[Goanet-News] Learn 100 Konkani sentences in 10 minutes

[Frederick Noronha]

Tatum (Babli) is the daughter of two prominent Konkani stage stars of the
yesteryears -- Bab Peter and Ophelia -- and she's based in Bombay/Mumbai,
if I got it right
https://youtu.be/JY7u4fTh_lk
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[Goanet-News] Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century

[Frederick Noronha]

Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century
https://youtu.be/tJuqe6sre2I
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[Goanet] GLIMPSES OF CHURCH HISTORY

[Eddie D'Sa]

How did the Church come into being?
For an answer, we helpless Goans and other Asians have to depend on the 
wisdom of the Europeans & their institutions.

Here is what an American Archdiocese (of St Paul) has to say:
By his Cross, Jesus gave birth to the Church. The origin and growth of 
the Church are symbolized by the blood and water which flowed from the 
open side of the crucified Jesus.
The Holy Spirit revealed the Church at Pentecost, empowering the 
Apostles to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.


[So where is this mysterious Spirit to be found? Does he live in London 
or Mapusa? Such questions must not be asked.

We Asians must just believe whatever the wise ones of the West say.]

NOW FOR SOME HISTORY:
The New Testament began with the letters of St Paul from about 48 CE 
until his death by Roman Emperor Nero in 64 CE.
When Paul died, not a single Gospel had been written.  Paul was a 
controversial figure and a reading of Galatians shows that he clashed 
with Peter and the Jerusalem church  leaders. There are irreconcilable 
differences between Paul’s views and the account in the Book of Acts 
(supposedly about Paul’s work). Paul never mentions Jesus’ supernatural 
birth and has a different idea of his resurrection.
The official Church piously believes that Peter was Bishop of Rome but 
nobody has said so and there is no document as evidence.


Let's move a few centuries ahead.
Innocent I became Pope in 401. He was the son of the previous pope, 
Anastasius I (399-401).
The Church at the time preached that babies who died without baptism (a 
Catholic ritual) went to hell for all eternity.  But other Popes went 
further. They believed that if baptized  babies died without communion, 
they went straight to hell.


SOME WEIRD EVENTS
In the closing years of the 9th century, rival factions battling for the 
Chair of St Peter brought chaos to Rome. In 896 the deranged Pope 
Stephen VII (belonging to one faction) decided to unearth the 9-month 
old corpse of a Corsican predecessor, Pope Formosus (891-96) who had 
belonged to another faction. He had the corpse dressed in full papal 
robes and placed on the throne in the Lateran palace. He then proceeded 
to interrogate ‘him’ personally. Formosus was charged with becoming pope 
under false pretences.
After being found guilty by the Synod, the corpse was stripped of all 
but a hair-shirt clinging to the withered flesh. The two fingers used to 
give the apostolic blessing were hacked off. The body  was dragged 
through the palace and hurled on to the mob in the streets. They in turn 
dragged it  to the river Tiber and flung it in. The corpse held together 
by the hairshirt was recovered by Formosus’ supporters and given a 
decent burial. It was eventually returned to its tomb in St Peter’s.


Later in the same year 896 Stephen himself was siezed and strangled. His 
supporters elected a certain Cardinal Sergius as pope while the opposing 
party elected one of their own. In the violence that followed, Sergius 
and his supporters were chased out of the city. Over the next 12 months, 
four more popes (among them Romanus and Theodore II) scrambled onto the 
bloodstained Chair of St Peter, maintaining themselves precariously for 
a few weeks (or even days) before being hounded out.


The first pope of the 10th century was Benedict IV (900-03). His 
successor, Leo V, reigned for just one month when he was seized and 
imprisoned by a usurper, Cardinal Christopher. Meanwhile Cardinal 
Sergius who had tried for the papal office some seven years earlier now 
tried again. His supporters got both Leo and Christopher murdered and 
their leader became Pope Sergius III in 904.


Sergius decided to honour Pope Stephen VII with a handsome epitaph and 
to overturn the judgement that had re-instated Pope Formosus’ character. 
In fact, Sergius had Formosus, now ten years dead, re-exhumed and 
condemned once again. The corpse was then beheaded, three more fingers 
cut off and thrown into the river Tiber. The headless body was caught in 
a fisherman’s net  and returned a second time to St Peter’s.


[MORE PAPAL DRAMA TO COME]

Eddie

[Goanet] Mr Alemao releases P.CTrust sports magazine

[Nelson Lopes]

Mr Churchill Alemao releases  P.CTrust sports magazine
Mr Alemao  released  the sports magazine  in honour of Fr Jose  da Costa Ex
PP of O.L.Hope Church  Chinchinim.He lauded  in glowing terms his love
,enthusiasm  for sports specially soccer and denouement works in all his
Parishes. He also presented token prizes  to Ms Saniya  Chari  ,first in
Std XII Science ,MMHSS  MS Mildred  SMA ,Master Anderson MMHS FIRST  in
schools at SSC. The token cash  awards  and citations of Rs 3000, and Rs
1000.each  resp were distributed
Earlier  Mr Alemao  and Fr Costa were welcomed by Prof Maggie Lopes and Mrs
Janet Crasto. MR Lopes  Chairman   introduced the guests and recalled
praise worthy contributions in sports and social work
The award fund of Rs 2.71 lakhs is donated by admirers  , friends  and
parishioners.The award will be effective from 2021-22

[Goanet] To all those tired and bored by the endless back and forth about the Inquisition, going nowhere ....

