[Goanet] School of Water and Waste Newsletter

[Vikas Khanna]

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School of Water and Waste

October - November 2021

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Dear Friend, 

At COP26 this year climate policy makers focused to put water to the
heart of action plans. It was evident through all discussions that
nature based solutions and use of water more efficientlycan go long
way in combating climate change impacts. In India, the operational
guidelines for the national flagship programmes– SBM 2.0 and AMRUT
2.0 were launched to improve service delivery focusing on 24-7 water
supply and wastewater (used water) treatment in 4000+ towns and
cities. Recently both the ministries dealing with urban affairs and
water (Jal Shakti) launched the River City Alliance
with 30 cities across India’s coming on board committing to build in
river thinking and water-sensitive action plans in their Master Plans
for Urban / Infrastructure Development with an aim to implement model
projects to act as learning centre for other urban local bodies.

The CSE School of Water and Waste as key capacity building hub is
launching series of curated workshops and advanced training programmes
for regulators, managers and all others supporting cities in India as
well as global south to sensitize all stakeholders on urgency to build
adaptation strategies in water management (including drainage and
storm water management) address climate change impacts in urban areas.

In this endeavour, we are pleased to put forward this bi-monthly
newsletter exhibiting, updates, publications, training, events and
more. We look forward to hearing impact stories of change from all our
alumni, partners and readers.

Your suggestions and feedback are welcome at: sww-aa...@cseindia.org


Wishing you a happy and prosperous new year.

Best regards,

Suresh Kumar Rohilla

Senior Director & Academic Director 

School of Water & Waste Activities, Initiatives and Resources

Please find below our events, news updates, tools and opportunities
for you to learn more and collaborate with us in our ongoing and
upcoming endeavours.

On-site/ Online Events and Media Coverage

 

CSE at Consultative Workshop on SBM 2.0


05 - 07 October, 2021

As part of the Azadi@75 a consultative Workshop on Swachh Bharat
Mission (SBM) Urban 2.0 guidelineswas conducted in Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh. Ms Sunita Narain, Director General – CSE was invited as a
key speaker.

Read more 

 

Times Water Conclave: Making Uttar Pradesh Water Positive


06 October, 2021

Dhruv Pascricha, Programme Officer, CSE was invited to present the
highlights of CSE’s recent research report ‘ Roadmap for WSUDP in
Uttar Pradesh with focus on stormwater harvesting in parks and open
spaces’.

Read more


 

Webinar: Nature as Critical Infrastructure – operators
looking beyond the pipes 

19 October, 2021

Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Senior Director – CSE was invited at the
online 4th Global WOPs Congress, an initiative hosted by UN-Habitat
aimed towards sustainable water and sanitation for all. Dr Rohilla
presented on how water sensitive design and planning can be
mainstreamed in Indian cities with example of some CSE model projects
since 2009 till date.

Read more 

[Goanet] Which one more greedy?

[Joao Barros-Pereira]

comparing
diehard

business
people

with
religionists

is comparing
six of one
and
half a dozen?

diehards want
everything now!

give me
gold
in this life!

religionists
say

forget
the gold

give me
everlasting
life

hmm …

what does joao want to say?

[Goanet] PM Modi Rewrites History, at Goa @ 60 | Saxtti Times » Konkani Comedy (Edwin Vaz)

[Frederick Noronha]

https://youtu.be/PLGDuioA0y4
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[Goanet-News] Relatives and elders in Saxtti Konkani (by Dr Aida Dourado, Nuvem)

[Frederick Noronha]

*RELATIVES AND ELDERS IN SAXTTI KONKANI (AUDIO CONCEPTUALISED AND CREATED
BY DR AIDA DOURADO)* : How to address relatives (soirem) and elders
(vodil). Mother (maim/avoi), father (pai/bapui), brother (bhav), sister
(bhoinn), grandfather (xapai/papai), grandfather (xamai/mamai), mum's
brother (ma'am), mum's sister (maxen), father's brother (titiu), father's
sister (titin), brother's wife (onni), sister's husband (cunhad), father's
brother's wife (ti'mai), father's sister's husband (titiu), godparents male
(podonn/padrin), godparents females (modonn/madrin), husband (gho/poti),
wife (bail/potinn), husband's brother (derr), husband's sister (no'non'n),
wife's brother (meun'no), wife's sister (meun'ni), in-laws (wife's mother
sas'mai) wife's father (sas'pai), husband's mother (sas'mai), husband's
father (sus'pai), daughter-in-aw (sunn), son-in-law (zanvoi). E = Errors
and Omissions Excepted

