Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Remembering a long-term Goanetter Valmiki Faleiro, journalist, author and more

[Nandini Sardesai]

Shocked to hear the sad news-knew him quite well -some years ago he had come to 
my residence in goa to interview my husband for a cover story for Goa Today- an 
extremely amiable man-RIP dear VALMIKI FALEIRO !

From: Goanet-News  on behalf of Frederick 
Noronha 
Sent: 06 October 2023 1:57
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Subject: [Goanet-News] Remembering a long-term Goanetter Valmiki Faleiro, 
journalist, author and more

Sorry to be the harbinger of bad news, one of our active members of Goanet
for very many years -- Valmiki Faleiro -- passed away suddenly this
afternoon (Thursday, Oct 5, 2023). This came about due to a massive heart
attack. The news came as a shock here.
Valmiki was active in the world of journalism from the 1970s, and has been
an author since 2010. His third book *Goa, 1961* was published in New Delhi
recently and was getting widely noticed. Below is a tribute from the Goa
Union of Journalists, which captures his career in some detail:

The Goa Union of Journalists (GUJ) mourns the passing away of veteran
journalist, history researcher and writer Valmiki Faleiro on Thursday.
He was 67 and is survived by his wife.
Faleiro was a staff reporter with the West Coast Times and also worked for
national publications like Current Weekly, Free Press Journal group of
publications and Indian Express.
He also contributed articles and features to various other publications
which included The Navhind Times, Goa Today, Sun Weekly, Newstrek,
Detective Digest, Mirror and Newsmag.
Faleiro’s Sunday column ‘All ‘n’ Sundry’ was very popular among readers.
Faleiro inspired many youngsters to take up journalism as a career while
nurturing their writing skills.
In 1977, Faleiro was selected for the prestigious ‘Workshop for Asian
Writers’ held at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
Faleiro was a prolific writer and history researcher. His popular books
include ’Patriotism in Action: Goans in India’s Defence Services’, Soaring
Spirit: 450 Years of Margao’s Espirito Santo Church (1565-2015) and the
latest ‘Goa, 1961: The complete story of nationalism and integration’.
He has also written chapters for ‘In Black and White: Insiders’ Stories
about the Press in Goa’.
On the civic front, Faleiro headed the Margao Municipal Council in 1985 for
two years.
The Goa Union of Journalists conveys its sincere sympathies to the Faleiro
family.

In the interview below, Faleiro talks about his books:
https://youtu.be/0q8E5skVV4o and plans for others. Including:
* Monuments of Old Goa
* Konkani Proverbs
* From Mathagram to Margao
* The History of the Konkani Language, related to proverbs
* Revised and updated version of 'Patriotism in Action'
--

FN * +91-9822122436 * 784 Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa

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Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] So, what did the Portuguese loot? (FN, The Goan)

[Nandini Sardesai]

very well-articulated!


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Subject: [Goanet-News] So, what did the Portuguese loot? (FN, The Goan)

So, what did the Portuguese loot?
---
Frederick Noronha

So, someone asked this question in cyberspace: "I genuinely
wanted to learn more about this.  I have watched a few videos
on YouTube, but they are mostly from people with agendas and
don't make sense to me as they do not validate their claims
with facts.  What did the Portuguese loot?  How did they do it?"

These days, we are getting increasingly caught up in fighting
battles over the past.  Our economy, the difficulty for our
youth to find jobs, and the crony capitalism is only getting
worse.  Together with this, the tendency to blame the past
for all our present-day ills is also getting more acute.

If things carry on this way, the average citizen might be
very reluctant to buy into this view of the past.  Two
generations after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa, at the
very least we should be able to get on and move on with life.

* * *

Most commentators here have ridiculed the chief minister's
view of the need to wipe out the Portuguese imprint on Goa.

  Many see this past as a mix of both good and
  not-so-good, even the good brought on by the
  law-of-unintended-consequences and the spillover of
  bonuses (like European nationality for Goans), plus
  the bad and the terrible.  But history is not just
  a one-way street.

Because the case against the Portuguese is being so obviously
over-stated, it is also likely that arguments favouring our
Luso rulers would be as exaggerated.

Politicians and newspaper columnists can wish what they want;
but this is unlikely to shape the outcome.  People will vote
with their feet, decide their own self-interest, and make up
their minds about what they want to claim about their own
pasts.  With or without Shivaji statues that sprout
overnight.

To see our past only in terms of "foreign invaders" who
"destroyed our religion and culture" and ruled us against our
wishes for over four-and-a-half centuries is both
over-simplistic and ahistorical.

Let's agree on one thing.

  The Portuguese were here as rulers, and they did
  not come to do social work.  This is also true of
  our other rulers, pre-1510 and post-1961.
  Including the BJP and the Congress, or for that
  matter, the regional parties when they held power.
  Their claims apart, the self-serving nature of
  politics is there for all to see.

All swear in the name of the people, but their own interests
comes first.  It may seem strange to compare rulers claiming
the justification of having a local mandate to a colonial
power (although invited to seize Goa with local accomplices).
But, it's for the people to judge how much they gained and
lost from each of these regimes.

* * *

As Children of the 1960s, we too grew up on a staple of
over-nationalistic history texts.  We were taught that
foreign rulers and were bad and that local ones were good.
Upto a point, this holds some truth.  But when we see
specific examples of local misgovernance, one can rethink
such simplistic narratives.

Writing online, the young Salesian from Mangalore, Jason
Joseph Pinto, pointed out how Portuguese colonialism was a
mixed bag for us on the west coast.  Without eulogising the
former colonial rulers, he tongue-in-cheek called for wishing
away the other side of the picture too.

  For instance, sati being abolished early on in
  Goa's history, a "Uniform Civil Code" (not exactly,
  but quite), architectural influences which have
  become part of our DNA.  Fruits from across the
  globe, a style of dress, odd forms of collaboration
  with local elites, and even protests against
  Portuguese rule...  all stem from the Luso presence
  here.

Shriniwas Khalap pointed to the Portuguese influence even on
the Marathi language.  There were Hindu influences in the
Catholic world, and influences which cut across religion.
Ruling dynasties gave way from one to another, and therein
lies another tale.

* * *

Our logic seems to be based around certain assumptions (1)
The Portuguese were rulers from afar, with another culture
and religion, and therefore hand no business to be here (2)
To have gained so much, they surely must have looted from Goa
(3) Colonisers don't rule for the benefit of some distant
folk in some other land.

All of this is true, yet the conclusions our politicians are
arriving at need not be true.

One book should be made compulsory reading for post-1961
Goans (who are almost as Lusophobic as the pre-1961 Goans
were Lusostalgic).  This is Martin Page's 'The First Global
Village: How Portugal Changed the World'.

