GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SUN 20 JUNE, 2010
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| Death: Leslie Carvalho | |||
 12 Jun: UK/Candolim. LESLIE CARVALHO (Born 1936). Funeral service at St. Inez Church, Panjim, Goa on Tuesday 22 June at 4:30 pm. | |||
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| Cruisin’ in the Park. By Dilip D'Souza | |||
 19 Jun: Open. Eight in the evening: as we enter the park in the middle of this moderate-sized Goa town, my friend S says, knowingly and almost as if he’s coming home, “Ahhh! Look at them, they’re all cruising!”… These men are looking to meet other men, sex on their minds… 831 words.
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| Edna Fernandes: Inside the Muslim Eton | |||
20 Jun: Mail on Sunday (UK). Darul Uloom is a Muslim madrassa or religious school,
set in the pretty Kent village of Chislehurst. It is one of 166 Muslim schools
in Britain today… Now, for the first time, it has opened its doors to a British
newspaper and allowed The Mail on Sunday exclusive access… Edna Fernandes
is the author of Holy Warriors: A Journey Into The Heart Of Indian Fundamentalism
(Portobello Books). Visit www.ednafernandes.com.
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| Dr Dale DMello: The link between hypertension and bipolar disorders | |||
 19 Jin: Health Jockey. Dr Dale DMello of Michigan State University reveals that nearly half of patients hospitalized with bipolar disorder may suffer from hypertension… The findings were presented last week at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2010 annual meeting in New Orleans.349 words. | |||
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| Symphony Orchestra of India: On a high note | |||
 20 Jun: The Hindu. Only four years old, the Symphony Orchestra of India performed at Moscow for the finale of the festival of the World's Symphony Orchestras on Russia Day… Elvina Fernandes, a young viola player from Goa, and a music teacher at Goa's Kala Academy, vouches for the beneficial aspect of Goa's folk music with its Portuguese influence. Photo + 921 words.
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| Keith Vaz irked at new English language rule | |||
19 Jun: Economic Times (India). Influential Indian-origin Labour MP Keith Vaz has raised concerns over the David Cameron government making it mandatory for Indian and other non-EU spouses to have sufficient English language requirements before coming to the UK… 282 words. | |||
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| UK: Chance for seniors to spice up their holidays 20 Jun: Newham Recorder. Older people in Manor Park are being offered the chance to spice up their holiday season this year by embarking on a virtual world cruise. Throughout July, staff at Bupa's Seabrooke Manor Residential and Nursing Home will be bringing different destinations to life .. India as the first port of call in the second week of July … 275 words. Full Text. | |||
| 'Missing' Mickky met notary in Margao 20 Jun: Times of India. … Pacheco managed to hoodwink the Goa police and appeared before a Margao-based notary on June 14 to prepare an affidavit… social activist Aires Rodrigues has demanded that the Goa police and the head of notary services should investigate and take action against notary advocate Joey Rodrigues for having notarized the affidavit of Pacheco… 263 words. Full Text. | |||
| Don't just announce, implement schemes: Governor 20 Jun: Times of India. State governor Shivender Singh Sidhu on Friday sent a subtle message to the state government that it has to start acting on schemes it announces, and not rest at mere announcement after outgoing TTAG president Ralph de Sousa spoke about visas-on-arrival, infrastructure and a dismal garbage scene that has resulted in Goa losing a major chartered tourist account from Scandinavia… 345 words. Full Text. | |||
| Susegad means a lazy, satisfied life. 20 Jun: Economic Times. The Goan attitude is called susegad. It means a lazy, satisfied life. When it starts to rain in Goa, this susegad lifestyle is amplified further. The already slow Goa is in an even more relaxed mood. So even if you are a big fan of the sun and sand, there is no way you can miss Goa in the rains to enjoy the relaxation… Full Text. | |||
| Susegad: the Goa State of Mind. 24 Oct. 2009 Open. Murders and bomb blasts, it seems, can do little to jolt this sunny state out of its complacency. Such is life here. Susegad: a term as synonymous with Goa as sun, sea and sand. And while it’s the latter three that brings people to Goa, it’s susegad that keeps them here… 1575 words. Full Text. | |||
| Vivo le futboll! 20 Jun: Asian Age. This is Goa, and there’s no religion like football here… priests pray for Portugal at daily masses… While the world sleeps or watches bleary-eyed, Goa comes alive with colours, flags, caps, bugles, whistles and larger than life screens showing FIFA matches late into the night… The smaller restaurants too have an army of football lovers who take to the streets like they have won the World Cup if Portugal should strike a goal… 698 words. Full Text. | |||
| Will expose Goa minister, son involved in drug trade: BJP 20 Jun: IANS. The BJP Goa unit chief has hinted that during the forthcoming assembly session scheduled in July the party would expose the ruling party minister, whose son has been linked to the drug trade in Goa… A Swedish model and a former girlfriend of notorious Israeli drug dealer operating from Goa had alleged that a powerful politician’s son was involved in drug trade… 373 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa roots for Portugal in World Cup football 20 Jun: IANS. Legendary Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama would be a proud man if only he could come back from beyond to Goa’s shores once again, with the erstwhile Portuguese colony in the throes of World Cup football fever these days… Goa has painted itself red and green, the colours of the Portuguese national football team… 523 words. Full Text. | |||
