[Goanet] Throwback article on Mrs Grace de Souza, shared on her third death anniversary

[Pamela D'Mello]

ort. But after
that…?”

“In politics, you don’t make friends. Only enemies”, says Mrs de Souza,
making her distaste for the world of politics clear.

For herself, she “loves to see things grow” as her well-kept, colourful
garden attest to. While she likes gardening and dogs, Dr Willy only
“tolerates” dogs, including their Dalmatian Moshe Dayan, who has a black
spot over one eye and gets his name from a former deceased Israeli defence
minister who wore a black eye patch over a damaged eye.





 Grace de Souza’s contributions were and are not contained to home and
hearth however. As the unofficial correspondent for British nationals in
Goa, there’s a lot of work to be done. That involves co-ordinating aid and
assistance, in case of deaths, hospitalisations, or arrests of Briton
nationals visiting this tourist state.

During the anti-war, anti-industrial-strait-jacket, “flower” movement of
the late 1960s and 1970s, when droves of western hippies chose to live
alternate, spiritual, back-to-nature lifestyles, in Goa --- Mrs de Souza
was required to help a great many of them. Young people, who gravitated to
the hippie movement, came from two diverse sets of backgrounds, she
suggests.



In her opinion, some may have come from troubled families, others from
wealthy ones, where parental attention may have been in deficit. She
certainly did not mind the considerable time she had to give to that
activity, adding that it gave her great satisfaction, she learnt a lot and
gained rich life experience from the work.

Nudge her to talk about her life with Dr Willy, and she says her husband of
31 years is “very patient, very calm in emergencies, a very caring husband
and a caring dad to the girls.” But, she also concedes, her husband might
just be a bit too outspoken for local liking. (ends)
















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[Goanet] Produce title deeds for Dabolim, Navy told

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Produce title deeds for Dabolim, Navy told

By Pamela D'Mello
The Asian Age


Panaji, Oct 26: Stepping up pressure on the navy, Goa rajya sabha legislator 
Shantaram Naik has asked the navy to produce title deeds for 1687 acres of 
land around Dabolim airport --- which he said actually belongs to the state 
government.


Ownership of Goa's lone Dabolim airport has become contentious since Goa's 
bustling tourism industry's expansion plans  finds itself bogged down in 
land disputes with the navy.


Mr Naik, a member of a prime minister appointed committee to negotiate Goa's 
vexed airport issue, said the issue of ownership repeatedly came up. State 
officials were asked to investigate land title and report to the committee.


A brewing dispute over Dabolim's land ownerhship cropped up again after 
international consultants said a new aiport was unviable, and would require 
24 million passeners. Dabolim currently handles 2 million and projections 
for 2020 would rise to 6 million.


Faced with a no-win situation, Goa legislators are increasingly questioning 
the navy's claim to Dabolim. Small expansions proposed by AAI and state 
authorities have run into quibbles over land, even as existing 
infrastructure is stretched to its limits. A small terminal handles 4000 
passengers a day, 38 domestic flights daily and  31 charters a week.


Mr Naik claims no title deed exists since the land was never transferred to 
the navy. "It is unfair that Goa should have to keep asking for airport 
land, that actually belongs to it", he said.


When raised as a question in parliament, the then defence minister said 
dabolim airport had been handed over to the ministry of defence by an order 
of the then military governor, following an ouster of Portuguese forces by 
Indian armed forces in 1961. The ministry of defence accordingly claims 
title of 1687.51 acres of land in Dabolim airport since April 1962, the 
reply stated. Airport Authority of India is using 25 acres, of which 14 
acres had been transferred to the civil aviation in June 1996.  (Ends)

[Goanet] The last tango in Goa

[Pamela D'Mello]

ll as a
documentary on Naushad *saab*. Interesting, interesting.

By the way, a documentary on Mubarak Begum features, too, directed by Bipin
Choubal. Adoor Gopalakrishnan will be the man to catch, toast (he drinks
beer only) and hug for his new film and a documentary entitled *The Dancing
Enchantress*.

There hasn't been a half a word on the world cinema expected. But yes,
sources who think they are guarding nuclear secrets reveal that a
retrospective of Ingmar Bergman and a section devoted to Hungarian cinema
are on the cards. Tributes will be paid at Goa to music legend O P Nayyar,
camera genius K K Mahajan and the charismatic Marathi actress Vanmala, who
passed away this year.

It's believed that a collection of films by Senegal's politically volatile
director, Ousman Sembene, was offered on a platter but was rejected by the
directorate. Oh oh, as every film fest freak would exclaim, "There we go
again."


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[Goanet] SAving Goa from itself

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nment is clueless, pulled every which way by fixers and protesters; the
resultant paralysis is taking its toll.

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[Goanet] dubai's phoenix groups' plans in Goa

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Dubai's Phoenix Group lines up Rs 2,200-crore investments in India
Published by Newsroom May 18th, 2007 in Newsbytes.

Investment outlays by Dubai-based companies in the hospitality and real
estate space in India continues unabated. After Emaar Properties, which has
announced investments of over Rs 4,000 crore with its Indian partner MGF
group, it is now the turn of the Phoenix Group.

Dubai-based multinational conglomerate Phoenix Group with interests in
hospitality and real estate plans to invest over Rs 2,200 crore in India by
2011. The group's subsidiary, Phoenix Realty, is looking at an upscale
residential project in Goa with an investment of Rs 450 crore. Phoenix
Palms, the residential property in Panjim spread over 70 acre, will comprise
of 2″00 villas and 100 apartments. The construction is expected to start
early next year.

It also plans to open hotels in Bangalore, Kochi, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad by
early 2009. The group is in talks with Carlson Hotels Worldwide for
launching a 160-room hotel in Whitefield, the IT suburb in Bangalore under
the Radisson Plaza brand. Apart from Radisson Hotels 8-Resorts, Carlson owns
several hotel brands like Regent, Country Inns & Suites, Park Inn and Park
Plaza, among others.

"We are in advanced stage of discussions with Carlson Hotels Worldwide for a
hotel in Bangalore. We are also in talks with other global hospitality
groups for launching hotels across India," Jaideep Singh, VP-operations,
Phoenix Group, told ET.

The long-term plans of the group include four-star hotels in Agra and Pune
with an investment of over Rs 180 crore each. Five-star hotels with an
investment of over Rs 250 crore are being planned in Chennai, Jaipur and
Udaipur as well. These are expected to become operational between 2009-11.

Currently, the Phoenix Group is the franchisee for Radisson Plaza Resort &
Spa in Kumarakom, Kerala, Radisson White Sands Resort and Country Inns &
Suites in Goa. The group has invested close to Rs 1,000 crore on three
hotels in Goa and Kerala.

Source: The Economic Times

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[Goanet] houses by the sea

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stem with sewage treatment plants, an amphitheatre, sprawling
gardens and open spaces, a banquet hall, convenience shopping and
restaurants—all inside the gated community of villas.

There are apartments designed by Hafeez Contractor too, a two-minute walk to
the beach if you're downhill or commanding out of this world views for those
buying homes higher up the hill. From Bollywood to cricket, the who's who of
Indian high society have made enquiries, Puri admits.

The villas and ancestral beach houses are no longer the most premium
property. "Apartment sales, not so popular earlier are quickly rising in
numbers," says Anuj Puri. He explains that there is greater security in
gated communities, better amenities on offer in serviced apartments supplies
just a phone call away, broadband-ready homes in modem apartment complexes,
retail giants next-door alongside cinemas and five-star hotels with casinos
thrown in.

"Why you connect with Goa. is a subjective thing," says Rajeev N, a
Delhi-based professional in his fifties who bought a plush 1,000-sq ft
holiday home in Porvorim, just across the Mandovi River in Panjim. "For me,
it was not a decision of the mind. Because while property prices here might
make this a sound investment, maintaining a second home is really not an
easy job. Investing that money in equity markets could fetch me better
returns with none of the headache involved.

His own "heart decision", he says, was fuelled by the chance to be close to
nature Villa Paradiso, by Tata Housing Development Corporation is built
along a hillside overlooking Mandovi River and just beyond, a breathtaking
view of the heart of old Panjim.

But, having been purchased entirely by families wanting a getaway home even
at upwards of Rs 50 lakh a home, Villa Paradiso is a ghost town for most
part of the year, and cause for much dismay among many Goans. Architect Dean
D'Cruz, an active member of a group of planners and non-governmental
organisations campaigning for a more people-centric planning for the state,
says too many buyers in the hugely speculative realty market of Goa are not
really interested in living here. "People are making money," he says, "and
the next best thing to the stocks is to put money in real estate."

D'Cruz, on the governmentt-appointed taskforce to chart the road ahead for a
planning vision for Goa, calls this an emerging market, but adds that a
significant percentage of buyers are those investing in their "fourth or
fifth" home. It's sad, he says, that the rapid construction is just
depleting resources and adding pressure on infrastructure. "The impact is
tremendous, the new townships and the way they are going about acquiring
land…"

While many developers blame the scrapping of the Regional Plan for the high
prices on account of a the promised supply suddenly drying up, that's only
part of the story, says Lalit Saraswat of goaproperty.co.in, a real estate
venture between two old-timers among Goa's business houses.

Saraswat admits that supply of certain types of property has seen a crunch
due to the clampdown on zoning conversions, but says many true-blue Goans
like him have mixed feelings about the rate at which development is
proceeding. For Saraswat, bom and brought up in Goa and sharing many of the
environmentalists' fears despite his profession on excessive greed, what the
state really needs is planned development.

"Mangroves and green zones should certainly not be destroyed," he says, "but
at the same time the environmentalists' concerns don't mean that planned
development is not possible. After all, it's only logical that the city
expands and what we need is to get all the stakeholders together and arrive
at a mix that is sustainable."

Still, later this year, many more big builders will be doing a Goa recce,
for there's a large number of proposed SEZs that formed the chief election
issue even for last week's by-poll. The buzz is that many will get the nod
despite popular anger against them. Also, the Russians are buying land in
North Goa, gossiped one taxi-driver, knowledgeably pointing out that Russian
airlines are increasing flights into Vasco. And, not unlike Mumbai's
cabbies, he's worried he will never be able to buy his dream home. "Just not
affordable for people like us."

So, is middle class housing in Goa going the Mumbai way? Saraswat has a
marketing man's fable for a response: "Two representatives of two big shoe
manufacturers arrived at an island," he says. "One went back
disappointed—the remote island's people wore no shoes. The other stayed back
to set up shop after sending his boss a message: No competition here, there
can't be a better market."

The market for affordable middle class housing in Goa is wide open. "Anybody
who enters this market will do exceedingly well," he predicts.

