[Goanet] Bible verse for the Day
B.I.B.L.E. - Behold I Bring Life Eternal Matthew 14:29-33 29 He said, “Come.” Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw how [strong] the wind was he became frightened; and, beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!” 31 Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” 32 After they got into the boat, the wind died down. 33 Those who were in the boat did him homage, saying, “Truly, you are the Son of God.”
[Goanet] Article by Marietta D'Almeida: What are you weighting for?
What are you weighting for? How simple changes to your diet could help you maintain a healthier life | | | | | | | | | | | What are you weighting for? How simple changes to your diet could help y... South Asians are up to 6 times more likely to have type 2 diabetes than the general population. Experts suggest ... | | |
[Goanet-News] Ex-Engineer Brings Goan Village With 500 Families Back to Farming After 30 Years ((Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk, TheBetterIndia.com)
"With our cities in tatters, builders have now started attacking our interior villages. We want people to get back to farming, and show them that it's a profitable endeavour." POST AUTHOR: RINCHEN NORBU WANGCHUK POST PUBLISHED: AUGUST 1, 2020 POST CATEGORY: FARMING GOA Nestor Rangel, a 52-year-old agriculturist, and his team, have helped 500 families in his native village of St Estevam to convert fallow and unused land into productive organic paddy fields. Like most villages in Goa, the picturesque village on the river Mandovi was once a prime target for real estate developers looking at parcels of arable land lying fallow, to build concrete commercial and residential establishments. The village was even earmarked by developers for a coal transportation carriageway. Nestor's successful model of community farming, which began in earnest during the kharif season of 2018, is being seen as a means of obstructing the rapid conversion of farmland into concrete jungles. This has spawned similar initiatives in different Goan villages with local communities mindful of the need to protect their land and ecology. Starting the Journey An electronic engineer by trade, Nestor spent most of his life away from St Estevam in cities like Mumbai and subsequently Vadodara, where he was the manager of a factory owned by a Japanese multinational corporation AIWA manufacturing consumer electronics. In 2002, the factory shut down with the Japanese MNC closing shop around the world. After the company shut down, he returned to Goa to open an electronics service centre and showroom dealing in consumer electronic products. With service centres in Margao and Panaji, he had about 40-odd employees working for him. Everything changed in 2007, he decided to shut shop and venture into farming. Just before getting out of the electronics business, Nestor bought a seven-acre strip of land in Thane, a village in Goa's Sattari Taluka. Today, this "strip of land" which extends upto 40 acres, includes a dairy, goat farm, a mango plantation of 700+ trees and a massive cashew orchard. However, after Nestor began expanding his farm in 2007, Father Bismarque Dias, an activist priest once known for taking on the state's notorious land mafia, urged him to bring back farming to St Estevam. "He was always after me to start a community farm project in St. Estevam, and visited my farm many times," he recalls. For the past four decades, residents of the village had given up farming to take up more lucrative work aboard ships sailing abroad or in cities like Mumbai. "Knowing of my involvement in agriculture, he wanted me to do something in St Estevam. Land all over Goa is being bought and occupied by people from outside the state, who are constructing massive structures atop these pristine fields. Our fields have been lying fallow for 30-40 years since most locals work on ships sailing abroad or in Mumbai. Most Goans are hardly dependent on agriculture. However, If we don't practice farming, the government will say that the land is merely lying vacant, take it away and sell it to the highest bidder. We decided to fight back by cultivating our lands," mentions Nestor. Khazan Farming, Paddy and the Comunidade One way of bringing back agriculture to this picturesque river island was to revert to tradition. Past generations of Goans had long practiced an estuarine agriculture system called Khazan, "a carefully designed topo-hydro-engineered agro-aquacultural ecosystem mainly based on the regulation salinity and tides," states a report in the Down to Earth magazine. "Khazans are reclaimed lands from the river or the sea. A created network of bunds protects the agricultural fields and adjoining villages from tidal flows," notes this description. One crop which can grow in these saline conditions is paddy. "It's a pretty versatile crop, which can grow in saltish and brackish water. So, we decided to take up paddy cultivation since we also receive sufficient amounts of rain. This was sometime in the 2017-18 kharif season, and for the community project we took up 500,000 square metres," says Nestor. Underpinning the community-level exercise led by Nestor and his team, was a mechanical cultivation process for ploughing, transplanting and harvesting, considering prohibitively high labour costs and manpower shortages. Helping them in this endeavour were Father George Quadros, a pioneer of mechanised paddy cultivation in South Goa, the State agricultural department and its subsidiary Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA). "We have gone into total mechanisation working with paddy