  Let me assure you this work is not an 

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] A Legacy of Lies and Deceit (Devika Sequeira)

[Nandini Sardesai]

AGREE

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Subject: [Goanet-News] A Legacy of Lies and Deceit (Devika Sequeira)

Devika Sequeira

Earlier this month, Pramod Sawant met with the recently
appointed bishop, Fr Sebastião Mascarenhas, at Pilar to
felicitate him.  Goa had been honoured by the Catholic
priest's elevation, the chief minister said.  (Mascarenhas is
the second cleric in his family to become bishop.)

Just a year ago, the Goa BJP had notched victory in the
February 2022 election deploying a polarising campaign for
the majority Hindu vote.

  Sawant had made it plainly clear engaging with
  Salcette (which still has a concentration of
  Catholic voters in some constituencies) wasn't on
  his agenda.

  That tune has changed in the chase for the single
  Lok Sabha seat of South Goa.

The election is still a long way off in 2024.  But for a
party that has honed itself into a ruthless election fighting
machine, as the BJP's media friends love to crow about, every
seat counts.

  A win in South Goa is also important for the
  perception that the saffron party's influence and
  acceptability is growing across a diverse segment
  of voters.  Who knows, the BJP could even decide to
  unleash the currently unattached Churchill Alemao
  as its candidate.  After the Congress turncoat
  Aleixo Sequeira's backstabbing of his party, his
  voters, his God and his sworn affidavit for profit
  (the promised Cabinet seat yet to come), anything's
  possible.

Social media was littered over Christmas with photographs and
posts of BJP ministers engaging in kiss-and-hug bonhomie with
several non-BJP Catholic politicians seen to hold a personal
vote bank. The scripted outreach played out soon after the
party's CT Ravi's pit stop in Goa just before Christmas.

  Sawant, given famously to parroting the BJP line on
  Nehru and occasionally threatening to restore
  temples destroyed by the Portuguese (the implied
  target quite clear: "Christianity was forced upon
  with religious fervour by the Portuguese during the
  period of the Inquisition with wide scale
  destruction of temples...  Most of Goa's churches
  were built on the very site of former temples," the
  Goa government's website says, even as it peddles
  the 'magnificent churches' as a must see tourist
  attraction), was particularly effusive with his
  Christmas cheer.

He stepped in to lunch with Churchill and family, stopped by
for a photo-op with AAP MLAs Venzy Viegas and Cruz Silva and
had a quick hug with Aleixo under the Christmas tree.

The Rane couple, Vishvajit and Deviya, now full-fledged RSS
devotees, were tasked with personally conveying Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's Christmas greetings to Cardinal
Filipe Neri Ferrão.

Particularly intriguing was Rohan Khaunte's move to liaise
with parish priests of Saligao, Merces, Porvorim and Pilar
churches, bearing the gift of 'Modi@20: Dreams Meet
Delivery', a compilation of essays contributed by union
ministers Amit Shah, S Jaishankar, actor Anupam Kher and
Sudha Murthy, among others.

The book "attempts a definitive and expansive exploration
into the fundamental transformation of Gujarat and India over
the last twenty years due to Modi's unique model of
governance", said its publishers, Rupa.

At its launch in May last year, Shah said 'Modi@20' would
"rise to become the equivalent to Gita for those who believe
in the path of building a complete persona".

  Another neo-convert to the Sangh (or possibly a
  longtime closet one), Khaunte reasoned probably
  that Catholic priests in particular merited an
  education on the "complete persona" of the prime
  minister and his stellar and unique model of
  governance.

It was under Modi's watch that the 84-year-old Jesuit priest
and tribal rights activist Father Stan Swamy was incarcerated
and charged under the severe Unlawful Activities (Prevention)
Act, 1967 with 15 other human rights activists for an
"anti-national conspiracy" in the Bhima Koregao case.

The terminally ill-priest, denied even a sipper by the jail
authorities when his condition deteriorated, died on July 5,
2021.

In a statement after his death, the United States Commission
on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urged the US
government "to hold the Indian government accountable and to
raise religious freedom concerns in the US-India bilateral
relationship".

More recently, The Washington Post reported, "For months,
Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, claimed his
innocence in courts and pleaded for medical care, but Indian
authorities denied him bail. He died at a hospital in July
2021 after spending more than eight months in 

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] 'Forced' conversions... and all that jazz (FN)

[Nandini Sardesai]

well written!

From: Goanet-News  on behalf of Goanet 
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Subject: [Goanet-News] 'Forced' conversions... and all that jazz (FN)

Frederick Noronha

When the history of intolerance-filled (or religious
supremacist) politics gets to be written, a special chapter
would be needed for the misuse of language.  Words and terms
which we are familiar with have been warped, changed and
distorted, so as to give credence to a brand of politics
which is actually unjustifiable.

  If you don't like the concept of secularism, just
  call it 'pseudo-secularism' and simply discredit
  it.  On the other hand, if you wish to justify
  discrimination, lambast "minority appeasement".  In
  the "conversions" debate, some conversions are more
  equal, because they are simply "re-conversions".
  So, the list goes on.

The other day, the online space was debating "conversions" in
Goa, and the controversies raked up by the State (and some
obviously ruling-party supporters) over this.  In particular,
there was this televised debate, involving five participants.
Among these were a priest, a lawyer, a BJP politician, and a
couple others.

By the end of the discussion, the conclusion almost everyone
seemed ready to accept was that conversions are fine, but
forced conversions are not.

Sounds logical, right?  Who in their right mind can even
justify any form of "forced" conversions?  But if we thought
this made sense, we probably need to delve a little deeper
into the debate.

Well, read on

Starting in 1967, various States have passed "Freedom of
Religion" laws.  First came Orissa in 1967, followed by MP in
1968, and Arunahcal in 1978.  Then, after a lull,
Chhattisgarh passed its own laws in 2000 and 2006, Gujarat in
2003, Madhya Pradesh in 2006, Himachal in 2007, and Rajashtan
in 2008.

But seeing the issue in terms of "forced conversions" misses
the largest elephant in the room.  The BJP spokesperson at
the televised discussion, as one could expect, focussed on
"forced conversions".

It is interesting to see how this concept is treated by the
laws of different States in the country.  Under the
definition of various laws, the concept of "forced"
conversions is definitely controversial.

(Surprising though it may seem, at least one such law was
passed even by a Congress government in Himachal Pradesh in
2007. Every party has its communal side. Maybe some are just
less consistently communal, or cather to a wider range of
sectarianism over a longer period.)

Back to the definition of "forced conversions". What does
this really mean?