[Filomena Giese]

End of Goanet Digest, Vol 16, Issue 519
***
Watch on You Tube:  

The Spanish Inquisition - Mel Brooks

Re: [Goanet] Mourning and Wailing for our son

[Roland Francis]

I know you must have created a scholarship or award in memory of your son. But 
that may have been out of your own desire for it as much as to remember him.

What did your son love, or be happy about.
A dance, a picnic, a talent show, a tiatr?

Organize it on a one-off or an annual basis? He would probably have wanted it.

Roland.
Toronto. 


> On Sep 24, 2021, at 8:33 AM, Nelson Lopes  wrote:
> 
> 25 Sept
> A birthday to remember
> To assure  u r not lost forever
> A darling brother , a loving son
> The plan and will of God be done
> 
> The agony  will last and so the  pain
> AS hopes NONE  to see or meet again
> Trying in vain to accept and regain
> Heartaches to end in grave remain
> 
> No matter  how much we  miss  and sigh
> No reason or answer to search why grieving  ,life must go  we try
> Tears are dry as we cry
> 
> Sisters are here to comfort and be near
> Missing the one  who was loved and dear,
> Your absence around is loud and clear
> Our prayers , and best wishes do hear
> 
> Time and years pass. Your memory will last
> The shadow of gloom will forever  cast,
> In a flash and suddenly  you depart
> Shattering our minds  and  breaking our hearts.
> 
> God gave and He took you away
> Enjoyed briefly Your company  and play
> The joyoud moment was always Your birthday.
> The saddest event was departure day
> 
> The year has passed  ,quickly and fast
> Cherished memories will forever last
> Grieving ,mourning over the past
> Aspirations  and plans hopes were vast
> 
> As you lie forlon silently in the grave
> We above attempt to be bold and brave
> Efforts  and prayers  in vain to save
> Sorry mom is the  heart wrenching message you gave
> 
> Good bye  ,farewell  my son u were hope
> 
> In your absence   , need strength  to cope
> God's plan will always prevail
> Wailing, crying complaining of no avail
> Dad
> 24.9.2021

[Goanet] WILL GOA EVER SEE PROBITY IN PUBLIC LIFE?

[Aires Rodrigues]

Persons in Public life are expected to be moral exemplars of morality and
ethics as they have publicly pledged to uphold and defend that realm. For
those holding a Public Office, there can be no dividing line between their
Personal and Public lives.

The private lives of public figures are wide open to public scrutiny. What
they do in their private life matters and does impact their public
responsibilities. Can they be ethical in public if they are dishonorable in
private? Their private life reveals more about morals than their sound
bytes.

When to get appointed even as a peon one needs a police clearance, it is
highly appalling that persons with extremely serious criminal cases pending
against them are holding public office.

Truth and integrity must always be the overriding characteristics of those
who are privileged and entrusted to serve others as public officials.
Repaying that trust by being accountable and acting responsibly with
integrity is crucial in a democracy and to ensure good Governance. Failure
to do so only leads to anarchy and a failed state abounding in corruption
and a breakdown in the rule of law.

The French Nobel Prize winning Author and Philosopher Albert Camus had
rightly said “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world”.

Adv. Aires Rodrigues

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com



You can also reach me on

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Re: [Goanet] Mourning abd Wailing for our son

[Ivan Pereira]

https://youtu.be/ephsKVjwoUU

Nelson, your son is singing for u, no clowning around. 

> On Sep 24, 2021, at 08:33, Nelson Lopes  wrote:
> 
> 25 Sept
> A birthday to remember
> To assure  u r not lost forever
> A darling brother , a loving son
> The plan and will of God be done
> 
> The agony  will last and so the  pain
> AS hopes NONE  to see or meet again
> Trying in vain to accept and regain
> Heartaches to end in grave remain
> 
> No matter  how much we  miss  and sigh
> No reason or answer to search why grieving  ,life must go  we try
> Tears are dry as we cry
> 
> Sisters are here to comfort and be near
> Missing the one  who was loved and dear,
> Your absence around is loud and clear
> Our prayers , and best wishes do hear
> 
> Time and years pass. Your memory will last
> The shadow of gloom will forever  cast,
> In a flash and suddenly  you depart
> Shattering our minds  and  breaking our hearts.
> 
> God gave and He took you away
> Enjoyed briefly Your company  and play
> The joyoud moment was always Your birthday.
> The saddest event was departure day
> 
> The year has passed  ,quickly and fast
> Cherished memories will forever last
> Grieving ,mourning over the past
> Aspirations  and plans hopes were vast
> 
> As you lie forlon silently in the grave
> We above attempt to be bold and brave
> Efforts  and prayers  in vain to save
> Sorry mom is the  heart wrenching message you gave
> 
> Good bye  ,farewell  my son u were hope
> 
> In your absence   , need strength  to cope
> God's plan will always prevail
> Wailing, crying complaining of no avail
> Dad
> 24.9.2021

[Goanet] The Great Resignation

[Roland Francis]

What is it?
It’s a consequence of the pandemic during which employees who have been aware 
of Work-Life Balance suddenly think it is the most important aspect of their 
employment. 
It entails quitting their job without hesitation if it looks to them that their 
employers don’t much value their well being outside of work.

