[Goanet] Monuments of glory

[Nelson Lopes]

Monuments of glory
Christian's Muslims   Shiks or Bhudists  had very tall leaders . But there
is no   precedent that churches, mosques etc are built in their glory in
the place of birth onlyNo such Gods reside in confines of magnificent
edifices of human imagination
Lord Ram belongs to all Indians in particular who is adored  worship for
resilience of his character alone with disasters in his life overcome with
courage.
For one party to monopolize him is travesty of I'll conceived idea. The
temple construction and site has created monumental hatred  among
followers  and the wounds may be healed  but scars are permanent  .The
Bhomi Puja by P.M and close BJP functionaries does not augur well for a
democratic, secular nation. Truly  the invite should have gone to all
states heads.BJP HAD construction in its manifestos due to which they
increased their tally in all elections that followed
Architect of Ram  Mandir Advani that lead to destruction of three centuries
mosques  is a raging controversies not withstanding SC judgment . It is
rare in judicial precedents that Court suo motu  decides on a prayer not
pleaded before it   in settlement. The political dreams of LK Advani are
shattered  and his desires are scuttled by dumping him into political
oblivion for his Rath Yathras raising the pitch to feverish level.
BJP is riding piggy back on Ram temple  to dig its feet in the corridors of
power by raising passions and emotions to the hilt.

The precedents ,  rulings   on occupation, possesion , limitation period in
deciding ownership have opened a pandora box to rake  up controversies   ,
conflicts  in future
It is said the constitution is changed by amendments orby breaking the
spirit without any legislative support
 BJP is basking in the glory of temple construction to obtain but political
mileage and is certainly paying dividends by completing this grandiose
architecture just prior to next elections   The fall out in hustings are on
expected levels  The comparison with freedom and indepence are  woefully
inadequate

Nelson Lopes Chinchinin

[Goanet] Bible verse for the Day

[Devak Argham]

Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
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Matthew  17: 1 - 2 & 5
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1 After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led
them up a high mountain by themselves.

2 And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his
clothes became white as light.

5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud cast a shadow over
them, then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my beloved Son,
with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”

[Goanet] On language

[eric pinto]

> 
> Naguesh numbers not very accurate. Close to every Hindu speaks either 
> Konkani or Marathi. With Catholics who live near towns it is more like fifty 
> percent English. Very little of that language prevails in let’s say Ponda or 
> Quepem or Pednem. Bless them. 
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[Goanet-News] Goa... some bread links (video and text)

[Frederick Noronha]

The Poder's Fading Ponk (St Xavier's College)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9gaKkMgz8

A visit to a traditional Goan bakery (Stefan Blogs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24VnoBqVzDE

Bread-making: Alison Jane Lobo interviewed by Basil D'Cunha (CCR TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Any2SAfVI

Goemcho pao -- Tho themp gelo te unde gele
Hyber Rider 400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIfDVbqTRH0

Arambol Bakery (Goa, India) Meritxell Martorell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngTnLmjGdYQ

Goan Pão Bread | Goan style Poderacho Pão | How to make Pav Bread at home |
Easy Bread Rolls Recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5gSBEcBxVE

Baking The Goan Poi | Traditional Goan Loaves Of Bread | Food Truck Reality
Show | Femme Foodies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Lc_fbgQSY

Goan bread
https://livingfoodz.com/stories/life-of-pao-and-other-breads-from-goa-166
[Thanks to Mel de Quadros for posting this list first on the Tranzanite
Goan list]
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[Goanet-News] Anglo-Indian Stories Kerry Edwards Part 1

[Frederick Noronha]

Nigel Foote from the Anglo-Indian Heritage-Centre interviews Mr Kerry
Edwards at his home in Canberra, Australia. This 3 part interview series
relates to a project created by Cecilia Abraham and is part of her research
for a Photo Documentary. The documentary, The Anglo-Indian Community of
Hyderabad and Secunderabad will cover history, present day and what the
future may hold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY416NINoI0

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TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl

[Goanet] Beirut explosion on Tuesday

[Frederick Noronha]

A detailed article in The Conversation on the Beirut tragedy, by Gabriel da
Silva:

What is ammonium nitrate, the chemical that exploded in Beirut?


Gabriel da Silva, University of Melbourne

For combustion to occur, oxygen must be present. Ammonium nitrate prills
provide a much more concentrated supply of oxygen than the air around us.
https://theconversation.cmail20.com/t/r-l-jkhtuhul-uidlgxn-m/

The video is horrific
https://twitter.com/i/status/1290672351844196352

Among other things, it makes the point that: Ammonium nitrate has the
chemical formula NH₄NO₃. Produced as small porous pellets, or “prills”,
it’s one of the world’s most widely used fertilisers... Here in Australia,
we produce and import large amounts of ammonium nitrate, mostly for use in
mining. It is made by combining ammonia
 gas with liquid nitric acid,
which itself is made from ammonia."