For instance, in some States where the law was passed,
"forced conversions" would include: (i) misrepresentation,
undue influence, and a change of religion brought on by
marriage.  Supposing I believe that a Heaven exists outside
our world, and I go around preaching thus.  Or I run an
efficient English-medium school and offer admission to
someone...  couldn't these be covered (under the Himachal
Pradesh law) and seen as cause for "forced conversions"?

Under some laws' definitions, it also says that (ii)
conversion is prohibited when undertaken by "force, fraud,
inducement and allurement".  What do these terms mean?  Has
anyone asked?

"Divine displeasure" has been treated as force.  So what if
you believe about "divine displeasure" against someone
practising bigamy, for instance.  Or for suggesting "divine
displeasure" against those committing "mortal sins".

Anyone's promotion of the existence of Paradise could be
treated (if the authorities so chose) as fraud; after all the
geographical address of the same is still to be determined,
someone might argue.

If you offer someone treatment in a hospital that you run
(and your beliefs push you towards doing social work, though
someone else might see these motives as entirely suspect),
would that not be treated as a form of inducement and
allurement?

It is also true that most of these cases are impossible to be
proven in the court of law.  After some time, the accused
might get acquitted.  But then, that's the entire point.  By
having such laws on the statute book, we are ensuring that
everyone would be afraid to practise what they believe in, in
the first place itself.

Then, check this out: The term “force” is defined in all the
Acts more or less as “a threat of injury of any kind
including the threat of divine displeasure or social
ex-communication.”

Keep in mind that monotheistic religions  believe in the
existence of one true god.  This does not make them less
tolerant, or necessarily mean that polytheistic religions are
more tolerant, as the former BJP leader Advaniji has
suggested on a number of occasions.  Any preaching of one's
own religion could be treated as a form of "divine
displeasure".

Then too, what does "inducement" refer to?  In some of the
State acts it means "the offer of any gratification, either

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] In Goa, Congress yukt (containing) BJP takes guard (Pamela DMello, Deccan Herald)

[Nandini Sardesai]

agree

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News 
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Subject: [Goanet-News] In Goa, Congress yukt (containing) BJP takes guard 
(Pamela DMello, Deccan Herald)

Only two ministers, Pramod Sawant and Nilesh Cabral, are from the original
BJP
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/in-goa-congress-yukt-bjp-takes-guard-1095672.html

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[Goanet] Fw: The Church and the BJP

[Nandini Sardesai]

a matter of concern..share...



https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/india-news-church-in-india-cosying-up-to-bjp-to-protect-its-interests/305252

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] “I have been obsessed with death, since I was a child” (Pamela D'Mello, GoaJournal.in)

[Nandini Sardesai]

Please inform:How do I get the book?


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Subject: [Goanet-News] “I have been obsessed with death, since I was a child” 
(Pamela D'Mello, GoaJournal.in)

BOOKS
“I have been obsessed with death since I was a child”

BINA NAYAK — a graphic designer in the Mumbai advertising world, creative
director of Goa-based ad-agency Slip Disc, and co-founder of the “Battle of
the Bands” live rock band competition, that ran for fifteen years in North
Goa  —- tells Goa Journal the intriguing backstories and inspirations
behind her debut novel Starfish Pickle.

Not for the faint-hearted, the novel follows the fictional, strong-willed,
but troubled, commercial diver, Tara Salgaonkar, as she negotiates career,
relationships and cross-cultural fateful encounters across the hippie and
 Rave party cultures that germinated in a traditional and conservative Goa
of the nineties.



Q. Can you tell us what was the inspiration/motivation for writing Starfish
Pickle.

I have always loved reading and writing. But my love for and my prowess in
drawing superseded my love for writing. I joined JJ School of Art and then
the advertising industry in Bombay in 1991 (it was Bombay then). From my
very first job, I dabbled in copywriting while designing my ads. I was
quite aghast to observe that most Copywriters in advertising had very low
regard for Art directors from JJ, with one famous Creative Director of the
90’s going on record saying the art directors don’t even know how to read
or write ABCD! Maybe too many of them had chopped off his copy to fit into
a design, without reading it. So I definitely didn’t want to be typecast as
one of ‘those’ Art Directors, and I also did not take too kindly to this
sweeping generalisation that people who take to Art do/did so because they
weren’t good at anything else. I was aware that Arun Kolhatkar — a
much-celebrated bilingual (English & Marathi) poet, was also a graphic
designer from JJ. This was my motivation.

My inspiration was Arundhati Roy and her book — God of Small Things. I have
followed Arundhati’s work since ‘In which Annie gives it those ones’ and
her scriptwriting days. She is an architect by training. She made me
realise that one does not need to be a literature student or a creative
writing/liberal arts student in order to write.

Illustration by Bina Nayak

Q. First/debut fiction novels have a strong element of the autobiographical
in some cases. Is that true for Starfish Pickle?

Oh, certainly. While the convoluted situations and drama are imaginary, the
style of dialogue, the characterisations are from real life. The Goa you
see is my experience of Goa. The trials and tribulations at work are my
experiences — just in a different work sphere.

Q.One of the most striking themes in the novel is its setting in the Goa
Trance music and Rave party scene of the 1990s and 2000s. By writing in two
Psytrance musicians as important characters in the book, you’ve put the
spotlight on this era and almost humanized what was a furtive, underground
culture. What was your thought process in doing this?

I see a similarity in trance/rave parties (the original ones of the early
1990s) and many of the pagan  traditions still practised in Goan villages
(like the all-night Zagors) the firewalking that happens during zatras. The
collective hysteria is similar to a Rave. Getting into a trance state (with
or without the aid of psychedelics, alcohol) and channelling ‘God’ or
‘Devi’ is common. It’s just that the majority of us have now accepted an
aryanised version of Hinduism, and our gods have become light-skinned and
genteel. We were Vetal worshippers, lest we forget.

I wanted to show the similarities between a zatra (a religiously sanctioned
Rave!) and a Rave party.

When I first attended a rave party with some Mumbai friends, we were all
shocked and intrigued at the Shiva and Hindu imagery all around. The hippie
trail oscillated between Goa and Himachal, and the fascination for Indian
Gods was something that always struck me.

Similarly, tribal and poorer Goans didn’t have a problem with the hippies
or the early ravers — they sold tea and snacks at their Raves! It was the
upper castes and classes who were judgmental.

Q. The novel has a Goan Hindu girl (albeit big-city-bred and consequently
cosmopolitan) drawn to the Rave party scene and details her experience.
Maybe not in the Pan-Indian context, but in the Goan context, that’s
groundbreaking. Maybe not so much post-2010, when Electronic Dance Music
became mainstream and EDM festivals run packed and have the odd unfortunate
substance-related tragedy.

