[Goanet] DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORT ARUN DESAI MUST BE PROBED
There needs to be a detailed expedited vigilance probe against Goa’s controversial and much stained Director of Transport Arun Desai who amongst other cases is already under the scanner of the Anti- Corruption Branch in the alleged job recruitment scam of 33 Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspectors. Arun Desai’s peon Damu Gaude was last week arrested by the Anti Corruption Branch while caught red handed accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh for his master. Arun Desai needs to be also booked in this case with his custodial interrogation to get to the bottom of the rot and malaise of corruption that is well embedded in the Transport department. Damu Gaude who is currently in police custody has been booked under Sections 7, 13 (1) (d) read with Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act for initially demanding a bribe of five lakhs but receiving one lakh to get the Director of Transport to close the departmental disciplinary proceedings against one of the Assistant Motor Vehicles Inspector Alister Fernandes. We also need to how Arun Desai has managed and manipulated to continue as the Director of Transport for a record uninterrupted over five years and Damu Gaude also remained glued as Arun Desai’s peon since his recruitment four years ago. It is an irony that the the peon at the RTO was nabbed while the Transport department in Goa was celebrating the Road Safety Week. Arun Desai, who has now been advocating counseling for those not wearing helmets, is himself in need of a lesson or two on the need to shun corruption. Contrary to its much publicized talk of Zero Tolerance to Corruption, the BJP Government in Goa has high-handedly recommended its protégé the very tainted Arun Desai for elevation to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre. Despite Vigilance probes pending against him, Arun Desai was given the nod by the Goa Government to pave his way for promotion to the IAS cadre. 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] Easy listening selection.....B J Thomas
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[Goanet] 5 SCARY AILMENTS OF THE DIGITAL AGE
From: bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com To: http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31804&articlexml=5-SCARY-AILMENTS-OF-THE-DIGITAL-AGE-30082015022047 Aug 30 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai)5 SCARY AILMENTS OF THE DIGITAL AGEText Neck An adult human head weighs 5 kg, but as the neck bends forward and down, the weight on the cervical spine increases. At a 15-degree angle, this is about 12 kg; at 60 degrees, it's 27 kg. As we hunch over our smartphones, texting and checking social media, we are putting an incredible amount of stress on our spines. Hearing Loss Many of us are likely to have diminished hearing at younger ages. The widespread use of portable music devices is making early hearing loss quite an epidemic. A 2006 US study found that among users of such devices, 35% of adults and up to 59% of teenagers reported listening at loud volumes. Most people don't know that hearing damage is cumulative and irreversible. Brain Scramble Always-on people spend their days at a computer and their nights checking phones.According to a recent study, this robs us of the ability to recharge in off hours. Productiv ity and mental health are both diminished. Constant multitasking reduces the ability to concentrate for sustained periods of time. Computer Vision Syndrome Sitting in front of a computer screen or peering into a smartphone day after day can cause pain and discomfort to the eyes, blurred vision and headaches. The good news is doctors seem to agree that Computer Vision Syndrome doesn't cause permanent eye damage. Computer Face Cosmetic surgeons are reporting that users are developing “computer face,“ a combination of permanent frown lines, wrinkles around the eyes from squinting, jowls and double chins from looking down for long periods of time.
