Re: [Goanet] In which country were are the Rabaks found in Goa come from

[Linken Fernandes]

Rabak? Surely you joke, Adolfo! We say rebec in Goa, baba!

Re: [Goanet] Words related to colour in Konkani you might not know

[Linken Fernandes]

A bit disappointing that oddi-cor, as we say in sensible Sashtti, didn't
make the cut in your small selection reproduced here. Let's hope it's there
in the Konkani-English dictionary proper, a work which, I must say, can
take all the promotion it can get. By the way, it would be interesting to
check if cor is the word in Sashtiland and rong elsewhere, like in oddi-cor
in the first and the aforesaid dictionary's puddi rongacho and xenduri rong
elsewhere.

Re: [Goanet] The REBAK (Violin) Making It African and Goans In St Joseph Cathedral Sixty Years After Independence

[Frederick Noronha]

Shouldn't that be "rebek"?
In India, the violins seem to be made mainly by Muslims for some reason:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/lucknow/country-s-oldest-violin-manufacturers-tell-why-rampur-instruments-are-the-finest/story-oOSzgjbNrd43yTNjzjbdeP.html
This is true of some Brass band instruments too...
And Goans seem to have had a head start for playing them... for obvious
reasons. FN

On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 16:10, Adolfo Mascarenhas  wrote:

>  Today December 9 is 60 years since we gained Independence. I was between
> Bukoba and Mwanza on Lake Victoria on my way to Dar.  However I was here
> for the Republic Day Celebration and my Dad, Ophelia, then my Girlfriend
> from Zanzibar, were among the very, very few Asians present at that
> ceremony at the old airfield.
>
> As a Goan I have an interesting question related to Music.  A few weeks
> ago, at the end of the Mass, in St Josephs Cathedral. Fr. Denis the
> Tanzanian Priest said that three musicians would perform. What took me by
> great surprise was two young Africans, came in front of the altar and both
> had violins.  I was surprised because it occurred to me that I had never
> seen an African with a violin !. The third person who came to the front was
> a young lady who sung. The piece  they had picked was the *Ava Maria*.
>
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[Goanet] Words related to colour in Konkani you might not know

[Frederick Noronha]

chinchechea rongacho (a) roan; of tamarind colour.
chiti poddunk (v) speckle; small spot of colour.
chitr-vichitr (a) colourful; vibrant.
chitrvichitrok (a) kaleidoscope.
chokmok unni zavnk (v) tarnish; discolour; stain.
dhonnubala bhoxen rong (a) iridescent;  having the  colour of the rainbow.
dhovsann (a) whiteness; quality of being white in colour.
dhovso (a) whitish; hoary; hoar.
dhumoll (a) ashy; pale grayish colour.
dhumpttecho rong (a) brown; coffee coloured.
dusrea jinsacho rong (m n) tinge; colour slight
gobrallem (a) tawny; yellowish brown colour.
gobrallo (a) grey; a colour intermediate between black and white.
gonvall (a) wheatish; of wheat colour.
khor xenduri rong (m n) cardinal; strong colour.
kondi (m n) dust colour.
matiecho rong (m n) brown; chocolate coloured.
ognivoronn (f n) crimson; rich, deep, red colour.
onjiri (m n) fig colour.
peroz (m n) turquoise; greenish blue colour.
pingllem (a) tany; yellowish brown colour.
pingso (a) tawny; yellowish brown colour.
puddi rongacho (m n) mink; brown colour of the mink.
puddirong (m n) brown; hazel chocolate colour.
rong naslolo (a) hueless; without colour.
rongbirongi (a) chequered; of different colours.
rongit (a) colourful; full of colours.
topkir (f n) snuff colour.
vaingeacho rong (m n) mauve; pale purple colour.
vittkem (f n) buff; yellowish colour.
xenduri rong (m n) scarlet; brilliant red colour.
xib (f n) freckle; a small speckle of light brown colour.
zambllem (f n) purple.


SOURCE: _Contemporary Konkani-English Dictionary_ (forthcoming)
Support this work by Isidore Dantas (Pune) to build a useful dictionary for
Konkani.
For more details on how to do so, click on
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[Goanet] In which country were are the Rabaks found in Goa come from

[Adolfo Mascarenhas]

Sometime ago I posted an observation  To quote parts of what I wrote:


>As a Goan I have an interesting question related to Music.  A few
weeks ago, at the end of the Mass, in St Josephs Cathedral. Fr. Denis the
Tanzanian Priest said that three musicians would perform. What took me by
great surprise was two young Africans, came in front of the altar and both
had violins.  I was surprised because it occurred to me that I had never
seen an African with a violin !. The third person who came to the front was
a young lady who sung. The piece  they had picked was the *Ava Maria. She
had a mike*.