As I had mentioned earlier, the average Hindu girl in Goa is more
suppressed and brought up more conservatively than the average Catholic
girl. From the parents’ point of view, the main focus in educating her is
to get her a 

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] The fall of the EC's office : Ex-CEC's nomination by PM Modi as Goa Governor bodes ill for democracy (Julio Ribeiro, The Tribune)

[Nandini Sardesai]

shameful!!


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Modi as Goa Governor bodes ill for democracy (Julio Ribeiro, The Tribune)

The fall of the EC's office
Ex-CEC's nomination by PM Modi as Goa Governor bodes ill for democracy

Updated At: Apr 30, 2021 10:33 AM (IST)

Quid Pro Quo: Sunil Arora
accommodated the BJP's wish for
an eight-phase election process
in Bengal, unprecedented in the
annals of any state's electoral
history.  PTI

Julio Ribeiro

The land of my forefathers has a new Governor. Three days
after he laid down the office of Chief Election Commissioner
(CEC), Sunil Arora, formerly of the IAS, was nominated by PM
Modi as the Governor of Goa.  He will occupy Raj Bhavan,
which in the Portuguese colonial era was known as the
‘Palacio Do Cabo'.

  Some members of the Constitutional Conduct Group
  (CCG), consisting of retired IAS, IFS, IPS and
  Central services officers, had anticipated that
  Arora would be rewarded by the Modi-Shah duo for
  subtly helping the BJP in its quest for an
  Opposition-free Bharat.  In the beginning the goal
  was 'Congress-mukt', but now the goalposts have
  expanded to include the scalps of ‘Didi-Oh-Didi'
  and others.

I remember Modi as CM of Gujarat, deprecating justice and
fairplay by consistently reciting the full name of the then
CEC, James Michael Lyngdoh, an outstanding IAS officer
hailing from Meghalaya, to emphasise that a Christian officer
could not be trusted to accommodate the political or
electoral needs of the BJP.  Lyngdoh's sin was that he turned
down Modi's party's request to fix election dates that suited
it.

Arora, on the other hand, has been very kind to the BJP.  He
had accommodated the party's wish for an eight-phase election
process in Bengal, unprecedented in the annals of Bengal's
electoral history or the history of any other state of the
union!  An equally big state like Tamil Nadu completed its
polling in one day!  But in TN, the BJP did not expect to
replace the local Dravidian parties, like it thinks it can
oust the regional Bengali party of Mamata Banerjee.

The message is loud and clear.  Any all-India service officer
who aspires for post-retirement honours should adjust to
party requirements, even if in the course of doing so, he or
she assists in the weakening of an institution of governance
or, worse, its eventual destruction.  The Election Commission
was a proudly independent institution.  It celebrated the
reign of democracy in our ancient land.  Alas, not anymore.
Our own colleagues have ensured its slow death.

The CCG had, in 2019, after the elections to the Lok Sabha,
deprecated in an open letter the fact that Sunil Arora had
not applied equal yardsticks in upholding the code of
conduct, based on agreed principles, to the party then in
power, as it had applied to the Opposition.

Modi and Amit Shah had got off lightly when they made
provocative, highly communal speeches or references, whereas
their opponents were arraigned for smaller defaults.  In an
interview, the CEC mentioned that he was ‘sad' that I, Julio
Ribeiro, had endorsed that protest without commenting on the
correctness or otherwise of the protest letter!

Arora should now acknowledge that I was justified in signing
CCG's letter.  If he had any dignity or self-respect, he
would have advised Modi to tarry a while before exposing his
partiality to the world at large.  It is imperative that a
law be introduced, prohibiting members of constitutionally
consecrated bodies, like the judiciary, CEC and CBI, from
being appointed to any post-retirement sinecures.

Even the nomination of Ranjan Gogoi, the retired Chief
Justice of India, as an MP in the Rajya Sabha, after he
demitted the high office, was clearly an attempt to weaken
the institution of the judiciary's highest body.

The subtle use of patronage to break institutions that
provide checks and balances is extremely disturbing.  The
Congress had tinkered with the process in its time.  The
‘party with a difference' has gone all out to prove that it
is no different!  The Congress was bad enough, but the BJP
has honed its skills in influencing, or worse, controlling
regulatory institutions, like the CBI, ED, NIA and NCB, into
a fine art.

But allow me to turn from my rantings to something more
positive.  Goa was the land where my ancestors settled many,
many centuries ago.  They came with the sage Parshuram.  In
1540, the Portuguese sailed up the Mandovi river in three
galleys and ousted the Muslim ruler, Adil Khan.  That victory
pleased the natives, but the conqueror's decision to stay on
did not.  The Christianisation of the Goa Islands followed,
but two hundred or so years later, the process slowed down
when the Marquis of Pombal, an anti-cleric, took 

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Goans in cricket (worldwide)

[Nandini Sardesai]

made a correction yesterday, you have not incorporated it!!!


From: Goanet-News  on behalf of Frederick 
Noronha 
Sent: 29 January 2021 10:56
To: Goanet 
Subject: [Goanet-News] Goans in cricket (worldwide)

If your interest is cricket, please help to improve this page:

Goans in cricket

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Contents

1Cricketers of Goan origin who have played Test cricket
2Cricketers of Goan origin who have played international cricket
3Goan cricketers for India in age-group tournaments
4Goa Ranji Cricket Team
5References

Cricketers of Goan origin who have played Test cricket[edit source]

Wallis Mathias for Pakistan in 1955
Antao D'Souza for Pakistan in 1959
Dilip Sardesai for India in 1961
Paras Mhambrey for India in 1996

Cricketers of Goan origin who have played international cricket[edit source]

Jack Britto for Malawi from 1954 onwards
Alban Fernandes for Tanzania
Armand "Chic" Saldanha for Tanzania (was the 12th man)
Michael D'Sa for Uganda
Peter D'Souza for East Africa
Charlie D'Souza for East Africa
Lawrence Fernandes for East Africa
John "Chuck" Sequeira for Uganda
Lawrence Barretto for Uganda
Lawrence Dias for Uganda
Blaise DaCunha for Kenya
Celly Dias for Uganda
Edwin Fonseca for Uganda

Goan cricketers for India in age-group tournaments[edit source]

Saurabh Bandekar - India U-19

Goa Ranji Cricket Team[edit source]

Goa cricket team

References[edit source]

Cricinfo
Sporty Goans
Cricket Archive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goans_in_cricket
Thanks to an online discussion for pointing to this link. FN
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Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Goans in cricket (worldwide)

[Nandini Sardesai]

You have made an error-DILIP SARDESAI IS THE ONLY Goan to have played for India 
in Test cricket for 10 years-born and brought up in Margao-

Played Ranji trophy for Bombay for 13 years-( there was no team from Goa in 
Ranji trophy till recently)-
please recheck re Paras Mhambrey!!

