Re: [Goanet] 25th Century Fantasies, Stone Age Reality
Good observations. Impossible to challenge. Roland. > On Jan 21, 2022, at 9:45 PM, Rajan Parrikar wrote: > > Even though I have been in Goa for several weeks now, I have kept away from > the Sturm und Drang in the political arena. In this brief note, I will > touch upon aspects of life that do not depend directly on politicians and > their misdemeanours. Indian pretensions notwithstanding, parenthetically it > is an illustration of what constitutes “Third World.” > > > - Very, very few establishments in Goa maintain a website, the calling card > of our time. Clinics, hardware vendors, medical test labs, restaurants, > service providers. You will be hard-pressed to find a website with current > information and contact details. In the uncommon instance you stumble upon > one, it is a wreck - broken links, outdated information, or “Server not > found.” The owners of these businesses breeze around town in fancy cars > strapped to their latest iPhone but they cannot be bothered to put together > a basic website. In real terms it means you cannot access information about > products or services online. The alternative is a lot of wasted time, > effort, and frustration. >
[Goanet] Ontario looking like a giant freezer in the past week?
... so says Milena on Radio Mango. Last time it snowed so heavily was 1998, apparently. ᐧ
[Goanet] CORRECTED: Konkani ... from the online world (NZ ... Canada ... and Goa)
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[Goanet] STRAY DOGS MESS UP GARBAGE
On 22nd Jan 2022 I had severe garbage problem due to the stray dogs which was less earlier times. At night I kept the garbage bin outside the gate for the CCP/ Panchayat worker to take the garbage as usual in the morning. The bin was overturned by stray dogs all over the road which are there all over Dona Paula area. Also the plastic bag which I kept hanging to the gate for the Milkman to put 2 milk bags was torn in pieces. This I noticed when I got up in the morning. These dogs are hungry perhaps as Covid might have affected them too. Perhaps no food is put to them regularly by residents. To overcome this nonsense I have modified our garbage bin by putting school bag type strap with a buckle and the milk bag is replaced by a metal box. ( see the photo) We see also daily garbage near the Outpost Dona Paula police station and poor CCP lady workers slogging to collect the garbage spilled on the road because the CCP trolley boxes at the collection point have overturned as they have no proper protection from animals. Perhaps CCP can be inspired by my at-home-shortcut-solution and find some better solution, perhaps like proper animal-proof enclosures or bins with clasps so that no garbage is thrown on the roads by any stray animal or gust of heavy wind. Stephen Dias 9422443110 23rd Jan 2022 This letter may be published with the photo Enclosed.
[Goanet] AN AUDIT OF BJP’S DECADE MISRULE 2012-2022
The BJP completes ten years of its rule in Goa. It has to be assessed on the ‘Goa Vision Document 2012-2017’, that was released by the Party in the run-up to the March 2012 Assembly elections and it’s later Manifesto in 2017. It has been an unending string of U Turns and reneged promises. Despite having been given a clear mandate in 2012, the BJP failed to deliver on the ‘*Parivartan*’ that it had promised by way of Good governance and Zero tolerance to corruption. It has been rampant corruption and scams galore. We have witnessed total nepotism and sheer display of arrogance. The BJP had promised the moon by way of a Golden Goa and Acche din but reneged on almost every promise while also breaching every possible law. It has been governance enveloped in confusion, contradictions and controversies. The BJP vowed that Annual Performance Reports of every government department would be prepared and publicized. This did not happen. Also promised was participatory governance at village level as envisaged in the 73rd and 74th amendments, which too, did not see the light of the day. Promised was a new Agricultural policy to make agriculture more rewarding but all that we have witnessed is the continued sight of fields and hills being converted into concrete jungles. We were assured a new regional