Re: [Goanet] When The Dutch Ruled The World: The Rise & Fall of the Dutch East India Company

2021-07-08 Thread Roland Francis
Great historical information in a capsule.
Came across numerous references to the Dutch East India company but didn’t know 
about its genesis, its operations and finally decay. 

Roland.
Toronto.


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[Goanet-News] When The Dutch Ruled The World: The Rise & Fall of the Dutch East India Company

2021-07-08 Thread Frederick Noronha
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[Goanet] Schedule for Friday 9th July 2021

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12:00 AM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

12:27 AM
Bhieum naka - Talk by Victor Mascarenhas

12:50 AM
Building Confidence - A talk by Ankitta do Rego

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for  Thursday

1:46 AM
Differ to be Different - Talk by Sr Saral

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

2:26 AM
Devachem Utor  - 2 Korintkarank - Avesvor 9 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:34 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 11 - Dog Xejari - Fr Pratap Naik sj

2:44 AM
Play - Attraversiamo - Tyron Souza & Marvin Fernandes

2:55 AM
Psalm 51 - Read by Alfwold Silveira

3:00 AM
Our Journey Through Covid 19 - A Testimony

3:30 AM
Hymn - I Believe

3:34 AM
Tell me a story - Noah

4:00 AM
Bhagevont Zuze Vazacho Ters

4:22 AM
Anondbhorit Za- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

4:26 AM
Falling In Love - Pornography -Hosted by Judie D'Cunha

4:54 AM
53rd Mando Festival - Old Goachi Porzolit Fulam  - Children

5:06 AM
Inter-Personal Relationships - Talk by Dr Silvia Noronha

5:35 AM
Hymn : Rochnar Atmea - Winston Colaco

5:40 AM
Gift of Tongues - Talk by Sr Elsis Mathew MSMI

6:06 AM
Song : Sant Anton Tum Ochoriancho

6:13 AM
Am I a Generous Giver? - Talk by Severina Fernandes

6:40 AM
Holiness in the Pauline Family -  Maggiorino Vigolungo - Talk by Sr Lissy
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6:55 AM
Angelus - English

6:57 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem  -  Rogtsakxi

7:00 AM
Konkani Mass from Archbishop House followed by Jivitacho Prokas

7:45 AM
Morning Prayer  -  Martyrs

7:48 AM
Hymn : Voch ani Tum-vui Toxench Kor - Fr John Albano Fernandes

7:53 AM
Devachem Utor  - 2 Korintkarank - Avesvor 9 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

8:00 AM
Bhajan - Namo Visvachiye Dipti - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx

8:09 AM
Way of the Cross -Padre Pio Friary

8:51 AM
The Greatest Commandment - Talk by Savio Mascarenhas

10:00 AM
Bhajan - Tu Sapta Divya Danancha Dataru - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx

10:04 AM
Bhagevont Zuze Vazacho Ters

10:26 AM
I am the Good Shepherd -Talk by Kirona Noronha

10:51 AM
My Music Video - Bore Khobreche Dut Zaum-ia -  Cielda Pereira

10:57 AM
Abundant Life -Sin is worth leaving - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

11:19 AM
Intercessions (English)

11:30 AM
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12:18 PM
The Way - Short Film by DYC

12:44 PM
What's Cooking - Episode 12

1:12 PM
Alcoholism - Eddie Fernandes interviews Socorro Coutinho - Testimony

1:40 PM
Magnnem, Upas, Dhorm Dan - Anthony D'Souza

2:20 PM
Hymns - O.L. of Perpetual Succour - Cortalim

2:25 PM
Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi  - Fr Jose Dias interviewed by Daniel F. de Souza

2:56 PM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 3

3:01 PM
Conversion of St Paul - Talk by Dr Brenda Nazareth Menezes

3:27 PM
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Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam

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Bapaichea Kallza Bhaxen - A talk by Fr Ashley Alphonso

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Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 4

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Senior Citizens Exercises - 13

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Special Prayer over the Sick - Joseph Vaz

4:58 PM
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Hanv povitr dekhum tumi i povitr zaiat - Gaurish Naik

5:42 PM
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Adoration - Hope - SJVRC

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Ratchem Magnem

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Magnificat (English)

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Prayer for Healing from Cancer

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[Goanet] When The Dutch Ruled The World: The Rise & Fall of the Dutch East India Company

2021-07-08 Thread Frederick Noronha
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Re: [Goanet] Mary Simon

2021-07-08 Thread Mervyn Lobo
 On Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 02:49:23 p.m. CDT, Roland Francis 
 wrote:
Justin Trudeau and the powers that be in Ottawa must have heard the constant 
and strident complaints of Eddie D’Sa in London England and to placate him they 
have named Canada’s first female and Indigenous Governor-General.

