[Goanet] Fwd: Stanly Rozario conducts training at Sporting Clube de Goa
*Stanly Rozario conducts training at Sporting Clube de Goa* Former Indian national team assistant Coach Stanly Rozario conducted a full practice session with the Sporting Clube de Goa senior team to fulfil the final module of his assessment as part of the AFC Pro Licence Course, at Don Bosco ground, Panjim recently. Stanly is one of fourteen Coaches completing the AFC Pro Licence course, which started in July last year. It was conducted for the first time in India under national team Coach Wim Koervermans and AIFF Technical Director Rob Baan. Stanly who has Coached Indian giants such as East Bengal and Mohun Bagan in the past thoroughly enjoyed coaching the Flaming Oranje players. “It is always nice to be coaching a team at the top level. The players understood all the instructions communicated to them,” stated Stanly. They play a free flowing brand of football and a lot of this is attributed to their Coach Oscar,” added Stanly. The experienced Indian Coach made a special mention of the young stars in the side. “There is a competitive environment here at SCG. The youngsters know that if they want to be break into the side then they have to be patient and work hard at every practice session. This is exactly what I witnessed today,” reasoned Stanly. Sporting Goa Head Coach Oscar Bruzon congratulated Stanly on a job well done. “I was fully confident in handing over the reins to Stanly for the session as I knew the players would be in safe hands,” said Oscar. Recently, AIFF Academy Technical Director and Head of Coach Education Scott O’Donnell also conducted a training session for Sporting Goa. Sporting Clube de Goa President Peter Vaz wished the AFC Pro Licence candidates good luck. “On behalf of Sporting Clube de Goa I wish Scott, Stanly and all the other 12 participants who have taken part in the AFC Pro Licence all the best with the course which will be highly beneficial in taking Indian football forward, signed off Peter. PHOTO: Stanly Rozario watches the Sporting Clube de Goa team from the side lines. Stanly Rozario at a SCG training session at Don Bosco ground, Panjim Stanly Rozario in conversation with SCG Coach Oscar Bruzon -- CONNECT WITH US: www.sportingclubedegoa.com www.sportingclubedegoa.wordpress.com www.facebook.com/sportingclubedegoa.officialpage www.twitter.com/sportingoa
[Goanet] Fwd: TM Krishna at GALF 2014
The renowned Carnatic musician and author TM Krishna will attend Goa Arts + Literary Festival 2014 (December 4-7, goaartlitfest.com) A spectacular, iconic vocalist, TM Krishna draws huge audiences to every performance. "...for the seasoned listener he came in to the concert scene bringing back memories of the legends, and for the young he is a phenomenon who holds their interest with his passion and flamboyance" http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/a-southern-music/article5809926.ece This revolutionary young musician has now written one of the most significant and controversial books on Indian music ever, his 'A Southern Music: The Karnatic Story' is described by Amartya Sen as "one of the best books I've ever read". A Southern Music: The Karnatic Story was the subject of this superb (and also controversial) review essay in Caravan magazine by Samanth Subramaniam: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/books/modern-classical An excerpt: Krishna is always a magnetic performer. His voice is strong and sure, his diction is cleaver-sharp, and his energy is boundless. On stage, he does not request your attention, he demands it. During those three hours, Krishna was in particularly splendid fettle. In the years that followed, I often wondered if the concert imprinted itself upon me so deeply only because it was my first. Then I found a recording of it, played it back with some trepidation, and reassured myself of just how marvellous it was. Slowly and meditatively, Krishna sang a song in the raga Kedaram, and then another in Devagandhari, his voice bending to his every thought. He gave us an alapana—an improvisatory essay—of the raga Harikambhoji, so sweet and clean that it still defines the raga for me. Two or three times over the course of the concert, he let loose his trademark sallies of improvised swaras, individual notes that tumbled after each other in a torrent, as if some mighty dam had been breached. There was even a flare of his famed irascibility. Just as he began on the mangalam, the standard finale, some members in the audience rose to leave. This is, unfortunately, common practice in most concerts, but Krishna interrupted himself. “The mangalam will take 30 seconds,” he scolded in Tamil. “I don’t think anybody is in that much of a hurry to leave. Sit down! Thank you.” Everybody sat back down. I couldn’t have known it at the time, but I had caught Krishna, then 29, on the cusp of a great creative restlessness. His music over the next few years increasingly manifested this disquiet. For a while, in his alapanas, he took to testing the nimbleness of his voice, pushing it as far up as it could go, a full octave or more above his median range, and then pulling it equivalently below so that he was practically growling. He studied Subbarama Dikshitar’s Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini, published in 1904, a text of dense musicology that prescribes singing some ragas in a manner very different to how they are sung today. As a fascinating academic exercise, he released albums of songs and alapanas sung according to this text, and on occasion he even followed its strictures in live concerts. He dispensed with the practice of beginning his performances with the short, brisk composition called the varnam, but he did sometimes drop one into the middle of the concert. Singers had done this before, but memories are short, so a terrific kerfuffle ensued when, within the hallowed halls of the