[Goanet] Fwd: Felicio Cardoso-cho Ugddas Dis

[augusto pinto]

I'm posting an email I received regarding the anniversary of Felicio
Cardozo.

It's in Konkani. It speaks about a brilliant Konkani writer named Felicio
Cardozo who died along with another tireless worker for Konkani named Fr.
Freddy da Costa founder of Gulab.

If anyone among you doesn't understand then I'm willing to translate if you
don't understand.

If sufficient numbers request I'll consider translating.


-- Forwarded message -
From: Gulab Marg 
Date: Thu, 27 Aug, 2020, 3:13 PM
Subject: Felicio Cardoso-cho Ugddas Dis
To: walter menezes , Anthony Menezes <
19meneze...@gmail.com>, Gulab , sebastian mariano
borges , mafaldina moreira <
mafaldin_more...@yahoo.co.in>, Uday Bhembre ,
Chetan Acharya 
Cc: , Anwesha singbal 


Bhou Manest,

Dev bori sanz tumkam.

Agostachie 30ver 2020 Felicio Cardoso-cho Ugddas dis hachi tumkam khobor
astolich.

Hea disa sodheak choltolie Mahamarichie poristhitik lagon amcho sodam porim
somarombh aschonam hem tor tumkam adim kolloilam. Tea disa KBM-an ek
'online' karyokram' ghoddoun haddla, ani tantunt ami bhagidar asat.  Hivui
tumkam khobor astoli. Amchean tankam kitem sohokar diunk zata to dium-ia.
KBM odheokx Anwesha baye lagim tumchean sompork sadoum-ieta.

Amchie votin hea disa khatir ami (FELICIO CARDOSO-che Pattlavdar) kaim
kar'ya ankhleant te vixim thoddkeant hanga mahiti ditam:

1. Amchea tharavea pormonnem Agost mhoineachea Gulab ankar Felicio
Cardoso-cho ugddas dis jahirat uzvaddak haddlia ani tech porim tea ankar
Felicio-cher Dilip-bab Borkaran vistaran ek panch panacho lekh uzvaddak
haddla.  Mud'dom' korun ho lekh vachcho.

2. FCP-chea nema pormonnem soglli prokriya korun Felicio Cardoso Potrkarita
puroskar, hache khatir veokti vinchun kaddlia.  He vixinchi batmi toyar
korun sogllea potrank aiz patthoilia. Hea vorsak ho puroskar Marcos
Gonsalves-ak labhla.

3. Walter-bab Menezes-an fuddakar gheun Felicio-babachio don mottvio
kannio: 'Nita' ani 'Kristachi Zat Konn?' Inglixint bhaxantor korun
ghetleat.  Dev borem korum Walter-bab. Ho bhaxantor korpacho vaur lovkik
Inglezicho boroinnar ani bhaxantor korpi Sr. Augusto Pinto-n vhodd thokos
gheun kainch mandan ghenastanam ani bhou thoddea vella modem keleat.  Taka
amche dhinvas. What's Christ's Caste? Inglixint tea disa, Agost 30,
Herald-acher uzvaddavpachi amchi yeuzonn asli punn tem zomlem nam, karonn
Herald kannio uzvaddak haddinam khoim.  Mhonnttoch tea disa  'Nita' Navhind
Times-acher uzvaddaunk ami patthoilia. Christ's Caste hi kanni Selma
Carvalho-k patthoilia tichea JRLJ (Joao Roque Literary Journal) masikar
uzvaddak haddunk.
Herald-an sanglam apunn tea disa 'profile' vo 'tribute' ghalunk xoktat
mhonn te khatir Herald-ak ek profile patthoun dilia.  Hem sogllem uzvaddak
yetolem kai nam tem ami ravon pollevpachem.

4. Ami Felicio-babacher ek 900 sobdancho lekh boroun Bhangarbhuim disalleak
Sneha Sabnis bayechea adharan patthoila. To lekh tea disa uzvaddak yetolo,
oxi amchi opekxa asa. Sneha bayek dhinvas.

5. Atam amcho KBM-a vangdda kariokram' asa to yexosvi korpak tumi sohokar
diunk magtam.  Mhojem 'net' mhaka khub sotaita ani kam' ekdom soukas zata,
zori hanv 'double speed'-in kam' korpachi tozvit kortam.

Sompoitanam anik ekdam ugddas kortam, Konknni mollar vaur khub asa, punn
vauraddi mat zhollkonam, zori apunn 'Konknni-mogi' mhunnttoleancho ankddo
vaddot asa,  denvonam.  Poristhiti oxich chol'li zalear ami hio sonstha ani
Trust 'you tube'-acher channel gheun ghalunk cholounk poddttolio ani thoddi
bhou yenavoll mellounk ami xoktole.

Dev borem korum.

Fausto

[Goanet] UK: Zoom Webinar Goans in Britain Part of South Asian Heritage Month 18 August 2020 ? Observations by Rose Fernandes

[augusto pinto]

Rose Fernandes asks some interesting questions as to why Goans come to
England which I've excerpted below my post.

She says she doesn't understand why Goans leave their decent houses and go
to England where they frequently have to stay in at best one room in a
shared house.

She is essentialy referring to the Goans who have got to England by the
Portuguese passport route fairly recently, unlike those like her migrated
there from East Africa.

The reasons are indeed complex and my friend the erudite Late Prof. Alito
Sequeira of Goa University's Sociology Department once suggested to me some
of those reasons.

While the economic argument is no doubt at the base of migration, the
status of a person within Goa is another very important factor. And status
in Goa has as much to do with class as well as caste. Political status may
be yet another factor.

Getting a job in Goa is a highly competitive affair, but the problem gets
exacerbated for Goans because there are numerous kinds of jobs which reduce
a person's status. Most of these jobs are linked to manual labour which is
closely linked to the caste system (incidentally I also speak about
Christians who doctrinally can't have a caste, but those who know Goa well,
know better.)

Mind you, many of these jobs can earn a person a more than decent living,
but there are few takers among Goans and these are being done by migrants
to Goa from other parts of India.

When they however go abroad, they can work at a variety of jobs which they
would never do in Goa, as they couldn't care less what others in England
think, and by and large people in England don't give a damn about what
other people like them do.

And on the occasional opportunities they get to go back to Goa, their
status is up there with the best as they can go out to good restaurants and
do other good things


In the meantime when they take the wife and children, they can hope they
will be able to improve their status like the Africander Goans did over a
period of time.

Finally there is also the issue of political status: in England, a small
country, you have Keith and Valery Vaz, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel among
others who can aspire to high political status. People who migrate to
England perceive (whether rightly or not I don't know for sure) that they
are going to a more egalitarian society where they can hope to rise to the
top over a period of time.

In Goa and India, particularly in the Goan Catholic community, they see
little hope in the future politically.

There may be other reasons, but I will stop here.
Augusto

"Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes outlined two reasons for the 21st century
migration of Goans, through the Portuguese passport, to Britain.   Firstly,
the opening of the border between Goa and the rest of India resulting in
free movement of labour causing a ?competition for jobs? in Goa.
 Secondly, the local Goan observing the spending power by visitors coming
from abroad, a visual sign that people who have ventured abroad had made
and were making it ?big?.   However, I find this quite the reverse speaking
to my circle of friends, the 21st century Goan migration also consists of
Catholic Goans who have left well paid and secure jobs in Goa coupled with
a wonderful lifestyle, and headed for the UK.   In fact, just the other
day, one of our friends announced that he was leaving his big ?villa in the
sun? in Goa and heading to the UK where, I assured him, there was no hope
at all of him having an equivalent lifestyle here and definitely not the
same sized property!   At best, one room in a
 shared house.   So are the real reasons for Goans coming to the UK more
complex, are they multiple faceted, do we have to dig deeper for the truth
and is there any hope of finding it?

Turning to the ?competition for jobs? did those who migrated to the UK
really think there was no local competition in the UK for jobs?   Or were
they prepared to do jobs no one wanted to do in the UK?

The coronavirus pandemic has certainly put things in perspective in UK and
Goa.   Fast forward to August 2020 in Goa Today for the life of cross
border migrants captured in a short film ?Trapped in Paradise? These people
came to fill the void left by the 21st Century Catholic Goans, click link
below:

https://shorted.in/short-films/trapped-in-paradise-goa-coronavirus

As a 20th Century Goan, when I first came into this country there was an
advertisement ?Happiness is a Cigar called Hamlet?.   My observations of
21st Century Goans are that they are no longer content with their previous
lifestyle of rice, curry and fish.   Instead ?Happiness is a watch called
Rolex? or ?Happiness is a car called Rolls Royce?, while some people are
still dreaming of their first second hand Mercedes Benz parked outside.
Status is more important in Goa than in the UK hence the need to acquire
and ?flash their cash? by any means possible.

Rose Fernandes"

Re: [Goanet] Inquisition

[augusto pinto]

The Inquisition has been the flavour of the day on various media, the print
media certainly, but also social media like Facebook and WhatsApp.


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158731292342996=658192995

Former editor Derek Almeida's Facebook page became a site where GBC
members, the right honourable Eugene Correia and the rightly dishonourable
yours insincerely had a huge amount of fun.

Enjoy!

Augusto

I'm not sure if Derek is a member of the fora I write to so I'll bcc him
separately

On Wed, 12 Aug, 2020, 2:04 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> I beg your pardon!
>
> I had quickly skimmed through the book which I came across today and
> hadn't noticed any reference to Goa.
>
> However friends familiar with the work tell me there's an appendix which
> is a well documented account of the Goa Inquisition.
>
> I must try to be more careful with what I put out on the internet. Bah!
>
> Best
> Augusto
>
> On Wed, 12 Aug, 2020, 1:27 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>>
>> “The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians
>> 1536-1765 -   Antonio J. Saraiva”
>>
>> This book is available on the internet here
>> http://nokahoyu.inoxdvr.com/237.html
>>
>>
>> https://vdocuments-site.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/vdocuments.site/amp/the-marrano-factory-the-portuguese-inquistion-and-its-new-christians-1536-1765.html?amp_js_v=a3_gsa=1=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15972187884378=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com_tf=From%20%251%24s=https%3A%2F%2Fvdocuments.site%2Fthe-marrano-factory-the-portuguese-inquistion-and-its-new-christians-1536-1765.html
>>
>> Also on other sites.
>>
>> You probably are already aware of this but I'm posting it just in case.
>>
>> It's not directly about Goa but it gives an idea about the institution of
>> the Inquisition in Portugal and Spain.
>>
>> Augusto
>>
>

[Goanet] What does Johnny have to say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age of
Covid-19

I felt sorry
For Ritu

rdso...@shaw.ca
Who

For the third time
Asked to

Be unsubscribed
I thought

That in these
Times of Covid-19

It isn't so easy
To escape

From
The virus

What does Johnny have to say?
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[Goanet] Vishnu Surya Wagh

[augusto pinto]

https://www.navhindtimes.in/the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-vishnu-wagh/

An article by Nandakumar Wagh on his friend the brilliant Konkani and
Marathi poet, essayist and dramatist; and always controversial and many
would add, the frequently dicey politician Vishnu Surya Wagh.

Augusto

[Goanet] Claude Alvares reviews Parrikar's Biography Pt 1

[augusto pinto]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3184804338270781=12237397962=wiwspmo=Jj8xIFCGz1XAdHCu
Augusto

[Goanet] Claude Alvares reviews Parrikar's Biography Pt II

[augusto pinto]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3187739127977302=12237397962=wiwspmo=0Pdnv5ckuaTQUibU
Augusto

Re: [Goanet] Violet Dias Lannoy

[augusto pinto]

Read my comment on Selma's post:

On Sat, 11 Jul, 2020, 3:42 PM 'Selma Cardoso' via The Goa Book Club, <
goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Dear Eugene,
>
> ... I know from long experience that low prices don't expand the Goan
> market. The Goan market for books is not elastic and responsive to price.
> Those who read books will buy books.
>


As a result the print-run is small to avoid holding stocks. When the
> print-run is small, it is impossible to make the books affordable.
>


Another reason why Goa suffers from small print runs is because there are
> no distribution networks which stretch beyond Goa.
>
> My objective in publishing the Brave New World series is only to give Goan
> writers a platform and to have it archived in repositories.
>



Not to make a profit. The cost of this venture is borne entirely by me this
> year. In 2018, we were grateful to get a publisher.
>
> I'm really grateful this year that the Fundacao Oriete acquired the series
> (both book 1 and 2) which means they will be its repository and ensure at
> least some stock is a guaranteed buy. We need more institutions like the
> Fundacao that will assist us in our goals. Pretty ironic that we're
> depending on the Portuguese 60 years after their departure.
>

樂

>
> Imagine if the Goan Association worldwide were to extend a helping hand.
>

I don't think that's possible.

As I pointed out we Goans from Goa, or first generation Goans like me or
Eugene or Selma who were brought up outside Goa in Africa or Bombay or the
Gulf, have vastly different ideas about what Goan-ness means as opposed to
their second or third level generation descendants.

Imagine the sort of things we could do, the sort of projects we could carry
> out. Oh but I'm sure, they're busying booking the band for the next dance
> or checking that the choriz and beer stalls are well stocked for the next
> Goa Day. Viva! Cheers!
>

Dream, dream, dream,

Dream, dream,

If I loved you...

Selma let me tell you that I think that you live in a dream world.

What you seem to say is that the offspring of first aind second generation
should love Goa.

Why?

Let's deal with the last of the lot like Gilbert Lawrence and Roland
Francis and so on and so forth who still have some memories of Goa and
indeed India.

Augusto

Best,
Augusto


> All best wishes,
> selma
>
> On Saturday, 11 July 2020, 08:32:40 BST, Eugene Correia <
> eugene.corr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Before dashing off the post, I didn't read Selma's and Edgar 's posts. I
> did ask a couple of books dispatched to my sister who lives next to Goa's
> airport. I even asked Leonard to mail the Brave World there besides another
> one, and the reason for it is that my sister from Canada is stuck in Goa
> and will come when flights restart.
> i also asked why the Brave World was priced so much. If Selma fixes the
> price so high I have second thoughts of buying it. I can make do without
> reading it.
> Frankly, if I need a book post-haste I ask them to be posted. I would
> rather have a couple of books posted than a single one. I am in no tearing
> hurry to read. I always have few books pending to read.
> I bought some books when I was in Goa early this year. I do believe that
> the market for Goa'-related books  or by Goan authors is small. What"s the
> solution?
> Making the books affordable to the Goan readership  in Goa may be a way
> out, depending if the publisher can get sponsors. I know it's a struggle
> and publishers need support and understanding.
>
> Eugene
>
>
>
> On Fri., Jul. 10, 2020, 4:22 p.m. 'Selma Cardoso' via The Goa Book Club, <
> goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Eugene makes suggestions about this or that book being published. Yet when
> it is published, he wants it delivered to his second-cousin who lives by
> the Goa airport who will give it to the air-steward to fly to the Gulf
> where it will be given to an aunty heading to Canada.
>
> What happens to books when they are published? Even if one is willing to
> disregard the time and energy that goes into editing and formatting books
> and try to recover basic cost of production, there are no Goans willing to
> buy at a rate that is sustainable.
>
> Where are all the Goans of the diaspora who have any number of ideas for
> Goa and how things can improve. Why don't they back their advice by putting
> some money where their mouth is. Other diaspora communities have huge
> associations that assist the home country with cultural and social
> endeavours. Where are our Goans? Canadian Goans and UK Goans and Gulf
> Goans. Why don't they organise books from Goa to be distributed abroad. Try
> to sell them a book and they ask you what price the sausages at the next
> stall are selling for (true story that one, actually happened to me.)
>
> All best,
> selma
>
> On Friday, 10 July 2020, 20:56:16 BST, Eugene Correia <
> eugene.corr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Remember Peter Nazareth writing that violet's novella is unpublished. He
> made a 

Re: [Goanet] Souls, Spices and Sex by Prof. L. A. Rodrigues

[augusto pinto]

As I'm waiting for you people to read, here are some preliminary
suggestions wrt SSS. .

Let me describe the poignant Preface to the book written by the editor of
the book, the author's nephew Fr. Savio Rodrigues S. J.

The editor, a Jesuit priest who was brought up by Prof. Rodrigues (who by
now must be elderly) in his Preface refers to Prof. L. A. Rodrigues
throughout as Uncle.

He offers some hints as to why his uncle wrote the book.

The nephew informs us that Professor Rodrigues was an extremely brilliant
scholar who went to Rachol Srmibary even as his family were facing
financial difficulties but who left that institution in fury because he, a
first class first scholat throughout his life, was rather cynically awarded
the second rank in his final exams nuking bk p, a clearly unfair move he
felt, an unfair move aimed to humiliate him because he belonged to a lower
caste according to them. Without asking anyone he walked out of the
seminary.

He left the Church and only returned to it many years later.

My guess is that this brilliant student was so furious because he felt he
was racially or caste-wise discriminated against.

The culprits discriminating against him I would guess would be either
Catholic Bamons or Mistises (offspring of inter-racial unions).

This might be what prompted Prof. Rodrigues to write the book. This is just
speculation of course.

Augusto

On Sat, 11 Jul, 2020, 1:47 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> Has anyone read Souls, Spices and Sex by Prof. Lourdino Alberto Rodrigues?
>
> If you have, could you please narrate your opinions of the book and its
> author?
>
> Augusto
>

Re: [Goanet] What does Johnny have to say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age
of Covid -19

The Judges
Decided
To
Lockdown.

The Police
Encountering
Issues
Eliminated
Them
By
Encountering
Them.

The Netas
Were happy

The Babus
Were happy.

Most importantly
We were
Happy.

But
We might
Be
Encountered
Tomorrow.

Will that
Leave us
Happy or
Dead?

What does Johnny have to say?

On Wed, 8 Jul, 2020, 10:27 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> In the age
> of Covid-19
>
> A debate raged:
>
> Are Lives
> More important
> Or are
> Livelihoods ?
>
> A Powerful
> Money Man said:
> Who cares?
>
> Money is to be made
> Let's
> Make it.
>
> What does Johnny have to say?
> Augusto
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Jun, 2020, 10:08 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>> In the age
>> of Covid -19
>> On Father's Day,
>>
>> I thought about
>> Marcello Francisco Pinto
>>
>> My father
>>
>> Mad fella
>>
>> Unlike all the
>> Goan Afrikanders
>> Who loved the English
>>
>> And who had
>> Abandoned Konkani
>>
>> To embrace English
>>
>> He advised me
>> In Kenya's
>> Post Independence
>> 60s
>>
>> When I was but
>> a 6 year old
>>
>> To question
>> All my cousins:
>>
>> "Why are you rushing
>> To Britain?"
>>
>> "To lick
>> The arses
>> Of the Whites
>> Isn't it?"
>>
>> On his part
>> He declared:
>>
>> "Mhaka Goenchich
>> Mati zai."
>>
>> He came down
>> To Goa
>> in 1970.
>>
>> He reunited
>> With his beloved
>> Goenchi Mati
>> In 1972.
>>
>> Happy Father's Day
>> Marcel.
>>
>> What does Johnny have to say?
>>
>>
>> Augusto
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Jun, 2020, 6:58 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>>
>>> In the age
>>> of Covid -19
>>> *Mzee* Gando
>>> Decided
>>> to go
>>> To the *Zatra*
>>> of the God
>>> of the Bizarre
>>> Lord Shri Vichitra.
>>>
>>> There *Mzee*
>>> *Mjinga sana*
>>> I should say
>>> Was a Somebody
>>> Searching for sanity
>>> from among
>>> the gathered *Zatrekars*
>>> Like the bright
>>> Prosore that he is.
>>>
>>> First he found
>>> Patron of the pickpocketed
>>> Anton de Padua
>>> In the fiery rain
>>> Who feeling sorry
>>> Warmly and warily
>>> Wryly  but wisely
>>> Whispered, Catlicks
>>> Will be Catlicks.
>>>
>>> Then Bwana G
>>> Met Solo D'Lit
>>> Who brush in balti
>>> Sketched *Mzee's* face
>>> On a wall over the legend
>>> *Aiz mhaka f**aleam t**uka.*
>>> Gando* s*creamed:
>>> *Saiba bhogos*! Spare me!
>>> As Solo sloshed away.
>>>
>>> Next he went to meet
>>> Magik *Mam*' Marsu
>>> But encountered instead
>>> Acerbic Aunty Alsu
>>> Who came with
>>> *Bhairi* to cure
>>> Nephew Adu
>>> Of delusionitis
>>> Beginning with his *bonku*.
>>>
>>> Finally Pro
>>> His A sore visited Anu Anon
>>> *Bhirant dista, Bhirant dista*
>>> Cringed Gando -
>>> Save me from slavery!
>>> P'd off
>>> Anu growled
>>> at Gando: up yours
>>> *Mjinga sana!*
>>>
>>> What does Johnny have to say?
>>>
>>> Augusto Pinto
>>>
>>

[Goanet] Fwd: Souls, Spices and Sex THE STRUGGLE FOR EURO... was uploaded by Tensing Rodrigues

[augusto pinto]

This forward might be of help to those interested.
Augusto

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Re: [Goanet] Souls, Spices and Sex by Prof. L. A. Rodrigues

[augusto pinto]

Incidentally Tensing Rodrigues, the son of the author who ensured that the
book was published by Cinnamon Teal, informs me that the book is available
for download on Academia.edu

So anybody whose curiosity is aroused is welcome to check it out there.

