16927boxid=165726125uid=dat=7/6/2014 -- + Venantius J Pinto
Re: [Goanet] What happened to the plans to reopen the Mumbai-Goa passenger shipping service?
In the past, a few operators like Damania did launch catamaran services, but they never really took off. It has never been a pleasant experience for passengers due to the heavy rolling and pitching effects of the sea, Braganza explained. vjp: If only each seat has a 3-way gyro! As always tangentially: The flights from NY to Mumbai are practically ambulances what with the number of wheelchairs awaiting arrival. Way to come. On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Patrice Riemens patr...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hai, I was looking at pics of yesteryears, a.o. of the 'Konkan Shakti': http://goenchimathi.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/3488367084_b9d693af3e_o.jpg (I took on it, in 1974) Then I stumbled on this: http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Mumbai-Goa-liner-set-to-sail-again/articleshow/21131739.cms Service was to be started end of 2013 ... and then? Another GGD? (Grand Goa Dellusion ;-) Doewie, p+5D! -- + Venantius J Pinto
[Goanet] Goa news for July 7, 2014
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Bikinis to blame for sex crimes on Goa's beaches, says minister - The Guardian HxZ2BB9_SgMgP http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNHd3Q2X0HHUCKfZyXUocyJPefs-cgclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778547690433ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/02/bikinis-blame-sex-crimes-goa-beaches-minister *** Goa ministers, MLAs go ahead with Brazil junket on tax payers' money - IBNLive HxZ2BB9_SgMgP http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNF2Hw9mZpzQuNT4562-V5dyU3JzjAclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778551429730ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/goa-ministers-mlas-go-ahead-with-brazil-junket-on-tax-payers-money/484138-3-253.html *** Goa's governor got 'quit order' from Centre - Times of India mes of IndiaPANAJI: Even as there has been a backlash and debate in Goa on Bharat Vir Wanchoo quitting as governor, it has been revealed now that Wanchoo was indeed asked to quit by the central government. Sources in the government told TOI that Wanchoo got a ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNGZUbM0wKz0CE4Hwez50OgLGyMc6gclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778551277873ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Goas-governor-got-quit-order-from-Centre/articleshow/37923077.cms *** Bharat Vir Wanchoo wants Goa to sort out waste woes - Times of India mes of IndiaPANAJI: Garbage imbroglio, crimes against women and a high rate of suicides in Goa are matters of concern for Goa's outgoing governor, B V Wanchoo. Speaking informally to mediapersons at the Raj Bhavan on Sunday, Wanchoo said, I wish the garbage ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNHDEQdHZpO_SLxJwm0AD9z2QotFeAclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Bharat-Vir-Wanchoo-wants-Goa-to-sort-out-waste-woes/articleshow/37921980.cms *** Goa will have a special place in my heart: Bharat Vir Wanchoo - Times of India mes of IndiaPANAJI: Goa will have a special place in my heart and I will always pray for the welfare and betterment of each and every citizen in this unique and beautiful state of our country, said outgoing governor Bharat Vir Wanchoo on Sunday, a day before he ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNGdvSZPGdchJU_W41NOB7gNWA0kWQclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778551548339ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/Goa-will-have-a-special-place-in-my-heart-Bharat-Vir-Wanchoo/articleshow/37921958.cms *** Stories from Goa in brief - Times of India mes of IndiaWorld Cup quiz: St Xavier's college of arts, science and commerce, Mapusa, is organizing a quiz competition on FIFA World Cup on July 16 from 10am in the college seminar hall. The registration will begin at 9am. The last date to send entries for the ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNGTPYnh4amQDNHExIr-FavWXIClYQclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Stories-from-Goa-in-brief/articleshow/37922892.cms *** Air Asia no longer cheapest option for Goa-Bangalore route - Times of India aking aviation industry with its astonishingly low promo ticket fares, Indo-Malaysian budget carrier Air Asia no longer appears to be the cheapest way to fly the Goa-Bangalore ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNGRPlXzmuN8g7Z9hcG_Pd1baIp1Nwclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331cid=52778550030207ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Air-Asia-no-longer-cheapest-option-for-Goa-Bangalore-route/articleshow/37824275.cms *** Would Goa have been better off as a Union territory? - Times of India mes of IndiaWith statehood the common man has lost but only the politicians have become crorepatis. As a Union