Madras Music Academy in December 2010, Krishna built his concert around an hour-long exploration of a grand varnam in the raga Bhairavi. Since then, Krishna has deconstructed the conventional concert structure even further. An alapana in Thodi, say, need not be followed by a song in Thodi, as has been the norm for decades. Instead, Krishna may render another alapana in Hamsadhwani, and then a song in Khamas. He may ask his percussionists to perform their solo in a tala—a beat cycle—utterly different from the one in which he is singing. His first piece might last half an hour; he may sing only five pieces in three hours, compared to the near-dozen in the regulation thin-at-the-edges, thick-in-the-middle concerts. He may, as he did a month ago, sing a lovely Yamuna Kalyani alapana, listen to his violinist’s responding alapana, and generously say: “I can’t follow that. You should just go ahead and play the song yourself.” In a TM Krishna concert today, a Bhairavi will still sound wondrous and disciplined and pure—“classical”, to use a term he despises—but most other bets are off. None of these departures from the norm have affected Krishna’s box-office appeal; I don’t think I’ve ever attended a performance of his where the auditorium has been anything less than three-quarters full. Nevertheless, within the staid circles of the Carnatic music world, Krishna has stirred plenty of consternation. The least charitable of his critics have scorned these “innovations”—the double-quotes theirs, not mine—as gimmicks employed
[Goanet] Ratna Vira's 'Daughter by Court Order' at GALF 2014
In partnership with Fingerprint Books, the Goa Arts + Literary Festival 2014 (goaartlitfest.com) will showcase Ratna Vira's acclaimed debut novel 'Daughter by Court Order', including a panel discussion and Q+A with the author. Daughter by Court Order (see http://www.daughterbycourtorder.com/) "deals with issues of the Hindu Succession Act, and the role of the 'joint family' or the 'Hindu Undivided Family" (http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/Debut-Novel-Brings-Up-Inheritance-Rights-of-Women/846628). See this Deccan Chronicle review: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140726/lifestyle-booksart/article/daughter-strikes-back-ratna-vira-literary-debut When Ratna Vira was working on her debut novel Daughter by Court Order, she already knew that she had something special, something powerful, a story that must be told. The story mattered enough for Ratna to leave her job and work full time on the book while it was nearing completion. Daughter of senior journalist Nalini Singh and S.P.N. Singh, Ratna explored the serious issues of discrimination against women, especially when it comes to property rights. Aranya, the protagonist of the book, is a single mom who faces one of the most menacing villains in none other than her own mother; a mother who denies the very existence of her daughter in court to deny her a share in the property. And thus begins Aranya’s fight to be recognised as a daughter, ‘a daughter by court order’. “I genuinely believe that we all have a book in ourselves that’s waiting to be written. And the time had come to write mine,” says the author. “I had been writing bits and pieces of it over the last six years but the idea of the plot, and how to weave all of it together into one coherent, seamless story happened over the last two and a half years.” So, what happened in that time that made her finally write the book? She answers, “I had begun to hear a lot of women talk about issues close to them. And I found that there was a common thread that ran through all the stories and experiences. Some were more intense, and some were less intense. But be it Aranya’s story, or Priyanka’s story or even my friend Anu Modi’s story; the fact still remains that India is a patriarchal society where the rules are different for daughters and for sons. And that’s where the idea stemmed from.” The book strikes a fine balance between the courtroom drama that ensues as Aranya fights for her rights as a daughter, and the family politics that goes on behind the scenes, and in the run up to the litigation. Ratna shares that she did not need a lot of homework as she was exposed to the good aspect of litigation process as her grandfather H.D. Shourie had done a lot of litigation work for his organisation called Common Cause. “Also, I had interned with Rani Jethmalani where I realised that the severe problems faced by women cut across economic strata and education background, and is applicable to every section of society. In a lower strata society, you put your hands on your hips and you shout and scream and you fix it. But in the upper sections of society, it’s violence by silence. And it need not be physical violence but it could be emotional violence, it could be suppression, or being denied the same choices, or ultimately, the right to property,” she says. Interestingly, Aranya’s mother, Kamini, comes across as pure evil. Ratna says that while it’s nothing new, it’s just something that is not widely talked about. She adds, “And I wanted to explore this aspect of violence within families and also, what women do to women. The boundaries are always set by them. The family you are born into, your mother tells you what to do; you get married, your mother-in-law tells you what to do. And then it’s a self-perpetuating cycle. This is a cycle that needs to be broken, which is something Aranya tries to do in the book.” While the book accommodates a lot of what Ratna wrote over the last six years, there’s a lot that’s left out. “See, I am a painter too; and just like you don’t put all the colours in one painting, you don’t put all the words in one book. I hope you’ll see some of it in my next book.” When asked what is her next book about, she says mysteriously, “I can’t tell you much about it but all I can say right now is that I’ll surprise you.”