Souls, Spices and Sex.

Nice title!

Augusto

On Sat, 11 Jul, 2020, 1:47 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> Has anyone read Souls, Spices and Sex by Prof. Lourdino Alberto Rodrigues?
>
> If you have, could you please narrate your opinions of the book and its
> author?
>
> Augusto
>

[Goanet] Souls, Spices and Sex by Prof. L. A. Rodrigues

[augusto pinto]

Has anyone read Souls, Spices and Sex by Prof. Lourdino Alberto Rodrigues?

If you have, could you please narrate your opinions of the book and its
author?

Augusto

Re: [Goanet] What does Johnny have to say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age
of Covid-19

On July 11

World
Population Day

The Minister said
Population
Should
Be
Controlled.

So
Aunty Corona
Continued
Controlling
The
Population.

What does Johnny have to say?

Augusto


On Wed, 8 Jul, 2020, 10:27 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> In the age
> of Covid-19
>
> A debate raged:
>
> Are Lives
> More important
> Or are
> Livelihoods ?
>
> A Powerful
> Money Man said:
> Who cares?
>
> Money is to be made
> Let's
> Make it.
>
> What does Johnny have to say?
> Augusto
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Jun, 2020, 10:08 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>> In the age
>> of Covid -19
>> On Father's Day,
>>
>> I thought about
>> Marcello Francisco Pinto
>>
>> My father
>>
>> Mad fella
>>
>> Unlike all the
>> Goan Afrikanders
>> Who loved the English
>>
>> And who had
>> Abandoned Konkani
>>
>> To embrace English
>>
>> He advised me
>> In Kenya's
>> Post Independence
>> 60s
>>
>> When I was but
>> a 6 year old
>>
>> To question
>> All my cousins:
>>
>> "Why are you rushing
>> To Britain?"
>>
>> "To lick
>> The arses
>> Of the Whites
>> Isn't it?"
>>
>> On his part
>> He declared:
>>
>> "Mhaka Goenchich
>> Mati zai."
>>
>> He came down
>> To Goa
>> in 1970.
>>
>> He reunited
>> With his beloved
>> Goenchi Mati
>> In 1972.
>>
>> Happy Father's Day
>> Marcel.
>>
>> What does Johnny have to say?
>>
>>
>> Augusto
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Jun, 2020, 6:58 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>>
>>> In the age
>>> of Covid -19
>>> *Mzee* Gando
>>> Decided
>>> to go
>>> To the *Zatra*
>>> of the God
>>> of the Bizarre
>>> Lord Shri Vichitra.
>>>
>>> There *Mzee*
>>> *Mjinga sana*
>>> I should say
>>> Was a Somebody
>>> Searching for sanity
>>> from among
>>> the gathered *Zatrekars*
>>> Like the bright
>>> Prosore that he is.
>>>
>>> First he found
>>> Patron of the pickpocketed
>>> Anton de Padua
>>> In the fiery rain
>>> Who feeling sorry
>>> Warmly and warily
>>> Wryly  but wisely
>>> Whispered, Catlicks
>>> Will be Catlicks.
>>>
>>> Then Bwana G
>>> Met Solo D'Lit
>>> Who brush in balti
>>> Sketched *Mzee's* face
>>> On a wall over the legend
>>> *Aiz mhaka f**aleam t**uka.*
>>> Gando* s*creamed:
>>> *Saiba bhogos*! Spare me!
>>> As Solo sloshed away.
>>>
>>> Next he went to meet
>>> Magik *Mam*' Marsu
>>> But encountered instead
>>> Acerbic Aunty Alsu
>>> Who came with
>>> *Bhairi* to cure
>>> Nephew Adu
>>> Of delusionitis
>>> Beginning with his *bonku*.
>>>
>>> Finally Pro
>>> His A sore visited Anu Anon
>>> *Bhirant dista, Bhirant dista*
>>> Cringed Gando -
>>> Save me from slavery!
>>> P'd off
>>> Anu growled
>>> at Gando: up yours
>>> *Mjinga sana!*
>>>
>>> What does Johnny have to say?
>>>
>>> Augusto Pinto
>>>
>>

Re: [Goanet] What does Johnny have to say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age
of Covid-19

A debate raged:

Are Lives
More important
Or are
Livelihoods ?

A Powerful
Money Man said:
Who cares?

Money is to be made
Let's
Make it.

What does Johnny have to say?
Augusto


On Sun, 21 Jun, 2020, 10:08 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> In the age
> of Covid -19
> On Father's Day,
>
> I thought about
> Marcello Francisco Pinto
>
> My father
>
> Mad fella
>
> Unlike all the
> Goan Afrikanders
> Who loved the English
>
> And who had
> Abandoned Konkani
>
> To embrace English
>
> He advised me
> In Kenya's
> Post Independence
> 60s
>
> When I was but
> a 6 year old
>
> To question
> All my cousins:
>
> "Why are you rushing
> To Britain?"
>
> "To lick
> The arses
> Of the Whites
> Isn't it?"
>
> On his part
> He declared:
>
> "Mhaka Goenchich
> Mati zai."
>
> He came down
> To Goa
> in 1970.
>
> He reunited
> With his beloved
> Goenchi Mati
> In 1972.
>
> Happy Father's Day
> Marcel.
>
> What does Johnny have to say?
>
>
> Augusto
>
>
> On Sat, 20 Jun, 2020, 6:58 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>> In the age
>> of Covid -19
>> *Mzee* Gando
>> Decided
>> to go
>> To the *Zatra*
>> of the God
>> of the Bizarre
>> Lord Shri Vichitra.
>>
>> There *Mzee*
>> *Mjinga sana*
>> I should say
>> Was a Somebody
>> Searching for sanity
>> from among
>> the gathered *Zatrekars*
>> Like the bright
>> Prosore that he is.
>>
>> First he found
>> Patron of the pickpocketed
>> Anton de Padua
>> In the fiery rain
>> Who feeling sorry
>> Warmly and warily
>> Wryly  but wisely
>> Whispered, Catlicks
>> Will be Catlicks.
>>
>> Then Bwana G
>> Met Solo D'Lit
>> Who brush in balti
>> Sketched *Mzee's* face
>> On a wall over the legend
>> *Aiz mhaka f**aleam t**uka.*
>> Gando* s*creamed:
>> *Saiba bhogos*! Spare me!
>> As Solo sloshed away.
>>
>> Next he went to meet
>> Magik *Mam*' Marsu
>> But encountered instead
>> Acerbic Aunty Alsu
>> Who came with
>> *Bhairi* to cure
>> Nephew Adu
>> Of delusionitis
>> Beginning with his *bonku*.
>>
>> Finally Pro
>> His A sore visited Anu Anon
>> *Bhirant dista, Bhirant dista*
>> Cringed Gando -
>> Save me from slavery!
>> P'd off
>> Anu growled
>> at Gando: up yours
>> *Mjinga sana!*
>>
>> What does Johnny have to say?
>>
>> Augusto Pinto
>>
>

Re: [Goanet] What does Joao want to say?

[augusto pinto]

On Thu, 2 Jul, 2020, 10:18 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> In
> the
> Age
> of
> Corona
> Virus
>
> i've
> taken
> an airplane
>
> from
> another
> country
>
> to get
> to India
>
> also
> a train
>
> a bus
>
> and
> a jeep
>
> when
> i could easily
> have changed
>
> into
> loose clothes
>
> sat on
> a yoga mat
>
> in
> my room
>
> and
> meditated
>
> What does Joao want to say?
>
>
> End of Goanet Digest, Vol 15, Issue 461
> ***
>
> This is a good one Dotor although I am on my 5th so my judgement may be
> flawed.
> Augusto
>
>

Re: [Goanet] Comparative History

[augusto pinto]

“Divide and rule, the politician cries;
Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gedichte


“Divide and rule, weaken and conquer, love and enslave, these are three
tenets of politics”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom


Congratulations Gilbert!

I too, like Roland, feel that you've coined a "new-to-me, beautiful and
funny British" quote.

I tried googling for - who wrote "your quote" - and the best answers I got
are of Goethe and that Habyarimana chap. I think you should keep pushing
this quote on more forums: if the quotation sites pick it up it might be
your real claim to eternal fame.

Best,
Augusto

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:31 PM Roland Francis 
wrote:

> That was a new-to-me, beautiful and funny Brctish riposte:
>
> “You cannot divide and rule if the ruled are already divided.”
>
> That will turn a lot of Indian history-book contentions on their heads. So
> will history in other contexts. I have heard the Palestinian Arabs, the
> Cypriots and other former British subjects say the same too. Imagine their
> surprise when I start quoting to them what your British author said.
>
> Roland.
> Toronto.
>
>
> On Jun 30, 2020, at 8:35 AM, Gilbert Lawrence 
> wrote:
>
> Goan historians would benefit from the knowledge of Comparative History;
> especially when discussing colonial atrocities in Goa.  From today's BBC
> News.
>
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53232105
>
> Colonial countries committed atrocities without resorting to religion; and
> so did the Portuguese in Goa and elsewhere.  Unfortunately, Goan historians
> and some European authors (fictional and nonfictional) tend to drag the two
> (colonialism and religion) together in Goa.  Unfortunately then, the right
> wing religious fanatics play the story to sow discord and hate. As noted
> previously by a British author, "one cannot divide and rule if the ruled
> are not already divided."
>
> Another major culprit of colonial brutality was the Dutch in South East
> Asia and Ceylon. The statues and paintings of these offenders still adorn
> the central parks and museums in their respective home countries.
> Portugal's worst colonial offense was slave trade.
>
> Regards, GL
>
>
>

Re: [Goanet] What does Johnny have to say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age
of Covid -19
On Father's Day,

I thought about
Marcello Francisco Pinto

My father

Mad fella

Unlike all the
Goan Afrikanders
Who loved the English

And who had
Abandoned Konkani

To embrace English

He advised me
In Kenya's
Post Independence
60s

When I was but
a 6 year old

To question
All my cousins:

"Why are you rushing
To Britain?"

"To lick
The arses
Of the Whites
Isn't it?"

On his part
He declared:

"Mhaka Goenchich
Mati zai."

He came down
To Goa
in 1970.

He reunited
With his beloved
Goenchi Mati
In 1972.

Happy Father's Day
Marcel.

What does Johnny have to say?


Augusto


On Sat, 20 Jun, 2020, 6:58 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> In the age
> of Covid -19
> *Mzee* Gando
> Decided
> to go
> To the *Zatra*
> of the God
> of the Bizarre
> Lord Shri Vichitra.
>
> There *Mzee*
> *Mjinga sana*
> I should say
> Was a Somebody
> Searching for sanity
> from among
> the gathered *Zatrekars*
> Like the bright
> Prosore that he is.
>
> First he found
> Patron of the pickpocketed
> Anton de Padua
> In the fiery rain
> Who feeling sorry
> Warmly and warily
> Wryly  but wisely
> Whispered, Catlicks
> Will be Catlicks.
>
> Then Bwana G
> Met Solo D'Lit
> Who brush in balti
> Sketched *Mzee's* face
> On a wall over the legend
> *Aiz mhaka f**aleam t**uka.*
> Gando* s*creamed:
> *Saiba bhogos*! Spare me!
> As Solo sloshed away.
>
> Next he went to meet
> Magik *Mam*' Marsu
> But encountered instead
> Acerbic Aunty Alsu
> Who came with
> *Bhairi* to cure
> Nephew Adu
> Of delusionitis
> Beginning with his *bonku*.
>
> Finally Pro
> His A sore visited Anu Anon
> *Bhirant dista, Bhirant dista*
> Cringed Gando -
> Save me from slavery!
> P'd off
> Anu growled
> at Gando: up yours
> *Mjinga sana!*
>
> What does Johnny have to say?
>
> Augusto Pinto
>

[Goanet] What does Johnny have to say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age
of Covid -19
*Mzee* Gando
Decided
to go
To the *Zatra*
of the God
of the Bizarre
Lord Shri Vichitra.

There *Mzee*
*Mjinga sana*
I should say
Was a Somebody
Searching for sanity
from among
the gathered *Zatrekars*
Like the bright
Prosore that he is.

First he found
Patron of the pickpocketed
Anton de Padua
In the fiery rain
Who feeling sorry
Warmly and warily
Wryly  but wisely
Whispered, Catlicks
Will be Catlicks.

Then Bwana G
Met Solo D'Lit
Who brush in balti
Sketched *Mzee's* face
On a wall over the legend
*Aiz mhaka f**aleam t**uka.*
Gando* s*creamed:
*Saiba bhogos*! Spare me!
As Solo sloshed away.

Next he went to meet
Magik *Mam*' Marsu
But encountered instead
Acerbic Aunty Alsu
Who came with
*Bhairi* to cure
Nephew Adu
Of delusionitis
Beginning with his *bonku*.

Finally Pro
His A sore visited Anu Anon
*Bhirant dista, Bhirant dista*
Cringed Gando -
Save me from slavery!
P'd off
Anu growled
at Gando: up yours
*Mjinga sana!*

What does Johnny have to say?

Augusto Pinto

[Goanet] A letter to Vavradeancho Ixtt about Racism and Caste-ism

[augusto pinto]

Goans aren't very good at responding to criticism. And when someone points
out their mistakes they are too scared to deal with criticism.

Last week on Vavradeancho Ixtt I read two articles which were very racist.

I sent a letter to the editor of Vavradeancho Ixtt, a Br. E. Miranda a
letter criticising those articles with a cc to Walter Menezes to help in
case my Konkani had mistakes. I'll give you my letter below in English
translation below.

Dear Br. Miranda,

In the 13th June issue of Vavradeancho Ixtt there were 2 articles related
to African or people whose origins are related to people of African origin.

One was by one Rui Aleixo Coelho, entitled 'Khapreachem Jivit' (meaning
'the Life of a Khapri) and the second was ''Kalu' hem vaitt utor? ' (is
Kalu a bad word?). The author of the second article was not disclosed.

Coelho writes that a President of America was a' khapri' (sic). His name
was Abraham Lincoln.

I told Miranda that most scholars regard this information given by Coelho
was dubious quoting 2 links:

https://www.npr.org/sections/newsandviews/2008/06/andrew_jackson_thomas_jefferso.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_heritage_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

Then I told Miranda that I didn't want to continue with the issue as to
whether American presidents were African or not.

But I went on to question Miranda as to how he allowed Coelho to use the
word 'khapri'.

I said that I didn't know whether Coelho knew whether the the Konkani word
'khapri' was derived from the Portuguese 'cafre' or from the Afrikaans
'kaffir' both of which are regarded as being offensive to Africans or
people of African origin.

Then I questioned Miranda regarding the person who on his sports page
wrote: 'What's wrong in calling someone' Kalu'? He's not white. So what's
wrong in speaking the truth?

I told Miranda that his writer had no business addressing people with
appellations which they find insulting. I told him, "Your writer says -
what's wrong in calling a spade a spade?"

I explained to Miranda why one can't call anyone whatsoever he cared. I
reminded him that in the old days the elite referred to discriminated
groups of people as 'mhars', 'chamars' or 'gauddos'.

I told him that now these groups of people find such words insulting. One
cannot say, "What's wrong in speaking the truth?" This is a wrong attitude.
One cannot use words which disadvantaged people feel insulted by.

My letter was not published by Br. Miranda in the recent Vavradeancho Ixtt.

Which brings me back to what I began this letter with: Goans aren't very
good at responding to criticism. And when someone points out their mistakes
they are too scared to deal with criticism.

Augusto

[Goanet] What Does Johnny have to Say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age of Covid-19
Poets
Sometimes
Lose
Their
Balance.

A
Brilliant poet
Named
JBP
Has started
Writing poor stuff.

I think that
JBP needs to
Step behind
And take a break.

And not force himself
To produce
A poem a day.

On the other hand
If he stops then

What's
The guarantee

That JBP
Will
Be able
To write
Again?

Augusto



Message: 1
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:18:30 +0530
From: Joao Barros-Pereira 
To: goanet 
Subject: [Goanet] What does Joa want to say?
Message-ID:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

In
the Age
of
Corona Virus

Congress Party
only a memory
of a political party

trying desperately
to come back to power

the virus has destroyed
a lot of evil all around

no one knows what it is
no vaccine no diagnosis

social distancing
is not at all new
nor wearing of masks

Goa Forward Party
chief-in-charge
apologizes to public
for joining BJP

we the public
forgive you
MLA Vijay Sardesai

for
your betrayal

BJP ditches him
and now he is
in a ditch
and desperate

Mr 16B
has not said sorry

for wanting to grow buildings
and not veggies and fruit
in agricultural land

a far greater betrayal
than joining BJP

Ask for a withdrawal
of your 16B amendment

action is better than words
then say sorry to the public

who is watching
and waiting and
waiting


What does Joao want to say?


--

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:34:35 +0530
From: Paul p 
To: "To: Goanet Org" , Adolfo Mascarenhas
,  Lawrence Gilbert ,
Frederick Noronha ,  Mervyn Lobo
, "Vivian A." ,  Mervyn
Maciel 

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] The Goa Inquisition: when FACT creates Fiction (Alan Machado) (Mel de Quadros)

[augusto pinto]

https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg138770.html

Dear Mel de Quadros,

You've used an old mail to try to cast (I presume, because your intentions
aren't clear) doubt upon what Alan Machado (Prabhu) a Mangalorean Christian
who has written an essay to confront the lies, half-truths and evasions
purported by FACT.

I think Alan Machado (Prabhu) or his copy-editor who I believe is Frederick
Noronha have blundered by not giving the link to FACT and by not giving
precise references to FACT's document. Maybe FN will do this now. Currently
readers cannot respond because they don't know what the context is in the
form of FACTs 'exhibition'.

Coming to your response Mel, instead of posting old information which may
not be accurate, if you choose to ask specific questions on Alan Machado's
text then I would be able to help and so would my friend Alan in answering
your questions.

I say this because as of now Alan Machado (Prabhu) haa probably the latest
knowledge about recently released Inquisition documents.

Best

Re: [Goanet] Vavradeancho Ixtt

[augusto pinto]

> The latest Vavradeancho Ixtt has finally caught onto the issue of the
> Hindutvavadis hate campaign against St Francis Xavier and the Inquisition.
> I presume you can read Konkani.
>
> Look at the attachments.
> Augusto
>
> On Tue, 19 May, 2020, 1:35 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>> After many days of the lockdown, the Vavradeancho Ixtt, (Workers' Friend)
>> came to my home today.
>>
>> Published by the Pilar society, it says it is Goa's only Konkani weekly
>> since 1933.
>>
>> I don't usually look too closely at it because the articles are mostly
>> about saintly thongs and I have more affinities with the Devil, but the
>> issue I got has an article which caught my eye.
>>
>> It's titled Anak poddlan anachem, Bhereak poddlan aplea kanachem by Myron
>> Jeson Barreto. I  burst out laughing when I read it.
>>
>> I'll leave Walter Menezes to translate this into English for you.
>> Best
>> Augusto
>>
>

[Goanet] Vavradeancho Ixtt

[augusto pinto]

Sorry. I thought I had attached the Vavradeancho Ixtt clippings in
my previous email. Here are the pages dealing with St. Francis Xavier and
the Inquisition.
Augusto

Re: [Goanet] What Does Johnny Have to Say?

[augusto pinto]

Augusto Pinto said:

In the age of

Covid-19

Remember that

Augusto Pinto

Said it first:

The age of

Covid-19

Is the

Golden Age

Of

Forwards.

Forwards

Which say...

To be continued...





On Thu, 28 May, 2020, 6:13 AM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> In the age
>
> of Covid-19
>
> Teachers
>
> have become
>
> Warriors.
>
> like Soldiers
>
> with 7th Pay
>
> Incomes
>
> they must do
>
> as they're told -
>
> and Not
>
> ask Questions.
>
> What does Johnny have to say?
>
> Augusto Pinto
>
>
>
>

[Goanet] History of Politics & Attacks on Jesuits, SFX

[augusto pinto]

Professor Mascarenhas made so many interesting points only I,  a Moidekar,
could possibly possess the temerity to examine his arguments given that
he's a world renowned intellectual and I (sigh) am just a *ganvtti* sort
who believes in the adage: *soglleanchem aikunchem, punn mhaka borem dista
tem korpachem. *

Jo : Point One : I am a great admirer of the Jesuits. I am even aware why,
Marquis
de Pombal, had them expelled.  He did India and the world a great favour.
Oh yes, think of the hundreds of children they taught and if this was not
enough over the decades they started  several Institutions of Learning all
over India and beyond.  Many many intellectuals...

Me: I have no doubt Professor that you are aware as to why the Marquis de
Pombal expelled the Jesuits. An ignorant person like me would have
appreciated it if you explained to us what you know with a few sources.

Not having access to books like you especially during the lockdown I had to
rely on unreliable websites like
https://www.pahor.de/books/other/goa-portuguese-india-piracy-pombaline-legal-reforms-collection-of-4-royal-decrees.html
I've edited out some stuff from the website above to focus on Pombal and
Goa.