Slightly more than 58 years ago Ophelia and myself exchanged vows in St,
Joseph. Right in front of the altar. about 70 yards  away but raised high
up was the piped organ and the choir. The Choir included a few Goans, Swiss
nuns Right at the end Elma Cota sang the Ava Maria solo.  No mike but her
voice filled the huge cathedral.  It was a great moment. I cherished it for
a long time especially when I was in California.  God had really given Elma
a very great gift.  Sometimes I wondered who trained her to sing.



So here I was in St Josephs Cathedral in  2021, listening to the trio.  At
the end of the Performance, Fr Denis had another big surprise.  The young
lady was a convert from a Lutheran   This was even more surprising because
the the Lutherns .. <<<*Hail Mary ! *



*African Choirs in RC  Churches*

While African used drums and all types of other instruments including the
hand held piano, gourds etc.  In some parishes they still do so.  I am
aware that the Arab settlers in Dar had a small building Franco’s Bakery.
it was the home of the Arab Musical Society. violinist among them . It was
largely a small private and community affair  The Quadros and a cluster of
Goan Families stayed, all around and a couple even were part of the Goan
Orchestra.


An author from a consortium of South African Universities wrote an Article
about research work done on different woods from Africa to produce violins.
The tone was different etc etc   This was new for me and it simulated a
number of questions .


To begin with the Violin was a South Italian creation and for a long time
remained in the doldrums.  So how did the Portuguese  and Spanish get  it

So as a Tanzanian Goan I asked myselfwhere do the Goans get their
violins. I suppose the first ones came from Portugal but subsequently were
they made in Goa.  Another big surprise awaited me ...I was reading
*conVersation* research findings from a consortium of Universities from the
Republic of South Africa Stellenbosch

Martina Meincken Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University, enlightened
me to a whole new world of *tonewoods, etc etc. Let me quote her*:
>>The sound quality of this instrument, named the “African violin”, was
then compared to a violin made from traditional wood species by the same
luthier, with the same methodology. Both instruments were played by the
same player with the same bow>>.

>The sound quality of the two violins was determined by recording audio
frequency spectra – ranges – of various single notes to analyze the
discernible overtones. This is a musical tone which is a part of the
harmonic series above a fundamental note. A good sound quality generally
consists of many harmonics at higher frequencies. >>

*Violins can Be Expensive *

*The Messiah Stradivarius *is valued a whopping* ($20,000,000) yes* Twenty
Million  Messiah Stradivarius crafted in 1716 by Antonio Stradivarius and
it remained in his shop after his death death in 1737.  It was not used
much so it is relatively in a new condition. The violin is on display at
the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,  UK

Who were the manufacturers of the hundreds of violins that came to Goa
…..that was my question. Can any diaspora Goans help ….Its a big research
topic …imagine if we compiled a list of all the RABAKS in every big town in
Goa …then Go to Karachi  and Dar es Salaam, Mombasa and who Knows one of
these Canadian Goans is sitting in an heirloom


Grandolfo

In Makongo Juu ...plenty of loudspeakers even on Bajajs a single
violinist might change the mood

Grandolfo.


.


Grandolfo

PS:  The violin has its roots in Italy around the 16th Century  ..How
did it get into Portugal and Spain.  Do we have to thank SFX ???

[Goanet] AN OUTSTANDING INNINGS OF STEADY DIGNIFIED POLITICS BY PRATAPSINGH RANE

[Aires Rodrigues]

In March next year, Goa’s third Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane will
complete 50 continuous years as MLA. This distinction of being Goa’s first
MLA for an uninterrupted half a century, without losing an election, is
testimony to his steadfast political loyalty.



He started his innings in 1972 as a Minister and went on to become the
Chief Minister. He held the office of Speaker of Goa Legislature as well.
At one time, it fell to his lot to be the Leader of the Opposition as well
as the Deputy Leader of Opposition.



Pratapsingh Rane first contested on a MGP ticket and joined the Congress
just before the 1977 elections. He has been with the party for the last 45
years, something rare in today’s political circus. I had the privilege to
meet Pratapsingh Rane first in 1973 while he was the Law Minister.



The degradation of politics in Goa started in March 1990 when Churchill
Alemao revolted against Pratapsingh Rane to become Chief Minister for 21
days.