What are the characteristics and what is it caused by?
A large segment (40% of the in-demand occupations) will resign or change jobs).
Career downsizing - less stress, less responsibility, more family and personal 
time.
More confidence in themselves.
Employment market rebound where jobs are a-begging.
It is a starting and will become a  global phenomenon.

What do the people involved want from it?
Flexibility in their work manner and time.
Desire to work remotely.
Moving away from ambition.
Want employers to treat them as complex humans rather than just workers.
Realization that one often works hard for non-essentials.

How did it come about?
Direct consequence of the pandemic where life was lost and one learned to live 
without many superfluous wants and desires.

The article explains all this well,  as well as towards the end, suggests ways 
to deal with it.

Here comes the Great Resignation. Why millions of employees could quit their 
jobs post-pandemic

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-24/the-great-resignation-post-pandemic-work-life-balance/100478866

Roland.
Toronto. 

Re: [Goanet] The Goan Inquisition

[Mel de Quadros]

Re: ‘Just because some in Lisbon or London…..etc

It may help us all if those who so quickly dispose of, and insult the
research of others, rivals no doubt, took the time to read those offending
publications and sources before  pontificating about what they may not or
not have read.

Research, even on Goa and Goans, may come from many sources, including your
own. Establishing oneself as the Paragon of Goan Truth does not negate
research by others, many of whom may have never visited Goa or India. But
to quote an old adage, it’s from the mouths of strangers that we often hear
the truth.

We have outstanding research on overseas Goans, among them we have Jessica
Kuper, Donna Nelson and most exhaustively Margret Frenz from Oxford. Their
studies of Goans are outstanding and well worth the read, even or perhaps
specifically,  by local experts.

Be appreciative of research by non-Goans, let a thousand flowers
bloom…..,….



On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:12 AM Gilbert Lawrence 
wrote:

> In my research for the book on the Jews and the Goa inquisition, it would
> appear that the Goa Inquisitor selectively went after Jews and converted
> Jews. The fact is often ignored that Jews, Moors and the 'new-converted'
> were disproportionally a much larger segment of White settlers in Goa
> because of their expulsion from Portugal and Spain; and the reluctance of
> native Portuguese to leave their homeland. Also the whole essence of
> colonial Goa was trade and trading networks, an occupation in which Jews
> excelled.  So likely by the same token, the same groups shoulder a
> disproportionate share of the ills of colonialism - moral, fiscal and
> ethical which have been extensively discussed.
>
> Just because some in Lisbon or London or Jerusalem or Amsterdam want to
> make the Goa inquisition and their own careers all about the Jews in Goa,
> it does not mean the Goans should fall for it; especially when it is
> causing communal discord within Goa and India.  This is termed "causing
> chaos without leaving any fingerprints" - a prelude to "divide and rule".
>
> It is time Goans evaluate their history from a strategic and geo-political
> perspective rather than the naiveté that we were brought up with.
>
> Regards, GL
> Co-author:  Insights into Colonial Goa
> Published by Amazon and Kindle
>
> -
> From: Mel de Quadros
>
> the Jews, expelled from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1496, as well
> as those who fled after the Portuguese Inquisition in 1536, migrated to
> Goa, India.
>
>
>

Re: [Goanet] The Goan Inquisition: an extract from the novel’ Guardian of the Dawn’ by Richard Zimler

[Mel de Quadros]

https://in.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/19spec2.htm


Sent from my iPhone

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:03 AM Mel de Quadros 
wrote:

