Goan Voice Newsletter: Sunday 10 May. 2015
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Eulogy: Jack Fernandes
Eulogy delivered at the Funeral Service of Jack Fernandes by his son, Ian (fernandesntv@yahoo.co.uk), at the funeral service on Saturday 2nd May, 2015 at the Consolata Shrine, Westlands, Nairobi … "From the hundreds of emails, visits and phone calls we have received, from Kenya and the world-over, it was apparent his popularity and openness ensured so many knew so much about him and the wonderful life he lived…” For the full text, 1838 words and photographs …
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UK: Flora Mendes: Immigration adviser convicted after pretending to be solicitor
5 May: Law Gazette. A woman who continued to provide unregulated immigration advice despite being suspended has avoided jail. Flora Mendes, from Luton, pretended to be a regulated solicitor and practised under the firm name of Arch’s Law – despite the Solicitors Regulation Authority having suspended her in January 2013. Mendes was convicted in her absence at Luton Magistrates’ Court last week of four counts of providing unregulated immigration advice. The 37-year-old was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for each offence, to run concurrently, suspended for two years. She is also subject to a curfew order to run seven days a week until 29 August and was ordered to pay £2,325 in compensation and £2,881 in prosecution costs. District Judge Lee-Smith said Mendes had ‘left a trail of destruction towards vulnerable people she left in her wake’… Text + comments. click here
Luton solicitor convicted of providing illegal immigration service. Luton Today. Flora Magdaline Mendes, 37, was convicted in her absence at Luton Magistrates Court of four counts of providing unregulated immigration advice… [Alert by Shenkor Almeida]
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Alina Saldanha: Who’s lying?
10 May: Herald. Reacting to the statement made by Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar who said he told Environment and Forests Minister Alina Saldanha to shut her mouth on marinas, Saldanha said that she was shocked to read this statement that has left her in surprise. “With due respect to the honourable chief minister, I beg to defer from the statement that he made. I don’t know whether he really made this statement or not but in any case I would like to make things clear that it started with a statement that appeared in press where I was wrongly quoted and I made it clear with the chief minister that the word ‘challenge’ is not my word. I met the CM and explained to him everything after the meeting I even asked him whether I should give a rebuttal and he advised me to avoid the same as it would have given opportunity to the press to create another story,” she said… click here
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Video: Eve D'Souza: The Trend Loo Skit #Auntieboss!
9 May: Crazy Varshita walks in on Don and Larry Madowo in the loo!!! Some of the action that you may have missed on The Trend! Watch #AuntieBoss every Tuesday at 8pm on NTV … click here
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Whose Bandra Is It?
9 May: Mint. Pages 26 - 28. People like to ride their bikes through the village because they enjoy looking at old houses and narrow roads. They feel like they are in Goa… Bandra, called Mumbai’s Queen of the Suburbs, is now known for its celebrity residents, soaring real-estate prices and upscale restaurants and pubs. To find, in the midst of this coveted land, villages where aged men still sit in their verandas and say hello to every neighbour who passes by, where Christian crosses date back to the 18th century, and where ladies meet in public squares to play Housie, evokes the kind of nostalgia that almost cries out to be described as quaint… The local Catholics began calling themselves East Indians, after the East India Company, to distinguish themselves from Goan and Mangalorean immigrants who had similar surnames …
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New Book: Goa, d'un genre à l'autre
Goa, a genre to another. € 29.00. Apr. 2015. When the Portuguese conquered Goa, in 1510, they built the pillar of an extraordinary adventure commercial, religious and cultural that will see the centuries pass before ending in 1961. In a few decades, this old political and religious capital of the Indian Empire, formerly the center of trade between East and West will turn into a center of world tourism market. The imperial stories are rarely combined with the feminine. This book aims to highlight the meeting between two distinct worlds, focusing particularly to viatical stories and the singularity of a history written in the feminine, to capture a dynamic sometimes discontinuous, a fragile and stubborn evolution, enlightened by outstanding female personalities and sometimes incomprehensibly forgotten. This book is the result of a project created in 1970 under the aegis of Indian and Portuguese universities and is now enriched by the contributions of researchers from leading universities in India, US and Europe: the story of Indo Seminars -Portugaise… click here
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What’s Your Caste?