Ever since, Goa has been witnessing unending defections with party ideology
and principles thrown to the winds. And the stereotype justification is
that the defection is for the sake of development and progress of the
constituency, when the whole world knows that it is for the greed of power
and money.



The latest in this string of unprincipled party hopping will be Porvorim
MLA Rohan Khaunte who is all set to embrace the BJP so very shamelessly
after that same party unceremoniously threw him out of the cabinet, not so
long ago, on 13th July 2019.



Politics makes strange bedfellows and it is chronic political prostitution
that Goa has been enduring. Even those in the world’s oldest profession do
it better in terms of personal integrity.

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] Mc Donald outlet must vacate from Miramar area

[Stephen Dias]

Goan family must stop feeding especially  children food from Mc Donald as
it is allegedly contaminated with substance based Amonium Hydrogen.
Goa Government allowed this Mc Donald outlet to come up in a congested area
at Miramar originally the Times of India part of their premises existed.
Public and the activists have objected Mc Donald outlet to operate just
when there is no parking for the  vehicles and service for the customers.
The adjacent road of Miramar cannot be used for parking. The company owned
by Hassan n Co allowed to operate in their premises where TOI office was
existing and Government was pressurized I believe to run this outlet.
It is highly objectionable to continue this Mc Donald sublet in this area.

Stephen Dias
DONA PAULA
9422443110
14th Dec 2021

[Goanet] Airlines Are Taking Us For A Ride

[Roland Francis]

From Al Jazeera;

I am writing this from London’s Heathrow Airport, in the midst of a uniquely 
hellish day of travel – a flight canceled without warning, getting rebooked on 
another flight with no time to make my connection and, finally, after 
conversations with three different airlines, a solution that inexplicably 
involves flying to a fourth country. 

I’m paying for this mayhem not just through the cost of my ticket, but with my 
taxes: American Airlines has been the beneficiary of over $12 billion in 
government bailouts and loans over the past two years.

The money, which totaled $50 billion across the industry, was intended to keep 
airline employees in their jobs. But the companies, of course, figured out how 
to get around this – 42,000 full-time and 14,000 part-time airline workers had 
left by the end of September as a result of widespread furloughing and early 
retirement offers. The 75,000 jobs that airlines claimed to have saved came at 
a taxpayer cost of about $300,000 each.

Obviously, nobody should lose their job as a result of the pandemic or their 
company’s awful business practices (airlines routinely buy back stock to drive 
prices up while keeping very little money on hand for emergencies).

But the notion that airlines simply can’t be allowed to fail, no matter how 
badly they treat customers or employees, is BS.

Bailing out these multibillion-dollar companies without any strings attached is 
not only terrible for consumers and for the environment (no net-zero emissions 
requirements?), it’s also massively unpopular.

Even The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin, normally a booster for big 
business, described the practice by saying, “Once again, we have socialized an 
industry’s losses and privatized its profits.” The only people who benefit from 
airline bailouts are stockholders and, specifically, CEOs. Airline stocks are 
up 200 percent since last year, and thanks to that, American Airlines CEO Doug 
Parker took home $11 million in 2020.

With flights routinely canceled and customer service somehow becoming even more 
atrocious than it was before the pandemic, the government is now beginning to 
wonder what the airlines have been doing with all that money. On Wednesday, the 
CEOs of major airlines are being called to testify before Congress. Let’s hope 
our elected officials will finally hold them accountable for taking us on the 
wrong kind of ride.

— Jessica Loudis

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Bridge, Goan figures and Gerard Delaney's introduction

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pefVDvGOuiQ

A Bridge group from Goa, on WhatsApp
https://chat.whatsapp.com/CXx7beQ6nlEIFCICqiHFQ3
-- 

Frederick Noronha. 784 Saligao
403511 Goa M (after 2pm) +91 9822122436 Twitter
@fn

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[Goanet] The Late Bipin Rawat

[Roland Francis]

He may have caused his own death and that of several others including his wife, 
by pressurizing the helicopter pilot to fly in inclement weather against the 
latter’s better judgement but the Indian media unhesitatingly praised his 
service record.

Not so, from the discerning eye of the Economist:

General Bipin Rawat, writes The Economist, “was at times controversial. In 2016 
Narendra Modi had selected him as army chief over the heads of two more senior 
generals. His subsequent appointment as overall commander was seen by some as a 
reward for breaking with a strong tradition of strictly insulating the army 
from politics by occasionally voicing views supportive of Mr Modi’s 
Hindu-nationalist policies. In 2017 he awarded a commendation for “personal 
initiative” to an officer whose unit kidnapped a passerby in the restive region 
of Kashmir and strapped him to the bonnet of an army jeep in order to 
discourage stone-throwing.”