[Goanet] Protests by the privileged? Gujarat has a long history
From: bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com To: http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31804&articlexml=Protests-by-the-privileged-Gujarat-has-a-long-30082015024031 Aug 30 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai)Protests by the privileged? Gujarat has a long historyEconomics is the common thread that runs through agitations in the state over the last 75 years, finds Amrita Shah Gujarat has a vivid recent history of large, anarchic agitations. Observers are often surprised to hear this, pointing to the state's association with Gandhi and its reputation as a highly developed region with a strong entrepreneurial drive as reasons why this should not be so. Those familiar with the state's peculiarities, however, suggest that Gujarat's relationship with violence in fact stems from these particular characteristics rather than existing despite them. It has been proposed, for instance, that Gandhi's legacy of agitation has contributed to present-day violence in the state. Historian Howard Spodek describes the “two parallel springs of mobilization and institutionalization“ which he believes Gandhi successfully controlled, and speculates that the future could go either way: that new organizations could succeed Gandhi to restore a balance or that the local and the national arena could decline becoming accustomed to deepening levels of violence. Those who expect a pragmatic, business minded society to be above turbulence are similarly mistaken because economics, far from quelling, has invariably been a key motivating feature for mass violence in the state. A survey of prominent agitations over the last 75 years suggests a common thread.The vigorous participation of Gujaratis in the Quit India movement of 1942, for instance, while it owed much to the intense nationalistic fervor prevailing at the time, was also partly enabled by fears that the British, following a scorched earth policy would destroy local mills to prevent them from falling into the hands of their World War II rivals, the Japanese. The movement for a separate state in the 1950s was waged on the rhetoric of language and regional pride but was also underpinned by a feeling of neglect by successive Congress ministries. According to Achyut Yagnik and Suchitra Sheth's The Shaping of Modern Gujarat, the absence of any major project on the area's rivers in the First Five Year Plan coupled with the perception that resources were being diverted to Marathispeaking areas culminated in the Mahagujarat movement. In 1974 rising mess bills in an engineering college in Ahmedabad sparked outrage among students, snowballing into a statewide stir known as the Navnirman movement, an agitation in which even housewives joined in by beating thalis at a prearranged hour. Anxiety over shrinking job opportunities due to the expansion of caste-based reservations led to ugly riots in 1981 and in 1985. These iconic mass agitations have not involved the poor and the working class but have been led by members of the upper and middle castes and classes, with students playing a pivotal role. In the 1985 anti-reservation riots even children, encouraged by their parents, boycotted school. Middle class leadership brought a managerial flair to mass agitations often marked by a high level of organization, a clever use of communication technology and marketing gimmicks.This is not the place to explore the links between an emerging middle class solidarity and the growing popularity of the Hindutva movement but it can be said that mass agitations tended to articulate the grievances of and sought to expand economic opportunities for those in the middle and upper reaches of society , sometimes resisting the advancement of those below. For instance, the 1981 and 1985 anti-reservation riots (a precursor one could say to the current fracas) saw attacks by assertive Patels selectively on upwardly mobile sections of the lower castes. Mass agitations have also enabled dominant groups to bypass inconvenient politics. The unseating of chief minister Chimanbhai Patel in 1974 provided an early taste of power. Madhavsinh Solanki, a backward caste chief minister who won a resounding majority a decade later with a formula that united underprivileged sections of society including Harijans, Adivasis and Muslims, was forced out of office within months by massive protracted violence. The latter's history of truculence is surprising more so in light of political scientist Nikita Sud's claim that Gujarat's development trajectory , which ensured the rise of agrarian capitalists and rapid urbanization after 1960, has been skewed in favour of dominant castes and classes as has the contemporary economic liberalization process. In many ways then, the current agitation by the influential Patel community is in keeping with the state's past experience of violent protest by the privileged. But while the agitation may have its origins in the local, and Guj
[Goanet] GOA GETS A SAFFRONISED CHIEF INFORMATION COMMSSIONNER
As was expected, Goa gets a very saffronised Chief Information Commissioner Prashant Prabhu Tendolkar. The Ponda based Prashant Prabhu Tendolkar is known to have very deep links with the BJP and is an extremely close aide of South Goa Member of Parliament Narendra Sawaikar. After the BJP came to power Prashant Prabhu Tendolkar was in September 2013 appointed as the Additional President of Goa Administrative Tribunal and retired in February this year on attaining the age of 60. He will now get a four and half cozy year term in this plumb post as Chief Information Commissioner with salaries, allowances and perks on par with that of an Election Commissioner. Another flawed selection is that of one more BJP Karyakarta Juino de Souza selected as the State Information Commissioner who will now get a full five year term with salaries, allowances and perks as that of the Chief Secretary for being a loyal soldier of the BJP. The Right to Information Act requires that the State Chief Information Commissioner and the State Information Commissioner shall be persons of eminence in public life. Can Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar please enlighten us as to how the government has come to an inference that Prashant Prabhu Tendolkar and Juino De Souza possess eminence in public Life? The Right to Information Act further requires that the State Chief Information Commissioner or a State Information Commissioner shall not be connected with any political party. It is no secret that Prashant Prabhu Tendolkar and Juino De Souza are both well connected with the BJP. To ensure proper implementation of the Right to Information Act, the State Information Commission should comprise of independent minded persons who do not succumb to the pulls and pressures of the politicians in power. The best and the brightest should have been selected to these very crucial positions in a very transparent manner but the government has managed to get its ‘caged” parrots sneak through. Goa has waited so long for these Information Commissioners only to see Yes-men of the ruling party being anointed to these vital posts. The implementation of the Right to Information Act will only continue to be further scuttled with agents of the BJP at the helm. No ‘Achhe din’ in sight for Transparency and Good Governance. 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] Laughing all the way to the Net (Reena Martins, The Telegraph)