> A book on the subject:
> Synopsis
> Some of the Jews, expelled from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1496,
> as well as those who fled after the Portuguese Inquisition in 1536,
> migrated to Goa, India.
>
> However, once the court of the holy Office established itself in Goa in
> 1560, The jews—who had formed an organized community there—became subject
> to the persecution of the Inquisition. Despite the horrors of the Goan
> Inquisition, some Jews and new Christians, or conversations, who
> practiced their religion in secret while ostensibly practicing
> Christianity, managed to retain favour in the service of the Portuguese
> crown.
>
> The Jews of Goa brings together scholars and researcher to discuss the
> history and legacy of the Jews and new Christians (conversations), through
> texts and primary documents, missionary literature and records of
> inquisitorial trials from the Lisbon and Goan archives.
>
> The volume breaks new ground in examining the early and medieval history
> of the Jews, with a focus on the Portuguese period after Goa became a
> major power centre in India.
>
> The book breaks the silence that has surrounded the Jews and new
> Christians and their descendants in Goa during the past few hundred years.
>
> About the #Author :
>
> Shalva Weil is Senior Researcher at the Research Institute for Innovation
> in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is also
> Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at UNISA,
> University of South Africa.
>
> She has edited/co-edited books on Indian Jews, including India’s Jewish
> Heritage (2002);
> Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the
> Margin (2007);
> Karmic Passages (2008);
> The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating
> Identities, and Creating Super-Diversity (2019), and has published a large
> number of scholarly articles on the Baghdadi Jews, Bene Israel, Cochin
> Jews, and Judaizing groups in India.
> In 2017, as GIAN Distinguished Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru
> University, New Delhi, Shalva Weil was the first to offer a course on
> Indian Jews at an Indian University.
>

[Goanet] Goan Inquisition: A novel about the Inquisition

[Mel de Quadros]

Here is a rather good novel about the Goan Inquisition by an American
author who has specialized in Portuguese Jewish history.

R*ichard Zimler**'s novel, Guardian of the Dawn, documents the little-known
Portuguese Inquisition in India, in 16th century Goa. He points out that,
apart from their laws and religion, the Portuguese also imported and
enforced their infamous methods of interrogation to subdue troublemakers.*

*Zimler has won numerous awards for his work, including a 1994 US National
Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and 1998 Herodotus Award for
best historical novel. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon was picked as 1998 Book
of the Year by British critics, while Hunting Midnight has been nominated
for the 2005 IMPAC Literary Award. Together with Guardian of the Dawn,
these novels comprise the 'Sephardic Cycle' -- a group of interrelated but
independent novels about different branches of a Portuguese Jewish family.*

https://m.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/14inter1.htm

[Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 25th September 2021

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Schedule for  Saturday 25th September 2021

12:00 AM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

12:23 AM
Magnneachem Jivit - Talk by Gaurish Naik

12:56 AM
Hymn : Jezu Punorjivont Zala - Monica Fernandes

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Friday

1:45 AM
Jesus the Good Shepherd as the gate - Talk by Sr Shilpa

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

2:26 AM
Devacha Utor - 1 Juanv - Avesvor 5 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:33 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 68 - Gorudd - Fr Pratap Naik sj

2:40 AM
Daughters of the heart of Mary - Vocation Promotion

2:48 AM
Fransican Sisters of St. Mary of the Angels - Vocation Promotion

2:58 AM
Music - Jezu Novem Ietolo - Fr Eusico Pereira

3:05 AM
Goychea Futtbolachea Vostad Ep 3- Bibiano  Fernandes interviewed by Daniel
de Souza

3:52 AM
Gaionancho Jhelo - Jezu amchi Xanti - Monica Fernandes

3:55 AM
Health Matters - Hypertension - Dr Edward D'Mello

4:35 AM
Adoration led by Godfret Pereira

5:11 AM
Importance of Prayers and God's Word - Godfrey  Pereira

5:41 AM
Hymns - Our Lady of Snow HS Raia

5:45 AM
Talk - Justice- SJVRC

6:14 AM
Poem - Ankvar Marie by Sandhya Fernandes

6:16 AM
Magnneachem Jivit - Talk by Gaurish Naik

6:49 AM
Hymn - Ankvar Maie Mhoje - Fr Ubaldo  Fernandes

6:57 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem Sonvar - Week 1 & 3

7:00 AM
Konkani Mass at Archbishops House followed by Jivitacho Prokas

7:45 AM
Morning Prayer  -  Saturday Wk 1 & 3

7:50 AM
Spring Cleaning our Soul - Edith Melo Furtado

8:18 AM
Devacha Utor - 2 Juanv - Avesvor 1 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

8:22 AM
Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth - Vocation Promotion

8:27 AM
Assumption of Mary into Glory - Fr Nigel Alphonso sj

8:49 AM
Song - Jezu Tujem Nanv - Ivor D'Cunha

8:55 AM
Tum Jezucho mog Kortai? - Talk by Fr Joseph da Silva

9:20 AM
Rosary of St Joseph Vaz

9:42 AM
Mother Mary - Talk by Fr Eremito Rebelo

9:54 AM
Jivit Bodol - Talk by Fr Jeronimo D'Silva

10:20 AM
Adoration - Love - SJVRC

10:47 AM
Prayer : Benedictus

10:50 AM
Our Father - Bengali

10:56 AM
The Earth - Our Home - Dolphins

11:28 AM
Angelus - English

11:30 AM
Mass in English from Cruz Milagress followed by Daily Flash

12:15 PM
Talk on Confession - Savio Rodrigues sj

12:32 PM
Bhajan - Jaisa Baap Taisa Putr - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx

12:35 PM
Song - Nhespak Man - Josephine Dias

12:40 PM
Panel Discussion on carbon footprint and ecosystem - with Sandhya Fernandes