So, like the famous corrupted quote of James Baldwin “When the White Man Came 
to Africa he had the bible and the black man had the lands. Now we have the 
bible and he has the lands,” Trudeau has the Canadian land and they have the 
title of Governor-General.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mary-simon-governor-general-trudeau-payette-1.6092335



Roland,
Baldwin's 'quote' is actually only what he heard in his travels. He noted the 
following about 70 years ago in, "Letter from a region in my mind." Some of his 
observations may be valuable to those who have never questioned their beliefs. 


Baldwin's thoughts on the clergy and church may also have some bearing on why 
the Christian abuse and killing took place in Canada - directed primary towards 
children. 


Mervyn


"The Africans put it another way: When the white man came to Africa, the white 
man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who 
is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African 
who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible. 
The struggle, therefore, that now begins in the world is extremely complex, 
involving the historical role of Christianity in the realm of power—that is, 
politics—and in the realm of morals. In the realm of power, Christianity has 
operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a 
religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the 
spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. This particular true faith, 
moreover, is more deeply concerned about the soul than it is about the body, to 
which fact the flesh (and the corpses) of countless infidels bears witness. 
It goes without saying, then, that whoever questions the authority of the true 
faith also contests the right of the nations that hold this faith to rule over 
him—contests, in short, their title to his land. The spreading of the Gospel, 
regardless of the motives or the integrity or the heroism of some of the 
missionaries, was an absolutely indispensable justification for the planting of 
the flag. Priests and nuns and schoolteachers helped to protect and sanctify 
the power that was so ruthlessly being used by people who were indeed seeking a 
city, but not one in the heavens, and one to be made, very definitely, by 
captive hands. 
The Christian church itself—again, as distinguished from some of its 
ministers—sanctified and rejoiced in the conquests of the flag, and encouraged, 
if it did not formulate, the belief that conquest, with the resulting relative 
well-being of the Western populations, was proof of the favor of God. God had 
come a long way from the desert—but then so had Allah, though in a very 
different direction. God, going north, and rising on the wings of power, had 
become white, and Allah, out of power, and on the dark side of Heaven, had 
become—for all practical purposes, anyway—black. 
Thus, in the realm of morals the role of Christianity has been, at best, 
ambivalent. Even leaving out of account the remarkable arrogance that assumed 
that the ways and morals of others were inferior to those of Christians, and 
that they therefore had every right, and could use any means, to change them, 
the collision between cultures—and the schizophrenia in the mind of 
Christendom—had rendered the domain of morals as chartless as the sea once was, 
and as treacherous as the sea still is. 
It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human 
being (and let us not ask whether or not this is possible; I think we must 
believe that it is possible) must first divorce himself from all the 
prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept 
of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, 
and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him." 



Re: [Goanet] NATIVE INDIANS TRILLIONS in COMPENSATION, AND FM

2021-07-08 Thread Mervyn Lobo
On Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:11:09 p.m. CDT, Adolfo Mascarenhas 
 wrote:
 
Freemasonry is very much like a religion. While officially it started in 
England, actually  Officially it will be slightly over 300 years since it 
started in London.  Its origin goes; back to the medieval period when Cathedral 
Build  formed a guild to help those who were out of work. 
--


Doc,
Freemasons are all over the place. The signers of the US declaration of 
independence had several Freemasons in the group. In E. Africa, all the top 
industrialists were/are Freemasons. The organization is like a club for the 
rich in which each is given his place or rank and then they decide who will 
pick up which govt and/or private contracts.


I have seen several Dar es Salaam Goans at Freemason functions when our band 
played. At one function, our band included a Goan Catholic priest - so that was 
interesting. The Catholic church still forbids Catholics from becoming 
Freemasons but then again, this is the same church that arrested Galileo for 
suggesting that the earth was not the center of the universe.

  
WRT the German sitting on the English throne, she has been the Head of State of 
the largest empire known to man and has approved every law and action taken by 
her govts since 1952. All those freedom fighters who had to sacrifice their 
lives for independence - have Queen Lizzy to thank. All those who abused native 
American children knowing perfectly well that they would never be charged - 
also have Lizzy to thank.