8 May: Goa Streets. By Aparna Raut Desai. I’ll begin by stating that I belong to no caste whatsoever. I’m not Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya or Shudra. Whatever caste I was supposedly “born into”, I reject … The caste system prevalent in our country, in my opinion, is one of the principal factors that’s keeping us in the dark ages. In Goa, we pretend to be modern. We crow about how progressive we are as compared to the other states in India. Well that again to me, is a load of manure. The majority of Goans, whether it’s Hindus or Christians or otherwise, marry within their caste. We identify ourselves as part of this strange phenomenon which somehow makes people from our caste “our own”, and others…well, others. This sort of regressive thinking is part of the reason we have a hugely unequal society… 888 words. click here
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Video: Hot-Air Balloon and Amphibious Vessel launched in Goa
9 May: Goa 365. As a part of the state tourism developmental projects, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar inaugurated tourism-related activities, one a Hot-Air Balloon and the other an Amphibious Vessel in the capital city of Panaji … 4m. 27s. click here
Need to boost tourism industry, upgrade infrastructure to attract tourists: CM. 9 May: UNI (United News of India). Observing that tourism is the major industry which is largely contributing to the economy of the state, Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar today said the industry needs a boost and suggested to upgrade the infrastructure ...
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Goa government launches hot air balloon, amphibious vehicle. 9 May:
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Reader Tips on Finding a Partner Using Indian Marriage Sites
9 May: New York Times. India now has more than 1,500 matchmaking sites, giving parents — and potential brides and grooms — thousands of choices to help arrange modern marriages while allowing families to adhere to longstanding traditions regarding caste and religion. We asked readers, some of whom only gave their first names, who have used such sites to share their tips… 1096 words. click here
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The Konkani Debate
8 May: Goa Streets. Devanagri Script Or Roman Script For Goa’s Indigenous Language? Before we delve too deeply into this story, let’s take a deep breath and acknowledge the elephant in the room. The debate in Goa about the script that best suits our beloved Konkani language happens to fall largely along religious lines, with Catholic Goans often favouring greater recognition of the Roman script and Hindu Goans more apt to favour the so-called script of India, Devanagri. But when you look at the number of Hindu writers in Goa who prefer to write in Konkani using the Roman script, and then see the number of Catholic writers who consider Devanagri to be sublime, you will understand that this is no simple issue… 1904words. click here
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Indian tourism slowdown continues
9 May: Travel Daily Media. The growth of international visitor arrivals to India continued to decelerate in April 2015. According to the latest data from the country’s Ministry of Tourism, just 540,000 overseas travellers visited India last month. This marks an increase of just 0.6% compared to April 2014, and a decline of 26% from March 2015… The reasons for this slowdown are not immediately evident; India has taken several measures in recent months to boost its tourism arrivals, including the expansion of its visa-on-arrival scheme… click here
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Goa Likely to See 10 Million Tourists by 2017
9 May: NDTV. Tourist arrival in the state may rise up to 10 million by 2017, Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar today said in Panaji. "We may have 10 million tourists arriving to Goa by 2017, the year we will go for fresh elections (state Assembly polls)," Mr Parulekar told reporters after launching hot air balloon and amphibious vehicle service in the state… Goa currently receives around five million tourists annually… click here
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India’s bizarre obsession with urine
9 May: Scroll. Urine is one of those perennially surfacing topics in Indian media, and it is difficult for a year to go by without multiple references to urine, whether of humans, cows, rhinos, tigers or elephants, of the diseased or undiseased kind, medical therapies, recipes for consumption and more. In March, a guard at the Delhi zoo was arrested for smuggling out rhinoceros urine to take it to his ailing father … Former prime minister Morarji Desai, for instance, regularly consumed his own urine and attributed his long life to it… The world’s first conference on urine therapy was held in Goa in 1996, and attended by around 100 people … 1284 words. click here
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