1:12 PM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  160  -   Zannti Ostur   - Fr Pratap Naik sj

1:21 PM
Prayer for India 1

1:24 PM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 14

1:32 PM
Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi - Fausto da Costa interviewed by Daniel  de Souza

2:16 PM
Health Matters - Cancer Treatment -  Dr Jean Louis De Menezes

2:42 PM
Prayer of children for their parents

2:44 PM
Devacheo Yevzonneo Somzunk Bhavarth Gorjecho -  Fr Edson Fernandes

3:00 PM
Hymn : Mary, You are the Honour - Irene Rocha

3:03 PM
Talk - Take Heart, Rise Gourish Naik

3:26 PM
Bhagevont Zuze Vazache mozotin Bhurgeancher Magnnem

3:30 PM
Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam

3:47 PM
Katholik Quiz - Manevont Pri. Agnelo de Souza conducted by Shenaya Pereira

4:00 PM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

4:23 PM
Do I have a Vocation ? Talk by  Dr Sarita Nazareth

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 15

4:43 PM
Ghevpi nhoi punn divpi zaum-ia -  Fr. Hermogenes Fernandes

5:00 PM
Praise ad Worship - Brian Colaco

5:28 PM
Marienchem Jivit Appnnaum-ia- Talk by Fr Henry Falcao

5:57 PM
Hymn - You are my all in all -Saxophone cover - Fr Seville Antao - OFM(Cap)

6:00 PM
Aimorechen Magnnem

6:05 PM
Gonvllik Chitt 2021 - Sonvsarak Jezu Borea Gonvlliacho Rupkar Zaum ia - Fr
Simiao Fernandes

6:30 PM
Konkani Mass at Archbishops House followed by Jivitacho Prokas

7:15 PM
Choir  - Sodtam Tuka - Fabiola Lopes

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

7:56 PM
Magnificat (Konkani)

8:00 PM
Hymn - Theme of Pastoral Year - Fr. Tomas Lobo

8:05 PM
Devacho Mog Ani Kaklut -  Lindinha Albuquerque

8:25 PM
Devacha Utor - 3 Juanv - Avesvor 1 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

8:30 PM
Jesuits - Vocation Promotion

8:40 PM
Caritas Christi - Vocation Promotion

8:50 PM
Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Vocation Promotion

9:00 PM
WORLD GOA DAY

10:30 PM
Ratchem Magnem

10:47 PM
Goal Post Ep 3 - Maria Rebello interviewed by Jovito Lopes

11:35 PM
Entrepreneur - Suraj George interviewed by Basil D'Cunha

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[Goanet-News] BJP's Shaina N.C., Spouse, Set To Pull Out of Controversial Project at Old Goa (Devika Sequeira, TheWire)

[Goanet Reader]

DEVIKA SEQUEIRA
devikaseque...@gmail.com


In the real estate frenzy that
has gripped Goa currently, even
protected sites have become
vulnerable to land sharks.The
Viceroy's Arch, Old Goa.


Caught in a storm of local protests and legal challenges over
a construction within the protected world heritage zone at
Old Goa with its cluster of centuries-old churches, Mumbai's
power couple Shaina N.C., the BJP's Maharashtra spokesperson,
and her husband, developer Manish Munot have decided to pull
out of the project.

BJP's Maharashtra spokesperson Shaina N.C..  Photo: Bollywood
Hungama/CC BY 3.0/Wikimedia Commons

Insisting that they were being targeted with an ulterior
motive because his wife is "famous", Munot told The Wire he
was withdrawing from the project because he didn't want to
hurt anyone's sentiments.  "I am on the verge of selling my
property; in fact, I have basically sold it," he said.

The property was no longer of any use to him, the builder
said. "I had every intention of building there. Had I been
given permission I would not let go of my rights. I go by
the law in everything."

  The question is why would an experienced developer
  like Munot buy a property in a protected area
  (under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological
  Sites and Remains Act, 1958)?

Calling it "a case of gross misuse of power by the state
government to favour a powerful and influential party," a
special leave petition (SLP) filed in the Supreme Court by
the Save Old Goa Action Committee has challenged the ongoing
construction of the river-front ground plus one bungalow
coming up within the protected zone and a stone's throw away
from the Chapel of St. Cajetan, the Viceroy's Arch and Largo
of St. Cajetan.

  The controversy has also stung the Goa Forward
  Party (GFP).  It recently eased out its treasurer
  Suraj Lotlikar after the Old Goa case sparked
  objections from the church and created a political
  uproar.

  "He is no longer with us," GFP spokesperson
  Durgadas Kamat told The Wire.  Just months away
  from an election early next year, the local party
  was obviously keen to distance itself from the
  political blowback from the case.

Also read: Goa Hopes To Revive Mines -- But Affected
Communities Fear Return of Old Normal

Munot and Lotlikar's wife, Suvarna Suraj Lotlikar, are
co-owners of the property in question which they acquired in
two separate sale deeds executed on the same day in May 2015.