plan keeping in mind Goa’s identity, but we have seen no plausible progress in that direction while a selected coterie of builders having a field day with constructions mushrooming everywhere without the much needed provision for basic infrastructure of electricity, water, parking, sewage and garbage disposal. To ensure regular, uninterrupted power supply the BJP had promised in 2012 that the whole of Goa would have underground cabling in five years and that the State would be plastic-free in three years which has also not happened. The promise of a garbage management system is still a distant dream. The government has miserably failed in its promise of 12 hours-a-day uninterrupted drinking water. Escalating level of crime is a matter of grave concern while political interference in police functioning is turning Goa into a lawless State. The BJP had promised that Professionals and not Politicians would head Corporations and other bodies but to our utter dismay, all the Corporations are loaded with political cronies including many who were defeated at the Assembly elections. Despite the financial crisis, the BJP has hired thousands with merit not being the criteria. Even in its last days this government has been on a spree tendering new projects and laying more foundation stones despite a mountain of incomplete projects all over. It has also extravagantly doled out freebies to attempt luring the voters. But all this is a sign of very bad governance - when a State sponsors fun and frolic more so when its coffers are empty. The government which has been on a borrowing spree cannot sustain such lavish spending. The BJP’s promises have ended up like China-made goods, with neither a guarantee nor warranty. 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] The Hollywood Con Queen - An Indian Of Course
The Hollywood Con Queen lured hundreds of people into a bizarre scam, but the biggest twist was yet to come - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-23/hollywood-con-queen-scam/100741998 Roland. Toronto.
Re: [Goanet] One more Jesuit Blessed
Dear Fr. Naik Thank you for bringing us to this real world of oppression that is with us ...right up in 2022. If the Almighty God made us in his own imagine and likeness, it is because he wants us to be free and respect all religion. The greed of individual especially of leaders is horrible We see it next door in Uganda, and right in Afghanistan ...Muslims killing fellow Muslims What can we as individual do.Pray.say the Rosary. We all know what happened in Fatima ...less well known is what happened in Brazil and Russia. Why did the shoe thumping Khrushchev suddenly become silentover 200 of Russia's top scientist were pulverized when the nuclear experiment they were conducting .failed. Some people might call it Fate.May be we should call it Divine Intervention I have copied my response to friends here in Tanzania...This is because I believe that we as individuals can make a difference. We have a Lady President who is a Muslim. It will be a year when she as the Vice President succeed the Catholic President Unfortunately, the President assumed he knew every thing so he had the audacity on a Sunday to tell the celebrant that there was no such a thing as PANDEMIC 19.. Newspaper people just disappeared, members of the opposition were locked up etc etc.Oh yes there was Divine Intervention he himself died of the Pandemic. FinallyI hope Peace Prevails in Indiaand in Goa Elections will one day become fair and Peaceful. Grandolfo In Makongo Juu PS It will take time for me to absorb the account of the Jesuit I did some work about the Jesuits in Africa and the far East..St Francis spent a longer time in Kilwa than he did in GoaHe learnt the culture of the people, looked after the sick and all this while the Omani Arabs practiced their faith and built two huge mosques.There has been no fighting for the last 400 years plus On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 10:02 AM Pratapananda Naik, SJ < pratapnai...