 *Goa and the Pombaline Reforms*


Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo (1699 - 1782), better known as the
Marquis of Pombal (a title he gained in 1770), was one of the greatest
statemen of the European Enlightenment, who utterly transformed Portugal
(and its empire) following a period of national crisis.  Hailing from a
very low place in the aristocracy, he always bitterly resented Portugal’s
establishment, which consisted of the great noble families and the Church;
he considered them decadent and corrupt, and it followed that their sloth
was holding Portugal back.

Pombal was a brilliant diplomat, who served with unusual distinction in the
important roles as Ambassador to London and Vienna.  Upon the ascension of
King José I (1750-77), who condsidered himself a reformer, Pombal was
appointed Foreign Minister.  He was despised by the majority of the Royal
Court, who found his ‘extreme’ liberal views and forceful personality
unsettling.  However, they were somewhat relieved that he seemed
preoccupied with external affairs, having little power to threaten their
traditional privileges.

The Great Earthquake of Lisbon (November 1, 1755), which virtually
destroyed the city and much of Portugal’s domestic economy, changed
everything.  While others dithered, Pombal confidently took control of the
situation, gaining José’s complete confidence.  He was appointed Prime
Minister and, given the king’s weak nature, became the autocrat of
Portugal.

In what became known as the Pombaline Reforms, he acted with alacrity and
boldness to transform the country and its overseas possessions.  He quickly
rebuilt Lisbon on a rational, modern plan, and radically overhauled the
country’s economy to stimulate the manufacturing sector, international
trade and to raise government revenues.  He tackled corruption and
inefficiency, unlocking the potential of manyindustries.  He encouraged
Enlightenment education and science, abolished slavery, ended the
Inquisition and removed the prohibition on Jews.

Pombal was met with extreme blowback from members of the establishment;
however, he managed to ruthlessly bulldoze his opposition.  In 1758, he had
the entire Távora Family (a leading noble house and his arch-nemesis)
either executed or exiled on flimsy evidence that they attempted to
assassinate the King; and in 1759, on Pombal’s designs, Portugal became the
first country to abolish the Jesuit Order (which he despised).  In 1762, he
solidified his power when Portugal defeated a Spanish invasion, a victory
due to Pombal’s’ reinvigoration of the military and his excellent
diplomatic rapport with London (which yielded timely British military
assistance).
With Metropolitan Portugal back on track, Pombal turned his attention to
reforming its overseas empire, such that it could once gain economically
benefit Lisbon.  He supported Brazil to expand its boundaries into new,
resource-rich parts of the South American Interior, while imposing much
needed reforms to the administration of Angola and Mozambique.

In the late 1760s, Pombal turned his attention to Goa and its
dependencies.  Goa had been the main Portuguese base in Asia since 1510.
Described as the “Rome of Asia” for the next century and a half, it was
inarguably the most important European centre in Asia, controlling a vast
maritime empire of trading ports that extended from Mozambique to Japan.
Made vastly wealthy through spices, precious metals and other treasures,
Goa was the largest single source of wealth for the Portuguese crown.
However, during the mid-17th Century, Portugal lost most of its Asian
possessions following a series of conflicts with the Dutch East India
Company (the VOC).  It also came to lose much of its market share of the
European-Asian trade to the VOC, as well as English and French

Re: [Goanet] History or Religious Politics - www.goainquisition.info (Epifanio Valadares)

[augusto pinto]

Roland wrote on this thread:
"Augusto, you were tr?s dr?le"
Roland-bab,

Hem tum kitem sangunk sodtai re? Hanv dotor (dr) nhoi.

Puzzled,
Augusto

[Goanet] History or Religious Politics - www.goainquisition.info (Epifanio Valadares)

[augusto pinto]

Epifanio Valadares sent in the following post:   https: //
www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg138603.html


His essential plea is: "My request through this mail, is that if possible,
please push this websiteto the concern authorities and our Goa state
leaders (as I do not have
their emails). The writer of this website should be liable for the
authenticity of their articles. He can't just portray articles in the name
of history to fuel up religious conflicts."

I had a hearty laugh. What Senhor Valledares wants to say is that 'the
concern (sic) authorities' should ban a website which is intimately
connected to the blood stream of 'the concern (sic)'

Which means it is highly unlikely that any action, even a mild
admonishment, will be highly unlikely unless the 'the concern (sic)' can be
pushed to the wall. (Highly unlikely, given the brute majority of the 'the
concern (sic)' in the Goa Assembly and 6Lok Sabha.

Besides even if 'the concern...' were somehow willing, banning anything is
among the worst possible responses to such provocations. And will soon
prove counter-productive, with massive protests from the Hindutva trolls.


The best way, although it may still be ineffective, given the brute
majority of 'the concern...' is to counter untruth with truth.

But unfortunately our so-called 'intellectuals' don't have the guts or the
sense to handle such delicate issues.

Some time ago I pointed out the issue-skirting questions of Frederick
Noronha and the pusillanimous responses of Fr. Dr. Anthony da Silva,
Director of the Xavier Centre for Historical Research, when they had a
golden opportunity to publicly enunciate a response to such propoganda but
instead preferred to skirt around the issues like cowards.

Of course Fred and Tony da had a great opportunity to consolidate a
wonderful 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' relationship' which
they milked to the maximum. It was pathetic, even painful to watch.

I'll repost the relevant part of that message of mine:
https://youtu.be/KH58CynbH3Q

 "Google threw this video at me...
Given that both the parties involved are known to me, one the younger
bother of my classmate Ricky, and the other a fellow Moidekar, a Jesuit
priest who I (know) I watched the video with interest.

FN asked two questions which should have elicited interesting answers. One
was about the history of the Jesuits;...

I was amazed by the responses of Tony da  (that's what FN familiarly calls
the reverend) and Goa's "greatest" journalist's probing supplementaries.
On the origins of the Jesuits in Goa there was little about St Francis
Xavier and certainly no question was asked about his letter calling for the
Inquisition. I don't think I heard much about why the Marquis de Pombal
kicked the Jesuits out of Goa. This is all widely known to those who know,
but should have been known to a larger audience.

It was a great opportunity for Tony da to give the Jesuits' viewpoint
because on social media the Hindutva trolls regularly come out with the
taunt, "But what about Francis Xavier? Usually the St. is carefully
omitted.

Tony da fluffed it..."
...

Incidentally the Inquisition is trending on Goa's Facebook accounts: on the
one side you find Fr. Victor Ferrao and on the other my good friend
Shrikant Barve.

Augusto

[Goanet] What Does Johnny Have to Say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age of

Covid-19

Meekness

and

Murkiness

Became

Men

with

Muddled

Minds

But

without

Balls;

while

Women

Wore

the Pants

and

Waded

into

Battle

against

Pestilences

Called

Cupidity

and

Corruption

that'll

Continue

to

Plague

Us

Long after

Corona

Has

Gone away.

What does Johnny have to say?

Augusto Pinto

[Goanet] Wendell's Poskem

[augusto pinto]

Wendell gifted me Poskem a few weeks before he died was published by Om
books in 2017 and is illustrated with Mario Miranda's cartoons. It's one of
the many books I hadn't read.

When I took it up I realised that Poskem was a  skilled essay in faction
i.e. fact disguised as fiction.

The problem about discussing a subject like *poskem* are many. For one
thing if one does it as a realistic document then the question as to how to
avoid the shame that the subjects might feel if their identities were
revealed to the world is avoided.

For another if one wanted to write about the emotional trauma that these
people experienced how can one do it?

Wendell resorted to faction.
The book consists of a Prologue set in Hanuman Soda in Mapusa in 1984 at
the height of summer, a time like now.

This is followed by 4 sections dealing with Alda, Liana, Nascimento, Sita;
and a 5th dealing with Shanta. They are all *poskim*. This is followed by
an Epilogue.

The Prologue and Epilogue are almost the same. Except that the Epilogue has
the following lines:
"Lord Ganesh fulfilled His blessings."

"But like most humans who do not recognise a blessing from above... they
never met again."

Here again the narrative skills of Wendell come into the picture. The
Epilogue is a meeting of the 5  *poskim* above with Wendell at Hanuman
Soda. During this time we don't know exactly who these people are. It's
like a flashback from a movie. However by resorting to faction, Wendell
could play the role of a God-like omniscient narrator who knows whatever
happens in the minds of his characters.

The chapters that flashback further to describe the lives of the *poskim* in
times past. This continues until the repeated Epilogue in the form of the
Prologue where we realise what the early pages were all about.

It's a very cinematically styled book which only a Wendell who knew the
pressure that someone like a *poskem* would have to face, could write.

Poskem could perhaps be made into an unconventional movie.

Augusto

[Goanet] Adv. Albertina Almeida, Cecille Rodrigues and other Activists Arrested in Taleigao

[augusto pinto]

https://www.facebook.com/PrudentMedia/videos/562518134691909/

Interestingly enough all of them were women just questioning the
illegalities.

During the next election I bet all the people of Taleigao will nonetheless
vote for Babush's candidates.

Augusto

Re: [Goanet] What Does Johnny Have to Say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age of

Covid-19

Fastidious

Ferdinand

Forsook

Feni

during the

First

Lockdown

and Fell for

Friendly

Fanny

from the Flat

on the

First Floor.


Fast forward:

He now finds himself

Flying

Towards

Fatherhood

Fearful

of the

Future.

What does Johnny have to say?

Augusto

On Fri, 29 May, 2020, 5:56 AM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> In the age
>
> of Covid-19
>
> Anonymous
>
> Preachers
>
> Prattle
>
> on Mailing Lists
>
> whilst their Gods
>
> like Fleas
>
> in a Morgue
>
> Feast
>
> on Corpses.
>
> What does Johnny have to say?
>
> Augusto Pinto
>
> On Thu, 28 May, 2020, 6:13 AM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>> In the age
>>
>> of Covid-19
>>
>> Teachers
>>
>> have become
>>
>> Warriors.
>>
>> like Soldiers
>>
>> with 7th Pay
>>
>> Incomes
>>
>> they must do
>>
>> as they're told -
>>
>> and Not
>>
>> ask Questions.
>>
>> What does Johnny have to say?
>>
>> Augusto Pinto
>>
>>
>>
>>

[Goanet] Selma's article on 'The Goan Doctor and the Plague'

[augusto pinto]

I felt a tinge of nostalgia when I read Selma's article in the Herald
titled The Goan Doctor and the Plague because if memory serves me
correctly, I used to live on Campos-Ribeiro Road atop the piquantly named
Hole in the Wall bar.

I wonder whether it still exists.
Augusto

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/The-Goan-doctor-and-the-plague/161028

[Goanet] What Does Johnny Have to Say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age

of Covid-19

Anonymous

Preachers

Prattle

on Mailing Lists

whilst their Gods

like Fleas

in a Morgue

Feast

on Corpses.

What does Johnny have to say?

Augusto Pinto

On Thu, 28 May, 2020, 6:13 AM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> In the age
>
> of Covid-19
>
> Teachers
>
> have become
>
> Warriors.
>
> like Soldiers
>
> with 7th Pay
>
> Incomes
>
> they must do
>
> as they're told -
>
> and Not
>
> ask Questions.
>
> What does Johnny have to say?
>
> Augusto Pinto
>
>
>
>

[Goanet] What Does Johnny Have to Say?

[augusto pinto]

In the age

of Covid-19

Teachers

have become

Warriors.

like Soldiers

with 7th Pay

Incomes

they must do

as they're told -

and Not

ask Questions.

What does Johnny have to say?

Augusto Pinto

Re: [Goanet] Books on Goan Houses

[augusto pinto]

One thing I appreciated about Heta Pandit's style is her ability to
integrate various sources and literature into her prose. Unfortunately she
doesn't give scholarly citations in her work just like the Houses of Goa
book possibly feeling that this is inappropriate to a coffee table book.

Still it's plain to see that for instance the summary of pre-Portuguese
Goa, and later history in the Introduction has been written after refering
to many scholars of the subject.

For instance she points to the fact that Goa has been subject to the
in-migration of dozens of races over the millenia, a fact which makes
interesting reading given the perennial goenkar-bhaille conflicts that we
have.

She points out how how housebuilding was a collective enterprise of the
gaunkaria during pre-Portuguese times.

The occupation of the craftsmen (they were by and large men as generally
women, with the exception of the bhavins and kalavants associated with
temples, were confined within the homes) were caste based.

She interestingly notes that the Islamic influence has been considerably
downplayed and our history has a pro-Europran bias. The palace of Adil Shah
in Panjim and his harem's residence across the street in the fazenda
building now housing the Directorate of Accounts and the Safa Masjid are
examples of this.

The early periods of Portuguese rule are dominated by the magnificent
churches built in Old Goa and elsewhere.

In between her narration throughout her book Pandit pays particular
attention to the status of Goan women of all classes, and one of her
observations is that the otherwise reprehensible forced conversion to
Christianity gave Goan women their first taste of emancipation.

The late phase of Portuguese rule from circa 1750 saw the Goan houses begin
to gain a distinctly Goan identity. By the time this phase began, the
Portuguese were weakened by wars and economic strife. At the same time the
Marquis de Pombal had announced that all subjects of the Portuguese Crown
were equal.

All these factors led to the growing confidence particularly of elite
Goans, both of the Hindu business class and of the Bamon and Chardo
Catholic bhatkar class and this was now beginning to show in the
increasingly ostentatious houses that they built.

To be continued...
Augusto




On Thu, 21 May, 2020, 7:54 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> The second book on Goan architecture which I borrowed from Leroy is
> 'Hidden Hands: Masterbuilders of Goa' which is also authored by Heta
> Pandit. This book published in 2003 by Heta Pandit and the Heritage Network
> is also out of print.
>
> This book is also a coffee table book which is sumptuously produced with
> lots of photographs, pictures and illustrations. The photographs are by
> Dina Vakil and the dedigner is Harshvardhan Bhatkuly.
>
> It's focus is a bit different from the from the Houses of Goa book as
> although it does deal with both secular and religious architecture of both
> Hindus and Catholics, it takes as its subject the builders of the houses,
> taken to be understood in a liberal way.
>
> It starts with an introduction which deals with 3 phases: the
> pre-Portuguese phase, the early phase after the Portuguese ruled Goa till
> 1750 and the later phase till 1950.
>
> However a further look at the table of contents gives one an idea of the
> direction of the book. Not only does it speak of the owners who
> commissioned the houses and those who planned the houses, a but also the
> masons, the hydro ecosystems, the agricultural ecosystem, stone craft,
> building craft, wood craft, clay craft, metal work, applied art, decorative
> art, and garden craft.
>
> Thus it does not stop with only the structures of the houses, but
> everything else that was used to make the house like the tools used for
> building; and make the house a living space like the furniture and the pots
> and pans and the cutlery and crockery and so on.
>
> Actually from the point of view of understanding the evolution of the Goan
> house this is arguably a more comprehensive book.
>
> It has profiles of 10 house owners and a mini-directory of various
> builders and crafts people. It also has a useful bibliography.
>
> I'll describe the book in more detail in a subsequent post.
> Augusto
>
>
> On Sat, 16 May, 2020, 6:17 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>> I wanted to read up on Goan architecture.
>>
>> Unfortunately when they were in print I didn't buy books about Goan
>> houses as at the time they were a bit expensive and I didn't have enough
>> money at the time.
>>
>> However fortunately for me my neighbour from Moira Leroy Veloso who
>> collects books about Goa did buy some important ones so I borrowed a few
>> from him. I'll write about the books I borrowed before delving into what I
>> own myself.
>>
>> One of the more

Re: [Goanet] Books on Goan Houses

[augusto pinto]

The second book on Goan architecture which I borrowed from Leroy is
'Hidden Hands: Masterbuilders of Goa' which is also authored by Heta
Pandit. This book published in 2003 by Heta Pandit and the Heritage Network
is also out of print.

This book is also a coffee table book which is sumptuously produced with
lots of photographs, pictures and illustrations. The photographs are by
Dina Vakil and the dedigner is Harshvardhan Bhatkuly.

It's focus is a bit different from the from the Houses of Goa book as
although it does deal with both secular and religious architecture of both
Hindus and Catholics, it takes as its subject the builders of the houses,
taken to be understood in a liberal way.

It starts with an introduction which deals with 3 phases: the
pre-Portuguese phase, the early phase after the Portuguese ruled Goa till
1750 and the later phase till 1950.

However a further look at the table of contents gives one an idea of the
direction of the book. Not only does it speak of the owners who
commissioned the houses and those who planned the houses, a but also the
masons, the hydro ecosystems, the agricultural ecosystem, stone craft,
building craft, wood craft, clay craft, metal work, applied art, decorative
art, and garden craft.

Thus it does not stop with only the structures of the houses, but
everything else that was used to make the house like the tools used for
building; and make the house a living space like the furniture and the pots
and pans and the cutlery and crockery and so on.

Actually from the point of view of understanding the evolution of the Goan
house this is arguably a more comprehensive book.

It has profiles of 10 house owners and a mini-directory of various builders
and crafts people. It also has a useful bibliography.

I'll describe the book in more detail in a subsequent post.
Augusto


On Sat, 16 May, 2020, 6:17 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> I wanted to read up on Goan architecture.
>
> Unfortunately when they were in print I didn't buy books about Goan houses
> as at the time they were a bit expensive and I didn't have enough money at
> the time.
>
> However fortunately for me my neighbour from Moira Leroy Veloso who
> collects books about Goa did buy some important ones so I borrowed a few
> from him. I'll write about the books I borrowed before delving into what I
> own myself.
>
> One of the more authoritative ones was Houses of Goa. It was first
> published by the architect Gerard da Cunha and Architects Anonymous in
> 1999. The book went into a second edition in 2000 and a third edition in
> 2006.
>
> Its text was written by Hera Pandit and Annabel Mascarenhas and the
> photographs are done by Ashok Koshy. The book has a foreword by Gerard da
> Cunha.
>
> Wtiting about Goan houses inevitably forces the writer to delve into
> history, for houses are the product of one's times.
>
> This is something which Houses of Goa richlh acknowledges as it explains
> how and why Goans built houses in the way they did over the ages.
>
> For instance the authors throw up the concept of the 'inward looking'
> traditional Hindu houses as compared with the post conversion 'outward
> looking' Christian houses.
>
> The old Hindu houses were ones where the women were to be shielded away
> from the eyes of outsiders. Hence while they had a lot of space indoors in
> the form of an inner courtyard called a raz-angounn the outside of the
> house was one which blocked the view to outsiders as to what way happening
> indoors.
>
> After many Goans got converted to Christianity the houses changed
> dramatically. The houses, especially those of the rich, began to be
> designed to display the class of the owners. They were meant to be like
> works of art, something that someone could marvel at from outside. On the
> inside furniture became important where in Hindu architecture there was
> little furniture.
>
> At the same time there were features of of embellishment borrowed from
> church architectural features like striking windows and gates.
>
> This post is getting overlong so I'll stop here.
>
> But the work of Heta Pandit et al is something well worth reading and
> pondering about if one wants to understand Goa.
>
> Augusto
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [Goanet] The Threat of CANCER .in Goa & Tanzania

[augusto pinto]

Dear Adolfo,
You're much more knowledgeable than me on the issue and are probably quite
right.

I had heard about this theory of cancer being caused by mobile and
microwave towers and wanted to lnow what others think as I couldn't find
enough information about it.
Best wishes,
Augusto

On Wed, 20 May, 2020, 10:24 PM Adolfo Mascarenhas, 
wrote:

>
>
> Message: 1   Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 16:24:31 +0530
> From: augusto pinto 
>
> To: augusto pinto 
>
> Subject: [Goanet] GOVERNMENT MUST ACT AGAINST ADULTERATED FOODSTUFF
>
>
>
>
> Dear Augusto
>
> ID cabzmd-uyhcc1jqgpbnyuujy9vwtymfiyv_22yhglmgabxjb...@mail.gmail.com>
>
>
> I read your mail few minutes ago:
>
>
>
> FIRST , I am sorry to hear that so many deaths have occurred in your
> family and friends. It is true that India is among the countries with a
> very high rate of Cancer.
>
>
>
> But there are many surprise ……the worst country in Europe is Denmark,
> Netherlands, France and Ireland.  The USA is the fourth worst County for
> Cancer and Alaska is also bad.
>
> Three of the countries with the lowest rate are in Africa: Banako, Gambia,
> Cape Verde and in Asia it is Bhutan
>
>
>
> SECOND Let me be personal. My brother in 2008 complained that he was
> having pains in the chest . I asked him to have it x-rayed. By the time we
> got to Dar we got the news a nearly 900 grams lump near his lungs.  There
> were no smokers in our house …He was kept in Manipal Hospital, close to Goa
> University.  The Chemotherephy made him like a zombie..The Atttitude of the
> doctor was incredible, she asked me not to waste my money he was going to
> die ! Two days later I paid the bill and and ambulance fro NUSI took him
> there. Meanwhile I had ordered for the Johnson Patch through the
> Government. It could only be handled by an Oncologist !
>
>
>
> My Brother when he was in Tanzania worked in the Government Chemist. The
> ceiling was made of ASBESTOS.  His coworker died from the same.
>
>
>
> THIRD** How many Goans are exposed to ASBESTOS?
>
> The answer is many. As you know Boilers in the ship have asbestos coating
> to keep the temperature down.
>
>
>
> THIRD B: Last weekend a couple called me to their place for a barbecue …as
> we were sitting out I noticed something suspicious over a garage like
> structure. I went to look at it. Yes it was ASBESTOS !!
>
>
>
> FOURTH :
>
> Why must unscrupulous people use FORMALIN to preserve fish.  In
>
> the mortuary it is used to preserve the body until it is buried. One fine
> day the body “ explodes”””, Others use chemical  to  ripen fruit etc
>
>
>
> FIFTH
>
> In many cases Cancer is linked to our DIETS …..reduction in fruits,
> vegetables etc and an increase in alcohol consumption etc smoking
>
>
>
> SIX
>
> UVR…Ultra Violet rays ….that is why jets have opaque windows ...that is
> why Cancer is so high in Sunny Australia. There is a flip side
>
>
>
> SEVEN
>
> Environmental Factors ….A shocked Major General Msuya asked me how did I
> know this. See my contribution at the IDRC Conference in Davos with Dr.
> Anthony Pais, himself an oncologist. Yes Volcanic Dust some fatal really
> fatal they kill in Minutes
>
>
> Get in touch with me if you think I can help 
>
>
>
> Adolfo Mascarenhas
> In Quepem ..Goa
>

[Goanet] GOVERNMENT MUST ACT AGAINST ADULTERATED FOODSTUFF

[augusto pinto]

I read Aires's post.