[Goanet] The harp comes to Goa...
Maestro Enrico Euron and Anna-Gaelle Cuif in a Harp and Voice Duo Concert. Medieval and Renaissance Italian Arias. At: the Krishnadas Shama Goa State Library, Patto, Panjim 28 October 2014 at the Multipurpose Hall, 6 pm 29 October: Multipurpose Hall, 6 pm. Meeting with the artists. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/15641400445/ -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Latest from Goa,1556: http://goa1556.in/book/goa-in-sepia-tinted-postcards/
[Goanet] Strategy needed for Goa as ocean levels rise
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Strategy-needed-for-Goa-as-ocean-levels-rise/articleshow/44928364.cms The rains over, with tourists back in full force, the impact of the 2014 monsoon can finally be properly assessed on Goa's coastline. There is very little good news: severe erosion is reported from North to South, tides have surged inland into many residential areas on the coast, and several hundred coconut trees in beachfront plantations have been swept away by pounding waves that were undeterred by the protective measures that always worked in the past. Even before this monsoon's unprecedented hit to the Goa shoreline, it was already clear that more than 25km of the state's waterfront has been severely affected by erosion. In a written response to a question in the Rajya Sabha in July, the Union minister for science and technology and earth science, Jitendra Singh, confirmed that erosion in Goa has "accelerated" and now threatens a quarter of the coast. The high tide line has moved far inland from its traditional demarcation, and now CRZ notifications will have to be moved to suit. Worrying as last monsoon's impact is, Goa's population has to prepare for much more of the same. A massive analysis of historical sea levels worldwide presented this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the USA confirmed the planet's oceans "are experiencing greater sea rise than at any time over the last 6,000 years". The study's lead author, Kurt Lambeck of the Australian National University said, "What we see in the tide gauges, we don't see in the past record, so there's something going on today that wasn't going on before." The research showcased in PNAS involved more than 20 years of collecting ancient sediment samples from seabeds off the coasts of the UK, North America, Greenland and the Seychelles. The study spans an interglacial period—around 35,000 years—and shows that a great melting off from the last Ice Age started about 16,000 years ago, with its impact lasting 10,000 years. But then an unexpected stability in ocean levels reigned right up to the past 150 years, when industrialization by humans has triggered another historic melting. Now the oceans are rising again fast, at least 20cm since the start of the 20thcentury. That doesn't seem like much, but the result has already been huge demographic displacement around the world, with hundreds of millions of coastal dwellers seeking to move further inland, and the potential to destabilize entire continents. Low-lying nations like the Maldives now realize they will probably lose everything—the former president, Mohamed Nasheed says the odds of his grandchildren inheriting an inhabitable archipelago are at best "50-50". Other countries, like heavily-populated Bangladesh, will wind up spilling borders en masse. Lambeck warns "all the studies show that you can't just switch off this process. Sea levels will continue to rise for some centuries to come even if we keep carbon emissions at present-day levels. It's like if you leave a big block of ice on the table, it doesn't melt instantaneously, there's always a delay in the system". Since it is beyond dispute that Goa is being increasingly hammered by severe coastal erosion and powerful tides, and equally certain that this process will not abate for centuries to come, what are the options for tiny, coastal Goa? The first step has to be awareness and preparedness. It is true that climate change, global warming and rising ocean levels are completely off the table of everyday political discourse everywhere in the subcontinent (the Maldives and Bangladesh are exceptions for obvious reasons). But that is no solace at all for the villagers of Cola in Canacona or Canaguinim in Quepem where acres of land have been swallowed by the ocean this monsoon, or the remaining householders of Baina at Vasco who had to be forcibly evacuated while the rains were at their maximum. Far from providing leadership on this grave crisis stalking Goa, the state leadership (both public and private) prefers to pretend the problem does not exist. Costly, marginally-effective measures like tetrapods and sandbagging are thrown at the problem, while utterly devastating wholescale destruction of sand dunes and mangroves (which protect against erosion) are eagerly approved on the other. This government intends on building a giant oceanarium right on the beach at Caranzalem, nevermind that oceanariums are cruel, wasteful, and obsolete, and are being shut down everywhere else in the world. But let the oceans rise a bit more without Goa paying heed, and it is highly likely the whole of Caranzalem will become an open-air oceanarium. -- #2, Second Floor, Navelkar Trade Centre, Panjim, Goa Cellphone 9326140754 Office (0832) 242 0785