@gmail.com> wrote: > One more Jesuit Blessed > > Different Jesuit sources give different numbers of Jesuit Saints and > Blessed. Approximately there are 52 Jesuit Saints and 146 Blessed (these > numbers are subject to correction. Once I get the official information from > Rome, I will let you know) leaving aside a great number of Jesuit > Venerables and Servants of God. > Today on 22nd January 2022, one more will be added to the list of Jesuit > Blessed. Fr. Rutilio Grande (05 July 1928 – 12 March 1977) was murdered > along with his 70 years old sacristan Manuel Solórzano and 15 year old > Nelson Rutilio Lemus on 12th March 1977 by El Salvador Army. All three of > them and the Italian Franciscan priest Cosme Spessotto ( shot dead on 14th > June 1980) will be beatified. Here below the life sketch of Fr. Rutilio > Grande is given. It is written by Fr. Martin Maier SJ > Pratapananda Naik, SJ > A signpost for the Church > Fr. Martin Maier SJ > The beatification of Rutilio Grande in San Salvador comes at a time of > transformation in the Latin American Church similar to the upheaval that > followed the 1968 Medellín conference > Beatifications and canonisations can be pointers to the way the Church is > moving. On 22 January 2022 in the Plaza Salvador del Mundo in El Salvador’s > capital, San Salvador, the Jesuit Rutilio Grande, who along with his lay > companions, Nelson Rutilio Lemus and Manuel Solórzano (murdered on 12 March > 1977) and the Italian Franciscan priest, Cosme Spessotto (shot dead on 14 > June 1980) – will be beatified. > > They represent the new start the Church made after the Second Vatican > Council. They represent a missionary Church that has gone to the social and > existential peripheries. They represent a persecuted Church, which has > produced numerous martyrs for faith and justice. > > Rutilio was born on 5 July 1928, the youngest of seven children, into a > poor family in the village of El Paisnal in El Salvador. In 1945 he joined > the Jesuits. He followed the order’s normal training in philosophy and > theology in Venezuela, Ecuador, Spain, France and Belgium. > > Until 1972 he taught in the national ¬seminary in San Salvador, where he > tried to include in formation the spirit of the Second Vatican Council and > the second conference of the bishops of Latin America at Medellín in 1968, > which had recognised that the level of poverty on the continent “cried out > to Heaven”. In the same spirit, in 1975 the Jesuit order redefined its > mission in the world as both preaching of the faith and struggling for > justice. Rutilio put the preferential option for the poor at the centre of > a new concept of a missionary rural ministry. His aim, Rodolfo Cardenal > wrote after his death, “was to train priests who would be at the service of > the people and not clerical bosses”. > > Rutilio was not appointed rector of the seminary. Instead, in autumn 1972 > he switched to parish work in Aguilares, a community which included his > birthplace. Here, with a team of Jesui
[Goanet] Schedule for Sunday 23rd January 2022
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 Sunday 23rd January 2022 12:00 AM Rosary - Glorious Mysteries 12:27 AM Kumsar zaunk lozonakai ani vaumtem udok addaunk thokos gheinakaim - Orlando D'Souza 1:00 AM Mass in Konkani for Saturday 1:45 AM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 174 - Amchem Oxem - Fr Pratap Naik sj 1:53 AM Hymn - Lourdes Convent H.S. Navelim 2:00 AM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Orkache Mister 2:26 AM Devachem Utor - Levi - Xastr - Avesvor 6 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 2:34 AM Career Guidance - Goa Art College 3:04 AM Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 12 3:10 AM Abundant Life - Peer Pressure - Prof Nicholas D'Souza 4:01 AM Hymn - Holy Cross HS, Bastora 4:05 AM Politics - A Noble Profession? - Eps 14 Capt Viriato Fernandes 4:40 AM Hymn - Lourdes Convent H.S. Navelim 4:45 AM Poetic Short Film - Ek Kavita Don Kavinchi 5:01 AM Prayer for India 1 5:04 AM Health Matters - Kidney Health - Dr Amol Mahaldar 5:36 AM Nimanni Kavita 5:42 AM Ask Dr Sweezel - Should I use a Pillow ? 