[Goanet] Inside the Lesser-Known Cuisine of India's Konkani Muslims — GOYA
An excellent food and cuisine article as only the GOYA journal can write it. We learn that the first Muslims settled in India as a result of coastal trade and not of conquest which only followed later. That the first Muslims in India were from Basra Iraq who came to trade and later settled in droves on the Konkan coast along its entire stretch - from the southern reaches of Kerala through Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa, bringing their Arab cuisine and mixing it up with coconuts, spices and other local ingredients. The Konkani Muslims who settled in Bombay operate small and non-descript restaurants that may be paragons of plainness but undeniably are towers of taste. One must savour their meats, seafood curries and uniquely Konkan Biryanis that give immense pleasure-sensation to any palate. https://www.goya.in/blog/inside-the-lesser-known-cuisine-of-indias-konkani-muslims Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet-News] Elections of another era (Sharmila Pais e Martins) / Radio Mango returns (Milena Marques Zacharias)
The elections ... of another era in Goa (Sharmila Pais e Martins) Political theatrics? Sensationalism? Politicians winning by landslides (despite there being many candidates)? Voters turning into gullible instruments? Patronage-ridden electoral politics? If this sounds like elections of our times, well... think again. Dr Sharmila Pais e Martins is a historian who has done her doctorate on elections in colonial Goa's 19th and 20th centuries. You could encounter something surprising in what she tells us of the issue... Recorded live at 9 pm Sep 30, 2021 (2100 IST 1530 GMT 1630 WEST 1230 BRT). Feel free to share your comments, like (or dislike). https://youtu.be/7mYYuO35PsM Radio Mango, and Konkani along distant shores Radio Mango was a very interesting experiment, of broadcasting in Konkani from North America (or Canada, to be more specific). Economics and other challenges meant it had to be discontinued. Milena Marques Zacharias (of Parra and Mississauga, Ontario) is now ready to revive the voice of the Konkani language from Canada. Listen to her plans. First broadcast live at 6.30 pm IST (1300 UTC) on September 30, 2021. https://youtu.be/w3DKlT2To78 ᐧ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Join a discussion on Goa-related issues by posting your comments on this or other issues via email to goa...@goanet.org See archives at http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
[Goanet] FINGERS CROSSED ON THE PROMISED RIBANDAR HEALTH CENTER
On 2nd October last year amidst the raging pandemic residents of Ribandar and surrounding villages braved holding a public demonstration demanding that fully fledged medical facilities be made available at the Old Ribandar Hospital. Needless to state, the Old Ribandar Hospital was Asia’s first medical school with a very glorious history and this priceless heritage structure needs to be preserved by restoring the premises with all possible Health Care facilities. After a year long struggle we are now informed that a Ribandar Health Center will see the light of the day on 2nd October which is Gandhi Jayanti. We had been promised that the Health facilities at the Old Ribandar Hospital would start as 30 bedded with a 24X7 Casualty cum Trauma unit equipped with all the required facilities and that it would be expanded in stages to be a fully fledged Hospital. We are aware that Union Minister Shripad Naik and his son Siddesh with vested interests have been sabotaging the setting up of our Health Center but it is for the government to live up to its promise. The promised Community Health Center at the Old Ribandar hospital would benefit not only a densely populated Ribandar but also neighboring residents of Chimbel, Merces, Old Goa and the Island of Divar. We will have to keep our fingers crossed till 2nd October to see what the government actually delivers. 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 Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.in
[Goanet] Elections of another era (Sharmila Pais e Martins) / Radio Mango returns (Milena Marques Zacharias)
