[Goanet] Rick Steins Christmas in Spain.

[Con Menezes]

  
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x55cd8q_rick-stein-s-spain-e05-spanish-christmas_shortfilms

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] Week-end Christmas movie..........Hearts of Christmas.

[Con Menezes]

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3NSFpqHluA

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] Easy listening selection.......Joy to the World........Christmas song.

[Con Menezes]

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpgaWm2pnNs

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] N Shivdas, on casteism and the campaign for temple entry for all

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

An interview (mostly in English) of a new book in Konkani/Marathi called
Hindu...? Mahajan by prominent Konkani writer N. Shivdas. This novel deals
with contentious issues like caste, control, hegemony and religion in Goan
society today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEKarR1g5vk
-- 
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
_/
_/  Frederick Noronha | http://about.me/noronhafrederick | http://goa1556.in
_/  P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Ttr @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha
_/  Goa,1556 CC shared audio content https://archive.org/details/goa1556
_/
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

Re: [Goanet] Yesterday In Paradise - The Dogears Bookstore Skip Fernandes Presentation

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Hi Roland,

Please lead by example.

My offering is here: https://archive.org/details/goa1556?sort=-publicdate
These are not necessarily books, but the your litany of complaints could be
valid here too (not professional recordings, non-Canadian diction or
mumbling, etc).

As almost anyone might understand, we do work within constraints. To offer
advice from a distant reality doesn't make too sense.

This is one reason why Goa remains one of the few states in India without
even a community radio station of its own. Lots of free suggestion and
advice, little support or concrete help. Tell me what you're willing to
help with, and I'll tell you what useful initiative (not mine) that could
go to help.

We can make elaborate suggestions, but not work concretely to make these
come true?

To argue that "Other than that, one day to Skip's own grandchildren, Pio
Gama Pinto and Fritz De Souza will probably be meaningless and alien
names." sounds as if we're shooting ourselves in our (collective,
community) foot. Let's not worry about grand children, but about today. The
story will keep getting told, maybe in different ways, even of different
places.

Send us some community recordings (and show us what's possible). I would be
the first to want to learn of how to record simply, affordably and
sustainably.

FN
--
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
_/
_/  Frederick Noronha  http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in
_/  P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha
_/  Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at
https://archive.org/details/goa1556
_/
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: INDIAN COLTS PUT UP A GALLANT SHOW IN SEMI-FINAL

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



Please find below the report regarding India team's semi-final match
against Atletico Paranaense in the U-17 International Tournament.



--


INDIAN COLTS PUT UP A GALLANT SHOW IN SEMI-FINAL



*NEW DELHI:* Indian boys, despite being on the receiving end of a 0-4
drubbing, put up a strong performance against Atletico Paranaense in the
first semi-final of the U-17 International Tournament today (December 16,
2016).



*READ MORE:* https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=7709



--



For all other updates and all news and exclusive pictures please follow our
Official Twitter Handle @IndianFootball at
*https://twitter.com/IndianFootball* 


Also follow and like the Official Page of Indian Football Teams on Facebook
at *https://www.facebook.com/TheIndianFootballTeam
*

Media Department, AIFF.
Alternate: me...@the-aiff.com
Website: www.the-aiff.com

[Goanet] Yesterday ... the Presentation - Point & Counterpoint

[Roland]

You turned one of my comments into a request for a "news service". Actually the 
event was a promo for one of Goa 1556 published books. Nothing wrong with 
organizing a promo. It's the done thing, but don't flip it as a news demand 
from a listener.

Your explanations could have been better served by attaching it to the 
recording. That way, all normal expectations of listeners could have been 
suspended.

"Some recording is better than no recording" and "This is the best I can offer" 
would have been an adequate reply from you, for me. That way the next time, I 
would have not looked for anything more. 

'Carp', I would submit, is the wrong word. Why has it befallen on me to make a 
recording to set you an example. Your '25 hours a day' statement is sufficient 
explanation. No need to feel further aggrieved.

Where did I say or imply "it cannot be done" with reference to the subject at 
hand? Is it your knee-jerk reaction meant to strike out at a seeming detractor?

Roland Francis
416-453-3371

Re: [Goanet] Yesterday In Paradise - The Dogears Bookstore Skip Fernandes Presentation

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

On 17 December 2016 at 01:55, Roland  wrote:
>
>
> But again like his previous recordings, he makes no effort to start out
> with any structure or by enlightening listeners with a suitable
> introduction. You are pretty much left to your own devices to understand
> who's who in the presentation and their backgrounds, much less putting in
> context their roles in whatever took place. This time there was a little
> saving grace. Questioners and attendees were made to introduce themselves
> at the fag end, helping to clear the smog a little.
>

Sorry. But it takes quite some time to put this together itself. The day
has only 25 hours for me. If I need to fit in into many other priorities,
this is the best I can offer.  For better quality, set in place a paid news
service. We are not offering that.

Also, this might seem like an excuse for mediocrity, but I do operate on
the assumption that some recording is better than no recording. Francis or
no Francis.

Alternatively, those who carp can also lead by example. Share some
community recordings, well introduced, setting the context, and sans any
mumblers. Show us thus what is really possible. (On this score, I doff my
non-existing hat to JoeGoaUk. This is not meant to be criticism for people
like him.)


>
> To encapsulate, FN is so much in the thick of things that he takes for
> granted that listeners are too, so no favours are done to them via the
> normal courtesies.
>

It's also part of my subterranean goal to assign some homework to audiences
following the recording. To make them wonder what's going on, To push them
to work their way around a meeting they never attended. Maybe one which was
held even half a world away. Otherwise, it might just be boring and
spoon-feeding, innit (as BC might ask)?


> Aside from that rant of mine, Skip's voice was loud, clear and
> authoritative. That was a good thing since the rest of the people including
> FN mostly mumbled while spitting out their thoughts, Goan style. Informal
> though it was meant to be, arre baba, other people not present are
> interested in what you are saying.
>

True. Nowhere does the recording come with the added text explaining that
(i) time was short, and everyone was attempting to finish fast for a 101
reasons which might not be obvious in Toronto right now (ii) we mostly
understand each other's mumbling quite coherently, here (iii) the audio
recorder was actually sitting in Skip's pocket, and some of us had a kind
of ... handicap.

>
> But I doubt that Goan history in East Africa will hold any memories for
> future Goan generations. The ones who lived there had it good but they did
> nothing remarkable to be remembered.
>
> In their own personal family histories, I hope their stay in East Africa
> will be gratefully remembered for the fact it enabled them to immigrate to
> countries that were advanced and which they could call their own. Other
> than that, one day to Skip's own grandchildren, Pio Gama Pinto and Fritz De
> Souza will probably be meaningless and alien names.


