To Veronica,
From Olavo Joao, Merces St.Cruz, Goa, Kuwait.
Sub: One voice to save our future generations.
I am in Kuwait and famous reader of Kranti.com. I really appreciate your concern for Goans in Kuwait & rest of the world. I am not a member of any club in Kuwait. So I am writing from my heart. I really love your writings in goa.kranti and coming forward to tell you what's in my mind. I would highly appreciate if you could send this email to all around the world and on newspaper in Goa. With all my LOVE for all the Goans around the world.
Day 19th Feb 2008, murdered all the GOANS/rest of all the Indians all around the world. A day to remember for all the Goans. SAVIOR is born to save Goa, and that is MLA Babush Monserrate of Taleigao, Goa. 19th Feb 2008 a day we all Goans should be mourning. Just like 9/11 in America. Please do not sleep now requesting all the Goan clubs in Kuwait and all over the world. Pleace come out in ONE VOICE and bring justice, law and order for Goa. WHO ?////////// ????????? ???? ???????/
Common man in Goa now cannot sleep in peace. Requesting all the Goans now to fight for our human rights as what happened in Goa on 19th Feb 2008, should not happen to our Goans in Goa when we are there. Requesting all the Goans CLUBS, associations to be united under one banner. Please do not think that what happened is political game. Government is not in this game. It's totally personal. CM of Goa is Mr. Clean where this matter is concerned. So please do give your support to Mr. Digamber now as he is really in need. Without you in Kuwait he can do nothing, just think how many Goans are in Kuwait and justifly. If all the Goan clubs are true Goans than show me who you all are. Ultimately your children will be in Goa one day. I am coming forward to save our future Goan generation. If all think that you can sit here all your life, you all are mistaken. I am not a member of any Club in Kuwait. I am independant and will always remain WHO I am. You all the clubs have so many things in life to do. Do now for Goa.
See what is happening as I don't have to tell you all. My humble request to all the Clubs in Kuwait to be united and fight now or never. Tomorrow your children will be in Goa, we will all die. Save them now. (ALL THE CLUBS ARE ALL WELCOME TO MAKE ANY SUGGESTION) EMAIL: olavocarlos@yahoo.co.in I am looking forward for suggestions from all the clubs. I may not live today but its to save our future generation. Wake up all the CLUBS in Kuwait.
With Love,
Olavo Joao,
Kuwait/Merces Goa.
February 28, 2008
February 27, 2008
Konkani Kullvar Seminar on short stories
Kuwait Feb 24, 2008: Konkani Kullvar, Kuwait, a Konkani Writer's Forum in Kuwait, organized a one day Seminar/Workshop on Short Stories with Mr. Dolphy F. Lobo (widely known as Dolphy Cascia, a Konkani Writer, Novelist, and Editor in Konkani ), on Friday 22nd February 2008 at Indian Community School (Amman Branch) Salmiyah, Kuwait.
It was a remarkable day in Konkani Literature here in Kuwait as more than forty participants participated in this event including some new comers and two Goan Writers. The day began with the registration of participants followed by breakfast. The workshop was divided into three sessions.
The first session began with Lancy Pinto Nayak, the convener of Kullvar welcoming the crowd with enthusiasm followed by a silent prayer. He presented the importance of the workshop and requested all the participants to introduce themselves. Mr. Nayak gave detailed introduction about the new comers and the Goan participants before handing over to Shaan Bondel to conduct proceedings of the day.
The workshop began with the lighting of a lamp by Lacy Pinto Nayak (Convener), Janet Almeida (Ghurkarnn), Shaan Bondel (PRO) and Dolphy Cascia. Shaan gave a brief introduction of Dolphy Cascia. In his introduction, he said, this is a memorable day to have Mr. Cascia with us, as we will have an opportunity to learn more than we know about short stories and he is highly known for it. He recalled Cascia's contribution to Konkani as a writer (46 novels, 35 dramas and more than 300 short stories) and said, it was a Konkani Record that, his ‘Dee Mhaka Bhogsannem' drama had recorded 148 shows and there was no other Editor who had worked as an Editor for more than 25 years with three papers together (Jhelo, Mitr and Kurov).
Participants: (Sitting) M/s. Olivera Flavia, Lino, Lawrence Pinto, Dolphy Cascia, Veronica Fernandes, Janet Almeida, (standing - first row) Reyan Lobo, Precilla, Pashant Ferrao, Christine Pinto, Ida D’silva, Clara Fernandes, Ivan Almeida (second row) Lancy Pinto Nayak, Ronald D’souza, Benna Fajir, Thomas Lobo, J. D. S. Navunda, Austin Brahmavar, Gibba Kulshekar, Vinay Lewis, Alexander Fernandes, Vincent Barboza, Faustine Pinto, L. J. Brahmavar and shaan bondel
Mr. Cascia shared his knowledge in Konkani Literature, especially in Short Stories as a writer and an editor. He gave basic introduction on Konkani literature to the new Writers and spoke on the fundamentals of Short Stories. Mr Cascia speaking on different stages of writing a Short Story said that any story would begin with a plot of the story (vost), followed by beginning of the story (survat), flow of the story (vhallo), and finally, ending the story (anthy). He spoke continuously for more than two hours in the morning session including the Short Stories Title(naamv). By the end of first session he presented his views about the activities to be done by a writer with an editor of the newspaper and he explained the responsibilities of a writer with any editor. He highlighted the importance of maintaining a good relationship between a writer and an editor to the growth of Konkani.
Recalling his experience as an editor he said that he nurtured many new writers under his guidance who have become well known writers today.
The first session was followed by a lunch catered by Mr Jossie of M&M confectionary. Mr. Ivan Almeida and friends presented some melodious Konkani Songs and entertained the participants during the lunch break. M/s. Vinay Lewis, Vincent Barboza and Vrinda Lewis added their voices. Austin Brahmavar arranged the music. After the lunch, Ivan continued the fun by conducting the games organized by Prashant Ferrao and Janet Almeida.