Source: The Indian Express


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[Goanet] goa is no more than a piece of prime real estate for some

[Pamela D'Mello]

Realtors' Trump card takes a peek
- Flamboyant tycoon's son scouts for opportunities in India
ARUNDHATI BAKSHI-DIGHE

The Trump Tower in Las Vegas


Mumbai, Nov. 19: Donald Trump is coming to India.

The American real estate tycoon — famous for his eponymous skyscrapers and
casinos, celebrity lifestyle, and the role of a tough-talking inquisitioner
on the popular television reality serial The Apprentice — may build the
first Trump Tower in Mumbai.

Donald Trump Jr — son of the flamboyant magnate — told reporters today that
the Trumps were looking for business opportunities in India.

"Mumbai is very similar to New York; so it is the obvious first choice for
us. We will also be looking at Delhi and Goa. Goa is ideal for luxury
resorts," said Trump Jr, the eldest of Trump's five children.

Mumbai stands a better chance than Delhi of getting the first Trump-style
luxury residential property. Trump Jr said he would not acquire existing or
under-construction projects and would prefer joint ventures or leasing
agreements with local partners.

Trump's only known Indian connection till date is a casino named Taj Mahal
which he bought and rebuilt using funds that he raised through high-interest
junk bonds. The risky financing almost made him bankrupt: Taj Mahal emerged
from bankruptcy and Trump was forced to cede half the stake to the original
bondholders.

Last year, Forbes estimated Trump's personal wealth at almost $3 billion.
The Trumps are looking to invest in India in the next 12-18 months and are
close to sealing a deal.

"We are weighing our options; we could take the joint venture route or the
licensing route to enter the Indian market," Trump Jr said on the sidelines
of a real estate seminar.

"We will be looking at high-end residential development, condominium-type
development, the ultra-luxury segment, hotels and resort
development.Wedon't have a partner in India but we are speaking to
people."

Trump Jr, who said Indian property prices were not as high as those in the
rest of the world, said the group was interested in projects in Mumbai,
Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

The family will not be looking at investing in anything less than 250,000
square feet of development.

But there are a few niggling problems. "There is a need to change foreign
ownership laws in the country. If more and more foreigners are allowed to
own properties in the country, it will encourage more dollar inflows. One of
the biggest challenges that the country faces right now, however, is the
surge in oil prices," he said.

The government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are, however, deeply
concerned about huge dollar inflows with India's foreign exchange reserves
having crossed $270 billion. Banks have also been discouraged from lending
to real estate developers, forcing many of them to raise money abroad.

"Infrastructure is another cause for concern. China has an incredible rail
system. In India, there is growth, but infrastructure is lagging behind,"
Trump Jr added.





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[Goanet] social activist albertina almeida berieved

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Maria Therezinha Sabiencia Ba Peidade Morais e Almeida (75), wife of late
Higino Xavier Almeida and mother of social activist and lawyer Albertina
Almeida, passed away peacefully this morning 26 December 2007.  Maria
Therezinha retired as archivist at the Goa Archives department.

Funeral will leave the family residence, near St Michael's church Taleigao,
at 9.15 am , 27 December, Thursday for burial at St Michael's Church,
Taliegao.

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Re: [Goanet] Another Illegal Construction

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 Symposium on Pre-Primary & Primary School Education & 
  Primary School Students Chess Tournament

More information at:

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Mr Collaco,

It seems a whole lot of us  are being taken for fools here. One distinctly
remembers the sales pitch taken by the then BJP CM whilst he was putting in
place grandiose plans for IFFI --- it would have a multiplier effect on the
economy and boost multi sectoral growth --- we were told then. If your
pursuing the Cannes model for IFFI, then concrete by the beach is the
necessary corollary. There;s no doubt that IFFI pushed Goa's land market
skywards, but those beating up the brand Goa hype knew that well  then
and now.

Politicians will be politicians --- some more diabolical and crafty than
others. Quite clearly the strategy here  is to whip up we-are-under-siege
sentiments among a section of the population; and direct it against the
Congress, when one is out of power.

Development is alright only as long as it's on your watch --- and you're the
collector on duty --- that's every politician's motto in Goa, at least.

Let's not forget the facts --- Goa has a BJP-dominated government from 1999
to early 2005, nearly five years of the past decade ,when "concretisation
and inmigration --- those four letter words -- accelerated in Goa.

But politicians rely on other facts --- that public memory is like a sieve.
And we will only react to snapshots across the bay!

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> My remarks: Goa is being destroyed every single day. The shameless (and
now
> illegtimate) government of Digambar Kamat has no controls, no supervision,
no
> enforcement, no monitoring, nothing! It is a free for all right now. Just
yesterday
> the Utt Goenkara folks interceded in the illegal hill cutting going on in
Curca
> by one Bhagatsingh Sonaye attached to Goa Medical College (reported in
today's
> newspapers such as Tarun Bharat, Herald etc). That violations are
happening all
> over is known to those in the highest rungs of power yet they look
askance, or
> even collude to help the rich and the powerful. I would like to know why,
given
> all this, the GBA Convener Dr Oscar Rebello has issued a paean to Digambar

> Kamat. The same Digambar Kamat and his Congress party who are complicit
> in Goa's ongoing destruction. Now who is going to deal with this Batim
case? Regards,

[Goanet] cultural imperialism

[Pamela D'Mello]

grasped that. When Indians see or
read about Europeans living for six months in Goa exactly as they live in
Camden Town or some field in Devon, but with many fewer clothes on, they
think two things. First, they cannot see where the moral boundaries are here
at all; secondly, they feel humiliated and embarrassed and a little bit
angry that it is happening where they live, rather than in a field in Devon.
I dare say they will come to learn to think and feel differently. I don't
suppose it will be much of an improvement if they do.


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[Goanet] re cultural imperialism

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Toronto, Canada

 Early Bird Discount Registration closes March 31, 2008

 http://2008goanconvention.com/registration.html
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Hey,

The comment on cultural imperialism was NOT written by me. It was a comment
I read in the Independent UK, and that I forwarded. Guess it was improperly
forwarded, causing all this confusion. Apologies to all...P


Philip Hensher: The reckless hedonism that shames Britons abroad ...What on
earth persuaded them that to holiday in such style could be regarded as
"authentic", rather than cultural imperialism of the most brutal variety?
...
www.independent.co.uk/.../
philip-hensher-the-reckless-hedonism-that-shames-britons-abroad-797154.html

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[Goanet] A short, digital story from Goa

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I've just put together a short experimental video, made at a workshop on
digital story-telling. It is situated around the changes in the village of
Nerul in Bardez. You can view it at http://astoryfromnerul.notlong.com/ or
via the link (at the end of the page) located  at
http://gocreat.blogspot.com

It's titled "So often"

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[Goanet] foreign property owners

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 teenager Scarlett Keeling in
February.

"I know there's nastiness and corruption in every society, but this goes
beyond that," said Hillary. "This was evil. And evil strips away every
vestige of Goa being a jolly place. When something like that happens you
think, what sort of society have I chosen to live in? There's a definite
feeling in the expat community now that Goa has had its day. The golden days
are over. Many people feel it's time to move on."

Hillary said she knew six English couples running restaurants in Goa who
have shut up shop and gone away. Another British couple who had opened a
small hotel and restaurant 12 years ago that had grown into a profitable
business recently sold their business to a Delhi company and left.
Backstory

Ever since the hippies stumbled upon Goa in the 60s, the tiny western India
coastal state has been a magnet for foreigners. After the hippies came
hordes of backpackers, eventually followed by middle-class tourists on cheap
charter flights direct from Europe. What attracted them were the pristine
beaches dotted with thatched-roof restaurants; the quaint coastal villages
marked by green paddy fields and white baroque churches; the inexpensive
accommodation and the friendly locals. But the good days may be coming to an
end, with Goa's travel operators warning of a sharp decrease in tourists
this year. A big rise in air fares may be just one of the problems; poor
administration has resulted in spoilt beaches, overbuilt villages strewn
with plastic rubbish, a polluted water supply, inadequate power, high road
fatalities and crime.




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[Goanet] Encountering Mario ...

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A tribute to famed Goan cartoonist Mario de Miranda
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[Goanet] now the russians

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Another murder covered up in Goa?

Barney Henderson , Hindustan Times

Mumbai, April 05, 2008



In a chilling parallel to the murder of British teen Scarlett Keeling, a
Russian who died on a Goa beach over two years ago had a stab wound to his
stomach, yet police maintain he drowned and have withheld the viscera
results.

"The autopsy shows a stab wound, probably caused by a metal rod, in Burdov's
stomach," said Vikram Varma, lawyer for the Russian Consulate General in
Mumbai and also the Keeling family.
The autopsy report for Alexander Burdov — a copy of which is with the
Hindustan Times — reveals a stab wound in the stomach. There are six other
abrasions on the body. Burdov, on holiday with his girlfriend, was found
dying on Varca beach, south Goa, on November 22, 2005. The similarities to
the Keeling case are startling.

Despite this evidence, police declared that the 25-year-old from Moscow died
of drowning — exactly the same diagnosis given for Keeling.
The investigating officer in the case was Nelson Albuquerque, brother of
Nerlon who led the Keeling investigation and has since been suspended for
botching it up.

"The autopsy shows a stab wound, probably caused by a metal rod, in Burdov's
stomach," said Vikram Varma, lawyer for the Russian Consulate General in
Mumbai and also the Keeling family. "The Goa police have withheld the
viscera and final cause of death for over two years. It has to be strongly
suspected that this is another cover-up. There are alarming similarities to
Scarlett's case."

The Russian Consulate General suspects foul play and has made repeated
requests for the viscera to be released, to no avail. In a letter to Rina
Torcado, then superintendent of police, Alexander Fedorov, Russian Consulate
General Secretary, said Burdov was alive for 40 minutes after he was found
on the beach.

"The witnesses, two of whom were doctors, asserted that death ensued from a
wound in the abdominal area and was unlikely to have been caused by
drowning," the letter of December 16, 2005, states.

Kishan Kumar, Goa's inspector general of police, said he was gathering
information on the Burdov case. On Wednesday, Kumar called in the Central
Bureau of Investigation to take over the Keeling case.

"I am aware of the situation with the Russian; we are seeking details,"
Kumar said.









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[Goanet] re st Anne's Talaulim

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Panaji, Aug 7: A ten day rainy spell caused a minor collapse of portions of
an endangered seventeenth century church monument in Goa, even as
conservation efforts to source funds for restoration dragged on. The
incident finally propelled state archive authorities to hastily commit
long-promised grants on Tuesday.

The World Monuments Fund listed the massive 1695-built St Anne church in
Talaulim, Goa among its hundred endangered monuments for 2000. WMF efforts
are meant to galvanise local populations towards caring for architectural
and cultural heritage.

But seven years on, the worst fears of conservationists and parishioners of
the church had begun to come true. On Monday a portion of staircase leading
to the seventeenth century church's belfry collapsed. It reactivated efforts
though to get the state government to commit moneys for a restoration fund.