[Goanet] Ex-Engineer Brings Goan Village With 500 Families Back to Farming After 30 Years ((Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk, TheBetterIndia.com)
"With our cities in tatters, builders have now started attacking our interior villages. We want people to get back to farming, and show them that it's a profitable endeavour." POST AUTHOR: RINCHEN NORBU WANGCHUK POST PUBLISHED: AUGUST 1, 2020 POST CATEGORY: FARMING GOA Nestor Rangel, a 52-year-old agriculturist, and his team, have helped 500 families in his native village of St Estevam to convert fallow and unused land into productive organic paddy fields. Like most villages in Goa, the picturesque village on the river Mandovi was once a prime target for real estate developers looking at parcels of arable land lying fallow, to build concrete commercial and residential establishments. The village was even earmarked by developers for a coal transportation carriageway. Nestor's successful model of community farming, which began in earnest during the kharif season of 2018, is being seen as a means of obstructing the rapid conversion of farmland into concrete jungles. This has spawned similar initiatives in different Goan villages with local communities mindful of the need to protect their land and ecology. Starting the Journey An electronic engineer by trade, Nestor spent most of his life away from St Estevam in cities like Mumbai and subsequently Vadodara, where he was the manager of a factory owned by a Japanese multinational corporation AIWA manufacturing consumer electronics. In 2002, the factory shut down with the Japanese MNC closing shop around the world. After the company shut down, he returned to Goa to open an electronics service centre and showroom dealing in consumer electronic products. With service centres in Margao and Panaji, he had about 40-odd employees working for him. Everything changed in 2007, he decided to shut shop and venture into farming. Just before getting out of the electronics business, Nestor bought a seven-acre strip of land in Thane, a village in Goa's Sattari Taluka. Today, this "strip of land" which extends upto 40 acres, includes a dairy, goat farm, a mango plantation of 700+ trees and a massive cashew orchard. However, after Nestor began expanding his farm in 2007, Father Bismarque Dias, an activist priest once known for taking on the state's notorious land mafia, urged him to bring back farming to St Estevam. "He was always after me to start a community farm project in St. Estevam, and visited my farm many times," he recalls. For the past four decades, residents of the village had given up farming to take up more lucrative work aboard ships sailing abroad or in cities like Mumbai. "Knowing of my involvement in agriculture, he wanted me to do something in St Estevam. Land all over Goa is being bought and occupied by people from outside the state, who are constructing massive structures atop these pristine fields. Our fields have been lying fallow for 30-40 years since most locals work on ships sailing abroad or in Mumbai. Most Goans are hardly dependent on agriculture. However, If we don't practice farming, the government will say that the land is merely lying vacant, take it away and sell it to the highest bidder. We decided to fight back by cultivating our lands," mentions Nestor. Khazan Farming, Paddy and the Comunidade One way of bringing back agriculture to this picturesque river island was to revert to tradition. Past generations of Goans had long practiced an estuarine agriculture system called Khazan, "a carefully designed topo-hydro-engineered agro-aquacultural ecosystem mainly based on the regulation salinity and tides," states a report in the Down to Earth magazine. "Khazans are reclaimed lands from the river or the sea. A created network of bunds protects the agricultural fields and adjoining villages from tidal flows," notes this description. One crop which can grow in these saline conditions is paddy. "It's a pretty versatile crop, which can grow in saltish and brackish water. So, we decided to take up paddy cultivation since we also receive sufficient amounts of rain. This was sometime in the 2017-18 kharif season, and for the community project we took up 500,000 square metres," says Nestor. Underpinning the community-level exercise led by Nestor and his team, was a mechanical cultivation process for ploughing, transplanting and harvesting, considering prohibitively high labour costs and manpower shortages. Helping them in this endeavour were Father George Quadros, a pioneer of mechanised paddy cultivation in South Goa, the State agricultural department and its subsidiary Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA). "We have gone into total mechanisation working with paddy
[Goanet-News] GOA Toronto celebrates 50... with music and a fund-raiser
G.O.A Food Bank Concert (Friday 8 pm July 31st.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEF2ui0xxxc Nice! Better than almost any Goan dance in any corner of the world... just heard Carlton Bragazan and now a quarter way through the two-hour show... with Ruth Saldanha (Portuguese, cha cha, etc) Getting to 3:45 am here! Thanks to John Nazareth for pointing to the link! --FN -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl
[Goanet] WILL IT BE A LEAKING HIGH COURT?