Just a few counter-views:

(i) History does not comprise only of things "remarkable to be remembered"
(ii) At least some recognise the importance of recording the past,
sometimes even going far further back, and even when those histories were
not directly shaped by Goans. For instance, Luis Assis Correia has just
released a book on the Portuguese and the Marathas. To fear that everyone
will undergo a collective amnesia might be far-fetched (iii) Old Konkani
saying, you may or may not agree with: "People Who Say It Cannot Be Done
Should Not Interrupt Those Who Are Doing It."

Borem magun,

FN
-- 
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
_/
_/  Frederick Noronha  http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in
_/  P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha
_/  Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at
https://archive.org/details/goa1556
_/
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

[Goanet] AUDIO: Jerry Pinto... on *Homeward Bound*

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Like every Goan, when I was reading the book, my first question was where's
my family in the book As I was reading the book, I found we weren't
there, which was quite disappointing. But suddenly towards the end, there's
this description of the three of the Oliver triplets. They were three girls
born in Burma. Generally triplets have a very bad hit rate; they don't
survive very long because they're always born under-weight. These triplets
were, in addition, also joined at the head, so they had to be separated.
But they were such pretty triplets that they were eventually used in the
Cow & Gate milk powder ad. And Aloysius has got all this dope inside, and
that's my Aunty Girtie and her three daughters! He's got it so
accurately that

I would advice everybody in the audience to get several copies of this
book, because you'll be able to give it to friends, who will also be doing
exactly this -- looking up the Machados and the Pimentas, and the Menezes
and the Sousas... who all turn up in a grand parade of Goan Roman
Christianity, [often] in extremely strange situations.

It is levened with great humour. So that when Aloysius is talking about her
great grandmother, he points out that when she was bringing the kunlies to
the table, her hands would shake and curry would fall on the floor. But
when she was given a glass of feni, full to the brim, she did not drop a
single drop!

Then, there's a lovely moment of illumination, which is what I think all of
us can learn from

This book takes in so many geographic zones: it starts of course in Goa,
goes to Burma, comes to Calcutta, goes to the heart of India, travels to
Mount Abu, goes to Rajasthan, travels into Mhow, goes up to... It's almost
breath-taking how many times the family seems to be able to pull up stakes
and do it all again, without effort. It has its share of tragedies too, and
upsets, and Aloysius is terribly discrete about them. He tells them with a
light hand if you're a Goan you know exactly the scenes that would have
played out. The hints are there. There is no ellision or covering up the
bits and pieces the family history we don't want to talk about.

Apart from it being an extremely valuable mine of information which is
anthropological, historical, social and human, there's another link I found
with the book [The Burma trek]

... I believe we are so callous about our history, so uncaring about
circumstance. We've forgotten most of it. We allow most of it to just fall
away Thank you for giving us all the opportunity of reading this
wonderful family history which I think will resonate with every single
family of every Goan who reads it, and of many diasporic families across
the world. I wish the book every success, and I think it would have it,
simply because of the almost encyclopaedic detail that has gone into its
building.

AUDIO RECORDING: https://archive.org/details/aloy-launch

-- 

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
_/
_/  Frederick Noronha   
http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in
_/  P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha
_/  Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at
https://archive.org/details/goa1556
_/
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

[Goanet] Beautiful!!!

[Tom]

Dear Friends,

Wishing you A Blessed Christmas and all the best in the New Year may it be 
filled with hope, peace and happiness.

Thought you would enjoy this beautiful music during the Festive Season.

God Bless.

Tom & Family


> https://www.youtube.com/embed/eee4-d7FUis

Le flashmob des Prodiges - YouTube
www.youtube.com
Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is 
disabled in your browser.

[Goanet] Yesterday In Paradise - The Dogears Bookstore Skip Fernandes Presentation

[Roland]

Like his previous recordings, FN gave people like myself, thousands of miles 
away from an event, the opportunity to be close to it.

But again like his previous recordings, he makes no effort to start out with 
any structure or by enlightening listeners with a suitable introduction. You 
are pretty much left to your own devices to understand who's who in the 
presentation and their backgrounds, much less putting in context their roles in 
whatever took place. This time there was a little saving grace. Questioners and 
attendees were made to introduce themselves at the fag end, helping to clear 
the smog a little.

To encapsulate, FN is so much in the thick of things that he takes for granted 
that listeners are too, so no favours are done to them via the normal 
courtesies.

Aside from that rant of mine, Skip's voice was loud, clear and authoritative. 
That was a good thing since the rest of the people including FN mostly mumbled 
while spitting out their thoughts, Goan style. Informal though it was meant to 
be, arre baba, other people not present are interested in what you are saying.

Skip's book promises to be interesting because during the time he talked about, 
he was close to the action and does not lack the boldness required of an 
investigative reporter. More's the pity he was not or could not be supported by 
his newspaper The Nation. Who knows what good could have come of a strong 
press, supported by the opposition at home and by Britain abroad. 

What am I saying? Britain's interests were actually furthered by the thugs in 
power Jomo Kenyatta and Idi Amin. And America happy that socialism and 
communism were kept at bay, were quite happy to provide the immoral compass. 
Immoral, because anytime the elite is favoured over the vast citizenry, no good 
can come of it.

Skip could have have to face some tough questions if his audience had either 
done some homework or exhibited some mental keenness. One question I found 
worthy: If the Goans in Africa had pitted themselves on the black African side, 
would they have been more welcomed in a free country.

The answer was correctly and unanimously given by all. A resounding NO. It's an 
obvious answer but the question itself has interesting facets.

Could the Goans whose livelihood and existence in Africa was owed in totality 
to the British colonialists, really oppose the latter?

Can one really say that those fractured countries could be depended on to 
remember the Goan contribution to their development.

Could Goans really be happy in countries with corrupted, impulsive and often 
ignorant leadership. 

Would Goans not have lost their opportunities to have pioneered their societies 
in western democracies where their prosperity was proved assured if they had 
remained back for too long.

Skip's book plays an important part in the telling of the history of the 
countries the Goans made home and thought they would never have to leave. In 
that sense they were betrayed. In other countries, for example in the Middle 
East, they knew where they stood. But then again, if you knew that you treated 
your real hosts as an inferior class while you had it good, what returns could 
you expect once the British - your masters (and overlords of the Black 
Africans) left, as leave they must.

But I doubt that Goan history in East Africa will hold any memories for future 
Goan generations. The ones who lived there had it good but they did nothing 
remarkable to be remembered.

