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Just over a year ago, the Washington Post began running a motto on its
front page that is even more relevant for India. In Februrary 2017,
‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’
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One good teacher can change the world. After centuries of neglect and
decline, Goa’s western classical music scene is experiencing
spectacular revival that is largely directly
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Even by the abysmal standard of Indian sports, the men’s national
football team is a disappointment. Despite enjoying huge
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Take a wrong turn in the casuarina groves lining Miramar beach early
in the morning, or during peak tourist hours near sunset, and you
could be surprised with a rude twenty-one bum
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On 17 December, the young Goan artist Bhisaji Gadekar walked slowly through
the large-scale group exhibition of his peers on display at the beautifully
reconstructed Bento
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Every day that passes in Goa, there are more reminders of the lasting
messages underlying the classic Hans Christian Anderson tale about a
vain emperor surrounded by
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Huge diaspora news for Goa this week, as Suella Fernandes was selected
by the beleaguered UK prime minister Teresa May to serve as a minister
in her newly reshuffled
In The Genes: Nony Singh and Dayanita Singh in conversation about
making Family Archives.
JAN 7, Sunday at 6pm @ Bento Miguel building in San Tome (at the foot
of the old Patto Bridge). Everyone welcome, entrance is free for all.
Please come for this official closing event for #KonkaniSurrealism
Jugneeta Sudan is curating an evening of poetry, art and music at
Bento Miguel, Fontainas, the Goan art pavilion 'Konkani Surrealism'
from the Serendipity Art Festival
All are invited! Entry free!
Friday, 5th Jan, 2018
4:45-5:45pm
Colours of Goan Poetry
A number of different languages coexist
huge congratulations to Suella Fernandes, the MP from Fareham who has
just been named a Minister in the UK Parliament by Teresa May. the
specific job is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Department
for Exiting the European Union, which makes sense because the
37-year-old is leader of the
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Well-deserved celebration in Goa as the longstanding candidature of
native son Joseph Vaz has finally been approved for sainthood. He will
be "the first saint to Sri Lanka"
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This week, another remarkable chapter in India’s distinguished
diplomatic record in the Middle East is being written by Narendra
Modi. With considerable glitz and
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Just a few days into the New Year, and it is already clear this is a
critical juncture for Goa. Ever since the new millennium dawned nearly
two decades ago, India’s
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Way back in 1775, the Scottish diarist and biographer James Boswell
tells us the prominent English litterateur Samuel Johnson uttered
these penetrating words, “patriotism is the last refuge of a
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Later this year, Cape Town in South Africa faces an unthinkable
situation. Barring a climactic miracle, this prosperous, famously
beautiful coastal city with over four million
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There is wonderful wildlife news in India’s smallest state. Last week,
this newspaper first reported that a family of smooth-coated otters
(Lutrogale perspicillata) has taken residence in the
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Anyone who remembers eating chicken in India just two decades ago can
easily recall the difference between what was available then, and the
now-ubiquitous broiler. Those
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Look at the map from the perspective of land borders, and India’s
smallest state is an insignificant pinprick of territory tucked away
on a western coastal extremity of the subcontinent.
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Christmas celebrations in India include both local practices and
universal customs. And each city or state has its own unique style of
merrymaking.
Come December, and there is a mood of celebration in
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The monsoon churns the Arabian Sea off Goa, and what comes up is
mostly plastic. The anglers who return hopefully to Miramar beach
every evening cast their lines with
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Anger and revulsion in Goa, as news emerged that beloved Konkani writer
Damodar Mauzo was compelled to accept police security cover after his name
was found on a list of targets with the
Wonderful initiative, Leonard! Well done + sincere congratulations...
On Jul 28, 2018 12:57, "Leonard Fernandes leonard.fernan...@gmail.com
[goawriters2]" wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> We are inviting all authors (especially those who haven't been published
> before) to send us their Konkani
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Massed clouds crowd the horizon, while glorious rainfall cascades
across the landscape of India’s smallest state. But even amidst the
most excellent monsoon in Goa in many
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Few places are so culinarily single-minded as Goa. For the natives of
India’s smallest state, the most preferred greeting between friends and
acquaintances has traditionally been “what fish are you cooking today?”