This was followed by Shaan Bondel presenting the Humorous Poetry Session. M/s. Austin Brahmavar, Olivera Flavia Trasi, J. D. S. Navunda, Ida D'Silva Paladka, Silvan D'Almeida, L. J. Brahmavar, Faustine Pinto Ghantalkatte, Lancy Pinto Nayak and Shaan bondel presented their poems and entertained the crowd. Two poems from Mr. Lino (Goan Poet) especially attracted the participants as well as Lancy's 'ticho ani tacho' and Shaan's 'vecho kaall' received showers of claps.
Mr Dolphy Cascia continued to anchor the rest of second session in which he reviewed the book 'Kullvarchem Dirvem' written by various writers of Konkani Kullvar, published by Konkani Kullvar Kuwait in year 2007, edited by Shaan Bondel and dedicated to Late Johny Suratkal. In his review, he appreciated the great work of Kullvar by publishing the book like Kullvarchem Dirvem, which included 13 high quality short stories, 5 poems, one article on Johny Suratkal, poems on Johny Suratkal, and a editorial. He congratulated the Kullvar Members for their efforts towards the Book and requested to publish more books in future. He however though felt the absence of humorous articles. He also congratulated the Editor of this book Shaan Bondel. Mr Cascia remembered late Johny Suratkal and his association with him. Mrs. Ida D'Silva recalled that, this day was also Johny's birthday and it was really a very big coincident and surprise for the participants.
The final session of the day was felicitation. Mr. Veronica Fernandes (a wellknown Goan Journalist who attended the workshop from morning session) presented a memento to Dolphy Cascia. Mrs. Janet Almeida presented a brief introduction of Dolphy Cascia and Mr. Nayak introduced Mr. Veronica Fernandes respectively. Mr. Lino (Goan Poet) also accompanied Mr. Veronica Fernandes to greet Mr. Cascia.
Mr. Lawrence Pinto (widely known as Loryaab in Kuwait) felicitated Mrs. Olivera Flavia, Trasi, the winner of ‘Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy Special Award 2007' for her book 'sukha-dukhachim don panam punn mogachim'. She is also an active member of Kullvar. Mrs. Janet Almeida presented her achievements in Konkani and Mr. Nayak gave a short introduction of Mr. Lawrence Pinto. Olivea Flavia thanked Mr. Lawrence Pinto and Kullvar. Shaan on this occasion said that it was a happiest moment for the Kullvar as Olivera Flavia was the third member of Kullvar who won the Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy Award. Prior to her, Lancy Pinto Nayak Kulshekar and Stanro Ajekar were honored.
The organizer of the event Mr. Prashant Ferrao gave vote of thanks. Shaan Bondel compered the seminar. Mr. Kevin D'Mello Karkal and other senior writers such as M/s. Gibba Kulshekar and Benna Fajir were also present on the occasion.
It was a remarkable day in Konkani Literature here in Kuwait as more than forty participants participated in this event including some new comers and two Goan Writers. The day began with the registration of participants followed by breakfast. The workshop was divided into three sessions.
The first session began with Lancy Pinto Nayak, the convener of Kullvar welcoming the crowd with enthusiasm followed by a silent prayer. He presented the importance of the workshop and requested all the participants to introduce themselves. Mr. Nayak gave detailed introduction about the new comers and the Goan participants before handing over to Shaan Bondel to conduct proceedings of the day.
The workshop began with the lighting of a lamp by Lacy Pinto Nayak (Convener), Janet Almeida (Ghurkarnn), Shaan Bondel (PRO) and Dolphy Cascia. Shaan gave a brief introduction of Dolphy Cascia. In his introduction, he said, this is a memorable day to have Mr. Cascia with us, as we will have an opportunity to learn more than we know about short stories and he is highly known for it. He recalled Cascia's contribution to Konkani as a writer (46 novels, 35 dramas and more than 300 short stories) and said, it was a Konkani Record that, his ‘Dee Mhaka Bhogsannem' drama had recorded 148 shows and there was no other Editor who had worked as an Editor for more than 25 years with three papers together (Jhelo, Mitr and Kurov).
Participants: (Sitting) M/s. Olivera Flavia, Lino, Lawrence Pinto, Dolphy Cascia, Veronica Fernandes, Janet Almeida, (standing - first row) Reyan Lobo, Precilla, Pashant Ferrao, Christine Pinto, Ida D’silva, Clara Fernandes, Ivan Almeida (second row) Lancy Pinto Nayak, Ronald D’souza, Benna Fajir, Thomas Lobo, J. D. S. Navunda, Austin Brahmavar, Gibba Kulshekar, Vinay Lewis, Alexander Fernandes, Vincent Barboza, Faustine Pinto, L. J. Brahmavar and shaan bondelMr. Cascia shared his knowledge in Konkani Literature, especially in Short Stories as a writer and an editor. He gave basic introduction on Konkani literature to the new Writers and spoke on the fundamentals of Short Stories. Mr Cascia speaking on different stages of writing a Short Story said that any story would begin with a plot of the story (vost), followed by beginning of the story (survat), flow of the story (vhallo), and finally, ending the story (anthy). He spoke continuously for more than two hours in the morning session including the Short Stories Title(naamv). By the end of first session he presented his views about the activities to be done by a writer with an editor of the newspaper and he explained the responsibilities of a writer with any editor. He highlighted the importance of maintaining a good relationship between a writer and an editor to the growth of Konkani.
Recalling his experience as an editor he said that he nurtured many new writers under his guidance who have become well known writers today.
The first session was followed by a lunch catered by Mr Jossie of M&M confectionary. Mr. Ivan Almeida and friends presented some melodious Konkani Songs and entertained the participants during the lunch break. M/s. Vinay Lewis, Vincent Barboza and Vrinda Lewis added their voices. Austin Brahmavar arranged the music. After the lunch, Ivan continued the fun by conducting the games organized by Prashant Ferrao and Janet Almeida.