In their own personal family histories, I hope their stay in East Africa will 
be gratefully remembered for the fact it enabled them to immigrate to countries 
that were advanced and which they could call their own. Other than that, one 
day to Skip's own grandchildren, Pio Gama Pinto and Fritz De Souza will 
probably be meaningless and alien names.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

[Goanet] CHILDREN ARE CHOKED

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


From: felix rebello >

CHILDREN ARE CHOKED

Children are uniquely vulnerable to air pollution - due both to their 
physiology as well as to the type and degree of their exposure. There are 
several reasons for this vulnerability amongst children including that their 
respiratory airways are smaller so infections are more likely to cause 
blockages than in adults; they breathe twice as fast, taking in more air per 
unit of body weight, compared to adults; their lungs and immune systems are 
still developing, so they are highly susceptible to infections, which both 
increases the risks of respiratory infection and reduces their ability to 
combat such infections.

For further reading click - 
www.infantjesusjogeshwari.in - go to GEM 
E-NEWSLETTER section and read the latest  GEM-7/14 - CHILDREN ARE CHOKED.

This issue of GEM also contains other interesting and enriching articles like, 
Kalina teacher, students recycle 30,000 Tetra Pak cartons in 3 years; Juhu 
beach to get makeover in 4 months; How to be an Environmentalist and a resource 
person; Need a mass movement to conserve forest, says environment minister Anil 
Madhav Dave; 'Ecological Island' in Vatican aims for optimum disposal of waste; 
five hundred crore wedding in Karnataka;  and fifty crore house for the 
Telangana Chief Minister and so on

Lead article in this issue says, "Children are uniquely vulnerable to air 
pollution". Can we put into the minds of the kids that 'Self-help is the best 
help'? If they need a clean and green future, they need to work for it. Read 
'Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on SCC ECO KIDS CLUBS at Infant Jesus 
church, Jogeshwari, Mumbai.

Forwarding this mail to your contacts is your small contribution for 
environment.


Fr Felix Rebello

[Goanet] That's why they call him Mr Vazeline! Labour's Keith Vaz is CLEARED by the cops but now he faces probe by Parliament's sleaze watchdog

[Gabe Menezes]

That's why they call him Mr Vazeline! Labour's Keith Vaz is CLEARED by the
cops but now he faces probe by Parliament's sleaze watchdog

Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4040744/That-s-call-Mr-Vazeline-Labour-s-Keith-Vaz-CLEARED-cops-faces-probe-Parliament-s-sleaze-watchdog.html#ixzz4T1CXtOgj

Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter
 | DailyMail
on Facebook 
-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Easy listening selection.......Feliz Navidad.......Jose Feliciano

[Con Menezes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] Enjoy Goa at Chrisstmas.

[Con Menezes]

  
https://www.goaexperience.co.uk/blog/enjoy-goa-at-christmas-in-2016

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] Lghts & decorations around London

[Con Menezes]

Lights & decorations  around various locations in 2016, 
 
http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/christmas-lights-in-london

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] Press Report -We GITP Response to CM’s statements on Samvaad Yojana

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

Dear members of the Press and Media,

Please find attached press release printed on Herald.

*We GITP  Response to CM’s statements on Samvaad Yojana*

As per recent comments by Chief Minister of Goa, the ‘Goa Samvaad Yojana’
is a step towards preparing Goan students for the IT sector. He further
states that the scheme would help students in getting introduced to the
technology.

Goa IT Professionals (GITP), however, does not agree with this perspective
and considers this scheme an election gimmick at taxpayers' cost for the
following reasons:
• If just having access to free internet was, in any way, a means towards
getting introduced to IT sector, then almost every individual, young or
old, who currently owns a smartphone would have started using digital
payment methods much before the current demonetization move.
• With broadband internet being around for more than a decade, lakhs of
Goans would have been employable by now in the IT industry.
• Without built-in filters and mechanisms, this Yojana is bound to be
misused for wasteful things like games, pornography etc.
• Without mandatory educational inputs, through this scheme, about
productive uses of internet, especially for skills development, how will
the Goan youth be “prepared for IT sector”?
• IT hubs of global repute in our neighboring states have created millions
of IT jobs without any such schemes. Goa government would do better to
learn a few things from our neighbours about doing the right things for
development of IT industry rather than such gimmicks and empty talk with no
results seen yet from the pittance of an IT Policy it announced a year ago.
• On an average, more than 80% of computers in our school Computer Labs are
non-functional since many years as the bulky CPUs (Central Processing
Units) of these computers have perished due to their sensitivity to dust,
humidity and electrical fluctuations. GITP has repeatedly demonstrated to
this government rugged, compact alternatives like Raspberry Pi-based
systems that run on Free Open Source Operating Systems and Software, which
not only reduces the overall cost to 1/10th, but also ensures that the
system would function properly for much longer duration in our current
school conditions. With this solution, all non-functional CPUs in 450
schools across Goa could have been replaced with Raspberry Pi kits within
Rs. 2 cr as a one-time cost versus the Rs. 1 cr that will now be wasted per
month on the Samvaad Yojana.
• Reliance Jio has extended their free high-speed internet offer till March
2017 rendering the Samvaad Yojana redundant till then. If our government
could start the Samvaad Yojana from April 2017 then the resulting savings
from preceding months would have sufficed to fix all Goan school Computer
Labs as explained above.

*"Giving free mobile internet and saying that this will make the youth IT
ready, is like giving free petrol and saying that this will make youth
ready for F1(Formula 1 race)."*

Our CM does not seem concerned that due to the dilapidated state of our
school Computer Labs, generations of Goan youth have been passing through
our schools without any meaningful understanding of the productive use and
transformational power of computers. Enabling school Computer Labs and
local libraries with low cost high value-add computer systems with
functioning internet connectivity would have helped in effective and
focused promotion of technology for student community.

Regards,


*Goa IT Professionals – GITP *| www.goaitpro.org | goa...@gmail.com

*Important links: About GITP  | GITP on
Social Network  | GITP Core Team
 | *Goa Skills Registry - GSR

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day...The Platters - The Ultimate Collection (Not Now Music) [Full Album]

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OslDKoaJ6pA

G



-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet-News] EXCERPT: What all grew in Granny Leopoldina's backyard (Aloysius D'Souza, Homeward Bound)

[Goanet Reader]

What all grew in Granny Leopoldina's backyard

Aloysius D'Souza, whose
book 'Homeward Bound' is
being released today 5pm
(Dec 16, 2016) at the
Sainik Gymkhana, Defence
Colony, Alto Porvorim, Goa,
talks about life in Goa
in the 1950s and thereabouts.
He can be contacted at
smhsda...@gmail.com or
+91-96-57-12-60-48.
This book focuses on life in
Goa about half a century ago,
migration and Goans in Burma.

Granny (Leopoldina Isabel Sequeira e Souza, 1883-1975) had a
sort of market garden in the *moiee* (plateau). To get to it,
we had to go down hill through the jungle behind our house
and then through the small narrow track that went towards
Moira. This *moiee* was a fairly large levelled agricultural
field with two wells and tamarind, coconut and bin'na (kokam,
or Garcinia indica) trees. In this field, Granny cultivated
paddy during the monsoon and vegetables from September to
May. On the upper portion of the moiee, which was a
relatively steep hillside, there were mango and caju trees
and a dense grove of bamboo.

