TIATRO "MOG ASSUM-DI" BY ROSEFERNS.

On 24^th of this month in Candolim at Church School Compound, I saw the Tiatro “ MOG ASSUM DI” by renowned  Tiatrist Rose Ferns,  attended by a very good number of audience. This Tiatro was organized by the Candolim Church to raise fund for the EXTENSION WORK of the Church the Cemetry

Antonette de Maina & Roma 

The Tiatro started at 8.00 PM instead of 7.30 thereby failing to adhere to the timing which the “Ghaumcho Pe. Vigar” otherwise  from the Altar stresses to follow but himself goofed.   During the interval Housie game was conducted, the profit going for the same cause. The Gauncho Pe. Vigar must next time stop making nuisance of his unwanted lecturing even during the Tiatro programme.  He should know that people coming for Tiatro are not interested in his lousy talk, this is ok in the Church where faithful are submissive to his sermons even if they don’t like it. For Tiatro people pay money only for specific purpose within limited time. 

  

Anthony Ciaido 

 

The story of the Tiatro is based on the ingratitude of the children towards their parents during their difficult days.  It was a very living example of what is happening in our society nowadays, especially in our Catholic community where the Church leaders are not doing sufficient enough to change the mindset of the present generation. The story of the play was filled with very good proverbs and it was a pleasure to listen to these proverbs.  Also the Cantos introduced in this play gave an added booster to this Tiatro. 

                                                      Comedian Richard and his partner

Rose Ferns and Roma as husband and wife played their roles very well while Antonette de Maina and her partner as her brother played their roles well.  As usual Tari contributed immensely to raise the level of the play by doing his role extremely well.  His presentation was superb and delivery and clarity very good.  Rosario de Benaulim was dashing and pushing in his role as husband of Antonette de Maina.

 

 

                                                           Roseferns & Roma

Comedy part was nicely handled by ace comedian Richard along with Agnelo. Richard has good scope on Konkani Stage, he is become the darling of the audience because he got all the qualities of perfect comedian.  However, to become top he has to avoid filth and vulgarity in action and in words.  The comedy scene where Obama was shown was not palatable. It looked and sounded below human decency and dignity.

                                                                       Roma

 

In the Side Show songs, Anthony Ciado’s solo was the best on London Goans so also of Rose Ferns solo.  The song rendered by Antonette de Maina and Roma on female Tiatrists was excellent especially rendering of Roma with her serene and mellifluent voice. 

Well done Bab Roseferns.  In this Tiatro like a captain in Cricket you played your captain’s inning well.   Conngratulations to you, to your troupe and to your musicians under the leadership of Teo Alvares.

A.     Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa

Tel: 7507394349.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT FOR STUDENTS.

A feA few days back when a small boy of three years in a Camurlim Anganwadi was burnt with a hot spoon as a punishment, there was uproar all over Goa condemning this incident as brutal and inhuman. All those who made this uproar  deserve highest compliments for raising this issue on top of their agenda.  Fortunately, for that victim boy there was strong backing of the society and humane humans.  As castigation for this brutality, the perpetrators of this brutality against the innocent kid were dismissed from their jobs.  Thanks to the awareness of the society over such issues because of the media campaign done by the alert Goan media.

DuriDuring my younger days of schooling starting from the Portuguese school at Escola Primaria in my village, I still remember how our Professors used to inflict corporal punishment on us even for a small silly mistake.  During those days punishing a student was the highest pleasure of our Professors.  I still remember how our Professor Eduardo D’Souza while beating a young student even damaged his Ear Drum.  Fortunately for him and unfortunately for Professor D’Souza the complaint went to the higher authority and then after the Portuguese authority in Goa issued a circular to all schools in Goa banning corporal punishment.

Still    In my school yet another Professor of mine  oblivious of the said circular used to beat the students with big sticks approximately of 2 meters long.  Unfortunately, one fine morning at about 8.15, Governador Vassalo e Silva while returning back home to Panjim from Aguada, stopped at our school.  His presence there went unnoticed as his motorcade consisted only of one civilian four wheeler without even having Red Beacon Light,  taking all the three personnel – Governador himself, his secretary and the driver, all Pakles.  When the Governador suddenly appeared on the door of our Classroom, our Professor almost fainted because of the big sticks placed on his table.  As I was seated on the first bench, he pleaded with me to hide those sticks under his platform which Governador failed to notice.  And since then till the end of my schooling there, I never saw those nasty sticks again.

Th      Then I joined Arpora School which was the first English High School of Goa and was manned as a Principal by the very strict disciplinarian known all over Goa as the  perpetrator of harsh and inhuman punishment  to the students for indiscipline.  Mischief and indiscipline were the part of youth but this fact the Principal of Arpora School, Fr. Philip Neri Mendonca never believed.  As a consequence, he was inflicting very heavy corporal punishment on young students even for minor offences.  The way he used to use his Cane on mischievous boys it looked he was correcting not human beings but “Redde ani Padde” ,  not only in class but even publicly and openly during the early morning Assembly sessions.  For Boarders, he used to cane them by putting them on their beds.  Such corporal punishment was never inflicted by any teacher anywhere in Goa during those Salazarist days in Goa.  We the students of that era were the victims of such punishment.  It was our misfortune for being students of that time while present day students are provided by law with lot of protection from the harsh teachers. 

 

      A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

DR. JACK SEQUEIRA - FATHER OF OPINION POLL.