Roland.
Toronto.

Re: [Goanet] Angel of physically disabled

[Roland Francis]

I second that heartily!

Roland.
Toronto.


> On Dec 14, 2021, at 11:58 AM, Linken Fernandes  
> wrote:
> 
> May I suggest Goanet start the practice of nominating Goa's Human of the
> Year at the end of the year, and pick Ms. Ida de Mello as our choice for
> 2021, please?
> 
> (Kudos to Nelson Lopes for acknowleding her magnanimity and bringing her
> stellar story to us, we who go about our lives as though everything is
> hunky dory all around us, while there are children who can't see, or walk,
> or hear, or who must move about in wheelchairs and can never run about and
> play, that is, children who live such extraordinarily abnormal lives that
> we'd rather be dead than be caught in circumstances like theirs!).

[Goanet] Schedule for Wednesday 15th December 2021

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Schedule for Wednesday 15th December 2021

12:00 AM
Rosary - Glorious Mysteries

12:27 AM
Good News - Count your blessings

12:54 AM
Carol - Mari Matek Ballok Zala - Students of Chowgule College - Ft. Jeslan
Rizvan Ferrao

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Tuesday

1:45 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  141  - Chit Thiray - Fr Pratap Naik sj

1:54 AM
Song - Ballok Jezu - Zia Rodrigues

1:59 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai -  Orkache Mister

2:25 AM
Devachem Utor - Suttka - Avesvor 7 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:32 AM
On the Third Day - Eps 3 - Wealth out of Waste

2:57 AM
Our Father - in Indian Sign Language

3:01 AM
Career Guidance - Western Music-  Kala Academy

3:23 AM
Poem - All I want for Christmas - Larissa Rodrigues

3:26 AM
Agnel Inst of Food, Crafts and Culinary Sciences, Verna

3:48 AM
Carol - What Child is this? - Don Bosco Choir Panjim

3:53 AM
Spiritual Freedom - A Talk by Alfwold Silveira

4:21 AM
Christmas Song - Natal Pai - Milagres Fernandes

4:27 AM
Broadening the horizons of your minds - God's Not Dead- Fr Fio Mascarenhas
sj

5:05 AM
Mil Mel Nel - Nevem Voros

5:13 AM
Concert - Fall of Grace YU4C

5:43 AM
Skit  - Reach out the World Needs You - St Thomas Parish Catechetical
Apostolate, Aldona

5:54 AM
God's Love - Talk by Dr Silvia Noronha

6:16 AM
Poem - True Spirit of Christmas - Larissa Rodrigues

6:18 AM
Christmas - Talk by Kenneth D'Sa

6:47 AM
Tell Me a Story  - Eps 45 - A prince of the word attcks God's people

6:55 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem  -  Advent upto 16th December

7:00 AM
Praise and Worship -   Magno Menezes - SJVRC

7:30 AM
Morning Prayer - Advent upto 16th December

7:33 AM
Jesus Heals (Konkani)  - Fr Henry Falcao

8:08 AM
Bhajan - Namo Visvachiye Dipti - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx

8:15 AM
Do not worry - Talk by Glenn Nunes

8:53 AM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag  25

9:01 AM
Goal Post : Womens Football

9:34 AM
Broadening the horizons of your minds - God's Not Dead- Fr Fio Mascarenhas
sj

10:12 AM
Devachem Utor - Suttka - Avesvor 7 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

10:19 AM
Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi - Fr Louis Alvares interviewed by Daniel F. de
Souza

10:51 AM
Tell Me a Story  - Eps 45 - A prince of the word attcks God's people

11:01 AM
Let us share our goodness with all - Fr Peter Michael CSSR

11:15 AM
Bible Project - Gospel of Luke - Ch 23 - 24

11:20 AM
Angelus - English

11:22 AM
Prayer for the Synod 2023

11:24 AM
Intercessions in English

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

12:15 PM
Pope's Intentions in  Konkani

12:18 PM
Goal Post Ep 3 - Maria Rebello interviewed by Jovito Lopes

1:06 PM
Prayer - Litany of the Saints

1:14 PM
Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi - Fr Louis Alvares interviewed by Daniel F. de
Souza