  Paddy cultivation is laborious work. Manure (clay
  from the creek bed mixed with dried cow-dung and
  fish manure) would be deposited in little heaps
  evenly spaced in the whole field. In the first
  rains towards the end of May, when the soil became
  soft, the ground was ploughed using two bulls and a
  wooden plough. The soil was thus thoroughly turned
  over so that the manure and roots of previous crops
  got mixed into the soil.

The field was then divided into large squares with earthen
walls about six inches high (bundhs). During the monsoon
rains these squares filled with water. Paddy seeds (stored in
special straw bundles from the previous year's crop) was
sprinkled evenly in two of these small plots. Then, two bulls
dragged a plank behind them on which the ploughman stood.
This ensured that all the seeds went into the soil and did
not get washed away with the next rain or picked up by birds.

These two plots were carefully monitored to ensure that there
always was standing water about three inches deep. If there
was no rain for a couple of days, these squares were filled
by drawing water from the well. Paddy seedlings sprouted in
these plots and after about fourteen days they were
transplanted into the other small plots in neat rows with
about six inches between each seedling.

Transplantation was really back-breaking and was usually done
by women labourers. Water depth in all plots was maintained
at around three inches -- gifted by the rain, or drawn from
wells. By mid-September the crop started to ripen, the green
ears of paddy turning golden. This was a beautiful sight when
a light breeze blew these golden ears of paddy.

Since the rains stop about this time, the fields dry and the
ears of paddy fill. By September end or the first week of
October, the crop was harvested, tied into sheaves and left
to dry in the now dry fields.

Since our crop was relatively small, the grain is separated
from the stalks (threshing) by being trodden underfoot by
labourers. [As children, my sister] Iza and I helped. But at
the end of a couple of hours, our legs up to our knees became
red and itchy. In large fields, the paddy is threshed by
bullocks going around in a circle over the sheaves of paddy.

The stalks are then lifted off the ground after thorough
shaking and paddy grains mixed with chaff are left on the
ground. These grains are then filled into *sup* or *supra*
(baskets shaped like large dust pans). Each filled *sup* is
held up to the full height of a man's outstretched hands and
facing away from the wind he allows the grain to fall to the
ground. Full grains of paddy fall almost vertically, while
chaff and empty paddy husks are blown a little distance away,
in a process called winnowing.

This cleaned paddy is then filled into sacks and taken home,
where it is again dried in our angan (a small patch of beaten
earth plastered with wet cow dung and allowed to dry) during
the day time, and refilled into sacks at night. After about
four or five days this dried paddy is stored in our *bahn*.
The stalks of paddy (straw) were left to dry in the *moiee*
and then either sold or built into a haystack. In later years
when Granny kept buffaloes, the haystack would be erected
behind our house easily accessible for the buffaloes to feed
themselves.

After the paddy was harvested, the field would again be
watered. The same organic manure mix was added and then
completely ploughed up, destroying the small *bundhs* and
ploughing into the soil the roots and stalks of the recent
paddy crop. This field was then split into small sections
separated by low earth walls (about three inches high) with
water channels spreading through them. Granny grew a number
of vegetables like red and green baji, *vosunde* (black eyed
beans), chillies, onions, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

  Granny, or a workman, would draw water from the
  

[Goanet] EXCERPT: What all grew in Granny Leopoldina's backyard (Aloysius D'Souza, Homeward Bound)

[Goanet Reader]

What all grew in Granny Leopoldina's backyard

Aloysius D'Souza, whose
book 'Homeward Bound' is
being released today 5pm
(Dec 16, 2016) at the
Sainik Gymkhana, Defence
Colony, Alto Porvorim, Goa,
talks about life in Goa
in the 1950s and thereabouts.
He can be contacted at
smhsda...@gmail.com or
+91-96-57-12-60-48.
This book focuses on life in
Goa about half a century ago,
migration and Goans in Burma.

Granny (Leopoldina Isabel Sequeira e Souza, 1883-1975) had a
sort of market garden in the *moiee* (plateau). To get to it,
we had to go down hill through the jungle behind our house
and then through the small narrow track that went towards
Moira. This *moiee* was a fairly large levelled agricultural
field with two wells and tamarind, coconut and bin'na (kokam,
or Garcinia indica) trees. In this field, Granny cultivated
paddy during the monsoon and vegetables from September to
May. On the upper portion of the moiee, which was a
relatively steep hillside, there were mango and caju trees
and a dense grove of bamboo.

  Paddy cultivation is laborious work. Manure (clay
  from the creek bed mixed with dried cow-dung and
  fish manure) would be deposited in little heaps
  evenly spaced in the whole field. In the first
  rains towards the end of May, when the soil became
  soft, the ground was ploughed using two bulls and a
  wooden plough. The soil was thus thoroughly turned
  over so that the manure and roots of previous crops
  got mixed into the soil.

The field was then divided into large squares with earthen
walls about six inches high (bundhs). During the monsoon
rains these squares filled with water. Paddy seeds (stored in
special straw bundles from the previous year's crop) was
sprinkled evenly in two of these small plots. Then, two bulls
dragged a plank behind them on which the ploughman stood.
This ensured that all the seeds went into the soil and did
not get washed away with the next rain or picked up by birds.

These two plots were carefully monitored to ensure that there
always was standing water about three inches deep. If there
was no rain for a couple of days, these squares were filled
by drawing water from the well. Paddy seedlings sprouted in
these plots and after about fourteen days they were
transplanted into the other small plots in neat rows with
about six inches between each seedling.

Transplantation was really back-breaking and was usually done
by women labourers. Water depth in all plots was maintained
at around three inches -- gifted by the rain, or drawn from
wells. By mid-September the crop started to ripen, the green
ears of paddy turning golden. This was a beautiful sight when
a light breeze blew these golden ears of paddy.

Since the rains stop about this time, the fields dry and the
ears of paddy fill. By September end or the first week of
October, the crop was harvested, tied into sheaves and left
to dry in the now dry fields.

Since our crop was relatively small, the grain is separated
from the stalks (threshing) by being trodden underfoot by
labourers. [As children, my sister] Iza and I helped. But at
the end of a couple of hours, our legs up to our knees became
red and itchy. In large fields, the paddy is threshed by
bullocks going around in a circle over the sheaves of paddy.

The stalks are then lifted off the ground after thorough
shaking and paddy grains mixed with chaff are left on the
ground. These grains are then filled into *sup* or *supra*
(baskets shaped like large dust pans). Each filled *sup* is
held up to the full height of a man's outstretched hands and
facing away from the wind he allows the grain to fall to the
ground. Full grains of paddy fall almost vertically, while
chaff and empty paddy husks are blown a little distance away,
in a process called winnowing.