[Goanet] Query: Reliable computer sales around Miramar
Query -- would anyone know a retailer of computer hardware (including desktops) around the Miramar area? Competitive price and good service are the criteria here. Many thanks! FN -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Latest from Goa,1556: http://goa1556.in/book/goa-in-sepia-tinted-postcards/
[Goanet] non-profit media venture backed by Nilekani, Premji
note: Samar Halarnkar will attend GALF 2014 (Dec 4-7 goaartlitfest.com). if there is interest, a session on non-profit media and publishing could be scheduled. --- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Premji-Rohini-Nilekani-plan-media-venture-focused-on-social-issues/articleshow/44935612.cms Premji, Rohini Nilekani plan media venture focused on social issues Shilpa Phadnis,TNN | Oct 26, 2014, 04.00 AM IST Bangalore: Wipro chairman Azim Premji and philanthropist Rohini Nilekani plan to support a media venture focused on public policy and social issues. Nilekani confirmed the development to TOI but said it was still at an exploratory stage. "I'm interested in philanthropic support for public interest media. I think the country needs independent institutions that can report without fear or favour. Democracy and equity in society both need strong media watchdogs to speak truth to power, and also to engage people in understanding better the inter-connectedness of life," she said in a written response. Senior journalist Samar Halarnkar has reportedly been contacted to prepare a blueprint for the venture. Nilekani, wife of Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, emphasized the need for integrity and ethics in media that would shape public ideology. "I support institutions that may differ from myself in ideology. We need diversity, but we need integrity and ethicality in media space, which I define broadly to include think tanks that produce opinion and reports for circulation. I hope many philanthropists can come together to make some serious difference in this space in the future," she added. Nilekani has supported multiple social interest projects. One is Arghyam, which grants funds to organizations that implement and manage groundwater and sanitation projects in India. Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, said media was on their radar even as the foundation, which focuses on education, expands its scope of philanthropic work into areas like nutrition, public health, livelihood and water by way of making grants to not-for-profit organizations. "One area we're considering is media. Discussions are under way with professionals from varying fields to explore how new media ventures, including those in the digital sphere, can be supported, not just with funds but in a variety of other ways, to give a boost to media that puts public-interest reporting at the heart of their operations. These plans are currently at the exploratory phase," he said. Premji, the billionaire founder of IT services company Wipro, has been supporting the foundation with massive grants. The foundation works closely with governmental education systems in eight states to strengthen the quality of teaching and curriculum.
[Goanet] Shilpa Mayenkar Naik | An ant’s-eye view
A very big week for Goan art and culture, as the first-ever retrospective exhibition of Vasudeo Gaitonde's paintings opened in New York's Guggenheim Museum. See this excellent review/essayhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/the-light-in-the-cave-vas_b_6036602.html More quietly (as is her characteristic) the powerfully talented young Goan artist Shilpa Mayenkar Naik also achieved a career milestone: her first solo exhibition in a major gallery, Mumbai's Lakeeren. See my review from Mint Lounge below: - http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/nI7wzvr3vEmCA2iuQHyTxK/Shilpa-Mayenkar-Naik--An-antseye-view.html Shilpa Mayenkar Naik | An ant’s-eye view Ever since she graduated with a master’s in printmaking from The Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication in Hyderabad in 2003, Shilpa Mayenkar Naik, the deceptively shy and soft-spoken Goan artist, has consistently produced powerhouse drawings and paintings that have marked her as one of the most thoughtful, promising artists of her generation. ESCADA at Mumbai’s Lakeeren Art Gallery is Mayenkar Naik’s first major exhibition outside Goa, and her long-awaited breakthrough moment. Even while still in college in Hyderabad, and before that the Goa College of Art, Mayenkar Naik chose to see the world around her through a microscopic lens. She was obsessed with the tiniest details of flowers and insects, and always produced beautiful images of unsettling and slightly morbid subjects: dismembered moths, squashed lizards, roaches with human faces. All through she has remained focused on the tiny, the overlooked, the kind of subjects that usually remain underfoot and hidden from view. It’s probably not an accident that the same can be