[Goanet-News] LINKS: Melba Dias Costa https://movimentoperpetuo.ca/physicians-bag/
https://movimentoperpetuo.ca/physicians-bag/ LINKS: Melba Dias Costa was born in Lourenço Marques (present-day Maputo), Mozambique, on May 26 (year unknown), into a family of Goan-Portuguese settlers. After completing her medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Lisbon in 1940, she worked as an assistant to Professor Francisco Gentil, the founder of the Portuguese Institute of Oncology. Costa continued her studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where she specialized in gynaecology. In 1950, Costa moved to Luanda, Angola, where she became the only practicing female doctor in the country. Five years later, she began working for the World Health Organization in India, until 1959, when she returned to Portugal. A progressive woman, Dr. Costa became a person of interest to the PIDE, the dictatorship’s political police, which regularly surveilled and harassed her. This included denying her passage to Angola, and escorting her out of a train to Spain and a plane to the United Kingdom when she tried to travel abroad. In 1961, she was allowed to travel to the Roswell Park Memorial Institute of Buffalo to do oncological research with a Fulbright Foundation grant. Sometime later, Dr. Costa decided to immigrate to Canada, settling in Toronto. In 1963, she opened up her own practice on College Street and Manning Avenue. Devoted to her work and patients – many of them Portuguese – it was common for Dr. Costa to take frequent trips to the hospital to visit her patients in the morning, then follow up with them in their homes in the evening. She retired in 1981. In June of 1990, Dr. Costa was awarded the Order of Merit by the Government of Portugal. She passed away on May 12, 2007. Dr. Costa was married to the engineer Fernando Barreto e Costa – president of the Portuguese Canadian Congress in 1970. The couple had two children, Fernando and Motilal. Melba Dias Costa receiving the Order of Merit from a Portuguese government official, June 1990. Courtesy of the Gallery of the Portuguese Pioneers. https://movimentoperpetuo.ca/physicians-bag/ [Thanks to Sanchia deSouza for the link] -- FN * +91-9822122436 * 784 Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa --- YouTube Channels --- FN https://www.youtube.com/c/FrederickFNNoronha/videos or https://bit.ly/FNOnYouTube FN1 https://bit.ly/FNVideos1 FN2 https://bit.ly/FNVideos2 --- --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Join a discussion on Goa-related issues by posting your comments on this or other issues via email to goa...@goanet.org See archives at http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
[Goanet-News] BRIEF PROFILES: Literati, Calangute... a bookshop and more
Literati, Calangute Literati was started in 2005. Contact details Literati nos 7447437768 /2277740 or email bo...@literati-goa.com timings 10-6pm. Closed now till July 3, 2023. Literati has a room full of second hand books which are sold at Rs. 50 a paperback and Rs. 150 a hard cover book. If you bring a second hand book in you get Rs. 20 for a paper back and Rs. 40 for a hard cover. The idea is to circulate books without any need for membership. Also, often the books you find in second hand are difficult to find. Literati, E/1-282 Gauravaddo, Calangute, Bardez Goa-403516. -- FN * +91-9822122436 * 784 Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Join a discussion on Goa-related issues by posting your comments on this or other issues via email to goa...@goanet.org See archives at http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
[Goanet-News] So, what did the Portuguese loot? (FN, The Goan)
So, what did the Portuguese loot? --- Frederick Noronha So, someone asked this question in cyberspace: "I genuinely wanted to learn more about this. I have watched a few videos on YouTube, but they are mostly from people with agendas and don't make sense to me as they do not validate their claims with facts. What did the Portuguese loot? How did they do it?" These days, we are getting increasingly caught up in fighting battles over the past. Our economy, the difficulty for our youth to find jobs, and the crony capitalism is only getting worse. Together with this, the tendency to blame the past for all our present-day ills is also getting more acute. If things carry on this way, the average citizen might be very reluctant to buy into this view of the past. Two generations after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa, at the very least we should be able to get on and move on with life. * * * Most commentators here have ridiculed the chief minister's view of the need to wipe out the Portuguese imprint on Goa. Many see this past as a mix of both good and not-so-good, even the good brought on by the law-of-unintended-consequences and the spillover of bonuses (like European nationality for Goans), plus the bad and the terrible. But history is not just a one-way street. Because the case against the Portuguese is being so obviously over-stated, it is also likely that arguments favouring our Luso rulers would be as exaggerated. Politicians and newspaper columnists can wish what they want; but this is unlikely to shape the outcome. People will vote with their feet, decide their own self-interest, and make up their minds about what they want to claim about their own pasts. With or