SAXTTI ULOICHIM, GOEM FULOICHIM. Free and open online tutorials on
Conversational Xaxtti. This is the first course of its kind meant to build
 awareness about the charming (but  neglected) Salcete dialect of the
Konkani language. Run by Dr Aida Dourado. Via WhatsApp and occasional
Google Talk meetups.  There will be occasional online meet-ups (via Google
Meet), the timings of which will be announced later.  To join, click on
this link...

https://chat.whatsapp.com/JKDm7ndC18XHidgqei9Nff
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[Goanet] Schedule for Tuesday 28th December 2021

[CCR TV]

CCR TV GOA
Channel of God's love✝

You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App
Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform.
Click the link below.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4
Email ID:  ccrgoame...@gmail.com

Schedule for  Tuesday 28th December 2021

12:00 AM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

12:27 AM
Broadening the horizons of your minds - Providence, CCR, Holiness -Fr Fio
Mascarenhas sj

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Monday

1:45 AM
Bhagiancher Niyall V - Br Malvino Alfonso  ocd

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

2:26 AM
Devachem Utor - Suttka - Avesvor 20 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:33 AM
The Golden Brigade - Jose and Genevieve Marques

3:12 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  152  - Xant Mon - Fr Pratap Naik sj

3:21 AM
Politics - A Noble Profession ? - Eps 4  Dharma V. Chodankar

3:54 AM
That's Christmas to me Cover by Socorro Parish Youth

4:00 AM
DYC - The Way - Eps 3

4:19 AM
Mil Mel Nel - Nevem Voros

4:27 AM
Train Yourself to be Holy - Dr Brenda Nazareth Menezes

4:55 AM
Poem - All I want for Christmas - Larissa Rodrigues

5:00 AM
Catholic Quiz - Mother Teresa conducted by Mysticka Deniz

5:17 AM
Christmas Song - Natal Pai - Milagres Fernandes

5:23 AM
Through Mary to Jesus - Eps 5 - Dn Menoy D'Souoza S.J.

5:43 AM
Song - Ballok Jezu - Zia Rodrigues

5:49 AM
Ekvottanv - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

6:17 AM
Poem - True Spirit of Christmas - Larissa Rodrigues

6:19 AM
Give unto God what belongs to God - Talk by Glenn Nunes

6:48 AM
Tell Me a Story  - Eps 47 - God quenches the thirst of His people

6:55 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem  -  Rogtsakxi

7:00 AM
Praise and Worship - Agnes Barucha

7:24 AM
Morning Prayer  -  Martyrs

7:27 AM
Broadening the horizons of your minds - Providence, CCR, Holiness -Fr Fio
Mascarenhas sj

8:02 AM
Poem - What is Love? by Nadia Fernandes

8:04 AM
Abundant Life - Parenting - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

8:52 AM
Song - Let's Care for Our Common Home - Fr Tomas Lobo

9:00 AM
Jezu Konn? - A talk by Adv. Elgar F. E. Noronha

9:40 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  173  - Mahesh Savani - Fr Pratap Naik sj

9:48 AM
Jesus the Good Shepherd as the gate - Talk by Sr Shilpa

10:04 AM
Devachem Utor - Suttka - Avesvor 20 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

10:11 AM
The Family - Ken Terezinha

10:36 AM
Tell Me a Story  - Eps 47 - God quenches the thirst of His people

10:43 AM
Axa, Devacho Pattlav Korunk Amkam Vhodd Addkhol  - Fr Edson Fernandes

11:02 AM
Povitr Pustokant Devachi Khoxi - Rev Melito D'Costa

11:08 AM
Archbishop's Message for Christmas

11:14 AM
Hymn - Amcheo Tin Avoio - Song by Usgaon Youth

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 Panjim Church followed by Daily Flash

12:15 PM
Pope's Intentions in Konkani

12:18 PM
Testimony - Neville Fernandes

12:30 PM
Xapai - Xamaichem Magnnem

12:32 PM
Christmas Candle -  Concert - Fabiola Lopes

12:51 PM
Ask Dr Sweezel - Preferable sitting position at desk jobs

12:59 PM
Konkani Bhas - Bhag 9 - Fr Pratap Naik sj

1:13 PM
What's Cooking - Episode 8 - Serradura

1:35 PM
Somi sorgar veta ani Ankvar Mariek sorgar vhorta hache modem ontor kitem?
Rev Clive Diniz