Our new High Court premises at Porvorim, the foundation of which was laid on 19th December 2013 should hopefully be ready by this year end. The structure has been designed like the Gujarat High Court but surprisingly has no sloping roof which may not be proper in view of the heavy rainfall Goa gets. The authorities need to take swift remedial measures or else we may end up with a leaking High Court constructed at a whopping cost of over 100 crores. Goa’s highest Temple of Justice instead of being just another concrete structure should have reflected the facets of unique Goan architecture. The legacy of Goa’s rich history in field of judicial and legal services could have been placed in a better context for posterity. With the construction of the complex for Panaji’s lower courts at Merces dragging while the government is paying rent through the nose for those four floors housing the lower courts at Patto Plaza, it would be prudent to shift all the lower Courts to the three huge buildings at Althinho which would be vacant once the High Court moves to Porvorim. There would also be enough space there to accommodate the Administrative Tribunal, State Consumer Redressal Commission and the Labour Courts. It would make more efficient and facilitate the administration of justice besides ending the criminal waste of public funds by way of huge rentals being paid for the premises currently housing these Courts. 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
[Goanet] GOA Toronto celebrates 50... with music and a fund-raiser
G.O.A Food Bank Concert (Friday 8 pm July 31st.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEF2ui0xxxc Nice! Better than almost any Goan dance in any corner of the world... just heard Carlton Bragazan and now a quarter way through the two-hour show... with Ruth Saldanha (Portuguese, cha cha, etc) Getting to 3:45 am here! Thanks to John Nazareth for pointing to the link! --FN -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl
[Goanet] Fw: Re:
- Forwarded message - From: Cedric D'almeida To: Frederick Noronha Sent: Sunday, 2 August 2020, 17:43:10 BSTSubject: Re: Re: Hello FredrickThis is a article about diabetes that would benefit your readers.Cheers On Sunday, 2 August 2020, 13:42:23 BST, Frederick Noronha wrote: Please could you post a link in plain text to goanet@goanet.orgGive a description too plsFN On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 18:11, Frederick Noronha wrote: What's this? On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 17:58, Cedric D'almeida wrote: Journalists news from the Asian Image | | | | | | | | | | | Journalists news from the Asian Image Journalists news from the Asian Image | | | -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhlCan't get through on mobile? Please SMS/WhatsApp -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhlCan't get through on mobile? Please SMS/WhatsApp
Re: [Goanet] Puppies for Adoption Benaulim Goa
Bring them to England. I brought my Rottweiler back from Hong Kong,,! On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, 21:00 MELVYN FERNANDES, wrote: > Puppies for Adoption Benaulim Goa > > HI > > Click here > > > https://mail2.virginmedia.com/appsuite/api/mail/IMG-20200628-WA0009.jpg?action=attachment=default0%2FINBOX=6747=2=2=2139926= > > Remember us Itsy,Teeny and Bitsy three of five sisters in Benaulim > looking for adoption Winny and Ginny have found themselves a home in > Chandor and Margao. We were born in the compound at the residence of Joe > and Linda Rebello who have looked after us since the Lockdown. We have been > injected for rabies understand Konkani and English and are house trained we > are concerned that we will have to fend for ourselves as Joe and Linda > return when flights resume .Please try and assist with friends and > relations in Goa to find us a home. > > Thanking you in advance for your efforts, we are still puppies looking for > a miracle. Contact Joe and Linda on 0091 74997 02638. For information and > any assistance you can offer. > > Melvyn Fernandes > > Thornton Heath Surrey > > 2 August 2020 >
Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Portuguese... back on the radio in Goa (for a short while...)