This cleaned paddy is then filled into sacks and taken home,
where it is again dried in our angan (a small patch of beaten
earth plastered with wet cow dung and allowed to dry) during
the day time, and refilled into sacks at night. After about
four or five days this dried paddy is stored in our *bahn*.
The stalks of paddy (straw) were left to dry in the *moiee*
and then either sold or built into a haystack. In later years
when Granny kept buffaloes, the haystack would be erected
behind our house easily accessible for the buffaloes to feed
themselves.

After the paddy was harvested, the field would again be
watered. The same organic manure mix was added and then
completely ploughed up, destroying the small *bundhs* and
ploughing into the soil the roots and stalks of the recent
paddy crop. This field was then split into small sections
separated by low earth walls (about three inches high) with
water channels spreading through them. Granny grew a number
of vegetables like red and green baji, *vosunde* (black eyed
beans), chillies, onions, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

  Granny, or a workman, would draw water from the
  

[Goanet] Game Changer for Goan Art (Times of India,

[V M]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/a-game-changer-for-goan-art-takes-its-first-steps/articleshow/56009454.cms
16/12/2016)

Five hundred years old and empty for many years, Panaji’s iconic
Palacio Idalcao (old secretariat) now brims with wonderfully conceived
art exhibitions, the centrepiece of ambitious startup, Serendipity
Arts Festival. A bold, free-ranging programme including 40
commissioned art projects, music, dance, theatre and food will enliven
the capital city’s heritage waterfront.

Even as venues take shape in Jardim Garcia da Orta, the Mandovi
riverfront promenade, Kala Academy, old GMC building, and the
Bandodkar and SAG grounds, it’s clear Goa is in for an unprecedented
bonanza till December 23. The slate of performances alone includes
Colin D’Cruz’s Latin Connection, Leela Samson’s award-winning
Bharatanatyam ensemble, Sidi Goma drummers, an original tiatr
‘Portuguez Passport’, dastangoi, gypsy flamenco, a ‘River Raaga’
cruise, and a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’.

There is much more to celebrate, but most meaningful and important is
the good fortune of genuine serendipity connecting the festival’s
efforts and Palacio Idalcao, which has remained vacant even after
being expensively restored several years ago. Most recently, the
current administration floated criminally irresponsible plans to
submit the priceless heritage building to “tendering” for “museum
management”. This is a recipe for disaster. Every concerned citizen of
Goa needs to experience what Serendipity has achieved, precisely where
all potential is planned to be squandered by Goa’s trademark opaque,
deeply dubious, bureaucratic machinations.

The stakes could not be higher. The Adil Shah palace is a unique
civilizational heirloom, the ideal place to define and defend the case
for Goan modern and contemporary art, the stunning legacy connecting
Trindade, Fonseca, Chimulkar and da Cruz to Souza, Gaitonde and Laxman
Pai. All that context across Goa’s multi-layered history is
beautifully reflected in the building’s architecture and location. In
an introductory wall text, one of Serendipity’s key curators, Ranjit
Hoskote, aptly urges visitors, “You are here. Look outside the windows
before you look at this immersive collection…You have entered a
neighbourhood traversed by lines mapping a coalition between global
power and transnational finance.”

Serendipity at Adil Shah palace comprises several separate
exhibitions. One chamber is occupied by Baiju Parthan’s 58-part
‘Arpeggio for Abbe Faria’, a jazzy, luminous riff on the famous statue
which itself looms whole just outside the window. It feels quite a lot
like being inside a kaleidoscope. Hoskote writes that his selections
are “provocations to the viewerly imagination, invitations to reflect
on the ambiguities of the mutual gaze, the entanglements of motive,
affinity and curiosity that underwrite the interface between strangers
who formed relationships of mutuality, antagonism, collaboration, and
translation in a fraught cultural and political contact zone.”

Unlike other arts festivals hosted in Goa, Serendipity wisely selected
curators with experience of the state. That sensitivity makes all the
difference. Instead of using Adil Shah palace as a neutral backdrop,
several - including Hoskote - aspired to dialogue. ‘Ten Histories:
Goan Costume’ by Wendell Rodricks is a spirited, cultural history
recounted via individual artefacts; the kunbi sari, a vivid,
ceiling-grazing Narkasura. Jyotindra Jain chose Kalighat-style artist
Kalam Patua to create cheeky, contemporary icons ‘From the Interstices
of the City’ - tourists in Old Goa, bikini-clad beachgoers, even Vasco
da Gama. Mandrem-based Kedar Dhondu contributed a thoughtful, giant
(240x80 inches) painting on panels, ‘The Sea is History’, which
juxtaposes Goa’s traditional deities with images of slaves brought
across the ocean from Africa.

But it is another veteran curator with strong Goa connections,
Prashant Panjiar, who settled the grand entrance hall of Adil Shah
palace with what will certainly be the crowd-pleaser of the festival.
The entire soaring space is filled with Goan characters - rare images
from the Souza & Paul archives, and collages of family photographs
from a number of private collections. The room hums with Goan
identity.

Almost a full decade ago, the old GMC building was given on contract
to a Delhi company to be converted into a mall. Hoskote curated an
epic art exhibition in the space. ‘Aparanta’ showed off the
possibilities of the building, and civil society then refused to allow
its debasement. Now it is Palacio Idalcao under threat. But
Serendipity has struck first. The building has been used to full
potential. Can this momentum be sustained? Or will the absurd “tender”
scheme be allowed to set everything back to zero?

[Goanet] Urgent Media Intervention. Please help.

[Police Reforms Watch]

URGENT MEDIA INTERVENTION- Issued in PUBLIC INTEREST

Mr. John Fernandes had spoken to us earlier and send us this communication 
which is self-explanatory.

Now , Mr. Felix Dsouza, brother of Slyvia and John Fernandes [brother-in-law]  
died yesterday and the body is right now in the JJ Morgue.

The family suspects foul play and are demanding a Post Mortem/ Investigation  
as the issue we understand is property related.

Mr. John Fernandes who is based in Goa and right now in Mumbai  can be 
contacted on : 09850774250 for more details. 

They are also seeking the help of the Mumbai Police to look into this matter. 
We have also addressed a communication to the Office of the Mumbai Police 
Commissioner seeking his help.

Issued in public interest.

warm regards,
Dolphy A. D'souza
Cell: 9833884227
Convenor
POLICE REFORMS WATCH
Email: policereformswa...@gmail.com
W: www.policereformswatch.org





John fernandes 
h.461,gama vaddo,parra 
bardez goa.  




