[Goanet] Easy listening selection......La Paloma......Mereille Mathieu

[Con Menezes]

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NXrhcbpiV0

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[Goanet] History: Goa.

[Con Menezes]

   English sub-titles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KosjcLdQY

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[Goanet] The Breath of Life

[Con Menezes]

 
https://www.wellbeing.com.au/body/health/The-breath-of-life.html

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[Goanet] Time For An Indian Peace Corps

[Marshall Mendonza]

He does not have to set up any new institution. The NSS (National Service
Scheme) similar to that of the Peace Corps (domestic) has been around for
years. However, the RSS agenda is different. The gau rakshaks , VHP, BD do
their bidding.

Regards,

Marshall

*Modi's time would be better spent into building up an Indian Peace Corps
than making unnecessary foreign visits which as they become frequent,
cheapen whatever effect they intended. - Roland Francis*

[Goanet] Offtopic: Land area converter

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

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[Goanet] DoYouRemember: Polson butter?

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polson_(brand)
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[Goanet] Offtopic: The difference between American and Canadian Television

[Albert Peres]

The difference between American and Canadian Television...

American Television:
News Anchor completely loses it during live broadcast. MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BHujm3cpY

Canadian Television:
Maralee Caruso loses it during live broadcast. CTV News, Winnipeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjutcygwzkA&feature=youtu.be

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[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: INDIA IS THE 'PASSIONATE GIANT, ' SAYS FIFA PRESIDENT INFANTINO+INDIAN FOOTBALL HEADING IN RIGHT DIRECTION: INFANTINO

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



Please find below the report from FIFA President Gianni Infantino's press
conference in Goa.



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INDIA IS THE 'PASSIONATE GIANT,' SAYS FIFA PRESIDENT INFANTINO

*PANJIM:* In his first visit to India since being elected the FIFA
President Gianni Infantino labelled India as the “passionate giant,” of
Football.

“India has always been always mentioned as the ‘Sleeping Giant.’ But from
what I have seen here I am sure that India is now the passionate giant of
Football,” Infantino said at a Media Interaction in Panjim on
Tuesday (September 27, 2016).

READ MORE: https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=7458

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INDIAN FOOTBALL HEADING IN RIGHT DIRECTION: INFANTINO
*MARGAO:* FIFA President Mr. Gianni Infantino who is on his first visit to
India since being elected the FIFA President said on Tuesday (September 27,
2016) that Indian Football is “moving in the right direction” under the
leadership of Mr. Praful Patel, President of All India Football Federation.

READ MORE: https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=7457




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[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: INDIA IS THE 'PASSIONATE GIANT, ' SAYS FIFA PRESIDENT INFANTINO

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



Please find below the report from FIFA President Gianni Infantino's press
conference in Goa.



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INDIA IS THE 'PASSIONATE GIANT,' SAYS FIFA PRESIDENT INFANTINO

*PANJIM:* In his first visit to India since being elected the FIFA
President Gianni Infantino labelled India as the “passionate giant,” of
Football.

“India has always been always mentioned as the ‘Sleeping Giant.’ But from
what I have seen here I am sure that India is now the passionate giant of
Football,” Infantino said at a Media Interaction in Panjim on
Tuesday (September 27, 2016).

READ MORE: https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=7458

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[Goanet] DoYouRemember: Polson butter?

[eric pinto]

         They were Parsees.     They were forced out of business to protect the 
co-operatives.    It was ruled that dairies were not eligible to sell casein.  
That primary     milk/protein derivative was the 'bread and butter' of the 
trade, not fat/butter.             Viva socialism !

   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polson_(brand)
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[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....TOM JONES - FUNNY FAMILIAR FORGOTTEN FEELINGS

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGUNALv_yK8


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DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Orlando da Costa: Podem Chamar-me Eurídice (You could call me Eurydice)

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17314693-podem-chamar-me-eur-dice


Podem Chamar-me Eurídice
by Orlando da Costa

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Dedicado ao escultor assassinado José Dias Coelho, reflecte, segundo o
prefácio do autor à segunda edição (Lisboa, Seara Nova, 1974), "uma
experiência de vida dos anos 50, [...] que tem subjacente como que a
vocação imperiosa para o cumprimento de ideais de solidariedade humana e de
lutas generosas". Livro escrito com "dor e confiança" (ibi., id.), em Podem
chamar-me Eurídice, Orlando da Costa retoma o mito órfico como suporte
mitológico de uma história de amor que tem como contexto histórico a
vivência da clandestinidade e a repressão da subversão universitária dos
anos 60. (less)