Arresting Queen Elizabeth would be a dream situation. On the other hand, bonnie 
Prince Charles will do a better job of destroying the British monarchy should 
he ever get coronated (Coronated here has nothing to do with Covid19) ;-)   


 Mervyn







Re: [Goanet] Further Chapters for Jewish India? (Scroll, 7/7/2021)

2021-07-08 Thread Mervyn Lobo
On Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00:05 p.m. CDT, V M  wrote:

Thank you for the kind feedback + interesting comments, Mervyn. One day I'm 
going to go check out these Shirazi...



VM,
The people of the isles of Zanzibar had to combine two political parties, the 
Afro party and the Shirazi party to have an effective coalition to win an 
election. 


WRT to traditions of the Shirazi people, modern scholars are pointing out to 
inconsistencies between oral history and documented migration in the region.


DNA has thrown another wrench into traditions but the Shirazi are happy with 
their traditions. The only reason for their movement/migration today, is an 
economic one. 


Mervyn



[Goanet] Subject: Stan Swamy?s Death - Unfortunate Or Deliberate

2021-07-08 Thread Mervyn Maciel
I am inclined to go along with Sonia Faleiro's 'verdict' - that Fr.Stan's
death seems to have been planned. It was no accident of nature.
   Those responsible have blood on their hands.
 I am confident that Fr. Stan's relentless fight for justice for the
downtrodden will continue with renewed vigour .


Mervyn Maciel


Re: [Goanet] Further Chapters for Jewish India? (Scroll, 7/7/2021)

2021-07-08 Thread Roland Francis
Good article, specially appreciated since I have a more than casual 
understanding of the Indian Jews history and situation.

Roland.
Toronto.


> On Jul 7, 2021, at 3:19 AM, V M  wrote:
> 
> https://scroll.in/article/999497/reading-the-complex-reality-of-indias-jewish-communities-tiny-but-still-expanding
> 
> In her aching, confessional *Book of Esther*, the author Esther David (her
> original family name was Dandekar) describes attempting to “make aliyah”
> via the Law of Return, which gives Jewish people from any part of the
> world the right to migrate to Israel.
> 
> She was “running away from India” and her Bene Israeli community, which
> maintains the tradition that they are descended from 14 Jewish men and
> women from across the Arabian Sea who were shipwrecked on the Konkan
> coastline over 2,000 years ago. That is why David says she “tried to uproot
> myself from my surrogate motherland, and replant myself in the home of my
> ancestors”. Her intention was to move “like a pilgrimage. It would wipe out
> my past. Give me a new life.” She tried to learn Hebrew, sang Israeli folk
> songs, and learned to dance the Hora (an originally Eastern European
> practice that has become intrinsic to contemporary Jewish culture). But the
> alienation never lifted: “What a heavy price one had to pay to be a Jew!”
> 
> At one point, the new migrant was offered an appealing home, where “the
> courtyard was covered with mosaic tiles in green, blue and white. There was
> an orange tree in the centre, laden with ripe fruit. I felt I had walked
> into a house from the Arabian Nights.” There were no strings attached, and
> her social worker insisted “I take it without a second thought. The
> finances would be worked out later.” But when she was told the premises
> originally belonged to Palestinians who “left”, David refused, earning an
> earful: “You are stupid. Too sentimental. If you want to stay here, get
> used to the life here.”
> 
> David realised, “If I wanted to live like a Jew, I could live anywhere. I
> did not have to live in Israel to feel more Jewish than I felt in India.
> For me, Israel was a discoloured mosaic floor, stained by images of
> violence, fire, blood, ambulances, Israel unnerved me. I was terrified of
> terrorist attacks, the right to kill for survival, and the constant
> tension.” She yearned for Ahmedabad, and “felt relieved as I made
> preparations to return”.
> 
> *Book of Esther *was published in 2002, at the same time as *India’s Jewish
> Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life-Cycle*, edited by Shalva Weil of the Hebrew
> University of Jerusalem, who has gone on to produce an entire shelf on the
> Jewish presence in India, including – in 2019 alone: *The Baghdadi Jews in
> India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating
> Super-Diversity* and *The Jews of Goa.*
> 
> Though it was less than two decades ago, there was very little reliable
> information on Jewish India back then. That’s why Weil’s compilation (an
> Indian edition was published in 2009 by Marg) was gratefully received for
> its solid historiography on the subcontinent’s three distinct Jewish
> communities: Esther David’s Bene Israelis, the “Black” and “White” Cochini
> of Kerala, and the highly globalised Baghdadis, who rode economic,
> political and social winds in and out of British India, Singapore and China
> while transitioning fast from “Orientals to Imagined Britons”.
> 
> Considering all three communities made aliyah en bloc in the late 1940s and
> early 1950s, you might assume the lengthy annals of Jewish Indian history
> verge on extinguishment. But as Esther David’s new *Bene Appétit: The
> Cuisine of Indian Jews* demonstrates, that’s not the case. Three separate
> chapters dwell on communities that effectively didn’t exist even as
> recently as 2002, which illuminates an astonishing truth: there are many
> more Jewish Indians today than any point in the past 50 years, and their
> numbers are still expanding.
> 
> Check the evidence in *Bene Appétit*, where David surveys (via visits to
> each location) the relatively familiar cultural landscape of Cochin, Bene
> Israeli coastal Maharashtra, and Baghdadi Jewish Kolkata, then wings off to
> visit the “Bene Ephraim Jews of Andhra Pradesh”, the “Bnei Menashe Jews of
> Manipur” and “Bnei Menashe Jews of Mizoram”. All these are freshly minted
> Indian Jewish communities that are in the process of “rediscovering” –
> under strict rabbinical supervision – an orthodox Jewish identity, complete
> with intricate Biblical genealogical underpinnings.
> 
> Every time another batch pursues the years-long process until fruition,
> they petition to make aliyah, and an extensive network of agencies helps
> them move to Israel. In this way, thousands have gone, and many more are in
> line. By the mytho-historical Biblical calculus used to support their case
> for “Jewish origins” it’s theoretically possible – albeit highly unlikely –
> the entire Kuki, Mizo and Chin 

