GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SUN 18 APRIL, 2010
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| The Mining Petition deadline is extended to 30 April 2010 | |||
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| Death: Rev. Fr. Jose Inacio De Loyola Gomes | |||
 18 Apr: Seraulim, Goa. REV. FR. JOSE INACIO DE LOYOLA GOMES (Born 1928; ex Mozambique, Portugal & Germany). Brother of late Trindade/late Mary; Late Francisco Luis; late Ivo; late Fernando/Zemira; Tereza/Thomas Pereira; Mario; Sr. Fremiot SFN. Funeral on 19 Apr. at Seraulim. Full details at the link below. | |||
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| Sparsha Deshpande: Miss Goa 2010 | |||
18 Apr. Herald. Miss Sparsha Deshpande from Fatorda crowned Miss Goa-2009-10 at the beauty pageant organised by VJT Entertainments at Nuvem on Saturday. Sweta Gomes from Vasco was the runner up.
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| Death: Mario Botelho | |||
 15 Apr: Toronto, Canada. MARIO LAZARO BOTELHO. (ex. Burgan Bank, KPC & KOC, Kuwait). Husband of Maria Etcilia Botelho. Father of Sean & Deon. Brother of Laurent/Lanice, Marcos/Antonette, Savio/Silloo, Justino/Eurita, Wilson/Eloma, Xavier/ Eurina, and Loreto/Vandana.
Visitation at Ogden Funeral Home, 4164 Sheppard Ave E, Toronto on Friday, April 23 from 5-9pm. Funeral mass at St.Barnabas Roman Catholic Church, 10 Washburn Way, Scarborough, Ontario on Saturday, April 24 at 10:30am. Interment at Christ the King Cemetery. If desired, memorial donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (www.heartandstroke.ca). [Info. from Bosco D’Mello]
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| 'When the Curtains rise'-a book dedicated to tiatr | |||
 16 Apr: Navhind Times…'When the Curtains rise' is a book written by Dr Andre
Rafael Fernandes, Associate Professor at Goa University. The book is an extensive
documentation of the history and growth of tiatr. It also has interviews of senior
tiatrists and speaks at length about the future of tiatr… 359 words. The book costs US$19.95, including airmail registered postage to anywhere in the world. Contact goa1556@gmail.com | |||
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| Fiona McKeown: The Fight For Justice | |||
 18 Apr: The Observer (UK). 'I don't know if I can get justice for Scarlett. But I know there was a cover-up':.. She has not given up hope of getting to Goa this week, but she faces the very real prospect of having to give evidence by video link from prison… she suspects that there is a larger, more complicated picture yet to emerge, possibly involving the state's thriving drug trade… 1670 words.
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| Death: Maria Pinto 11 Apr: Stockwell, London. MARIA SEQUEIRA PINTO (Born Nairobi, 1924) Wife of the late Elvino Pinto. Sister of Thelma and Neva. Mother of Philip, Zoe and Carlos. Funeral Service at the Church of St Francis de Sales, Larkhall Lane, Stockwell, SW4 6SP on Monday, 26th April at 11.00 a.m. No flowers by request. Donations if desired to SAVE (South Asia Voluntary Enterprise) to be used for the education of slum children in Patna, Bihar, India. Condolences to zoe@desouzas.plus.com | |||
| Aussie woman complains of rape 19 Apr: Herald. A 25-year-old Australian woman approached Canacona police on Sunday morning alleging rape by a Nigerian national with whom she had allegedly partied earlier in a starred hotel. She told police that she had drinks till wee hours of Sunday, before accompanying the accused and passed rest of the night at his place of stay, a beach hut, at Palolem beach… 411 words. Full Text. | |||
| Police Disregard for Laws of the Land 19 Apr: Navhind Times. By Nandkumar Kamat. Under whose orders and under what compulsions police would not stop loud, blaring, amplified music which continues till dawn?... the moral is, do not complaint, fold your hands, offer prayers and trust in God to save this state from falling further into abyss. 1157 words. Full Text. | |||
| F N Souza: Master creator of Moses and landscapes 18 Apr: Financial Chronicle. Dhoomimal Gallery’s F N Souza Retrospective show has just got over… Souza stayed as far away as possible from the Church, but having been brought up in Goa, was unable to keep from depicting churches in his landscapes and saints … A permanent exhibition of the works of Francis Newton Souza in the land of his birth is something we will all look forward to with pride. 599 words. Full Text. | |||
| Text + Video: Prosecutor sacked in public interest, aspiring, to be judge 17 Apr: UNI. Social activist Aires Rodrigues today urged the Chief Justice of the High Court not to entertain the proposal to enrol 'controversial' public prosecutor of Goa, Ms Winnie Coutinho, besides demanding a probe into her assets ... 487 words. Click here. For the video clip, click here. | |||
| Lovers elope to escape parents' rivalry 18 Apr: Times of India. While business rivalry kept their parents apart, the children fell in love and eloped to live a life together, the girl even converting to be with the one she loves. The couple was, however, traced in Hyderabad and brought back to Goa… 307 words. Full Text. | |||
| Young Kerala author debuts with mass fiction 18 Apr: IANS, Mathew Vincent Menacherry, a native of Kerala had his book "Arrack In The Afternoon" released last week… he is now writing a love story. "It is set in Goa with a hero painted in dark shades He is an alcoholic ex-soldier, who goes to meet his girlfriend to give a last shot at their relationship," he said. Full Text. | |||
| Obama to visit India by October 18 Apr: Navhind Times. Almost a week after he told Mr Barack Obama that India was eagerly looking forward to his visit, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the American President would be coming on his first state visit to India in August or October… 253 words. Click here.