This was followed by Shaan Bondel presenting the Humorous Poetry Session. M/s. Austin Brahmavar, Olivera Flavia Trasi, J. D. S. Navunda, Ida D'Silva Paladka, Silvan D'Almeida, L. J. Brahmavar, Faustine Pinto Ghantalkatte, Lancy Pinto Nayak and Shaan bondel presented their poems and entertained the crowd. Two poems from Mr. Lino (Goan Poet) especially attracted the participants as well as Lancy's 'ticho ani tacho' and Shaan's 'vecho kaall' received showers of claps.
Mr Dolphy Cascia continued to anchor the rest of second session in which he reviewed the book 'Kullvarchem Dirvem' written by various writers of Konkani Kullvar, published by Konkani Kullvar Kuwait in year 2007, edited by Shaan Bondel and dedicated to Late Johny Suratkal. In his review, he appreciated the great work of Kullvar by publishing the book like Kullvarchem Dirvem, which included 13 high quality short stories, 5 poems, one article on Johny Suratkal, poems on Johny Suratkal, and a editorial. He congratulated the Kullvar Members for their efforts towards the Book and requested to publish more books in future. He however though felt the absence of humorous articles. He also congratulated the Editor of this book Shaan Bondel. Mr Cascia remembered late Johny Suratkal and his association with him. Mrs. Ida D'Silva recalled that, this day was also Johny's birthday and it was really a very big coincident and surprise for the participants.
The final session of the day was felicitation. Mr. Veronica Fernandes (a wellknown Goan Journalist who attended the workshop from morning session) presented a memento to Dolphy Cascia. Mrs. Janet Almeida presented a brief introduction of Dolphy Cascia and Mr. Nayak introduced Mr. Veronica Fernandes respectively. Mr. Lino (Goan Poet) also accompanied Mr. Veronica Fernandes to greet Mr. Cascia.
Mr. Lawrence Pinto (widely known as Loryaab in Kuwait) felicitated Mrs. Olivera Flavia, Trasi, the winner of ‘Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy Special Award 2007' for her book 'sukha-dukhachim don panam punn mogachim'. She is also an active member of Kullvar. Mrs. Janet Almeida presented her achievements in Konkani and Mr. Nayak gave a short introduction of Mr. Lawrence Pinto. Olivea Flavia thanked Mr. Lawrence Pinto and Kullvar. Shaan on this occasion said that it was a happiest moment for the Kullvar as Olivera Flavia was the third member of Kullvar who won the Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy Award. Prior to her, Lancy Pinto Nayak Kulshekar and Stanro Ajekar were honored.
The organizer of the event Mr. Prashant Ferrao gave vote of thanks. Shaan Bondel compered the seminar. Mr. Kevin D'Mello Karkal and other senior writers such as M/s. Gibba Kulshekar and Benna Fajir were also present on the occasion.
-News foward by Lancy Nayak lancynayak@yahoo.com
Roseferns' Tiatr "MAIM TUZO UPKARI HANV"
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Roseferns' Tiatr "MAIM TUZO UPKARI HANV"
Once again ROSEFERNS will be back in Kuwait with his hit Konkani tiatr "MAIM TUZO UPKARI HANV" with his full cast. The tiatr is scheduled to be held on Friday, 4th April 2008, at the Hawalli A.C. Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. and presented by Jolly Boys of Benaulim-Kuwait. A tiatr with a touching story of love and sacrifice, the bitter truth, with enjoyable comedy and superb fine acting under the direction of the King of Centuries, Roseferns.
The review of "MAIM TUZO UPKARI HANV" in the Goan English newspaper 'The Navhind Times' goes thus "The play entertains to capture the attention of the viewer with a good script that has many surprises and fine display of emotions".
Once again ROSEFERNS will be back in Kuwait with his hit Konkani tiatr "MAIM TUZO UPKARI HANV" with his full cast. The tiatr is scheduled to be held on Friday, 4th April 2008, at the Hawalli A.C. Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. and presented by Jolly Boys of Benaulim-Kuwait. A tiatr with a touching story of love and sacrifice, the bitter truth, with enjoyable comedy and superb fine acting under the direction of the King of Centuries, Roseferns.
The review of "MAIM TUZO UPKARI HANV" in the Goan English newspaper 'The Navhind Times' goes thus "The play entertains to capture the attention of the viewer with a good script that has many surprises and fine display of emotions".
Konkani tiatr lovers watch out for the next media announcement or email: jollyboysofbenaulim@gmail.com or contact Aseno Ferns 9420352 or Benny Vaz 6533229 or Raja Stores Tel; 2412970 or keep following up on the our blog http://maimtuzoupkarihanv.blogspot.com/
February 26, 2008
PANJIM POLICE DISGRACED GOA.
PANJIM POLICE DISGRACED GOA.
Last week’s ugly incidents in Goa first at Panjim Police Station then at Taleigao at the residence of local MLA Babush Monsurate and later on at Miramar at Babush’s bungalow make me to put my head down in shame. Storming of a Police Station is not a matter of minor concern especially the Police Station of Capital city of Goa. Allowing the people to storm the Police Headquarter in Panjim by the Police personnel is a big shame for the entire Police force of Goa. This shows the efficiency of the Police in Goa to control the mob fury. These Goa policemen are good to give “talao” to “Buskar” and “Moddkekar”. Allowing of storming of the Panjim Police Station by the mob or a group of Goans without the help of arms such as guns, revolvers and hand bombs is a shame for Police at Panjim Police Station. This shows the inefficiency of the Goa Police to rise to the occasion when situation demands them to act adroitly without creating an ugly scene. What would be the fate of Panjim Police Station, its Police personnel and all the civilians working there if the crowd carried small bombs with them clandestinely and detonated inside? Is it difficult now-a-days to conduct such operations in Goa due to the advanced stage of Goans in handling arms and ammunitions clandestinely? Guns are now-a-days carried not only by the ordinary people as given to understand but also by the top officials including ministers. Was it not the same mode used to kill Siddartha Bandodkar? Who killed Jr. Bandodkar? Was it not from the revolver of the VIP in VIP residence?