Laughing all the way to the Net Soaring onion prices are being lampooned on the Internet -- a reflection of a new breed of humour writers who're running riot on the web, chuckles Reena Martins She's not cryin' anymore, Can't afford you is what she says; There's a smile upon her face; Tomatoes took my place... She's Not Cryin' Anymore... This ditty, composed by Goa's humour writer Cecil Pinto (with due apologies to Billy Ray Cyrus), is an ode to the onion, which has become the butt of Internet and WhatsApp jokes over the past few weeks. As the pricey bulb graces a ring in cyber space -- pictured like a ruby over a band -- one can't help but wonder about the funny bones behind the thriving Internet satire that leaves the user hungry for more. As one Facebook satire page says, Bahut bhook lagee hai yaar, subah se kuch nahi khaya (I'm very hungry, haven't eaten anything all day). These days, there is a joke for every occasion. The rising price of onions has been lampooned in varied ways. A cartoon being circulated on the Internet has a couple asking for two kilos of onions, prompting the vegetable seller to suspiciously ask them for their PAN card number. The latest joke doing the rounds is a WhatsApp message with the header, "Today's currency exchange rate". It says: 1 dollar = 765g onions; 1 Euro = 1.15g onions, 1 rupee = 12g onions. Cartoons from newspapers are scanned and circulated, as humour writers -- college students, advertising executives and others -- let their imagination run riot, thinking of funny one liners on topical issues. "There is this new breed of humour writers that is cutting edge," says Kunal Vijaykar, co-host of the television show The Week That Wasn't. "Even though Cyrus (Broacha) and I were the ones to start the irreverent humour trend, I feel jealous when I see this flurry of WhatsApp jokes, 90 per cent of which are very funny and come out within hardly a couple of hours of a newsbreak. We have to rewrite our TV script as we can't repeat the damn jokes!" Most of the jokes are targeted at politicians. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tours across the world have evoked considerable mirth. "I don't believe in maps, satellites and NASA,' says one message, and then goes on to add, just above Modi's smiling photograph, "I will travel myself to prove that the world is round." A lot of the humour is focused on Rahul Gandhi's lack of political experience. "We must work for the party," Sonia Gandhi says in one such joke. "Oh, who's throwing it," asks an excited Rahul. Political satire can take the form of innovative laws too. That's how US-based political satirist Nishant Jain pokes fun at the system. On his five-year-old Facebook page Testimonial Comics (with close to 9,000 likes), Jain this week drafted a Whistleblower's Protection Act "to protect lewd, perverted whistleblowers who make innocent ministers feel unsafe in their armored cars (with police escorts and barricades) composed almost exclusively of sacks of black money". It adds: "No minister or official in any governmental capacity need ever be afraid of loud, prejudiced, aggressive individuals eager to blow whistles at them just because they were walking across the street to exchange briefcases full of money from the corporation of their choice." Jain points out that the "bandwagon of humour" has got bigger now that the Internet has "exploded all over" cell phones, laptops and tablets. "I regularly read stuff that makes me insanely jealous of the writer behind it," adds Jain, who holds a master's degree in bio-mechanical engineering. Some of the jokes can be wildly irreverent. Take this one, which says: After the grand success of Coffee with Karan, xxx (television company) is coming up with three new shows: 1: Tea with Modi 2: Cerelac with Rahul 3: Cough syrup with Kejriwal. Thank God, it goes on to add, Morarji Desai is dead. A lot of the humour is on blogs. Actor Twinkle Khanna's blog entries -- where she takes on, with subtle humour, issues such as the ban on beef in Maharasthra or the hush-hush world of menstruation -- are now out as a book. Architect and humour writer Clement de Sylva's blog Bandrabuggers is a hugely popular book written in pidgin English. De Sylva, who has been writing for 10 years, says that positive responses never stop pouring in from those in his neighbourhood of Bandra. There are occasions when people take exception to a joke. Most of Pinto's funny posts centre on family and Goan village life, so every once in a while he gets accosted by someone taking offence at something he has written. "I try to be sensitive and not hurt anyone's feelings, but that's not always possible. Political correctness and humour don't go
[Goanet] Fwd: Goan Band performance oin Saturday Oct 3rd
Hi All, Forwarding an email ..Please support this event! Thanks Selma Rodrigues President GOA LA Subject: FW: Goan Band performance oin Saturday Oct 3rd Hello Selma, Hope all is well. I would appreciate if you could please circulate and send the attached flyer to all the members from the GOA email list that you have regarding our event ' NITE IN GOA' that is going to take place on October 3rd. Ticket price of $ 35.00 includes buffet dinner / dance . Please promote and support this event Thank you very much Joe &Rose Dsilva
[Goanet] Shenai Goembab Kathamal set to make new records
Dear Sir/Madam, Konkani Bhasha Mandal's Shenai Goembab Kathamal (Story Telling competition) is set to make new records tomorrow on Monday as we are set to hit 15 preliminary centers at one time. This would not have been successful without the continuous support from our well wishers and dedicated volunteers. You have been one of our strongest support till date. We thank you for the continuous support you have always given to all our activities. We invite you to witness tomorrow's event and kindly cover the same. Attached herewith is the timetable inclusive of the venue and time where the Kathamal will be held. Kindly make it convenient to visit whichever centre is nearby to you and request Other journalists to do the same in other centers. Thanking You, Chetan Acharya, President, Konkani Bhasha Mandal 9422389290
[Goanet] WILL THE PARSEKAR GOVERNMENT AT LEAST OPENED EYES NOW?