5:48 AM Senior Shepherds - Fr Agapito Da Cunha sfx interviewed by Colin Pereira 6:13 AM Bible Project - Acts of the Apostle - Ch 21 - 28 6:18 AM Jesus Heals (Konkani) - Fr Henry Falcao 6:51 AM Our Father - Oraon 6:55 AM Sokalchem Magnnem Aitar - Week 1 & 3 7:00 AM Praise and Worship - Magno Menezes - SJVRC 7:31 AM Morning Prayer Sunday - Week 1 & 3 7:34 AM Apologetics - Catholic Church Pt 2 - Adv. F.E. Noronha 8:00 AM Mass in Konkani from Panjim Church followed by Jivitacho Prokas 9:00 AM Music - Glory to You followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem 9:30 AM Prayer over Children - St Jospeh Vaz 9:32 AM Catechism for Communion - 16 - DCC 9:47 AM Mando on Aldona - Nelson and Daneca Da Cruz 9:51 AM Our Father - Odiya 10:00 AM Scripture Studies 2 - Fr Edson Fernandes 10:33 AM Prayer : Benedictus 10:36 AM Bhajans 4 11:01 AM Emauscho Rosto - Talk by Orlando D'Souza 11:19 AM Angelus - English 11:21 AM Prayer for the Synod 2023 11:23 AM Intercessions in English 11:30 AM Mass in English from Jesuit House followed by Daily Flash 12:30 PM Pope's intentions in English 12:33 PM Pastoral Letter 2021-22 - Talk in English - Fr Aleston Vaz 12:54 PM Tell Me a Story - Eps 50 - God demands purification of people 1:03 PM Career Guidance - Forensic Science 1:33 PM Psalm 84 - Read by Alfwold Silveira 1:39 PM Health Matters - Burns Care - Dr Yuri Dias Amborcar 2:10 PM My Music Video - Soirik'kar - Matchmaker - Mil-Mel-Nel 2:16 PM What's Cooking - Season 2 - Episode 11 2:31 PM My Music Video - Bore Khobreche Dut Zaum-ia - Cielda Pereira 2:36 PM Beatitudes 3 and 4 - Severina Fernades 3:00 PM Somi sorgar veta ani Ankvar Mariek sorgar vhorta hache modem ontor kitem? Rev Clive Diniz 3:05 PM Catechism for Confirmation - 16 - DCC 3:28 PM Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 6 3:30 PM Divine Mercy - English 3 3:50 PM Devachem Utor - Levi - Xastr - Avesvor 6 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 4:00 PM Rosary - Glorious Mysteries 4:27 PM Hymn - Memorare - Brian Colaco 4:30 PM Senior Citizens Exercises - 5 4:46 PM Mando - Traditional - Goychim Lharam, Carmona 5:00 PM Praise and Worship - Neville Pinho 5:22 PM I am the Resurrection and the Life - Talk by Sheela Alvares 5:49 PM Hymn - Jesus, Jesus - Sung by Rebecca De Souza 5:53 PM Aimorechen Magnnem 5:56 PM Prayer for the Synod 2023 - Konkani 6:00 PM Mass in Konkani from Panjim Church followed by Jivitacho Prokas 7:00 PM Pope's intentions in Konkani 7:03 PM Sukh ani Dukh - Talk by Orlando D'Souza 7:30 PM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Orkache Mister 7:56 PM Bhurgem-Ball Nasloleancher Bhagevont Zuze Vazache Mozotin Magnnem 8:00 PM Politics - A Noble Profession? - Eps 15 Dr Pramod Salgaocar 8:35 PM Jesus the Good Shepherd as the gate - Talk by Sr Shilpa 8:49 PM Devachem Utor - Levi - Xastr - Avesvor 7 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 9:00 PM Mass in Marathi 10:00 PM Adoration 3 - St Anthony Church, Siolim 10:29 PM Ratchem Magnem 10:44 PM Concert - Fall of Grace YU4C 11:14 PM Politics - A Noble Profession? - Eps 14 Capt Viriato Fernandes 11:49 PM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 177 - Vavraddi - Fr Pratap Naik sj 11:58 PM Magnificat (Konkani) Donations may be made to: Beneficiary name : CCR GOA MEDIA. Name of Bank : ICICI Bank Branch Name: Panaji Branch RTGS/NEFT Code : ICIC015 Savings Bank Account No : 262401000183
[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Misty Tivrem
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Misty Tivrem' Morning in Goa. Last week in the Goan village of Tivrem. You may view the latest post at https://blog.parrikar.com/2022/01/22/misty-tivrem/ Warm regards, Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar ra...@parrikar.com
[Goanet] 25th Century Fantasies, Stone Age Reality
Even though I have been in Goa for several weeks now, I have kept away from the Sturm und Drang in the political arena. In this brief note, I will touch upon aspects of life that do not depend directly on politicians and their misdemeanours. Indian pretensions notwithstanding, parenthetically it is an illustration of what constitutes “Third World.” - Very, very few establishments in Goa maintain a website, the calling card of our time. Clinics, hardware vendors, medical test labs, restaurants, service providers. You will be hard-pressed to find a website with current information and contact details. In the uncommon instance you stumble upon one, it is a wreck - broken links, outdated information, or “Server not found.” The owners of these businesses breeze around town in fancy cars strapped to their latest iPhone but