1:46 PM
Violin Solo - Kiarra Fernandes

1:56 PM
Learning Konkani - 10 - Fr Pratap Naik sj

2:26 PM
Dance - Hai Maa Mariam

2:32 PM
Hymns with a Difference at Christmas

2:53 PM
Song - Ballok Jezu - Zia Rodrigues

2:59 PM
Deliverance - Talk by Fr Thamburaj sj

3:21 PM
Carols - Angelic Voices  St Michael's Convent H/S - Anjuna

3:30 PM
Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam

3:40 PM
Precious blood of Jesus - Leela Moraes

4:00 PM
Rosary - Glorious Mysteries

4:27 PM
Carol - Spirit of Christmas - Don Bosco Choir, Panjim

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 4

5:00 PM
Praise and Worship - Agnes Barucha

5:24 PM
Intercession - Talk by Francis D'Souza

5:49 PM
Our Father - Tamil

5:53 PM
Aimorechen Magnnem

5:56 PM
Prayer for the Synod 2023 - Konkani

6:00 PM
Live Konkani Mass from Panjim Church followed by Jivitavho Prokas

6:45 PM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  172  - Osturianchem Xikop - Fr Pratap Naik sj

6:56 PM
Hymn - Povitr Atmo mhojer denvla- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

7:00 PM
Concert - Fall of Grace YU4C

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai -  Orkache Mister

7:56 PM
Magnificat (Konkani)

8:00 PM
Politics - A Noble Profession ? - Eps 1

8:33 PM
Do not drop Christ from Christmas - Savio Mascarenhas

8:54 PM
Devachem Utor - Suttka - Avesvor 8 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

9:04 PM
Adoration - Fortitude - Fr Saturnino Colaco

9:31 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:44 PM
The Way - Episode 8- DYC

10:01 PM
Literally Goa - Robert S. Newman interviewed by Frederick Noronha

10:51 PM
Carols - Angelic Voices  St Michael's Convent H/S - Anjuna

11:02 PM
Structure of the Judiciary & Jurisdiction of Courts  - Adv Cleofato Coutinho

11:55 PM
Bible Project - Gospel of Luke - Ch 23 - 24

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Re: [Goanet] Angel of physically disabled

[Linken Fernandes]

May I suggest Goanet start the practice of nominating Goa's Human of the
Year at the end of the year, and pick Ms. Ida de Mello as our choice for
2021, please?

(Kudos to Nelson Lopes for acknowleding her magnanimity and bringing her
stellar story to us, we who go about our lives as though everything is
hunky dory all around us, while there are children who can't see, or walk,
or hear, or who must move about in wheelchairs and can never run about and
play, that is, children who live such extraordinarily abnormal lives that
we'd rather be dead than be caught in circumstances like theirs!).

[Goanet] The Indian Prime Minister - What Kind Of Man Is He?

[Roland Francis]

A worrying picture not only from a journalist who knows what he talks about but 
also from his subject who has, on a whim and mere capriciousness, done very 
hurtful things to his country.

Modi is Reckless and Impetuous & Unconcerned About Consequences—Aakar Patel
https://youtu.be/QN2yiTRh49k

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Angel of physically disabled

[Nelson Lopes]

Ms Ida de Mello
Passionate social worker  Deussua Chinchinim and past teacher of St Mary of
Angels  conducts her annual outings for physically challenged children with
their parents  in attendance
The Villagers of Chinchinim salute the angel of disabled  bringing the joy
of Christmas  in their life
They are  showered with public appreciation,  cared for,   treated  to
memorable outings  from everything found transport, including  food and
some gifts too
Her selfless  service is over 30 years through her own resources raised
thro many productive home made delicacies and continues with dedication
uninterrupted   so far with the blessings of Divine.Any help is unsolicited
and a gesture of good will and in recognition of her devotion towards a
cause. SHE also helps to obtain benefits from social  welfare  completing
tedious formalities, providing wheel chairs on a limited scale
P.C .Trust has honoured her too for this thoughtful service  to the
humanity in a very special way

Congratulations from P C. Trust

[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Iceland Eruption 2021 - The Aftermath

[Rajan Parrikar]

Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Iceland Eruption 2021
- The Aftermath'

Birth of a new landscape.

The volcanic eruption that began on March 19 this year in Reykjanes,
Iceland, came to a close in early October (this post covers the active
phase). The result of the infernal broth churned forth from the Earth's
bowels was a strange, magnificent volcanoscape.

We made two excursions recently to this still-smouldering area. [...]