I too am surprised by the number of deaths due to cancer.

In about the last 10 years my brother Tony, my cousins Simon, Felix,
Fermino, all D'Cunhas, and their sister Flavia Mendonsa and her husband
Caetano have all died due to cancer.

Although Simon lived in Pune, the others were from Moira.

Many more from the locality I mention around Raint and Pirazona and Novo
Portugal in Moira have died of cancer. If anyone wants I can collect the
details. I know there are many more.

Besides Simon who undoubtedly lived in the vicinity of mobile phones towers
in Pune, all the others lived in the vicinity of 3 mobile phone towers in
Moira.

I have no evidence but my gut feeling is that investigation should be done
with regards to the link between mobile phones and cancer.

I asked a friend of mine in the mobile and Internet business and he laughed
at me.

He said do you think that the Ambanis and all the other
multimillion-wallahs who control the phone business will allow you to
investigate?

I agree.

Can you please figure out if anything can be done? Before you are consumed
by this disease that's more silent than Covid-19 but as deadly.

Augusto

[Goanet] Vavradeancho Ixtt

[augusto pinto]

After many days of the lockdown, the Vavradeancho Ixtt, (Workers' Friend)
came to my home today.

Published by the Pilar society, it says it is Goa's only Konkani weekly
since 1933.

I don't usually look too closely at it because the articles are mostly
about saintly thongs and I have more affinities with the Devil, but the
issue I got has an article which caught my eye.

It's titled Anak poddlan anachem, Bhereak poddlan aplea kanachem by Myron
Jeson Barreto. I  burst out laughing when I read it.

I'll leave Walter Menezes to translate this into English for you.
Best
Augusto

[Goanet] Fwd: Who is this Joao?

[augusto pinto]

-- Forwarded message -
From: augusto pinto 
Date: Sun, 17 May, 2020, 11:30 PM
Subject: Who is this Joao?
To: augusto pinto 
Cc: Francis Rodrigues 


Joao Barros Pereira is a  brilliant poet whose work compares well with
another brilliant poet who specialises in short poems in English, and whose
name is Francis Rodrigues.

FR, who I know very well, for all his brilliance, is unfortunately not as
nice a person as JBP whom I unfortunately don't know personally, but who
comes across as a really lovely person not like... 

Augusto

Re: [Goanet] Books on Goan Houses

[augusto pinto]

The details of Goa houses that Heta et al offer is delightful.

>From the craftily created gateways balcony with all sorts of ornamentation
especially lions, to varied columnades, to the entrada, to the sala with
the lovely decorative motifs, to the library, to the altar rooms, whether
the dev ghors of Hindu homes, or the oratorios of the Catholic ones, to all
the details of the furniture in different houses, to the fact that these
houses used to have different kinds of palanquins (olden days cars powered
by slaves, ) to...

Ahhh...

The book is delightful!
Augusto

On Sun, 17 May, 2020, 9:41 AM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> A couple of other things need to be said about Houses of Goa.
>
> It's a gloriously produced coffee table book. The paper is excellent and
> so is the printing. The photos used to illustrate it are also very good.
>
> Besides the pictures of houses the authors also use lots of paintings of
> older times to illustrate what they say.
>
> If I have any reservations about this lovely volume it's that I wish they
> had indicated the locations of the houses they photographed as it would
> have enabled us to go and see them.
>
> Also I wish that they had referenced all their claims in a more scholarly
> manner as again the citations would have enabled the reader to go back to
> those works.
> Augusto
>
>
> On Sat, 16 May, 2020, 6:17 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>> I wanted to read up on Goan architecture.
>>
>> Unfortunately when they were in print I didn't buy books about Goan
>> houses as at the time they were a bit expensive and I didn't have enough
>> money at the time.
>>
>> However fortunately for me my neighbour from Moira Leroy Veloso who
>> collects books about Goa did buy some important ones so I borrowed a few
>> from him. I'll write about the books I borrowed before delving into what I
>> own myself.
>>
>> One of the more authoritative ones was Houses of Goa. It was first
>> published by the architect Gerard da Cunha and Architects Anonymous in
>> 1999. The book went into a second edition in 2000 and a third edition in
>> 2006.
>>
>> Its text was written by Hera Pandit and Annabel Mascarenhas and the
>> photographs are done by Ashok Koshy. The book has a foreword by Gerard da
>> Cunha.
>>
>> Wtiting about Goan houses inevitably forces the writer to delve into
>> history, for houses are the product of one's times.
>>
>> This is something which Houses of Goa richlh acknowledges as it explains
>> how and why Goans built houses in the way they did over the ages.
>>
>> For instance the authors throw up the concept of the 'inward looking'
>> traditional Hindu houses as compared with the post conversion 'outward
>> looking' Christian houses.
>>
>> The old Hindu houses were ones where the women were to be shielded away
>> from the eyes of outsiders. Hence while they had a lot of space indoors in
>> the form of an inner courtyard called a raz-angounn the outside of the
>> house was one which blocked the view to outsiders as to what way happening
>> indoors.
>>
>> After many Goans got converted to Christianity the houses changed
>> dramatically. The houses, especially those of the rich, began to be
>> designed to display the class of the owners. They were meant to be like
>> works of art, something that someone could marvel at from outside. On the
>> inside furniture became important where in Hindu architecture there was
>> little furniture.
>>
>> At the same time there were features of of embellishment borrowed from
>> church architectural features like striking windows and gates.
>>
>> This post is getting overlong so I'll stop here.
>>
>> But the work of Heta Pandit et al is something well worth reading and
>> pondering about if one wants to understand Goa.
>>
>> Augusto
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Re: [Goanet] Books on Goan Houses

[augusto pinto]

A couple of other things need to be said about Houses of Goa.

It's a gloriously produced coffee table book. The paper is excellent and so
is the printing. The photos used to illustrate it are also very good.

Besides the pictures of houses the authors also use lots of paintings of
older times to illustrate what they say.

If I have any reservations about this lovely volume it's that I wish they
had indicated the locations of the houses they photographed as it would
have enabled us to go and see them.

Also I wish that they had referenced all their claims in a more scholarly
manner as again the citations would have enabled the reader to go back to
those works.
Augusto


On Sat, 16 May, 2020, 6:17 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> I wanted to read up on Goan architecture.
>
> Unfortunately when they were in print I didn't buy books about Goan houses
> as at the time they were a bit expensive and I didn't have enough money at
> the time.
>
> However fortunately for me my neighbour from Moira Leroy Veloso who
> collects books about Goa did buy some important ones so I borrowed a few
> from him. I'll write about the books I borrowed before delving into what I
> own myself.
>
> One of the more authoritative ones was Houses of Goa. It was first
> published by the architect Gerard da Cunha and Architects Anonymous in
> 1999. The book went into a second edition in 2000 and a third edition in
> 2006.
>
> Its text was written by Hera Pandit and Annabel Mascarenhas and the
> photographs are done by Ashok Koshy. The book has a foreword by Gerard da
> Cunha.
>
> Wtiting about Goan houses inevitably forces the writer to delve into
> history, for houses are the product of one's times.
>
> This is something which Houses of Goa richlh acknowledges as it explains
> how and why Goans built houses in the way they did over the ages.
>
> For instance the authors throw up the concept of the 'inward looking'
> traditional Hindu houses as compared with the post conversion 'outward
> looking' Christian houses.
>
> The old Hindu houses were ones where the women were to be shielded away
> from the eyes of outsiders. Hence while they had a lot of space indoors in
> the form of an inner courtyard called a raz-angounn the outside of the
> house was one which blocked the view to outsiders as to what way happening
> indoors.
>
> After many Goans got converted to Christianity the houses changed
> dramatically. The houses, especially those of the rich, began to be
> designed to display the class of the owners. They were meant to be like
> works of art, something that someone could marvel at from outside. On the
> inside furniture became important where in Hindu architecture there was
> little furniture.
>
> At the same time there were features of of embellishment borrowed from
> church architectural features like striking windows and gates.
>
> This post is getting overlong so I'll stop here.
>
> But the work of Heta Pandit et al is something well worth reading and
> pondering about if one wants to understand Goa.
>
> Augusto
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

[Goanet] Books on Goan Houses

[augusto pinto]

I wanted to read up on Goan architecture.

Unfortunately when they were in print I didn't buy books about Goan houses
as at the time they were a bit expensive and I didn't have enough money at
the time.

However fortunately for me my neighbour from Moira Leroy Veloso who
collects books about Goa did buy some important ones so I borrowed a few
from him. I'll write about the books I borrowed before delving into what I
own myself.

One of the more authoritative ones was Houses of Goa. It was first
published by the architect Gerard da Cunha and Architects Anonymous in
1999. The book went into a second edition in 2000 and a third edition in
2006.

Its text was written by Hera Pandit and Annabel Mascarenhas and the
photographs are done by Ashok Koshy. The book has a foreword by Gerard da
Cunha.

Wtiting about Goan houses inevitably forces the writer to delve into
history, for houses are the product of one's times.

This is something which Houses of Goa richlh acknowledges as it explains
how and why Goans built houses in the way they did over the ages.

For instance the authors throw up the concept of the 'inward looking'
traditional Hindu houses as compared with the post conversion 'outward
looking' Christian houses.

The old Hindu houses were ones where the women were to be shielded away
from the eyes of outsiders. Hence while they had a lot of space indoors in
the form of an inner courtyard called a raz-angounn the outside of the
house was one which blocked the view to outsiders as to what way happening
indoors.

After many Goans got converted to Christianity the houses changed
dramatically. The houses, especially those of the rich, began to be
designed to display the class of the owners. They were meant to be like
works of art, something that someone could marvel at from outside. On the
inside furniture became important where in Hindu architecture there was
little furniture.

At the same time there were features of of embellishment borrowed from
church architectural features like striking windows and gates.

This post is getting overlong so I'll stop here.

But the work of Heta Pandit et al is something well worth reading and
pondering about if one wants to understand Goa.

Augusto

[Goanet] Mahabharot (Adi Porv)

[augusto pinto]

This lockdown is as good a time as any to check on the books that I possess
but haven't read. I'll tell you about a book that I set out to read but
actually didn't. As the subject line says it's name is Mahabharot (Adi Porv
which means first part) and if I remember correctly it was given to me by
Tensing Rodrigues.

The book actually is a transcription of a handwritten manuscript of the
Mahabharat in Konkani which was stored at the public library of Braga in
Portugal. Around  1950 Dr Mariano Saldanha became aware of the presence of
some codices containing manuscripts of medieval times in the Braga library
and informed Goan scholars like Dr. A. K. Priolkar and Dr. P. P.
Pissurlenkar. Dr Jose Pereira too came to know about these manuscripts and
publicised their existence. When Fr Antonio Pereira S. J. was on his way to
Portugal Prof. Lourdino Rodrigues, Tensing's father who used to teach
French and Portuguese at Dhempe College and was an authority on medieval
Konkani requested him to get copies of the manuscripts back.

Prof. Rodrigues then got the manuscript printed in 1986 with help from the
businessman Avertano Furtado. He has written an Introduction to the book in
English and Konkani where he explains the Konkani language used. There is
also a  Foreword by Dr Sheikh Ali than V.C. of Goa University and a Preface
by Fr. A. Noronha s.f.x.

Well I tried to read the stories in the book which are in the Roman script
and which were probably transcribed from oral sources by Portuguese
missionaries. But after struggling through one or two of the stories I
found the Konkani too difficult and gave up.

However the book does give an idea of what the Konkani of the 16-17th
century was like. If you ask me (and I was surprised to learn this) it
appears to sound more like the Konkani spoken by Mangaloreans.

For instance here are the first lines of the Ads
Porv."Astinapur nanv nogor tethim Santanu Chokrovoti Raei rajeo kori. Tem
raeachie strie nanv Gonga; ti stri raei melloitana bolo soteo  sukrut hounu
ti raeichi stri zali; ... (In the city of Hastinapur the king Santanu
Chokrovoti ruled. This king had a wife named Gonga. She had become the
king's wife because she would speak honestly and had a good conscience.) Or
so I think this is what it means.

Although there is a large glossary at the back compiled by Prof. Rodrigues
the Konkani is pretty difficult for me to understand.
Anyway I just thought of posting this here in case anyone with more Konkani
skills than me might be interested in working on this book.
Augusto

[Goanet] Tensing Rodrigues's Konkanapurana

[augusto pinto]

https://www.academia.edu/42185578

Tensing Rodrigues has for quite a long time been publishing a series of
articles in the Navhind Times called Konkanapurana.

This is quite a detailed exposition on how Goa got populated from the
earliest times. He uses a vast variety of sources to buttress his
arguments.

It appears that this series of articles will end up as a book, but even if
for some reason this doesn't happen, the Konkanakhyan articles, although
inconvenient to consult, will provide a good overview of the historical and
geographical developments that resulted in the Goa of today.

The latest article is called 'Peopling the Komkan Coast' (see the link
above) whereas last week the controversial Parshuram was in the limelight.

Tensing's writing can at times be a bit dense and difficult to read,
sometimes because of the unfamiliarity of the subject to a lay reader;
sometimes for trying to pack in too much information into individual
sentences; and sometimes for silly reasons - for eg, in the latest article
I took more than 10 minutes to realise that AMH meant 'anatomically modern
humans' because he hadn't bothered to place the acronym AMH after the term
when it first appeared.

However for those interested in this area of study I'd highly recommend the
Konkanapurana articles.

Best,
Augusto

[Goanet] The Strange Moira Club Centenary Souvenir Saga

[augusto pinto]

On Sunday the 16th of February, at around 7.00 pm a function was held in
the Associação Académica de Moira Club to release a souvenir to mark to
mark the century of the founding of the club.

The function itself was a nice one. It's what happened later that was
surreal as far as I am concerned.

Fr. Alexander the parish priest as the Chief Guest and the MLA of Aldona
Constituency Glen Souza Ticlo as the Guest of Honour and others like the
Advocate General of Goa, the Moira Sarpanch and a Goa Football Association
representative as guests; besides the editorial team of Air Vice Marshal
Giles Gomez Retd the cartoonist; David de Souza, the internationally
renowned photographer and I on the dais.

The speeches began and after President Oswald Cordeiro welcomed the
gathering and praised me and my editorial team to the skies.

I then spoke about how the souvenir was put together. Fr. Alexander and the
other guests spoke. One copy of the souvenir was released. JUST ONE.

There was entertainment by a band of talented youngsters and later a dinner
was served to the guests. All this was fine.

But even before that the bizarre had began. The souvenir which was supposed
to be sold was not. People kept asking (and some had come from afar just
for a copy) but the club committee was tight lipped and just ignored the
requests without any explanation. This could only happen in Moira, I said to
myself.

Being the editor I know that 400 copies of the souvenir were delivered.
Since the editors had an advance issue each, even if it is immodest to do
so, I can say it's a fine volume, far better than anything normally seen as
a souvenir in Goa, and everyone who I've shown it to agrees.

You can well imagine my bitter disappointment given almost one and a half
months of concerted effort done gratis by me and my team to bring out the
volume. Why wasn't the souvenir being sold? I can't say for sure because
they aren't telling me, but my guess is that they, (meaning my hate-club
members) have found something to object to in what I wrote and have told
the President to suppress it. The President wisely followed their advice
and till today it's been suppressed.

In the meantime however rumours in the village began to grow rife that I
had written something defamatory or obscene.

That's when I decided to throw a draft of the souvenir articles into the
public domain so that people could see the articles for themselves and
judge whether anything I wrote was offensive. I haven't yet heard a single
complaint although I did get a lot of compliments on the various forums
where I sent the articles.

I'm sending you a link to the Goa Book Club which was one of the places
where I sent the articles. I'm afraid this document lacks the colour
photography of David de Souza and the cartoons of Air Vice Marshal Giles
Gomez VSM which are in the print version and there are also some typos and
errors which I edited out when proofreading.

Still go through it and let me know what you think, and most especially if
you think I've written something wrong. (Incidentally the link has some
posts extraneous to the issue but just ignore them if you can't enjoy them.)

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/goa-book-club/iC1yDy2kjNk
Best,
Augusto

[Goanet] Which is the oldest club in Goa?

[augusto pinto]

I know that the second oldest sports and cultural club in Goa is the
Associacao Academica de Moira founded in 1920.

Does anyone know which is the oldest?
Augusto

Re: [Goanet] [GOABOOKCLUB] Catalogues of IFFI from Inception

[augusto pinto]

Today evening, Vinayak who drives Wendell's cars came calling to my place
to collect some of the IFFI catalogues which I had missed giving him
earlier came and he came with gifts from Wendell which included a book on
the Communidades which I have somehow missed reading and I will read later,
and also with an autographed copy of his memoir The Green Room. The Green
Room is a book I didn't bother about earlier assuming it was about the
fashion industry which I'm basically uninterested in.

I discovered that while it is about the fashion industry and anyone who
wants to know about it would be well advised to read this book it also
happens to be a very well crafted memoir of a Goan of about my own age.

I 'm at page 21 of The Green Room. It is about Terrace Building at Mahim
which was where Wendell lodged as an infant.

On that page Wendell writes and I quote, "We were banned from going to the
long wing of the first floor of Terrace Building. Near the staircase, with
its smooth wooden bannister, on which we took turns to slide down to the
first floor, lived an old dentist and his wife. Beyond the dentist was a
brothel of sorts. There was a brother who pimped out his sister..."

OK. Maybe I'll tell you the rest of the story later but if you're in a
hurry to know what happened next then...

Best
Augusto

On Fri, 18 Oct, 2019, 2:22 PM Wendell Rodricks, 
wrote:

> I don’t mind taking the catalogues for our Museum Library
> W
>
> Sent from my iPad Pro
>
> www.wendellrodricks.com
> Address: Wendell Rodricks, Campal, Panjim, Goa. 403001. INDIA
> Off: +91-832-2420604  Shop:+91-832-2238177
> E-retail: wendellrodricks.com
>
> On 18-Oct-2019, at 12:18 AM, augusto pinto  wrote:
>
> I have been an IFFI delegate since the time IFFI began in Goa.
>
> Hence I have most of the cataloguea from the first IFFI that was held in
> Goa.
>
> Now I am facing a problem because I don't have space in my house to store
> a lot of stuff which I had preserved because I thought they would be
> useful.
>
> So I am going to destroy the stuff which I don't want and amongst this are
> those old IFFI catalogues. Possibly someone among us might need these
> catalogues. If so let me know tout de suit. Otherwise I will destroy those
> catalogues. Even though I feel sorry doing this.
>
> In case anyone is interested please let me know quickly. Otherwise I will
> destroy the stuff.
>
> Augusto
>
>
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[Goanet] Fwd: Jomo Kenyatta

[augusto pinto]

-- Forwarded message -
From: augusto pinto 
Date: Sat, 9 Nov, 2019, 10:09 PM
Subject: Jomo Kenyatta
To: 


Does anybody know whether J. M. Nazareth was a defence lawyer of Jomo
Kenyatta?

Augusto

[Goanet] An Article about those who wrote about Moira

[augusto pinto]

I'm forwarding to you an article I've written about what's been written
about Moira. It's been written and submitted at short notice for the
souvenir of the Moira Church.

Having said that there's still time for the proof copies to come so in the
meantime if any of you can help to improve the article please feel free.
I'm afraid there's no remuneration in this endeavour as all the proceeds
will go to the Moira school.

Best,
Augusto

-- Forwarded message -
From: augusto pinto 
Date: Fri, 1 Nov, 2019, 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: Nazareth Writers from Moira
To: John Nazareth 


Dear John,

I'm posting to you a draft to the essay I wrote for the Moira Church
souvenir.

If you have any feedback I'd be grateful to hear it.