[Goanet] ACCOUNTABILITY OF GOVERNENCE

2021-07-08 Thread John Eric Gomes
DEMOCRACY AND RULE OF LAW
There are 4 pillars of Democracy, each powerful in thier own right to make and 
enforce just laws with checks and balances. They all swear to uphold the 
Constitution, but today with misusing draconian laws and those elected to serve 
turning Rulers, the citizens has to face the might of their government if they 
dare criticize/ give an opinion  or do anything contrary to the government 
narrative. The French government has opened up an enquiry into the Rafael deal  
which was blocked there as has also been done in India. We are told the Supreme 
Court(SC) has given a clean chit, matter closed. The SC is not an investigative 
agency and how HAL was dumped for Anil Ambani in the deal and vital clauses 
allegedly removed in signing the deal is intriguing! No one is discussing 
accountability or judicial enquiries into vaccine procurement delay, oxygen and 
ventilator bungles, record of actual figures of deaths. The arrest, treatment 
in jail of frail Alzeimer suffering 84 year old Fr Stan Swami, application of 
draconian UAPA so guilty unless proved innocent without trial, no bail, and his 
death in custody in our Democracy shows up inhumanity of the State machinery 
and is not something we can be proud of! 

When a politician or ruling party member is seen on TV clearly inciting 
communal hatred and using foul language and digital evidence is handed over to 
authorities, the immediate allegation is it is doctored/fake and forensic 
investigation required. Fr Stan was arrested on digital evidence which he 
denied and UAPA was slapped on him, judicial custody, never questioned during 
incarceration and all his questions to them unanswered. Now expert forensic 
evidence indicates Bima Koreagaon accused intellectuals and others had their 
computers hacked and evidence planted! If there is no full fleged judicial 
inquiry into the actions of the various arms of the state that led to the 
viscious persecution and inhuman behavior, and those who had a hand in it in 
the midst of a pandemic leading to Fr Swamy's death get exemplary punishment, 
then justice and democracy are on the road to perdition in our country!

Does government realize with dirty politics, it is bending rule of law and 
lying even in courts, openly stated by Justice J.R. Midha in the Delhi High 
Court stating this and also that it has been going on with impunity! Government 
are corrupting the people who will eventually loose complete trust in it.  The 
said Justice also requested that government frame a policy to hold officers 
accountable like Sikkim and Haryana have!That the government cares least for 
the common man is seen in the soaring prices of petrol, LPG, essentials, state 
of roads and civic amenities, children's plight for education etc. The people 
need to deeply introspect into what kind of India we want!