they cannot be bothered to put together a basic website. In real terms it means you cannot access information about products or services online. The alternative is a lot of wasted time, effort, and frustration. - Remember the buzz a few years ago about transforming India into a “cashless society”? On the tiny island in the middle of the North Atlantic I live, you can go through life without ever touching paper money. In Goa, the vendors - even dealers of reputed national and international brands - often demand payment in cash (a ploy to pocket the GST). The invoice (if at all provided) will be handwritten and vague, not the laser-printed line-item clarity you are used to in the West. A transaction that should take 2 minutes will detain you for 15. - Banks are another area of Stone Age practices. In America, the entire banking culture is centred around one principle: How can we satisfy the customer and have him out of the branch as quickly as possible? In Goa/India, it is the exact opposite - fill this form and that form, bring photocopies of passport, Aadhar card, and your butt crack. (“Sir, our printer and xerox machine are not working for the past 2 weeks” - true story.) It is clear that Indians are not early adopters of technology or best practices. Indians are shirkers. The goal is never to make life easier and efficient. - I gave GoaMiles a try for rides within Panjim. The app seems to work okay. Initially I was happy to see Goan names for the assigned drivers. But to my dismay, some of them turned out to be from out of state under assumed fake Goan Hindu names. Now, I’m perfectly fine with any young person, regardless of geographical origin, doing honest work for a living. But I don’t like chicanery of this kind. - It is hard to find Goans in basic trades these days. Carpenters, masons, painters, even barbers - all these métiers are increasingly serviced by outsiders. The quality of workmanship is uneven, mostly in keeping with shoddy Indian standards. I’m old enough to remember the superior skills of the old Goan carpenter (“mesta”) or mason (“gavandi”). - Scant respect for your time is a law of nature in Goa and India. Schedules mean nothing here. Follow-up is an alien idea. Any estimated delivery or completion date of a service or product must be disregarded immediately. Everyone’s proximate goal is to make you go away and that means making false promises. This lack of candour and basic honesty is an all-encompassing presence in Indian life. It strikes me that the Indian who makes a living in the West takes for granted all of the items mentioned above. But in his self-absorption and conceit, he seldom makes the obvious connection: the fruits of modern technology and life he enjoys were all conceived by White men (most long dead). Instead we see the puerile chest-thumping and hailing of putzes like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella - all beneficiaries of “White supremacy” mind you. Indians who have migrated to the West had NOTHING to do with building the societies that have given them the good life. Every convenience of modern life the Indian embraces came not from the vaunted “Eye-Eye-Teeyan” but mostly from the mind and toil of a White male. It pains me to write the foregoing, for as a fundamentalist Hindu, I am enormously proud of the Hindu civilization, its character, richness, fundamental goodness, and its dazzling intellectual accomplishments. But the reality of today’s India cannot be wished away. r
[Goanet] One more Jesuit Blessed
One more Jesuit Blessed Different Jesuit sources give different numbers of Jesuit Saints and Blessed. Approximately there are 52 Jesuit Saints and 146 Blessed (these numbers are subject to correction. Once I get the official information from Rome, I will let you know) leaving aside a great number of Jesuit Venerables and Servants of God. Today on 22nd January 2022, one more will be added to the list of Jesuit Blessed. Fr. Rutilio Grande (05 July 1928 – 12 March 1977) was murdered along with his 70 years old sacristan Manuel Solórzano and 15 year old Nelson Rutilio Lemus on 12th March 1977 by El Salvador Army. All three of them and the Italian Franciscan priest Cosme Spessotto ( shot dead on 14th June 1980) will be beatified. Here below the