Best wishes,
Augusto

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 10:47 AM augusto pinto  wrote:

> Dear John,
> Thanks for your reply. Do send me the information you have as I am
> interested in this project. Unfortunately I might not be able to use it as
> I have to submit my material today.
>
> I'll separately send you the draft of my article.
> Best,
> Augusto
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov, 2019, 2:25 AM John Nazareth, 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Augusto
>> Yes, Peter and I hail from Moira - Novo Portugal, in fact.
>> But I have been working a lot on Moira genealogy (together with Richard
>> De De Souza) and found out that we are from Vangod 1 which is originally
>> from Povoacao.
>> We are from Uganda.
>> Larry's family are from Vangod 3. We keep in touch.
>> I am on holiday at the moment until Nov 12 with limited access to my
>> resource material.
>> When I am back I can give you whatever material I have that you need.
>> Richard and a group of us are putting together a book on Moira -
>> primarily to include our work on the ganvkars of Moira. But we will be
>> including a section on prominent Moidekars, so I would be very interested
>> in your endeavors.
>> Cheers
>> John
>> PS Apparently Mr much older first cousin told me that our grandfather
>> shared with him that he gave the name Novo Portugal. I'll share with you
>> what I found out. (I had discussed this with another Augusto. I thought you
>> were him when I saw your email)
>> --
>> *From:* augusto pinto 
>> *Sent:* Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:09:26 PM
>> *To:* jhr_nazar...@hotmail.com 
>> *Subject:* Nazareth Writers from Moira
>>
>> Dear John,
>>
>> Jeanne Hromnik gave me your email address. I am a college professor (of
>> English) and an essayist, book reviewer and translator from Konkani into
>> English, living in Novo Portugal in Moira, Goa.
>>
>> I've a query which I hope you will help me with.
>>
>> I'm in the process of writing an article on writers hailing from Moira
>> for the souvenir of the Moira Church. I was about to write of Peter
>> Nazareth as the brother of John Lawrence Nazareth and son of John M.
>> Nazareth when I got puzzled by the fact that he was from Uganda whereas the
>> latter two were from Kenya. Which is when I went to check with Jeanne who
>> told me to ask you as you are Peter's brother and a renowned genealogist.
>>
>> So could you please let me know if you and Peter originally hail from
>> Moira? Are you ganvkars or settlers? Where in Moira is your house? I'm
>> aware of Peter as a writer and have occasionally corresponded with him but
>> I'm also interested in knowing whether you've written any books.
>>
>> Hope you don't find my questions too personal and I look forward to hear
>> from you soon as the deadline for submission is tomorrow.
>> Thank you.
>> Best wishes,
>> Augusto Pinto
>>
>

[Goanet] Catalogues of IFFI from Inception

[augusto pinto]

I have been an IFFI delegate since the time IFFI began in Goa.

Hence I have most of the cataloguea from the first IFFI that was held in
Goa.

Now I am facing a problem because I don't have space in my house to store a
lot of stuff which I had preserved because I thought they would be useful.

So I am going to destroy the stuff which I don't want and amongst this are
those old IFFI catalogues. Possibly someone among us might need these
catalogues. If so let me know tout de suit. Otherwise I will destroy those
catalogues. Even though I feel sorry doing this.

In case anyone is interested please let me know quickly. Otherwise I will
destroy the stuff.

Augusto

[Goanet] Hanv Konn an excellent new blog

[augusto pinto]

*Hanv Konn* https://hanvkonn.wordpress.com/is an online blog that contains
articles written by various authors during the course of their MA in
Sociology Programme at Goa University.


'These authors show us how higher education could, and perhaps should, be a
process of discovery and recovery from insults and hidden injuries while
recreating one’s identity as learners.' writes Alito Sequeira who was the
mentor of all these authors and who is I think the mastermind behind the
blog.



This week has an introduction, forward and three articles.


The blog will be launching 2-3 articles every week.  For now, check out any
or all of these:

https://hanvkonn.wordpress.com/2019/06/22/religion-and-identity-in-transition-a-case-study-from-contemporary-urban-goa/

https://hanvkonn.wordpress.com/2019/06/22/ashamed-of-speaking-in-konkani/

https://hanvkonn.wordpress.com/2019/07/04/whats-in-this-blog/

https://hanvkonn.wordpress.com/2019/07/04/foreword/

https://hanvkonn.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/my-ancestral-home-where-is-it/



Alito requests you to favour the blog with your comment and critique,


Augusto

[Goanet] Alito Sequeira’s Articles on How 8000 Candidates Failed a Govt. Accountants’ Test

[Augusto Pinto]

> Prof. Alito Sequeira wrote a thought provoking series of articles in the 
> Herald critiquing the manner in which not  single one of 8000 candidates from 
> Goa could qualify at a government accountants’ test titled “The Dark Side of 
> State Employment” (OHeraldo)
> Augusto 
> 
>> Part 1: 
>> http://epaper.heraldgoa.in//imageview_5905_11920185316994_4_71_11-09-2018_2_i_1_sf.html
>> 
>> Part 2: 
>> http://epaper.heraldgoa.in//imageview_5923_3493893_4_71_12-09-2018_4_i_1_sf.html
>> 
>> https://tinyurl.com/y8jymfgq
>> 
>> Part 3: 
>> http://epaper.heraldgoa.in//imageview_5939_34644758_4_71_13-09-2018_4_i_1_sf.html
>> 
>> https://tinyurl.com/y9qhmmoj 
>> 
>> 

Re: [Goanet] [GOABOOKCLUB] Increasing levels of dissolved CO2 disrupt fish’s olfactory skills, study finds.

[augusto pinto]

A couple of comments about this thread:
1) Themistocles mentions that  'catfish' is '*tigur' *in Konkani. Catfish
is usually called *'sangott'. *I'm not sure what  *tigur* (or* thigur* as
we pronounce it in North Goa) is called in English although it might well
may be a variety of catfish. Wonder whether someone can clarify.

2) Joao Cota blames (among others) anglers for fish depletion.An angler is
defined as a person who fishes with a rod and line. I doubt whether the
volume of fish caught by anglers can cause fish to be seriously depleted.
What is more likely is that over-fishing may be be caused by the nets used
in ponds and '*manos*'es (sluice gates) which are commercially auctioned
off to the highest bidder.

Augusto




On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Joao Paulo Cota 
wrote:

> This unfortunate situation in Goa is not just caused by pollution but also
> due to overfishing and lack of fishing laws. Anglers catch tiny young
> fish...
> --
> *From:* goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com 
> on behalf of Eric Pinto 
> *Sent:* 13 August 2018 05:22
> *To:* Goa Book Club
> *Cc:* Goanet
> *Subject:* Re: [GOABOOKCLUB] Increasing levels of dissolved CO2 disrupt
> fish’s olfactory skills, study finds.
>
> Yes. Our water bodies including rivers have become highly polluted. Many
> anglers complain that what they once caught is not available anymore.
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, 23:27 Themistocles D'Silva, 
> wrote:
>
> Recently, there has been lots of publicity on fish treated with
> formaldehyde.
>
> There are also other fishy stories. 1. Fresh water fish in local ponds
> have disappeared because the catfish *(tigur*) have been eating them. So
> people stopped eating *tigur* !!!  Nothing can be further than truth.
>
>
> ---
>
>

[Goanet] Yup

[Augusto Pinto]

Sent from my iPhone

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] DEATH: Luis Assis Correia, ex-Africa and UK, author of many books on Indo-Portuguese history

[Augusto Pinto]

Sorry to hear of the death of Luis. I was quite fond of him and I believe he 
too was fond of me given our common Kenya background although he was much 
older. During our last email chat he was quite annoyed that I didn’t make it to 
the release of his last book.

I was amazed at his literary productivity particularly about East Africa  post 
Uhuru although I wish he was more careful about where he published his books as 
now it will be increasingly difficult to access them, apart from the fact that 
their credibility will be affected by their poor production values. 

Still I think that what he says is an important testimony to the times he lived 
in.

Farewell bwana Luis.
Augusto 


Sent from my iPhone

> On 24-Feb-2018, at 1:11 PM, Frederick Noronha  
> wrote:
> 
> Just to share with you the news of the death of Luis Assis Correia. He
> passed away last night, after a brief illness. Luis was in his late 80s,
> lived a full life, and spent a large part of the last many years in the Goa
> he so obviously loved. He was deeply interested in the field of
> Indo-Portuguese history and wrote a number of books on the topic. Some
> links to his books (in the news) are here: http://bit.ly/LuisAssis
> 
> His wife and family informed that Luis' funeral takes place on Sunday,
> February 25, 2018, at 4 pm at his village church (SFX Church in Velim).
> 
> In his memory, here are links to three interviews to what he shared not
> long back:
> Portuguese India, the Mughals... and (author) Luís de Assis Correia
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRkgnwpLe-U
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chw-nvDjrhs
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0WbmC5IcQ
> 
> If you'd like to share a message or a comment, feel free to post it via
> some of the networks Luis was active on (goa...@goanet.org or
> goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com) and we'll share it with the family.
> 
> Frederick
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Re: [Goanet] [GOABOOKCLUB] Goa Books at GALF

[Augusto Pinto]

Paul Melo e Castro privately alerted me to the King James Bible and also 
several other Bible versions of John 14:2.

Well I must admit that I was ignorant about the Biblical significance of the 
title and failed to do due diligence by not googling the phrase. Otherwise I’d 
have found http://biblehub.com/john/14-2.htm

Nevertheless my charge that “A House of Many Mansions” is incongruous is not 
incorrect for the King James and other versions of the Bible that follows this 
translation are inaccurate in the first place. 

This is evident from the fact that subsequent and more modern translations of 
the Bible have rendered the phrase as “My father’s house has many rooms” (New 
International Version); “There is more than enough room in my father’s home” 
(New Living Translation); “In my father’s house are many rooms” (English 
Standard Version; Borean Study Bible etc).

Best 
Augusto 



> On 30-Nov-2017, at 12:39 PM, Augusto Pinto <pinto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Of the five books that are to be published, one title caught my eye: A House 
> of Many Mansions: Goan Literature in Portuguese: An Anthology of Original 
> Essays, Short Stories and Poems Edited by Paul Melo e Castro and Cielo G 
> Festina.
> 
> Since a mansion itself is a large house I thought that the title seemed a bit 
> incongruous.
> 
> Also the cover forgets to mention that the work is translated (which I 
> presume it is or why else would the cover be in English)
> 
> Thus the book carries all the telltale signs of a certain Frederick Noronha’s 
> publishing fingerprints.
> Augusto 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> wrote:
>> 
>> We are releasing a slew of new titles during the forthcoming GALF, one 
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>> 
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[Goanet] Much ado about nothing

[Augusto Pinto]

Dear Joao Barros

Your prose is puerile and I was thoroughly bored by your pointless rambling 
which focuses on Vishnu Wagh’s Sudirsukt to begin with and then veers off 
staggering here and there like a stoned drug addict.

(To be fair to you, I know that as opposed to the rubbish in your goanet post, 
the verse which you are capable of writing and which you used to write, like 
the miniatures you used to send to the Goa Today magazine seemingly a long time 
ago were exquisite.)

Please do try and keep your writing focused, and bear in mind that there are 
people who are aware of what you are capable of writing who are observing what 
you are doing. So don’t be careless.

Best 
Augusto 



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[Goanet] Divorce among Goans

[Augusto Pinto]

I am witness to a rather messy domestic squabble between a married Goan couple 
who live in England.

They are a couple who used to live in Bahrain where their parents worked, and 
fell in love in school, a relationship which their parents approved and got 
married at the age of around 25 at a grand wedding in Goa.

But ten years later things seem to have broken down. The husband seems to be 
totally fed up and the wife is ready to part if he bears the expense. Both work 
and have independent incomes although they have to pay for the mortgage of 
their house and suchlike. They have no children.

If you ask for me reasons for their discontent sounds quite silly to me and I 
dare say you would agree if you knew the details, but I don’t want to get into 
that as I guess the emotional turmoil which seemingly silly incidents ris not 
easy for outsiders like me to fathom.

I suspect that if it were a case of an English couple who wanted to divorce on 
the same grounds as this Goan couple I guess it would have been a fairly 
straightforward issue.

But because the couple are of Goan descent, things became complicated:  the 
parents of both the husband and the wife are horrified at the prospect of their 
children divorcing and what it would mean for their image in society. Maybe 
they also feel that their children’s lives would be immersed in unhappiness, 
something they cannot bear. They want to save the relationship.

This has resulted in a lot of tension amongst the families. Unwisely I think 
they sought my opinion in this regard.

While I have my opinions on the matter which involves an understanding of what 
divorce means to people of different generations, among other things, I’m not 
too sure whether I should express them as I’m sure that one or more of the 
parties involved would get furious with me.

I was curious to know what others think about this issue. I wonder whether the 
members of this forum would care to express their opinion as to what would be 
the best advice to give both to the couple and to their families.

Best 
Augusto 
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[Goanet] Goodbye ... JC!

[augusto pinto]

It's hard to believe that we won't be reading jc again.

Like many others I too had never met him personally and our acquaintance
was through correspondence on internet mailing lists where he would write
on a plethora of issues. On subjects that he was expert at - medicine and
medico-legal matters - he was very lucid and very logical in his
argumentation.

However as Eugene Correia has pointed out somewhere he was strongly
pro-Portuguese and did not like the Indian takeover of Goa in 1961. He did
not take kindly at all to the 'deputationists' as the Indian bureaucrats
who came after Liberation to run the Goan administration were called. He
also resented the rise of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak party and its leader
Dayanand Bandodkar and the changes that they brought about especially
through land legislation like the Mundkar Act. On these issues he would
argue tooth and nail expending a lot of bile and wouldn't be willing to
give an inch or consider different points of view.

I think jc developed  a distinct persona through his unique writing style:
a patois that he had developed and used when he wanted to be mocking and
sarcastic. Also even if he didn't have much by way of argument he would
throw the ball in his opponents' court and try to corner them by asking a
series of questions. Although it could be quite irritating to the
recipients of his ire, it made for a lot of fun for the spectators of the
various mailing lists like goanet, goenchim xappottam and goa book club
where he used to write.

Although jc and I were almost always antagonists of one another, ready to
pick on each other at the drop of a hat, I'm already beginning to miss him
now that he's gone.

May his soul rest in peace.

[Goanet] To Sir with love,,

[Augusto Pinto]

Someone who knows the facts must write a tribute to Joaquim D'Cruz's sister, 
the renowned music teacher, the late Philomena D'Cruz.

She taught numerous students at Kala Academy's Music School in Panjim and after 
her retirement at her home in Bambordem in Moira.

She was spoken of highly by all of her students whom l have met, all of whom 
invariably secured high ranks at the music exams she trained them for.

She was also the President of the General Assembly of Associacao Academica de 
Moira Club of Moira which sadly never thought of honouring her for her 
achievements. 

Fortunately she did not remain unrecognised in Moira. For although she was a 
staunch Catholic it was the temple committee in Chari Vaddo which thought it 
fit to felicitate her.

Augusto 

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> On 18-Mar-2017, at 3:55 PM, 'Leroy Veloso' via Moira-Net 
>  wrote:
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:57:15 -0700
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> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"
>
> Subject: [Goanet] To sir with love
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> TO SIR WITH LOVE
> 
> Mr. Joaquim D` Cruz  is popularly known as J. D`Cruz. He was born at
> Bombay on 23-8-1929 to late Mr. Nemesio &  Mrs.Marieta D `Cruz, and
> settled at Moira. The family members consist of late Sr.Miriam (Sister of
> Holy Cross Order),  Ms Philomena (music teacher  in Kala academy ), Fr John
> is a Jesuit,  and nephew Mr. Rishad D`Cruz is entrusted to carry on the
> family lineage but the  ancestral identity is lost at Moira being under
> development project.
> 
> 
> 
> He completed his early education till 4th Std in Calcutta till 1942 and
> further education at Belgaum.  He graduated in B.Sc. Chem /Phys(1950) ,
> B.Ed., Science (1952), M.Ed;(1969) Poona;   M.A in Sociology external
> in 1976, Dharwar.
> 
> 
> 
> He taught Science at Loyola H. S. Margao for 2 years  from 1952. Appointed
> in 1954 as the Science teacher at Guardian Angel H .School, Sanvordem  by
> late Fr Gervasio Pinto   also hailing from Moira , and continued till his
> retirement  in 1989 .  He taught General Science, Physic/ Chemistry,
> Mathematicsand  English (self taught)  in Std VIII, IX ,X ,XI  besides
> History and Arithmetic. He served as the Asst. H.M and Headmasterfrom
> 1972. He was permitted by Ed. Dept. on account of his experience to
> lecture in English  in Higher Secondary for 2 yearsl. After retirement in
> 1989 he continued his services till 2007 , as a Supervisor at Dawali
> ,Sirsa, Hissar in Hariyana and Batinda in Punjab run by Pillar fathers.  .
> His expertise was also availed of at   Dabal, Collem, Rivona,  Verna
> schools in Goa run by Pillar Society. Between 2010-2015 he guided at Verna
> High. School and stayed  there., His valuable experiences were thus
> channelized profitably by Pillar Society
> 
> .
> 
> Sir D` Cruz authored books in  Physics/Chemistry 1965, General Science in
> 1957  ., These text books were in great demand  then in most of the schools
> in Goa.  He was invited by Somaiya Publications, Dadar Bombay to write book
> in Physics for  Std VIII. In co-operation with lecturer of Fergusson
> College, Poona.. He  also authored text books of Geography for Std IX, Std
> X covering ICSE syllabus .He  also served as anl examiner for Poona Board
> and later as an examiner, moderator, paper setter with Goa Board. , He has
> developed expertise by self education and interest in various subjects
> especially In English without basic qualifications ,an indication of a
> quality of a continuous learner
> 
> 
> 
> Sir D`Cruz  received  well deserved recognition  of National Award for
> Teachers, in 1984 which was long overdue and made his students, colleagues
> and school society proud of this honour. The financial  benefits received
> were donated to Pillar Society., He did not avail of  the benefit of
> extension of one year in service after the age of retirement, though he was
> perfectly fit and healthy.
> 
> 
> 
> Fr. Pinto encouraged his talents by providing him opportunities for his
> growth as an administrator, planner and was a great asset to the
> institute.. He handled multiple roles willingly without dissent, when the
> call of duty demanded.. He enjoyed his full confidence and patronage. He
> stayed in the boarding hardly venturing out , for he earned the respect and
> love from  the extended  family of Pillar fathers. Intimately connected
> with Fr. Pinto and his demise upset him considerably. It is only before
> retirement that he went on well deserved tour to Andamans, Punjab, Harayana
> etc on the invitation by Pillar fathers. He was blessed with good health
> and hence did not use most of his leave entitlement..
> 
> 
> 
>   His discipline, pious life, commitment earned him love,  respect,
> acceptance, admiration  by boarders, students and 

[Goanet] On Jayanti Naik in The Goan by Bharati Pawaskar

[augusto pinto]

http://everyday.thegoan.net/index.php?pagedate=2017-1-15=71=71=1=2

Augusto Pinto

[Goanet] Keith Vaz in 'Amsterdam'

[augusto pinto]

I had to get a new book from Central Library and it being the Booker season
I thought of getting a Booker Prize winning book. Of course our dear
Krishnadas Shama Library was never that perceptive that it would predict
the latest Booker winner
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/26/man-booker-prize-winner-paul-beatty-the-sellout-interview

Given that fact, I started poking around the stacks and when I came across
Ian McEvan's *Amsterdam *which won the Booker prize in 1998, I said this is
my latest book.

So I borrowed the book and as I began browsing through the book I said to
myself: "Hey, this book is prescient - it was written about an incident
that purportedly happened in 1996 but which has foreshadowed or predicted
what happened 2 decades later!"

Q: What happened 2 decades later, meaning 2016?
A: The* L'affaire* Keith Vaz.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/married-mp-keith-vaz-tells-8763805#

At the heart of *Amsterdam* is the story of a Julian Garmony, UK Foreign
Secretary,  a politician who is on the rise getting his political knickers
in a moral twist after the death of a former mistress who was a
photographer. This happens after the intimate photos she took of him cross
dressing get into the hands of his political enemies.

The Wikipedia entry does not exactly reveal what my reading tells me about
Ian McEwan's book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_%28novel%29 - but
never mind - people's perceptions differ.

However the point I want to make is that I was stunned that the plot of
*Amsterdam* followed the Keith Vaz story so closely - if one only exchanges
Garmony's cross-dressing with Vaz's encounters with drugs and male
prostitutes - the plot is identical.

They say fiction imitates reality; I think that sometimes reality imitates
fiction - albeit two decades later and in a more vicious way.

Moral of the story: Politicians should read more fiction.

Best
Augusto

[Goanet] Deepti Kapoor: Why I am leaving Goa

[augusto pinto]

The beautiful, laid-back Goa of old is disappearing amid pollution,
over-development and fears over personal safety. It’s time to leave, says
resident Deepti Kapoor

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/sep/07/deepti-kapoor-why-i-am-leaving-goa

[Goanet] On August 19, What Should I Ask Selma at the release of Baker, Butcher, Doctor, Diplomat: Goan Pioneers of East Africa?

[augusto pinto]

Selma Carvalho will be having her book *Baker, Butcher, Doctor, Diplomat:
Goan Pioneers of East Africa *released at Dogears Bookshop, Adolfo Mansion,
Rua Bernardo da Costa in Margao. The bookshop is close to Dr Menezes
Hospital, which in turn is near Hospicio Margao on Friday, August 19. The
public will assemble there from 4.30 - 5 pm for cake and coffee and entry
is open to all but it would be nice if you phone Leonard Fernandes (98503
98530) for reservations.* The program will begin sharp at 5 pm.*

The book promises to be a visual delight as her graphic designer Nisha
Albuquerque indicates in her website:
http://nishaalbuquerque.com/baker-butcher-doctor-diplomat-book/

I will be in conversation with the redoubtable Selma on the occasion. By
and large what I intend to do is to prod her with questions regarding
whether the Goan migration to Africa was an exploitative colonial
misadventure or a collaborative endeavor which led to a much worthy of
praise

I also think that there is a large gap in the narrative for it does not
cover the role of the working class Goan. If so why is this so? And yes, my
favorite hobby horse regarding the role of caste and class in East Africa
will not be missing.