From: Goanet-News  on behalf of Frederick 
Noronha 
Sent: 29 January 2021 10:56
To: Goanet 
Subject: [Goanet-News] Goans in cricket (worldwide)

If your interest is cricket, please help to improve this page:

Goans in cricket

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Contents

1Cricketers of Goan origin who have played Test cricket
2Cricketers of Goan origin who have played international cricket
3Goan cricketers for India in age-group tournaments
4Goa Ranji Cricket Team
5References

Cricketers of Goan origin who have played Test cricket[edit source]

Wallis Mathias for Pakistan in 1955
Antao D'Souza for Pakistan in 1959
Dilip Sardesai for India in 1961
Paras Mhambrey for India in 1996

Cricketers of Goan origin who have played international cricket[edit source]

Jack Britto for Malawi from 1954 onwards
Alban Fernandes for Tanzania
Armand "Chic" Saldanha for Tanzania (was the 12th man)
Michael D'Sa for Uganda
Peter D'Souza for East Africa
Charlie D'Souza for East Africa
Lawrence Fernandes for East Africa
John "Chuck" Sequeira for Uganda
Lawrence Barretto for Uganda
Lawrence Dias for Uganda
Blaise DaCunha for Kenya
Celly Dias for Uganda
Edwin Fonseca for Uganda

Goan cricketers for India in age-group tournaments[edit source]

Saurabh Bandekar - India U-19

Goa Ranji Cricket Team[edit source]

Goa cricket team

References[edit source]

Cricinfo
Sporty Goans
Cricket Archive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goans_in_cricket
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Re: [Goanet] A South Asian in the West Wing? (Dhaka Tribune, 13/8/2020)

[Nandini Sardesai]

 Vivek-As usual a well analysed article though i agree with one of your 
respondents that she cannot be called just South Asian-she is Indo African-
The fact is both her parents were activists-also the fact that she was brought 
up by a single mother who influenced her in her growing years( on the lighter 
side, her fondness for dosas and she is quite a chef)-what a remarkable woman 
with awesome achievements!-for me the impressive facet is that she is liberal, 
a human rights advocate and an ANTI BHAKT!! Hope the Americans make a sensible 
choice!!


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History in the making in American politics, as Joe Biden – the Democrat 
favoured to win this year’s Presidential election – selected Kamala Harris as 
his running mate.

Their combination sparks instant electricity and drew an immediate global 
spotlight, quite like what Biden experienced as Vice President under Barack 
Obama. One reason is sheer stakes: the world knows it cannot afford another 
four devastatingly incompetent years of Donald Trump.

But it’s also Harris, who she is and what she stands for. The daughter of 
immigrants from Jamaica and India, she maintains (and proudly communicates) 
strong ties to both countries of her parents. Also, via the USA’s unscientific 
and infuriating, yet inescapable, “racial” calculus, she’s the first “woman of 
colour” major party candidate for that country’s highest offices.

All this assumes huge significance because Biden is 77, and has reportedly 
already told his aides he will only serve one term.

That means, in the way American politics lines itself up, a part-Hindu, 
part-Christian (she’s married to a Jewish man), “Black” Jamaican-Caribbean 
Tamilian Brahmin Californian-American woman now has the inside track to the 
“most powerful office in the world.”

Wild? Not when you consider that Harris comes from two of the most successful 
immigrant communities in American - and indeed world - history.

There are 3 million Jamaicans in Jamaica, but almost the equivalent number 
lives in diaspora (over a million in the US alone). Sons and daughters of the 
island have always been in the vanguard of the civil rights movement, from 
Marcus Garvey to Harry Belafonte. It’s important to remember that, just two 
decades ago, Colin Powell was the most popular political figure in America, 
though he declined to run for President (his wife feared he’d be assassinated).

Donald Harris, the father of Kamala and her younger sister Maya, was divorced 
from Shyamala Gopalan when their daughters were young. Yet, this Stanford 
economic professor (he is a rare Marxist in the highest levels of US academe) 
often took his daughters to visit his family, he writes, to “memba whe yu cum 
fram."

In an essay entitled Reflections of a Jamaican Father, Harris writes, “my 
message to them, from the lessons I had learned along the way, was that the sky 
is the limit on what one can achieve with effort and determination and that, in 
this process, it is important not to lose sight of those who get left behind by 
social neglect or abuse and lack of access to resources or ‘privilege’; also 
not to get ‘swell-headed’ and that it is important to ‘give back’ with service 
to some greater cause than oneself.”

Those “home truths” were considerably reinforced by Kamala and her sister’s 
evidently remarkable mother Shyamalan Gopalan, and her family.

Since the nomination of Harris earlier this week, some reactions have revelled 
in vulgar triumphalism because her mother was an Iyer Tamilian Brahmin (a set 
of sub-castes short-handed as Tam-Brahms). And it is a fact this relatively 
minuscule community has accumulated vastly disproportionate achievements, 
including three Nobel Prize winners and a World Chess Champion.

But the actions of the Gopalans embody the rejection of caste orthodoxy. 
Shyamalan Gopalan was unquestioningly supported when she chose to study in 
California, to marry (and then divorce) a Jamaican man of African-Caribbean 
heritage, and raise her daughters amidst the onerous strictures of “Black” 
America. Her sisters and brother (he married a Mexican) also blazed their own 
trails, to an extent unusual even today.

South Asians are going to have to grapple and come to terms with these 
complexities, and hopefully learn from them.

The poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote aptly referenced Satyajit Ray’s 
1984 classic movie, when he commented on Twitter this week, 

[Goanet] Fw: From the Washington Post today

[Nandini Sardesai]

From: Elijah Elias 
Sent: 02 June 2020 14:41
Subject: From the Washington Post today

In India, the pandemic is cover for Modi’s war on 
journalists

Opinion ●  By Jason Rezaian ●  Read more 
»

[Goanet] Fw: The south India model: What north India could learn about governance and citizenship by Sagarika Ghose

[Nandini Sardesai]

From: Office Of Rajdeep Sardesai 
Sent: 25 May 2020 13:02
Subject: The south India model: What north India could learn about governance 
and citizenship by Sagarika Ghose

In coronavirus times, what Kerala thinks today, India should think
tomorrow. Kerala has over 800 Covid cases, yet so far only 4 have
died. Mortality in other states is far higher. For example Gujarat,
with one of the highest mortality rates in India is reporting over 80
deaths with over 13,000 cases. Kerala was once derided for its failure
to create jobs, for the “killing fields” of Kannur. Uttar Pradesh
chief minister Yogi Adityanath mocked Kerala’s healthcare record and
Prime Minister Narendra Modi described infant mortality among Kerala
adivasis as worse than Somalia. But today the internationally
acclaimed Kerala model has delivered better than the trumpeted Gujarat
model. read full article

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/bloody-mary/the-south-india-model-what-north-india-could-learn-about-governance-and-citizenship/

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[Goanet] Fw: Which is also why.. as Sagarika Ghose writes here .. it is maybe time to seek forgiveness of Jamlo Makdam and millions like her for what has been a monumental collective failure..