While strongly condemning the brutality of Panjim Police on unarmed Monsurate family especially on Babush’s wife Jennifer and their young son, I express my deep concern for the peaceful Goa. There are different versions from different sources of media and people. People in Kuwait whom I spoke and met felt disheartened over the brutality of Panjim Police. All the Taleigao citizens working in Kuwait even females with whom I discussed this topic are fully supporting Monsurate and his action of taking side of Rayan who was mercilessly beaten by some goons while police remained passive. The job of Police is to protect the life of a citizen and not to put him into the deep sea for the Sharks to devour. This is the quality of the Goa Police in particular and Indian Police force in general. What a shame it is to have such impotent and crook police force in Goa after the forcible exit of Portuguese from Goa!! After the exit of Portuguese from Goa, the law and order protectors are become violators of law and order. With this act, the position of Babush in Taleigao is further fortified. With this unruly act of Goa police from Panjim headquarter Babush is become like a martyr for the people of Goa including from Kuwait.
According to one version of Panjim Police, the people who came to ask justice with the police at Panjim Police Station pelted stones at Police Station. Did Monsurate take part in this stone pelting? He was leading in front visible to the Police. He logically was not pelting stones. Why then was it necessary for Police to assault him mercilessly and that too when he was having the privilege of MLAship? Detaining him for security reason would be o.k., but surely not assaulting him to the extent of bruising his body and getting admitted into the hospital? This shows the extent of the beatings he received. And what guaranty is there that those who pelted the stones and created rowdism were not the hired goons of the opponents of Babush? Where are all the 39 MLA’s from Goa and why they are silent over this issue? Today it is Babush but tomorrow it can be any other MLA. If Police can do such a brutality against Babush then what about an ordinary citizen? If with the instigation of Narvenkar as alleged by Babush, the Panjim Police can take law into their own hands and mercilessly beat MLA and former Minister Babush then with this type of modus operandi Goa Police can even kill an ordinary citizen of Goa and yet can get away scott free. Though Babush Monsurate is not known to me personally yet I fully support him in his fight for justice. There must be some stern action against Police who acted so irresponsibly and so beastly.
Worst still was the brutality of Panjim Police in assaulting Mrs. Babush and their young son. What is wrong in mother going to Panjim Police Station and enquiring about her son? Are we still in Salazar’s Raj in Goa? No, I don’t think even in Salazar Raj we in Goa faced such a brutality. Not even fearsome Agente Monteiro of Portuguese era did dare to act so violently against women of Goa. Once, at Mapusa Police Station somewhere in 1958 for some genuine reason to get proper confession from a Goan woman, Agente Monteiro beat her with teacher’s type of Ruler on her open palm. When that Goan woman informed the higher authority thru proper channel, Agente Monteiro was severely castigated and even made to apologise to that Goan woman otherwise not only suspension order but sack order was prepared against Agente Monteiro. Portuguese law was very careful while dealing with females and Portuguese Government and Portuguese officials were very cautious when dealing with women in the Police custody. They respected women for their motherhood and sisterhood even though they may be guilty but they did not act with women like “Ghantti” barbarians or IPS deputationists dogs deputed from Delhi, to quote the late Dr. Jack de Sequeira.
Today’s many of the Police are brutes and rascals. Something has to be done to cure them and to civilize them. Panjim Police according to reports not only mercilessly assaulted Jennifer Monsurate but gave her worst and dirty bad words. This is unparliamentary and uncivilized. The Women Protection Associations in Goa must take up this issue seriously with the authorities concerned and they must also hold meetings all over Goa to highlight the plight of innocent women in the hands of brute Police of Goa at Panjim Police Station. Besides this, how Police can beat a young boy so severely? What was his fault? Was it wrong to be the son of his father Babush? And why did the Panjim Police assault Mayor of Panjim, Mr. Tony? Was there anything wrong on his part if he went to enquire about Babush? And beating the first citizen of Panjim to the extent to send him to hospital for severe injuries treatment is like committing genocide on Bengalis by the Pakistani Army in the then East Pakistan. Gen. Yaha Khanism and Hitlerism practiced by Goa Police in Goa must come to an end forthwith. Babush must work for it from the Assembly.
Worst crime of Panjim Police was going to Taleigao and storming the house of Babush Monsurate and also to Miramar to desecrate the bungalow of Babush. Is it the way to act in the manner of tit for tat? Is it right on Police to vandalise the house and bungalow of MLA Babush? Who authorized Panjim Police to take law into their own hands and ransack Babush properties like the way rogues, thieves and goondas do? Are Panjim Police personnel goons receiving instruction from their goons superiors? And by the way, who are these top police officers giving such illegal and uncivilized orders to their juniors to act recklessly? Is Goa in the hands of goonda police? Then we don’t want such police force and their superiors in Goa anymore. We want Police force that protects the life of ordinary citizens. Punishment to the wrong doers is in the hands of judiciary to mete out and not in the hands of uncultured and indisciplined Goa Police from Panjim.
Babush Monsurate may be bad in some other aspects but in this particular aspect he was not bad and as such he deserves support otherwise Police in Goa will re-introduce Salarzarshahi of the type even during the regime of Salazar never happened in Goa. We wanted freedom for Goa, for what? To give Police force unlimited powers to deal with Goans irresponsibly the way Agente Monteiro did in Portugese time? Where are the freedom fighters gone now and why they are silent? I think they are happy with their Tamrapatras and pensions they are getting, the rest go to hell. Babush Monsurate and all his supporters must not sleep until all the Policemen and their bosses are brought to justice. Babush and his followers which must have by now increased due to sympathy wave hold demonstrations in front of the houses of all the Policemen who were involved in this brutality. Babush and his supporters must gherao all the policemen individually and demand from them real explanation for their brute action. Babush and his followers must track every Panjim Policeman individually and tell him that what he did was wrong. Even the children and wives of the policemen involved in this brutality should not be spared, they must be put into shame. And mind you, all these policemen and police officers will not wear their uniforms round the clock, round the week, round the month and round the year. Question them when they are in civilian dress.