without Shivaji statues that sprout overnight. To see our past only in terms of "foreign invaders" who "destroyed our religion and culture" and ruled us against our wishes for over four-and-a-half centuries is both over-simplistic and ahistorical. Let's agree on one thing. The Portuguese were here as rulers, and they did not come to do social work. This is also true of our other rulers, pre-1510 and post-1961. Including the BJP and the Congress, or for that matter, the regional parties when they held power. Their claims apart, the self-serving nature of politics is there for all to see. All swear in the name of the people, but their own interests comes first. It may seem strange to compare rulers claiming the justification of having a local mandate to a colonial power (although invited to seize Goa with local accomplices). But, it's for the people to judge how much they gained and lost from each of these regimes. * * * As Children of the 1960s, we too grew up on a staple of over-nationalistic history texts. We were taught that foreign rulers and were bad and that local ones were good. Upto a point, this holds some truth. But when we see specific examples of local misgovernance, one can rethink such simplistic narratives. Writing online, the young Salesian from Mangalore, Jason Joseph Pinto, pointed out how Portuguese colonialism was a mixed bag for us on the west coast. Without eulogising the former colonial rulers, he tongue-in-cheek called for wishing away the other side of the picture too. For instance, sati being abolished early on in Goa's history, a "Uniform Civil Code" (not exactly, but quite), architectural influences which have become part of our DNA. Fruits from across the globe, a style of dress, odd forms of collaboration with local elites, and even protests against Portuguese rule... all stem from the Luso presence here. Shriniwas Khalap pointed to the Portuguese influence even on the Marathi language. There were Hindu influences in the Catholic world, and influences which cut across religion. Ruling dynasties gave way from one to another, and therein lies another tale. * * * Our logic seems to be based around certain assumptions (1) The Portuguese were rulers from afar, with another culture and religion, and therefore hand no business to be here (2) To have gained so much, they surely must have looted from Goa (3) Colonisers don't rule for the benefit of some distant folk in some other land. All of this is true, yet the conclusions our politicians are arriving at need not be true. One book should be made compulsory reading for post-1961 Goans (who are almost as Lusophobic as the pre-1961 Goans were Lusostalgic). This is Martin Page's 'The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World'. Let me assure you this work is not an apologia for colonialism. It is written by a Briton, and the Brits tend to have very dismissive views of the Portuguese colonial enterprise. (This is a trend which has incidentally also tri
[Goanet-News] Sanchia deSouza, milk and social purification... Goan food workers... early migration to Canada
Sanchia deSouza's recent PhD thesis examined the history of milk and social purification in and around Bombay in the 20th century. It is presently restricted on account of university rules, but will be widely available in 2025. Sanchia writes: "I had initially hoped to work on Goan food workers around the Indian Ocean, but I changed topics for various reasons. I hope to do some writing on that topic now..." She is also very interested in examining the history of the Goan diaspora in Canada, particularly the early arrivals in the 1960s and 1970s." Contact her at sanchiadeso...@gmail.com (John Nazareth has done work on Goan migration to Canada, and Silviano Barbosa has also written on early Goan tiatr in Canada. Sanchia Patricia de Souza is the daughter of Natty and Terry deSouza and she was conferred her PhD recently from the University of Toronto. -- FN * +91-9822122436 * 784 Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa --- YouTube Channels --- FN https://www.youtube.com/c/FrederickFNNoronha/videos or https://bit.ly/FNOnYouTube FN1 https://bit.ly/FNVideos1 FN2 https://bit.ly/FNVideos2 --- --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Join a discussion on Goa-related issues by posting your comments on this or other issues via email to goa...@goanet.org See archives at http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
[Goanet-News] Two squid recipes from Goa
Creamy butter garlic Squids | calamari butter garlic | Goan sea food recipe Best Cream Squid recipe Creamy butter garlic Squids | calamari butter garlic | Goan sea food recipe Best Cream Squid recipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_guz6ICj-U Goan Rava Fried Squids | Secret to crispy Rawa Fried Squids | Restaurant-style Calamari / Squid Fry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ0v5ubl-8M -- FN * +91-9822122436 * 784 Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa --- YouTube Channels --- FN https://www.youtube.com/c/FrederickFNNoronha/videos or https://bit.ly/FNOnYouTube FN1 https://bit.ly/FNVideos1 FN2 https://bit.ly/FNVideos2 --- --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Join a discussion on Goa-related issues by posting your comments on this or other issues via email to goa...@goanet.org See archives at http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