said about Mayenkar Naik herself, an introspective, quiet artist slipping unobtrusively through the turbulent, competitive and bombastic art world. Unlike other artists from Goa—like Subodh Kerkar and Viraj Naik—who have earned international reputations, with collectors lining up for their works, Mayenkar Naik continues to work serenely in near-isolation, in the beautiful house designed and built by her similarly talented artist husband Pradeep Naik, in his ancestral village of Mandrem on the north Goa coast. All this is new for Goa. Ever since the earliest days of the Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai, this tiny territory on the west coast, with its distinctive, centuries-old history of Portuguese colonialism, has produced some of India’s most significant artists: Antonio Xavier Trindade was the first faculty member of the JJ School, Angelo da Fonseca was a Santiniketan exemplar, Francis Newton Souza and Vasudeo Gaitonde were the front-runners of the most important development in the history of modern Indian art in 1947, the Progressive Artists Movement. But all of them had to leave Goa to pursue their fortunes. In his superb curatorial essay for the ground-breaking 2007 group exhibition, Aparanta—The Confluence Of Contemporary Art In Goa (in which Mayenkar Naik was included), Ranjit Hoskote wrote: “Goan art has long been an invisible river, one that has fed into the wider flow of Indian art but has not always been recognized as so doing” and “the glossy stereotype is a more effective blinder than the heated needle of the medieval executioner: the associations of sun, sex and carnival with Goa are so pervasive that even the better informed denizens of the Indian art world seem unaware of the vibrancy of the art scene in Goa.” Hoskote’s exhibition did change things a little. There was an appreciable uptick in national attention for the mercurially talented artists from Goa: genre-bending octogenarian Vamona Navelcar, powerful image-maker Theodore Mesquita, the political commentary of Loretti Pinto, the exquisite sensibility of Rajeshree Thakker, and the intensely warm-hearted evocations of history by Sonia Rodrigues Sabharwal. Just as Goa’s earlier generations of artists bonded via connections to Mumbai and the JJ School, Mayenkar Naik is part of another significant set of relationships to the Sarojini Naidu School in Hyderabad, from where a series of the brightest alumni of Goa College of Art have graduated with distinction. Following directly in the tracks of Viraj Naik—a gold medallist there—they are profoundly influenced by K. Laxma Goud’s approach to his rural environment and village roots. Mayenkar Naik and her husband Pradeep, Siddharth Gosavi, Santosh Morajkar and Chaitali Morajkar, Shripad Gurav, Kedar Dhondu and several others now constitute a formidable centre of gravity in Goa’s art scene, with every bit as much potential to affect Indian art as Gaitonde, Souza, Laxman Pai and their compatriots did in the 1940s. Though she is still only 32, Mayenkar Naik’s suite of artworks in ESCADA illustrates an eloquent and compelling world view: an ant’s sure-footed perspective of European colonialism in Goa and its aftermath. Ants are a great choice, a fascinatingly apt metaphor for humanity. Scientists estimate that th
Re: [Goanet] Query: Reliable computer sales around Miramar
Hi, You can try Asic Technologies Xa-1, Pelican Apartments, First Floor, Altinho Road, Panjim, (close to Panjim Church) I am a customer for several years and they have provided reliable service. Joseph On 27-Oct-14 6:26 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا wrote: Query -- would anyone know a retailer of computer hardware (including desktops) around the Miramar area? Competitive price and good service are the criteria here. Many thanks! FN
[Goanet] 'Xit-Koddi' Bahrain Goans E-Newsletter - October 2014
Bahrain Goans E-Newsletter 'Xit-Koddi' - October 2014 Bringing back mortal remains from abroad made easy. Online payment of electricity bills in Goa. Update on upcoming Feast of St Francis Xavier in Bahrain And Other Regular Features Now Available Online At: https://sites.google.com/site/bahraingoans/xit-koddi---oct-2014 . __,_._,___
[Goanet] Timblo pvt. Ltd. - ibnlive.com
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[Goanet] Goa Sudharop: Attention Yahoo employees
Thanks to a Goan Yahoo employee, Goa Sudharop became a Yahoo Employee Foundation (YEF) grant recipient. Goa Sudharop has been invited to have a booth at the Yahoo Diwali celebration in Sunnyvale, California, on Tuesday, October 28, 2014. A few of our Goa Sudharop Youth Leaders will be at our booth to share the work of Goa Sudharop. If you are a Yahoo employee, please do stop by. Founded by Yahoo employees in 1999, YEP http://ef.siliconvalleycf.org/blog/yahoo-employee-foundation is a grassroots, philanthropic group that brings together the talents, time, and financial resources of Yahoo employees to serve the needs of communities around the globe. YEF is a unique foundation, as it is employee run, employee driven and employee funded. Thank you. Goa Sudharop www.goasudharop.org
[Goanet] Query: Whole wheat brown bread?