See this report by Vijay DeSouza on the seizure of ammonium nitrate in Goa.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/A-truck-containing-huge-consignment-of-explosive-material-including-gelatin-sticks-bags-of-ammonium-nitrate-headed-for-Valpoi-Sattari-in-Goa-was-seized-by-Maharashtra-police-at-Sasoli-Dodamarg-Friday-Two-persons-one-from-Kudal-Maharashra-and-the-other-from-Rajasthan-were-arrested-by-the-police-Recently-tremors-were-felt-in-the-mining-belt-in-Sanguem-where-villagers-felt-explosives-were-used-in-mining-explorations-/articleshow/7287679.cms
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[Goanet] BAPA MHOJEA MOGALLA - Konkani devotional hymn

[walter menezes]

Dhonia Devan favo kelolea soglea denneam khatir VelroyFernandes gheun yeta aplo 
poiloch video, BAPA MHOJEA MOGALLA (Konknni bhokti-git)
[Velroy's first video on Youtube...dedicated to the Lord]

Hea bhokti-gitacho mull rochpi: Charles De Foucauld

Songitacho sangat: Grayston Vaz [] Keith Antao
Songitachi manddavoll: Joel Fernandes
Concept: Wynne Moraes [] Velroy Fernandes

Mixing: VEL-TUNED Studio [] Mastering: Darrel Mascarenhas

Video Editing: Evolution X Media (Benny Cardozo  Fernandes)
Colour Grading: Avit Psy Rush 

Bapa Mhojea Mogalla (Konkani Gospel Cover) Official Video 2020

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[Goanet] God's plan for Seniors ??????

[Michael Pinto]

*How God keeps senior citizens going*

Most seniors never get enough exercise. In His wisdom God decreed that seniors 
become forgetful so they would have to search for their glasses, keys and other 
things, thus doing more walking. And God looked down and saw that it was good.

Then God saw there was another need. In His wisdom, He made seniors lose 
co-ordination so they would drop things, requiring them to bend, reach, and 
stretch. And God looked down and saw that it was good.

 Then God considered the function of bladders and decided seniors would have 
additional calls of nature, requiring more trips to the bathroom, thus 
providing more exercise.  God looked down and saw that it was good.

 So, if you find as you age, you are getting up and down more, remember it's 
God's will. It is all in your best interest even though you mutter under your 
breath.

Nine Important Facts to Remember as We Grow Older

 #9 - Death is the number 1 killer in the world.

 #8 - Life is sexually transmitted.

 #7 - Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

 #6 - Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky-panky, and they can't tell them 
apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.

 #5 - Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use 
the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.

 #4 - Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, 
dying of nothing.

 #3 - All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to 
criticism.

 #2 - In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is 
weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

 #1 - Life is like a jar of jalape?o peppers. What you do today may be a 
burning issue tomorrow.

 Please share this wisdom with others, while I go to the bathroom

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Today's Topics:

   1. Goa... some bread links (video and text) (Frederick Noronha)
   2. Bible verse for the Day (Devak Argham)
   3. Grandolfo Back In Circulation THX (Adolfo Mascarenhas)
   4. What does Joao want to say? (Joao Barros-Pereira)
   5. Tanzanite: Tanzanian miner earns millions after second rare
  find - BBC News (Frederick Noronha)
   6. An Autobiography Paid for By Taxpayers In Goa (Bernado Colaco)
   7. Schedule for Wednesday 5th August 2020 (CCR TV)
   8. SATYA STANDS FOR TRUTH AND OUR DEAR GOVERNOR HAS ALWAYS STOOD
  BY THAT (Aires Rodrigues)


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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 02:29:53 +0530
From: Frederick Noronha 
To: Goanet 
Subject: [Goanet] Goa... some bread links (video and text)
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The Poder's Fading Ponk (St Xavier's College)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9gaKkMgz8

A visit to a traditional Goan bakery (Stefan Blogs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24VnoBqVzDE

Bread-making: Alison Jane Lobo interviewed by Basil D'Cunha (CCR TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Any2SAfVI

Goemcho pao -- Tho themp gelo te unde gele
Hyber Rider 400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIfDVbqTRH0

Arambol Bakery (Goa, India) Meritxell Martorell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngTnLmjGdYQ

Goan P?o Bread | Goan style Poderacho P?o | How to make Pav Bread at home |
Easy Bread Rolls Recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5gSBEcBxVE

Baking The Goan Poi | Traditional Goan Loaves Of Bread | Food Truck Reality
Show | Femme Foodies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Lc_fbgQSY

Goan bread
https://livingfoodz.com/stories/life-of-pao-and-other-breads-from-goa-166
[Thanks to Mel de Quadros for posting this list first on the Tranzanite
Goan list]
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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 08:01:26 +0530
From: Devak Argham 
To: goanet 
Subject: [Goanet] Bible verse for the Day
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Memorial of Saint John Vianney, Priest
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"The Devil told St. John Vianney, ?If there were three such priests as you,
my kingdom would be ruined."



Malachi 2:7-9
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7  For a priest?s lips preserve knowledge, and 

Re: [Goanet] Proud to speak my Mother Tongue

[Naguesh Bhatcar]

Goyan bhailey Hindi uloita. Sogley Goenkar "Inglez" uloita.

Everyone talks highly about preserving Goan culture and Konkani.
If a survey is taken of how many Goans in Goa, converse with their kids in 
Konkani, I am pretty sure, it will be a very low number!
English has become the language of choice in a majority of Goan household.

Naguesh Bhatcar


From: Goanet  on behalf of Bernado Colaco 

Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2020 11:27 PM
To: goanet@lists.goanet.org 
Subject: [Goanet] Proud to speak my Mother Tongue

Aij Goem novo lok hindi uloita. Tujem concani ghelem fondann. Portuges lokhah 
fokot ghali marit rauhat.
BC


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!*
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[Goanet] AIFF Report & Video: Indian coaches need to constantly update and improve, feels Venkatesh

[AIFF Media]

Dear colleagues,



Please find below a report.


Indian coaches need to constantly update and improve, feels Venkatesh



*NEW DELHI: *Venkatesh Shanmugam, Assistant Coach of India Senior National
Team feels it’s “hugely motivating for all Indian coaches” to hear that the
AIFF General Secretary Mr. Kushal Das saying that he “hopes in the next 5
years the National Team is coached by an Indian coach.”


*Read more: *
https://www.the-aiff.com/article/indian-coaches-need-to-constantly-update-and-improve-feels-venkatesh



*Video: *https://fromsmash.com/2Vwq.fv-c_-dt


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Please find below some of our recent articles and videos.



*1. *Classes could wait but Mistu-da’s training sessions couldn’t, reveals
Pritam Kotal



*Read here:*
https://www.the-aiff.com/article/classes-could-wait-but-mistu-das-training-sessions-couldnt-reveals-pritam-kotal



*Video: *https://fromsmash.com/Q_o2NOE716-dt



*2. **Manipuri cousin trio hopes 'family tradition' continues at FIFA U-17
Women's World Cup*



*Read here:*
https://www.the-aiff.com/article/manipuri-cousin-trio-hopes-family-tradition-continues-at-fifa-u-17-womens-world-cup



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[Goanet] Schedule for Thursday 6th August 2020

[CCR TV]

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 Thursday 6th August 2020

12:00 AM
Rosary - Luminous Mysteries

12:24 AM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag  22

12:32 AM
Catholic Perspective of Organ Donation - Fr Donato Rodrigues

12:52 AM
Hymns - St Joseph H.S. Usgao

12:57 AM
Prayer - You are My Refuge Lord

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Wednesday

1:45 AM
Youthopia - Rizma D'Souza - Athletics - interviewed by  Mysticka Deniz

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Uzvaddache Mister

2:25 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 23 - Surati - Fr Pratap Naik sj

2:37 AM
Fuddarache Dive -  Ofelia D'Souza interviewed by Michael Gracias

3:06 AM
Can Widowed Pesons expeience Abundant Life? - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

3:35 AM
Hymn - Mhojea nanvan ekthaim zalleam- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

3:37 AM
Konkani Bhas - Bhag 12 - Fr Pratap Naik sj

4:00 AM
Gonvllik Citticher 2020-21 Boska 3  - Fr Mariano D'Costa

4:25 AM
Bible Project - Acts Part 1

4:35 AM
Music - Spiritual Music 3  followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem

5:05 AM
What's Cooking - Episode 10 - Goan Stew

5:37 AM
Bhogsonnem - Talk by Victor Mascarenhas

5:58
Music - Devache Mate - Victor Da Costa

6:00 AM
Tell me a story - Prodigal Son

6:17 AM
Internet Addiction - Talk by Sr Joeyanna D'Souza fsp

6:47 AM
My Music Video - Mother Earth - Alfwold Silveira

6:52 AM
Short Film - Kurpa Mog - Fr Freddy Lobo

6:57 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem  -  Transfiguration

7:00 AM
Novena Mass 1 in Konkani from Velsao followed by Jivitacho Prokas

7:45 AM
Bhajans 1

8:17 AM
Our Father - Marathi

8:23 AM
Morning Prayer - Transfiguration

8:26 AM
Prayer of children for their parents

8:28 AM
Music - Stuthi 1 followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem

8:58 AM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 2

9:00 AM
Patok - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

9:32 AM
Poilo Updes - Talk by Adv F.E Noronha

10:20 AM
Tell me a story - Sarah

10:46 AM
Biblical Web Series - Eps 1 - DCBA

10:50 AM
Abundant Life - Can we pray with Whatsapp? - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

11:14 AM
Hymn - Memorare - Brian Colaco

11:18 AM
Intercessions (English)

11:30 AM
Mass in English followed by Daily Flash

12:10 PM
Hymn - You are my all in all - Flute cover - Fr Seville Antao - OFM(Cap)

12:13 PM
Prayer - You are My Refuge Lord

12:18 PM
Youthopia - Gina Pegado - Decorations - interviewed by Mysticka Deniz

12:42 PM
Vakhann'ni ani Bozonn  - 1

1:13 PM
Hymn -Sakramentant Ravlolea - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

1:16 PM
Literally Goa - Inacio Fernandes interviewed by Frederick Noronha

1:40 PM
What's Cooking - Episode 6 Bebinca

2:08 PM
Hymn -Tum ietai,tum ietai - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

2:10 PM
Talk - Tumi Mhoje Govai - Fr Freddy Braganca

2:32 PM
Dusreacho khobro vo chaddio kori nakat - Talk by Victor Mascarenhas

2:56 PM
Couples Prayer - English

3:00 PM
Media Track = Episode 49

3:30 PM
Divine Mercy Chaplet (E)

3:40 PM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 15

3:47 PM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  101 Kavlle  - Fr Pratap Naik sj

3:53
Song - Aradhana - Justina and Brian Colaco

4:00 PM
Rosary - Luminous Mysteries

4:24 PM
Reflection on the Gospel - Dominicans

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 7

4:54 PM
Hail, Hail St Paul - Pauline Sisters

5:00 PM
Feast of Salvador do Mundo Church

6:00 PM
Angelus - English

6:04 PM
St John the Baptist - Talk by Fr Victor

6:19 PM
Intercessions (Konkani)

6:30 PM
Novena Mass 6 in Konkani from Arossim followed by Jivitacho Prokas

7:17 PM
53rd Mando Festival - Amchem Diaz, Assolna- Traditional

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Uzvaddache Mister

7:55 PM
Catechism for Confirmation -1

8:20 PM
How we got the Bible- Talk by Dr Sarita Nazareth

8:53 PM
Poem - Holy Land  - Janet Mascarenhas

8:55 PM
Hymn - Sacred Heart - Brian Colaco

9:00 PM
Adoration 8 - St Anthony Church, Siolim

9:30 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:46 PM
Civil Courts and Civil Procedure Code - Adv. Shivan Deasi

10:37 PM
Vem Cantar - 1

11:27 PM
On the Third Day - Eps 4 - Bio Insecticides for Pest Management - Nelson
Figueiredo

11:58 PM
Music - Duloba Kallza Moriechea - Victor Da Costa

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[Goanet] Goa... some bread links (video and tex

[Bernado Colaco]

 Interesting links to bread making in Goa with many young Goans also involved. 
Goans have many assets they must keep these traditional industries going. keep 
the history lessons for another day. Time to get our Goa back.
Thanks to Sr. Noronha for his research and patience to place these links.
BC--

The Poder's Fading Ponk (St Xavier's College)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9gaKkMgz8



  

[Goanet] LITERATI BOOK CLUB MEET ON 25 AUGUST

[Books Literati - Goa]

The Literati Book Club will meet on Tuesday 25th August @ 7.30 pm to
discuss Year of the Weeds by Siddhartha Sarma.   

Please send an e mail to bo...@literati-goa.com if you would like to
participate.  

The book is available at the Literati Bookshop.