Sir,
Further to our telephonic conversation,sending you more details,with copies of 
police complaints.
Felix d'souza,sister Sylvia fernandes=26d,first floor,wellington terrace,dhobi 
talao,bby-42.
Felix,75yrs,invalid,allwyn almeida with his wife and a small son.
Felix's sister Audrey died when was 06 months.
My wife raised them up eversince.a few years back allwyn got married and kept 
his wife in the house,saying they would move out to their flat in borivli,as he 
was working in dubai.
My wife lived there all the while and moved to goa in 2008.allwyn lost his job 
and returned to india in 2008.
He has been harassing felix eversince.no neighbor is allowed to visit him as he 
said he would put a theft case on them.if anyone sends him food,he throws it 
out.he threw out expensive medecines that my daughter sent from Singapore.my 
wife has arranged for a tiffin to be sent to him daily.all his medical bills my 
wife pays.my wife cut short her trip and came from Singapore to Bombay,as felix 
was put in Bombay hospitalfor a week.she stayed in andheri and travelled to 
dhobi talao daily for the last 4 months,as she could not stay in her own 
house,to look after felix.allwyn uses abusive language,and his wife threatened 
my wife.she kept a maid to look after felix the whole day.she has been to azad 
maidan police station,but no luck,nobody is willing to help.I came to Bombay 
and sent my wife back to goa.
This allwyn beats felix,and he even told my wife he feels like committing 
suicide.sometimes he is not in his senses,and is too frightened to speak,as he 
may be beaten by allwyn.
My wife pays the rent and allwyn has no business to be there.he has his flat in 
borivli,and goes there every weekend.he is trying to put felix in an old age 
home,so he can have the house to himself.on weekends,he locks the house and 
felix is kept in the kitchen.a few weeks back,on a weekend,felix collapsed and 
was lying on the floor for 2 days.the neighbours had to break open the back 
door to get in.
This allwyn has told my wife he will break my legs.he abuses my wife in filthy 
language.he holds his private part and says he will rape her.he even said since 
I am old,he will come to goa and rape her in my house.
I would be very grateful if you can help us.

[Goanet] Karnataka: Century-old church vandalised in Udupi

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 



Century-old church vandalised in Udupi

December 14, 2016 by admin
Filed under newsletter-india

Leave a 
Comment

[http://mattersindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/udupi_church-370x290.jpg]Bangalore,
 December 14, 2016: Vandals desecrated a century-old landmark Catholic church 
that runs two schools and a college in southern Karnataka, leaving behind a 
shattered statue and another partly damaged in the Sunday afternoon attack 
barely a fortnight before Christmas.

The intruders, however, could not enter the church building in Shirva, Udupi 
district, as all the doors had been well secured.

But the assault left a sour taste in the relatively peaceful district that has 
rarely seen such attacks on minority institutions.

Church sources said the 103-year-old institution - Our Lady of Health Church - 
in Udupi district, around 380km from Bangalore, had its usual Sunday mass but 
the authorities found the statues vandalised when they returned after the 
afternoon break yesterday.

The one completely destroyed was that of St Antony while a statue of St 
Lawrence had been displaced from its pedestal and damaged in the process, 
parish priest Father Stanly Tauro said.

The statues, both 2ft tall, were placed just outside the main door of the 
church, which runs the Don Bosco School and St Mary's school and St Mary's 
College on its 10-acre campus.

"Everything was fine when we left around 12.30pm (on Sunday), the usual time 
when everyone leaves after the mass. The incident was discovered after 3pm," 
the priest told The Telegraph today.

Tauro had immediately informed police, who arrived and took his written 
complaint.

"I have no idea who would do such a thing. But it appears the incident took 
place between 1pm and 3pm, when no one was around on the campus," Tauro, whose 
parish is home to around 1,050 Catholic families, added. "Unfortunately no one 
is around on Sundays (as the schools and the college were closed for the 
weekend).

Tauro said both the CCTV cameras at the spot were out of order. "We realised 
the CCTV system was dead when we checked it yesterday. I feel it was affected 
because of frequent power failures in this area."

Immediately after the complaint the police had deployed fingerprint experts and 
sniffer dogs. "This area has not seen any such incidents. So we are looking at 
all possible angles," Udupi district police superintendent K.T. Balakrishna 
said.

The officer said a special team had been assigned to investigate the case. An 
FIR has been registered under the penal code's Section 295, which deals with 
destruction and desecration of religious places.

Sunday's incident in Udupi was the first since March 2013, when a group of 
alleged Bajrang Dal activists barged into a Christian prayer hall and assaulted 
seven worshippers. Twenty Bajrang activists were later arrested.

- telegraph

[Goanet] Shocking! On its own, RBI decides 26 areas to be out-of-bounds under the RTI Act

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


http://www.moneylife.in/article/shocking-on-its-own-rbi-decides-26-areas-to-be-out-of-bounds-under-the-rti-act/49160.html

Looks like the reasons for the disastrous implementation of demonetisation by 
the present government that affects each and every citizen of this country, 
will remain a dirty secret. The Reserve Bank of India, violating the basic 
norms of the Right to Information (RTI) Act is against supply of any 
information, even if it comes under the Section 4 of the RTI Act.

If you go to most of the websites of public authorities, you will find suo motu 
disclosures under Section 4 of the RTI Act, hardly being adhered too. This, 
despite, repeated directives from the Department of Personnel and Training 
(DoPT), over the last few years. The Reserve Bank of India, has audaciously 
declared on its website, that it cannot disclose most of its information, even 
that which comes under Section 4, explaining that, “being the Central Bank of 
the country, in its role as banker to the Government and banker to the banks, 
the RBI receives and holds a lot of sensitive information, the disclosure of 
which may not, at all times, be in the interest of the nation or serve public 
interest.’’

Giving a list of 26 areas where it cannot provide information, the preamble in 
the link,https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/bs_viewcontent.aspx?Id=2347, states, “A 
list of such information which cannot be disclosed either wholly or partially 
is furnished…While compiling the list, it has been the Bank's endeavour to 
attain the objectives of the RTI Act, without jeopardizing the financial 
stability and economic interests of the State. It may also be noted that the 
list is only indicative and not exhaustive and is subject to review / revision. 
Each application received under the Act would be examined in the light of the 
provisions of the Act and any decision with respect to non-disclosure by the 
Bank will be supported by the relevant exemption provisions…”

The fact is, that even that information which is not in any way sensitive nor 
would it “jeopardize the financial interest of the State” and which in fact, is 
mandatory for public disclosure under Section 4 of the RTI Act has been put 
under arrest of Section 8 of the RTI Act by the supercilious Reserve Bank. A 
few examples being:

  *   Transfer Request letters / representations / records and connected 
notings and correspondence received from officers
  *   List of employees of doubtful integrity
  *   Vigilance Audit Report
  *   Property statement and particulars of properties of employees
  *   Information regarding merger/ amalgamation proposal of banks.
  *   Information about annual branch expansion plan of banks during the 
currency of plan
  *   Correspondence with Government relating to proposed amendments to various 
Acts
  *   Information relating to appointment of directors on the boards of banks/ 
financial institutions, if it involves third party personal information
  *   Details of Superannuation benefits like Provident Fund, Gratuity, 
Encashment of leave, commuted value of pension paid to individuals (except to 
legal heirs in case of death). Also, information on compassionate package paid 
on behalf of individuals.