At Calangute Beach once about 35 years back one Police Inspector in civilian clothes while seated on the silver sands along with his newly wedded wife was similarly questioned of course aggressively with dire consequences by one local who was unnecessarily earlier assaulted by that Inspector at Calangute Police Station. The local asked that inspector thus “You assaulted me in the lock up with the power of your police uniform, revolver and lathi. Can you do that now? Shall I show you now my power and strength? The local wanted to assault the Inspector and break his bones but his wife and he shamelessly pleaded with folded hands with that local. And thanked God, the local kept quiet without doing any harm. But the Police Inspector promised never to repeat his nasty action again.
Babush and his followers must show Goa Police especially stationed at Panaji that they cannot rely on their Stars and Stripes always. These decorations are momentry show. Hence, they must act maturely. Police cannot accept any orders from their bosses. Jeprakash Narain asked Police force in India not to accept any wrong orders from Indira Gandhi’s Police Officers. He said morality must take precedence over everything. While Indira Gandhi when out of power, she told the Police Force in Delhi to reject the orders of Morarji Desai’s Police Officers. While these two top Indian leaders gave a call to Police force to reject unlawful orders of their bosses then why Goa police force accept unlawful orders from their bosses in Panjim? Though Goa Police give lot of statements in support of their actions and even saying their own members were hurt by the mob but from my past experience I don’t believe in anything that Goa police states because they are liars as per their history. Take for example, when the first Konkani martyr Floriano was shot dead by Goa Police force, they gave a statement that Floriano first came rushing to Police Hawaldar to snatch a revolver from him. It was a pure lie. In view of this, I don’t believe what Goa Police states against Monsurates, their supporters and Mayor Tony even though there may be some truth but even then I don’t believe the version of Goa Police. Goa police are goondas, fakers and liars. Only the impartial judicial enquiry will unfold the real truth and to get the real truth, on behalf of all my like minded Kuwaitkar friends and colleagues I demand judicial enquiry.
While concluding and while condemning the attack on Monsurates I tell Babush to be careful in life. Babush should not cross his boundary of good discipline. I am sure he never expected such a brutal attack on him because he thought too much of himself. Money power and goonda power finally went to the dogs. Nature has its own laws to punish every wrong doer. From here Babush must learn a very good lesson. In his hour of suffering and discomfort we are with Monsurates but Babush must try to bring about a change in him for the good and then only he will receive support from good people who expect good ways from him for the good of Goa and Goans. In the past by his dirty political games for his selfish ends Babush has done lot of damages for Goa and Goan causes. Now he must change otherwise the fury of nature and its strict laws will devour him permanently. In the words of Amitab Bacchan, "there is a supernatural power that guides and protect us. We must pay obeysance to it".
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
Last week’s ugly incidents in Goa first at Panjim Police Station then at Taleigao at the residence of local MLA Babush Monsurate and later on at Miramar at Babush’s bungalow make me to put my head down in shame. Storming of a Police Station is not a matter of minor concern especially the Police Station of Capital city of Goa. Allowing the people to storm the Police Headquarter in Panjim by the Police personnel is a big shame for the entire Police force of Goa. This shows the efficiency of the Police in Goa to control the mob fury. These Goa policemen are good to give “talao” to “Buskar” and “Moddkekar”. Allowing of storming of the Panjim Police Station by the mob or a group of Goans without the help of arms such as guns, revolvers and hand bombs is a shame for Police at Panjim Police Station. This shows the inefficiency of the Goa Police to rise to the occasion when situation demands them to act adroitly without creating an ugly scene. What would be the fate of Panjim Police Station, its Police personnel and all the civilians working there if the crowd carried small bombs with them clandestinely and detonated inside? Is it difficult now-a-days to conduct such operations in Goa due to the advanced stage of Goans in handling arms and ammunitions clandestinely? Guns are now-a-days carried not only by the ordinary people as given to understand but also by the top officials including ministers. Was it not the same mode used to kill Siddartha Bandodkar? Who killed Jr. Bandodkar? Was it not from the revolver of the VIP in VIP residence?
While strongly condemning the brutality of Panjim Police on unarmed Monsurate family especially on Babush’s wife Jennifer and their young son, I express my deep concern for the peaceful Goa. There are different versions from different sources of media and people. People in Kuwait whom I spoke and met felt disheartened over the brutality of Panjim Police. All the Taleigao citizens working in Kuwait even females with whom I discussed this topic are fully supporting Monsurate and his action of taking side of Rayan who was mercilessly beaten by some goons while police remained passive. The job of Police is to protect the life of a citizen and not to put him into the deep sea for the Sharks to devour. This is the quality of the Goa Police in particular and Indian Police force in general. What a shame it is to have such impotent and crook police force in Goa after the forcible exit of Portuguese from Goa!! After the exit of Portuguese from Goa, the law and order protectors are become violators of law and order. With this act, the position of Babush in Taleigao is further fortified. With this unruly act of Goa police from Panjim headquarter Babush is become like a martyr for the people of Goa including from Kuwait.
According to one version of Panjim Police, the people who came to ask justice with the police at Panjim Police Station pelted stones at Police Station. Did Monsurate take part in this stone pelting? He was leading in front visible to the Police. He logically was not pelting stones. Why then was it necessary for Police to assault him mercilessly and that too when he was having the privilege of MLAship? Detaining him for security reason would be o.k., but surely not assaulting him to the extent of bruising his body and getting admitted into the hospital? This shows the extent of the beatings he received. And what guaranty is there that those who pelted the stones and created rowdism were not the hired goons of the opponents of Babush? Where are all the 39 MLA’s from Goa and why they are silent over this issue? Today it is Babush but tomorrow it can be any other MLA. If Police can do such a brutality against Babush then what about an ordinary citizen? If with the instigation of Narvenkar as alleged by Babush, the Panjim Police can take law into their own hands and mercilessly beat MLA and former Minister Babush then with this type of modus operandi Goa Police can even kill an ordinary citizen of Goa and yet can get away scott free. Though Babush Monsurate is not known to me personally yet I fully support him in his fight for justice. There must be some stern action against Police who acted so irresponsibly and so beastly.