[Nandini Sardesai]

impossible to wrap one's mind around scale of human misery!
how can the government be so insensitive!


From: Sagarika Ghose 
Sent: 17 May 2020 11:40
Subject: Which is also why.. as Sagarika Ghose writes here.. it is maybe time 
to seek forgiveness of Jamlo Makdam and millions like her for what has been a 
monumental collective failure..

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/bloody-mary/a-letter-of-apology-to-the-migrants-who-made-our-homes-highways/


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Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] In new BJP, a social recalibration in the making (Devika Sequeira, Herald)

[Nandini Sardesai]

very well written..


From: Goanet-News  on behalf of Goanet 
Reader 
Sent: 19 August 2019 10:52
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! 
Subject: [Goanet-News] In new BJP, a social recalibration in the making (Devika 
Sequeira, Herald)

In new BJP, a social recalibration in the making

Devika Sequeira
devikaseque...@gmail.com

Herald on August 18, 2019

Two photographs of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant stand out:
the first, taken in his first term as MLA, shows him in RSS
fatigues, dhanda on shoulder, posing before a jeep carrying
portraits of the founders of the RSS and VHP with Shivaji in
the centre.

  That photograph went viral after Sawant became
  chief minister, shared frenetically by cheering
  saffron trolls on Twitter.  Shivaji's prominence
  alongside Hedgewar and Golwalkar in that Sangh
  event (probably in Sawant's constituency) is
  significant in the context of the caste-based
  (Shivaji was a Maratha) political moves by the
  current chief minister, but more of that later.

As Manohar Parrikar struggled with the last days of his
cancer and Vijai Sardesai sought amusement in the garish
carnival, Pramod Sawant, the then Speaker of the Goa assembly
-- a position that requires at least a pretence of neutrality
if not actual lack of bias -- was marching through the
streets of Panjim in Sangh gear.

At the Azad Maidan he solemnly took the RSS salute.  The
event took place on March 3 this year, a fortnight before the
former chief minister Parrikar passed away.  A photographer
friend was dutiful and intrigued enough to take several
pictures.

In the cacophony of the carnival, the significance of
Sawant's right-wing play went largely unnoticed in the media.
Thanks to his staunch loyalty to the Sangh, the MLA of
Sanquelim was perhaps prescient about the events to follow.

  On March 19, he became chief minister of Goa.  The
  second photograph was taken the day Pramod Sawant
  occupied the chief minister's office.  On the chair
  next to him sat a portrait of Parrikar, to whom, he
  said, he owed his political all, though his actions
  to "recaste" his mentor's legacy and openly embrace
  defectors has been seen as a betrayal by many of
  the former chief minister’s supporters, not least
  among them, Parrikar's son Utpal.

Politically inexperienced for the high office -- he'd not
even been a minister before -- Sawant has proved a quick
learner on the job.

After procuring a super majority with the 10 Congress
turncoats, he first turned his gaze inwards, strategically
prising out key players and advisors from Manohar Parrikar's
time, the most prominent among them, the additional solicitor
general Atmaram Nadkarni.

In Goa, Nadkarni powered backroom politics to such an extent
that his exit was seen as something of a coup for the new CM.

A half dozen other heads -- Rajendra Talak, Santosh Kenkre to
name two -- rolled as well.  The developments convulsed a
section of the BJP's -- rather Parrikar's -- core supporters
among the Saraswats who are still seething in resentment.
The new leader after all was expected to be but a soft
acolyte of the former defence minister.

  Those who see the upending of the old social order
  in the new BJP as mere payback for upper-caste
  domination under Parrikar, are missing the point.
  This is as much a social recalibration as it is a
  silent but determined bid for total power within.
  And currently it rests in the hands of two
  individuals: Sawant and Satish Dhond, the BJP's
  invisible man.  With the calculated inclusion of
  Babush Monserrate, from the Panjim constituency no
  less, Utpal Parrikar has been thrown under the bus,
  at least for now.  Within the BJP's Hindu-Sangh
  formula, he alone would have posed a leadership
  challenge to Sawant if it came to that.

The Congress might learn a few uncomfortable facts were it to
revisit the political moves before the Panjim by-election.

Did Monserrate approach the Congress merely because he knew
that that was his best platform to win the seat?  Or did he
approach the party after he'd already done a crossover deal
with Dhond and Sawant?  Exposing political deception of this
level is important, at least for the sake of voters who are
being taken for a ride election after election.

  Whatever his flaws, Manohar Parrikar spent years
  building and shaping the BJP narrative in Goa, to
  the extent the party came to be completely
  associated with him.  Sawant got to the top with no
  achievement to speak of, except his ties to the RSS
  and the cruel (not for him though) twist of fate
  that catapulted him there.  The flattery that
  gushed out in the assembly for a bogus award 

Re: [Goanet] Fw: Goa, Gone with the Wind by Rajdeep Sardesai

[Nandini Sardesai]

is this sarcasm ?? or the stark reality?


From: Gilbert Lawrence 
Sent: 20 July 2019 2:27
To: Nandini Sardesai ; To: Goanet Reader 
; Joseph Rebello ; Goanet 
; Goanet News 
Subject: [Goanet] Fw: Goa, Gone with the Wind by Rajdeep Sardesai

From: Office Of Rajdeep Sardesai 
Sent: 19 July 2019 12:49
Subject: Goa, Gone with the Wind by Rajdeep Sardesai




We Goans are often unfairly lampooned as happy go lucky, alcohol swigging, 
siesta loving, beach bums.  My late father remains the only Goa born Goan 
cricketer to play for India, enough reason I guess for me to qualify as an 
?honorary? Goan. If you still believe that 'we' Goans are carefree and relaxed 
in our idyllic 'susegado' derived from the Portuguese word 'sossegado') 
lifestyle, then you just have to meet our politicians: the contrast between the 
natural beauty of Goa and the coarse ugliness of its politics could not be more 
stark. read more.
---

GL responds:

For a minuet I thought you were drawing a contrast between the sussegad people 
of Goa and the swift-hyperactive politicians of Goa that are skilled at 
twirling on a dime (literary and figuratively).