Re: [Goanet] Remembering Fr. Stan Swamy (Anish Esteves)

2021-07-08 Thread Anish Esteves
Remembering Fr Stan Swamy- The Champion of Jal, Jungle, and Zameen by Anish
Esteves

   On the afternoon of 5th July, hours before a hearing of Fr Stan Swamy’s
Bail application at the Bombay High court was scheduled to come up, came
the grim news. He had passed away a few moments earlier. A wave of shock
and grief gripped the country and the world at large.

   Born in a tiny hamlet of the southern state of Tamil Nadu on 26th April
1937, Fr Swamy was instrumental for his activism with regards to the
downtrodden and the Adivasis. Fr Swamy engaged with the tribal people of
Jharkhand and also wrote extensively on their plight and offered solutions.
As an Activist, he campaigned vociferously whenever the tribals suffered
atrocities at the hands of the government or were denied their rights. Fr
Swamy always believed that tribal activism is the best way to effect
changes in the tribal society. Be it water rights, land rights, or even
constitutional rights, Fr Swamy tirelessly took up various issues that
concerned the tribal community. In fact, in the year 2016, he conducted a
study on Adivasi prisoners and found that the proportion of undertrials
languishing in jails is far higher than their proportion of the population!

   Fr Swamy’s case will forever remain a blot on the country’s history.
Having being held on charges under the Indian Penal code and the draconian
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in the controversial Bhima
Koregaon violence case, Fr Swamy was arrested in October of 2020 from his
house in Ranchi in the eastern state of Jharkhand. Fr Stan applied on
health grounds for bail, only to be rejected by the court. Suffering from
Parkinson’s disease, Fr Swamy asked for a sipper, so that he could drink
water without spilling it. However, the jail authorities rejected his
request.

   Fr Swamy’s incident also brings to focus the tyrannical use of the
Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act, also known as the UAPA. One observes
that this law is being applied in cases that have nothing to do with
terrorism per se. Ironically, when the Elgar Parishad riots took place in
2018, Fr Swamy was not present at the location. "I have never been to Bhima
Koregaon for which I am being accused," he had once said. Yet, he was
accused by the NIA of being involved in activities of Maoist organizations
and receiving funds.

   Father Stan Swamy was a legend. The only way we can pay a tribute to him
would be by taking the tribal community into confidence and hearing their
concerns. He shall be an inspiration for generations to come.

Anish Esteves
@AEthejourno
www.anishesteves.home.blog


[Goanet] GOVERNORS MUST BE PROACTIVE AND NON-PARTISAN

2021-07-08 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Goa will finally have a full-fledged Governor by way of PS Sreedharan
Pillai. It has been a long wait of almost 11 months but hopefully it will
be worth it. As expected the new Governor may be a BJP man but is
intellectually very sound. Governor Pillai from being a student activist
went on to be a very successful advocate and has been a prolific writer. He
has all the legal acumen and a good academic background to do justice to
the Governor’s role.

Being in Power the BJP has its discretion who to appoint as Governors but
they should look at merit and not transform Raj Bhavans into retirement
homes for the aged party cadres.

Anthony Lancelot Dias from the Civil Service was the first Goan to be
appointed as Governor in West Bengal from 1971 to 1979. Former Chief of the
Army Staff Sunith Francis Rodrigues was the second having been the Governor
of Punjab from 2004 to 2010. If the BJP was keen to appoint someone from
Goa couldn’t it find a distinguished Goan amongst its flock that could have
matched the credentials of the earlier two Goan Governors?

The Goa Assembly elections are ensuing and as Rajendra Arlekar had made
known his intentions to contest, to avoid turbulence on the political turf
the BJP could have accommodated him in some other position. Did the
Governor’s cap fit him? And was Goa so intellectually bankrupt that the BJP
couldn’t send an academically worthy representative to the Rajya Sabha?

In the last over two decades Goa has seen some very outstanding Governors
by way of Lt Gen. J.F.R. Jacob, Dr. S.S.Sidhu, Mr. B.V. Wanchoo and more
recently the formidable Mr. Satya Pal Malik, while we have also witnessed
and had to put up with some from the other end of the spectrum of whom less
said the better.

Let us hope our new Governor, PS Sreedharan Pillai will usher the much
needed ray of hope for Goa and Goans by being very pro-active in the
discharge of his duties and responsibilities as the Constitutional head of
our State which today sadly finds itself at crossroads with bad governance
and demonstrative paralysis on all fronts.

Adv. Aires Rodrigues

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