The 26 areas include even those ‘general’ areas where information comes under 
RT Act. For example, the Human Resources Management Department; Department of 
Banking Regulation and Department of Banking Supervision.

The RBI arrogantly declares ‘Department of Communication’ (which dishes out 
press releases) and selectively excludes journalists from briefings, as the 
only area where information comes in a totally transparent manner. It states 
here: “The role of Department of Communication (DoC) is to disseminate 
information meant for markets, banks and public in general. It receives 
information from Departments that is meant for dissemination. As such, in 
principle, DoC does not have any information that cannot be disclosed under the 
RTI Act.’’

This has prompted RTI activist Vijay Kumbhar and this author to file a 
complaint with the Central Information Commission (CIC). Kumbhar says, “Banks 
deal with public funds even if they are private ones. Reserve Bank of India is 
at the head of them all and it is scandalous that it should bring in 
information under Section 4, into Section 8 category. It has thus left no work 
for the Public Information Officer (PIO) who needs to just keep denying every 
kind of information.”

In addition, under Section 8 of the RTI Act, a public authority is bound to 
provide partial information, even if the remaining comes under information that 
can be denied. So, why pre-empt? Please see below the entire, exhaustive list 
under which information can be denied. The yellow highlights are the ones I 
have mentioned in the article. You might find a few others too.


(Vinita Deshmukh is 
consulting editor of 

[Goanet] What makes Christmas a season of joy? - Be happy in remembering, sharing and caring for those in great poverty and need

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


http://www.ucanindia.in/news/what-makes-christmas-a-season-of-joy/33698/daily
What makes Christmas a season of joy? | UCAN 
India
www.ucanindia.in
Be happy in remembering, sharing and caring for those in great poverty and need.




  *
  *
  *   [Share on facebook] 

  *
  *
  *   [http://www.ucanindia.in/images/rss.gif] 

  *   [http://www.ucanindia.in/images/email.gif] 

  *   [share this post] 

  *   [Print]

[http://www.ucanindia.in/uploads/news/2016/12/1481818310.jpg]

A street vendor arranges Christmas decorations as Filipinos start to flock to 
shopping malls and street markets to prepare for the holidays. (Photo by Jun 
Mestica)
By Father Shay Cullen
Manila:
What makes Christmas so beautiful, so cheerful, and a happy time, especially 
for children? It must be the gift-giving, the time when children look forward 
to gifts and love and caring and sharing.

The children of some well-off families receive so many gifts through the years 
that receiving more means nothing anymore. Children from poor families, 
however, looks at a Christmas gift as a joy they never forget because they have 
so little in this world.


Christmas is about change of heart and mind when the rich reach out to the 
poor. It's about caring and sharing.


It may not be much to ask, but with millions of displaced children in the world 
today, hundreds of thousands hungry and starving, it will be our duty and honor 
and a blessing for us to be able to share with them.


To give from our abundance and not to keep it all for ourselves is the spirit 
of Christmas. This is what should be with us all our lives — helping others not 
just ourselves.


It's a natural virtue to care and share with our own families, but to help a 
stranger in need is an act of great goodness and virtue. That is being a good 
neighbor.


A frugal Christmas is in order and we are challenged to have the courage and 
the love of neighbors and to stop and ask, "Who is my neighbor?"


In case you have forgotten that important teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, I 
remind you, it is the traveler who was beaten and robbed and left for dead.


The rich politician and merchant came and saw him and walked on by. The simple 
traveler, an outcast — a refugee almost — of Jewish society, came by and helped 
the wounded and bound his wounds when others would not and would leave him to 
die.


There are those who look the other way and walk on by. As many as 6,000 people 
have been shot dead in the Philippines since June this year. We ask why?


We are challenged by the Christmas spirit to put aside lavish plans for big 
spending and parties and think of the wounded and the dying in the war in Syria.


These are victims of the ruthless bombing of civilians, schools and hospitals 
by Putin of Russia and the war criminal Assad.


We must be concerned that the UK has sold 4.2 billion dollars worth of arms to 
the Saudis for their war in Yemen, killing hundreds of civilians including 
women and children. Whether they were killed intentionally or not, it's a war 
crime. It's like putting a sword in the hands of King Herod.


The modern images of the Holy Family fleeing the evil King Herod seeking safety 
as refugees are present in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and South Sudan. If the family 
of Jesus fled to Europe today, they would be barred by an iron fence, barbed 
wire, a concrete wall with the signs "No entry, go away, you are not welcome 
here."


If you believe that is right, then you are wrong. Because there are certain 
values treasured by most of humanity and that is to be treated by others, as we 
would want them to treat us. That may sound selfish but it is the bottom line. 
It is the lowest motivation.


The higher value and greatest motivation to help others ought to be because 
they are human like all of us. They have equal rights, dignity, humanity and 
God-given value and honor.


Christmas has a message for all of us and it is in the image of Jesus of 
Nazareth. He is the most revered of prophets and the Son of God as he was born 
in utter poverty. He grew up, lived and worked in a poor family as a tradesman.


Then there is the evil force of the so-called Islamic State that has captured 
and tortured many and threatens thousands more with death, as did the evil King 
Herod in his day of massacres of the innocents and their parents.


Are we going to close our doors and windows and keep them out of a refuge and 

[Goanet] India's New Bank Notes Already Being Used For Corruption: Foreign Media

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indias-new-bank-notes-already-being-used-for-corruption-foreign-media-1638254?pfrom=home-lateststories
[http://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2016-11/rs-2000-note_650x400_41479215030.jpg]

India's New Bank Notes Already Being Used For Corruption: Foreign 
Media
www.ndtv.com
On Nov. 8 - the same day American politics was upended - India's prime minister 
announced the sudden invalidation of all high denomination currency notes, 
accounting for a whopping 86 percent of the country's cash.





Old Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 were demonetised and the Centre introduced new notes 
of Rs. 500 and Rs. 2,000.

NEW DELHI:
HIGHLIGHTS

  1.  The notes ban was done primarily to catch tax evaders
  2.  Taxmen registered 36 cases in 2 states, seized over 20 crores in new cash
  3.  A BJP politician arrested with Rs.33 lakh in new 2000 notes in Bengal

 On Nov. 8 - the same day American politics was upended - India's prime 
minister announced the sudden invalidation of all high denomination currency 
notes, accounting for a whopping 86 percent of the country's cash. 
Demonetization, as it is referred to here, has thrown Indians rich and poor 
into a protracted state of confusion and frustration.