territory, we were ably managed by a cabinet of four, today Goa is totally mismanaged by a jumbo cabinet of 12. Expenditure by government was monitored ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNGMCr5QVVc3RBX8TKyHHqrW42WHugclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Would-Goa-have-been-better-off-as-a-Union-territory/articleshow/37922081.cms *** National Assessment and Accreditation Council peer team to visit Goa ... - Times of India F1bOMauthuser=0ned=us http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rct2=ususg=AFQjCNFDLKEuoZpqZ6csziKOZDKfM32Aqgclid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331ei=_Nu5U-gHxZ2BB9_SgMgPurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/National-Assessment-and-Accreditation-Council-peer-team-to-visit-Goa-University-for-reaccreditation/articleshow/37922757.cms *** Relationship with Parrikar was fantastic, outgoing Goa governor says - Times of India oans and
[Goanet] A PEOPLE’S GOVERNOR DEPARTS
Today after having served Goa distinguishably as Governor for just over two years BV Wanchoo takes the flight out of Goa. The very shoddy manner in which the NDA government virtually evicted him out of office is outrageous. For a person of his caliber, integrity and competence BV Wanchoo did not deserve to be treated in such a demeaning manner. That BV Wanchoo was going to be gunned down was very clear from the body language of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 14th during his visit to Goa. At the airport while being greeted with a bouquet by Governor Wanchoo, the Prime Minister disrespectfully and very uncourteously looked the other way. It was in utter bad taste. With the change in guard at the centre the law did not require BV Wanchoo to resign and he could have continued as Governor for another three years. But he chose to spare himself of the mudslinging that the NDA leaders would have craftily unleashed to hound him by leaving him battered and bruised. In his usual devious style Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar tried to fakely project publicly that he had no problems with BV Wanchoo continuing as Governor but the State BJP was asked to fire salvos seeking the Governor’s resignation. And they did it with great fanfare by even suggesting that they knew it would have the desired effect due to the pre-planning. BV Wanchoo was extremely people friendly and though very knowledgeable was always ready to learn. A refined gentleman to the core. Always gave everyone a very patient and polite hearing with an open mind unlike many of his predecessors including Kidar Nath Sahani who was extremely intolerant to hear the other side of the ‘Kahani’. Goa will miss BV Wanchoo for the kind open hearted man that he was. Beginning with Nakul Sen having interacted with every Governor since 1972, without any shadow of doubt BV Wanchoo clearly outstands them all. Governor BV Wanchoo was very proactive and analyzed all matters brought before him indepthly from all angles. I had the occasion of meeting with him on a couple of occasions with various issues. Unlike most other Governors who just receive your representation and bid you off after a cup of tea, with BV Wanchoo there was always an open exchange of ideas and thoughts on the subject of the representation placed before him. A Governor is bound to be an appointee of a political dispensation. But when the incumbent dons the mantle as Governor, he should keep his preferences and prejudices behind and bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution. Something which Governor Wanchoo has maintained to the highest standards. If the Raj Bhavans have to be kept free from the political stink, having persons like BV Wanchoo who carry no political baggage was the way to go. Regardless of all the rhetoric we have heard over the last few weeks, this Government will not walk the talk but as expected has a string of ageing RSS pracaharaks lined up to move into the Raj Bhavans which will now be their saffonised retirement homes at tax payer’s expense. Bidding farewell to 63 year old BV Wanchoo while thanking him for upholding the Constitution of India while unfailingly discharging his role as Governor of Goa. Sir, just to let you know that you will be always remembered for the outspoken and warm person that you have been. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires
[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Monsoonscapes
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Monsoonscapes' Monsoon drama. These are scenes from an eventful monsoon morning in Goa in August 2012. The first two images were taken during the ferry crossing on River Mandovi, moments before the clouds unloaded their cargo. The rest happened on the island of Divar across the river. In the second photo, all the major [...] You may view the latest post at http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2014/07/06/monsoonscapes/ Best regards, Rajan Parrikar ra...@parrikar.com