Thank you. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, August 2, 2020, 7:07 AM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Portuguese is back on the AIR (All India Radio) in Goa, in 2020. A recording of a programme on the Mahadayi (main) Channel. [Photo used alongside is from the collection of the late journalist Joel D'Souza, prolific in his recording of things Goan and a good friend.] https://archive.org/details/portuguese-air_202008 [Recording from past weeks... apologies for delay in uploading.] -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl
[Goanet] Puppies for Adoption Benaulim Goa
Puppies for Adoption Benaulim Goa HI Click here https://mail2.virginmedia.com/appsuite/api/mail/IMG-20200628-WA0009.jpg?action=attachment=default0%2FINBOX=6747=2=2=2139926= Remember us Itsy,Teeny and Bitsy three of five sisters in Benaulim looking for adoption Winny and Ginny have found themselves a home in Chandor and Margao. We were born in the compound at the residence of Joe and Linda Rebello who have looked after us since the Lockdown. We have been injected for rabies understand Konkani and English and are house trained we are concerned that we will have to fend for ourselves as Joe and Linda return when flights resume .Please try and assist with friends and relations in Goa to find us a home. Thanking you in advance for your efforts, we are still puppies looking for a miracle. Contact Joe and Linda on 0091 74997 02638. For information and any assistance you can offer. Melvyn Fernandes Thornton Heath Surrey 2 August 2020
[Goanet] Schedule for Monday 3rd August 2020
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smart phone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Monday 3rd August 2020 12:00 AM Rosary - Joyful Mysteries 12:24 AM Bhokti Lharam- Bhag 19 12:32 AM Museum - Sant Thome Varca 1/3 12:57 AM Hymn - No man can live as an island - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 1:00 AM Mass in Konkani for Sunday 2:00 AM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister 2:25 AM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 20 - Bhiku Ani Vinchu - Fr Pratap Naik sj 2:33 AM Fuddarache Dive - Rioma Menezes interviewed by Michael Gracias 3:02 AM The Abundant Life - Getting ready to go - Prof. Nicholas D'Souza 3:24 AM Hymn -Tum ietai,tum ietai - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 3:27 AM Konkani Bhas - Bhag 9 - Fr Pratap Naik sj 3:40 AM Sessions 1 on the Pastoral Letter 2020-21 - Fr Jorge Fernandes 4:00 AM Importance of Spiritual reading - Talk by Maria Ana da Costa 4:25 AM Pidda - A talk by Mathew Fernandes 4:40 AM Media Track - Episode 49 5:10 AM Song - He's got the whole world in His hands 5:15 AM Global Goan Virtual Choir 5:28 AM Literally Goa - Brenda Coutinho interviewed by Frederick Noronha 5:58 AM The Law and You - Three law students speak about integrity 6:22 AM Discipleship - Talk by Kenneth D'Sa 6:52 AM Hymn - Prayer of St.Ignatius of Loyola sung by Irene Rocha 6:57 AM Morning Prayer - Pastors 7:00 AM Mass in Konkani followed by Jivitacho Prokas 7:45 AM Bhajans 4 8:10 AM Music - Vakhann'nni 1 followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem 8:40 AM Our Father - Khasi 8:47 AM Kalliz Jezuche - Talk by Orlando D'Souza 9:16 AM Church - Talk by Gaurish Naik 9:37 AM Catechism for Confirmation -2 10:03 AM Charismatic Renewal & Priesthood - Cyril John 11:00 AM Konkani Bhas - Bhag 7 - Fr Pratap Naik sj 11:12 AM Hymns - St Anthony's HS, Monte de Guirim 11:18 AM Intercessions (English) 11:30 AM Mass in English followed by Daily Flash 12:10 PM On the Third Day - Episode 5 - Aquaponics 12:43 PM Biblical Web Series - Eps 1 - DCBA 12:46 PM Career Guidance - Bachelor of Social Work - Don Bosco 1:10 PM Falling in Love - Relationships in a Digital Era - Hosted by Judie D'Cunha 1:45 PM Hymn - Fear not I am wih you- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 1:47 PM Magnificat (Konkani) 1:49 PM Prayer - You are My Refuge Lord 1:52 PM Song - With Jesus I rock - Avalon Lobo 1:57 PM Music - Goddvaiechea Kallza - Victor Da Costa 2:00 PM Youthopia - Rebecca Mascarenhas - Footballer interviewed by Jessica Sharma 2:23 PM 53rd Mando Festival - Goychim Lharam, Carmona - Traditional 2:39 PM My Music Videos - Render