Hardcover, 232 pages
Published 1964 by Editora Arcádia
Original Title
Podem Chamar-me Eurídice
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Dedicated to the murdered sculptor José Dias Coelho, this book reflects,
according to the author in the preface to the second edition (Lisbon, Seara
Nova, 1974), "a life experience of 50 years, [...] it embodies as the
imperious vocation, the fulfillment of the ideals of human solidarity and
of generous struggles." This book was written with "pain and trust" (ibi.,
Id.), In 'You could call me Eurydice, Orlando da Costa takes the Orphic
myth as mythological support of a love story that has as its historical
context the experience of clandestinity and repression of university
subversion in the 1960s.

In Greek mythology, Eurydice (/jʊˈrɪdᵻsiː/; Greek: Εὐρυδίκη, Eurydikē) was
an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo (the god of music, prophecy,
and light, who also drove the sun chariot, 'adopting' the power as god of
the Sun from the primordial god Helios). She was the wife of Orpheus, who
tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music.



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*You Can Call Me Eurydice* was a genial but damned and banned book, passing
from hand to hand. Because, in addition to remarkably writing (which
reminds one of  the best of *José Cardoso Pires*), it was a rarity in that
it got onto paper a generation's accounts with Fascism and even rebuild the
provincial customs that impaled on nerves, wants and appetites.
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[Goanet] Twenty-seventh Sunday of the Year

[Jude Botelho]

26-Sep-2016
Dear Friend,
We would all admit that we cannot live without faith, because every day we are 
called to believe. But the question we need to ask is: In whom or in what do we 
believe? Do we believe only in ourselves and in our capabilities? Do we believe 
in others? Do we believe in God? If we believe, can we put our lives totally in 
the hands of God? Have a ‘faith-full’ weekend celebrating the gift of faith! 
-Fr. Jude.
Sun Ref. XXVII Sunday: The righteous shall live by faith! Increase our faith! 
2-Oct-2016Habakkuk 1: 1-3; 2: 2-4;          2 Tim. 1: 6-8, 13-14;          Luke 
17: 5-10;

The Prophet Habakkuk, a contemporary of Jeremiah wants to know why God allows 
Israel to suffer at the hands of the unholy pagans. Why is it that sinners 
prosper while the just are made to suffer? – A question, that is relevant today 
as well! God’s answer that no power can overcome the faithful person is valid 
today as well. Habakkuk had the great event of the Exodus to remind him and the 
Israelites that God is the ‘rock’, He saves his people. All we have to do is 
trust and be faithful to him even when he appears to be silent.