1:39 PM
Bhajans 5

2:03 PM
Youthopia - Edmer Barreto - Author interviewed by Jessica Sharma

2:32 PM
My Music Videos - Ixtt Mhozo - Fr Mariano SIlveira

2:36 PM
Health Matters -Immunization -  Dr Lorraine D'Sa

3:00 PM
Music - Bavarth - Fr Eusico Pereira

3:04 PM
Senior Shepherds  - Fr Hector Almeida sj  intererviewed by Colin Pereira

3:26 PM
Psalm 95 - Read by Alfwold Silveira

3:30 PM
Divine Mercy - English 3

3:50 PM
Mil Mel Nel - Nevem Voros

4:00 PM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

4:27 PM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 5

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 16

4:56 PM
Gaionancho Jhelo -Danam Sobar - Monica Fernandes

5:00 PM
Praise and Worship -  St Jose de Areal  - Ivy Ferrao

5:29 PM
I am the Good Shepherd - Talk by Lavinia Gonsalves

5:50 PM
Prayer for India 2

5:53 PM
Aimorechen Magnnem

5:56 PM
Prayer for the Synod 2023 - Konkani

6:00 PM
Mass in Konkani from Shiroda followed by Jivitacho Prokas

6:45 PM
Shokthi Deva - Thaun Koshi Mellun Geuchim ? - Cassino D'Costa

7:11 PM
That's Christmas to me Cover by Socorro Parish Youth

7:15 PM
Carols - Simple Harmonic Voices - Margao

7:26 PM
Novena Prayer to St Joseph Vaz

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

7:56 PM
Magnificat (English)

8:00 PM
Chukom Hanv Bapa - Orlando DSouza

8:28 PM
Our Father - in Indian Sign Language

8:30 PM
Devachi khuxi amchea jivitachi - Nazareth D'Costa

8:47 PM
Devachem Utor - Suttka - Avesvor 21 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

9:00 PM
Adoration - DCLA 6  - Fr Henry

9:30 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:44 PM
Skit - Bhurgim Sorginchea Rajeachio Chavio - Santa Cruz Parish Youth

10:00 PM
Program by DPS

10:50 PM
Violin Solo - Kiarra Fernandes

11:00 PM
Politics - A Noble Profession ? - Eps 4  Dharma V. Chodankar

11:33 PM
Prayer to St. Joseph by Pope Francis

11:35 PM
On the Third Day - Eps 1 - 

[Goanet] OUR NO NONSENSE CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA

[Aires Rodrigues]

We will remain ever indebted to our Chief Justice of India NV Ramana for
all his arduous efforts to regain and restore the much needed independence
of the Judiciary.



His three immediate predecessors having taken the Judiciary to a point of
disdain by compromising its very sanctity and Sovereignty, Justice Ramana
has only another eight months in office to realign the wheels of Justice
which had gone awfully off track.



As the Custodian of this pillar of hope, Justice Ramana, has been having an
uphill task of battling a government that has been all out to erode
judicial values. Justice Ramana has ably taken head on, the powers that be
in his noble mission of protecting and safeguarding our Temples of Justice.



It is imperative that every Judge across the nation dispenses justice
without fear. The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and a
judiciary which is truly independent. A judiciary that is accountable only
to the Rule of Law.



Unscrupulous politicians with their own hidden agendas who seek to
undermine the rule of law should reflect and act on the wise words of
Reuven Rivlin, former President of Israel who said “There is no and there
cannot be any situation, in which we don’t respect the law and the
judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed,
but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our Democracy’’.

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] Relatives and elders in Saxtti Konkani (by Dr Aida Dourado, Nuvem)

[Frederick Noronha]

*RELATIVES AND ELDERS IN SAXTTI KONKANI (AUDIO CONCEPTUALISED AND CREATED
BY DR AIDA DOURADO)* : How to address relatives (soirem) and elders
(vodil). Mother (maim/avoi), father (pai/bapui), brother (bhav), sister
(bhoinn), grandfather (xapai/papai), grandfather (xamai/mamai), mum's
brother (ma'am), mum's sister (maxen), father's brother (titiu), father's
sister (titin), brother's wife (onni), sister's husband (cunhad), father's
brother's wife (ti'mai), father's sister's husband (titiu), godparents male
(podonn/padrin), godparents females (modonn/madrin), husband (gho/poti),
wife (bail/potinn), husband's brother (derr), husband's sister (no'non'n),
wife's brother (meun'no), wife's sister (meun'ni), in-laws (wife's mother
sas'mai) wife's father (sas'pai), husband's mother (sas'mai), husband's
father (sus'pai), daughter-in-aw (sunn), son-in-law (zanvoi). E = Errors
and Omissions Excepted