Mama 2:43 PM Bhagevont Francis de Assis - Dusro Krist - Fr Jose D'Souza OFM Cap 3:07 PM Seby Wings -Gazzlo 3:10 PM Hymn - Zoi Jezu amchea Raia - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 3:12 PM Prayer of Grandparents - English 3:15 PM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 45 - Rego Konknni - Fr. Pratap Naik sj 3:27 PM Hymn - I have decided to follow Jesus - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 3:30 PM Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam 3:40 PM Christian Leadership - Leela Moraes 4:00 PM Rosary - Joyful Mysteries 4:24 PM Reflection on the Gospel - Dominicans 4:30 PM Senior Citizens Exercises - 7 4:54 PM My Music Videos - Khuxe Monan Gorib Tim Subhagi 5:00 PM Praise and Worship - Glenn Nunes 3 followed by Daily Prayer to the Holy Spirit 5:31 PM He is alive - Talk by Kenneth D'Sa 6:00 PM Angelus - English 6:02 PM Catechism for First Holy Communion -2 6:18 PM Intercessions (Konkani) 6:30 PM Novena Mass 3 in Konkani from Arrosim followed by Jivitacho Prokas 7:15 PM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 100 Ankddo - Fr Pratap Naik sj 7:25 PM Biblical Web Series - Eps 1 - DCBA 7:30 PM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister 7:55 PM Psalms 23 - Read by Alfwold Silveira 8:00 PM Secular Institutes - Dr Ivan Netto interviews Giorgio Mazzola 8:36 PM Health Matters - Eye Care - Dr Aires Lobo 9:00 PM Adoration 5 - St Anthony Church, Siolim 9:30 PM Ratchem Magnem 9:47 PM Nokhetram - Michael Gracias chats with Norman Cardozo and Selvyn J.C. Braganca 10:23 PM Bangalore Mens Choir 11:23 PM Episode 49 11:53 PM Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 12 Donations may be made to: Beneficiary name : CCR GOA MEDIA. Name of Bank : ICICI Bank Branch Name: Candolim Branch RTGS/NEFT Code : ICIC0002624 Savings Bank Account No : 262401000183
Re: [Goanet] CONTEMPT OF COURT
Dear John, My apologies for not writing earlier, but my computer was dead. I usually go to Vasco, but not a soul was willing to take me there until the person at the Wifi point told me about Margao Electronics which got the Comp repaired. I was around 15 days without a comp through my own stupidity. I have suddenly become very lethargic...I think this protracted stay at home is getting one everyone's nerves. Cases in Verna are mounting and the Panchayat truck has been making its rounds urging people to stay at home.Not very easy. How are you? Are you finding it okay? I sometimes worry about you,being alone in these terrible times. I doknow you are very independent but... Take care John and my apologies for not writing earlier. Best wishes Sonia On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 18:00, John Eric Gomes wrote: > DISSENT AND CONTEMPT > The Supreme Court has suo moto slapped contempt charges against eminent > lawyer Prashant Bhushan's two tweets criticism of the eminent judges > triggering a debate amongst the legal community and the citizens. It seems > strange to many that the Bench whilst delivering judgement on Rajasthan > speaker and dissent by rebel MLAs categorically stated that "The voice of > dissent cannot be shut down" and the same Bench is doing precisely the > opposite in not tolerating the dissent and opinion of many others like > prominently JusticeMarkandey Katju, articulated by Prashant regarding > corruption in the judiciary and unflattering perception of judgements by > the top court. Many supreme Court judges in India and abroad have handled > similar and worse aspersions cast upon them with broad shoulders, tolerance > and maturity. Justice Krishna Iyer stated "The best answer to abuse of a > judge is not frequent and ferocious contempt sentencing but fine > performance". And even when publically called old fools a wise British > Justice Templeman reportedly said " That I'm old is a fact. Regarding fool > that perception I do not have to agree!". The perception of government > sensitivity to criticism must not be seen as being emulated but strongly > rejected by the Supreme Court in a Democracy and in public interest which > is the last bastion left to defend freedom of speech which it has been > exemplarily doing so far! >
[Goanet-News] Portuguese... back on the radio in Goa (for a short while...)