Prompted by an embarassed local MLA and parish priest, state archives this
morning officially agreed to part-pay Rs 2.6 cr towards restoration to meet
over half the cost of restoration. The WMF had agreed to put in the
remainder Rs 1.6 cr.

Nestled in a verdant valley off the beaten pilgrimage track, the church ---
once the largest in Asia --- had developed cracks in several places of its
towering structure, creepers growing into its thick walls, some of which
contain secret passages.

Though as ancient as the cluster of Old Goa World Heritage monuments, the
church remained out of the Archeological Survey of India's mandate. A 1994
move to hand it over from the cash-strapped state archives to the ASI
resulted in a unresolved bureaucratic tangle that left the monument without
access to funding , aside from meagre parish resources.

Church authorities are now hoping to speed up restoration work under the
WMF's heritage management consultant in India.(ends)










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Indian casino to rival Las Vegas' best? You bet!
Sunday, 09 September , 2007, 12:40

New Delhi: India's leading online gaming company is readying to launch a
casino on a luxury vessel that will be anchored in the high seas off Goa
even as it plans to ramp up its global operations.



The Rs.100 crore casino project is set for a mid-2008 launch, said Amar
Sinha, managing director of the Pan India Network Infravest that runs the
Playwin gaming brand.

"We'll be offering 20,000 sq ft of casino area that will rival the best Las
Vegas has to offer," Sinha, whose company is part of Subhash Chandra's
$1-billion Essel Group, told IANS.

"We have purchased a ship for Rs.15 crore and this is currently being fitted
out in Italy. The ship will be anchored in international waters off Goa.
High-speed motorboats will ferry gamers back and forth," he added.

Speaking about his expansion plans for Playwin, which is targeting revenues
of Rs.3000 crore ($670 million) in the current fiscal, Sinha said he hoped
to expand its global reach to Central Asia, Europe and South Africa.

"We currently have a presence in Kenya, Cambodia and the Philippines. A lot
of other opportunities are being contemplated," he added.

Pan India is also planning to open on behalf of Mumbai's Royal Western India
Turf Club some 100 off-course betting centres across Maharashtra, up from
the current eight.

This apart, the company has also acquired Ten10 Digital, a British company
that telecasts horse races, but there are no immediate plans to establish a
Ladbrokes-style betting facility for the Indian Cricket League (ICL) that
the Essel group has floated.

"We are waiting for the right time," Sinha said, indicating it could happen
sometime in the not too distant future.

That Indian punters would lap up such a facility can be gauged from the fact
that 70 per cent of the bets placed in London on cricket matches come from
this country.

Sinha also pleaded for creating greater awareness in the government about
the potential of the online lottery business to generate huge revenues for
social sector programmes.

"The challenge is to make the government understand the revenue potential of
online lotteries and of the huge revenues it is losing out due to paper
lotteries and illegal betting," he maintained.

"Online gaming will take people away from illegal lotteries as it is
completely transparent and is properly audited, in our case, by Ernst &
Young," Sinha pointed out.

The global online lottery business is estimated at around $200. The size of
the official lottery business in India is pegged at some Rs.25000crore ($6
million), of which online lotteries account for five per cent.

"The size of the illegal betting market is around Rs.25000 crore, which
means that the government is losing out on at least Rs.1000 crore in
revenues," Sinha contended.

"If the government does not act quickly, it will only promote more black
money that will fund underworld activities. The government will then have to
spend millions to control these activities," he said, suggesting a watchdog
to monitor lottery draws and ensure proper utilisation of revenues.

"Right now, FDI (foreign direct investment) is not permitted in the lottery
sector nor are investors looking at India. But if proper systems are in
place, foreign players might want to come in," Sinha maintained.


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[Goanet] GBA exposes Panaji ODP scams ---- "government land sold to private vested interests"

[Pamela D'Mello]

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GBA exposes Panaji ODP scams  "government land sold to private vested 
interests"

By Pamela D'Mello


Panaji, Oct 4:  In a path breaking experiment, a citizen's group in Goa put 
out draft city planning maps on public exhibit  exposing "pay and 
change" routes for higher floor area ration(FAR), besides farcical 
subterfuges being deployed  to circumvent coastal protection legislation in 
capital Panaji.

Among the mutiple scams the Goa Bachao Abhiyan exhibition  adeptly exposed, 
were two proposed coastal roads that  planners had shown on maps."I live 
here, there is no place for a road, since  it is  directly on the beach. 
When I asked the official where the road would be , he lost his temper" 
former Panaji municipal councillor Patricia Pinto told this newspaper.

In the exhibition hall at the Goa Kala Academy, blow ups of google satellite 
imagery belied the planning department's claims alongside. Using a right to 
information legislation, citizens had penetrated one of the most opague and 
secretive departments.

Residential high rises --- some with commercial zone FARs --- are already up 
along a suburban sea face and the non-existent road would clear the decks 
for a parallel strip of construction.

"This will allow a long ribbon of green, recreational space and dune area to 
be converted from CRZ3 (protected) area to CRZ2 (where construction is 
permitted)" architect Ritu Prasad later  explained to a packed hall.

In realty hotspot Panaji, this itself would translate into thousands of 
crores in a future market. Apartment prices on the ocean and riverfront 
capital have risen seven times in the past three years.

The group's strategy to demystify and decode complex planning process to 
build awareness was a success, attracting crowds of concerned citizens. It 
blew the lid open on a nexus that would transform the charming city into a 
chaotic characterless high rise town.

Working professionals diong volunteer service in the GBA,  found to their 
horror that definitions for zones in the new ODP had changed since an 
earlier 2001 ODP. Even a small 100 sq m plot now qualifies as a zone, says 
Prasad.

Commercial zoning, with its high FAR (allowing 7 storeys) were being 
randomly granted anywhere "on request" by a sub committee that had political 
sidekicks in an all-too-obvious conduit.

In addition several heritage government buildings, private residentials and 
offices were changed to commercial in the clamour for excess FAR. Large 
swathes of green mangrove  no development zones had been changed to 
commercial zones.

Between the 2001 Panaji ODP and the 2011 draft ODP, no utilities had been 
added --- no satellite markets, no parking spaces, no recreational zones, 
not even a earmarked garbage treatment area. The entire plan only adds on 
commercial areas everywhere, increasing pressure on the 10 sq km capital, 
with its 40,000 residents and 59,000 floating population, engineer Slyvester 
D'Souza said.

Opinions are veering for a complete scapping of the plan, holding it as an 
example of "governance sold to vested private interests".

The GBA which forced government to rescind a similarly controversial 
all-Goa regional plan in2006, is hoping residents from other 11 ODP areas 
would put their own plans under the scanner. "Find out what's happening in 
your area. There's no point in complaining later." said Ms Pinto.

Though still at "draft" stage, set for  a 2 month public scrutiny period, 
the ODP is "in use", permissions being provisionally approved, she said. 
Since a1974 town planning act, not a single ODP had been ever finalised. 
Furthermore, the 2011 Panaji ODP had been  prepared without a consultation 
with the city corporation of Panaji.   (Ends)

[Goanet] Tv's biggest reality show --bleed them when you can

[Pamela D'Mello]

The Asian Age

How TV news stars won war


By Suparna Sharma

New Delhi

Dec. 1: India's best-known television journalists appear to have
finally beaten Ekta Kapoor in the battle for TRPs. In six days flat.
The all-out war witnessed editors being paradropped, reporters lying
prostrate on the ground when not blaring into the cameras, and a
thousand "breaking stories" every day.

Here's how the TRPs were garnered, shot by shot, starting around 10.30
pm on Wednesday, November 26:

Close in on the woman in tears — show her from every possible angle
and deliver a soul-wrenching commentary of what might be going through
her mind.

Repeatedly flash shots of the adorable, crying child. Shove your mike
in his face. Oh! hasn't learnt to talk yet, not even Yiddish? Ask the
woman carrying the child how she rescued him from the carnage. Not
maudlin enough? Ask how many dead bodies she saw, get a blood question
in. Ask if she was scared, ask what she was thinking while bullets
were being sprayed around.

Download all background scores of Ramsay and his brothers —especially
Khooni Shikanja, Vehshi Aatma and Shaitan Khopri — and play it every
time (that is at least 25 times a minute) pictures of the terrorists
are flashed.

Catch a victim. Chase him. If it's a "her", then your channel's
reputation depends on getting an arousing account of how she felt —
when she saw the bodies, the terrorists, when she heard the screams.
Feelings. And get her to tell viewers what she was feeling when she
saw her best friend's body.

Remember, all world-class reportage always begins with that one
question: "How are you feeling?"

But it wasn't just on borrowed ideas that the news channels competed
for TRPs. The skills these news channels have been honing for a long
time came in handy too. In order of priority:

Flash "exclusive" — even if the reporter is sending in reports from
outside the Taj Mahal Hotel, where at least 400 reporters are
stationed. And for viewers gone blind while watching blood-curdling
reportage, scream "exclusive" after every nine words.

Forget that commandos are in the hotel trying to rescue innocent
people. Scream into the mike and tell the world that you, and only
you, have an "exclusive" bit of information from your source, now on
the hotel's 19th floor.

Get your reporters to lie down, ducking killer bullets, even as the
cameraperson is standing next to him, recording histrionics.

Ask anxious relatives if they think their friends and family members,
who are still inside, will be able to walk out alive.

To finally clinch the TRP race, many top television editors were
paradropped and the story was turned around. It became all about them
and their trauma. Barkha Dutt took viewers on a tour of the Taj Mahal
Hotel, choked up and emotional, gesturing violently, shrugging,
crouching, hand on her aching heart. Rajdeep Sardesai rescued a
foreigner from other reporters, to ask, "How are you feeling?" Arnab
Goswami, of course, was kept in the studio. No one shouts "breaking
news" louder than him.

When it was all over, after the commandos had gone home and the
funerals had run their course, some passers-by were collected, handed
candles, and in the glow of burning wax, victims were hugged,
preferably Muslims, and asked again, for a final boost to TRPs: "How
do you feel?"

Many viewers, incidentally, feel that they have found the answer to
India's security problems. An email that is doing the rounds suggests:
"Change of guard in India's security agencies and Ministry of Home
Affairs: M.K. Narayanan to be replaced by Arnab Goswami as National
Security Adviser, Barkha Dutt as home secretary in place of Madhukar
Gupta, Praveen Swami the new IB Chief, Rajdeep Sardesai as special
secretary for internal security in place of M.L. Kumawat, and India TV
to replace DD!" Till that actually happens, light a candle for Indian
television's biggest reality show.