SAXTTI ULOICHIM, GOEM FULOICHIM. Free and open online tutorials on
Conversational Xaxtti. This is the first course of its kind meant to build
 awareness about the charming (but  neglected) Salcete dialect of the
Konkani language. Run by Dr Aida Dourado. Via WhatsApp and occasional
Google Talk meetups.  There will be occasional online meet-ups (via Google
Meet), the timings of which will be announced later.  To join, click on
this link...

https://chat.whatsapp.com/JKDm7ndC18XHidgqei9Nff
ᐧ

[Goanet] It’s Not About Conversions

[Roland Francis]

From the top, it’s not about the anger at Christians converting people from 
other faiths. If that happens at all, it’s insignificant. So insignificant, 
that the government lacks any statistics on it. Imagine implementing a 
political strategy without any information to support it.

The truth is, as I’ve said before: distraction is needed to deflect attention 
from Modi’s substandard economic and social development performance.

As the economy improves, you will see that the anti-minority rhetoric will 
subside, but the seed having been planted, will not just go away. What the men 
in power don’t bargain for, or perhaps they have no problem with, is that among 
the lower level criminal elements in societies throughout the country on whom 
politicians count, there will be a sensing of opportunity looking at the 
low-lying fruit.

Christian churches, schools, religious institutions and recreational centres 
had the foresight to buy properties in years gone by when it was cheap, 
properties that surrounded their buildings as open grounds for sport or for 
tree canopy or because it was the custom during the British to give an 
impressive appearance to whatever was built.

Another factor was that a lot of land came into the possession of the church 
through the final wills of pious landowning parishioners, often when the last 
remaining family consisted of old bachelors or spinsters. Anyone who lived in 
Bombay’s suburbs will attest to this.

So the easy, albeit criminal path to grabbing these valuable assets is by 
creating confusion and communal disharmony. Talk of a temple that seemingly 
existed on a church land. Shout about a group of nuns converting local Hindus 
and frighten them. Threaten priests running a Christian school and change the 
management to a local rag tag political outfit masquerading under the guise of 
a neighbourhood NGO and voila, you have changed wealth that was used for 
everybody’s educational and social good into the hands of political goons to 
satisfy their own greed.

And through this all, it seems to me, that the people who matter in church 
authority instead of seeking allies with the Hindu educated class, many of whom 
are in power and know these institutions well, having passaged through them, 
are instead, going like cows to the slaughter.

https://www.dw.com/en/india-hardliners-disrupt-christmas-celebrations-in-modi-stronghold/a-60265154?maca=en-EMail-sharing

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Timeless Tables: Why Goa’s Martin’s Corner is still a crowd favourite

[ymirconsulting]

https://www.cntraveller.in/story/timeless-tables-why-goas-martins-corner-is-still-a-crowd-favourite/?uID=79c7a44c94d0ae1c7d772b788caad248c67697fc937d52faa60b884111868e4c_campaign=newsletter_source=newsletter_medium=email_brand=cnt_mailing=CNT_Newsletter_Daily_2021-12-27_term=

Sent from my iPhone

[Goanet] 50 Things to do in Goa right now

[ymirconsulting]

https://www.cntraveller.in/story/goa-things-to-do-new-restaurants-bars-kids-assagao-vagator-calangute/?uID=79c7a44c94d0ae1c7d772b788caad248c67697fc937d52faa60b884111868e4c_campaign=newsletter_source=newsletter_medium=email_brand=cnt_mailing=CNT_Newsletter_Daily_2021-12-27_term=

Sent from my iPhone

[Goanet] Timeless Tables: Martin's Corner (Conde Nast Traveller, 27/12/2021)

[V M]

https://www.cntraveller.in/story/timeless-tables-why-goas-martins-corner-is-still-a-crowd-favourite/

As recently as three decades ago, the little seaside hamlet of Betalbatim
was still the postcard-perfect image of an archetypical Goan idyll. It
dozed peacefully most days, with only fishermen ever venturing on the
beach. On the occasional weekend, families from the nearby city of Margao
would visit to take an evening stroll, before heading straight back home
after sunset.