Auction: Indo Portuguese Ivory inlaid travelling box Auction: Indo-Portuguese table cabinet | |||
| WHO THE BLEEP CARES. Weekly column by Selma Carvalho. 77. Who the Bleep cares about Valentine Andrade and Caetano Rodrigues? In 1856, two English explorers, Sir Richard Francis Burton and Captain John Hanning Speke set out on an expedition into Central East Africa, looking for the source of the Nile. The expedition would make them epic heroes and forever inscribe their names into history. What is not celebrated by us is that two Goans accompanied them. In this two-part column, I follow these men on Burton's expedition into the jungles of Africa. Quite apart from the fact that he is one of the world's most notable explorers and linguist, who became the first European to visit Mecca disguised as a Muslim, mapped the interiors of Africa and translated the Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights into English, if you are a Goan you simply cannot ignore Sir Richard Francis Burton for entirely different reasons. Burton was 21 when he joined the Indian army and landed in Bombay. He was only 25 when he visited Goa, and wrote what was essentially his first book, Goa and the Blue Mountains. In it, Burton is uncharitably and relentlessly scathing of Goa and Goans. He had obviously read up on Goa, before he even set foot in it and was somewhat determined to dispel the prevailing English impressions of it being a palm-fronted idyll. Perhaps he had already met some Goans in Bombay and formed an impression. In any case, he found Goa to be populated by nothing more than Negro Robin Hoods, Christian wife-beaters and other reprobates. What exactly congealed Burton's dislike of Goans is difficult to understand but apparently he would harbour a disdain for the "mixed race" throughout his life, either through cross-pollination of the sexual sort or cultural variety and to him Goans epitomized this effete race which emerged from such cross-breeding; to him "a degraded looking race." The Goan he thought to be "the lowest in the scale of civilized humanity." Burton for all his knowledge about Asian cultures, drew an erroneous conclusion which persists even today about Goans, that a large section of the population was mestisos, half-breeds when in fact only a miniscule portion could lay claim to having Goan and European blood. Whatever Burton's impressions were of Goans, it didn't dissuade him from including in his troupe two Goans, Valentine Andrade and Caetano Rodrigues, while embarking on his second expedition with fellow explorer Captain Hanning Speke into the interior of East Africa; an expedition which made epic heroes of Burton and Speke. Burton recruited Valentine and Caetano in Bombay, which had a sizeable population of Goans who migrated in search of jobs, whom Burton describes as a "half pariah race" which comes to British India to "gather money." The lanky Goans must have been fairly young for Burton often calls them the Goan lads, who he felt were paid exorbitant wages for doing a bit of everything and nothing well. It is unlikely that Valentino and Caetano knew exactly what they were signing up for. If they had met Burton while being considered for the job, they might have had an inkling for his face bore the permanent scar of being speared right through it, while on his previous expedition into Africa. Burton himself was an irascible boss; arrogant, rude and hard-to-read. His companion, Captain Speke was equally dismissive of servants and harboured within him all the condescension Victorian Imperialists had for non-white populations. The expedition set off from Bombay on December 3, 1856, arriving in Zanzibar. The boys would have missed Christmas celebrations with their families but the rather impressive promised salary of Rs 20 per month might have temporary assuaged any angst they felt. Their primary responsibility was cooking for the troupe, and Valentine at least seems to have had prior experience in this venture, knowing the finer art of pickling and making jams and what is typical of Goans, serving a set portion on the plate. He might even have boasted to Burton of being able to make rissoles and pasties, which at one point during the expedition he refused to cook but was convinced otherwise with the threat of Burton's stick. Burton never shied from using threats or what he called the "interruption of the stick." It was considered quite the moral thing to do while dealing with "natives." Even as late as the 1930s, the hide-whip was frequently used by the British for flogging in Africa. When the boys weren't at the receiving end of Burton and Speke's temper, they suffered terribly from indigestion and constant fevers that wreck havoc on men's bodies in the jungle. Valentine often lay prostrated for days on end with fever and near blindness longing for his beloved Goa. In Caetano's case, the fever eventually spread like a fire to his brain, causing him to have epileptic-like seizures. He become more and more scatter-brained and disoriented, crying in anguished Konkani "ang duk'ta." One night he was so crazed with fever that he ran away into the jungle to endure it in solitude. Speke's men found him the next day and rather than being sympathetic, Speke describes him as a dog that having disobeyed his master is brought in for a flogging. END OF PART 1. Do leave your feedback at carvalho_sel@yahoo.com | |||