Worst still was the brutality of Panjim Police in assaulting Mrs. Babush and their young son. What is wrong in mother going to Panjim Police Station and enquiring about her son? Are we still in Salazar’s Raj in Goa? No, I don’t think even in Salazar Raj we in Goa faced such a brutality. Not even fearsome Agente Monteiro of Portuguese era did dare to act so violently against women of Goa. Once, at Mapusa Police Station somewhere in 1958 for some genuine reason to get proper confession from a Goan woman, Agente Monteiro beat her with teacher’s type of Ruler on her open palm. When that Goan woman informed the higher authority thru proper channel, Agente Monteiro was severely castigated and even made to apologise to that Goan woman otherwise not only suspension order but sack order was prepared against Agente Monteiro. Portuguese law was very careful while dealing with females and Portuguese Government and Portuguese officials were very cautious when dealing with women in the Police custody. They respected women for their motherhood and sisterhood even though they may be guilty but they did not act with women like “Ghantti” barbarians or IPS deputationists dogs deputed from Delhi, to quote the late Dr. Jack de Sequeira.
Today’s many of the Police are brutes and rascals. Something has to be done to cure them and to civilize them. Panjim Police according to reports not only mercilessly assaulted Jennifer Monsurate but gave her worst and dirty bad words. This is unparliamentary and uncivilized. The Women Protection Associations in Goa must take up this issue seriously with the authorities concerned and they must also hold meetings all over Goa to highlight the plight of innocent women in the hands of brute Police of Goa at Panjim Police Station. Besides this, how Police can beat a young boy so severely? What was his fault? Was it wrong to be the son of his father Babush? And why did the Panjim Police assault Mayor of Panjim, Mr. Tony? Was there anything wrong on his part if he went to enquire about Babush? And beating the first citizen of Panjim to the extent to send him to hospital for severe injuries treatment is like committing genocide on Bengalis by the Pakistani Army in the then East Pakistan. Gen. Yaha Khanism and Hitlerism practiced by Goa Police in Goa must come to an end forthwith. Babush must work for it from the Assembly.
Worst crime of Panjim Police was going to Taleigao and storming the house of Babush Monsurate and also to Miramar to desecrate the bungalow of Babush. Is it the way to act in the manner of tit for tat? Is it right on Police to vandalise the house and bungalow of MLA Babush? Who authorized Panjim Police to take law into their own hands and ransack Babush properties like the way rogues, thieves and goondas do? Are Panjim Police personnel goons receiving instruction from their goons superiors? And by the way, who are these top police officers giving such illegal and uncivilized orders to their juniors to act recklessly? Is Goa in the hands of goonda police? Then we don’t want such police force and their superiors in Goa anymore. We want Police force that protects the life of ordinary citizens. Punishment to the wrong doers is in the hands of judiciary to mete out and not in the hands of uncultured and indisciplined Goa Police from Panjim.
Babush Monsurate may be bad in some other aspects but in this particular aspect he was not bad and as such he deserves support otherwise Police in Goa will re-introduce Salarzarshahi of the type even during the regime of Salazar never happened in Goa. We wanted freedom for Goa, for what? To give Police force unlimited powers to deal with Goans irresponsibly the way Agente Monteiro did in Portugese time? Where are the freedom fighters gone now and why they are silent? I think they are happy with their Tamrapatras and pensions they are getting, the rest go to hell. Babush Monsurate and all his supporters must not sleep until all the Policemen and their bosses are brought to justice. Babush and his followers which must have by now increased due to sympathy wave hold demonstrations in front of the houses of all the Policemen who were involved in this brutality. Babush and his supporters must gherao all the policemen individually and demand from them real explanation for their brute action. Babush and his followers must track every Panjim Policeman individually and tell him that what he did was wrong. Even the children and wives of the policemen involved in this brutality should not be spared, they must be put into shame. And mind you, all these policemen and police officers will not wear their uniforms round the clock, round the week, round the month and round the year. Question them when they are in civilian dress.
At Calangute Beach once about 35 years back one Police Inspector in civilian clothes while seated on the silver sands along with his newly wedded wife was similarly questioned of course aggressively with dire consequences by one local who was unnecessarily earlier assaulted by that Inspector at Calangute Police Station. The local asked that inspector thus “You assaulted me in the lock up with the power of your police uniform, revolver and lathi. Can you do that now? Shall I show you now my power and strength? The local wanted to assault the Inspector and break his bones but his wife and he shamelessly pleaded with folded hands with that local. And thanked God, the local kept quiet without doing any harm. But the Police Inspector promised never to repeat his nasty action again.
Babush and his followers must show Goa Police especially stationed at Panaji that they cannot rely on their Stars and Stripes always. These decorations are momentry show. Hence, they must act maturely. Police cannot accept any orders from their bosses. Jeprakash Narain asked Police force in India not to accept any wrong orders from Indira Gandhi’s Police Officers. He said morality must take precedence over everything. While Indira Gandhi when out of power, she told the Police Force in Delhi to reject the orders of Morarji Desai’s Police Officers. While these two top Indian leaders gave a call to Police force to reject unlawful orders of their bosses then why Goa police force accept unlawful orders from their bosses in Panjim? Though Goa Police give lot of statements in support of their actions and even saying their own members were hurt by the mob but from my past experience I don’t believe in anything that Goa police states because they are liars as per their history. Take for example, when the first Konkani martyr Floriano was shot dead by Goa Police force, they gave a statement that Floriano first came rushing to Police Hawaldar to snatch a revolver from him. It was a pure lie. In view of this, I don’t believe what Goa Police states against Monsurates, their supporters and Mayor Tony even though there may be some truth but even then I don’t believe the version of Goa Police. Goa police are goondas, fakers and liars. Only the impartial judicial enquiry will unfold the real truth and to get the real truth, on behalf of all my like minded Kuwaitkar friends and colleagues I demand judicial enquiry.