Portuguese is back on the AIR (All India Radio) in Goa, in 2020. A recording of a programme on the Mahadayi (main) Channel. [Photo used alongside is from the collection of the late journalist Joel D'Souza, prolific in his recording of things Goan and a good friend.] https://archive.org/details/portuguese-air_202008 [Recording from past weeks... apologies for delay in uploading.] -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl
[Goanet] Portuguese... back on the radio in Goa (for a short while...)
Portuguese is back on the AIR (All India Radio) in Goa, in 2020. A recording of a programme on the Mahadayi (main) Channel. [Photo used alongside is from the collection of the late journalist Joel D'Souza, prolific in his recording of things Goan and a good friend.] https://archive.org/details/portuguese-air_202008 [Recording from past weeks... apologies for delay in uploading.] -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl
[Goanet] Proud to speak my Mother Tongue
I'd just like to share a short article I'd written several years ago PROUD TO SPEAK MY MOTHER TONGUE *There was a time, especially during the colonial era in Goa* *and other parts of India, when many of our Goans would not be* *seen talking in their own mother tongue; not that these individuals* *couldn't speak the language. For them, speaking in a foreign* *tongue gave them that air of superiority(at least so they thought!).* *They felt important. Speaking in Konkani was considered below their* *dignity. SHAME ON THEM!* * As a lover of Konkani myself and all that our culture embodies,* *I find it difficult to gauge the motives of these "foreign" Goans.* *The following verses(sadly, the only ones I can remember) - from* *a poem composed during my school days by that well-known* *Jesuit historian, the late Fr. Claude Saldanha, S.J. - seem to sum up* *everything. Referring to these self styled foreigners as **kalafirngis-* *Black Europeans),** this, in 1940, is what he wrote:* * 'They are shy to talk sweet Konkani* *Because they think it's low,* *They rattle off in company* *A foreign tongue for show.* * The men put on some pantaloons* *And think they look quite fine,* *They hardly know - the good buffoons* * That borrowed plumes don't shine!* *Melodious mandos -swaying songs* *With all their hearts they hate* *Which cannot swing the girls around* *With arms at any rate.* * And so they say, 'the mando's dead'* * Not meant for cultured folk,* * But all their culture it is said* * Would not impress a bloke!* *Konkani is such a sweet language, with greetings and* *expressions not found in other foreign languages.* *Take the daily salutation, for example --* * 'Deo boro dis diun(May God give you a good day)* *or 'Deo bori rath diun(May God give you a good night).* *And what of that nightly blessing from our Elders?* * 'Deo bori rath amcam somestam di Saiba etc(Lord,* *give us a good night etc etc).* *This last expression has certainly more meat to it than the* *plain 'Thank you'. Besides, all these also have one* *thing in common - they embody Christian principles.* *Far from being ashamed of our mother tongue, folk* *songs and dances, let us make every effort to revive* *and keep them going forever.* *Future generations will thank us for this.* *Mervyn Maciel*
[Goanet] How penniless boy who sold peanuts to tourists escaped poverty to join British Army
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-penniless-boy-who-sold-22453968 -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] What does Joao want to say?
In the Age of Corona Virus Bill Clinton chasing Monica Lewinsky all over the White House up and down the Presidential Chair is better much better than Donald Trump sitting all alone in the Presidential Chair What does Joao want to say?