You may view the latest post at

https://blog.parrikar.com/2021/12/14/iceland-eruption-2021-the-aftermath/


Warm regards,

Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar
ra...@parrikar.com

Re: [Goanet] Taking sides

[Bernice Pereira]

Wow! What a story

Sent from my iPhone

> On 14-Dec-2021, at 2:18 AM, Roland Francis  wrote:
> 
> An interesting first person story of Ernest Flanagan (the poet in Nelson 
> Lopes’ post), a Bombay musician once connected to the famous saxophonist Braz 
> Gonsalves whose wife Yvonne is Aldona’s Chick Chocolate’s daughter.
> 
> “I finished school in ’74, after failing twice, once in the 9th std and once 
> in 11th std. I did not want to go to college. I wanted to work and had had 
> enough of studying.
> 
> I used to play piano as a kid, did the first three exams, passed with 98%, 
> 97%, 95 %. In those days, the examiners would come down from the UK. This was 
> before the 5th std.
> 
> My teachers were my grandmother Mrs Mary Flanagan, Mrs Leach from Colaba and 
> Arnold Saldanha from Dhobitalao. My grandmothers lessons were free of course 
> but I never learned with her. She could not stop me running all over the 
> house. Mrs Leach on the other hand had a big thick wooden ruler and was not 
> shy to use it. I got quite a few good whacks on my knuckles. Arnold Saldanha 
> was also a no nonsense guy.
> 
> 6th std, I was sent off from St Xaviers, Dhobitalao, to St Mary’s Mount Abu, 
> Rajasthan. German music teacher, don’t remember his name, insisted that I 
> play Clarinet. I excelled at it. I remember playing ‘black is black’ which 
> made him very angry. Incidentally, the other clarinet player in the band was 
> Micky Correa’s son Mark. We used to stand up and play our solos at school 
> functions and I remember Micky was chief guest at one of our functions and he 
> came up to me and asked who my father was. He assumed my father was a 
> professional musician in Bombay. But even though my dad was a good pianist, 
> he never played professionally.
> 
> I got thrown out from Abu in the 7th std by Brother Judge, Principal and very 
> strict disciplinarian and that was the end of my clarinet playing. I met 
> Micky very often in Mumbai later but I never saw his son Mark again.
> 
> 8th std, I was put in St Mary’s Mazgaon, ISC section. I entered a singing 
> competition…….. I sang ‘Hey Jude’ and even though I felt I sang very well, I 
> was sent straight back to class, unselected and disappointed. Everyone else 
> sang “Precious Lord” ! What did I know? Std 9, changed schools again. I 
> went off to Barnes School Deolali. I did play a bit of piano but boxing, 
> swimming, football, hockey, cricket and girls were more important. (it is a 
> Co-ed school) so music took a back seat. So, here I am in 1974 with my 2nd 
> class Cambridge certificate in my hand, facing the world with no skills 
> whatsoever.
> 
> All the older boys in my colony in Cavel, Chira Bazaar, played guitar, 
> dropped Mandrax tablets, smoked Charas and I learned two or three chords and 
> sang CCR, Rolling stones, Beatles, all that cool stuff that I still love to 
> this day.
> 
> We formed a band called “Good Neighbours” we must have sounded terrible but 
> we played a few gigs/weddings.
> 
> I remember playing the wedding march on my small accordion followed by the 
> grand march, keeping it down, strapping on my guitar and doing the rest the 
> gig singing and playing rhythm guitar. I must have learned another two or 
> three more chords by then.
> 
> While moonlighting as a musician, I also tried other jobs. I worked for 
> Ericson Richards in Ballard Pier, Cambata Aviation at Juhu airport and my 
> final job before I became a full time musician was a Trainee Assistant 
> Steward/barman at Oberoi Hotel, Nariman point. My salary at Oberoi was Rs 
> 175/ per month  and my mum used to ask me why I needed money to “go” to 
> work when it should be the other way around !!!
> 
> October 1976 I was still tending bar in the Oberoi when a bandleader “Victor 
> Martins” who lived down my street, asked me and my band “ Good Neighbours” to 
> play for his wedding………..free of charge of course. Somehow he was impressed 
> with me and asked me if I wanted to come with his band to Mysore. He offered 
> me Rs 750/ per month, which to me was an astronomical amount compared to the 
> Rs 175/ I was earning at Oberoi. I did not think twice. I picked up my 
> guitar, my little Ahuja amp and speaker and without telling my parents, 
> boarded the train to Mysore.
> 
> Wrote a couple of letters to my parents of course telling them not to worry. 
> Now I was playing lead guitar and I sucked !!! Victor cut my salary down to 
> Rs 500/ but I could not complain, not after running away from home!!! I 
> learnt some more chords. The big song then was “Band on the Run” and I could 
> play the lead parts exactly!!
> 
> I came back 7 months later from Mysore with long hair and smoking hash which 
> I learned to do from “Ervin Vaz” our drummer and my great friend. Mom of 
> course wouldn’t let me in the house till I had cut my hair. I remember 
> playing ‘off’ days with the Victor Martins band at Holiday Inn where the 
> great Mike Fay band was in residence. Th

[Goanet] WILL OUR HIGH COURT KINDLY INTERVENE IN THE GOA MEGA JOB SCAM?