Selma will be taking questions after our chat so it will be a dialogue. But
what if you can't because you live in England or South Africa or,Jabbalpore
or wherever?* Well then do yourself and myself a favor: tell me what I
should ask Selma about on this forum. *I'll relay the question to her BTW
Selma doesn't have Internet access in Goa so maybe we can discuss the
matter here as well.

Looking forward to your responses,
Best
Augusto

[Goanet] Madhav Gadgil on Jungle Raj in Goa

[augusto pinto]

http://scroll.in/article/809597/move-over-bihar-theres-a-jungle-raj-in-goa-that-not-too-many-talk-about

There are endless debates about the jungle raj, or the apparent
lawlessness, in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. But strikingly, no one
discuss the jungle raj raging in India’s mineral-rich states. Similarly,
Naxal violence in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha often makes headlines,
but the violence in Goa, with its greenery and silvery beaches, never makes
it to news reports outside the state.

I have been watching the situation in the state at first-hand ever since I
joined the Goa Golden Jubilee Development Council in 2010. At its first
meeting, government officials made a presentation about Goa’s economy,
stating that agriculture was declining with nobody wanting to pursue it. In
fact, it seemed that mining-related environmental damage was of no concern
– indeed the farmers were happy to sit at home enjoying the compensation
paid to them by the miners.

But just as the work of our council was concluding, the Justice Shah
Commission on illegal mining in Goa observed: “But no inspection has been
carried out [of the mines, over decades, in accordance with the Mines and
Minerals (DR) Act, 1957] resulting into fear-free environment which has
caused loss to the ecology, environment, agriculture, ground water, natural
streams, ponds, rivers, biodiversity, etc.”

I told the council that as a field ecologist, I would like to find out the
ground truth. So, I contacted residents of several villages along the
mining belt and managed to spend a full day and night in six of them,
sleeping with the farmers on the floor in their houses, trying to
understand the reality of the situation.

*On the ground*

I learnt that while a fair amount of Goa’s agricultural land was indeed not
being cultivated, large numbers of people still wished to continue farming
– in fact, for many of them, it’s a satisfying occupation.

It was clear that their livelihoods and community were adversely impacted
by mining, that they were not receiving reasonable compensation and that
they certainly did not wish to remain idle.

Hanumant Parab, Bismark Dias and Ravindra Velip were three of the friends I
stayed with, all of them highly respected and socially conscious members of
their communities.
*Law of the jungle*

A good definition of the jungle raj is that it is a system in which the
state victimises its citizens instead of protecting them.
The fate of Parab, Dias and Velip in recent months vividly brought to mind
the operation of just such a jungle raj in Goa.

Parab, for instance, was attacked by smugglers who were trying to bring
meat from unauthorised slaughter houses into Goa on the night of February
12, 2015. On November 6, 2015 Dias disappeared under mysterious
circumstances. The next day, his partially decomposed body was discovered
in the Mandovi river, with angry locals claiming he could have been killed
because he was at loggerheads with certain sections of the society and the
government over several issues such as the creation of a Special Economic
Zone, the Regional Plan for Goa and the proposed Mopa airport.
As for Velip, on the night of March 23, 2016, historian and writer
Ramchandra Guha had the following to say in an article in *Hindustan Times
:*

Ravindra was arrested and taken into judicial custody. The next day, with
the evident complicity of officials responsible for his safety, he was
blindfolded, gagged, and savagely beaten. He might have been killed had his
screams not brought fellow detainees to the scene, whereupon his attackers
fled. Shockingly, the police even refused to file an FIR on this murderous
assault.
— Hindustan Times

*Resolution stalled*

The gram sabha of Velip’s Cauvrem village has unanimously resolved to
establish a multi-purpose cooperative society, the manifold objectives of
which include handling mining activities.

The villagers demand that if mining activities, suspended because of
serious irregularities, are to be resumed, they should be handed over to a
village-level cooperative society run by them that will ensure mining is
conducted prudently and without damaging the environment while also
ensuring that the benefits actually reach the weaker sections of the
society. Taking note of the various irregularities pointed out by the Shah
Commission report, the Supreme Court had imposed a blanket ban on mining in
the state in 2012, but last year, mining activities have resumed in parts
of Goa, shortly after the ban was lifted.

Cooperative mining is evidently a most desirable alternative, one that is
very much in conformity with our prime minister’s slogan:* vikas ko jan
andolan banayenge *– we will make development a people’s movement.

Yet, the government of Goa is refusing to register the Caurem village
cooperative society and has not cited any valid reasons for not doing so.

[Goanet] From Mind to Keyboard - Part II: VRR's Foreword - "...It is not lust..."

[augusto pinto]

The very first sentence of Goa1556, Golden Heart Emporium and Goa Book.
Club's  2016 publication prosaically titled: '*From Mind to Keyboard*' - an
anthology of "writers from Goa and beyond" who "share stories of how they
made it" is written by the nonagenarian Victor Rangel-Ribeiro who writes in
his Foreword:

"The writers represented in this book share one trait in common: they are
all driven to write. It is not lust..."

You may say I am biased when I say that VRR is the doyen of copy-editors
(par excellence) emanating from Goa and that he has always stunned, so you
will not be surprised that I was shocked and awed by his words. Finally
with breath that was bated I recovered and began to read further...

There are two illustrations done by the remarkable Bina Naik of VRR to
enhance the three articles which he supplies. As everyone knows Bina's
pictures tell more tales than thousands of words: the first illustration
shows young VRR  looking bereft of inspiration chained at the ankles in
prisoners' pajamas to a chair; and another where the young VRR again is
seen being given a hefty kick on the backside by an annoyed boss.

I began to marvel as to how firmly Bina's art is rooted in reality...

To be continued...

[Goanet] From Mind to Keyboard - Part I - Why didn't Bina do the cover?

[augusto pinto]

Goa1556, Golden Heart Emporium and Goa Book.Club have jointly come up with
their latest offering poetically named for some reason: '*From Mind to
Keyboard*'


It is an anthology of "writers from Goa and beyond" who "share stories of
how they made it".

If you're the sort who judges your books by their covers  '*From Mind to
Keyboard*' might not disappoint you. It has by far the worst cover that any
Goa1556 book has had so far: The names of all the contributors to the
anthology Patricia Alvares, Ben Antao, Raksha Bharadia, Xavier Cota,
Jessica Faleiro, Pantaleao Fernandes, Ria Gomes, Stephen Gutkin, Sheela
Jaywant, Harish Kapadia, Nilesh Korgaonkar, Desmond Macedo, Reena Martins,
Odette Mascarenhas, George Menezes, Damodar Mauzo, Nandini Nayar, Fatima
Noronha, Sujata Noronha, Anita Pinto, Jerry Pinto, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro,
Rochelle Potkar, Cheryl Rao, Kornelia Santoro, Nitin Sathe, Aniruddha Sen
Gupta, Isaabel Santa Rita Vas, Yvonne Vaz Ezdani, are repeated three times
on the page in yellow and white on a dirty reddish brown. Below that is a
keyboard on which 'From Mind to Keyboard' is printed. The biggest name on
the cover in large caps is SHEELA JAYWANT (Editor).


But the biggest and most striking contributor to the book - 31 out of the
195 pages - FINDS NO MENTION ON THE COVER AT ALL! I am talking about the
illustrator BINA NAYAK who has done many a Goa1556 cover in the past and
who steals the show of the From Mind to Keyboard volume.


But I ask you: Couldn't Bina have done the cover as well?


To be continued...

Augusto

[Goanet] Bhakti Wins Asian Women Championship - Will Play in World Woman Championship

[augusto pinto]

Congratulations to Bhakti Kulkarni! This is a wonderful achievement but I
am sure it is not her last. Let's all hope that she goes on to win the
World Woman Championship and for that matter challenge for the Open
championship as well. Her parents too deserve to be congratulated because
they did their utmost to encourage her.

Goa Chess Association which had a policy of 'catch them young and watch
them grow' over the last few decades deserves a pat too as several players
including Ivana Furtado, Anurag Mhamal and others have come up under their
watch. I hope that they continue to work at the grassroots level to unearth
talent.

Augusto Pinto

[Goanet] Raw Earth by Alexandre Moniz Barbosa

[augusto pinto]

*Raw Earth*  by the journalist Alexandre Moniz Barbosa starts promisingly
and certainly quite colorfully. "Blood seeped slowly from the wounds and
formed a bright red streak on the cassock he was wearing. It darkened the
purple fascia around his waist and plastered the clothes to his body." A
novel which starts out with an action scene like this involving a religious
and that too an Archbishop grabs attention. Does the book sustain the
attention it creates?

Barbosa's novel is a 190 page political thriller the plot of which tries to
weave in mining and religion and politics in a Goan setting that seems not
too far into the future. It posits as the two main protagonists the Chief
Minister and the Archbishop of Goa both of whom happen to be brothers.
Although this is a bit far fetched that's all right for this genre, which
requires readers to suspend disbelief and be ready to be taken for a ride
full of suspense and drama. Not that there isn't sufficient reality in the
book. In fact the incidents of Barbosa's fiction can be easily matched and
even bettered by the Machiavellian happenings in real Goan politics which
make the mind spin - just look at the sex, prostitution, and political
skulduggery of the recent events involving Shri Babush  Monserrate MLA.

The bone of contention is the Netravali Wild Life Sanctuary which a bunch
of Goan mineowners want to open up for mining for ore. The idea is hatched
by a recent North Indian settler named Singhal who is a high stakes fixer
who moves between Goa and Delhi arranging for Goan politicians to carry
suitcases full of high denomination currency notes to their high commands.

However this comes in conflict with the interests of villagers of Cawrem
and other mining areas where this activity is disrupting their lives. The
Archbishop comes into the picture when on one of his pastoral visits he
comes across a child who has been run over by a mining truck and volunteers
to take her to the hospital. Slowly he gets drawn into the conflict that is
taking place between the government and villagers supported by NGOs over
the mining issue.

The cabal of mine-owners led by the wily Singhal who are  faced with public
uprisings which will ruin their plans, try to smoothen things out for
themselves by bumping off the protagonists. I won't give away more of the
plot.

Is it a good read? I'd say it's so-so. For one thing while the book is in
the honored tradition of political novels from Goa pioneered by Ben Antao,
it doesn't have the sex which he used to ladle out in healthy doses.
Although the book started with a likely heroine in the form of a female NGO
Barbosa doesn't try to use her to create any romantic interest which might
have helped the plot along and which could have added some fire to the
story.

Also Barbosa doesn't quite build up the element of suspense needed to make
the thriller thrilling enough. Things go the way of the good guys (who we
all know aren't all that good) far too easily in the end. Maybe Barbosa
needed a good editor or reader to give him some honest feedback about the
pacing and plotting which could have been better.

Barbosa's experience as a newsman helps him to flesh in details of Goan
political life and add local color. I'd give the book some credit for
trying and the fact that I did read it till the end means that it was
readable enough as far as I'm concerned. For Goan readers it will give an
opportunity to reflect on the political and economic scenario of Goa as
they follow the events of the book; and for those new to Goa it'll give
them an idea of how things happen around here.

Re: [Goanet] [GOABOOKCLUB] Diamonds Under My Feet... (Maria Viency Cardozo) ... a recording

[augusto pinto]

'*Diamonds*...' the latest from the Goa1556 stable is a 'good' book. That's
because it seeks to provide a path for those families which suffer from
alcoholism by publicizing the work of Al - Anon.
Before talking about the book I think it is worth pointing out the
difference between A.A. and Al - Anon.

A.A. or Alcoholics Anonymous is an organization which helps alcoholics to
achieve sobriety and stay sober by a kind of group therapy. It basically
has what they call a 12 step program which offers guidelines for "recovery
from addiction, compulsion or behavioural problems. The process involves
the following: admitting that one cannot control one's alcoholism,
addiction or compulsion; recognizing a Higher Power that can give strength;
examining past errors with the help of a 'sponsor' (experienced member);
making amends for these errors; learning to live a new life with a new code
of behaviour; helping others with the same alcoholism, addictions, or
compulsion."

While drinking alcohol is an agreeable activity for many, it can turn into
alcoholism which is a disease as sadly it does all over the world and Goa
is no exception. Now *provided that the alcoholic recognizes and admits
that he is suffering from a disease and wishes to recover from it*, A.A.
can be a very helpful place to effect this recovery because the members are
usually all recovering alcoholics themselves and they know what the
alcoholic is going through and what kind of support is needed.

However what is not often known that this is the disease of alcoholism can
affect spouses, children and families in general too in financially,
emotionally and other damaging ways. This is where the less known
organization of Al-Anon comes into the picture.

Society is not very helpful in understanding alcoholics and even less in
understanding the problems which families face or in offering them the
support needed to recover from their problems.

Al - Anon and related organizations like Alateen and  tries to offer solace
and a recovery program to spouses and children and friends of alcoholics.
Basically *Diamonds Under My Feet *tells the stories of 21 people which
explain the trauma that the families of alcoholics undertgo and how with
the help of Al - Anon they were able to make their dysfunctional lives
meaningful again.

It's the kind of book that will offer a way out for some and keep others
forewarned. The author Maria Viency Cardozo who is a freelance journalist
from Raia deserves to be complimented for her passion in putting this book
together.

Augusto



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Re: [Goanet] [Moira-Net:6951] Power Shutdown on 21st

[augusto pinto]

Thanks for that information Cecil.

Incidentally I saw with despair the way they spelled 'Pomburpaha'.

I stopped complaining about such 'errors' long long ago. In my latest
ratiion card my name has been changed to Augusta. And my village has been
changed to Nachinola. I accepted it without too much fuss. I simply don't
have the energy to pursue such issues.

The problems which arise when names are wrongly spelled by the clerks are
well known and yet the mistakes keep occurring with nauseating regularity.

Are these spelling errors just 'errors' or are they quite deliberately
done?  And am I realizing what is being done long after everyone else?

Perplexed,
Augusto

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[Goanet] Mango Chepnim

[augusto pinto]

My wife was asked for a mango chepnim recipe. I'm copying out one for him
and anyone else who wants to make raw mango chepnim:

25 tender mangoes (the seed should be soft)
2 cups Goa salt
8 Kashmiri chillies
1/2 teaspoon Hing (asafoetida)

Method
Wash and wipe and dry the raw mangoes
Take a container
Sprinkle salt at the bottom
Put the whole mangoes into a container
Put chillies and asafoetida and salt on the mangoes
End with a layer of salt
Place a small plate on the mangoes and rest a heavy weight on it so that
the mangoes get pressed down.
Cover it up and leave it for 3 days
After 3 days turn the mangoes over and sprinkle a little more salt. Replace
the weight and cover again.
On the 6th day there will be a lot of brine (liquid). Put the mangoes in a
jar and ensure that they are submerged in the brine. Keep for at least 2
weeks.

>From Goan Cooking by Rita D'Souza Roli Books

[Goanet] Support Caurem Villagers in their Struggle Against Mining: Sign the Online Petition

[augusto pinto]

Dear All,

The Caurem Adivasi Mukti Sangram appeals to you to support the struggle of
the caurem villagers by signing on the petition below:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/CHIEF_MINISTER_OF_GOA_Suspend_Jail_Authorities_for_Custodial_Torture_of_Ravindra_Velip/

Their Demands are :

1)State Repression of Adivasis must stop immediately and we should be
allowed to live with dignity. We should be allowed to reclaim economic
activities in our lands and illegal ore transportation should be stopped
immediately.
2) Sabaji Shetye, Superintendent of Sub- Jail Sada and Bhanudas Pednekar,
Assistant Superintendent of Sub- Jail Sada be suspended immediately.
3) An independent enquiry be ordered into why the police failed to register
a FIR in violation of the provisions of the Criminal procedure Code and to
investigate into the murderous assault while in Judicial Custody
4) Ravindra Velip be given adequate compensation by the prison authorities
for failure to protect him while he was in custody.


I have endorsed this appeal, and request you to sign the Petition and
circulate it on other forums that you know about.

Thanks and Regards
Augusto Pinto

[Goanet] Goan Novelist Amita Kanekar on the Ravindra Velip Assault

[augusto pinto]

The Goan novelist and architectural historian Amita Kanekar expresses her
dismay at Goa's mining mafia in the context of the Ravindra Velip custodial
assault case.
Augusto

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/column-this-people-s-movement-is-posing-a-challenge-to-goa-s-mining-mafia-2195703

This people's movement is posing a challenge to Goa's mining mafia
Amita Kanekar  | Wed, 30 Mar
2016-09:00am , dna webdesk

The villagers of Caurem are monitoring mining operations and pointing out
flaws and illegalities, which is actually the job of the state.

The ironies of the so-called development of Goa are indeed unlimited. On
the one hand, the government and elites of this state hard-sell it to India
as a place of unlimited ‘good times’, to be used for holidaying, partying,
drinking, gambling and so on , the price of which is paid in many ways by
common Goans. On the other, the Bahujan communities, esp. Bahujan
Christians whose culture is sold as Goa’s tourism USP, are *painted as
anti-nationals
*
by the Goan elites when they ask for their Konkani—i.e. Roman script
Konkani—to be recognised as one of Goa’s languages, or even for
English-medium education for their children. As for the physical landscape
of Goa, hyped as paradisiacal for *consumption by largely Indian tourists
*,
is disappearing before our very eyes. Whether it is destructive tourism of
the casino and golf course variety, ‘development’ projects like *DefExpo
*,
the cancerous growth of second homes and holiday homes eating up the hills,
or a refusal to mine Goa’s mineral wealth in a transparent, sustainable and
community-conscious way, Goa’s ruling elites, *in close collaboration with
those of India
*,
seem determined to squeeze out the maximum profit in the shortest possible
time, leaving a desert behind.

But they are in a fight. Slowly and steadily, the many small and scattered
oppositions are gathering strength, some with both better vision as well as
concrete plans to replace the destructive and neo-liberal developmental
policies currently in place. The struggle at Caurem village is one such,
where a people’s movement to create a sustainable and equitable mining
industry is growing despite virulent opposition from the powers-that-be,
the latest being a brutal assault on one of the leaders of the movement
inside the Sada Sub-Jail.

On March 21, Ravindra Velip, tribal activist and panch of Caurem village,
was arrested along with other villagers, after they stopped trucks
transporting ore from the Fomento-owned mine in the village. They were
released on bail but arrested again the next day, when they once again
stopped the trucks. This time, they refused bail and were hence remanded to
judicial custody in Sada Sub-Jail, Mormugao.

ALSO READ How Goa is getting colonised, one mega-project at a time


The next morning, while on his way to the jail toilet, Velip was *grabbed,
gagged and blindfolded *
by what seemed to be four men and carried some distance away. There he was
flung up into the air, so that he fell to the ground from a height,
breaking his arm, after which fierce blows began to rain on his stomach and
back, from boots and fists. "You think you’re a *dada*, do you?" someone
taunted him. It was only when he managed to move the gag and scream for
help that the assailants ran away.

What was the reason for this murderous assault, carried out brazenly within
the jail premises where nobody can enter without the permission of the
authorities? The immediate issue was the illegal transportation of ore from
mines in the Caurem-Pirla village panchayat. According to the villagers,
many of these mines have been implicated in over-extraction of ore or
violating the lease boundaries. But the Goa government has till date not
investigated this illegal mining, neither have they recovered the stolen
ore or prosecuted the perpetrators of the crime. The government has also
not bothered to record the amount of ore currently stacked at the mining
leases despite numerous petitions from the villagers. In fact, the ore
continues to be in the possession of the same companies, even though the
villagers have again repeatedly asked the government to take control of it,
only to be ignored.

On top of all this came the transportation of the ore out of the 

[Goanet] The University Under Siege

[augusto pinto]

The following articles by Udaya Kumar, Satish Deshpande and Partha
Chatterjee in the EPW help to offer some perspective to the larger issues
which underlie the recent goings on at Hyderabad Central University, JNU
and other universities. I hope that reading them might stimulate Goan
readers to reflect more deeply on the issues involved. Feel free to forward
them to others so that a more rational debate emerges.
Augusto

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The Public University after Rohith-Kanhaiya

Vol. 51, Issue No. 11, 12 Mar, 2016 
The University Under Siege 
Satish Deshpande 

The public university is on its way to becoming a truly democratic space.
It is the only site in contemporary India where all major social groups
come together in more or less egalitarian conditions. In every other social
location, there are various forms of segregation, not to speak of explicit
hierarchies. The public university is thus a unique and historically
unprecedented space from the point of view of the democratisation of
society. This is also the reason why existing social hierarchies and power
centres are beginning to view it as a threat.