The elections ... of another era in Goa (Sharmila Pais e Martins) Political theatrics? Sensationalism? Politicians winning by landslides (despite there being many candidates)? Voters turning into gullible instruments? Patronage-ridden electoral politics? If this sounds like elections of our times, well... think again. Dr Sharmila Pais e Martins is a historian who has done her doctorate on elections in colonial Goa's 19th and 20th centuries. You could encounter something surprising in what she tells us of the issue... Recorded live at 9 pm Sep 30, 2021 (2100 IST 1530 GMT 1630 WEST 1230 BRT). Feel free to share your comments, like (or dislike). https://youtu.be/7mYYuO35PsM Radio Mango, and Konkani along distant shores Radio Mango was a very interesting experiment, of broadcasting in Konkani from North America (or Canada, to be more specific). Economics and other challenges meant it had to be discontinued. Milena Marques Zacharias (of Parra and Mississauga, Ontario) is now ready to revive the voice of the Konkani language from Canada. Listen to her plans. First broadcast live at 6.30 pm IST (1300 UTC) on September 30, 2021. https://youtu.be/w3DKlT2To78 ᐧ
[Goanet] Some coconut links
The Health Benefits of Coconut Water https://health.clevelandclinic.org/the-health-benefits-of-coconut-water/ Four coconut recipes to bookmark https://tinyurl.com/ydj8yxw9 A Coconut Cocktail Guide http://t.ly/tW76 FARM FRESH Coconut water https://youtu.be/eh3CroSvq_g How to make Coconut Oil at home for cooking https://tinyurl.com/yzdywr8f This 4-Ingredient Coconut Drink May Help Boost Immunity (Recipe Inside) https://tinyurl.com/yhmhzhxn How to make Coconut cream and milk at home https://tinyurl.com/yh5hlrn4 Cheers to coconut http://t.ly/7hwX ᐧ
[Goanet-News] Sex and attitudes to it ... in another era.
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[Goanet-News] Goa konkani accents.Part 1 By Natasha Noronha
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[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Discussion around "The Deoliwallahs"
Sep 30 My co-author Joy Ma and I have a discussion around our book, "The Deoliwallahs", via the University of California, Berkeley, on October 5 (9am Pacific, 4pm UTC, 930pm India). Register here: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=141042=2021-10-05 I'd be delighted if you tuned in! (YOU). Thanks. cheers, dilip -- My book with Joy Ma: "The Deoliwallahs" Twitter: @DeathEndsFun Death Ends Fun: http://dcubed.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dilip's essays" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dilips-essays+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dilips-essays/CAEiMe8rrqtWHVPtgbBjH82LGSDs7i%3DmfaDsSxXkGFej3usESwA%40mail.gmail.com.
[Goanet] CHURCH HISTORY: how Christ's Teachings got Europeanised
The conquests of Alexander (two centuries after the Persian victory in Babylonia) led to a further Jewish dispersal to places like Alexandria in Egypt, Antioch, Rome and other cities of the Greco-Roman world. Christ's doctrine was dressed up in an alien philosophy (2nd century) Finding itself in the Greco-Roman civilisation, the early Christian church had to decide whether its doctrine and practices should remain within Judaism. The Jerusalem Christians regarded their faith as a variant of Judaism but Paul, a Roman, argued against it. His view was accepted and Christians were freed from the requirements of circumcision, food laws and Sabbath observance. In the Roman world, the Christians encountered Greek philosophy and were not intellectually equipped to resist its influence. Their leaders (like Clement of Alexandria, Origen and Gregory of Nyssa) began to interpret the gospel in the categories of Greek thought. In particular, there strongly influenced by the Jewish philosopher, Philo Judaeus (20 BCE - 50 BC) who loved Plato's thought and argued that the same God spoke through Greek philosophy and Jewish religion. For example, they appropriated his notion of Logos, a concept alien to Jesus and planted it into the very beginning of the Gospel of John (chap 1, verse 1). [Ref 3] Black US theologian, James Cone, The gospel of Jesus can never be identified with the power of the state... This was the error of the early church. By becoming the religion of the Roman state, Christianity became the opposite of what Jesus intended." (from God of the Oppressed, Seabury Press, NY 1975)) Asian Jesuit theologian, Aloysius Pieris, put it this way: “Greek culture was so pervasive …(and) Christianity allowed itself to be Hellenised…After the persecutions, links with Judaism were severed and those with Greco-Roman culture were strengthened…The Church Fathers were interested in non-Christian philosophy