Goa's real estate market has spiked to new highs post the
second phase of the coronavirus pandemic with scores of young
professionals and the urban rich from the rest of India
scouring for their Goa dream house to work from home in more
conducive surroundings.

The resurgent boom has also spawned a subterranean tribe of
"brokers" with connections within a highly compromised
administration willing to provide, or at least promise, a fix
even for cases governed by the most stringent laws.

"The illegal construction coming up within the protected area
of Old Goa is a classic case of how powerful and influential
people can pressurise, bribe, threaten and manipulate the
bureaucracy and system to get permissions, where it is
absolutely not possible to get permissions," Fr Noel D'Costa,
a priest with the Goa Archdiocese said.

Fr D'Costa praised the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI),
Goa Circle, for standing up to the pressure to withdraw its
objections to the project.  The ASI's investigation of the
documents brought to light the extent of the fraud and
misrepresentation in the case, he said.

The high court, however, set aside the ASI's orders to stop
work.

A photo of the ongoing construction in a protected area.
Photo: author provided

According to the documents presented in the apex court which
has admitted the petition, though the original owners of the
property, Jose Maria de Gouveia Pinto, his wife and sister
sold the land to Munot and Lotlikar in 2015, applications for
"reconstruction of an ancestral house" (which never existed
there in the first place, says the ASI) and a green signal
from the director-general ASI was sought as late as January
2020 in the name of the Gouveia Pintos.

  Under the law, only repairs to an existing
  structure are allowed in a protected zone.  And all
  that stood on the property, the Goa ASI reported,
  was but a small, dilapidated hut used usually to
  store coconuts.  Currently, the construction of a
  397 square metre one-storied structure is underway.

To back the claim that a "19th century ancestral house" had
indeed existed on the property but had somehow been blown
away "in a cyclone that hit Goa in 1992", Suvarna Lotlikar
(co-owner of the property) appended photographs of a house,
only to have her bluff called by the ASI.

  Some excellent 

[Goanet] BJP's Shaina N.C., Spouse, Set To Pull Out of Controversial Project at Old Goa (Devika Sequeira, TheWire)

[Goanet Reader]

DEVIKA SEQUEIRA
devikaseque...@gmail.com


In the real estate frenzy that
has gripped Goa currently, even
protected sites have become
vulnerable to land sharks.The
Viceroy's Arch, Old Goa.


Caught in a storm of local protests and legal challenges over
a construction within the protected world heritage zone at
Old Goa with its cluster of centuries-old churches, Mumbai's
power couple Shaina N.C., the BJP's Maharashtra spokesperson,
and her husband, developer Manish Munot have decided to pull
out of the project.

BJP's Maharashtra spokesperson Shaina N.C..  Photo: Bollywood
Hungama/CC BY 3.0/Wikimedia Commons

Insisting that they were being targeted with an ulterior
motive because his wife is "famous", Munot told The Wire he
was withdrawing from the project because he didn't want to
hurt anyone's sentiments.  "I am on the verge of selling my
property; in fact, I have basically sold it," he said.

The property was no longer of any use to him, the builder
said. "I had every intention of building there. Had I been
given permission I would not let go of my rights. I go by
the law in everything."

  The question is why would an experienced developer
  like Munot buy a property in a protected area
  (under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological
  Sites and Remains Act, 1958)?

Calling it "a case of gross misuse of power by the state
government to favour a powerful and influential party," a
special leave petition (SLP) filed in the Supreme Court by
the Save Old Goa Action Committee has challenged the ongoing
construction of the river-front ground plus one bungalow
coming up within the protected zone and a stone's throw away
from the Chapel of St. Cajetan, the Viceroy's Arch and Largo
of St. Cajetan.

  The controversy has also stung the Goa Forward
  Party (GFP).  It recently eased out its treasurer
  Suraj Lotlikar after the Old Goa case sparked
  objections from the church and created a political
  uproar.

  "He is no longer with us," GFP spokesperson
  Durgadas Kamat told The Wire.  Just months away
  from an election early next year, the local party
  was obviously keen to distance itself from the
  political blowback from the case.

Also read: Goa Hopes To Revive Mines -- But Affected
Communities Fear Return of Old Normal

Munot and Lotlikar's wife, Suvarna Suraj Lotlikar, are
co-owners of the property in question which they acquired in
two separate sale deeds executed on the same day in May 2015.

Goa's real estate market has spiked to new highs post the
second phase of the coronavirus pandemic with scores of young
professionals and the urban rich from the rest of India
scouring for their Goa dream house to work from home in more
conducive surroundings.

The resurgent boom has also spawned a subterranean tribe of
"brokers" with connections within a highly compromised
administration willing to provide, or at least promise, a fix
even for cases governed by the most stringent laws.

"The illegal construction coming up within the protected area
of Old Goa is a classic case of how powerful and influential
people can pressurise, bribe, threaten and manipulate the
bureaucracy and system to get permissions, where it is
absolutely not possible to get permissions," Fr Noel D'Costa,
a priest with the Goa Archdiocese said.