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[Goanet] Recent SC Judgment on Common Lands: implications for Goa's communidade land loot

[Pamela D'Mello]

Pleased to share the attached judgment (downloaded from SC official
website), which was reported in TOI yesterday.


http://bit.ly/CommunidadeSC2011


regards

abhi

[Goanet] Invite for book release of Inside/ Out --- New Writing from Goa /Anthology

[Pamela D'Mello]

Hi,

If you are in Goa next week, please do come for the book launch of
inside/out -- New Writing from Goa. The Anthology is published by Goa
1556  and Goa Writers, both of which one is closely associated with.
The release is on Wednesday 23 March, 6 pm at Literati, a book shop in
Calangute. Honours to be done by Amitav Ghosh, who also has an essay
in the book.

Thanks and best
Pamela

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[Goanet] Lorna... in concert at Panjim

[Pamela D'Mello]

A couple of recordings from last evening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9Z-HE1SaE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-iwIgDJX4

Also view a couple of earlier shorts on Nerul and Mario Miranda:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pameladmello
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http://www.youtube.com/user/pameladmello

[Goanet] Wendell Rodricks passes away at Goa home

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/goa/wendell-rodricks-passes-away-at-goa-home-6264892/

[Goanet] NEWS: Goa crowds pay tribute at Wendell Rodricks' Colvale Funeral

[Pamela D'Mello]

Goa paid tribute to one of its most famous sons --- fashion designer
Wendell Rodricks (59) on Thursday evening, a day after his sudden death.

Rodricks was buried after a mass in Konkani, at the scenic riverfront
church of Colvale --- his ancestral village in northern Bardez.

A who's who of personalities from the business, literary, political, art,
fashion and environment circles attended the rites.

His partner of many years --- the French origin Jerome Marrel, broke into
tears, while his younger brother paid a deep tribute to the man who brought
up their family from humble origins in Bombay.

Earlier in the day, the All India Radio FM channel highlighted the
achievements of
 Wendell's work as a designer, writer, green campaigner and winner of the
nation's Padma Shri honour and a French award too.

Wendell was on the cusp of launching what is to be India's first costume
museum --- the Moda Goa in a 450 year house in Colvale. It is understood to
be just weeks away from completion and launch in March.

Wendell was known to be an avid supporter of many a Goan cause and went out
of his way to encourage what he felt were good causes in diverse fields.

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[Goanet] GOA NEWS HEADLINES --- Group storms Baga hotel

[Pamela D'Mello]

The Goan has a banner headline titled `Group storms Baga hotel; 38 held`.
This is also echoed in the Herald which says '38 arrested for trespassing,
damaging casino in Baga'. Reports said the accused, including a businessman
Khanna, five women and five transgenders, entered the La Calypso Hotel
casino at 5.30 am Thursday, chased out the bouncers and staff and  locked
the casino with some customers inside. The hotel complained of the loss of
Rs 2.5 cr in cash and gaming chips worth Rs 15 cr after the incident.

In its vertical half front page, The Times of India pays a glowing tribute
to fashion designer Wendell Rodricks who passed away suddenly this week.
Its headline reads " For Wendell, Colvale comes alive to bid a final
goodbye".

Campal, Panjim hosted a Mega Fish Festival, a photo in the Herald notes,

http://epaper.thegoan.net/
http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/
http://epaper.navhindtimes.in/
https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/#

[Goanet] Organically grown goan brown rice

[Pamela D'Mello]

*ORGANICALLY GROWN GOAN BROWN RICE*
The *ILHA VERDE FARMERS' CLUB*
*SANTOESTEVAM* hereby announces the sale of its organically grown brown
rice which was cultivated in the KHAZANS of SANTOESTEVAM during the 2019
/2020 Kharif season. No *fertilisers* or *pesticides*, organic or chemical,
were used during the cultivation of the rice. This rice has been minimally
polished and is arguably the healthiest rice grown in Goa.
As the floods destroyed most of our crop this season we have very limited
stocks of *Goan Brown Rice*.
The Rice is available in *
 **4 kg bags @ Rs 200 / bag*
For your requirements of *GOAN BROWN RICE*
please *WhatsApp* your name, postal address and quantity required to Nestor
*7875731054*.
Strictly no *phonecalls.* Free Home delivery in and around  Panjim and
Mapusa for orders of *Rs 1000/-* and above.
A delivery charge of Rs 20/-bag will be levied for orders less than Rs
1000/-. Deliveries will be done on *Wednesday* and *Saturday* .
Dt. 16/02/2020

[Goanet] Fwd: Film screenings

[Pamela D'Mello]

[Goanet] Once Upon a Time in Goa, Identity and Memories on Film, Forward from Fundacao Oriente

[Pamela D'Mello]

ONCE UPON A TIME IN GOA: IDENTITY AND MEMORIES

FILM PROGRAMME CURATED BY MARIA DO CARMO PIÇARRA

18.02~03.03.2020 | FUNDAÇÃO ORIENTE, PANJIM | 6PM


Between the 18th February and 3rd of March 2020, Fundação Oriente in Goa
will present a film programme titled  ONCE UPON A TIME IN GOA: IDENTITY AND
MEMORIES curated by the Portuguese researcher Maria do Carmo Piçarra.

Divided in five sessions, the films and documentaries present the different
perspectives of Goan and Portuguese directors regarding the complexity of
Goan identity and culture.

The programme will start with silent films from the Portuguese public
archives (RTP – Portuguese Public Broadcast, CAVE – Portuguese Army
Audio-visual Centre, MNHNCP – Natural History and Science Museum, Portugal
/University of Lisbon). These films will be presented with comments from Dr
Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Lisbon University) and Dr Pedro Sobral Pombo (Goa
University).

In contrast with the political and scientific propaganda films produced
during Estado Novo (1932-68), we will exhibit recent films by Portuguese
directors dealing with Goa.

Under the umbrella of ONCE UPON A TIME IN GOA: IDENTITY AND MEMORIES we
will also present contemporary Goan films that express personal perceptions
and at the same time attest  the singularity of Goan Identity and the
extreme care to document recent cultural and ecological changes in the
territory.

All films will be commented or subtitled in English.


FILM PROGRAMME

18TH FEBRUARY

Goa in the Portuguese Archives

In collaboration with the project Photo Impulse/ICNOVA-FCSH and  MNHNCP

SECURITY OPERATION IN ESTADO DA ÍNDIA [OPERAÇÃO DE SEGURANÇA NO ESTADO DA
INDIA] (1955, 11’, silent), CAVE - Portuguese Army Audio-visual Centre

>From the Archives of the Portuguese National Broadcast (RTP)

MONSOON RAINS IN GOA [CHUVAS DE MONÇÃO EM GOA] (9’, silent)

PORTUGUESE TROOPS CHRISTMAS IN PANJIM [NATAL DOS SOLDADOS PORTUGUESES EM
PANGIM] (3’, silent)

MANUEL VASSALO E SILVA HONOURED IN INDIA [MANUEL VASSALO E SILVA É
DISTINGUIDO NA ÍNDIA ](1’, silent)

REFUGEES ARRIVING IN LISBON [CHEGADA DE REFUGIADOS A LISBOA] (3’, silent)

HONOUR TO PORTUGUESE INDIA [HONRA Á ÍNDIA PORTUGUESA] (1961, 19’, silent),
by Perdigão Queiroga

ÍNDIA (1959, 13’ silent), by Vasco Nunes Pereira Fortuna

*commented by Maria do Carmo Piçarra and Pedro Sobral Pombo

The cinematographic programme about Goa starts with the exhibition of short
films from the Portuguese public archives. “Operação de segurança no Estado
da Índia” [Security Operation no Estado da Índia] (1952), shows the Estado
Novo version of the events that took place at the Goan border and gave way
to a tension rise between the Portuguese Regime and the Indian Government.
During the same session, a series of short films from the RTP - Portuguese
Public Broadcaster archives will also be screened.

“Honra à Índia Portuguesa” [Honour to Portuguese India] (1961), by Perdigão
Queiroga, is part of Images from Portugal, a special edition sponsored by
the former National Department of Information to invoke the history behind
the friction with Questão de Goa. To conclude this session, we will be
screening “Índia” (1959) a scientific film by Vasco Nunes Pereira Fortuna,
with interesting anthropologic details regarding Goa’s culture and
landscape.


20TH FEBRUARY

THE LADY OF CHANDOR [A DAMA DE CHANDOR] (1998, 93’, Portuguese and Konkani,
subtitled in English) by Catarina Mourão

Newly restored copy supported by Fundação Oriente.

 “Aida, the Lady of Chandor, lives alone in Goa. At 82 years of age she
devotes each day to caring for her beautiful old house, a house which has
survived three centuries of Portuguese colonial rule. Without the Lady of
Chandor the house will die. Without the house Aida would loose her reason
for living. But inside this house time moves in a magical way and both the
house and the Lady of Chandor seem immortal”.


25TH FEBRUARY

SCARS (2017, 17’’, English), de Ronak Kamat

UNCERTAIN HOMELAND [PÁTRIA INCERTA] (2005, 52’, Portuguese and Konkani,
subtitled in English), by Inês Gonçalves and Vasco Pimentel

On the 25th of February, the session will begging with fiction short film
by Ronak Kamat “Scars”, about a boy that, after being released from
Juvenile Detention Centre, has to spend the night at his elder brother's
house. After which “Pátria Incerta” [Uncertain Homeland] (2005), by Inês
Gonçalves and Vasco Pimentel will be exhibit. This documentary focus
reflects on the scars left by conversion to Catholicism based on local
testimonies.


27TH FEBRUARY

INFINITE [DIGANT] (2012, 96’, Konkani, subtitled in English), by Dnyanesh
Moghe

*In the presence of the director.

 “Digant” [Infinite] is a 2012 Konkani feature film by documentary
filmmaker, Dnyanesh Moghe. It takes us on the journey of a homeless boy
from Dhangar tribe, a neglected and backward shepherd community of Goa, who
defying all odds, grows up to become an architect in the big city. ‘This
community believes in nature. They ar

[Goanet] Chef Floyd Cardoz dies of Covid-19 in NYC

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://scroll.in/latest/957233/coronavirus-chef-floyd-cardoz-co-owner-of-bombay-canteen-dies-of-covid-19-in-new-york-city


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[Goanet] Floyd Cardoz on the joys of Indian regional food

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://scroll.in/magazine/957259/floyd-cardoz-on-the-joys-of-indian-food-so-much-to-discover-so-much-to-acknowledge

[Goanet] Migrant workers in Goa desperate to get back to home states

[Pamela D'Mello]

take a flight back in a few days, but they are terrified of taking
that risk, lest anything go awry again," said Almeida.

Migrants from the far-away North Indian states are the hardest hit. From
early this week, they have been descending on the railway hub of Margao.
Some have been called to board trains, only to find there is no place. Many
complained <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rdCjMMtyB0> they have run
pillar to post, registered at three government agencies, repeatedly got no
answer from hotlines either here or in their home state and had no option
but to start walking, since they had vacated their rented rooms after being
unable to pay the landlord.