   - Read more about The Public University after Rohith-Kanhaiya
   


The University and Its Outside

Vol. 51, Issue No. 11, 12 Mar, 2016 
The University Under Siege 
Udaya Kumar 

In the new conception being put forward by the government, the university
is considered as a skill factory which, through mass production, will
address the needs of the country's economy. This model thinks of
universities not as laboratories of thought but as factories where
activities are performed in unison. Instead of a cohabitation of
differences in friendship and respectful, heated disagreement, you have a
paranoid fantasy that gets rid of all real diversity.

   - Read more about The University and Its Outside
   


Freedom of Speech in the University

Vol. 51, Issue No. 11, 12 Mar, 2016 
The University Under Siege 
Partha Chatterjee 

There is a concerted campaign in the political arena, the media and even
Parliament questioning the presumed autonomy of the university. The law
must apply equally everywhere, we are being told, and so why should the
university enjoy a special privilege? There is a fundamental confusion
here, caused by lazy thinking or deliberate obfuscation, about the actual
limits to freedom of speech in the university and the appropriate
authorities who can enforce them.

   - Read more about Freedom of Speech in the University
   


- See more at:
http://www.epw.in/university-under-siege-0#sthash.GlBF7tWg.dpuf

[Goanet] Moira Musings: The Cube's Webotika and AAM's General Meeting

[augusto pinto]

So what has yours truly been amusing himself with in Moira of late. Well
I'd pick out my visit to The Cube and the Special General Body Meeting of
the venerable Associação Academica de Moira.

1) I went to The Cube, the art gallery of Sonny Singh which is just next to
the Church to see Webotika an exhibition of paintings by Unnati Singh.
Interesting stuff I thought with the painter seeming to be doing stuff
which I used to do (figuratively speaking) during boring science classes in
schools - either reading comics or drawing doodles. However I decided that
I not to invest any money on the Rs 5000 - 150,000 priced artworks. 

The exhibition is open until the 24th of April and if you just go there Tue
- Sun 11am - 6pm) the watchmen are quite obliging and will open the gallery
for you. I think Moidekars especially should take the opportunity to taste
something different. Promoters of art galleries do appreciate it when
people come and see what they have to offer. And we are one of the few
villages in Goa that has such an urban thing as an art gallery. Some
reports of the exhibition are in the following links:

http://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Facets-of-contemporary-art-/99866.html

https://www.facebook.com/1432555190362271/photos/pcb.1696367423981045/1696367280647726/?type=3

2) On Sunday morning I dropped in at the Associação Academica de Moira aka
the Moira Club for an Extraordinary General Meeting. Such meetings are
rarely held and this one was mainly because the committee wanted to get
approval for a cemented dance floor.

I entered a little late and found that the minutes had just been read and
the main item was on. Some of the more honourable members were grilling the
committee members about the money they had collected so far (about 3.5
lakhs) and pungent questions about why some members were targeted for
donations and others were not and whether all the sponsorship appeals had
been numbered or not were being asked.

I felt a little sorry for the committee as I had noticed that they were
doing a commendable job in the short while they have been in office having
done repairs to various parts of the club and bought a big new 50inch TV
and had tournaments and other activities which was good I thought.

Finally the dance floor was approved after the committee promised to keep
the plans open for objections till March 31.


Since nobody else was saying anything during this barrage, I decided to
open my mouth and defend them by appreciating the good job they were doing
at the thankless task of fund-raising and that if some people thought they
were being 'targeted' then a general appeal should be made but they should
continue with the practice for when making personal appeals it is an
accepted practice to hand out a written appeal to potential sponsors. I
think that other members agreed with this for there was applause.

Actually I don't understand this charge of people being 'targeted' for
funds. The fact that someone approaches you for sponsorship should be taken
as a compliment because it means that you are thought of as a person of
'good standing'.

For instance the committee will not come to me for sponsorship because
apart from being a Moidekar, a race which as everyone knows is as stingy as
Scrooge and Silas Marner and Shylock all rolled up in one, they also know
that I don't have a *domdi* in my *chomdi* to give them. So I think it
should be regarded as a privilege when someone comes to you with a
sponsorship appeal. It means that you're one of the twice born.

Then there was a bit of a stir when it was announced that two of the
members were resigning as they could not attend the meetings for various
reasons. I think this is the first time that this clause has been used
since the Constitution has taken effect. Francis Nazareth and Mark Cordeiro
came in as the new members.

During the AOB I made an offer to organize some talks, discussions,
debates, "different" films and so on. I was a bit surprised that there were
some people saying there was no interest in this. I retorted that before
burying the idea alive we should at least try and find out whether it
really is as dead as is being made out. Privately I thought to myself that
the Moidekars should welcome the opportunity to shed the tag of being
*pixés*. I intend to give it a shot anyway.

Later I was talking to Denzyl Andrade who looks after the club's facebook
page who told me that the club had plans to start zumba classes soon.
Interesting I said, maybe I should join it considering all the tyres that
have settled around the middle. He also said that the club may offer free
wi-fi and I thought the idea was good as it should get more of the youth
coming to the club and as long as there were activities happening too it
would be a good investment.

Cheers
Augusto

Re: [Goanet] [GOABOOKCLUB] Bookworm Trust for Literacy Hero Award - Please vote

[augusto pinto]

I did. So all the best to Bookworm.

When I looked at the modus operandi of this poll methought that it was a
bit dodgy. It all depends on how many people the candidate can get to cast
their votes online. So irrespective of the worth of the candidate all that
one needs is the skill to garner that many votes online. Those
organizations without any skills at canvassing votes are likely to lose out
no matter how meritorious they may happen to be.

Anyway may the best book-love spreader win!
Best
Augusto

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[Goanet] Fwd: Invitation for a public talk -" Heavy with History: From Memory to Memoir" by Prof Vrinda Nabar on 14th Jan at 2.30 pm

[augusto pinto]

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Date: Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:16 AM
Subject: Fwd: Invitation for a public talk -" Heavy with History: From
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Please send to your contacts. Thanks
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Date: Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:13 AM
Subject: Invitation for a public talk -" Heavy with History: From Memory to
Memoir" by Prof Vrinda Nabar on 14th Jan at 2.30 pm
To: University <univers...@unigoa.ac.in>


INVITATION
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Public Talk by
Invitation for a public talk -" Heavy with History: From Memory to Memoir"
by Prof Vrinda Nabar, Visiting Research Professor, Kavivarya Bakibaab
Borkar Chair in Comparative Literature  on 14th Jan at 2.30 to 4.30 pm in
the conference Hall, Goa University.
Prof Kiran Budkuley, HoD, English Dept will chair the session.
All are cordially invited.

Please see attached poster and www.unigoa.ac.in/vrpp for more details.




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[Goanet] Disgraceful Coverage of the Disgraceful ISL Finals.

[augusto pinto]

The coverage of the F.C. Goa - Chennai F. C. ISL Finals by the local news
media was unprofessional to say the least.

Nowhere did I read or view the version of Chennai F. C. regarding what
transpired during the disgraceful scenes after the final whistle of the ISL
final.

I read an implausible story about how one Owner approached Elano to tel him
what a good player he was during the charged up atmosphere after the final
whistle after which Elano attacked him without any provocation - a scene
which was witnessed only by the other Owner. Nowhere did I read the version
of the Brazilian player Elano as regards what happened between him and the
F. C. Goa 'Owners'.

I did however see some photos where Elano was surrounded and outnumbered by
a mob of F. C. Goa supporters which included the 'Owners'.

Is the fact that the 'Owners' names happen to be Dattaraj Salgaocar and
Shrinivas Dempo making such a difference that all ethics of journalism such
as fairness have been thrown overboard by the journalist fraternity of Goa?
Augusto Pinto

[Goanet] The Road to Hell Will Pass Through Moira and Aldona

[augusto pinto]

It struck me that the "development" that is going on around involving the
slaughter of the age old trees by the Moira club ground.had been stuck in
the RP 2021 as a kindred soul reminded me of late.

Since this club ground is Nobody's property, Everybody felt sorry but only
Nobody wanted to raise a finger about it and Everybody kept quiet.

Everyone is wondering about what will happen to the Pais houses' compound
walls and the well on the opposite side. Nobody will be surprised if they
are demolished or buried as the case may be.

Once that is done the road apparently goes to around the Tollear area of
Aldona and takes a detour through the fields so as to link up to the
Corjuem bridge. I had noticed that the work there had already begun once
before and thought it was some private development, but now perhaps it is
not so and is part of the highway which apparently is being pushed from
Delhi through the NHAI.

Now why are these roads being developed so sweetly for the Moira and Aldona
people? Moira and Aldona people = my fart!! The whole idea if I remember
correctly is to make a shortcut for the mining trucks that will be coming
from the Bicholim area through the Poira bridge.

Then see what the "developmental mining trucks" will do to our lives as the
traffic starts zooming past our homes and your vehicles as they get onto
the main road. OK right now there is a lull in mining and the price of the
ore internationally but for how long will this slump last?

I write this with a sense of despair as I have very little faith in the
people of Moira or Aldona to do anything to protect themselves from the
coming onslaught. In fact I'd be surprised if the honorable folks don't wag
their tongues at me to preach the virtues of "development".

BTW if there is anything factually or otherwise wrong about what I've
written above please do take the trouble to correct me.
Augusto

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Re: [Goanet] [GOABOOKCLUB] Peacock supports FTII students at IFFI

[augusto pinto]

 concern and dismay about random and arbitrary
> application of serious charges, and  routine misuse of the machinery
> of the state, to silence diversity in the arts. Almost everyone we
> talked to wanted to publicly express disagreement with  labelling
> spirited film students “anti-national”, and regretted the heavy-handed
> exclusion of a few dissenting voices.
>
> “India is not North Korea” we were told. But we all know that
> democracy by itself is no panacea when misapplied and perverted. Who
> will police the policemen? That is what Amol and Jose and I talked
> about while walking back to our cubicles in the Maquinez Palace.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 5:09 PM, augusto pinto <pinto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Peacock, the daily bulletin of ESG slipped in a comment about the FTII
> > students protest.
> >
> > In a review of the Indian Oscar entry Court, Vivek Menezes connects the
> > injustice in the film with the disgraceful treatment of the film
> students.
> > He writes: ... over the past week, very many people interviewed by us at
> > IFFI expressed grave concern and dismay about random and arbitrary
> > application of serious charges, and routine misuse of the machinery of
> the
> > state to silence diversity in the arts. Almost everyone we talked to
> wanted
> > to publicly express disagreement with labeling spirited film students
> > "anti-national", and regreted the heavy-handed exclusion of a few
> dissenting
> > voices..."
> >
> > Bravo VM!
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[Goanet] Peacock supports FTII students at IFFI

[augusto pinto]

Peacock, the daily bulletin of ESG slipped in a comment about the FTII
students protest.

In a review of the Indian Oscar entry Court, Vivek Menezes connects the
injustice in the film with the disgraceful treatment of the film students.
He writes: ... over the past week, very many people interviewed by us at
IFFI expressed grave concern and dismay about random and arbitrary
application of serious charges, and routine misuse of the machinery of the
state to silence diversity in the arts. Almost everyone we talked to wanted
to publicly express disagreement with labeling spirited film students
"anti-national", and regreted the heavy-handed exclusion of a few
dissenting voices..."

Bravo VM!
Augusto

[Goanet] Diabetes Epidemic to Strike Goa

[augusto pinto]

*ToLetters to the Editors Column.*

*Diabetes Epidemic to Strike Goa*



*The Govt.'s withdrawal of diabetes medications at Primary Health Centres
(PHC) will lead to a spate of deaths.*If malaria or dengue or encephalitis
or any other contagious disease were to hit Goa then everybody would be
alarmed. But when an epidemic of Diabetes is threatening Goa, the Health
Dept, headed by Dy. CM Francis D'Souza and the Finance Dept which pays for
the Health Dept. headed by CM Laxmikant Parsekar is refusing to pay for the
medicines. He is thus creating an artificial shortage of public subsidized
medications that only helps private pharmaceuticals.

Everyone is aware that Diabetes is a slow but silent killer and that when
uncontrolled it affects many major organs, including your heart, blood
vessels, nerves, eyes and kidneys.

If the right medications are taken in time diabetes can be controlled.
Glimepiride and Metformin are the standard medications prescribed for Type
2 diabetes at the Government Primary Health Centres (PHC) in Goa. Till
recently they were dispensed free to patients and this has saved countless
many lives of patients.

However for the last several months Government Primary Health Centres (PHC)
have stopped supplying these medicines to patients. The PHCs plead that the
supply of these medicines has been stopped by the Government.

On inquiry it is found that the Finance Dept controlled by CM Laxmikant
Parsekar has not been signing the cheques to requisition these medicines
for Health Dept. run  PHCs. This is one of the most cruel decisions of CM
Parsekar because it is the poor who are the most affected by this decision.
Having to buy these medicines is a huge drain on their resources and many
have stopped the medication as they simply don't have the money.

If the supply of these medicines is not resumed then the number of deaths
by apparently natural causes such as high blood pressure, strokes, heart
attacks, blindness, amputation of limbs and gangrene, kidney failure are
going to increase. The direct reason for these diseases is that diabetes
was not controlled mainly because people did not have the means to purchase
the neccesary medicines.

When are the people going to wake up and force the government to resume the
supply of these medications to the people? Is the government knowingly
going to allow the health of its citizens to deteriorate?

Augusto Pinto
Novo Portugal,
Moira Bardez Goa

[Goanet] I can't sleep

[augusto pinto]

I know that 'I can't sleep' would normally be an extremely inane subject
line in a letter to any mailing list, but in the present instance there is
a point that I'm trying to make.

A nearby temple has been blasting music from a loudspeaker all night. It's
now past 5 o'clock in the morning this Diwali day and it is still going on.

Obviously the police (there is an outpost less than 2 kms away) has decided
to go deaf. Obviously all the laws regarding sound pollution have gone for
a toss.

If it was just going to be a one night thing then, like the woman being
raped was allegedly advised before the act, I'd just lie back and enjoy it.

I only hope that this gross disregard for the law is just a one night
thing.

I only hope that this is not the case that a point is being made that if
people don the garb of religion they can do whatever they like without
having to be bothered about the laws of the land.

I only hope that this aberration is confined to just the nearby village of
Nachinola and not to every other place in Goa - thereby indicating a
pattern to the act.

Augusto

[Goanet] CDCS Goa Small Grant Announcement

[augusto pinto]

Dear All

Given below is a Goa small grant announcement offered by the Centre for the
Studies of Developing Societies New Delhi in association with the
Department of Political Science, Goa University which is the Local
Coordinator.

The purpose of the programme is to stimulate different modes of the
production of knowledge in Goa. The selected fellows (3 to 4 in number)
will have the opportunity of presenting an idea for research/ production,
working on it with monthly feedback from peers and mentors (including one
mentor of the applicant’s choice) for a period of six months and making a
final submission at the end of the programme. The fellow will also receive
a small grant (₹ 25,000/- to ₹ 35,000/-) for expenses. Where standards of
output are adequate a publication will follow.

Theme: Conflicts over resources in Goa. The concept of resources includes
natural or cultural or both.
Any disciplinary or cross disciplinary project from the humanities and
social sciences is welcome.
The work could be in any of the languages: English, Konkani (Romi or
Nagri), and Marathi or multilingual in these languages. The output format
could be textual, audio, visual, multi-media or performative.
Innovative ideas are also welcome.
Last date of submission of proposals: November 30, 2015
Date for oral presentation of proposal before the selection committee:
December 7, 2015 at the
Department of Political Science, Goa University.
Enquire and Submit proposals online to: goast...@csds.in
The process:
The proposal may include:
 Title
 Research Questions
 Justification for project.
 Contribution to debates
 Selected references.
 Approach of study.
 Timeline.
 Budget.
 Name of a mentor who will support you (or you could request for mentor
support if you do not have any person in mind.)
The subtitles are meant to be indicative. (The proposal must be in no more
than 1200 words)
 In addition write a one paragraph self-introduction.
Fellows will be required to make a minimum of one posting per month
reflecting on their work, on an Egroup created for the purpose. They are
also expected to respond constructively to the postings of others. Fellows
will also meet every alternate month to share their work.

Applicants may be researchers or students who may use this project as part
of their work towards a degree. Persons with no formal qualifications or
experience in research but wanting to work on their ideas with interactive
feedback from others are also welcome. The project will require a certain
amount of work and participation (as in the Egroup), however, those
employed, including faculty, are also invited to apply.

Proposals from a group working on a single project will also be considered
and the grant expenses for the project will be in the name of the group
coordinator.

Fellowship will be for a maximum period of approximately 6 months. A draft
or rough cut of your work is expected by the last week of April. The
complete work is expected by June 1, 2015.

Peter Ronald deSouza
Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies

[Goanet] The L & T of T.B. Cunha by Desai and Prabhudesai

[augusto pinto]

The Life & Times of T.B. Cunha narrated by Nishtha Desai and Ved
Prabhudesai is a graphic book published by the Dept. of Art & Culture. The
book tries to explain why Tristão de Bragança Cunha was known as the
"Father of Goan Nationalism" in the space of 50 odd pages in illustrations
and commentary using the 'graphic novel' genre.

How well does it succeed?

The start of any story in any form would I guess need to grab the reader
and yet at the same time set the context for it and at the same time also
quickly introduce the principal characters.

Chapter 1 of the book, which lasts 2 pages tries to give a potted history
of Goa from 1510 and the arrival of Albuquerque till before Liberation
wherein it essentially shows that the "people longed to be free." In the
illustrations the western clothes depict those happy with the Portuguese
rule and Indian clothes signify the oppressed.

In the following chapter we go to 1891 to a suited and booted family at the
baptism Antonio Sebastiao dos Remedios Francisco Tome Tristão Bragança da
Cunha where one of the relatives is shown making the unlikely quip  -
"Let's call him T.B. for short."(Unlikely because I don't suppose anyone
would want to refer to an infant after the then deadly disease tuberculosis
when they had so many more to choose from.)

We are told Cunha joined the Lyceum but left to go to Pondicherry because
the education was boring and doctrinaire. We also learn that he was
influenced by his cousin Luis de Menezes Bragança.

The story then takes Cunha's move from Pondicherry to France where he is
supposed to have met with future notables like Romain Rolland, Chou en Lai
and the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh with whom he shared a room. He also
met the Indian diplomat and writer K. M. Panikker who was to later name him
'the father of Goan Natioanalism.'

He returns to Goa in 1926 where he gets involved in politics (establishing
the Goa Congress Committee in 1928) and social work. He helped kunbis who
were enslaved in tea plantations in Assam to return home and in 1940 helped
give relief when floods affected Salcette and Mormugao.

The Denationalization of Goans is dealt with in summary in about 3 pages
which does reasonable justice to Cunha's polemics and is reasonably even
handed in that it does point out that both Hs and Cs were 'denationalized'
(although everyone knows that the D of G was written by T.B. to browbeat
the C sympathizers of the Ps). This is followed by the civil disobedience
movement of 1946 inaugurated by Ram Manohar Lohia and which Cunha assisted
and his niece Berta Menezes Bragança did some heroics. Cunha was arrested
and deported to Portugal.

He escaped in 1953 to come back to Bombay and resumed his ahem ...
"anti-national" activities.  He also apparently started becoming
disillusioned with the Indian government who had begun acting at the behest
of rich Indian merchants to protect their business interests (and
presumably business partners) in Goa. Cunha died in 1958 and was
controversially denied a burial in a Catholic cemetery although if he had
thought about it he would probably have preferred to be cremated or even
have his body given for scientific research.

The illustrations are nice and Ved Prabhudesai knows to give character to
his black and white caricatures. I think graphic books need to have a
single hero who does most of the action. In this regard the storyline
needed to have been worked on a lot more for there are too many detours for
the reader to identify with T. B. as a hero. The occasional humor is a bit
too literal and ham-handed.

In the end is the experiment a success? I'd give it 2 1/2 out of 5, a lot
of it for honest effort. Maybe kids of the Std 9 - 10 might be able to
appreciate their history class a bit more with the help of it. It's cover
price is Rs 250/= but the Dept of A & C gives a 20% discount so effectively
it costs Rs 200/= at their bookshop at Central Library.
Augusto

 "

Re: [Goanet] [GOABOOKCLUB] Gambling away Goa's Brand Value

[augusto pinto]

V.M. in Wonderland

What Goa hogwash is V.M. bleating about?
Goa is where Goans must make money.
If they don't or can't they will go abroad.
Casinos manifest their dearest wish.

V.M.'s Goa is Wonderland and he is a louse.
His Wonderland is full of fogies and fantasists.
They love creating hassles.
Goa's wonders have become obsolete.

A brand new Wonderland is getting ready.
It is waiting along the Mopa coastline.
It is waiting for the casinos.
It'll be a hassle-free fantasia where the hep will fly.

When the airport is ready the casinos will go.
Then V.M. and his Goa can go to the hogs.