as intellectual equipment to grasp revelation and formulate it in a manner intelligible to the ‘pagan’ culture in which they lived. Thus began the tradition in which Christian ‘religion’ learned to use philosophy…there developed a sort of academic tradition which revolved around the system of thought to the exclusion of the experiential dimension…” (Ref 4, p 21-25). Among the influential early Church Fathers were: - St Irenaeus (c.130-200), a Greek theologian and later Bishop of Lyon (178-200). He was the disciple of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna - himself of John the Apostle. He attacked Gnosticism and helped define the Books of the Bible (Digest 4.2). - St Clement, head of a theology school at Alexandria and thoroughly Greek in his outlook. He injected ideas from Greek philosophy into the Christian faith. - Tertullian (c. 160-240) of Carthage, a prominent Latin Father, introduced the Roman legal idiom into Christian theology. Appropriating Greek ideas - Logos, Mind & Spirit Debate raged on the Logos concept and its identification with Christ. Justin Martyr, influenced by Philo, held that the Logos was a kind of second God incarnated in a historical person, Jesus for the salvation of humans. Irenaeus, on the other hand, held that the Logos, incarnate in Jesus, was the divine revelation. He said: "Jesus Christ was both man and God, fully man and the incarnation of the Logos..." Tertullian declared that although God in substance is one, God has three persona, a trinity of manifestations. Logos or reason is in God and expresses itself in word. Quoting the Gospel of John, he said the Word became incarnate. Clement held that God is knowable only through the Logos, the mind of God. He was convinced that Jesus is the Logos, the guide to humanity. His successor at the theology school, Origen, theorised that 1) there is one God, the Father, creator of all things, 2) Jesus Christ, God-man, was the incarnation of the Logos and co-eternal with the Father, and 3) the uncreated Holy Spirit is associated with the Father and the Son. The Council of Nicaea 325 CE The Emperor Constantine claimed the sole right to convoke religious assemblies. Though not a Christian, the bishops remained under his jurisdiction while he called himself ‘Bishop of Bishops’. In 314, he called the Council of Arles. and in 321, the First General Council of the Church. Sylvester I who was Pope at the time had no part in calling the Council. The aim was to resolve the Arian heresy (that the Son was inferior to the Father) raging at the time. The Council was held in 325 in Bithynia at a place called Nicaea in today's Turkey. Some 300 bishops attended, all but six from the East. The Pope did not even attend and sent two representatives instead. Athanasius (c. 296-373) was a staunch opponent of Arianism, itself derived from the neo-Platonist belief in the Logos, a term which came to be used to designate Christ. Most of the bishops were in favour of Arianism (named after Arius, a priest from
[Goanet] ONLINE-IN 30 MINS: ELECTIONS IN GOA... FROM ANOTHER ERA*
Political theatrics? Sensationalism? Politicians winning by landslides (despite there being many candidates)? Voters turning into gullible instruments? Patronage-ridden electoral politics? If this sounds like elections of our times, well... think again. Dr. Sharmila Pais e Martins is a historian who has done her doctorate on elections in colonial Goa's 19th and 20th centuries. You could encounter something surprising in what she tells us of the issue... Listen to her live at 9 pm today Sep 30, 2021 (2100 IST 1530 GMT 1630 WEST 1230 BRT). Starting roughly in 30 minutes time. You can tune in to the discussion on my Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/fredericknoronha] or on my YouTube channel [ https://www.youtube.com/c/FrederickFNNoronha] ou perhaps via Twitter [ https://twitter.com/fn] Don't forget to share your comments and feedback, if you're there while the interview is underway! ᐧ ᐧ
[Goanet-News] ONLINE-IN 30 MINS: ELECTIONS IN GOA... FROM ANOTHER ERA*