Mountain moving faithAn old woman regularly read the Bible before retiring at 
night. One day she came across the passage that said: “If you have faith as 
little as a mustard seed and ask the mountain to go away, it will go.” She 
decided to test the efficacy of the passage as there was a hillock behind her 
house. She commanded the hillock to go away from there and went to bed. In the 
morning she got up as usual and remembered her command to the hillock. She wore 
her spectacles and peered through the window. The hillock was there. Then she 
muttered to herself, “Ah! That’s what I thought.” - What she thought was that 
the mountain would not move. While her outer mind gave the command, her inner 
mind was convinced that she was giving a futile order. She did not have even an 
atom of faith!G. Francis Xavier in ‘The world’s best inspiring stories’
In today’s Gospel faith is connected with miracles, it is only in connection 
with miracles that Jesus mentions it, and it is generated and fostered by 
witnessing miracles, though the beneficiary has some faith already. Perhaps the 
clearest example of what is meant by faith is the miracle of the calming of the 
storm, when Jesus reproaches the disciples for their lack of faith. The 
attitude of the disciple must be a total commitment to God with certainty in 
his power to save. It is this unquestioning certainty which is being expressed 
in this somewhat absurd and exaggerated example of the mulberry tree. 
Immediately after this saying Luke adds the little parable of the servant who 
expects a reward for what he was expected to do, for what was his duty. Perhaps 
there is a warning that we should not expect light-hearted and irrelevant 
requests to be granted by God. Confidence in God’s power to save and even work 
miracles is one thing, but expectation of answers to prayers for trivial matter 
is flippant and unworthy. God is not our servant and after all that we do we 
have to consider ourselves unworthy servants waiting on his bounty and not 
deserving anything by right. For the man of faith, everything is a gift and 
never a matter of self acquisition. We earn nothing from God.
Be careful in whom you place your trust!Before modern radio and television 
became so sophisticated, a telephone operator used to get a call every 
afternoon asking for the correct time. She was always able to give this 
information with great confidence. The reason for this was that she always 
checked her watch, and adjusted it when needed, when the whistle blew for the 
closing time in the local factory. One day her watch stopped. The telephone 
rang inquiring for the correct time. She explained her predicament. Her watch 
had stopped, and she had no way of ascertaining the correct time until the 
factory whistle sounded some time later. The caller then explained his 
predicament. He was calling today, as he had done every other day, from the 
same local factory, and he had always adjusted his clock, when necessary, to 
agree with whatever time it was in the telephone exchange. –Be careful in whom 
you place your trust!Jack McArdle in ‘And that’s the Gospel truth’
Pavarotti: My Own StoryNot since the legendary Caruso has another opera 
personality had such charisma as tenor Luciano Pavarotti. In his autobiography, 
Pavarotti: My Own Story, he describes how he was trained by a great master, 
Arrigo Pola. “Everything Pola asked me to do, I did, –day after day, blindly. 
For six months we did nothing but vocalize and work on vowels.” Pavarotti 
worked hard under Pola for two and a half years and then worked just as hard 
under Maestro Ettore Campogalliani for another five years. Finally after 
putting so much faith and trust in his mentors, Pavarotti made a breakthrough 
at a concert in Salsomaggiore where he thrilled the audience and was catapulted 
into 

[Goanet] Options against pakistan

[Nelson Lopes]

OPTIONS AGAINST PAKISTAN

International isolation is supported by many Nations .Movement in India
and  USA to declare Pakistan as Terrorist State, MNS ultimatum to Pakistani
artist to leave within 48 years, Public protest at Karan Johar residence
for promoting Pakistani artist without reciprocal gesture. Withdrawal of
most Favoured Nation   Status,. Sport /Cricket boycott anywhere in the
world with Pakistan. Serious   consideration to enforce Indian right on
water sharing, heavily loaded in favour of Pakistan. Strengthening
technology to monitor porous border and army given freedom to act
accordingly. Exposure of the ghastly repression of people of Balochistan,
Gikgit Pakistan  P.O.K. has now drawn world attention. Boycott of SARC  and
scrap  summit scheduled in Pakistan by India and others  Shri Lanka,
Bnagladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan  are likely to joining in chorus. A slap on
the   face on Pakistan Diplomatic and economic, psychological warfare can
work indirectly.  The moves have rattled Pakistan and put it on back foot.
Dawood has already been declared an international terrorist and Hafiz Saheed.
It is ridiculous that Pakistan is already preparing for serious war
exercises. The world must be motivated for economic sanctions being a
terrorist state and exporting   terrorism .  Likely asylum being granted to
Balooch  leader   Bukhti and Pakistan has threatened India against such a
gesture

Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

Re: [Goanet] DoYouRemember: Polson butter?

[Roland]

There were some iconic brands in the consumables category in Bombay during 
Nehru's socialist era. Not all of them were indigenous, but even despite 
foreign goods being banned, a very few because of their popularity, continued 
to be imported in limited quantities.

Polson's butter, Waterbury's compound, Eno's Fruit Salts, Cadbury's chocolates, 
and Rose's Lime Juice Cordial (a great mix for gin) were a few of these popular 
brands. 

Some like Polson fell by the wayside to local competition, others set up Indian 
plants allowed to use the parent name and still others like Rose's Syrups 
managed to retain their import license due to a very select market.

Butter in those days was a middle-class urban luxury. Most Christian homes had 
butter on the table for the obligatory toast and the butter in most cases was 
Polson. Amul, an Indian brand from a Gujarat cooperative had entered the market 
but had not made inroads. Amul was the superior butter but Polsons was the 
tastier. Amul poured in big money to advertise but Polson gave out their dinky 
coupons as part of the wrapper and every housewife collected them. Coupons 
would take a few pice, later paise off the next purchase and that had the lady 
of the house hooked with the new concept. 