life sketch of Fr. Rutilio Grande is given. It is written by Fr. Martin Maier SJ Pratapananda Naik, SJ A signpost for the Church Fr. Martin Maier SJ The beatification of Rutilio Grande in San Salvador comes at a time of transformation in the Latin American Church similar to the upheaval that followed the 1968 Medellín conference Beatifications and canonisations can be pointers to the way the Church is moving. On 22 January 2022 in the Plaza Salvador del Mundo in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, the Jesuit Rutilio Grande, who along with his lay companions, Nelson Rutilio Lemus and Manuel Solórzano (murdered on 12 March 1977) and the Italian Franciscan priest, Cosme Spessotto (shot dead on 14 June 1980) – will be beatified. They represent the new start the Church made after the Second Vatican Council. They represent a missionary Church that has gone to the social and existential peripheries. They represent a persecuted Church, which has produced numerous martyrs for faith and justice. Rutilio was born on 5 July 1928, the youngest of seven children, into a poor family in the village of El Paisnal in El Salvador. In 1945 he joined the Jesuits. He followed the order’s normal training in philosophy and theology in Venezuela, Ecuador, Spain, France and Belgium. Until 1972 he taught in the national ¬seminary in San Salvador, where he tried to include in formation the spirit of the Second Vatican Council and the second conference of the bishops of Latin America at Medellín in 1968, which had recognised that the level of poverty on the continent “cried out to Heaven”. In the same spirit, in 1975 the Jesuit order redefined its mission in the world as both preaching of the faith and struggling for justice. Rutilio put the preferential option for the poor at the centre of a new concept of a missionary rural ministry. His aim, Rodolfo Cardenal wrote after his death, “was to train priests who would be at the service of the people and not clerical bosses”. Rutilio was not appointed rector of the seminary. Instead, in autumn 1972 he switched to parish work in Aguilares, a community which included his birthplace. Here, with a team of Jesuits and women Religious, Rutilio began to put his ideas into practice. The overwhelming majority of the people in the community lived in the harshest poverty. The land was in the possession of a handful of wealthy owners. Grande often said in his sermons: “God is not far away in Heaven lying in a hammock; he is in our midst. For God it matters whether the poor are in distress or not.” His approach reflected the “popular theology” developed in Argentina by Lucio Gera, a distinct position within liberation theology that was also to be a strong influence on Rutilio’s fellow Jesuit, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Rutilio realised that popular piety needed to be freed from magical elements and evangelised. And by reviving the November maize festivities, he showed respect for the ancestral indigenous trad¬itions while inculturating Christian faith. But the heart of Rutilio’s pastoral approach was the base communities, in which laypeople read the Bible together in small groups. They connected the Word of God with people’s lives by following the three-step “See-Judge-Act” process associated with the Young Christian Workers. Rutilio trained men and women to be “delegates of the Word”, ¬messengers of the Word who in turn created new groups. Things began to happen. When the peasants of Aguilares saw the lives they lived in the light of the Word of God, they realised that injustice and oppression are a recurring theme in the Bible, and that, through the prophets and through Jesus, God took the side of the poor. Rutilio encouraged the peasants to organise in unions and to demand their rights to a decent life and just wages. Other priests followed this example. But the shift to a preferential option for the poor taken at Medellín was far from being accepted by the whole Church in Latin America. The landowners saw these priests as a threat to their interests, and foreign priests – and Jesuits in particular – were accused of stirring up unrest and promoting Communism. At the beginning of 1977, the first priests were tortured and expelled, among them the Colombian-bo