I have to give credit to Goa's young Chief Minister who is a novice at his 
post.  But as a Goan he may have it in his genes.  The CM is doing a great job 
of orchestrating the 35 odd chameleons; out-smarting the old Congresswallas who 
invented the dance - used to be called "Doing the Charan Singh."  Frankly the 
new CM displays a smoother choreographed performance than his mentor the late 
CM.

Regards, GL

[Goanet] Fw: Goa, Gone with the Wind by Rajdeep Sardesai

[Nandini Sardesai]

sharing-please share..


From: Office Of Rajdeep Sardesai 
Sent: 19 July 2019 12:49
Subject: Goa, Gone with the Wind by Rajdeep Sardesai

We Goans are often unfairly lampooned as happy go lucky, alcohol swigging, 
siesta loving, beach bums. I use the word 'we' cautiously since I truly haven¹t 
spent enough time in Goa nor can I speak fluent Konkani. But my late father 
remains the only Goa born Goan cricketer to play for India, enough reason I 
guess for me to qualify as an ‘honorary’ Goan. If you still believe that 'we' 
Goans are carefree and relaxed in our idyllic 'susegado' derived from the 
Portuguese word 'sossegado') lifestyle, then you just have to meet our 
politicians: the contrast between the natural beauty of Goa and the coarse 
ugliness of its politics could not be more stark. read more

https://www.rajdeepsardesai.net/columns/goa-gone-wind

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Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] POLITICS: Goa's Voters Lose as BJP Deliberately Misreads Anti-Defection Law (Devika Sequeira, TheWire.in)

[Nandini Sardesai]

more catholics in BJP?-implies endorsing the hindutva ideology!-how do the 
catholics and the church view this? betrayal of the faith?!
besides the regular supporters of BJP are shaken ! -some more upheavals...
wither goan politics?!


From: Goanet-News  on behalf of Goanet 
Reader 
Sent: 14 July 2019 0:20
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!
Subject: [Goanet-News] POLITICS: Goa's Voters Lose as BJP Deliberately Misreads 
Anti-Defection Law (Devika Sequeira, TheWire.in)

Goa's Voters Lose as BJP Deliberately Misreads Anti-Defection Law

  Considering the Pramod Sawant-led coalition
  government was under no threat, the BJP's gleeful
  embrace of the turncoats has also shaken the
  saffron party's core supporters in the state.
  Goa's Voters Lose as BJP Deliberately Misreads
  Anti-Defection Law

PHOTO: BJP working president J.P.  Nadda with Goa chief
minister Pramod Sawant and other Goa Congress rebel MLAs in
New Delhi on July 11, 2019.  Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore

Devika Sequeira
devikaseque...@gmail.com
16 hours ago

Panaji, (Goa): The defection of 10 Congress MLAs to the BJP
in Goa has not only plunged the already embattled national
party into its worst crisis in the state in recent years but
has also shaken the saffron party's core supporters, who have
been left astounded by the BJP national leadership's gleeful
embrace of the turncoats.

Three of the defectors will now be accommodated as ministers
in the state government -- a far cry from the legal
requirement that all of them be disqualified for switching
loyalties.

The Congress, which won 17 seats in the 2017 assembly
election and was actually the single largest party -- the BJP
managed to win only 13 seats -- is now left with just five
MLAs.

  The BJP rank and file's disapproval is
  understandable -- after all, the Pramod Sawant-led
  coalition government in Goa was under no threat.
  Four short of a majority on its own (17 in a house
  of 40) till Wednesday's events, six members from
  the Goa Forward Party and independents had helped
  the BJP cruise comfortably through half the term.
  Modi's overwhelming victory in May had also ensured
  the allies stayed on.

"I don't know why they had to do it.  I don't see the reason.
We already had a majority with the support of GFP and
independents," Nilesh Cabral, one of BJP's more vocal
ministers, said.

Goa Forward Party had been the BJP's "most dependable ally",
the regional party's leader Vijai Sardesai, reminded the BJP.

But none of that will matter now that the saffron party has
gained a bloated majority of 27 overnight.

Sardesai, who scaled the ladder to the deputy chief minister
position under the coalition deal, and three other ministers
will likely be eased out in the cabinet reshuffle on Saturday
to make way for the Congress defectors and deputy speaker
Michael Lobo -- credited with the Goa BJP's "surgical strike
on the Congress".

Out in the cold, Sardesai's comeuppance for his betrayal of
the secular cause when he supported the BJP rather than the
Congress after the 2017 assembly election result is the only
silver lining in the latest political mauling in Goa, an AAP
member told The Wire.

  "The BJP has gained MLAs but lost trust," Giriraj
  Pai Vernekar, a former aide of Manohar Parrikar,
  lamented.  Parrikar's son, Utpal, too lashed out at
  the "new leadership" for its opportunistic
  politics, adding that commitment and trust in the
  Goa BJP had died with his father.

In the eyes of many in the state, the BJP's claim to occupy
higher moral ground is hypocrisy at best.  In this term
alone, under Parrikar, the party rewarded former Congress
chief minister Pratapsingh Rane's son Vishvajit with a
cabinet post for defecting from the Congress.  In October
last year, two more Congress MLAs were lured away to
cynically bring down the numbers in the Goa assembly to keep
the government from going under.

Just a few days after Parrikar's death, two MLAs from the
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (two-thirds of the MGP's three
MLAs) were spirited away to the Raj Bhavan in the dead of
night to be sworn in as ministers after turning saffron.

The new BJP legislature party currently has more "Congress
MLAs" (16 out of 27) than dyed-in-the-wool saffronites.  And
more Catholic MLAs than Hindus -- to highlight an
uncomfortable detail for a party championing the Hindu
rashtra cause.

  For all their venting on social media over the
  debasement of the BJP's "culture and principles",
  by the entry of the Congress turncoats -- "vile
  scum" is how one bhakt described some of them --
  BJP voters are expected to line up and
  unquestioningly endorse the lotus symbol,
  irrespective of the candidate.

They did so in the May by-election when both 

[Goanet] Fw: BBC News: WhatsApp: The 'black hole' of fake news in India's election

[Nandini Sardesai]

From: Elijah Elias 
Sent: 06 April 2019 19:20
Subject: BBC News: WhatsApp: The 'black hole' of fake news in India's election


I saw this on the BBC News App and thought you should see it:

WhatsApp: The 'black hole' of fake news in India's 
election[https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/moira/img/ios/v3/1024/cpsprodpb/12EA9/production/_106318477_rtr4ckjl.jpg]
Misinformation spreads like wildfire on the messaging app - but no-one knows 
how bad it really is.
Disclaimer: The BBC is not responsible for the content of this email, and 
anything written in this email does not necessarily reflect the BBC's views or 
opinions. Please note that neither the email address nor name of the sender 
have been verified.

