[Goanet] Camoes on Kerala
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Apartment for sale in Campal/Miramar area, Panaji, Goa. Spacious 3 bedroom flat (3BHK)available for sale in upscale area near Miramar beach Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com *Portuguese epic speaks of Kerala’s past * *The Hindu* *Manuel Ferro * Seventy-four years after Vasco da Gama’s fleet weighed anchor at Kappad in Kozhikode on May 20, 1498, a book that told the story of his voyage via southern Africa to India was printed in Portugal. Poet Luís Vaz de Camões wrote the book, ‘Os Lusíadas’ (The Lusiads), in Homeric fashion. It throws light on the voyage that changed world history and offers glimpses into life in Zamorin’s Calicut. Considered Portugal& #8217;s national epic, it is compared to Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’, and Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’. Camoes was one of the first major European writers to cross the equator. As a soldier, prisoner and ship-wreck survivor, he knew first-hand about voyages. ‘The Lusiads’ was printed three years after the author returned from the Indies. A series of lectures by Manuel Ferro of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, which began at St. Thomas College here on Monday, will refer to the historical and literary importance of ‘The Lusiads’. “The epic poem will be of great interest to Malayalis. Its descriptive passages tell us of the palace of the Zamorin. The poem has been translated into Konkani. It is yet to be translated into Malayalam,” said C. J. Davees of the Centre for Lusofone Studies, introducing the lecture series. The series is a part of promoting Portuguese studies in Thrissur. The Goa-based Oriental Foundation has donated 600 Protuguese books to St. Thomas College. “The only person in Thrissur who reads them is me,” Mr. Davees said. In his introductory lecture on Portuguese literature, Prof. Ferro explained how the literature of Portugal was distinguished by a wealth of lyric poetry and historical writing documenting Portugal’s conquests. He referred to the Cantigas or ancient love songs of Portugal. About 2,000 have been preserved in a collection, ‘The Vatican Song Book’. Prof. Ferro recited a song by King Denis, ‘Aye flowers, aye flowers all of the green pine, what tidings have ye of this lover of mine?’ The moral and allegorical Renaissance drama of Gil Vicente, the 19th-century realist novels of José Maria de Eça de Queirós and Fernando Pessoas poetry have taken the glory of Portuguese literature outside the boundaries of Portugal. There was a resurgence in Portuguese poetry and novel in the 1970s. The popularity of Portugal’s literature reached its height with Jose Saramago winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. >From Tuesday through Friday, Prof. Ferro will lecture on ‘The St. Thomas episode in ‘Lusiads’, ‘Camoes’ colloquies with Lusophony’, ‘Manuel Alegre’s and Jose Saramago’s Camoes’ and ‘The Indian community in Portugal. K. Santhosh
[Goanet] Camoes on Kerala
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Apartment for sale in Campal/Miramar area, Panaji, Goa. Spacious 3 bedroom flat (3BHK)available for sale in upscale area near Miramar beach Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com The Camoes statue is placed in one of the corridors of a church in Old Goa. In the late sixties terrorists planted bombs to bring the statue down, but failed. Thanks to the bandodcar pogrom the bust of Vasco da Gama also disappeared overnight from the square in Pangim and so did the statue of Afonso de Albuquerque from the Miramar circle which is now sinking. BC
[Goanet] Camoes on Kerala
August 20 - WORLD GOA DAY Celebrating the inclusion of Konkani in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution on August 20, 1992 For a list of World Goa Day events see: http://worldgoaday2009.blogspot.com Gabriel, Probably it was the work of Sinari given his connections with the Azad Gomantak Dal, Asia's first terrorist group. BC
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* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Apartment for sale in Campal/Miramar area, Panaji, Goa. Spacious 3 bedroom flat (3BHK)available for sale in upscale area near Miramar beach Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com Perhaps the statue to Luis de Camões that once stood at Old Goa could be sent to Kerala along with the pedestal on which it originally stood and tells a story. BTW, where is the statue now? - Original Message From: Luis Vas To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, 18 August, 2009 8:37:50 PM Subject: [Goanet] Camoes on Kerala A series of lectures by Manuel Ferro of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, which began at St. Thomas College here on Monday, will refer to the historical and literary importance of ‘The Lusiads’. “The epic poem will be of great interest to Malayalis. Its descriptive passages tell us of the palace of the Zamorin. The poem has been translated into Konkani. It is yet to be translated into Malayalam,” said C. J. Davees of the Centre for Lusofone Studies, introducing the lecture series. The series is a part of promoting Portuguese studies in Thrissur. The Goa-based Oriental Foundation has donated 600 Protuguese books to St. Thomas College. From Tuesday through Friday, Prof. Ferro will lecture on ‘The St. Thomas episode in ‘Lusiads’, ‘Camoes’ colloquies with Lusophony’, ‘Manuel Alegre’s and Jose Saramago’s Camoes’ and ‘The Indian community in Portugal. K. Santhosh __ Find local businesses and services in your area with Yahoo!7 Local. Get started: http://local.yahoo.com.au
