Goan Voice Newsletter: Monday 05 Apr. 2021
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India extends restriction on number of flights to and from UK till mid-April
4 Apr: Times of India. India has now once again extended restriction on the number of flights to be allowed to and from the United Kingdom till mid-April. And till that time, Indian airline will be operating 15 flights a week, whereas British carriers will also be allowed to operate the same number of flights. As per the reports, India had suspended flights to and from UK from December 23, 2020, in the wake of new and more infectious strain of Coronavirus found there… Earlier, as per the records, almost 2000 to 2500 passenger used to fly to India daily on 67 weekly flights from London. [Should that not ne 20,000to 25,000 daily?] click here
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Forgetting Anthony Mascarenhas
4 Apr: Navhind Times. By Frederick Noronha. Last week marked the anniversary of the creation of Bangladesh. In Goa itself, everyone seems to have forgotten about Neville Anthony Mascarenhas (1928-1986) who was a journalist of Goan origin. He went on a tour of East Pakistan and was shocked by what was going. In a matter of weeks, he whisked off his family to the UK and told the world the story of what was going on in then East Pakistan. ‘Genocide in Pakistan’ was the title of his story… In 2011, BBC called it “The article that changed history”… 1362 words. click here
For the Wikipedia profile of Anthony Mascarenhas,
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11 Jan. 2002: Goan Voice. Christmas dinner around the world: Cynthia Mascarenhas, 38, is a chef. She is single and lives with her mother Yvonne, 70, a widow, in a four-bedroom house in Ladbroke Grove, West London. Cynthia says: Our Christmas meal is a traditional Goan buffet … Her father traced his roots to Sangolda and her mother hails from Aldona…
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Video: A hidden army of 'very brave' nuns fight child trafficking
4 Apr: NBC News (USA). A vast but little-known network of Catholic nuns is dedicated to fighting human trafficking across the globe. The organization, Talitha Kum now operates quietly in 92 countries. The group is made up of roughly 60,000 religious sisters… Sister Lourenca Marques (photo) walks along a dirt path in Vasco, Goa. Several years ago, the area was home to a booming sex trade… The government bulldozed the area in the mid-2000s. But women and girls remain trapped in sex work elsewhere in Goa and beyond… Sister Lisa Pires is based in Calangute which she described as one of the highest trafficked areas in all of Asia. She may be a woman of the cloth, but Pires operates like a hard-nosed private investigator. She devotes her days to walking the streets of tough neighborhoods and questioning local shop owners and others to help her identify places where trafficking may be occurring. She uses the information to build detailed maps that she shares with police. “It is very hidden work,” Pires said… 1696 words + Videos click here
For the Talitha Kum website,
click here
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Food News In Brief
4 Apr: Fiji Times. Fiji Marriott Resort Momi Bay delivered a memorable Easter weekend with the launch of ‘Momi Bay Sunset Series’. The launch enliven inspirations from Goa, India, with vibrant beats, beach club energy and exquisite aura and theming of the state. A characteristic of Goan food is the intense flavor with main ingredients including seafood, coconut milk, rice and local spices, for instance, Goa’s popular “Xacutti” curry with complexed spicing will be served on the evening… click here
3 Apr: MAGG (Portugal) Celebrate Holi at home with the exclusive Soão menu … The special menu is available until April 11 and includes Vindaloo fish and shrimp curry, inspired by Goa chef Luís Cardoso …
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3 Apr: Time for Tempeh: Why a fermented soybean product is the new chefs' favourite.
Bean Me Up founder Shawn Rodrigues believes he was possibly the first in India
to include tempeh in a restaurant menu… Click
here.
2 Apr: MSN. How the colonisation of India influenced global food … Click
here.
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COVID News In Brief
5 Apr: Herald. With Goa registering 265 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant urged the eligible citizens to register on Co-WIN portal and get themselves vaccinated… The government has opened vaccination for everyone who is 45 years and above … In Goa, till date 135,2037 [sic] persons have received Covidshield vaccine shots… click here
4 Apr: PTI. Easter was celebrated in Goa on Sunday in a traditional manner though some rituals were cancelled in order to adhere to COVID-19 norms, a church official said...
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4 Apr: Outlook. Enforcing stricter health protocols will lead to a drop in tourist rates, and loss of GST, says Goa's Port Minister Michael Lobo …
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Oscar Rebello: Death By Idiocy
4 Apr: the Goan. This has been one catastrophic thermo-nuclear explosion. In just two or three weeks, just when we thought the times were back to being "La Dolce Vita", the COVID-19 surge has been so overwhelming in many parts of the country that, boy oh boy, is this virus something else?? … But let's get back to our bangrachem Goem (drugged out, corrupted, sloshed and smashed, environmentally devastated, but comically bangrachem). What a laugh! As one has noted earlier, Goa is akin to the biblical Sodom & Gomorrah—but that has changed. According to Luke and Mark, they have revised it. It is now reported from top religious sources that Goa is infinitely worse than Sodom and Gomorrah combined. It is at the top of the heap of moral trash. We are the champions, my friend, and of course we will keep on "fighting" till the end! … 833 words. click here
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Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: Origins of Rava Fried
4 Apr: Hindustan Times. There is something fishy about the origins of dishes like tempura, fish and chips and golden fried prawns … According to the great Goan chef, Julia Carmen Desa, batter-frying in Goan cuisines usually owes something to the Portuguese. But says, Julia, there is also a local fried fish tradition. Julia’s mother, she says, used to coat fish with semolina (rava) with just a little rice flour added to give it a crispy edge… We know that deep-frying was never part of the Japanese tradition and that tempura was introduced by foreigners… The food historian, KT Achaya, liked to claim that the Portuguese, whose ships left from Goa, had Indian cooks who taught the Japanese how to make bhajiya… 1457 words. click here
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Goa implements novel programme to help people with mental illness
4 Apr: Times of India. In a novel initiative involving health counsellors, medical officers, psychiatrists and psychologists, the state’s health services is implementing ‘MANAS’, a project that is aimed at helping people suffering from any kind of mental illness. MANAS has been developed by the voluntary organisation, Sangath, and is targeted at people, specially those from rural areas, who do not get the right medical help at the right time or end up visiting a general physician instead. It is presently being implemented at the Valpoi community health centre… of the total mental illnesses, around 55% are common disorders, including anxiety and depression… click here
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