The vast distance had earlier kept migrants from far-off states from
walking home but now some have opted to begin the  long perilous trek
homewards <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weT1HnRAQj4> in the scorching
May sun.

Officials are hoping that an uptick in train departures to Uttar Pradesh,
planned over the next few days, will take the edge off migrant anxiety and
restore trust levels.




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[Goanet] Alcohol bottle waste

[Pamela D'Mello]

Goa's 365 Day demographic-altering, tourism marketing pitch has uncorked a
notoriously jagged spin-off -  beer/alcohol bottles, carelessly tossed
or dangerously smashed on beaches, highways and tourist spots.

As  the number of domestic visitors nearly quadrupled in just six years(23
lakhs in 2012 to 70.8 lakhs in 2018) ---  the propensity to mindlessly
litter   is costing the exchequer crores of rupees to clean up after
them.

It is a problem that is angering community-minded local  residents and
harming the tourism industry, as discerning high spenders migrate away to
cleaner beach resort locations. Worse, the cultural and ecological
environment  particularly coastal and marine    notches
unprecedented degradation

https://india.mongabay.com/2021/02/alcohol-bottle-waste-a-transparent-problem-in-goas-beaches/

[Goanet] Forests being lost to infrastructure boom in Goa

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://india.mongabay.com/2018/09/12/goas-environment-faces-problems-from-infrastructure-boom/

-- 
Pamela D'Mello
Cell 9850 461649
http://pameladmello.wordpress.com

[Goanet] Parrikar's illness contentious issue for the BJP

[Pamela D'Mello]

www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/2/14928/Goa-CM-Parrikars-Ill-Health-Contentious-Issue-for-BJP

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Cell 9850 461649
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[Goanet] How Manohar Parrikar went from kar sevak to chief minister

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://m.huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/24/how-the-bjp-s-man-in-goa-manohar-parrikar-went-from-kar-sevak-to-chief-minister_a_23540266/?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage

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Cell 9850 461649
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[Goanet] Manohar Shetty on the poetry of Eunice de Souza

[Pamela D'Mello]

Sting in the Tale
The poetry of Eunice de Souza

   By Manohar Shetty

It is often believed that the more obscure or difficult a poem is, the more
profound it is. While complex poetry does abound, especially in literary
journals in the US, a poem’s quality should not be dictated by its ability
to mystify a reader. Note, for instance, the poetry of Ted Hughes, Thom
Gunn  or Douglas Dunn, who rarely wrote poems shrouded in mystery or those
that needed repeated readings to ‘crack’ open as if they were walnuts. In
this age of Twitter, alleged dwindling attention spans and instantaneous
solutions, one would have imagined the pursuit of poetry would also have
imbibed qualities of clarity and lucidity. Indeed, one would have thought
the turn of this century would usher in the era of poetry; of short, snappy
novels and a great flowering of short stories. Inexplicably, this has not
happened; the opposite has. The outsized novel is still queen and
conqueror. And even a cursory glance at literary journals provides
sufficient evidence that the opaque poem still prospers; those that
apparently have to be ‘mined’ over and over again to get to the apparently
rich ‘vein’ of meaning, even if such meaning was not originally intended.

With so many incomprehensible poems on offer, poems too remote or dense for
even the intelligent reader, it is little wonder that the vast majority are
simply turned off by contemporary poetry. Or given the laissez faire
climate and the leeway modern poetry offers, it would hardly be surprising
if it were discovered that there are hundreds of young (and old) poets
around who don’t even read their contemporaries. There are now possibly
more ‘poets’ writing what they perceive to be poetry than those who
actually read poetry. In any case, there is too much else available in the
creative arena to try and figure out the world of contemporary poetry,
immersed as it is in various ‘schools’ and other esoteric and
incomprehensible affiliations.

Those daunted or put off by the perceived ‘difficulty’ of modern verse
would do well to read the poetry of Eunice de Souza. Her work is not a
Rubik’s cube or imbued with seven types of ambiguity. Pithy, direct and
unclouded by lofty metaphor or hidden meanings, de Souza speaks with the
sharpness of a cat-o’-nine- tails, laced with incisive and often sardonic
wit. Here is an early example; a terse little poem called ‘Conversation
Piece’ from her first book, ‘Fix’, published in 1979.

My Portuguese-bred colleague
picked up a clay shivalingam
one day and said:
Is this an ashtray?
No, said the salesman,
This is our god.

Though the poet has inexplicably substituted the originally published
‘aunt’ in the first line with the more generic ‘colleague’ in her
‘Collected Poems’, this streak of cutting wit graces much of her poetry.
Readers will be struck both by the economy of the language and the knack of
piercing observation. This is a trait that has never left de Souza’s poetry
or been substituted by such notions as ‘gentle wisdom’ and ‘the maturity
that comes with age’, phrases poetry critics are overly fond of. That
maturity and incisive tone came very early on and has never left her. From
the very beginning, de Souza’s work appears fully grown and complete. The
razor-edged, ironic tone continues even in her most recent work. Consider
this poem called ‘It’s Time to Find a Place’, published more than two
decades after ‘Conversation Piece’:

It’s time to find a place
to be silent with each other.
I have prattled endlessly
in staff-rooms, corridors, restaurants.
When you’re not around
I carry on conversations in my head.
Even this poem
has forty-eight words too many.

The apparently easy, conversational tone of de Souza’s poetry is often
marked by a sting in the tail—or tale. Though she taught at Bombay’s St
Xavier’s College for thirty years and retired as the Head of the Department
of English, she has never indulged in a species of poetry barely understood
even by her fellow professors. Her language has always been terse with a
pincer-sharp focus. Here are some lines from a later poem, ‘Pahari
Parrots’, which make for an identikit picture of herself: ‘Soon I’ll be a
whiskery old lady/mumbling in my gums/hobbling about/two parrots in my
hair.’

The distaff side plays a central and pivotal role in de Souza’s poetry.
Indeed, they are a recurring presence, from early poems like ‘Sweet
Sixteen’, ‘Miss Louise’ and ‘Advice to Women’ to much later ones like
‘Aunt’ and ‘My Mother Feared Death’. A feminist long before the term became
fashionable, her poems are imbued with a direct emotional investment in her
subjects, and are not determined by any de rigueur political trends of the
times.

Accompanying this is an uneasy relationship, founded on skepticism, with
the Catholic Church. This is much in evidence in early poems like ‘Varca,
1942’ and ‘St Anthony’s Shrine’, though her own  preoccupations have always
been with the disa

[Goanet] Goa EDMs

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://scroll.in/article/847741/goas-electronic-music-party-beaches-go-silent-after-two-men-die-of-a-suspected-drug-overdose

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[Goanet] Mini mumbai' s in Goa

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://m.mid-day.com/articles/mini-mumbais-in-goa/15969172

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 12, Issue 461

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https://scroll.in/article/850343/a-bjp-mlas-book-of-poems-has-stirred-up-deep-rooted-caste-and-language-rivalries-in-goa
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>6. Fwd: Song for the day.LILIA PRADO baila Que Rico Mambo (
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>8. Health Matters: : Moderate drinking linked to decline in
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> They came, they saw and stole our transmitter and this is called
> liberation?
> BC
>
>
>  >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and
> this
> >unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
> >Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.
>
> >With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
> >and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.? Less than two
> >months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios,
> though
> >with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.
>
>
> It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese
> Emissora de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after
> Liberation of Goa.
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> Naguesh Bhatcar
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> Thanks for the memory, Con Menezes.
> Many years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Aker Bilk backstage
> after his concert at Fairfield Halls in Croydon.
>  I had taken a French lady friend of mine who was visiting us from
> the Swiss borders to his concert.
>Since she couldn't believe that I could introduce her to the man
> himself,
> she was more than delighted when he autographed a copy of his LP
> she'd bought earlier that evening.
>   I had to listen to 'Strangers on the Shore' once more and re-live the
> day!
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> Mervyn Maciel
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> I feel ashamed that our CCP Mayor Surendra Furtado always at the mercy of
> Parrikar. No principles he has. Always plays safe and tells t

[Goanet] Goenkarponn doesn't spare even....

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://m.goanews.com/blog_details.php?id=1208#.WcIIzzKmZfc.whatsapp

[Goanet] goa's typewriter man and a shop frozen in time

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://homegrown.co.in/article/802215/goas-typewriter-man-and-his-shop-thats-frozen-in-time

[Goanet] uncertainty continues in Goa mining post SC order

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https://india.mongabay.com/2018/02/26/uncertainty-continues-in-goa-over-mining-judgment/

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[Goanet] videovolunteers

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http://www.videovolunteers.org/siolim-locals-infuriated-by-teso-waterfronts-blatant-legal-violations/

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[Goanet] The Regional Plan

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http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/5793525
The Goan 6 July 2015
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[Goanet] Goa's tryst with IT

[Pamela D'Mello]

Goa's tryst with IT
The Goan 13 July 2015


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[Goanet] Agricultural Tenancy and related issues

[Pamela D'Mello]

Agricultural Tenancy and related issues
The Goan, June 22, 2015

http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/5644301

Pamela D'Mello is an independent journalist.

In one of the prayers in its petition before the High Court seeking to
rescind the several sale deeds
by which 12.5 lakh sq m of allegedly tenanted agricultural land came to be
sold, the Tiracol Tenant
and Mundkar Association has made a plea for an inquiry into sales of other
agricultural tenanted
and in the state. If that should come to pass, it would undoubtedly make
for some extremely
interesting revelations.

Unwittingly, Tiracol has come to be a metaphor for some of Goa's most
vexed issues the perennial landlord-­tenant tussle that has underpinned
the region's politics,
governments, governance and a considerable amount of its most significant
legislation. The legal
fiction of power of attorney holders and negative declaration in tenancy
rights that are deployed to
circumvent the provisions of the Agricultural Tenancy Act, that prevent
sale of tenanted
agricultural land, is hardly restricted to that northernmost corner of the
state.

 In a scenario where
considerable land is claimed by tenants, who neither cultivate/tend/harvest
it but cannot legally
sell either; the collusion between tenant and ­landlord with negative
tenancy declarations, is an open
secret in Goa's thriving land market. Vast swathes of land in the state,
almost entire villages, have
thus changed hands, sold to third party purchasers, often from outside the
state (but not always).

Apparently, the same happened in Tiracol  the deal going sour over the
differential payouts,
when some felt they had given up their rights for way too little.

Former minister Ramakant Khalap has a point when he says that deals like
this, take the bottom
out of any demand for special status or protection for Goa's land. Mr
Khalap suggests that far
more urgent is a legislation that, like many other states, would bar sale
of agricultural/orchard land
to a non agriculturist. The kind of law that got a Bollywood icon into
trouble in Uttar Pradesh for
purchasing farmland from that state. A law would help, but would a law
alone plug the rampant
sales?