Re: [Goanet] Camoes on Kerala
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Apartment for sale in Campal/Miramar area, Panaji, Goa. Spacious 3 bedroom flat (3BHK)available for sale in upscale area near Miramar beach Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com Is this what you were searching for: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/1416170589/ 2009/8/18 Gabriel de Figueiredo : > Perhaps the statue to Luis de Camões that once > stood at Old Goa could be sent to Kerala along > with the pedestal on which it originally stood > and tells a story. > > BTW, where is the statue now? -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/
Re: [Goanet] Camoes on Kerala
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Apartment for sale in Campal/Miramar area, Panaji, Goa. Spacious 3 bedroom flat (3BHK)available for sale in upscale area near Miramar beach Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com Probably is - where is "housed" now? PS The pedestal, without its statue is meaningless ... - Original Message From: Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Wednesday, 19 August, 2009 12:27:55 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Camoes on Kerala * G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Apartment for sale in Campal/Miramar area, Panaji, Goa. Spacious 3 bedroom flat (3BHK)available for sale in upscale area near Miramar beach Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com Is this what you were searching for: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/1416170589/ 2009/8/18 Gabriel de Figueiredo : > Perhaps the statue to Luis de Camões that once > stood at Old Goa could be sent to Kerala along > with the pedestal on which it originally stood > and tells a story. > > BTW, where is the statue now? -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/ __ Find local businesses and services in your area with Yahoo!7 Local. Get started: http://local.yahoo.com.au
Re: [Goanet] Camoes on Kerala
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Apartment for sale in Campal/Miramar area, Panaji, Goa. Spacious 3 bedroom flat (3BHK)available for sale in upscale area near Miramar beach Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com I think that particular event was the work of Prabhakar Sinari ... Please correct me if I err. - Original Message From: Bernado Colaco To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Wednesday, 19 August, 2009 3:33:37 PM Subject: [Goanet] Camoes on Kerala Thanks to the bandodcar pogrom the bust of Vasco da Gama also disappeared overnight from the square in Pangim __ Find local businesses and services in your area with Yahoo!7 Local. Get started: http://local.yahoo.com.au
Re: [Goanet] Camoes on Kerala
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Apartment for sale in Campal/Miramar area, Panaji, Goa. Spacious 3 bedroom flat (3BHK)available for sale in upscale area near Miramar beach Contact: goaengineer...@aol.com 2009/8/19 Bernado Colaco : > The Camoes statue is placed in one of the > corridors of a church in Old Goa. In the > late sixties terrorists planted bombs to bring > the statue down, but failed. Thanks to > the bandodcar pogrom the bust of Vasco da > Gama also disappeared overnight from the > square in Pangim and so did the statue of > Afonso de Albuquerque from the Miramar > circle which is now sinking. Dear Bernado, The "corridors of a church" you talk about are the galleries of the Archaeological Survey of India museum at Old Goa at the convent portion of the church of St. Francis of Assisi. [http://www.asi.nic.in/asi_museums_oldgoa.asp] The terrorists you see are probably another man's freedom fighters. The "Bandodcar pogrom" you imagine was a post-colonial reaction/policy of those who ascended power in Goa in 1963. The Pangim you mention is Panaji today, though I would have been happier to call it as everyone else does here, 'Ponn'je'. The statue of Afonso de Albuquerque from the Miramar circle you lament the loss of was replaced by a statue to Goan unity (a bit stereotyped in its depiction of a couple of Goan Hindu and Christian, I presume, males... and the torch from their hand has long vanished... perhaps symbolic of the mistrust we let grow among and within diverse communities here). Just curious to know: what gave you the impression that the Miramar circle is "sinking"? As far as flame-baits goes, yours was a well crafted one :-) FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/