It's funny how taste can override goodness in a consumable product. Tinned 
Kraft cheese for example is not real cheese, just a salty processed product, 
but even today diehards used to it will opt to buy it over the more natural and 
healthy cheddar slabs.

Polson did not make cheese, it just made butter unlike its rival Amul whose 
cheese was an excellent product considering it was made by an Indian company in 
rural Gujarat.

Ignorance, in this case due to non-availability, is generally bliss. It was not 
until my relatives from Africa came to Bombay on long leave and brought Kenya 
Creamery churned butter tins did we realize that Polsons was really a very poor 
cousin.

In the end whether it was Amul's superior product or just their big budget 
advertising or political heft that did Polson in, we shall never know. Like an 
old soldier, Polsons after ruling Bombay's roost for decades, didn't die. It 
just faded away.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

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[Goanet] Public pressure on Pakistan

[Nelson Lopes]

Public pressure on Pakistan

MNS has issued an ultimatum that Pakistan actors in Indian films should
leave within 48 hours.Pakistan is hitting back by ban on popular  Bolywood
films. Kran Johar has featured Pakistani artists, may be to expand
distribution market in that country There is a protest at his residence for
his remarks that artist should not be targets because of terrorism,. Sharuk
Khan is also experimenting by featuring Pakistan artist, There is no doubt
that some artists have received appreciation, recognition for their talent
.There is no evidence that Pakistan film industry is promoting any Indian
artist of repute or otherwise There is loud thinking whether there is
dearth of artist in India to import specially Pakistani artist The
sentiment against Pakistan is unfairly directed towards artist and that
will not stop or reduce or minimize terrorism But definitely it is  not
proportionate direct action that could  have been taken discretely asking
producers to discourage such moves at least at present When SS  vehemently
opposed cricket encounters with Pakistan, the move was derided, ridiculed,
but now the cricket body has exactly spelt the same sentiment but in a more
civilized manner, Then the book release of Pakistani was also a big protest
and  singing concert had to be abandoned because of animosity between two
countries related to terrorism Common people think of some action when Govt
of India has been dillydallying with retaliatory actions clamoured by
affected Indians stating that India is treating atrocities by Pakistan with
Kid gloves

Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

[Goanet] ACCIDENT AT THE CIRCLE NEAR THE DONA PAULA SLOPE

[Stephen Dias]

Traffic Police Cell to act.

Almost everyday we have accidents at the slope of NIO circle  due to
vehicles coming down at full speed from Bambolim. Just two photos are
enclosed to see the crowd near  this slope and the vehicular traffic at the
time of accident.
A huge tourist bus was parked in this slope and the tourists got down from
bus and gone  to the jetty when a DIO scooter rider  came from Bambolim as
he did not see the boy crossing the road dashed against him.
This road has 6 metres width only left after this Bus is parked. That means
another two vehicles can just pass in  this slope. The width is reduced due
to the illegal footpath done by a local resident without a  gutter. I
believe there is no approval  neither from CCP nor PWD. It appears that
nobody follows the laws nowadays.  If people start making footpath for
their personal purpose than everybody will start copying it.
The widening  from Bambolim to Dona Paula is almost completed except in
this slope which has a bottle neck.
Why the tourist are allowed to park vehicles in this slope is not known to
me.  The boy had a fracture  on his leg and was taken to GMC by rickshaw
and the scooter rider was injured.
Lots of commotion was there at the site of accident and in fact some of the
relatives started beating this driver of this scooter and demanded him to
pay for the damages . It has aggravated so much that I had to call the
Police by dialing 100.
Already near the circle there is another big tamasha and work is going on
in full swing  for the modification of the Dona Paula circle and nobody
knows what is going to happen over there. It appears that the circle is
modified. Some people say that the statue of Dr Jack Sequeira will be
shifted from the existing place and who knows whether an another statue is
going to come in this circle?  The area of existing circle is cemented for
leveling.
The residents of Dona Paula are not taken in confidence about this
modification and the traffic is completely paralyzed and in bad shape.
Heraldo carried this  photo of the circle today for people to see.
Police outpost is just nearby and I feel pity for them because they have no
powers to act.