Around 1990, that somnolence began to shift when word started filtering
through the local grapevine that Aunty Carafina Pereira was cooking
super-fresh seafood every evening, and serving up unbeatable value for
money in the tiny, wonderfully atmospheric four-table 16-seater cabin that
her husband Martin built in one corner of their ancestral property.

I visited for the first time right about then, very soon after that initial
buzz began to percolate. In those early days, Martin’s Corner still felt
quite like *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe* from the famous book
by Douglas Adams, far down a beachside road that seemed to grow
impenetrably narrower as you neared the ocean, eccentrically wound  around
coconut palms and banyans. There were no street lights, so you peered into
the shadows of your motorcycle headlamp until the smell of delicious
masalas indicated the final destination was close at hand, and you could
hear the unmistakable sound of people enjoying themselves.

“It was my mother’s idea to open this place here, and start serving food
that she cooked,” says Bonifacio “Bonny” Pereira, the youngest of Martin
and Carafina’s three sons, “but my father initially said it didn’t make
sense. He knew that location is so important for restaurants, and you
should try to be on a main road. But here we are in the far interior, in
what was a totally quiet village. My father’s main question was: who will
come?”

*Lesson 1*: Trust your instincts

Zip ahead 30 years, and the answer to Martin Pereira’s question is
unquestionably everyone. The tiny hut in his family home’s compound has
been replaced by a gleaming landmark dining establishment that stays
buzzing all through the year. It is frequented by celebrities and an
essential pit-stop amongst India’s most famous restaurants. The only
constant between those early days and now is Carafina Pereira. Now 74, she
still shows up by 9.30am every morning to start preparing for another day’s
round of satisfied customers.

Back when the Pereiras started serving their signature crab masala fry in
1989, the total number of tourists to visit Goa was under 900,000. By 1995,
when Sachin Tendulkar famously declared it was his favourite meal, that
number had spiked over 1 million for the first time.

*Lesson 2*: Know your strengths

“From 1998 or so, we have been constantly busy, “says Bonny Pereira. “And
for the last 15 years, it has been very steady throughout the year because
all the hotels from the Park Hyatt right to the Leela, always recommend us
for good Goan food, and all the famous specialities that my mother makes.
We haven’t changed that core of what we offer for that reason: Shark
Ambotik, Pork Sorpotel, Chicken Xacuti, Prawns Caldin, everything exactly
like we grew up eating. We have kept to what we do best, and in all this
time over 20 years, we have not seen any off-season.”

*Lesson 3*: The neighbourhood matters

The five-star hotels whom Pereira mentions are part of the great South Goa
beach belt, one of the grandest expanses of waterfront in the subcontinent,
that stretches all the way from Arossim and Cansaulim at one end (which is
where the Park Hyatt is located) through Utorda and Majorda past Colva,
Benaulim, Varca and Carmona to Cavelossim and its hub of hotels including
the Leela.

Over the past 30 years that Martin’s Corner has been in business, this
magnificent coastline has added thousands of five-star hotel rooms, and
tens of thousands more in every other hospitality category from heritage
homestay to backpacker beach huts. This means the lights are now
permanently on in Betalbatim, but it also begs the question: why haven’t
the Pereiras expanded along with the booming marketplace?

*Lesson 4*: Together Everyone Achieves More (T.E.A.M.)

“We are asked this literally every single day,” says Bonny, “and the truth
is we have considered maybe opening another branch to serve all of our
clients in North Goa. But my mother has stayed firm to our original values.
She doesn’t want us to separate very far, so we have bought some land
opposite to the restaurant and built a small hotel (Martin’s Comfort) and
three houses for each of us (the older Pereira siblings, Pobre and Jose
also work full-time in the family business).”

*Lesson 5*: Count your blessings

Then he told me, “We know Martin’s Corner has a big opportunity in North
Goa, but we can’t overrule my mother. She always asks us why we would want
to open another one across the bridge. Even living so close by, we are so
busy 

[Goanet] Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity accounts frozen, say CPM, Mamata

[Marshall Mendonza]

https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/shocked-to-hear-union-ministry-froze-all-bank-accounts-of-missionaries-of-charity-mamata/cid/1845043