-PEOPLE OF PANJIM SHOULD FOLLOW EXAMPLE FROM MAHARASHTRIANS In the 1970’s mangroves were destroyed in Mumbai to make the Nariman Point but now in 2015 the Mumbaikars have realized the importance of mangroves and fighting hammer and tongs to protest Mumbai from destruction. Maharashtra government’s plan to build a 34 km coastal road is rapidly running out with voice of protest against it with growing objections to the new plan which have been prompted its apologists to suggest alterations such as doing away with the under sea tunnels and building stilted coastal road over mangroves which is going to be a disaster. In Goa sadly the people of Panjim are sleeping over the destruction of mangroves at Patto. Sanjit Rodrigues, Commisioner of CCP, is burying the garbage by destroying the mangroves. Incidentally people of Panjim have realized that they are idiots, because all the doctors, businessmen, engineers, lawyers and the big and mighty living in Panjim are doing nothing to protect the river Mandovi from the destruction of the environment by the casinos which the BJP Govt. promised to remove but did the U-turn and thus allowing the Mandovi River to die of pollution. To add further to the misery of Mandovi River, a 3rd Bridge is also being laid by destroying mangroves around Patto, St. Cruz and Merces. When will the stupid people living in Panjim wake up and fight like those brave Goans in Chapora, Tiracol, Sancoale and other areas. Even Satish Sonak, a renowned senior advocate has felt that it is unworthy for him to spit on the BJP Govt perhaps his spit is best suited on the people of Panjim who may wake up after he spat on people of Panjim, who are gone in hibernation against degradation of Panjim which is smelling of urine and faeces all around. Our Governor Mridula Sinha seems to singing Hindi poems and completely ignorant, of the mess in around Panjim. She is supposed to be responsible for Swatch Panjim and she needs herself to wake up and also to wake up people of Panjim. Stephen Dias, D.Paula and Panjimite-- ---
[Goanet] Historical Weather of Goa in the month of September (Skymet)
http://www.skymetweather.com/holidaydestinations/seasonal-forecast/goa-goa-goa-india-september Historical Weather of Goa in Sep Temperature Max Temperature 29.5 deg c Min Temperature 23.8 deg c Highest 32.6 deg c (19th 1979) Lowest 21.0 deg c (27th 1964) Rainfall Monthly Total 251.9 mm No. of rainy days 13.5 Total in wettest month 863.5 mm (1916) Heaviest rain in 24 hours 135.1 mm (6th 1969) SEASONS IN GOA Winters in Goa: The months November to Januay are the most pleasant with average maximum hovering around 32° Celsius and minimum staying close to 17° Celsius. The weather at this time is wonderful with rain being a distant memory, and the seas are calm and clear. Summers in Goa: This season extend from March to May and can be a bit uncomfortable with average temperature ranging between 25° Celsius to 35° Celsius. In April, the weather becomes hot and humid, shacks shut down and beaches slowly empty out. Monsoon in Goa: June to September is a good time to celebrate and enjoy parties, which are held to welcome the rains. The countryside turns lush green almost overnight right at the onset of monsoon. MORE ABOUT SKYMET: http://www.civilsocietyonline.com/pages/Details.aspx?774 Circulated via FN -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Goa,1556 Shared Content at https://archive.org/details/goa1556