Stephen Dias
Dona Paula

[Goanet] Press Release for Poetry Recital at Gallery Gitanjali

[Gitanjali Gallery]

Between the Lines, the monthly reader’s club at Gallery Gitanjali in
collaboration with The Poetry Quarter will host a poetry reading by Manohar
Shetty on 30th September at 6.00 pm, from a selection made by the poet from
his eight books of poems. The ‘subjects’ range from Goa and Mumbai to birds
and beasts, from love lost and found to the art and craft of poetry itself.
The reading will be followed by a Q & A session. All are welcome.

Thanks & Regards
Varsha Pednekar
Gallery Gitanjali
E-212,31st January Road,
Fontainhas,Panjim,
Goa-403001
India
www.gallerygitanjali.com
00919158940495

[Goanet] DSE and employees associations

[Nelson Lopes]

DSE and employees Association

The birth of DES employees Association is the  germination of simmering
discontent, brewing of suppressed, pent up  emotions that have now found an
outlet after years of DSE establishment.. The Association of teaching and
non teaching employees must be seen as a legitimate exercise to express
fearlessly their legitimate rights and grievances. Hence  it should be seen
not as a confrontational entity but rather  as  facilitators of  genuine
causes.. Employees at times,often have to meekly submit to subjective
diktats under threat to resign  with  an overbearing attitudes of
authorities and  with Ex Offico Chairman and President of DSE   not
normally interfering, to  mediate even on appeal.. There is at present no
redressal mechanism in the vast organisation. What then is the remedy
against absolute authoritarian streaks?  In order  to bring objectivity,
transparency and dialogue this organization is to be welcomed and office
bearers treated with due respect and not with arrogance and disdain , if
 press reports are  to be belived as authentic .The appointment of  a
special committee to scrutinize, recommend  child care is no consolation, a
 fruitless exercise of bureaucracy  to hide behind cloak of delay and
denial and has no legitimacy whatsoever.

There are contentious issues   and denial on Child care leave, a social
beneficial legislations conferred by Govt. specillay for women in the
family   must not be overidden.. There cannot be rules within rules in
compliance   with unambiguous directives, which puts no restrictive clauses
and scope for misinterpretations and subjectivity, The C.M, an ex teacher
himself and in his capacity as Minister of Education is on record
expressing displeasure at the  injustice, when the Govt, is totally
committed to the additional financial expenditure on substitute teacher
 salary and maitenace grants.  The only requirement should be sufficient
notice to make arrangements before the employee proceeds on leave and
handing over the charge. The appointment of committee by DSE to scrutinize
such request is totally misplaced and indicative of hardened attitude
towards its employees. It may be pertinent to state that the Secretary
absents himself too frequently on foreign trips over 2/3 months instead of
a month, at the beginning of crucila  academic session, while   replacing
those who leave to beat the  harsh weather conditions. His sanctioned
 ecclesiastical leave for personal enrichment with no bearing on
administration is a hindrance to smooth functioning during this most
 crucial period. .Decision are postponed, kept in abeyance till his return
 There is no consolation or  merit of substitute arrangements, who  have
 no authority to take decisons and if substitutes can do the job, the
position of the Secretary is reduntant.The record  in contrasts of leave
availed by late Secretary  Rev, Canon  Antimo  is an example in  moral
rectitude  and self imposed restrictions  in larger interests of
administration, Who is more germane to the  vital administration one may
question- a Secretary with no restrictions on personal leave of absence,
controlling number of Institutions at primary, secondary, higher secondary
and college level or some non discrete employee in one institution?
Indispensability of an employee vis a vis the privilege to leave by the
Secretary is a the most flimsy excuse to stomach and least convincing.. The
discretion, if any must be reasonably justified , convincing and addressed
to facilitate and not to absolute reject with impunity of authority. That
some employees were forced to knock at the doors of Courts to seek redressal
shows the height of insensitivity driving a wedge  and  seeding soured
relationships not conducive to progress