[Goanet] The Social Welfare Office in South Goa is just a post office

[GOACAN RESOURCE CENTRE]

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Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed.
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The Social Welfare Office in S. Goa is just a post office

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/articlepage.php?articleid=OHERALDO_GOA_20200804_2_1=552px=oHeraldo=2


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[Goanet] Miss Ferns and the Secret History of Indian Modernism (Scroll, 5/8/2020)

[V M]

https://scroll.in/article/969482/miss-ferns-and-the-hidden-history-of-indian-modernist-art

More than 100 years after being drawn by Antonio Xavier Trindade - the
masterly portraitist and early Indian faculty member of the Sir JJ School
of Art in colonial Bombay - an elegant and consequential nude has debuted
into public view.

The 1913 artwork (four others by the same artist are emerging concurrently)
is another insistent reminder about an important modernist trajectory in
Indian art history, that has been suppressed due to deep-seated - now
institutionalised - biases about nationalism and authenticity.

This is an extraordinary legacy hidden in plain sight in Fontainhas, the
centrepiece Latinate neighborhood of Panjim, the capital of India’s
smallest state. The five “new” artworks are a previously unseen part of the
144-artwork corpus of The Trindade Collection, on permanent display in the
headquarters of the Indian delegation of Lisbon-based non-profit Fundação
Oriente.

Antonio Xavier was born in 1870 on the border of the Portuguese* Estado da
India* and British India (his father was a customs official), but the
Trindade family is rooted in Assonora in Bardez, the same modestly
proportioned *taluka* where his world-renowned successors Francis Newton
Souza (Saligao) and Vasudeo Gaitonde (Uccassaim) also have deep ancestral
connections.

Trindade was meant to be a lawyer, but showed artistic promise, and in 1887
enrolled at the Sir JJ School of Art. In *Art and Nationalism in Colonial
India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations,* Partha Mitter writes that he
“was nicknamed ‘the Rembrandt of the East’…After graduation, he assisted in
tinting photographs for the studio of Raja Deen Dayal [but] did not remain
long, for his prospects at the art school were good.”

Trindade was appointed as superintendent of the prestigious Reay Workshops
at the JJ School, says Mitter “instead of Dhurandhar”, his Maharashtrian
colleague. But these two, along with Archibald Herman Muller (his father
was German, and mother from Kerala) and the Parsi exemplars Pestonji
Bomanji and Manchershaw Pithawalla. formed the vanguard of an emergent
phenomenon: the democratisation of connoisseurship.

Mitter writes, “the remarkable success of salon art followed a social
revolution. The patronage of artists by individual aristocrats was in
decline, to be replaced by the support of an art-conscious public…the rise
of the art exhibition, art criticism and an art-conscious public owed to a
change in the public's relationship to art and in the role of the artist
himself.” In India, exhibitions in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were
fulcrums of diffusion.

Dhurandhar was the first Indian gold medal winner of the Bombay Art Society
in 1895, and he and his colleagues expanded the ouevres of Indian painting
and sculpture in impactful ways. But after 1947, the art establishment
purposefully pushed that history aside in favour of the ostensibly “
*swadeshi*” orientalism of the so-called “Bengal renaissance.” Caste and
religious prejudices further underpinned this effacement.

In the 21st century, that egregiously slant has been exposed (although it
still has adherents), with exhibitions such as the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad
Museum’s excellent 2018 *M.V. Dhurandhar: The Artist as Chronicler
(1867-1944), *which was conceived in direct rebuttal.

Trindade’s paintings in Goa illuminate yet another dimension that’s
unsuitable for regressive canon-makers, because they portray distinctly
emancipated Indian women, who adroitly repel - even reverse - the male and
colonial gaze.

After considerable time in their presence, irresistibly drawn to their
intimate realism, I realized these are milestone achievements in Indian
art, without any parallel until Amrita Sher-Gil started painting herself
and her sister in the 1930s. That difference is perhaps most notable in the
allegorical 1920 masterpiece *Flora *(it won the Bombay Art Society gold
medal), where Trindade portrayed his wife (they had been married for 19
years, and she had borne 8 children) in classical repose, in a manner which
unnerves even today.

Fundação Oriente’s director, Inês Figueira told me that she always asks
visitors if they could imagine important contemporary Indian artists
painting their wives like that today. No one ever says yes. She says, “This
painting granted AXT great acclaim, and I often wonder if it would be the
case today, in an increasingly conservative Indian society.  What I find
most remarkable is the dignity, and sense of equality with which he
portrays his subjects independently of their gender, social condition or
environment. In his paintings there is no subjugation or judgment, and
definitely no moral higher ground.”

It’s an acute point, which I believe is especially apparent with women
subjects. However, in the knowledge that I can’t possibly be the final
arbiter in this matter, I turned to the redoubtable critic and curator
Nancy Adajania, whose blockbuster *Counter Canon, Counter