Would anyone know where this is available? Also, any other unusual types of bread in Goa? (I like the onion and garlic bread from Cafe Central, Panjim). FN -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Latest from Goa,1556: http://goa1556.in/book/goa-in-sepia-tinted-postcards/
[Goanet] Feni's Tipsy-Turvy fortunes
http://www.tehelka.com/fenis-tipsy-turvy-fortunes/ The number of feni lovers is fast shrinking in Goa. But aficionados continue to swear by the poor man’s drink, writes Ashim Choudhury Remember the good old times when you were going to Goa for a holiday and would be burdened by pleas, “Can you bring some feni for me please?” Now, a trip to Goa no longer elicits that kind of response. Now, if you tell a friend, “I’m going to Goa… Should I bring some feni for you?” the answer very likely will be, “Nahi yaar… rehne de.” What they don’t tell you openly is that they can’t stand the whiff of feni. Meanwhile, feni has acquired a unique status after it was given GI or Geographical Indicator in 2009. GI makes Feni unique to Goa much on the lines of Tequila of Mexico, Scotch from Scotland or Champagne of France. Yet cashew feni still remains the poor man’s drink despite desperate promotional efforts by Goa’s fashionable set to keep the shrinking flock of feni drinkers.Feni production after GI has not climbed. It is made from ripe cashew apples, fallen on the ground, but cashew apples are rotting at the farms in Goa and its surroundings, without any takers. When asked why he did not sell his cashew apples dumped on the ground, a cashew farmer on the border with Karnataka remarked, “Who will buy?”So why has feni lost its fizz? The fact is that in the past four decades, feni production has been steadily falling, from 1,089,000 litres in 1971 to 875,000 litres in 2004. In the same period, production of distilled spirits climbed from 202,000 litres to 18.99 million litres.One of the reasons for Goa’s current low turnover is that feni continues to be labelled ‘country liquor’, preventing its sale outside the state. Moreover, feni production still largely remains a cottage industry. Not uncommonly, it is also distilled in individual homes sans a licence. Why, even Goan priests, particularly from the south still like to brew their own feni. “They still distill it in earthen pots the traditional lavani way,” says an old Goan who knows his feni.A major problem with feni production is that there is no uniform method of distilling it, nor is there any quality control. Not surprisingly, much of the feni sold in Goa is spurious or adulterated. A lot of it is produced by small, unlicensed producers. No wonder then, no Goan will easily take you to a ‘fenifactory’ without permission from the owner. This writer’s wait was so long he decided to go out on his own.From Anjuna village, we set out northwards and moved along to Mapusa, finally coming upon the Goa- Mumbai highway. That’s where we met one Chengappa who told us to go further on the highway till we cross a river, and move up further. “Once you are near the bhattis, you’ll know by the smell in the air,” he tells us.Indeed, half an hour later, after crossing the scenic river below us, our nostrils are invaded by the strong whiff of feni. This is Dhargal, some 22 km north of Panjim. Driving on the gravel road, we are soon at the feni distillery that looks somewhat like a cowshed and smells like rotting garbage. The workers at the bhatti show us around readily. What I mistake to be a drain of sewage is actually the juice of cashew apples that are being squeezed in a basket. This juice finally finds its way through gutters into large copper pots that are being constantly heated, distilled to form urak. The Kalogis have 20 matkas or stills in all. Pulp and sludge from the Kalogi distillery also flowed out untreated into the neighbouring farm, turning it into a ditch.We found Francis, another distiller, as we were heading for the Arambol beach region when there was a sudden clearing in the forest that revealed a blue river below. In this desolate place, except for a beached boat along the serene river, there was not a soul in sight. Out of sheer curiosity, I stepped into the palm shed from where some voices emerged and lo and behold, this was a feni factory! Francis, his hands muddy from repairing a still, showed us around. He took us through the rows of urak and feni being distilled. There were several stills here, in this place taken on rent by Francis.This distillery is a cooperative of sorts. Six friends have got together under a licence owner, who gets a fee from them. Francis and two of his friends have two stills each. The remaining three have one each. They are small distillers who come together for the months of March and April when the cashew apple is abundantly available. The feni they produce is sold directly to Goa bars. And how much does Francis make in a season? “Nothing,” he says with a sense of resignation, “A jar (20 bottles) fetches just Rs 700-800.” Francis laments that people are not drinking feni the way they did earlier. Terekholkhari, the river on whose banks the distillery is camouflaged, also serves as a border between Maharashtra and Goa. If his distillery is on the Goa side, Francis’s home acr