The move's primary intention has been to catch tax evaders. A significant 
portion of India's cash is ill-gotten or undeclared, and it passes hands in an 
extensive shadow economy that goes untaxed. Invalidating 500 and 1,000 rupee 
notes meant that all Indians, including those hoarding large amounts of cash, 
would have to exchange those notes for new ones at a bank. In the process, 
official thinking went, all cash would become accounted for, and those who had 
been evading taxes would either have to stomach huge losses or declare their 
assets and pay major penalties.

For the plan to work, however, it had to be done in secret. Otherwise, those in 
possession of India's "black money" could have converted it into noncash assets 
such as gold and avoided detection. That secrecy meant that the minting of new 
notes - new 500s, and 2,000s instead of 1,000s - could not happen in earnest 
until well after the invalidation was announced, lest a whiff of the change 
seep out. At current rates of printing, analysts say it may take three more 
months, if not double that, to restore the economy to its previous level of 
liquidity.

As such, India is now in the throes of a major cash shortage. People are 
spending hours in those lines, often to find out that cash has run out before 
their turn. That's not to mention entire sectors of the economy - including 
segments of agriculture and even manufacturing - that are entirely cash-driven 
and have gone through major slowdowns because of the shortage.

For the first few weeks of demonetization, it was common to meet Indians who 
felt that their collective suffering and inconvenience was justified because it 
would ultimately usher in a less corrupt, more equal India. But as the 
initiative enters its second month, more and more reports are emerging of 
seizures of vast quantities of hoarded cash in the new notes. Like water 
reaching the sea, the corrupt, it seems, have found ways to navigate around the 
government's new obstacles.

In just two states alone, India's Income Tax department said on Wednesday that 
it had recovered 202,200,000 rupees (roughly $3 million) in new 2,000 notes, 
according to ANI News. In those two states, Karnataka and Goa, the department 
said it had registered a total of 36 cases and recovered unaccounted-for assets 
- mostly in cash, jewelry and gold - in excess of 10 billion rupees (roughly 
$150 million).

Stories of humongous seizures of assets including new currency have become so 
common that news outlets are simply adding them as bullet points to stories 
with running tallies. A sense is building that while millions of Indians 
languish in ATM lines, the old black money system is simply restarting itself 
with the new notes.

The biggest question is how people are getting their hands on such huge stashes 
of the new currency. A sting operation by the India Today news channel revealed 
one way: visiting your local politician. Reporters posing as businessmen 
approached four politicians in and around New Delhi, none of whom were from the 
party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They said that they had large 
quantities of old notes that they wanted to launder into new ones. Each of the 
four politicians said that they could arrange the deed for a 30 or 40 percent 
cut. On Dec. 6, a politician from Modi's party was arrested in the state of 
West Bengal with 3.3 million rupees in new notes.

Bank employees, from local tellers to a staffer 

[Goanet] Goacom Newsclips on 16 December 2016

[goacom newsclips]

Goacom Newsclips

Swachh Bharat: A mission for every Indian
“At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps India will awake to life and 
freedom,”
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2hqUIOj

Shack, 20 cottages razed at Varca
Panchawadkar along with the demolition team demolished a shack and 20 other 
cottages in the property of a resort at Varca. With this demolition,
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2hBX9vG

5 tiatrists bag lifetime achievement award
Fisheries and Labour Minister Avertano Furtado was the chief guest.
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2hDE4cc

BSNL employees go on day’s strike
Around 750 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) employees across Goa, including 
executives and non-executives,
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2hMXbne

Locals gherao Bandora sarpanch in her cabin for three hours
Undir-Bandora residents on Thursday gheraoed Bandora sarpanch Nayan Naik in her 
cabin for three hours and demanded that 
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2hqIOnL

Retired Seafarers hold protests in Margao
The protests are a part of the pan India demonstration and agitation, which 
were held on Thursday in several states across the country.
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2hUNAGV

The art and soul of Adil Shah’s Palace’s new lease on life
December 16, 2016 has finally come around, and with it, so has the beginning of 
the Serendipity Arts Festival. Much has been said about the festival,
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2hUM5IL

Bandora-Unir locals ‘confine’ sarpanch for 2 hrs over NOC granted for sewage 
plant
Bandora sarpanch Nayana Naik has assured Unir villagers of cancelling the NOC 
given for a sewage treatment plant project that is proposed
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2h77m1S

Implementation of GST to be postponed
This was revealed by a source aware of the proceedings at the Centre.
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2gQyA0F

As garbage stink reaches his cabinet, CM ropes in GSIDC to lift waste
The stink, following the garbage mess on the beaches after termination of beach 
cleaning contract,
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2h7dmYB

Cop suspended for suspected role in Sangolda note robbery
The Goa police on Thursday suspended police constable Vikas Naik in connection 
with the Sangolda  robbery
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2hDGA23

EC concerned over misuse of casinos, recent cash seizures
Raising concern about the possible misuse of casinos to stash illegal money for 
the 2017 poll campaign,
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2gHOYvz

Note ban: Goa staring at revenue loss of Rs 786 crore
If the prediction of the state government turns out to be right then Goa, this 
fiscal year,
Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/2hBZ2Zk

[Goanet] WHY NOT ADOPT GOENCHI MATTI ?

[Stephen Dias]

-WHY NOT ADOPT GOENCHI MATTI

STEPHEN DIAS
DONA PAULA

The natural resources of Goa belongs to all Goans. The founder Dr Claude
Alvares as suggested a way of distributing wealth to every citizen by
starting a fund. Why is it that you have not shown keen interest adopting
it? This will uproot corruption on the mining and manganese ore.
..=

[Goanet] BJP NOW GETS A VERY SINFUL ALTAR BOY

[Aires Rodrigues]

Today is yet another dark day on Goa’s gloomy political horizon with Mauvin
Godinho joining the BJP. It is not for the love of Goa but
for Mauvin Godinho’s lust and desperation for Power that he now officially
embraces the saffron brigade.



While loud preaching and vowing of Zero Tolerance to corruption, the
BJP takes onboard the awfully tainted Mauvin Godinho who is the prime
accused in the infamous multi crore Power scam case now pending before the
Supreme Court. And with all his daylight extra-marital affairs Mauvin
Godinho is also morally totally corroded. On his gory tale from rags to
riches less said the better.



Manohar Parrikar and Mauvin Godinho had fiercely accused each other of
cheating and corruption. While Manohar Parrikar had filed a complaint
against Mauvin Godinho alleging a multi crore power scam while he was Power
Minister, Mauvin Godinho had accused Manohar Parrikar as Chief Minister of
gross and rampant corruption during IFFI 2004.



Now for sheer political expediency, the two are so intimately in love
singing and showering praises galore on each other. Politics makes strange
bedfellows. Even those in the world's oldest profession do it better.

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


www.airesrodrigues.com