Actually, most standard
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Mahatma Gandhi believed everyone benefits from cleaning toilets, and
routinely did so himself. His grandson Tushar recalls, “In Bapu’s
ashrams, the first task entrusted to new entrants was the
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Right in time for World Tiger Day 2018 on July 29th, chief minister
Manohar Parrikar confirmed the presence of India’s national animal in
the jungle hinterlands of
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When future generations write the history of our times, the reigning
Age of Plastic will rank amongst the most dismal lowlights. We can
already see the mistakes made after synthetic polymers became
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Just after his 17th birthday in 1949, an Indian-Trinidadian calling
himself “Vido” dispatched a series of letters from Port-of-Spain to
Benares, where his older sister Kamla was studying in their ancestral
homeland on a government scholarship.
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Just three years ago in 2015, Manu Pillai released one of India’s
quirkiest and most charming contemporary history books. ‘The Ivory
Throne: Chronicles of the House of
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Some black humour derives from Panjim’s ranking of 90th out of 111
cities across the country in the Ease of Living index released last
week by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
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Everyone familiar with Goa who visits Kerala has similar reactions.
There’s much admiration and wonder about how it benefits from tourism,
yet avoids the social, cultural and environmental
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Earlier this month while presenting his innovative work using modern
technology for wildlife and environmental conservation, Shashank
Srinivasan told his startled audience about feeling compelled to leave
New Delhi to
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With routinely impeccable timing, Sachin Chatte of the Entertainment
Society of Goa made another brilliant selection last week for the
Thursday screening for the Goa
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Boating on the Bambolim plateau, high above the known water bodies of Goa?
That ridiculous scenario became reality earlier this month, when huge
amounts of rainwater backed up along the ill-conceived,
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Every so often, the Republic of India throws up a leader who
underlines the virtues and benefits of its complicated, messy, ongoing
experiment with democracy. This is the case
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The metropolis is in calamitous decline everywhere you look in India.
Of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, 14 are in this country.
Earlier this year, Shimla ran
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Such an apt decision to open the Charles Correa Foundation’s third Z-Axis
conference in Panjim with an address by Gautam Patel. The veteran of Bombay
High Court (who won
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What’s the fastest growing sector of the Indian economy? Technology? No.
NASSCOM forecasts single-digit growth for the third consecutive year. How
about real estate and
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Goa’s beloved ‘mai bhas’ struck a discordant note in the stirring
register of language growth across India released last week, as part
of inexplicably delayed analysis of the 2011 national
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A few days ago, the award-winning poet and author Sumana Roy created a
flurry of disquiet and discussion on Facebook when she posted, “Do we
think of killing humans and
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For 20 years, Goa’s property prices only rose. The only question has
been how fast rates will tick higher. Sums demanded and received per
square metre more than quadrupled
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My friend and former colleague Landeg White, who has died at his home
in Portugal aged 77, was an academic and poet, one of the most
versatile and prolific of the Africanists who began work in the
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Every so often, a single data point pierces through volumes of
statistics to reveal the heart of a complicated socio-economic
landscape. One such moment of truth is on
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Two spectacular co-ordinated events scheduled during French president
Emmanuel Macron’s debut visit have underlined where the Indian
government can legitimately claim
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‘Dhedd Xanno” is a piercing Konkani term that comes to mind every time
a little bit more of the “Smart City” strategy and planning for Panjim
is revealed. The tiny riverside capital of
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Catapulting ahead of the rest of the world, India is now by far the
largest consumer of digital data via mobile smartphones. Today, the
country uses over 1.3 gigabytes
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Almost exactly ten years ago, Goa became aware of a shocking crime
committed on the beach at Anjuna. On February 18, 2008, the
partially-clad corpse of British teenager Scarlett Keeling
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It has taken me many months to be able to write about Argentina after
an unprecedented and epic writer’s block on the subject descended over
my consciousness like the black velvet polar nights
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The big picture is all good news for India’s economy. Despite costly
hits from bungled implementation of demonetization and the new GST