[Aires Rodrigues]

The very highhanded manner in which government jobs are being sold and
doled is a fit case warranting Suo-motu cognizance by our High Court on
this very serious issue.

For all recruitment to Group ‘C’ posts the Goa Staff Selection Commission
was constituted last year which has been defunct from its very inception
while Ministers merrily continue manipulating the recruitment through their
departments.

Ministers and MLAs should have no role whatsoever and all the recruitment
should be through a very transparent and meticulous process with merit
being the sole guiding criteria in the selection of every government
employee to any post.

Any political interference and manipulation is unacceptable, it being very
unlawful. Infact the law requires that the selection, promotion and
transfer of all government employees should be totally insulated from any
political machinations whatsoever.

After the BJP in Goa came to power in 2012 we have seen thousands being
brazenly recruited into government service with merit thrown to the winds.
All this is reflecting in the pathetic functioning of the government
offices with very incompetent staff having managed to creep in by paying
for their jobs or blessings of their political god fathers.

Adv. Aires Rodrigues

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

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Re: [Goanet] {Dilip's essays} A father, a centenary celebration of a fascinating life

[Roland Francis]

To the Catholic community in Bombay in the sixties, J B D’Souza was a towering 
figure because of his positions in the city’s public transport world and in the 
powerful Municipal Corporation.

Had it not been for these positions, he would have only been the usual low 
profile high-ranking bureaucrat despite his succeeding to much higher positions 
in government.

That era saw almost the last breath of exemplary public service motivating 
government, held on and propped up in no small measure by people like J B 
D’Souza. After that, whole edifices tumbled and gave in to bribery, corruption 
and all manner of ills that bedevil India today.

George Fernandes for all the villainous picture that emerges from his actions, 
was a worker’s hero, a demigod to bus drivers, conductors and taxi drivers. He 
was a major figure in the country’s Socialist Party which explains his rise to 
the Defence Minister’s position. He earned that position through his political 
work, not through the buddy system of an extreme right wing fanatic movement 
that threw up Manohar Parrikar to that same spot in later years. George 
Fernandes was the only people-power figure who could face the phalanx of 
officialdom arrayed against him in those days.

I do not give weight to either George Fernandes or J B D’Souza over the other. 
Both were strong figures in different worlds. George in the rough and tumble of 
the ever dominant street violence of the Bombay worker and J B in the cool 
halls of government chambers where beatings are not of the body but of the mind 
and spirit. Just as it was no mean feat for George Fernandes to court 
intimidation and violence it must also be commendable for J B to have faced the 
wily tricks and machinations of Bombay’s and Maharashtra’s devious, cut-throat 
politicians. 

Roland.
Toronto.


> On Dec 13, 2021, at 11:18 AM, Dilip D'Souza  wrote:
> 
> December 13 2021
> 
> This year, my father would have been 100. A friend who knew him, Roger
> Pereira, organized a celebration of his life - originally planned for June,
> when his birthday was, but postponed till yesterday. (See attached poster.)
> 
> Roger asked me to speak, and also to write a short article about him to
> appear in a local magazine. I thought both pieces might interest you.
> 

[Goanet] Petra Diamonds’ stake in Williamson to shrink as part of deal with Tanzania

[ymirconsulting]

Hopefully the end of royalty disputes, peace and quiet on all sides!

It’s staggering how much mineral resources have been discovered in Tanzania in 
the last three decades!  Such good geology, geologists and prospectors!

https://www.mining.com/petra-diamonds-stake-in-williamson-to-shrink-as-part-of-deal-with-tanzania/?utm_source=Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MNG-DIGESTS&utm_content=petra-diamonds-stake-in-williamson-to-shrink-as-part-of-deal-with-tanzania

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Re: [Goanet] Many happy returns Roland Francis....

[Roland Francis]

Thanks to all, including Hollander Patrice Riemens and Texan Mervyn Lobo for 
the “ground” wishes.