[Goanet] DEATH: Edmund Morris, former teacher, St Britto Mapusa
Edmund Vincent Morris: Passed away after a brief illness on Oct 26, 2014. Funeral Mass at St Jerome's Mapusa, October 29, 2014, at 4 pm. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/15645006325/ [Via Alwyn Vaz] -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Latest from Goa,1556: http://goa1556.in/book/goa-in-sepia-tinted-postcards/
[Goanet] Goa news for October 28, 2014
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Black money: Radha Timblo had illegal Goa mines and a Pak connection - Firstpost tandard.com/article/current-affairs/black-money-trail-radha-timblo-goa-miner-and-hotelier-114102800032_1.html">Black Money trail: Radha Timblo - Goa miner and hotelier http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNHxcJRlNF_hUKpae5WhLKaMqmMNWA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778642641364&ei=gdVOVKDxOO3twAHBz4DQCQ&url=http://www.firstpost.com/india/black-money-radha-timblo-had-illegal-goa-mines-and-a-pak-connection-1774269.html *** ISL as it happened: Kostas shines as Pune beat Goa 2-0 - Firstpost 014-live-score-update-of-fc-pune-city-vs-fc-goa-football-match-180306/">ISL 2014 Live Score Update of FC Pune City vs FC Goa Football Match: Pune ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNEBKWbCAuuRe8GKP3sOS3de68RQYg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778641915830&ei=gdVOVKDxOO3twAHBz4DQCQ&url=http://www.firstpost.com/sports/tactical-shifts-misfiring-strikers-missing-luck-fc-goa-pune-clash-first-isl-win-1772947.html *** Goa announces e-auction of 19 lakh metric tonne of iron ore - Times of India uctioning, to be held on November 6 and 7. In its notification uploaded on its website on Sunday, the department has announced two phase ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNEJUxKo9c3ukBM4SqaHWfupkSjuUw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778641913510&ei=gdVOVKDxOO3twAHBz4DQCQ&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/India-Business/Goa-announces-e-auction-of-19-lakh-metric-tonne-of-iron-ore/articleshow/44940693.cms *** Russian victim of molestation in Goa says she felt more violated during ... - Daily News & Analysis ear-old Russian woman who was brought to Goa Medical College for medical examination to ascertain her claim of molestation was touched inappropriately by the male doctor despite her protest, interpretor accompanying the foreign national has told ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNHI8Ir-k4q3T00cCahU0aM5AqyqVw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778642696619&ei=gdVOVKDxOO3twAHBz4DQCQ&url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-russian-victim-of-molestation-in-goa-says-she-felt-more-violated-during-medical-check-up-2029701 *** Black money live: Will have to read affidavit before reacting, says Goa miner ... - Firstpost rstpostGoan mining magnate Radha S Timblo, who has been accused by the Centre of stashing black money in Swiss banks, said that she needs to study the government's affidavit to the apex court before commenting. "I will have to study the affidavit first," she ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNGv0Xy18tuL8u9xY-t9cAJ86w3swQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=gdVOVKDxOO3twAHBz4DQCQ&url=http://www.firstpost.com/politics/black-money-live-will-have-to-read-affidavit-before-reacting-says-goa-miner-timblo-1774403.html *** ISL 2014: Zico rues lack of finisher as FC Goa slump to another defeat - Firstpost ack turned midfielder Andre Santos. Chance creation has not been a problem for the team ” with wingers Gabriel Fernandes, ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNGIh8jby1_vL1k_qt2vfOGa_pkrqg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=gdVOVKDxOO3twAHBz4DQCQ&url=http://www.firstpost.com/sports/isl-2014-zico-rues-lack-of-finisher-as-fc-goa-slump-to-another-defeat-1773515.html *** Pune City, FC Goa look for fresh starts - Times of India mes of IndiaPUNE: FC Pune City will look to make the most of their first home game and Robert Pires' absence due to suspension when they take on FC Goa on Sunday night. "It's our first home game. We want to give a good performance. We have a week's training ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNFIptBRXa8lKkDkBdIOyL4nd5ktdA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=gdVOVKDxOO3twAHBz4DQCQ&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/indian-super-league/top-stories/Pune-City-FC-Goa-look-for-fresh-starts/articleshow/44937230.cms *** Black money: Radha Timblo had illegal Goa mines and a Pakistan connection - Firstpost rstpostRadha Timblo, one of the names disclosed by the Centre in an affidavit to the Supreme Court today (27 October) in connection with illegal accounts held abroad, has been linked to illegal iron ore mining in Goa. The mining lease involved also has a ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNE2qpRN9HV6oMdVMpFF0029nl2oJw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=gdVOVKDxOO3twAHBz4DQCQ&url=http://www.firstpost.com/india/black-money-radha-timblo-had-illegal-goa-mines-and-a-pakistan-connection-1774269.html *** Ride the rapids at Tillari this winter: Goa tourism - Times of India nd-a-half hours from North Goa. Participants need to be reasonably physically fit. The tour takes two-and-half to three hours including a drop ...http://news.google.com/news