[Goanet] [ARTICLE] The Sound of Konkani Christian Music - Melvyn S. Misquita
Did you know? * There were no Goan Konkani carols before 1963 * The first Konkani carol was written on the steps of a church * A humiliating experience inspired a Jesuit priest to compose the lyrics of over 300 Konkani hymns * An acclaimed Hindu poet has penned the lyrics of a popular hymn * There is a mammoth 18-verse hymn on St Francis Xavier * The popular Goan Konkani hymn book Gaionancho Jhelo is nearly 60 years old * The Gaionancho Jhelo contains over 550 hymns, over 2,000 melodies * The youngest composer of a liturgical melody has been a 12-year-old boy Melvyn S. Misquita interacts with five senior priests to piece together for the first time a comprehensive and fascinating story of the popular Konkani hymn book, ‘Gaionancho Jhelo’, used by millions of Goan Catholics during liturgical and para-liturgical services and celebrations in Goa and across the world for nearly six decades. The Sound of Konkani Christian Music By Melvyn Savio Misquita 2 August 2020 EMAIL: misqu...@outlook.com PHONE: 9860597117 A. THE BACKGROUND: Hymns are an integral part of the Catholic faith and millions of Goan Catholics have been singing numerous Konkani hymns during liturgical and para-liturgical services and celebrations in Goa and across the world. But not many are aware of the dedication, passion and brilliance of one composer behind most of those Konkani hymns. The pioneering efforts of Goan Jesuit Fr Vasco do Rego (95), former Rector at the Bom Jesus Basilica in Old Goa (1979-95), and his collaborators, have led to his popular Konkani hymnal ‘Gaionancho Jhelo’ (Garland of Hymns), sung by Goan devotees across the world for nearly six decades. What began as a 3 paise hymn booklet sometime in 1963 is today a full-fledged Konkani hymnal, described by Fr Joaquim Loiola Pereira, secretary to the Archbishop of Goa and Daman, as “not just a book of religious poems, but a veritable summula of Catholic theology and spirituality, perhaps one of the best exemplars of a Catholic Hymnal ever.” Incidentally, the Gaionancho Jhelo might not have taken shape, had it not been for an embarrassing experience faced by Fr Rego, while a seminarian pursuing theology in Belgium (1952-56). That unpleasant incident eventually led Fr Rego to compose Goa’s first Konkani Carol and later, hundreds of original Konkani hymns, many of which are part of a classic Christian music heritage today. “We were among the students of Theology from 17 countries in that French-speaking Belgian Theologate. Two of us hailed from Goa. During our first Christmas there in 1952, all were asked to sing carols in their native language, group by group. When it was our turn, we felt deeply ashamed as we did not have in Goa a single Konkani carol in 1952,” recalled Fr Rego, who resides in Pune and continued to be the editor of Dor Mhoineachi Rotti till 2019, a task that he dedicatedly carried out for ten years. “What humiliated me most was that the Congolese companions of ours, these second generation Catholics, sang carols in their own language, and we Goans couldn’t do so, even though the Christian faith in Goa had been ours for over 400 years.” “At that moment, an indescribable inner communication made me understand that I myself would, someday, rectify this embarrassment and see that we have carols and other hymns of our own,” Fr Rego added. B. THE PRECURSOR: While the Gaionancho Jhelo is the best known and most recognised Goan Konkani hymn book for nearly six decades, it is not the first Konkani hymn book published in Goa. For, that honour goes to a little known hymn book published in 1960. According to Fr Lino de Sá, Parish Priest at Our Lady of Candelaria Church, Camurlim-Salcete, the foresight of Fr João Baptista Viegas, then professor of music in Saligao Seminary, had led to the birth of the Konkani Hymn booklet ‘Povitr Misachi Bhett Gaianamnim’ (The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in hymns). “Before the appearance of Gaionancho Jhelo in 1963, an initiative of Fr Rego, there was a pioneering effort of Fr João Baptista Viegas, then professor of music in Saligao Seminary, to help towards active participation of the faithful in the Holy Mass, by publishing a booklet ‘Povitr Misachi Bhett Gaianamnim’ on February 5, 1960,” recalled Fr de Sá. “This booklet contained nine hymns with lyrics by Belarmino Lobo from Colvale and music by Fr Viegas, besides a commentary on the respective parts of the Mass. It was printed with musical notations at Tipografia Rangel, Bastora-Goa. Fr Viegas also recorded the same hymns on a 73 rpm gramophone disc.” “What a far-sighted vision this priest had to interpret in anticipation the mind of the Church, which was manifested two years later through the Second Vatican Council, with regard to the active participation of the people in the Mass!” Fr de Sá added. Fr Vasco do Rego then recalled his association with Fr Viegas and his contribution to Konkani
[Goanet] Paying tribute to C Alvares and Alfred Rose with a virtual live concert
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