May the soul  of the late Dr. Jack Sequeira REST IN PEACE. He is called the father of Opinion Poll and rightly he deserved this title though Adv. Uday Bhembro and of his tribe think Jawaharlal Nehru instead should be called the father of Opinion Poll.  The Bhembros will never accept any great achievement of minority community member for the cause of Goa and Goans.  He was one of the persons responsible for denying the Romi Konkani followers the privilege of recognition of Romi Konkani also.  Today Romi Konkani is suffering only because of the chicanery of the Nagri Konknnivadis in KPA like Bhembros.  Their crookedness towards Romi Konkani was facilitated by the dumbness in KPA of men like Tomazinho Cardoso and the late Mathanay Saldanha who should both have fought vigorously for giving recognition to Romi Konkani also. In view of this I lost all my hopes on any person in Goa to fight forcefully for Romi Konkani. If a known Konknnivadi  like Tomazinho Cardoso failed us then who is left now to fight for our cause?  

 For 5 years the so called “our man” Tomazinho Cardoso was in the Goa Legislative Assembly holding the post of the Speaker.  During these 5 years what did he do for Romi Konkani?  Couldn’t he do anything?  Instead he acted for 5 years as a feudal lord because temporary power reached to his head.   He thought he would always remain the Speaker or MLA but never expected a kick from the voters.  His political downfall was his artificial pride.  For this reason one has to be very careful before elevating a small background man to the big post.  Otherwise, we would have Tomazinho Cardosos only in Goa.

Regarding Nehru and Goa and also Bhembro,  Nehru declared in Bombay  on 4^th June 1956: “If and when the Portuguese go and the people of Goa deliberately wish to retain separate identity – I am not going to bring them by force or compulsion or coercion into the Indian Union”.  Finally what did Nehru do to Goa? He used force and violence to conquer Goa and thus paved the way for Goa to lose its separate identity.  He internally wanted Goa to lose its geographical and separate identity to declare to the World that Goa is a part of Indian Union because the world was accusing Nehru for using military force to conquer and invade Goa and not to liberate Goa.  On 19^th December 1961 Goa was not liberated but according to the Supreme Court judgment, on 19^th December 1961, Goa was conquered by India against the wishes of Goans.  Since this is the case, Nehru’s India still treats Goans as conquered people denying every demand of ours including the Special Status which we will never get because Central governments of BJP and Congress want Goa to be converted into a big brothel for all the rascals and Pimps from Delhi.

According to my information, immediately following the declaration of the Opinion Poll result, during the rally and meeting at Campal where the entire family of Dr. Jack Sequeira also participated, participants spontaneously raised the slogans saying “Dotor, you are the father of Opinion Poll”.  Since then, rightly he goes as the father of Opinion Poll.

Bhembro must know that Nehru cannot be the father of Opinion Poll.  It was Dr. Sequeira who out of concern for preserving Goa’s identity first impressed upon Nehru to have the Plebiscite for Goa to decide the future of Goa as per the above statement of Nehru but Nehru was Nehru, a cheat, a liar and a traitor and today we are suffering in Goa the sense of non-entity it is only because of Nehru who failed to maintain his assurance.  For such a man to call the father of Opinion Poll will be a big crime and an insult to Dr. Sequeira who moved boulders and mountains to get an Opinion Poll for us.  Nehru citing the demand of Kashmiris for Plebiscite in Kashmir to decide its future which India did not want to give, rejected Plebiscite in Goa also. But what Nehru failed to realize was this that Kashmiris case is totally different from Goa’s case.  

No doubt everybody under the umbrella of “Anti-Merger” worked very hard even snatching Siolim and Mapusa constituencies from MG teeth yet the leadership of Dr. Sequeira was the need of the hour.  He was during that time acted like a Hinge to unite anti-mergerists and in this mission he was successful.  He went to Bombay and contacted Bombay Goans and impressed upon them to return to Goa to vote against merger.  Bombay Goans played a good role to save Goa  from getting merged with Maharastra.  CM of Maharastra VP Naik and another mighty Maharastrian leader Y. B. Chawan in the Central Ministry  played a huge role by sending deputionists  to Goa to vote for merger.  But Dr. Sequeira played his card very well to counter their onslaught by bringing Bombay Goans to Goa to vote for Goa. In this strategy Dr. Simon Fernandes based in Bombay played a pivotal role.  

Dr. Sequeira  was such a fine administrator, so beautiful orator of whose type Goa is yet to produce another one and above all he was the great secular by core. It was a pity that we missed his leadership to rule Goa.  If UG had to win the first election itself, today Goa would be like gold because of his efficient administrative leadership but instead the “Rostad” anti-Goan administrator Bandodcar got the chance not only to misrule Goa but also to destroy Goa which he finally did. Bandodcar destroyed Goa because he was not a good administrator; he was the hard core communal and a big dictator worse than Salazar. It was not he alone that was a curse on Goa but the entire MGP is the curse on Goa and unfortunately we still are suffering from this curse because the last remnants of MGP are still existing.  We the elders have fought vigorously in the past to half finish it from Goa and the remaining job the new generation must complete. The MGP is still craving to convert Goa as one Vaddo of Maharastra (Maharastra Vaddi).

In the light of what I said above about Dr. Jack de  Sequeira,  I maintain that it is none other than Dr. Sequeira alone is the FATHER OF OPINION POLL. 

Congratulations to Calangute Panchayat under its leader Joseph Sequeira for being first in Goa to erect the monument of Dr. Jack de Sequeira.  Tomazinho Cardoso was ruling Candolim Panchayat for a long period but such idea of constructing the monument of Dr. Sequeira in Candolim never dawned in his head though he talks a lot on Dr. Sequeira now. Where Tomazinho failed, Joseph Sequeira succeeded.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349