Over the years a committee should have been  apointed to  deal with
 serious contentious issues like service conditions related to transfers,
promotions. all  types  of Leave , define roles and duties of Heads,
Mangers, DSE to avoid areas of conflict management that are a festering
problems in smooth administration. The lines of separation must be clearly
specified with no scope of intrpretaions and discretions as far as
possible. The appointment letters then did refer to service conditions
prepared by Fr Antimo , but were not included as a part of appointment
order and  such service conditions should not be in variance with
directives of Education department. These service conditions should be
revisited to avoid partiality, favoritism, subjectivity so that perception
of threats , victimization , punishment are relegated to the background and
any such exercise shoould be perceived sa fair just and eqitable.  The heart
burning  issue of transfers need to me  clearly spelt out,,made more humane
with due considerations and understanding  of length of service at one
station, distances involved in travelling, family and health problems ,as a
merciful catholic arm of the Church .  Transfers visualized, p

Re: [Goanet] DoYouRemember: Polson butter?

[Venantius J Pinto]

A consideration:
Most Christian homes did not have butter on the table. Perhaps such was the
case in certain enclaves. I know many people who did not, and nether did
we. And there were many other things we and they did not partake in. It was
not financially possible. We did not have a fridge, nor a record player and
so on and so forth. People come from different strata of society, and
accordingly lived lives. Always hoping. This is something I have attempted
to spell out many times. Also there is nothing homogeneous about Goans and
lived aesthetics, as also ethics.

—Venantius J Pinto


On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Roland  wrote:

> There were some iconic brands in the consumables category in Bombay during
> Nehru's socialist era. Not all of them were indigenous, but even despite
> foreign goods being banned, a very few because of their popularity,
> continued to be imported in limited quantities.
>
> Polson's butter, Waterbury's compound, Eno's Fruit Salts, Cadbury's
> chocolates, and Rose's Lime Juice Cordial (a great mix for gin) were a few
> of these popular brands.
>
> Some like Polson fell by the wayside to local competition, others set up
> Indian plants allowed to use the parent name and still others like Rose's
> Syrups managed to retain their import license due to a very select market.
>
> Butter in those days was a middle-class urban luxury. Most Christian homes
> had butter on the table for the obligatory toast and the butter in most
> cases was Polson. Amul, an Indian brand from a Gujarat cooperative had
> entered the market but had not made inroads. Amul was the superior butter
> but Polsons was the tastier. Amul poured in big money to advertise but
> Polson gave out their dinky coupons as part of the wrapper and every
> housewife collected them. Coupons would take a few pice, later paise off
> the next purchase and that had the lady of the house hooked with the new
> concept.
>
> It's funny how taste can override goodness in a consumable product. Tinned
> Kraft cheese for example is not real cheese, just a salty processed
> product, but even today diehards used to it will opt to buy it over the
> more natural and healthy cheddar slabs.
>
> Polson did not make cheese, it just made butter unlike its rival Amul
> whose cheese was an excellent product considering it was made by an Indian
> company in rural Gujarat.
>
> Ignorance, in this case due to non-availability, is generally bliss. It
> was not until my relatives from Africa came to Bombay on long leave and
> brought Kenya Creamery churned butter tins did we realize that Polsons was
> really a very poor cousin.
>
> In the end whether it was Amul's superior product or just their big budget
> advertising or political heft that did Polson in, we shall never know. Like
> an old soldier, Polsons after ruling Bombay's roost for decades, didn't
> die. It just faded away.
>
> Roland Francis
> Toronto.
>
> > On Sep 27, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *
> فريدريك نورونيا  wrote:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polson_(brand)
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Re: [Goanet] FW: Goanet Digest, Vol 11, Issue 505

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

On 28 September 2016 at 09:38, Francis Michael Mendes <
francis.men...@dulsco.ae> wrote:
>
> Dear Frederick
>
> Thanks, for bringing in old memories, I remember their office at VT ,
opposite St. George Hospital, where we used to go with the gift coupons  in
late 60's, the coupons were at the side of the packing.
> I remember its good taste
> I was under the impression that it was a British product.
> Regards


Thanks, Francis. You're the second person to say it was a British product.
Actually, I too thought the same, but was surprised to read on the
Wikipedia page that it wasn't. As for its saltish taste, see how they
attained that! FN

PS: Btw, would anyone know who is Ruth Heredia, who wrote The Amul India
story. (New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polson_(brand)

Polson (brand)