Augusto

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:10 PM, V M  wrote:

>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Gambling-away-Goas-brand-value/articleshow/49613137.cms
>
> Searching questions—and serious reasons to worry about Goa's
> reputation—came one after another during Prerna Singh Bindra's Mathany
> Saldanha memorial lecture in Panaji last week.
>
> One of India's best known environmental journalists and campaigners,
> Bindra shocked her audience by displaying the top results of an
> internet search for Goa: casinos, gambling, prostitution. She
> projected images from her phone of what she had seen after getting off
> the plane at Dabolim: blanket advertising for casinos. She asked, "Is
> this what Goa stands for? Sin city?"
>
> Take a late evening walk along the beautiful waterfront that was once
> the pride of old Panaji, and the truth in Bindra's words becomes
> quickly apparent. At the same spot where the Indian flag was raised
> for the first time in 1961, garish neon lights now flash endless
> images of roulette wheels and blackjack cards. The ancient Mandovi
> estuary, gateway to thousands of years of civilization in Goa, is
> egregiously dominated by mammoth, allegedly "offshore" casinos,
> conspicuously flouting the city ban on advertising billboards with
> huge screens broadcasting non-stop images of gambling on their sides.
>
> "Is this the state you want?" Bindra asked her audience last week. But
> the paradoxical truth about casinos in Goa is that no one actually
> wants them. They cling on like leeches, continuing to exist solely
> because this so-called "industry" always subverts democracies,
> wherever it pierces its hooks anywhere in the world. Its nature is to
> direct pipelines of highly dubious cash directly into the pockets of
> political parties, politicians and policemen ready to be corrupted
> into resisting the people's will. It happened in Macau and Nevada. Now
> it is Goa's turn.
>
> But much worse than Macau and Nevada, there is no place in the world
> where casinos and gambling wreak havoc so comprehensively unregulated
> as in Goa—the operators are left to do exactly what they want. There
> is no Gambling Act. There are no controls. There is no oversight, and
> thus no incentive for any operator to stick to any rules whatsoever.
> It is inconceivable that any government in the world should so
> disgracefully abdicate its responsibilities, but it is simply,
> shamefully true that successive administrations of India's smallest
> state have done exactly that.
>
> In the case of whatever laws do exist, this so-called "industry"
> specializes in flouting them. Both Delta Corp and Pride Group (the
> companies that dominate gambling in Goa) have been raided by the
> income tax department over money-laundering and tax evasion. In the
> Louis Berger bribery case involving Churchill Alemao and Digambar
> Kamat, special public prosecutor G D Kirtani told the judge, B P
> Deshpande, "[accused hawala agent, Raychand] Soni funds many casino
> gamblers in Goa. Casinos are running on his funds".
>
> Last year, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) was petitioned about
> sewage pollution from casinos, and enjoined Goa's pollution control
> board (GSPCB) to test Mandovi's water. The results were gravely
> disturbing. Where 5 CFU (colony-forming units) of faecal coliform
> bacteria is considered safe, the lowest recorded in six river
> locations tested was 78 CFU/ml, and right next to the casinos opposite
> Panaji jetty was an extremely dangerous 330 CFU/ml, making it "unsafe
> for recreational bathing, water sports and fishing". The casinos
> probably should have been shut down immediately. Instead, then chief
> minister Manohar Parrikar gave them a unilateral clean chit.
>
> Previous governments initiated gambling in Goa, and allowed its toxic
> spread, but the current administration's shameful reversal of its
> promises has been exceptionally disappointing. As the then leader of
> the opposition, Parrikar called casinos "a social evil" and "dens of
> vice" while protesting against them on the riverbank. But just days
> after taking over, his government reduced their entry fee from Rs
> 2,000 to just Rs 500. Then there was his claim that casino "bad money"
> would never be needed for the budget, and would set aside to be used
> for homes for the aged. That is another promise in the garbage pile.

Re: [Goanet] THE HYPOCRISY OF GOA’S PROTESTING AWARDEES

[augusto pinto]

BTW Maria Aurora Couto responded to the article here:
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-sahitya-akademi-row-padma-shri-awardee-maria-aurora-couto-responds-to-charges-of-hypocrisy-2138134

Augusto

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, augusto pinto <pinto...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the point Jason Amita Dale Vishvesh and Kaustubh collective, who I
> shall call name JADViK for short, were perceptive in noticing the use of
> the word 'Talibanization' where the issue at hand was of 'Hindutva
> extremism' It is a valid point and one that the other littérateurs should
> have cottoned on to, but whom I forgive because when I read it myself I
> hadn't noticed.
>
> However the central issue that JADViK raises is uncannily like the point/s
> that Arnab Goswami most prominently but other TV anchors also make in their
> nightly inquisitions. The awardees are questioned not for criticizing the
> Sahitya Akademi now but because they have not been critical in other cases
> and at other times.
>
> I think that that to expect so much ideological agreement across the board
> is pretty unrealistic. As it is I find the consensus surprising and I said
> earlier - when 3 writers get together expect 5 opinions.
>
> However the good thing about JADViK's comment is that it provides a
> counterweight to the Bharatiya Bhasha people who were making threatening
> sounds about raising the MOI issue pitch which resulted in Maria Aurora
> Couto making a statement about different communities going to get torn
> apart. The JADViK statementto this.
> Augusto
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:21 AM, augusto pinto <pinto...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> THE HYPOCRISY OF GOA’S PROTESTING AWARDEES
>> <http://daleluismenezes.blogspot.in/2015/10/the-hypocrisy-of-goas-protesting.html>
>>
>>
>> By JASON KEITH FERNANDES, DALE LUIS MENEZES, AMITA KANEKAR, VISHVESH
>> KANDOLKAR, and KAUSTUBH NAIK
>>
>> In the context of a number of Sahitya Akademi awardees across India
>> returning their respective awards in protest against the growing
>> intolerance in India, in Goa around fourteen Sahitya Akademi awardees
>> together with Padmashri awardees Maria Aurora Couto and Amitav Ghosh came
>> together and issued a joint statement on 15 October, 2015. One would be
>> struck by the hypocrisy contained in their press note released were it not
>> for the fact that their politics of intolerance is so blatantly displayed
>> all over the same note.
>>
>> In their statement these local notables condemn “the rising trend of
>> intolerance in the country which threatens freedom of expression…[and] the
>> age-old liberal and all-encompassing philosophical traditions of this
>> country.” One would take this concern seriously were it not for the fact
>> many of these notables have been complicit not only in acts of intolerance
>> themselves, but also physical violence.
>>
>> For some years now there have been demands from many quarters that
>> Konkani literature written in the Roman script also be given governmental
>> recognition. But Sahitya Akademi awardees like Pundalik Naik and N.
>> Shivdas, who have presided over the Goa Konkani Academy, have not felt it
>> necessary to take up this cause and ensure that a Konkani tradition with a
>> longer history than that in the Nagari script one is recognised. On the
>> contrary, all of these protesting SahityaAkademi awardees and Padmashri
>> Couto have watched silently while Roman-scriptKonkani has been officially
>> ignored and excluded from all kind of state recognition, including awards
>> and grants.
>>
>> In addition, these persons have maintained a studious silence while their
>> associates, such as Uday Bhembre and Nagesh Karmali, have engaged in the
>> most vicious hate speech against the Catholic community in the course of
>> the Medium of Instruction controversy (that has raged from 2011), when Goan
>> parents demanded the right to determine the manner in which their children
>> are educated. Where was their concern for the alleged liberal traditions,
>> and traditional bonhomie, of Goa then?
>>
>> To make matters worse, these same notables watched silently when in 2005
>> Naguesh Karmali, a member of this verygroup of protestors, led a violent
>> mob in destroying public and private property on the grounds that such
>> property was encouraging Portuguese (read as Catholic) culture in Goa.Given
>> that Goa has had a long and historical relationship with Portugal, doesn’t
>> the violent smashing of manifestations of this relationship amount to an
>> act of the very same rabid communalism that these worthies profess to
>>

[Goanet] THE HYPOCRISY OF GOA’S PROTESTING AWARDEES

[augusto pinto]

 THE HYPOCRISY OF GOA’S PROTESTING AWARDEES



By JASON KEITH FERNANDES, DALE LUIS MENEZES, AMITA KANEKAR, VISHVESH
KANDOLKAR, and KAUSTUBH NAIK

In the context of a number of Sahitya Akademi awardees across India
returning their respective awards in protest against the growing
intolerance in India, in Goa around fourteen Sahitya Akademi awardees
together with Padmashri awardees Maria Aurora Couto and Amitav Ghosh came
together and issued a joint statement on 15 October, 2015. One would be
struck by the hypocrisy contained in their press note released were it not
for the fact that their politics of intolerance is so blatantly displayed
all over the same note.

In their statement these local notables condemn “the rising trend of
intolerance in the country which threatens freedom of expression…[and] the
age-old liberal and all-encompassing philosophical traditions of this
country.” One would take this concern seriously were it not for the fact
many of these notables have been complicit not only in acts of intolerance
themselves, but also physical violence.

For some years now there have been demands from many quarters that Konkani
literature written in the Roman script also be given governmental
recognition. But Sahitya Akademi awardees like Pundalik Naik and N.
Shivdas, who have presided over the Goa Konkani Academy, have not felt it
necessary to take up this cause and ensure that a Konkani tradition with a
longer history than that in the Nagari script one is recognised. On the
contrary, all of these protesting SahityaAkademi awardees and Padmashri
Couto have watched silently while Roman-scriptKonkani has been officially
ignored and excluded from all kind of state recognition, including awards
and grants.

In addition, these persons have maintained a studious silence while their
associates, such as Uday Bhembre and Nagesh Karmali, have engaged in the
most vicious hate speech against the Catholic community in the course of
the Medium of Instruction controversy (that has raged from 2011), when Goan
parents demanded the right to determine the manner in which their children
are educated. Where was their concern for the alleged liberal traditions,
and traditional bonhomie, of Goa then?

To make matters worse, these same notables watched silently when in 2005
Naguesh Karmali, a member of this verygroup of protestors, led a violent
mob in destroying public and private property on the grounds that such
property was encouraging Portuguese (read as Catholic) culture in Goa.Given
that Goa has had a long and historical relationship with Portugal, doesn’t
the violent smashing of manifestations of this relationship amount to an
act of the very same rabid communalism that these worthies profess to
protest against?

In light of these inconsistencies, and the equally amusing announcement
that they will hold on to their awards until the meeting of the executive
committee of the Sahitya Akademi, it appears that these awardees seem more
interested on jumping onto the bandwagon of political trendiness, than for
any desire to stand against the growing intolerance in the country, and
indeed, Goa itself.

We would like to stress that while it is true that the government of Mr.
Modi has definitely presided over a rise in intolerance in the country, the
roots of this intolerance lie deeper in the country’s history. As we have
already pointed out, a number, if not all, of these Goan awardees are
complicit in this intolerance. Their complicity is further evident in the
manner in which they phrase their protest within the language of Hindutva.
Why, for example, are the recent acts compared to ‘talibanism’, instead of
calling them Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism? Talibanism is a phenomenon
situated outside the country, when Hindutva is the problem actually at
hand, given that Kalbargi, Pansare and Dabholkar lost their lives as a
result of their opposition to this ideology. Indeed, Hindu nationalism has
been a problem since before Indian independence. In referencing the
Taliban, these awardees continue the refusal to recognize Hindu nationalism
as the single greatest cause of concern in this country since 1947.

In conclusion, we would be more convinced of the genuine concerns of these
state awardees from Goa if we heard them also protest the exclusion of
Konkani in the Roman script from legislative recognition, also the violent
condemnation of the Goans who are simply asking for English as a
state-supported medium of instruction for
their children, and also the lack of implementation of constitutional
guarantees for education and jobs to historically discriminated-against
Goan communities. Such protests would go further in establishing norms for
the respect of fundamental rights, and the establishment of law and order
in our state and country.

[Goanet] Fwd: Ordinance news

[augusto pinto]

Ordinance issued but Statute remains.

How does the Registrar continue?

http://m.goanews.com/news_details.php?id=6246#.Vit9vmt8QgI.whatsapp

[Goanet] Fwd:

[augusto pinto]

Dear All
What follows is the text of Dr Peter Ronald De Souza's letter which was the
first pile of wood lit in the pyre of the greedy, unscrupulous, VC,
Registrar, et al.

In the meanwhile the rumor is that the DHE engineered the downfall of the
VC with whom there is no love lost, although he was the one who sent the
letter to the University asking for the VC to be given an extension.

And there are other rumors floating that the RSS did not want too many SB's
in control of the Higher Education.

And there are rumors that the three Principals who were given extensions
may be revoked. And is it true that Reddy is supposed to be the Pro-VC?

Kya sach kya jhoot? But the gossip circulating around is pretty juicy.
Have fun.
Best
Augusto

From: "Peter DeSouza" 

[Goanet] Fwd: Legal opinion on continuation of the Vice Chancellor, Goa University

[augusto pinto]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Peter DeSouza 
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:58:28 +0530
Subject: Legal opinion on continuation of the Vice Chancellor, Goa
University
To: atmaramsnadka...@rediffmail.com
Cc:
Dear Shri Atmaram S Nadkarni,

I write to you as a member of the Executive Council on the matter of
continuation of the Vice Chancellor after the age of 65 and beyond the
terms of his contract. My questions are in the attachment which I have
written as an Open Letter to you. This is because the matter is now in the
public domain and it is incumbent on us to give information to an emergent
public discourse. I believe this is a case of disregard for the law and
your High office has been mentioned as having been consulted by the
Department of Higher Education. Your public clarification would go a long
way towards educating us on how the law works especially when the political
class seeks to undermine it.

I am also copying the open letter to other members of the EC, Goa
University, as also to editors and journalists of various papers in Goa.

I look forward to your public response.

With best wishes,

Peter Ronald deSouza,
Member, Goa University EC

[Goanet] Birds of Goa by Bikram Grewal and Savio Fonseca: A good buy

[augusto pinto]

Among the books I picked up during my last visit to Broadway Book Shop
was *Birds
of Goa* by Bikram Grewal and Savio Fonseca. It's published by Goa Tourism
and Bird Insitute of Goa and is priced at Rs 500/=


Although I'm not a bird-watching enthusiast I've occasionally picked up
these bird books as I sometimes need to know the names of birds found
locally. I found this book to be the most reasonably priced volume of this
nature published so far given the amount of information it provides. It
covers some 400 species and that makes it pretty exhaustive although I did
read in the papers recently that two new species have been identified in
Goa. It is published on good quality art paper with a good binding and the
photographs and printing is really clear and good.

Unfortunately when I opened it the one thing I was looking for - local
names of birds was missing. Otherwise besides the photographs, the book
provides the nomenclature, family and genus, size, bird topography and
description of the bird.

There is also a section on where the birds can be found in Goa. A good book
for the collector on a budget I feel and definitely a nice handbook for a
birder.

Maybe GALF could help to showcase this book to praise the Government as for
a change the Government has done something sensible by supporting this
book, and it did not spoil its charity by putting stupid "messages" from
various politicians and officials in the book, and there is just a subdued,
one page Foreword by Nikhil Desai Chairman of GTDC to mark its presence.
Viva Goencho Serkar!

Augusto

[Goanet] Is the Goa College Principal's Forum and DHE WILLFULLY IGNORANT of the Goa University Amendment Act 2006

[augusto pinto]

Please look at the attachment below and read it in the light of Clause 15 B
of Goa University Amendment Act 2006:


“Bar on University and its authorities – The Goa  University and or for
that matter any authority under the Goa University Act, 1984 (Act  of
1984), shall not have any powers to make any statue dealing with the age of
retirement or extension in service of any teaching staff or any other
employee of the University or any teaching staff or any other employee of
aided or non-aided Colleges affiliated to the said University if any such
powers stand conferred on any on any authority under the provisions of the
said Act, 1984, they shall, to the extent, stand repealed. Any statute so
made or existing shall, to the extent it contravenes any of the provisions
of the Goa University (Amendment Act,) 2006, be deemed of be void and of no
effect.”



But the director of education has issued a letter to the Goa University
dated 9/10/2015: “to request the University to amend the Statute 5A-6
immediately providing that the Vice Chancellor shall hold office for a term
of five years from the date on which he enters his office irrespective of
his/her age.” If this request has received the endorsement of the Atorney
General (see attachment), then it is a clear case wilful ignorance on the
part of these authorities.


Interestingly the original request is from the VC and it appears this is
also a case of wilful ignorance ("If there is knowledge that you could have
had and should have had but chose not to have, you are still responsible.")



And the Principal's Forum also appears to be willfully ignorant.
Incidentally it is touching that the Principal's forum chooses to appeal to
the DHE to enhance the retirement age of College Professors & Associate
Professors apart from themselves, the Vice
Chancellor and Registrar. I am sure that the College Professors and
Associate Professors will be suitably impressed by this touching gesture.


Augusto Pinto

[Goanet] Fwd:

[augusto pinto]

Just heard that the Executive Council has approved the statute
change.yesterday.

[Goanet] Goa Konkani Akademi Website

[augusto pinto]

I tried to access the Goa Konkani Akademi website but I think it has been
hacked.

Please check: http://goakonkaniakademi.org/

Perhaps somebody in charge should do something about it.
Augusto

Re: [Goanet] Off-Topic: Sunny Singh's Solo Painting Show at The Cube

[augusto pinto]

I did visit Sonny Singh's exhibition at The Cube in Moira about a week ago
and was greeted there by the artist cum gallery owner himself. It was
around 11 a.m. in the morning and he got someone to open up the gallery for
me. The gallery opens from 11 - 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and he told
me if he wasn't around there was an employee who would open it for
visitors. The exhibition is open till the 25th of this month.

The Cube is a nice modern air-conditioned place that's good to hang around
in. Sonny handed me a catalog of the exhibition entitled Fables of Design
and left me to have a look at the work.

The catalog begins,"Disillusioned kings, delicate angels, neon tribes and a
host of other fantastical figures inhabit Singh's visual vocabulary." These
works are done on plywood using color from acrylic markers, liquid chalk
and spray paint.

He seems to be striving to create a sense of spirituality depicting in some
works vivid colorful tribal figures; in others modern city landscapes where
shadowy but indistinct human figures strive to achieve some hopeless feat
or another. However there also were also figures of bestiality featured
like Beauty & Her Beasts where three black, evil looking characters are
poking around the naked body of a white woman. (I thought to myself why
must black always be evil or beastly; and white always beautiful?)

I thought that if I were to buy his work to hang in my house I would choose
Moira which is an impressionistic painting of the Moira Church; Moving
Forward ; and Devi. The bill for this would have come to 1,60,000/= which
is not that big money in the art world I am told, but is big money to me,
so I am afraid I'll have to manage without them.

I chatted for a while with Sonny who pointed out to me the false painted
columns in the gallery which are meant help enhance the viewing experience
by directing the viewers attention towards his artworks. I thought that was
an interesting concept.

Sonny is an alumni of the famous Walt Disney funded California Institute of
Arts better known as CalArts who came to Goa after making a lot of money in
America to make a difference here he told me. He said his idea of a gallery
in a village was to raise the level of people's consciousness and thinking.
I think he was disappointed that people from Moira didn't come and visit
the gallery.

I told him that people aren't even aware of the gallery or that the
exhibitions were open to the public. When they do become aware there still
may not be many takers as people, including me, tend to be intimidated by
the concept of an art gallery not knowing how they are supposed to react or
behave in such places.  For instance when I do go to see an exhibition I
prefer to do it when nobody is around, so I don't have to worry about what
other people are thinking and talking about.

I suggested to Sonny that he at least put about notices on Moira-Net and
other social media and a sign that invited people in. Also to invite
students from the Moira school to come and see the exhibitions. Sonny
seemed open to the idea so long as someone approaches him. It should be not
difficult for the school bus to make a trip with a class of students during
their art period and the experience will be certainly something different
for them.

Perhaps someone will pass this message to the school authorities. It would
be an interesting experience both for teachers and students, certainly
better than being cooped up in class all morning.

Augusto

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:27 PM, augusto pinto <pinto...@gmail.com> wrote:

> About a week ago I met Sunny Singh who is the owner of The Cube Art
> Gallery (which is next to the Moira Church) when both he and I were on our
> morning walks.
>
> In our brief exchange he invited me to the opening of his painting
> exhibition on Thursday past.
>
> However I forgot or maybe subconsciously I didn't want to go because such
> sparkling wine and designer snack occasions are full of the arty types
> where I feel a little like an intruder bumming free liquid appetizers and
> snacks.
>
> Anyway I met Sunny again on our morning walks and he told me not to worry
> as the exhibition was on for a month. He said the gallery was open from
> around 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. I hope to drop in there tomorrow.
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cube-Gallery/1432555190362271?sk=info=page_info
> Augusto
>

Re: [Goanet] Off-Topic: Sunny Singh's Solo Painting Show at The Cube

[augusto pinto]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cube-Gallery/1432555190362271?sk=info=page_info

Whoops ! Looking closely at the facebook page above, it says that the
gallery opens on Wednesday 11:00AM - 6:00PM
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cube-Gallery/1432555190362271?sk=info=page_info>

Apologies.
Augusto

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:27 PM, augusto pinto <pinto...@gmail.com> wrote:

> About a week ago I met Sunny Singh who is the owner of The Cube Art
> Gallery (which is next to the Moira Church) when both he and I were on our
> morning walks.
>
> In our brief exchange he invited me to the opening of his painting
> exhibition on Thursday past.
>
> However I forgot or maybe subconsciously I didn't want to go because such
> sparkling wine and designer snack occasions are full of the arty types
> where I feel a little like an intruder bumming free liquid appetizers and
> snacks.
>
> Anyway I met Sunny again on our morning walks and he told me not to worry
> as the exhibition was on for a month. He said the gallery was open from
> around 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. I hope to drop in there tomorrow.
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cube-Gallery/1432555190362271?sk=info=page_info
> Augusto
>