Political theatrics? Sensationalism? Politicians winning by landslides (despite there being many candidates)? Voters turning into gullible instruments? Patronage-ridden electoral politics? If this sounds like elections of our times, well... think again. Dr. Sharmila Pais e Martins is a historian who has done her doctorate on elections in colonial Goa's 19th and 20th centuries. You could encounter something surprising in what she tells us of the issue... Listen to her live at 9 pm today Sep 30, 2021 (2100 IST 1530 GMT 1630 WEST 1230 BRT). Starting roughly in 30 minutes time. You can tune in to the discussion on my Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/fredericknoronha] or on my YouTube channel [ https://www.youtube.com/c/FrederickFNNoronha] ou perhaps via Twitter [ https://twitter.com/fn] Don't forget to share your comments and feedback, if you're there while the interview is underway! ᐧ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Join a discussion on Goa-related issues by posting your comments on this or other issues via email to goa...@goanet.org See archives at http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
[Goanet] Lusitanian in Hind by Aravind Adiga (2013)
Note: today is Francisco Luis Gomes's birth anniversary --> The Lusitanian In Hind Francisco Luis Gomes, Goan polymath, was one of our earliest patriots. He can’t lie forgotten. “I was born in India, cradle of poetry, philosophy and history, today its tomb,” wrote the young Indian. “I belong to that race which wrote the Mahabharata and invented Chess—two conceptions that bear in them the eternal and the infinite.” Yes, his homeland’s weakness had allowed it to be ruled by colonial powers—“India is imprisoned”—but the young visionary believed in its resurgence: “I pray for India, liberty and light.” Given that these sentences were written in 1861, it would be natural enough to assume that their author was a Bengali Hindu, writing either in Calcutta or in London. In fact, it was a young Goan Catholic in Lisbon who composed these stirring phrases. The Goan, Francisco Luis Gomes, also published a novel in Portuguese, Os Brahmanes (The Brahmins), that can claim to be one of the earliest Indian novels. Many Goans regard Gomes, who died in 1869, as their land’s greatest son—a homegrown version of Vivekananda, Tilak and Gokhale. Not only have most Indians not heard about Gomes, but many would find it jarring to think of a Goan Catholic who wrote in Portuguese as a nationalist. This speaks more about the narrowness of our present conception of Indianness than about the patriotism of 19th century Goans. Under the familiar sights of Goa—which exists in the contemporary Indian imagination only as a landscape of fun—lies an unexpected literary treasure: the neglected works of pioneering Indian thinkers, most of them Catholic, many of them writing in Portuguese. Of these, Gomes is perhaps the most important. The brutal start of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1510 resulted in two unexpected boons for modern India. Forced to flee their homeland in order to protect their faith, the Saraswat Brahmins spread throughout the Konkan and Malabar, fertilising commerce and culture everywhere they went. (The Saraswat diaspora is described in Kannada writer Gopalakrishna Pai’s historical novel, Swapna Saraswata, which is being translated into English.) That few Indians know of Gomes speaks more about the narrowness of our conception of Indianness. The other boon was the development, in places like Margao and Panjim, of an educated indigenous Catholic community, at first subservient to white rulers, but soon capable of dreaming of full equality—and even of freedom. In 1787, a group of Goan priests resentful at seeing whites climb over them in the church hierarchy met with sympathisers to plot the overthrow of the Portuguese. They even sent emissaries to Tipu Sultan for help. This, the ‘Pinto revolt’, was perhaps India’s earliest organised anti-colonial conspiracy, and it ended in true Indian style—at the last minute, someone betrayed the conspirators. One of the revolt’s leaders was said to be a Goan priest named Abbe Faria, who, a few years later, became a celebrity in Paris, where he practised hypnotism on French ladies, dabbled in revolution, was imprisoned in the infamous Chateau d’If, and inspired the figure of the charismatic Abbe in Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo. Of course, no career like this was possible for a Goan in Goa. In 1835, a liberal government in Lisbon sent a man named Bernardo Peres da Silva to Panjim—as his portrait in the gallery in old Goa notes, da Silva “was a native of India”. The first Indian to rule colonial Goa, he was also the last. Seventeen days into his reign, the white and mixed-race officers who controlled the Goan army put da Silva on a ship and