Patrice says I should not be too high above the ground. Ha!

Roland.
Toronto.


> On Dec 11, 2021, at 9:34 PM, Mervyn Lobo  wrote:
> 
> Roland,Here's wishing you a very merry Xmas.
> Above ground, below ground and anywhere in between.
> Mervyn
> 

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Hubble was mind-blowing, but we're just getting started

[Dilip D'Souza]

Dec 13 2021

I remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was lifted into orbit, back in
1990. To this strictly amateur astronomy fan, it was a fantastic idea: look
out at the universe from a place where Earth's lights and pollution would
have no effect whatsoever. To see it actually take shape sent a shiver down
my spine; I do not exaggerate.

31 years later, Hubble has put together an astonishing resume. And now
we're getting ready to send an even more powerful telescope into space.

Which is why my column in Mint last Friday (December 10) was in the nature
of a tribute to Hubble. Take a look and let me know your thoughts: Hubble
was mind-blowing, but we're just getting started,
https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/hold-that-lid-telescope-ahead-11639070718843.html

cheers,
dilip

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Hubble was mind-blowing, but we're just getting started


If I go out on my terrace at about midnight tonight and look northeast,
it's likely I will see Ursa Major, or the Great Bear - the familiar
"question mark" constellation. Its seven stars are just bright enough to
shine through the city's ambient light that drowns out most fainter stars.
But if you live in a smaller town, or in a remote village, you may see the
few more stars that make up Ursa Major. You may even realize it isn't
really a question mark, that it does sort of suggest a bear.

Though in that remote village, you may not pay much attention to Ursa Major
itself. Because if you're lucky, the night sky will be awash with stars.
That's the reality of the universe - stars every which way you look. You
may even see the Milky Way, our spectacular home galaxy, arcing gracefully
across the sky like a delicate scarf. If you do, let that be a reminder
that a lot of those "stars" you see are actually themselves galaxies, made
up of billions upon billions of stars. Only, they are so unimaginably far
away that if we do see them, they look like points of light. Like stars.

One night in 1995, astronomers pointed a telescope at Ursa Major. Or
actually, they pointed it at a small segment of the sky within the Bear's
outline. To the naked eye, there's nothing to be seen in that particular
little patch. Even on a dark night in that remote village, you might see no
more than a few faint dots of light in the vicinity. But this telescope is
in a quite different league from the naked eye. In fact, it is in a
different league from pretty much every other telescope on Earth.

That's easy to say, because this telescope isn't on  Earth anyway. It's in
space, orbiting our planet. From there, its ability to look out into the
void exceeds any other optical instrument we have on the planet. This is
the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), named for the great astronomer Edwin
Hubble. The space shuttle Discovery carried the HST into space in 1990, and
its astronauts assembled it.

The HST has a mirror 2.4 metres across, which is actually small compared to
dozens of Earth-bound telescopes. The largest of those is the Gran
Telescopio Canarias, on the Canary Islands, whose mirror is a gigantic
10.4m across. Certainly a larger mirror means more light collected and
fainter objects detected, but the HST has the great advantage of location.
Up there in space, it is not subject to the vagaries of weather, pollution
and atmospheric distortions that telescopes sitting on the planet have to
contend with. Since it orbits the Earth, its view of space is not
restricted either, like with ground-based telescopes. This is why NASA says
the HST has "a crystal-clear view of the universe."

The result is that in the 31 years since it climbed into orbit, the HST has
truly revolutionized both the way we look at the universe and our
understanding of it. Through it, astronomers have seen galaxies and stars
further away than anything previously observed. It has peered at objects
that are several billion light-years away, in effect looking back that many
years to near the birth of the universe. It has told us the composition of
the atmospheres of planets that whirl around other stars. And astronomers
have also trained the HST on considerably closer objects, like the planets
in our solar system. It once watched a comet slam into Jupiter. It found
that Pluto, itself now seen as a quasi-planet, possesses moons.

Besides, it has given us some of the most gorgeous images we have of
objects that are out there. Look for its "Pillars of Creation", vast clouds
of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, some 7000 light years from us. Or the
cluster of young stars - only a few million years young - called R136 in
the Tarantula Nebula, about 160,000 light years away. Or its images of
Jupiter, taken about two months apart in 2007, showing dramatically how
that planet's cloud cover changes colour and shape.

And there's what's come to be known as the Hubble Deep Field: the HST's
Ursa Major adventure of 1995.

HST's position above Earth's atmosphere means it is uniquely capable of
observing distant galaxies in far greater detail than