While concluding and while condemning the attack on Monsurates I tell Babush to be careful in life. Babush should not cross his boundary of good discipline. I am sure he never expected such a brutal attack on him because he thought too much of himself. Money power and goonda power finally went to the dogs. Nature has its own laws to punish every wrong doer. From here Babush must learn a very good lesson. In his hour of suffering and discomfort we are with Monsurates but Babush must try to bring about a change in him for the good and then only he will receive support from good people who expect good ways from him for the good of Goa and Goans. In the past by his dirty political games for his selfish ends Babush has done lot of damages for Goa and Goan causes. Now he must change otherwise the fury of nature and its strict laws will devour him permanently. In the words of Amitab Bacchan, "there is a supernatural power that guides and protect us. We must pay obeysance to it".
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
KONKANI MOVIE "PADRI" IN KUWAIT ON FRIDAY.
KMK Present Prince Jacob's Film "PADRI"
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YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR MANY MORE YEARS FOR THIS BIGGEST OFFER.
SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL PASSES will be available only at RAJA STORES, Kuwait City
and with the organizers during the FOOTBALL FINALS at Salmiya Ground.
SREEPADA MOVIE MAKERS & PRINCE JACOB PRODUCTION "PADRI" (The Man of Patience). The biggest movie in Konkani Cinema will premiere on 28th March 2008
at 4.00 pm, at Massra Al-Hawally Auditorium.
For your viewing pleasure the screening on wide screen with digital sound system hold your breath and get set for the biggest show of the year brought to you by Kala Mogui Kuwait, the prominent art & cultural association.
For reservation:
"PADRI" SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL OFFER:
GATE PASSES WILL BE SOLD AT HALF PRICE ONLY ON FRIDAY FRBRUARY 29, 2008.
YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR MANY MORE YEARS FOR THIS BIGGEST OFFER.
SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL PASSES will be available only at RAJA STORES, Kuwait City
and with the organizers during the FOOTBALL FINALS at Salmiya Ground.
SREEPADA MOVIE MAKERS & PRINCE JACOB PRODUCTION "PADRI" (The Man of Patience). The biggest movie in Konkani Cinema will premiere on 28th March 2008
at 4.00 pm, at Massra Al-Hawally Auditorium.
For your viewing pleasure the screening on wide screen with digital sound system hold your breath and get set for the biggest show of the year brought to you by Kala Mogui Kuwait, the prominent art & cultural association.
For reservation:
Kuwait City – Raja Stores 2412970.
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Khaitan – God's Gift Tailors 7486901.
Farwaniya - 9391452.
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Hawally - 9540232.
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Salmiya – M&M Confectionery 5619946 (Near Salmiya Church).
Khaitan – God's Gift Tailors 7486901.
Farwaniya - 9391452.
Abbasiya – 9106617.
Hawally - 9540232.
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February 24, 2008
GREAT WORLD SOCCER PLAYER
GREAT WORLD SOCCER PLAYER.
One of the greatest soccer players of this planet was Alfredo Di Stefano from Argentina. He shot into limelight while playing for Argentinean outfit River Plate. As many of the Argentineans made their careers in Spain by playing for Spanish giants, so too Di Stefano came to Spain and joined Spanish topmost club Real Madrid. Maradona also played in Spain for a top club from where he was recruited by Napoli of Italy. According to soccer experts and commentators of yesteryears, Alfredo Di Stefano stands much taller than the great Pele and great Maradona but the only bad luck of him was that during the time of Di Stefano the TV coverage was not as exhaustive as during the time of Pele and Maradona. The fame of Di Stefano due to lack of wider media coverage concentrated only in certain pockets of the world. Besides, during the peak form of Di Stefano world soccer was not as wider as it is now or during the time of Pele and Maradona. Lack of wider publicity, lack of wider media coverage and lack wider playing facilities very much hampered the fame of Di Stefano. Otherwise he should have been selected as the best soccer player of the last century instead of Pele and Maradona.
Alfredo Di Stefano played number of years for Real Madrid. I have seen very few pictures of his on video and read a lot about him in soccer books and soccer magazines. Much of my assessment on him I made by reading, since 1975, in the renowned monthly world magazine “World Soccer” where some of the top journalists who saw him in action during his days described him as better than Pele and Maradona too. He was a very good dribbler and a very good reader of the game. Like Pele and unlike Maradona, Di Stefano was a perfect player and could easily use both his legs with equal ease and of course play a major role in the aerial duels as well, again of course unlike Maradona. As a matter of fact Maradona was a great no doubt but he was not a perfect footballer because he was one legged player and weak in the aerial duels. In his pursuit in exhibiting excellent soccer Di Stefano was ably supported by his equally great colleague in Real Madrid named Ferenz Puskas a Hungarian World Cupper. Puskas according to the same journalists and commentators was also as good as Di Stefano and in view of this those commentators and journalists comparing them with Pele said that Pele comes third in rank though it is difficult for many of us to accept this suggestion because many of us have not witnessed all three during their peak form to compare them. But those who saw all three of them during their peak form and after comparing them with each other they gave this assessment.
Alfredo Di Stefano and Puskas played together for Real Madrid and won for their clubs number of championships. Their duo was the greatest duo ever played together anytime anywhere in the world. They both together would win the match against any top club in the world during those days. Puskas had atomic power in his left foot. I say atomic power because I saw some of his pictures even in the world cup where he terrified the world. When both of them playing for Real Madrid they were exchanging their views thru air waves without even seeing and noticing each other. One could easily see the other following him behind even without turning his head back and thus leave the ball for the other and run the other side taking with him the defenders thereby making fools of the defenders. Pele sometimes used to do such fakings. They could pass the ball to each other even without seeing each other and yet one would get the pass from the other. Their combination and coordination, long range power packed shots and powerful heading was creating fear into the minds and hearts of the topmost defenders of those days. Between two of them, they were scoring 4 – 5 goals per match thereby tearing their opponents into pieces. Alfredo Di Stefano was using his brain power more than foot power. He is still revered in Spain and in Europe. Spain was his second home and finally in appreciation of his tremendous contribution for the promotion and development of Spanish soccer he was even conferred with Spanish citizenship. Not only topmost retired soccer players of the world but even the current ones adore him as a great soccer personality and soccer celebrity. He is really a soccer “pundit”. So much so, even FIFA gives him due credit for his excellence on the soccer field.
