goanet-digest Saturday, June 15 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4084
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Re: [Goanet] Forts: Goa's sentinels lie neglected
[Goanet] From Carlos Silva: Please send me telephone numbers and email addresses
[Goanet] Chaddas.. and the D'Souzas
[Goanet] Fw: discontinuing column
[Goanet] RELEASE: Booklets on panchayats in Goa
[Goanet] Re: Margaret Mascarenhas & discontinuing column
[Goanet] Happening s in the Goan World
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:30:06 -0400
From: "Mervyn Lobo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Forts: Goa's sentinels lie neglected
Mayuresh:
Thank you for this posting.
Mervyn
Forts: Goa’s sentinels lie neglected
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 08:36:29 +0200
From: Viviana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] From Carlos Silva: Please send me telephone numbers and email
addresses
From: Carlos Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 June 2002 09:15:54 +0000
carlos silva wrote:
> Hi sir,
> Please see if you can send me tellphone numbers of all ministers
> and allso e-mail addrased.
> carlos
> Q8 15th
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:04:07 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Chaddas.. and the D'Souzas
Obese Anil Kapoor redeems film on Hindu-Christian amity
By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service (byline mandatory)
"Badhaai Ho Badhaai". Starring Anil Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Keerthi Reddy,
Amrish Puri, K. Vishwanath, Farida Jalal and Kader Khan. Directed by Satish
Kaushik.
There's a thin Anil Kapoor and a fat Anil Kapoor, and the twain do meet in
Satish Kaushik's comedy about love sunshine and music, though not
necessarily the melodious kind.
Most of Kaushik's directorial ventures have been faithful adaptations of
Tamil-Telugu blockbusters. "Badhaai Ho Badhaai" is no exception.
It adheres to the original in most details and emerges with a frothy fun
fare that tries to make a statement on two critical issues: communalism and
obesity. But Kaushik's views on Hindu-Christian amity suffer from
flabbiness.
Fortunately the episode about an overweight Raja losing his girth for love
is bracing and absorbing.
In the first-half, Raja arrives in a crowded middle-class neighbourhood,
which is recreated with a superb eye for detail by cinematographer Rajeev
Jain and art director Sharmisha Roy, to stop the hatred between two
neighbouring families.
The Chaddas and the d'Souzas, we are told in swift flashbacks, began to
detest one another when their progenies eloped and got married.
The idea of an incorrigible do-gooder bringing peace is as familiar to
mainstream Hindi cinema as Rajesh Khanna, Anil and Hrithik Roshan. All thre=
e
stars have played the domestic saviour in one or more films.
But in "Badhaai Ho Badhaai", Anil overdoes the sweetness. Fat or thin, Raja
is determined to spread the full-cream milk of human kindness.
For a long while Kaushik's narrative functions as a relay race. To make sur=
e
nobody feels left out, Raja does everything in twos.
If the matriarch from the Chaddha family, played by Farida Jalal, gets a
smile, so does the one in the d'Souza family, enacted by Rohini Rattangadi.
After a while we begin to feel we're watching a well-orchestrated propagand=
a
film on communal harmony.
The second half where we go into a flashback with a fat Anil has some
wonderful moments. The growing bond between the obese Raja and the screechy
feather-brained unfocussed Florence, played by Keerthi Reddy, makes us
wonder if the director's own battle with the bulge inspired this section of
the narrative.
Anil plays the fat man with padded compassion. In scenes of romantic
dejection the actor returns to his two old favourites, Raj Kapoor and Kamal
Haasan, to play the Chaplinesque loser with podgy poignancy, a highlight of
the film.
The director also extracts chuckles at the two warring clans' expense. But
like all of Kaushik's remakes, this one too suffers from congenital
crowdedness. Characters spill out of every nook and cranny.
The neighbourhood, though well conceived, is infested with overdone
oddballs. Only Kader Khan shines as a screechy classical singer who has
everybody running for cover.
Some songs, especially "Raag banke", done in the neo-classical style of
Girish Karnad's Utsav, have been imaginatively filmed against picturesque
backdrops.
The biggest draw is the wonderful visual aesthetics. Kaushik avoids studio
sets to take us into an outdoor freedom denied to most mainstream Hindi
films.
But he messes up an otherwise cute entertainer with an over-the-top climax
where the two warring families run with guns to a lonely spots for a desi
equivalent of a duel under the sun. Tact and subtlety aren't the highlights
of this film.
Though the story is about a Hindu and Christian family at war, Anil's
climactic speech seems to be targeted more at Hindu-Muslim tension in India=
=2E
The vastly gifted supporting cast plays its clich=E9d parts with stereotypi=
cal
proficiency. Among the two leading ladies, after two consecutive flops in
Hindi, Keerthi as the self-seeking Christian girl proves third-time lucky.
She has been dressed and projected very well.
Shilpa Shetty as a loud aggressive Punjabi woman masquerading as Anil's wif=
e
is a nightmarish synthesis of Kajol in "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham" and
Sridevi in her best films.