[Goanet] CHALLENGES FACING PRINT MEDIA IN INDIA TODAY! (A PERSPECTIVE) -Fr. Cedric Prakash sj* (24October2014) Talk to the ICPA
From: bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com To: From: sjprashant...@gmail.com To: sjprash...@gmail.com CHALLENGES FACING PRINT MEDIA IN INDIA TODAY! (A PERSPECTIVE) -Fr. Cedric Prakash sj* Dear Friends, It is good to be here at this National Convention of the Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA). I want to thank Fr. Alfonso Elengikal, the President of the ICPA, Mr. Jose Vincent, the Secretary of ICPA and all others concerned for inviting me to share with you some perspectives on the challenges facing the print media today. I will of course focus on the theme of this Convention, “PROPHETIC CHALLENGES BEFORE MEDIA TODAY”. At the outset, I would like to emphasize two points: i. that the printed word plays a significant and defining role in the Indian sub-continent today ii. that being engaged in the print media is no longer an option for us, but a mandate CHALLENGES Having said this let me focus on some of the challenges that the print media faces in the changing context of India today. (In order to ensure an economy of words, I will in the remainder of this sharing use the very general term ‘media’ even though this Convention focuses on Catholics engaged in the print-media) What then are some of the major challenges which the media in India faces today? · the corporatisation of the media If there is one single major concern which the media in India faces today, it is the way it has been corporatised. A systematic study of all the big newspapers in the country will easily reveal that they belong to one or the other of the big corporate houses. Corporations (be they national or multi-nationals), we are all aware, have their own agenda. They are determined by the ideology of that particular corporation, by profit-making and in most instances, they would not want to disturb the ‘status quo’ or to rock the boat. When media is taken over by such houses, the end-game is blatantly clear: our minds, our thought-processes are determined in a particular way. · the commercialisation of the media In our Centre ‘PRASHANT’, we focus on human rights, justice and peace and a key dimension of our work is the scanning and documenting from eighteen major daily newspapers in English, Gujarati and Hindi. It is simply unbelievable that these past few days, in several newspapers five and even seven pages are devoted to full-page advertisements. The advertisements are varied: of major sales and discounts; the announcements of brand new products and of course, the propaganda of political parties (mainly the BJP). These advertisements certainly cost a pretty sum; when one gives importance to such crass commercialisation, then the newspaper loses its very heart and soul. Remember the big talk of “black money?” · the co-option of the media Corporatisation and commercialisation of the media have plenty to do with its co-option. So in a way, this becomes a logical outcome of the first two. Co-option essentially means losing your ability to think for yourself; you have to toe a given line, you have to ensure the banner headlines (even if they are lies) are done to suit the wishes and the fancies of the bosses; you have to carefully avoid instances / events or news which might put those who control you, in poor light. We have hundreds of examples in and around us to exemplify how media gets so easily co-opted today. We are all familiar with the term “paid media!” · the compromising of the media The word ‘compromise’ is a highly nuanced one; “a compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of the other people”. So a compromise essentially means that you have a possibility of making a decision but because of fear or / and favour, one would rather go with what( one thinks/knows), the big boss wants. In May 2014, after the General Elections, I was invited by the editor of ‘The New Leader’ to write the cover story for the fortnightly (June 1 – 15, 2014, Vol. 1 – 7, No 11). I did do so, what I think is a fairly balanced but analytical article, which was well received (given the number of calls / mails I received after that). The editor (a lay man) of our Gujarati Catholic monthly ‘The DOOT’ (‘the Messenger’ which is managed and owned by the Jesuits of Gujarat) - congratulated me on the article and asked if it could be published in a forthcoming issue of DOOT. My response was naturally a very positive one and I immediately had the article translated in Gujarati and sent to him; but that article never appeared in the DOOT. More than three months later, at a casual meeting, the editor informs me that the article was not published because a couple of people on the editorial board said it might have repercussions on the magazine (no comments needed!!!) · The communalisation of the media