 The Agricultural Tenancy Act, the Fifth Amendment Act, and the Goa Land
Use Act, 1991,
all have provisions to safeguard alienation of tenanted agricultural land.
Sales continue
nonetheless. And farm land gets converted to settlement/commercial zoning
on considerations
outside the parameters of holistic planning. Some of Goa's politicians,
post statehood, have
unfortunately practiced the politics and economics of land brokerage, as
one politician candidly
pointed out, to the ire of his colleagues.

Along the coast and elsewhere, higher returns from tourism, real estate,
rental housing, and
government jobs, have all but edged out agriculture. Yet the fiction of
agricultural tenancy persist,
even where cultivation is token or no longer takes place.

The 2014 amendment to the Goa Agricultural Tenancy Act, introducing
provisions for contract
 farming, substituting the mamlatdar
with civil court jurisdiction and introduction of the sunset clause ­­­
attempted to tilt the balance
but is drawing protests from tenant organisations. Chief Minister Parsekar
has since reportedly
promised to drop the sunset clause in the upcoming monsoon session of the
legislative assembly.

The clause was to put a three year cut off after September 2014, on filing
applications declaring
tenancy under sections of the Tenancy Act. Tenacy proponents like Mr Khalap
however advocate a
renewed campaign to requisition mamlatdars to survey areas and issue
purchase orders.

Ironically issues like the complete absence of a land ceiling law in Goa
rarely surface in the
debates. One suspects that not only would private landholdings have
qualified, but certainly many
tenancy claims as well. Every grouping has its own creamy layer, and
tenancy was no different.

There has always been the allegation that the post liberation tranches of
land reform affected
particular communities and caste groupings more than they did others.
Comunidades have always
cried foul over the way they were hit by tenancy claims and land
acquisition­­­ single tenants
claiming entire hills of cashew.

Without capital and entrepreneurship, land and labour alone give limited
returns -- ­­­ that's basic
economics, accounting for the stagnation the sector has seen. It is
instructive that the umbrella
organisation of tenant communities formed after the 2014 tenancy
amendments, made several
other demands.

They reportedly wanted government to clear 10,000 applications to fill
government
vacancies and 5000 promotions; besides protested injustice from government
in failing to pursue
all round development of these communities in education, health, art,
culture, sports, and social
and economic fronts.

Meanwhile, Goa's declining farm produce and its dependency on neighbouring
states for fruits

[Goanet] Village Goa v/s Township Goa

[Pamela D'Mello]

Village Goa v/s Township Goa
The Goan, 29 June 2015

http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/5905382

Pamela D'Mello

It took an accident of a prominent environmentalist in Delhi some years
ago, to bring home to the
media, the plight of cyclists in modern Indian cities. Knocked down while
cycling on Delhi streets,
her organisation was able to articulate the point that bicycle riders were
being systematically edged
out of Indian cities.

As Goa hurtles towards a model of urbanisation and concomitant road
expansion/broadening exercises ­­­ the numbers of two wheeler accidents and
fatalities 
indicate a similar trend. Almost daily, reports of two wheeler and
pedestrian fatalities on Goa's
roads, accompanied by village protests and tensions, bring home the sad
reality of a society in
painful transition.

Industrial estates, situated often atop village residential areas and
plateau land,
has brought heavy truck/goods carrier movement right past the doorways of
village residences.
Road expansion, always contentious, due to loss of property and homes in
acquisition, can be
justified along major arteries that exhibit high traffic volumes and
snarls. High traffic volumes
necessitate signaled corridors  both somewhat acting as a deterrent to
major traffic fatalities, as
studies have shown.

But this is not the case in non­industrial rural areas, where road
expansion has less to do with
traffic volumes, than with the needs of real estate lobbies seeking wider
roads to push through
building construction plans in villages, and/or gain higher FARs with wider
road widths adjoining
them.

Dressed up as "planning for the future," these developments when first
proposed, had
drawn protests from village groups during an earlier regime, but are
strangely muted now they
have become a reality. Indeed the stretches of road recently prioritized
for expansion along the
north Goa coastal belt, tell their own story.

The plans seem more focused on opening up areas to
construction possibilities, than they are to the needs of citizens.
Sections of the media were quick
to photo document some of the land conversions and fencing that immediately
followed road
expansion.

Farm land along the expanded roads, follows the usual trajectory,
immediately
appreciating in value, changing ownership from farmer to local politician
and being prospected for
other uses. There's enough reason to believe that the North Goa Planning
and Development
Authority's recent ploy to include and open up outline development plans in
coastal areas is
connected to the newly expanded roads.

The Congress's Agnelo Fernandes has objected to the move made by NGPDA
chairman Michael
Lobo, as have the local BJP mandal in the case of Taleigao. The latter have
opposed the opening of
the ODP to fresh changes as well as new road projects that they say are
mere ploys to facilitate
planting more high rises in fields. The resultant blockages of natural
water flows by road
embankments and channeling of sewage waste water from high rises, is
designed to choke out all
agriculture from the area, they pointed out.

There's credence in what they say. Farm land adjoining
townships are known to and have visibly become the receptacles of garbage,
sewage and plastic
generated, speedily morphing into swamps. It epitomizes the story of much
of coastal village Goa,
where developers apparently attempting to sell their prospective buyers a
taste of the rustic Goan
idyll, actually accelerate its demise.

Rural Goa ­­­ as it lies on the cusp between township and village ­­­
presents its old denizens with
new hazards. Without the high continuous volume of traffic of congested
cities, broad empty
roads in village Goa are akin to freeways, encouraging speeding and
increasing accident risk --
the cause and effect almost immediately tragically palpable in the villages
“blessed” with the
expanded carriageways. The increased number of accidents in places like
Saligao have followed
apace with the shiny new runways. Two wheelers, cyclists and pedestrians
are particularly at risk ­
following similar dismal road safety patterns across urban India, where one
person dies in a road
traffic accident every four minutes.

There are other fallouts. Writer Victor Rangel Ribeiro had occasion to rue
the dissection of his
village Porvorim by the national highway that cuts through it. Not a few
senior citizens have
perished in pedestrian and two wheeler accidents, sometimes right outside
their homes as traffic
whiz past, uncaring of the village and its inhabitants.

The disconnects between township Goa and village Goa have become acute in
other ways. In
Caranzalem, sewage and storm water from high-rises allegedly flowing down
into the lower lying
village fields have reportedly agitated residents of the old village there.
The same is the case
 with the high rises in Porvorim and the inhabitants of the stand­alone
villas that dot that suburb.

Gardens and lawns in multi st

[Goanet] Goa's Medium of Instruction Saga

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/5935447

The Medium of Instruction Saga

The Goan, Jul 20, 2015

Pamela D'Mello

 Four years after parents came out onto the streets to press the government
to extend grants in aid to English medium primary schools, the Forum for
Rights of Children to Education (FORCE) leadership is once again taking to
the streets. Announcing a “do or die” hunger strike by its secretary Savio
Lopes to commence on July 27, the start of the monsoon session of the Goa
Assembly --- FORCE this time is demanding that government embed its MOI
policy of grants for English medium schools into the Education Act and
Rules. Lopes categorically says FORCE does not trust any government and
politicians in particular, who have played “dirty politics” with the lives
of children for way too long in Goa. The organisation, after a series of
meetings, is demanding that the government translate the July 1, 2014
cabinet decision into an undiluted Act, that will protect the rights of
English medium schools to grants in aid from the government. Embedding the
policy in an Act will protect children studying in such schools from the
uncertainty of political maneuvers, the vagaries of political parties and
policies that could change overnight, says FORCE.

Agitating since 2011, FORCE says it has now run out of patience and is
determined to conclude the struggle for its demand.

 Ever since the Shashikala Kakodkar education ministry in 1991, took a
blatantly discriminatory decision to deny English medium primaries a grant
in aid, the issue has traumatised two generations of children and their
parents. Ostensibly to promote regional languages, the 1991 decision was
made palatable by a clause saying no new permissions would be granted to
set up English schools. After a misguided Church decision (ignoring parent
protests at the time) to adopt Konkani as a medium of instruction, lakhs of
students went through the pedagogical disaster of oscillating between
English and Konkani and English from nursery to high school, wasting four
crucial formative years and impeding their academic performance and careers
at the altar of bigotry. Those who could afford higher fees, shifted in
droves to the 139 new private non government aided English schools that
sprang up to meet the growing demand for an English education, both from
local families and the increasingly cosmopolitan population moving to Goa.

 Lopes has a point when he says that the influential right wing
groups/individuals that agitated to oppose grants to English, make no
protest at private English schools. In fact many send their children and
grandchildren to these schools, while hypocritically advocating a
vernacular education for others. Many feel that the Archdiocese run schools
are targeted for discrimination, as seen in their demands to increase
divisions this year being turned down.

Academics have since convincingly argued that the 'education in the mother
tongue' argument that has been peddled for too long in Goa, has long lost
its credibility. This, because the state's disastrous experiment with the
Konkani vernacular had become the insidious vehicle for the imposition of
the dominant upper caste Antruzi dialect and the Devanagari script, even
while real mother tongue dialects for some and the Romi script, native to a
large section --- were scorned in the pursuit of 'uniformity'.

 The pervasive use of English in higher education, employment and
administration --- makes it an aspirational vehicle for millions of Goans
and Indians. That is a given, though many states, attempting to stem the
tide and preserve regional languages, are using state aid as a block. In
Goa, the exodus from regional government primaries is sought to be stemmed
by preventing new divisions in English mediums. This of course impacts the
poorest the most, especially at a time when an education – and an English
education at that --- offers possible avenues to improve one's lot in an
industrialising economy, where no such upward mobility was possible in the
rigid caste-ridden feudal agrarian economies that it dismantles.

 Can there be a synergy between the language of aspiration and the language
of culture? Purists may disagree, but people are multilingual and have
adapted to multiple usages of both – English and the vernacular. Never is
this more evident than with cultural products like the tiatr, that thrive
and could scale further heights. Audio and video cultural products in
Konkani have shown tremendous latent yet-to-be-fully-tapped potential to
grow, in television and Internet, bypassing the obsession with
script/dialect uniformity that purists and litterateurs in the language
movement hanker for. Die hard English-as-MOI protagonists are equally
die-hard Konkani mogis in the cultural space, creating both a growing
market and a possible avenue. If this is acknowledged there would be more
cause for unity than division.

 The contribution of the `min

[Goanet] Goa police to start school policing

[Pamela D'Mello]

Goa police to start school policing

By a staff reporter
Friday 24 July 2015
Gomantak Times

 Panaji: Stating that drug menace was a serious matter of concern for the
Goa police, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sunil Garg said that the Goa
police was all set to start little policing system in the State schools
from next month.
It may be noted that the Goa police department had finalized a programme
titled 'little police' wherein participation of students would be involved
in policing.
The programme will include students from high schools as well as higher
secondary schools wherein students will be given an opportunity to visit
the police stations and to understand the police functioning . While doing
this, the students will also get an opportunity to be a part of the police
intelligence network.
As part of the programme, students will be made aware of crimes, the modus
operandi and how it can be avoided from happening.