- --Indo-Asian News Service
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 03:09:12 -0400
From: "M Mascarenhas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Fw: discontinuing column
Dear Readers and Friends,
My most recent column was pulled by the Gomantak Times editors. It seems I
crossed their threshold of tolerance in my efforts to draw attention to, and
ridicule, nuclear weapons, war and hate, and their propagators. "You can't
take shots at World Leaders like that. Write something else, " they said.
The disputed column, entitled "Duck and Cover", was subsequently accepted
and posted by the web edition of Outlook ( http://www.outlookindia.com ).
As a result of this incident I am discontinuing my weekly column of the past
6 years (Wake Up And Smell the Coffee) with the Gomantak Times Weekender,
owned by Mr. Pratap Pawar (Sakal), with immediate effect. I do this in
protest of the negation of an opinion columnist's right to express views not
necessarily espoused by the newspaper. I am not the first journalist to be
censored in this manner, nor, I suspect, will I be the last.
Those of you who endorse freedom of expression, and oppose muzzling of this
nature, can submit your thoughts on the issue to the Managing Editor of
Sakal at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hopefully, this will set a precedent, and help to prevent such an incident
from happening with some other journalist in the future.
Meanwhile, for those of you with web access, my columns will continue to
appear, uncensored, at goanet and http://www.freenewsgoa.net/.
Margaret Mascarenhas
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 22:56:48 +0530
From: FREDERICK NORONHA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] RELEASE: Booklets on panchayats in Goa
Peaceful Society, a Madkai-Ponda based voluntary organisation, is to release
three booklets on various aspects of panchayat functioning in Goa. In view of
the relevance of these village-level institutions (whether they work well, or
not) these booklets of 10 to 14 pages each could be of interest to panchayat
members, villagers (who all comprise part of the 'gram sabha' or village
council), researchers and readers.
These booklets deal with the following aspects:
* Gramsabhas (regular village meetings) and their role
* Functions of the panchayat
* Duties and powers of the sarpanch/village secretary
The function will be held on June 18, 2002 (Tuesday) at 4 pm at T.B.Cunha
Hall in Panjim. Dr JF Martins will release the booklets. More details or
copies of the booklets from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peaceful Society).
Contact Kalanand Mani. -- FN
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:49:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Re: Margaret Mascarenhas & discontinuing column
Dear Mr. Pratap Pawar (Sakal):
It is regrettable that you have censured one of the gems of your paper which has led
to led to the
discontinuation of "Wake Up And Smell the Coffee" by Margaret Mascarenhas. Your loss
will be some
other newspaper's gain. If you think Ms. Mascarenhas was not being deferential enough
to world
leaders, consider this: the world "leaders" we have today are a petty lot. They are
unconcerned
with the great issues of our times (24,000 children die daily, 3 billion are in
poverty, and an
equal number are estimated to be illiterate, without access to modern health care,
adequate
housing and clothing, and are touched by violence & discrimination in various ways).
If you had a
complaint against Ms. Mascarenhas it should have been that she was too deferential.
Perhaps your
paper will take an expansive view of the world, represent the values of the silent
majority, and
treat our present world "leaders" with the disdain they deserve. But that is asking
too much
courage. It is easier to try and silence a journalist.
Regards,
George Pinto
- --- M Mascarenhas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Readers and Friends,
>
> My most recent column was pulled by the Gomantak Times editors. It seems I
> crossed their threshold of tolerance in my efforts to draw attention to, and
> ridicule, nuclear weapons, war and hate, and their propagators. "You can't
> take shots at World Leaders like that. Write something else, " they said.
> The disputed column, entitled "Duck and Cover", was subsequently accepted
> and posted by the web edition of Outlook ( http://www.outlookindia.com ).
>
> As a result of this incident I am discontinuing my weekly column of the past
> 6 years (Wake Up And Smell the Coffee) with the Gomantak Times Weekender,
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:50:22 -0700
From: "rene barreto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Happening s in the Goan World
Happenings around the GOANWORLD -
GOANS OF KARACHI -Pakistan
The Catholic Womens Guild to date held the following
functions
* AGM 24th February 2002, 114 ladies attended this function at St
Lawrence's Parish Hall.
* RECOLLECTION DAY 17th March 2002, attended by 160 at St Francis
Xavier's Cathedral Hyderabad.
* EASTER FUNCTION 7th April 2002, attended by 130 ladies at Hotel
Mehran.
* MOTHERS DAY 19th May 2002 attended by 167 ladies at St Anthony's
Parish Hall.
* The Executive Committee visited St. Luke's Convent in Baldia on
8th June 02 - Lunch arranged for the slow learner children, teacher's,
sisters and priest of the Parish. A donation of Rs. 5,000 was also handed
over to Sr. Agheta of St. Luke's Convent Baldia.
Deborah Santamaria
Karachi -Pakistan
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