regime, the economy continues to surge. The
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In retrospect, an elementary canary in the coalmine about the brazen
fraudulence of Nirav Modi appeared when the now-disgraced diamantaire
began to parade his art
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Nitin Gadkari’s characteristic strongarm tactics were on display in
Goa earlier this week when the Minister for Shipping threatened the
closure of Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), claiming a
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Back in 1948, when the toweringly great polymathic scholar of Goan
origin, D. D. Kosambi published his definitive critical edition of
Shataka Trayam by Bhartihari, the 5th
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Ever since Vijai Sardesai’s headline-making comments about north
Indian tourists (which came laced with unnecessary epithets) last
month, there has been a steady fallout
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An interesting can of worms has been split wide open by the citizens
of Lisbon a couple of months ago, when they voted to build a memorial
to the victims of the
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Hugely interesting news emerged last week when the BBC reported “The
discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in
India's western state of
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October is often Goa’s hottest month, but this year there’s even more
reason to feel parched. After an initially glorious first phase, the
monsoon rains dwindled and faded
Dear friends,
Does anyone know of any Goan individuals or families in Kohima or Dimapur
in Nagaland?
VM
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No country in the world is obsessed with race like the United States
of America. The “land of the free and the home of the brave” cherishes
its melting pot myth, but is better described as a
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“What’s in a name” asked Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, then answered
himself, “that which we call a rose by any name would smell as sweet.” But
the politics of language ensure things
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In the course of his rueful, riveting public address in Panjim last week,
the formidable academic and thinker Anand Teltumbde highlighted inherent
irony that India is
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Do you have more books than an Estonian teenager?
If you live in an English-speaking country, the answer is probably no.
A new study from researchers at the Australian National
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Earlier this month, India’s government responded with hurt and anger
when the World Bank released the first-ever report on its innovative
Human Capital Index (HCI), which
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The writing is on the wall, but not for you to read it. At an event
sponsored by the British Commercial Association in Macau, the analyst
Grant Govertsen said “the Indian
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When the toweringly great Goan modernist painter Francis Newton Souza
died in 2002, the eminent writer and critic John Berger summed up the
man he had known many decades
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Just one look. In retrospect, that’s all it would have taken. One
single critical glance from an informed eye, to realize everything was
dreadfully wrong about the story Nirav Modi was
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They say you only realize what you had when it’s gone. But the
crushing tragedy of our information-saturated 21stcentury is much
worse. We know exactly the value of what
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Cyril Almeida is on tenterhooks again. For the second time in two
years, the brilliant Pakistani journalist (with ancestral roots in
Goa) stands charged with treason, and banned from
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Fool me twice, shame on me. But what if you keep shamelessly playing
the fool? This exhausted charade is on infinite loop with regard to
the reviled casinos, which remain
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Highly distressing news last week, when the prestigious global medical
journal, The Lancet published comprehensive data on suicide mortality as
part of its Global Burden
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Gurudas Kunde joined the anti-nationalists when he was just 17 years
old. Their movement gathered at night, to discuss the injustices of
the state. They worked hard to
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Today, the rich and famous babble “Souza is my favourite artist”. But
when the great modernist painter (whose ancestral roots are in Goa)
died on a visit to Mumbai in 2002, his passing went
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The first time I set eyes on Manohar Parrikar, he was standing in the
middle of the road and directing traffic. It was the opening night of
the 2004 International Film Festival of India (IFFI), and the everyday
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There is an old, ancient well in the Mhamai Kamat House—a rambling,
200-year-old Hindu upper caste family home in the heart of
Panjim—located right across the Abbe Faria statue in the
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Five 25-somethings walk into a gallery full of masterpieces and
immediately pull out their smartphones. There’s no punchline. This
isn’t a joke, or a lament.
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At their packed press conference last week, Travel and Tourism Association
of Goa (TTAG) protested vociferously about the shockingly rapid decline of
Destination Goa.