Fr D'Costa praised the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI),
Goa Circle, for standing up to the pressure to withdraw its
objections to the project.  The ASI's investigation of the
documents brought to light the extent of the fraud and
misrepresentation in the case, he said.

The high court, however, set aside the ASI's orders to stop
work.

A photo of the ongoing construction in a protected area.
Photo: author provided

According to the documents presented in the apex court which
has admitted the petition, though the original owners of the
property, Jose Maria de Gouveia Pinto, his wife and sister
sold the land to Munot and Lotlikar in 2015, applications for
"reconstruction of an ancestral house" (which never existed
there in the first place, says the ASI) and a green signal
from the director-general ASI was sought as late as January
2020 in the name of the Gouveia Pintos.

  Under the law, only repairs to an existing
  structure are allowed in a protected zone.  And all
  that stood on the property, the Goa ASI reported,
  was but a small, dilapidated hut used usually to
  store coconuts.  Currently, the construction of a
  397 square metre one-storied structure is underway.

To back the claim that a "19th century ancestral house" had
indeed existed on the property but had somehow been blown
away "in a cyclone that hit Goa in 1992", Suvarna Lotlikar
(co-owner of the property) appended photographs of a house,
only to have her bluff called by the ASI.

  Some excellent 

Re: [Goanet] Religion, conversions, caste... in Maharashtra

[Roland Francis]

An interesting link.

Beyond a few stray and casual times, when in India, I didn’t have the 
opportunity of coming closely in contact with any converted Christian 
Maharastrian Brahmins. That may be because as the article says, most tried to 
conceal their Christian background.

I feel sorry for their angst while drowning in nationalist Hindu culture in 
order to preserve their Brahmin privilege. No one should be subject to those 
continuous personal conflicts and fears.

I don’t think even if they fled India along with the British (like the 
Anglo-Indians), they would have been too happy elsewhere. Their Hindu culture 
and traditions would have prevented it. They might have made it in the 
Caribbean countries where Hindus and Christians mix and intermarry with ease 
but then most of those people with Indian heritage were low caste rather than 
Brahmin.

Roland.
Toronto.


> On Sep 24, 2021, at 7:36 AM, Frederick Noronha  
> wrote:
> 
> Published in 2019, but still interesting:
> https://indianexpress.com/article/research/through-personal-memories-a-journey-into-maharashtras-forgotten-brahmin-christians/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ᐧ

[Goanet] Mourning abd Wailing for our son

[Nelson Lopes]

25 Sept
A birthday to remember
To assure  u r not lost forever
A darling brother , a loving son
The plan and will of God be done

The agony  will last and so the  pain
AS hopes NONE  to see or meet again
Trying in vain to accept and regain
Heartaches to end in grave remain

No matter  how much we  miss  and sigh
No reason or answer to search why grieving  ,life must go  we try
Tears are dry as we cry

Sisters are here to comfort and be near
Missing the one  who was loved and dear,
Your absence around is loud and clear
Our prayers , and best wishes do hear

Time and years pass. Your memory will last
The shadow of gloom will forever  cast,
In a flash and suddenly  you depart
Shattering our minds  and  breaking our hearts.

God gave and He took you away
Enjoyed briefly Your company  and play
The joyoud moment was always Your birthday.
The saddest event was departure day

The year has passed  ,quickly and fast
Cherished memories will forever last
Grieving ,mourning over the past
Aspirations  and plans hopes were vast

As you lie forlon silently in the grave
We above attempt to be bold and brave
Efforts  and prayers  in vain to save
Sorry mom is the  heart wrenching message you gave

Good bye  ,farewell  my son u were hope

In your absence   , need strength  to cope
God's plan will always prevail
Wailing, crying complaining of no avail
Dad
24.9.2021

[Goanet] Religion, conversions, caste... in Maharashtra

[Frederick Noronha]

Published in 2019, but still interesting:
https://indianexpress.com/article/research/through-personal-memories-a-journey-into-maharashtras-forgotten-brahmin-christians/




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[Goanet] Have a nice weekend. Watch "I Only Have Eyes for You" on YouTube

[Gabe Menezes]

https://youtu.be/1_urvud-Oi0

Re: [Goanet] The Goan Inquisition

[alan machado]

Leonara Caldeira was not Goan. She was a Spanish Jew whose family emigrated
to Portugal where she was converted and became a Cristaos-Novas. Being
widowed she left for Cochin with her son and two daughters. She established
a thriving business which drew her into contact with Jews living in the
neighbouring part of Cochin ruled by the Cochin Raja.
Goa's Inquisition was not involved in her arrest and trial. The first
inquisitors arrived in Goa only in December 1560, well after Caldeira and
19 other Cristaos-Novas (10 from Cochin, 10 from Goa) were put on a ship
for Lisbon. She was the only one burnt. Widows constituted a major
percentage of those who were subjected to this terrifying ordeal, not just
in Portugal but throughout Europe. It was the time of witch-burning in the
Protestant north.
We know of a number of the 20 who were released within months of the
auto-da-fe, a clear indication that the trial was intended to remove
Cristao-Novas from Cochin's commercial scene. One, Jacome Olivares,
emigrated to Istanbul.