>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polson
Polson's Coffee & Butter
Type Private
IndustryDairy
Founded1900
HeadquartersMumbai India
Key people Pestonjee Eduljee
ProductsMilk, Butter, Coffee, other dairy products

Polson is the name of a Dairy products brand that was started in India by
Pestonjee Eduljee in 1915 in Mumbai. Polson's first dairy was set up in
Anand, Gujarat at the cost of ₹7 lakh (US$10,000) in 1930.[1]

History

Before Polson dairy was started, housewives in India used to buy butter and
milk from the milkmen directly. First, when Polson dairy started out, it
had to employ non-Indian staff initially. During World War I it supplied
Polson Butter and Polson's Pure coffee to British Indian and American
forces. At its peak, it was producing up to 5 tons of butter every day and
to meet the demands of the forces as a result of which a new factory office
was started in Bombay.[2] Polson was known to let its cream sour for a few
days and that stale cream was then heavily salted and processed to make
butter. This is the reason why a rival brandAmul's butter made of fresh
cream flopped in the market because consumers were too used to Polson's
taste.[3]

Monopoly and downfall

As an incentive to big consumers, the brand used to hand out gift coupons
as rewards.[4] By 1945, Polson as a brand was flourishing and had touched a
record production of 3 million pounds of butter every year. Despite this
success rate, it did not do much to help improve the condition of Indian
farmers. Due to the monopoly it had established with government support,
farmers were unable to sell their milk to any other vendor in the market.
This was brought to the attention of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, an Indian
nationalist leader in the freedom struggle. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who
had been toying with the idea of opening a cooperative society since 1942,
finally initiated a co-operative movement with the farmers in 1946. This
led to the formation of Amul, a rival and a milk cooperative, on 14
December 1946.[5] With this decline in dairy operations, Polson was bought
over by its main promoters, Jagdish and Amol Kapadia who then diverted
business towards tanning and leather production in[6] 1970s.

References

Heredia, Ruth (1997). The Amul India story. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill.
ISBN 9780074631607.
ET, Bureau (5 June 2011). "Amul: The White Revolution in Gujarat". Economic
Times. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
"How Amul became utterly butterly delicious.and salty". Economic Times.
Retrieved 28 April 2012.
Torcato, Ronita (17 November 2009). "Utterly, Butterly Amul girl turns 40".
FnBnews. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
Malik, edited by Yogendra K. (1983). Politics, technology, and bureaucracy
in South Asia. Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN 9789004070271.
"About Polson". Polson Ltd. Retrieved 28 April 2012.

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Re: [Goanet] DoYouRemember: Polson butter?

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Of course, you're right on that Venantius. Event hough we romanticise the
"good old days", the 1960s were tough times for many (almost all?) of us in
India.

I don't quite agree with Eric that this was because of India's
'socialistic' approach. Rather, this was a country just emerging out of
colonialism, with little or no industrial base (my dad had just finished a
contract with helping Kaiser Engineer's build a steel plant in Jamshedpur
and was taking on the offer to take up a job with the next at Cubatao, Sao
Paulo state (later on to become one of the 10 most polluted places on the
planet!) Besides, there was a lack of skills. Doctors who took their
education in India and migrated Westwards were reminded, I recall, that
their education had cost the taxpayer Rs100,000 -- a huge sum in those days.

Famines were know (around 1967, if not mistaken). The US/Indian solution
was the Green Revolution (anything to avoid Red!). In fits and starts, the
US-India relationship was on the rocks, and post-colonial defiance at times
wasn't making things easier.

We could occasionally afford butter. Fresh milk was cheap, but there were
queues (in Goa till the early 1980s), and one was lucky if you got a 250 ml
plastic bag.

I remember we occasionally ate Dalda (a kind of ghee) with sugar on our
bread, as it was cheaper. Eggs were easier to come by, probably because
these were locally produced.

Our family brought back a fridge with us from Brazil, but till 1970 we
didn't have an electricity connection at home! Those were those trying
times. Nonetheless, I look back wistfully. The tough parts tend to get
edited out of our memories.