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Why does China soar where India continues to struggle? The most basic
reason is state priorities towards education. Both countries started
off at roughly the same point,
Angelo da Fonseca is now acknowledged amongst seminal Indian
modernists, as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. But
much of his spectacular Shantiniketan-influenced oeuvre remains
unknown and largely unseen even by art historians and scholars.
Do not miss the rare opportunity to
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It has been awful all year, with choke-points on the bridge crossings
across the Zuari and Mandovi rivers, but now traffic has snarled
beyond precedent all across the
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The numbers keep rocketing upwards every year. For well over a decade, it
has been apparent there are more Indians scattered around the world than
any other country’s
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An ugly surprise awaits visitors to Serendipity Arts Festival 2018
when they ascend the staircase to the immensely historic Adil Shah
palace on the Panjim waterfront. One side of the
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An ancient relationship has developed an unexpected twist. At the inaugural
ceremony of the 49thedition of the International Film Festival of India
underway in Panjim
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The tourism season has just begun, but it’s already clear the situation at
Miramar has never been worse. Garbage is piled high on the dunes, while
unruly throngs of
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Wholescale disarray in the UK, as Theresa May’s government lurches
ever-closer to collapse over its painfully negotiated draft agreement
on British withdrawal from the
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If the great poet TS Eliot lived in Goa in 2019, he might have written
one of his most famous lines differently, “this is the way tourism
ends, not with a bang but a
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A few minutes before the scheduled interview, Damodar Mauzo answered a
phone call in an undertone. “It was the policeman,” he later told me. “They
want to know my location and where I plan
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When the beleaguered Queen Elizabeth declared 1992 an especially awful
year meriting the Latin term “annus horribilis” she was referring to
several personal setbacks: fire
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The seeds for last week’s epochal Supreme Court judgement striking
down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (which criminalized sex
“against the order of nature”) were
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*Officials investigating the Gauri Lankesh assassination discovered your
name on a hitlist. When were you informed of the threat?*
On July 20, an Intelligence Bureau official contacted me through a friend.
I
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>From monsoon to sunshine, it’s the change of seasons in Goa. Here are
clear blue skies and calm ocean waters, but alongside now-familiar
piercing anxieties. What foul atrocities will befall
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Just over a fortnight ago, the pioneering advertising powerhouse (and
well-known theatre personality) Alyque Padamsee died at 90. There was a
time when his catchphrases
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Addressing the overflowing audience at last week’s launch of his first-ever
compilation of English writings, Konkani literature’s beloved icon Damodar
Mauzo was characteristically
Wow, Leonard. An excellent initiative, and Mander is as great as it gets
Will certainly try to be there.
Warm regards,
VM
On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 8:12 PM Leonard Fernandes leonard.fernan...@gmail.com
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> Like you know World Book Day is celebrated on the 23rd
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Indians talking blithely about “the next superpower” should visit China.
The giant neighbor has complex problems, but there’s no doubt it leaves
every country of the
Each one of Dr. Teotonio de Souza's books fell into my hands with a
kind of thunderclap of significance. They were deeply desired,
desperately sought, pored over carefully and greatly cherished.
I was growing up at what felt like the far end of the diaspora, in the
numbing cold of near-total
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The sudden, sad death of Prof. Teotonio de Souza in Lisbon last week
has deprived Goa of an irreplaceable public intellectual. Though
situated in Portugal for over two
The Red Road and Saligao Blues
By Vivek Menezes for Mint
https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/indulge/the-saligao-blues-goa-s-global-village-1550777523403.html
In 2008, my family left our home in Goa to spend the summer vacation in
London, where we came across a poster advertising Sotheby’s
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Contradictions characterize the life story and political trajectory of
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar, who was cremated yesterday with
full state honours in Panjim, the
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In his luminous, profound 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written
during the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. described
responsibilities inherent to
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In his acclaimed 2013 TED talk, Enrique Penalosa of Colombia opened
with an essential insight. The Mayor of Bogota said, “Mobility in
developing world cities is a very
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