Regarding leniency, there are directives from the king to this effect.
Among them are alvaras extending relief to "culprits" for two offences as
well as making new converts free from prosecution for a number of years.
The intention was never to drive people away. The intention had always been
to draw new converts firmly into the Portuguese orbit. Every ruler knows
that to retain his kingdom he needs to retain his people and ensure
conditions of security and peace so that the economy flourishes. This is
not achieved by terrorising subjects. It was purely a matter of practical
necessity.
Alan

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 6:30 PM Gilbert Lawrence 
wrote:

> In the two posts from Adolfo on this topic, I tried my best to separate
> the logical points of the posts from the rambling accounts.  In the midst
> of the Goan laterite Ferrous-Manganese stones and the red mud, there was a
> refreshing diamond-in-the-rough.
>
>  "happening in Goa (for) Portuguese soldiers and
> sailors adulterous (behavior) as a right. "
>
> With the above, finally I understand how the charge of
> converted-Christians "living their former faith" came about.
> Most naïve historians and other writers had explained this heresy charge as
> "clandestinely observing the Jewish Sabbath and the Muslim Friday holy day"
> or as the article points to "visiting synagogues
>  and eating unleavened bread"
> or eating or not eating “halal/kosher meat”.
>
> Aldolfo (with his Tanzania background) points to their religions'
> sanction of multiple wives, contrary to Christian practice, which had
> viewed that conduct as "adulterous behavior".  This makes more sense, and
> explains Francis Xavier's strong disappointment of the moral values and
> practices of Converted Christians.  BTW, Hindus are not and cannot be
> labelled as heretics; and hence not under the purview of the Inquisition.  
> *Insights into
> Colonial Goa* draws the difference between the goals of Inquisition and
> Persecution; and I hope at least the Goans participating in this dialog
> draw the distinction.
>
> I am not suggesting that White Christian Portuguese soldiers and
> sailors did not have adulterous relations.  But they could not claim it as
> a "right".
>
> The article from "New Indian Express" had a lot of misinformation and
> disinformation.  So I wish we did not give it the publicity.  Rather we
> should be spending our time and energy studying the serious writings of
> Goan authors like Alan Machado, Valmiki Faleiro, and me who have spent lot
> of time researching the facts and analyzing the data.  But I welcome the
> grain of shining light amidst a lot of historical confusion and
> disinformation.
>
> Thanks Adolfo, for pointing out that the heresy charge against the New
> Convert is claim of the RIGHT TO have a haram, concubine, mistress, or a
> one-night-stand, a perfectly accepted practice of Islam and 16th century
> Judaism.
>
>  Regards, Gilbert
>
> Co-author: Insights into Colonial Goa
>
> available to buy on Amazon
> 
> .
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 05:41:36 PM EDT, Adolfo Mascarenhas <
> adca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Gilbert and others I am referring to your dispatch  if many read Alan Machado's recent post on Goanet on the Goan inquisition.?
> With the article's section on leniency, etc. Machado paints is a different
> picture than what some have described as "the worst of all the Inquisitions
> in the world.>
>
> At this moment it is not material to me what Machado wrote.
>
>
> As a Catholic and a Goan and an Africander I am disgusted on two main
> grounds ..No where in the Bible is it written that only Catholics 

[Goanet] THAT VEIL OF SECRECY AT GOA RAJ BHAVAN MUST BE LIFTED

[Aires Rodrigues]

All Raj Bhavans across the country and even the Rashtrapati Bhavan come
under the purview of the Right to Information Act which was enacted to
ensure Transparency and Accountability in Governance.

But for over a decade Goa Raj Bhavan has not been submitting itself to this
Transparency law by strangely claiming that it is not a ‘Public Authority’.
There is need to rectify this decade long anomaly and ensure that our Raj
Bhavan does not remain the sole Raj Bhavan in the  country, not complying
with this much needed law. The Raj Bhavan must lead by example in ensuring
transparency and openness in Governance within the State of Goa by not
depriving information to citizens.

In recent times good governance in Goa has been lacking with trust between
the people and the government at an all-time low. So this single act of
empowering the people to obtain information from the Raj Bhavan, the
highest public institution in the State and respecting the rule of law will
send a powerful message of reinstatement of good governance in the state
with a citizen-centric approach of transparency, openness and
accountability. It would be in the best interests of the democratic
principles and the Constitutional mandate of the RTI Act.

Adv. Aires Rodrigues

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com



You can also reach me on

Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues

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www.airesrodrigues.in

[Goanet] Learn 100 Konkani sentences in 10 minutes

[Frederick Noronha]

Tatum (Babli) is the daughter of two prominent Konkani stage stars of the
yesteryears -- Bab Peter and Ophelia -- and she's based in Bombay/Mumbai,
if I got it right
https://youtu.be/JY7u4fTh_lk
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