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] The Pinto Conspiracy, led by Goncalves and Couto (Marcos Catao)

[Nandini Sardesai]

very interesting-

From: Goanet-News  on behalf of Goanet 
Reader 
Sent: 08 December 2018 19:15
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!
Subject: [Goanet-News] The Pinto Conspiracy, led by Goncalves and Couto (Marcos 
Catao)

The Pinto Conspiracy, led by Goncalves and Couto

Marcos Catao
cata...@yahoo.com

For those not conversant with even the barest details of the
CONJURAÇÃO dos PINTOS (the Pinto Conspiracy), this was a
conspiracy conceived by a group of Goan military officers and
men, together with several clergymen, to get rid of the
Portuguese from Goa. The plan was for the action to start on
10th August 1777. But, on the morning of the 6th, a certain
Antonio Eugenio Toscano, clerk at the Comunidade de Aldona,
appeared before the Governor spilled the beans, giving him
full details of the plot.

The Governor did not pay heed to the news thinking it a
laughable absurdity, probably occasioned by personal
animosity. But, in the evening of the same day, a high
ranking officer of the Legiao de Bardez came to the Governor
bringing along a junior officer to confirm the story. While
the Governor was still mulling over the matter, the following
morning he received from the Archbishop the summary of a
sworn deposition by three clerics, attesting to the same.

  There was thus little doubt that there was
  something afoot. My matenal granduncle, Lt. Manoel
  Caetano Pinto, was a key conspirator.

The Governor issued immediate orders for the apprehension of
the culprits. The first to be apprehended was Fr. Caetano
Francisco do Couto in Piedade. The apprehension of the others
followed.

After being tried, all the military personnel underwent the
same execution process as Manoel Caetano Pinto. On the
appointed day of the execution, Manoel Caetano's feet were
tied to a horse's tail and the horse was taken all over the
city of Old Goa until arriving at the site of the execution,
where his hands were cut off and then he was hanged. After
death, he was decapitated and the rest of the body quartered.
The hand and body parts were then mounted on swords and taken
by horsemen to the district capitals and villages of origin
of the culprits. There they were impaled on wooden poles for
the populace to see what happens to those that try to rise
up. All the fifteen clergymen were spared their lives and
sent into exile. Some of those were pardoned in later years
and returned home.

Manoel Caetano Pinto's brother, Antonio Caetano Pinto, was
studying in Lisbon when news of the conspiracy reached there.
He swiftly made his way to Paris from where he moved to
Italy. From Italy, Antonio Caetano returned to India, but not
to Goa. He went to Poona where the Pintos had a strong lobby
at the Peshwa Court due to the influence of General Cunha
(married to Antonio Francisco's sister).

There he fought against the British, attaining the rank of
Lt. Colonel. He was left for dead on the battlefields but
recovered. The British, his foes of the battlefield, offered
him a post in their administration because of his great
learning (he had studied in Lisbon, Paris and Rome and was
fluent in French and Italian), and his specialized knowledge
of agriculture. But he turned down the post, as well as
another offered by the Goa Governor as Professor at the newly
opened Military Academy in Goa. He dedicated himself to
agriculture and was the first to introduce mills for
producing sugar from sugar-cane at Saligão.

Francisco Caetano Pinto, another brother, and my great
grand-father, also gravitated to Poona and fought against the
British until the final defeat of the Peshwas in Sholapur in
1818. Lt. Col. Francisco Caetano Pinto fought with great
valour against the British, who, nevertheless, awarded him an
annual pension of Rs. 2,500 (currency value of 1818) in
recognition of his having saved the life of two British
soldiers, Hunter and Morrison, who had been made prisoners by
the Mahrattas and were being prepared to be put to death.
[GRANT-DUFF in the 'History of the Marattas' and WALLACE in
'Memories of India' spoke of them.]

Though the conspiracy has been named after the PINTOs,
possibly because it was hatched in their house, the brains
behind it were of two clergymen: Fr. Jose Antonio Gonçalves
and Caetano Francisco do Couto.

Fr. Caetano Francisco do Couto was extremely intelligent and
soon after becoming a priest, was appointed Governor (sort of
intermediary between a vicar-general and a bishop) in Cochin.
Due to factors too long and unnecessary to detail here, he
went back to Goa, and was involved in the conspiracy. He was
apprehended as one of the main instigators of the conspiracy
and sent to Lisbon in 1789, landing ultimately in the St.
Francis Convent there.

It is said that he was seized with episodes of madness
attributed by some to an extreme guilt complex as he had been
instrumental in providing the most detailed information on
the participants of the plot, which led to their 

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Broadway bestsellers' list: Mom's Recipes. Govapuri. Daughter's Story...

[Nandini Sardesai]

what about DEMOCRACY'S CRICKET ELEVEN by Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai.?!
nominated by the MCC as the top five books on cricket this year!
please may i have your phone number...

From: Goanet-News  on behalf of Frederick 
Noronha 
Sent: 19 July 2018 0:27
To: Goanet
Subject: [Goanet-News] Broadway bestsellers' list: Mom's Recipes. Govapuri. 
Daughter's Story...

Broadway Book Centre (Panjim) bestsellers list, July 2018
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1st Floor, Ashirwad Building, 18th June Rd, Near Caculo
Island, Altinho, Panaji, Goa 403001 : 9 am to 8.30 pm daily.

LOCAL & RELATED BOOKS:

* Mom's Recipes: Smita Uday Kamat Rs 499
* The Heritage of Govapuri (new edition) Fr Cosme Costa Rs 400
* Goa: Daughter's Story Maria Aurora Couto Rs 499
* The Cultural Heritage of Goa: Odette Mascarenhas Rs 995
* Oxford Essential Portuguese Dictionary Rs 295

NON-FICTION:

* Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji
  Manu S Pillai. Rs 599 http://bit.ly/KhiljiShivaji
* Priyanka Chopra: The Dark Horse. Bharati S Pradhan Rs 495
* She Friend-Zoned My Love. Sudeep Nagarakar. Rs 199.
* Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia.
  S. Hussain Zaidi. Rs 395. http://bit.ly/DongriDubai
* Creating Signature Stories. David Aaker. Rs 499.
  https://www.prophet.com/2018/01/creating-signature-stories/

FICTION:

* The Parrot Who Wouldn't Talk and other stories.
  Ruskin Bond. Rs 199.
* Grandma's Bag of Stories: Sudha Murthy. Rs 250.
* Murder in Mahim: a novel. Jerry Pinto. Rs 499.

SPECIAL OFFER:

* Moda Goa: History and Style. Wendell Rodricks.
  Original price Rs 4000 hb, now Rs 2000 at Broadway's.

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