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[Goanet] no teeing off here

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://indialegalonline.com/no-teeing-off-here/

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[Goanet] Tourism Travails: Back to the Drawing Board

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/6227789

Tourism Travails and New directions
Back to the Drawing Board
Pamela D'Mello
The Goan
17 Aug 2015

After a particularly bad year for the tourism business in Goa, it was
interesting to listen to legislators and government explain away the issue
and detail their analysis on what they perceived had gone awry with the Goa
tourism growth story. The tourism department statistics reveal that
charters in the year 2014-15 dropped to 813 with a total of 1,54,047
tourists on board, from 1128 charter flights in 2013-14 with 4,41,543
passengers. Total international arrivals dropped from around 5 lakh
arrivals in 2013-14 to 4.41 lakh arrivals in 2014-15. Domestic visitors
dropped from approximately 35 lakhs to 28 lakhs in 2013-14 and 2014-15
respectively. For an industry that the government said added some 300
hotels, 84 travel agents, 127 water sports operators, 1583 tourist taxis to
existing numbers, the point being made by government was that supply was
over-stripping demand and the resultant glut in services on offer was
seeing everybody in the industry vying for smaller bits of the proverbial
tourism pie.

There's bitter irony here, that in a bad year the government should
indirectly blame the services glut and over expansion in the sector for the
problems of industry --- when it has no qualms about merrily dishing out
fresh permissions and licenses without any concern for the region's
carrying capacity. That the overload has continued to ridiculous
proportions is palpable from the cut pricing on the ground.

It's a time when larger outstation corporations and firms with deeper
pockets and longer staying capacity, who perceive Goa as one of many
investment destinations, are muscling in on the older existing local
homespun industry that has for long buoyed the sector. If employment and
welfare is the key concern of government (as it should be), then tourism
administrators and government would afford more time and effort to organise
and revamp local service providers, rather that bring in newer, bigger
players.

At the macro level, last year's slump of between 20-25 % has a number of
external causes that are typical of the way tourism is structured,
dependent on the vagaries of international events outside anybody's
control. A tiny leisure destination like Goa can tank under the effects of
European sanctions against Russia (the major charter market) and falling
oil prices, leading to the latter's economic downturn.

Hotels in Goa responded by dropping tariffs and offering packages to
domestic visitors, to make up the losses. But increasingly, the industry is
perceiving the need for a more collective agile response to crisis
management --- one that government and its administrative bodies are
incapable of helming.

The industry is arguing for the setting up of a dedicated tourism board,
that is independent of government, but has representation of government and
industry stakeholders, with government fiscal backing. The idea was first
suggested by the CII in 2008, but has never become a reality. They see it
as a body that would advise government, aid in preparing Goa centric
tourism policies and strategise for short and long term planning.

>From all indications there is definitely a huge gap in the understanding
and responses between the trade and government. While the tourism
department concentrates on the tedious and time consuming processes of
annual licensing, tariff collections and data collation, the Goa Tourism
Development Corporation has its own hotels to manage and overhaul and
events to promote. It's being argued, with some justification, that the
processes of governance leave it with little bandwidth to grapple with and
respond to the fast paced ground level changes that make and unmake
destinations, the cut throat competition that is now underpinning the
global tourism marketplace.

The articulate former TTAG head Ralph de Souza says the global industry has
changed drastically but Goa's responses have not kept pace. The days of
mass tourism and assured large packages are definitely declining ---
brought about by increased air connectivity, the opening up of newer
destinations and increased flight costs. The bump in FIT numbers over bulk
group bookings and the fact that bulk of the bookings are over the
Internet, requires an altogether different response and marketing model.
The entire ecosystem calls for detailed, user friendly, interactive
websites and Apps and fleet footed reaction mechanisms to what the global
market throws at you.

In the competitive cut throat global marketplace, countries like Sri Lanka
and Thailand are offering free landings as incentive, while Maldives offers
dollar incentives per flight. Destinations in India are known to pay tour
operators $ 15 a pax. Cambodia,Vietnam and Laos offer joint budget
packages. Goa's failure to keep pace is seen as one of the reasons for its
inability to hold

[Goanet] Restoring the Trust Deficit

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/6228117

Restoring the trust deficit
Pamela DMello
The Goan, 10 Aug 2015
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[Goanet] Get your Act together

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/6091293
Get your Act together
Pamela D'Mello
The Goan. Aug 03,2015

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[Goanet] Supply driven infrastructure

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/6013319

Supply driven infrastructure
The Goan
27 Jul, 2015

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[Goanet] Goa University:Cutting off the roots

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/6546744

Goa University:Cutting off the roots
The slow whittling away at Goa University's land and stature by the
government, is not the right way to treat an integral state institution
By Pamela D'Mello
The Goan, 14 September 2015

As Panjim expands and spreads into the neighbouring villages, as government
finds the need to put in more infrastructure for some of the major events
(like the International Film Festival of India) that it hosts and other
utilities and for myriad private interests   the state’s premier public
university has been seen as a sitting duck. It has been steadily losing its
campus land, as government finds it convenient to simply help itself to
campus land, rather than search for alternative sites to locate some of its
buildings.

University Executive Council sources admit that the university is all the
time under tremendous pressure from government to part with additional
parcels of its campus. As a state funded university, dependent on
government funds and approvals for all its requirements, including  filling
of faculty posts, service extensions  et al the university finds itself
at a distinct disadvantage.

The current Vice Chancellor has repeatedly pointed this out in the public,
arguing for  the constitution of a task force of citizens to help draw a
master plan to preserve Goa University’s property. From the data, it is
quite clear there is scant respect for the geographic integrity of the
university campus, by the very entity that set it up and is charged with
fostering its present and future growth. Of the 16.30 lakh sq m, the
University was allotted when it was set up in June 1985, it has already
lost 43,000 sq m to four non educational buildings constructed by
government on its campus over the years. The ETDC complex hosting the
electronic testing lab of the central government was granted  a  99 year
lease on 3500 sq m, at Rs 1 per year. The BSNL telephone exchange
occupies  2500
sq m on similar conditions. Both of these caused some disquiet when they
were located on campus. But the campus lost considerably, when the Sports
Authority of Goa took 30,000 sq m to locate the Dr Shyama Prasad Indoor
Stadium complex on University land, for which the University does not even
have a lease agreement. A draft MOU sent to SAG for finalization has yet to
be approved and returned back, according to official information tabled
before the legislature.  Goa University has earned nothing on the transfer
of land and  would probably have to pay for usage of the under-utilised
stadium, if and when it chooses to do so. Further, the government has yet
to transfer 7000 sq m back to Goa university in exchange for an electric
sub station it located on campus.

Adding to the University’s nightmare is the Bambolim-Dona Paula road
widening that has segmented the campus to its detriment, besides reportedly
claiming 45,000 sq m of land and 752 trees. A highway segmenting a campus,
rather than skirting its perimeter, is hardly an ideal situation for any
university.

Without a compound wall demarcating its boundary --- neglected for lack of
government funds --- the campus has been losing land to private
encroachments  and roads that suddenly materialize for the mushrooming
constructions on what has now become prime real estate in the Bambolim
area. It is believed to be fighting some six cases in various courts.
Neighbouring  panchayats have their own legitimate needs, but having
invested in the idea of a public state university, there is certainly need
for all stakeholders to protect the idea.

According to official information, existing university buildings occupy
1.16 lakh sq m, and other utilities, landscaping, sports complexes apart,
Goa University has around 10.37 lakh sq m yet to be utilized.

The current vice chancellor, has rightly sought to protect the university’s
educational integrity, by suggesting other professional government
educational institutions could relocate to its campus.  Though some
colleges within the city are willing to do so, the idea does not seem to
find too much favour with government. Cost may be a factor, but the
principle behind the suggestion to maintain the university’s educational
purpose must be respected.

Governments, past and present, admittedly have their compulsions and
infrastructural requirements. But so do universities. A state university is
a vision for the future. Education and higher education are long term
investments in human resources and well being. It hardly makes sense to
forego the future needs of Goa University’s educational mandate for short
term technical solutions. The Bambolim campus is on prime land, and that
makes it vulnerable. In the three decades since its setting  up, there can
be no denying that the University has grown and served a purpose, making
higher education accessible to young Goans. . It hardly makes sense to talk
about making Goa an  educational hub, while whittling down the

Re: [Goanet] Goa University:Cutting off the roots

[Pamela D'Mello]

You have to be clear if you are talking of an educational hub for private
colleges or public colleges. If the former avails of land acquired for them
by the state and granted gratis or at low cost, then goes on to charge
prohibitive fees for everything (which private institutes do), then there's
a con job somewhere. And governments these days kill off public education
institutes, to get rid of all competition and create a monopoly situation
for the private sector, where they can then profit and proliferate.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Floriano Lobo 
wrote:

> Someone had to point these things out and we [GSRP] thanks Pamela D'Mello
> for doing a huge service by doing just this.
>
> In its Road Map for  Goa, Education aka Educational Hub  for Goa has been
> hugely stressed. Right from Primary Schooling to  the University Campus,
>  GSRP's VISION has been explained at nauxeaum which also includes
> de-politicizing or rather removing all nuances of political interferences
> from the the Educational Institutions.
>
> That it takes visionaries to think of the  future of the coming
> generations is something that is  lost on the borers who bore holes in the
> woodwork for a living.They are not expected to have Vision/s FOR Goa. They
> only have the magnified Vision OF Goa, like Manohar Parrikar has rightly
> pointed out to the late Dr. Wilfred D'Souza in his letter to him.
>
> The Education Scenario for GOA with GSRP at the helm of affairs is
> available to be downloaded from its Roadmap for GOA  at www.goasu-raj.org
> at Chapter IX
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Pamela D'Mello 
> wrote:
>
>> http://www.readwhere.com/read/c/6546744
>>
>> Goa University:Cutting off the roots
>> The slow whittling away at Goa University's land and stature by the
>> government, is not the right way to treat an integral state institution
>> By Pamela D'Mello
>> The Goan, 14 September 2015
>>
>>


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[Goanet] Braz gonsalves

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://www.scroll.in/article/saxy-desi-check-out-these-milestone-sounds-on-the-south-asian-saxophone-highway?id=766154

[Goanet] Goa

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://www.scroll.in/article/768230/has-the-goa-chief-minister-

laxmikant-

parsekar-emerged-as-a-challenger-to-mohan-parrikar


http://www.scroll.in/article/767866/giant-effigies-and-cash-prizes-why-goa-celebrates-the-day-before-diwali