told him to leave. After that they butchered his supporters. From then until liberation in 1961, although native Catholics rose high in the judiciary and clergy (and some Hindus became fabulously rich), no Goan again ruled Goa. This was the world into which Gomes was born in 1829, where talented native Catholics, often fluent in Konkani, Portuguese and French, were still doomed to a second-class existence. Gomes, however, wasn’t simply talented: he was a prodigy. By his early twenties, he had passed his medical examination and was serving as an army surgeon; later he went to Bombay to study Sanskrit and the Indian epics; barely 30 years old, he was elected to the Cortes—the Portuguese parliament—from the southern talukas of Goa. (Unlike Britain, Portugal gave its colonies the right of representation.) The young man’s first day in parliament was a rough one: he heard another member demand that the government rescind the right given to colonial savages to sit in a civilised parliament. The member from Goa, in his maiden speech, counter-attacked. Savages? “In India,” he informed the carnivorous Europeans, “there are no banquets of human flesh; on the contrary, there are sects whose hands are innocent of all blood; who abstain from a diet of meat; who show compassion towards animals.” His parliamentary eloquence won him admirers in Lisbon;
[Goanet] Goa konkani accents.Part 1 By Natasha Noronha
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[Goanet] Exploration of Mars
Exploration of Mars The closest red planet interests mankind, In the quest to explore and life to find, No humanoids, animals, water, plants of any kind, It is lure ,attraction , curiosity that bind. Satellites ,probes landed or orbit around , Exploring parameters of life on land air that surround, Rocks ,mountains ,Mars desolate desert vast Signs exist of flowing rivers ,lakes in the past Hopes of microbial life water beneath crust The findings of laboratories on Mars to trust Weathered Rocks shapes inferred in terms of earthly form No atmosphere but confirmed massive dust storms. Pressure does not permit water on surface to exist, Massive radiation no form of life can resist, Huge ,wide craters are a predominant site Hopes of finding signs of life ,bleak not bright Scientific exploration of Mars in space, Attempts to colonise ,gateway for human race, Certain earth will vanish some day, Nations in hot pursuit to avoid extinction and get away. Future plans, humans on Mars to land Are not too distant ,plans are grand Speed, distance machines air food problems pose, Scientific research on soon the gap to close. Mars the red planet Geologically dead, To inhabit ,survive in caves ,lava tubes option not bad, Water ,food, air ,protection , prioroties be met, Science will overcome challenges i bet. Future Colonies on the moon Facilitate travel across in space soon Humans will explore universe far and wide Are we all alone , the question to set aside. Nelson Lopes Chinchinim
[Goanet] POTHOLE FREE ROADS ACROSS GOA IS OUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
This government which has miserably failed on all fronts has allowed even the state of the roads across Goa to deteriorate to such an extent that they now pose a serious danger to the public. There are potholes galore wherever you go. The roads have also become accident prone besides the damage that is being done to our vehicles and the human body especially for two wheeler riders on account of the bumpy ride. Navigating around the huge craters has been strenuous. So the authorities need to act with utmost urgency to ensure that the roads are made safe and motorable. In 2003 the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had announced that anyone spotting a pothole on any road in Goa would be rewarded with Rs 1000. The horrific factual position today is that there is not a road in the State without potholes. It augurs very shabbily for a leading tourist destination that we want to be. As the Bombay High Court has already ruled that good roads should be one of the fundamental rights of every citizen, the government needs to wake up from its slumber and embark upon repairing the potholed roads as a priority. And we shall await that announcement by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant that 102% of Goa roads are safe and free from potholes. 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 Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.in