FN


On 28 September 2016 at 06:58, Venantius J Pinto 
wrote:

> A consideration:
> Most Christian homes did not have butter on the table. Perhaps such was the
> case in certain enclaves. I know many people who did not, and nether did
> we. And there were many other things we and they did not partake in. It was
> not financially possible. We did not have a fridge, nor a record player and
> so on and so forth. People come from different strata of society, and
> accordingly lived lives. Always hoping. This is something I have attempted
> to spell out many times. Also there is nothing homogeneous about Goans and
> lived aesthetics, as also ethics.
>

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Statistician John Nazareth has been working seriously to work out the
figures of Goans who have migrated across the globe. The Entebbe
(Uganda)/Mississauga (Canada)-based Goan visited his ancestral state of Goa
in September-October 2016, largely to continue with this ongoing quest. See
an earlier link to his work
https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg112046.html
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[John Nazareth's phone in Goa till mid-October 2016 is +91-7057-182-779,
SMS preferable to voice calls.]

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[Goanet] Hail Musharaff

[Nelson Lopes]

HAIL  MUSHARAF

It was an amusing interview on India Today with Rawal Kanwal in full blown,
sarcastic  smiles in contrast to sedentary cool and calmposed  Musharaf .
In his characteristic state of total denials, the cool aggression and
military brutality was not lost .He ducked question on  Osama Bin Ladin
secret, protected hide out in the garrison town of Abatobad  in close
proximity of military establishment .It is no surprise that they could
 spot any intruders from Pakistan and  even their awareness. Musharaf
declared that osama with kidney failure might have died long ago.. It also
harbours internationally  declared terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and Safeez Shaed.
What more proof is needed of Pakistan being a heaven for terrorist,
abetting,training arming and pushing them into India under provocative
fire.? Bombay carnage,Patankot, Uri massacre are meticulously planned and
executed plots of terror. In the  latest incident the four mercenaries
 killed at Uri have no love for Kashmir or the  protests

Musharaf  calls Bugti a non starter forsaken by his family and tribe and
that India is fermenting further unrest in possibly acceding to his request
for political asylum . The inhabitants are fully supporting the army in
Balochistan and recorded , brutal atrocities on unarmed civilians, their
disappearance are figments of imagination,  myths  intricately woven by RAW
into make belief  is the counter propaganda that  is unleashed by Raw ,
fuelling the protest  and unrest in the region. The protest and suppression
in POK and Gilgit Pakistan are a bluff, When   a caller called his bluff
about army role, Musaraff aggressively declared that he should be
butchered,a  language indicative of his fiery ,cold  anger. The incidents
and statics were denied as a bluff .He failed to articulate his views on
Buran wani the confirmed terrorist  to any sensible convincing level .On
the contrary he  rolled  out  some statics,being reticent about any other
disclosures, except about the large  number of army personnel stationed at
Kashmir. .He woefully lamented about the hysteria unleashed and the
effectiveness of Indian propaganda being far superior to Pakistan counter,
Pakistan has deputed 20  legislators to various capitals to paint India red
but without any success so far. It appears that the world leaders
denouncing Pakistan are swayed by the lies and do not have their own mind
at swallowing the propaganda without any analysis of unfolding terror
events around the world.  Mush is the architect of war  in Kargil under
guise of promoting good will like a bee having money in the mouth and sting
at the back .The truth about assasinating Benazir Buto  is too clear for
further elaboration. The military coup in sending Sharif into exile shows
his love for democratic Institutions in PKISTAN. He wants  to undertake
self assumed   role , as  an unofficial , goodwill  Ambassador to USA to
clear the perception about genuineness of Pakistan intentions and terror
 label assigned to  his sovereign  country.  It is  most unfortunate that
he cannot even go to  his beloved Pakistan to lend voluntarily,  moral
 uncalled support  while being incarcerated into exile..

It is not expected that he would admit of any wrong doing by his state and
the purpose in featuring  him to candidly express his views in an unbiased
manner are far fetched.  It is pointless too in inviting Pakistan guests,
insulting and humiliating them and expecting them to be honest in their
answers is misplaced. The only saving grace in featuring Mush, who
denounced Shusma Swaraj by  pouring vitriolic comments at UNGA, while being
silent on the verbosity and lack luster accusations by Shariff in cold
sweat is his calmness, but deep hatred  and suppressed military brutality.
He warned India on water bomb which will  force  Pakistan  to take  extreme
measures to protect its interest and water life line and not take Pakistan
for granted

Nelson Lopes Chinchinim