[Goanet] Fwd: Event Invitation: A talk: 'Wildlife photography in Goa' by Rahul Alvares

[Pamela D'Mello]

-- Forwarded message --
From: "Facebook" 
Date: 7 Dec 2015 19:39
Subject: Event Invitation: A talk: 'Wildlife photography in Goa' by Rahul
Alvares
To: "Pamela D'Mello" 
Cc:

  Kokum DC invited you to Kokum 's event   A talk: 'Wildlife photography in
Goa' by Rahul Alvares Thursday, December 10 at 6:30pm Design Centre,
Alto-Porvorim, Goa   Going Maybe Can't Go   Rahul Alvares will
discuss the challenges of wildlife photography and will share his
experiences and anecdotes on animal behaviour as he runs through his
favourite photographs from the wildlife places... Rajiv D'Silva and 8
others are also on the guest list. Pending Invites (3) Block
invites from Kokum?   Kokum DC
<https://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.php&id=14337088670&aref=1449497341407718&medium=email&mid=5264f1c8d2f14G1f1427feG5264f662331e6G6bG8a2a&bcode=1.1449497341.AbkgNh9WZmuQPe08&n_m=dmello.pamela%40gmail.com>
invited you to Kokum
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event A talk: 'Wildlife photography in Goa' by Rahul Alvares
<https://www.facebook.com/n/?events%2F1067711666593809%2F&ref=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited&action_history=null&aref=1449497341407718&medium=email&mid=5264f1c8d2f14G1f1427feG5264f662331e6G6bG8a2a&bcode=1.1449497341.AbkgNh9WZmuQPe08&n_m=dmello.pamela%40gmail.com>Thursday,
December 10 at 6:30pmDesign Centre, Alto-Porvorim, Goa Going
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   Maybe
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   Can't Go
<https://www.facebook.com/n/?events%2Femail%2Finvitation%2Fresponse%2F&eid=1067711666593809&action=decline&acontext%5Bsource%5D=6&acontext%5Bsource_notif_type%5D=plan_user_invited&acontext%5Baction_history%5D=null&ext=1481033341&hash=AeTjm3qH_9C8fO9T&aref=1449497341407718&medium=email&mid=5264f1c8d2f14G1f1427feG5264f662331e6G6bG8a2a&bcode=1.1449497341.AbkgNh9WZmuQPe08&n_m=dmello.pamela%40gmail.com>
<https://www.facebook.com/n/?events%2Femail%2Finvitation%2Fresponse%2F&eid=1067711666593809&action=decline&acontext%5Bsource%5D=6&acontext%5Bsource_notif_type%5D=plan_user_invited&acontext%5Baction_history%5D=null&ext=1481033341&hash=AeTjm3qH_9C8fO9T&aref=1449497341407718&medium=email&mid=5264f1c8d2f14G1f1427feG5264f662331e6G6bG8a2a&bcode=1.1449497341.AbkgNh9WZmuQPe08&n_m=dmello.pamela%40gmail.com>
 Rahul Alvares will discuss the challenges of wildlife photography and will
share his experiences and anecdotes on animal behaviour as he runs through
his favourite photographs from the wildlife places...Rajiv D'Silva and 8
others are also on the guest list.
<https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=14337088670>
<https://www.facebook.com/rajiv.dsilva.1>
<https://www.facebook.com/claude.alvares.3>
<https://www.facebook.com/tallulah.dsilva>
<https://www.facebook.com/literati.goa> 

[Goanet] Mario Miranda galleries

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://ourfrontcover.com/homepageposts/a-gallery-with-a-view/

[Goanet] History:the brutal Maratha invasionof Bengal

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://scroll.in/article/776978/forgotten-indian-history-the-brutal-maratha-invasions-of-bengal

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Goanet annual year-end meet in Goa: if you're reading this, you're
eligible to join us! Dec 28, 2015 @ 11 am Fundacao Oriente, Panjim
Confirm your participation with a short email to goa...@goanet.org
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[Goanet] Lawyers thrash JNU students and journalists in court

[Pamela D'Mello]

Wow! "Lawyers thrash JNU students in court", actually makes it to Page 8 of
the Navhind Times in the News Page, after the National Page. Not bad at all.

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Cell 9850 461649
http://pameladmello.wordpress.com

[Goanet] Strengthening the Right

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://scroll.in/article/804084/jnu-crisis-has-the-centre-bungled-or-was-this-always-part-of-a-plan

[Goanet] Freedom to dissent, two JNU students still in jail

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://scroll.in/article/804841/kanhaiya-has-got-bail-but-the-state-has-more-to-gain-from-keeping-his-two-classmates-behind-bars

[Goanet] FC Goa fans

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://thefield.scroll.in/822623/enraged-by-an-ownership-change-passionate-fc-goa-fans-are-celebrating-the-teams-recent-dismal-form

[Goanet] Uniform civil code

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://googleweblight.com/?lite_url=http://www.indialegallive.com/did-you-know/il-feature/goa-leading-by-example-15447&lc=en-IN&s=1&m=630&host=www.google.co.in&ts=1481341917&sig=AF9Nedkad2rs2KHNZix3ypqcRTE9dRphJQ

[Goanet] Cashless in Goa

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://scroll.in/article/823547/government-drive-to-make-goa-cashless-runs-into-resistance-from-within

[Goanet] Should goa or delhi run IFFI

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://thereel.scroll.in/822150/should-goa-or-delhi-run-the-international-film-festival-of-india-the-plot-thickens

[Goanet] Sun, surf and suffering

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://scroll.in/article/824401/sun-surf-and-suffering-the-cash-crunch-is-ruining-the-holiday-mood-in-goa

[Goanet] Of apologies and all that

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://scroll.in/article/826443/on-first-official-visit-to-coastal-state-portugals-goa-origin-pm-is-sucked-into-a-poll-eve-row

[Goanet] Fwd: Please Read and Spread

[Pamela D'Mello]

>
>
https://sabrangindia.in/article/media-trial-stooges-establishment-target-teesta-setalvad-yet-again-peddle-canards-name
> Media Trial: Stooges of the Establishment target Teesta Setalvad yet
again, peddle canards in the name of Debate
>
>
> This is a response to the bile spread by an electronic channel that
claims for itself the label of ‘independent journalism'. Specifically the
'The News Hour' Farce of  Times Now on Monday

[Goanet] Goa protests as Parrikar takes oath

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://scroll.in/article/831804/manohar-parrikar-is-notmycm-goa-protests-as-bjp-ministers-take-oath

[Goanet] The political economy behind Goa's politics

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://everyday.thegoan.net/index.php?pagedate=2017-4-16&edcode=71&subcode=71&mod=1&pgnum=2

-- 
Pamela D'Mello
Cell 9850 461649
http://pameladmello.wordpress.com

[Goanet] Pork sausages

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://scroll.in/latest/842461/new-zealand-woman-attempts-to-smuggle-in-pork-sausages-from-india-sentenced-to-community-service

[Goanet] Brics in Goa

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154582149944655&id=521414654

[Goanet] Goa uniform family laws

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://scroll.in/article/820030/uniform-civil-code-the-goa-family-law-the-bjp-holds-up-as-ideal-permits-polygamy-for-hindus

[Goanet] DNA - Sunetra Choudhury: All the inside juice from Anna’s reality show

[Pamela D'Mello]

When Reality Shows rule the roost...

Sunetra Choudhury: All the inside juice from Anna’s reality show
As the Anna Hazare situation looks like it’s drawing to a close, it’s
perhaps a good time to confess. All of us in the media have been played.

ARTICLE URL:
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/report_sunetra-choudhury-all-the-inside-juice-from-annas-reality-show_1580147

[Goanet] article

[Pamela D'Mello]

http://scroll.in/article/698025/2014,-the-year-India-became-a-Hindu-state

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Pamela D'Mello
Cell 9850 461649
http://pameladmello.wordpress.com

[Goanet] Fwd: Space Theatre Ensemble performance in Goa 2015

[Pamela D'Mello]

Greetings from the Space Theatre Ensemble!

After our fourth residency at the Marudam Farm School in Tiruvannamalai,
the ensemble traveled through Salem, Nagpur and Bhopal- then took a short
break.
All of us returning home before our parents officially disowned us!

We are all back together, in addition to two new actors and have began
rehearsals for the second part of our performance tour that will see us
leaving for Delhi on the 18th of this month.

But we are performing on the 16th and the 17th, coming Monday and Tuesday
respectively.

Here is the link for our performance at Assagao on Monday the 16th
February.
Time: 8pm
There are no tickets, we will pass the hat around.
https://www.facebook.com/events/886152921437593/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&source=1

And another performance at Saraya in Sangolda on the 17th February.
Time: 7pm
Entry Free.
Find attached the poster.
Here is the address: Saraya , House Number 64 Chogm Road, Sangolda, Bardez,
Goa
(It is just past the Paper Boat collective on the road going towards
Saligao, on the right)

The performances will start sharp on time and NOT by Indian Standard Time!
So please be there punctually.

Please pass the word around.









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[Goanet] Savia Viegas on Angelo da Fonseca

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://goajournal.in/the-art-of-angelo-da-fonseca-life-times-context/

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Cell 9850 461649
http://pameladmello.wordpress.com

[Goanet] Farmer protests in Sanguem

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://scroll.in/article/1035525/why-a-proposed-iit-campus-in-goa-has-sparked-farmer-protests

[Goanet] Mhadei Dispute:Crisis For Goa, Challenge for state BJP

[Pamela D'Mello]

 long
term interests.

Moreover, the MBA points out that a tributary of the Mhadei had already
been surreptitiously diverted, with one river bed enroute to Goa going
completely dry --- on the current government's watch.

Political fall out for CM

All of this has put Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on the spot. though.
Facing rival contenders for the chair,  there's credence  a flare-up of
this emotive issue could be directed into a leadership-change one. A
swiftly convened  umbrella organisation of activists and opposition
political parties called Save Mhadei, Save Goa,  have placed Sawant an
impossible-to-fulfill ultimatum – prevail on  the centre to revoke
Karnataka's approved DPRs by January 16, Opinion Poll Day.

>From initially downplaying the imminent threat and relying on civil society
to assist, with a signature campaign - the Chief Minister's camp has
had to display greater kinetic urgency. Its efforts to elicit a face-saving
assurance from central ministers, has not succeeded, leaving it only with a
legal recourse, for the moment, and a citizenry, who are not at all amused.



-- 
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https://goajournal.in/
https://muckrack.com/pamela-dmello-1317087

[Goanet] Goa- Road Accidents/Urbanisation

[Pamela D'Mello]

Hi Everyone,

Here's a link to something I put out recently.
https://goajournal.in/goas-rising-road-accident-graph/

Regards
Pamela

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Pamela D'Mello
Cell 9850 461649