| Cooking for Dad 20 Jun: Hindustan Times. It’s Father’s Day today and some chefs in the city are gearing up to make the day special for their dads… Favio Fernandes, pastry chef at JW Marriott, Juhu, is preparing a surprise dinner for his father. His dad, a Goan, he says, is a stickler for Goan food. “While he is at church on Sunday evening, I will prepare tacos with salsa, roast chicken in wine sauce and spaghetti bolognaise. This will be followed by a saffron crème brulee… Full Text. | |||
| WHO THE BLEEP CARES. Weekly column by Selma Carvalho 86. Who the Bleep cares about lunch with Carmen Miranda? Carmen Miranda is an award-winning graphic designer, whose career includes working with Panos Institute and Wolff Olins. She is an environmental activist currently involved in protecting Goa from exploitative mining. I didn't mind the light spray of rain which greeted me as I came out of Southall's railway station. I hugged my green overcoat and headed to Madhu's restaurant where I was meeting Carmen for lunch. Carmen is a walking contradiction to Rudyard Kipling's contention that "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet." Her stylishly coiffed hair, gracing a beautiful patrician face, the long flowing wool coat draped with ease around her body, the over-sized mother-of-pearl ring brandished about when she wants to make her point, were typical of her Spanish heritage, except of course, ever so often, this very European-looking lady broke out in fluent Konkani. By the time the steaming pastries stuffed with meat arrived, Carmen had transported our party of four, which included Bishop Agnelo Gracias of Bombay and Eddie Fernandes of GoanVoice UK to the intoxicating world of Bombay's J. J. School of Arts of the 1960s. "I was a rebel," she bursts out. "We had a great time. I didn't know a word of English" she tells us in animated spurts, which is a revelation coming from a woman who speaks it impeccably from across the table, in addition to being fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Her work includes helping asylum seekers in the UK with language translations. Carmen's mother is Spanish and her father is a Goan from the illustrious Miranda family. She is a cousin of Mario de Miranda, the celebrated artist. But the walls of the J. J. School of Arts were too claustrophobic to contain Carmen, ideologically and artistically. Ironically, it was J. J. School's finger-wagging which propelled Carmen to complete a Bachelors degree in Art, from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, Kent, UK and go on to win international awards and accolades. As the tall Indian server arrives with cardamom smelling rice interspersed with chunks of lamb, the conversation turns to thornier subjects like Socialism. I shift uncomfortably in my high-backed chair. I've always been an unabashed capitalist ever since Adam Smith introduced himself to me in my secondary school. I believe firmly that capitalism is the only way to create wealth and lift people out of poverty. "But what is wealth?" Carmen counters. I'm stumped momentarily. I realize how strong her ideology is and how it is so much a product of having come of age in the Sixties, against a backdrop of the Vietnam War, America flexing its muscle against Cuba, the Liberation of Goa, the dismantling of Colonial hierarchical power structures and the emergence of Student power. There would have been intense outpourings amongst intellectual circles from Bombay to London; heady notions of equality irrespective of class, race and gender in a post-colonial, post-war world. By the time, I came of age in the Eighties, communism and socialism lay by the wayside. We didn't see Socialism as ideology, we saw it as something that festered only under totalitarian regimes who themselves were collapsing before our eyes. Words like Perestroika, trickle-down economics, the liberalization of India's economy, globalisation, free-flow of information, internet, dot.com companies and freedom from every kind of restriction and perhaps even obligation was what shaped my conversations with my peers. None of us grew up respecting the nobler ideals of Socialism. And yet, twenty years later, our world too had succumbed to the perils of unfettered fiscal greed and has collapsed around us. As lunch ambled to a close, despite our different world views on economics, I couldn't help admitting how much we agreed on; the neglect of the environment which the free-market couldn't protect, the corrosive effects of unbridled consumerism and the idea that our social responsibilities were not to be taken lightly. Yet, I could never convert to Socialism. I believe in the liberty of that humble man who takes his produce of apples and bananas to the market, to anticipate profit. Capitalism to me isn't about money, greed, exploitation or big heartless corporations. It is that most profound, most complex and yet most basic tenet of what defines us as human beings. The desire to excel, the desire to create, the desire to be free and unfettered and in that endeavour to profit along the way. It in embedded in the very ideals of a glorious democracy and has taken humanity to magnificent climaxes of discovery. For it is, in the end, the idea of profit and glory which propels humanity to excellence. For a photograph and profile of Carmen Miranda, click here. Do leave your feedback at carvalho_sel@yahoo.com | |||