On 16th of this month, the 81 year old Alfredo Di Stefano was honoured in Spain at Barnabeau Stadium by UEFA president by presenting him with a special trophy. The UEFA president and former French aristocrat player Michael Platini while presenting the trophy rightly described Di Stefano as “a great among greats”. In Spain and in other parts of Europe and in South America they respect and adore their yesteryear stars even by erecting the monuments of their once beloved players. The same thing they did in honour of Di Stefano by erecting his statue at Real Madrid’s training centre. Alfredo Di Stefano was named twice European Footballer of the year in 1957 and 1959. As a human being he was a very humble, even in victories and scoring goals he was not showy in his attitudes. Also, he was shy of receiving honours and as a proof of this while receiving the honouring trophy from Platini, he said “I don’t deserve all this”.
Europe and South America produce great soccer wizards. In both these continents people adore their stars not only during their peak form but also in their retirements and in old age. Do we in Goa emulate their examples? Or do we leave our yesteryear stars uncared and unattended to their old age woes? What is the fate of many of our yesteryear stars? Are they happy in their old age life or do they regret and cry because they are neglected not only by the society that once adored them but even by their own families for embracing soccer and in the bargain turning out to be paupers? Where are our yesteryear footballers like great Vassu Raiturkar, Menino Figueredo, Benzinho, Candu Abreu, Papa, Bernardo, Andrew, Domnick, Catao, Keshav and many others? Are they comfortable in their retired and old age life? Do they need any assistance? If yes, did the authorities concerned and also people concerned take interest in them? Do GFA shows its concern to the plight of many of them? Did society perform its duty towards their old age needs? Did any of the persons who earlier applauded and kissed their feet bother to take note of their woes if they have? Why not a single of them was given an opportunity to inaugurate and kick off the major tournaments and matches in Goa instead of showering this honour on Montirs and MLA’s whose contribution in the development of our soccer is minus zero?
When Bandodkar was ruling Goa he showed lot of personal interest in footballers. When first time Bandodkar Gold Cup was held in Goa, its inaugural match was kicked off by once great player Aboo who along with Bandodkar decorated the inaugural match of this once prestigious tournament. That honour was given to great Aboo because Bandodkar had seen greatness of Aboo during Aboo’s hey days. And as per elders, Goa is yet to produce another Aboo who played soccer not for money but for its sheer pleasure.
Goan society and Goan soccer lovers must ponder over what I wrote.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
One of the greatest soccer players of this planet was Alfredo Di Stefano from Argentina. He shot into limelight while playing for Argentinean outfit River Plate. As many of the Argentineans made their careers in Spain by playing for Spanish giants, so too Di Stefano came to Spain and joined Spanish topmost club Real Madrid. Maradona also played in Spain for a top club from where he was recruited by Napoli of Italy. According to soccer experts and commentators of yesteryears, Alfredo Di Stefano stands much taller than the great Pele and great Maradona but the only bad luck of him was that during the time of Di Stefano the TV coverage was not as exhaustive as during the time of Pele and Maradona. The fame of Di Stefano due to lack of wider media coverage concentrated only in certain pockets of the world. Besides, during the peak form of Di Stefano world soccer was not as wider as it is now or during the time of Pele and Maradona. Lack of wider publicity, lack of wider media coverage and lack wider playing facilities very much hampered the fame of Di Stefano. Otherwise he should have been selected as the best soccer player of the last century instead of Pele and Maradona.
Alfredo Di Stefano played number of years for Real Madrid. I have seen very few pictures of his on video and read a lot about him in soccer books and soccer magazines. Much of my assessment on him I made by reading, since 1975, in the renowned monthly world magazine “World Soccer” where some of the top journalists who saw him in action during his days described him as better than Pele and Maradona too. He was a very good dribbler and a very good reader of the game. Like Pele and unlike Maradona, Di Stefano was a perfect player and could easily use both his legs with equal ease and of course play a major role in the aerial duels as well, again of course unlike Maradona. As a matter of fact Maradona was a great no doubt but he was not a perfect footballer because he was one legged player and weak in the aerial duels. In his pursuit in exhibiting excellent soccer Di Stefano was ably supported by his equally great colleague in Real Madrid named Ferenz Puskas a Hungarian World Cupper. Puskas according to the same journalists and commentators was also as good as Di Stefano and in view of this those commentators and journalists comparing them with Pele said that Pele comes third in rank though it is difficult for many of us to accept this suggestion because many of us have not witnessed all three during their peak form to compare them. But those who saw all three of them during their peak form and after comparing them with each other they gave this assessment.
Alfredo Di Stefano and Puskas played together for Real Madrid and won for their clubs number of championships. Their duo was the greatest duo ever played together anytime anywhere in the world. They both together would win the match against any top club in the world during those days. Puskas had atomic power in his left foot. I say atomic power because I saw some of his pictures even in the world cup where he terrified the world. When both of them playing for Real Madrid they were exchanging their views thru air waves without even seeing and noticing each other. One could easily see the other following him behind even without turning his head back and thus leave the ball for the other and run the other side taking with him the defenders thereby making fools of the defenders. Pele sometimes used to do such fakings. They could pass the ball to each other even without seeing each other and yet one would get the pass from the other. Their combination and coordination, long range power packed shots and powerful heading was creating fear into the minds and hearts of the topmost defenders of those days. Between two of them, they were scoring 4 – 5 goals per match thereby tearing their opponents into pieces. Alfredo Di Stefano was using his brain power more than foot power. He is still revered in Spain and in Europe. Spain was his second home and finally in appreciation of his tremendous contribution for the promotion and development of Spanish soccer he was even conferred with Spanish citizenship. Not only topmost retired soccer players of the world but even the current ones adore him as a great soccer personality and soccer celebrity. He is really a soccer “pundit”. So much so, even FIFA gives him due credit for his excellence on the soccer field.
On 16th of this month, the 81 year old Alfredo Di Stefano was honoured in Spain at Barnabeau Stadium by UEFA president by presenting him with a special trophy. The UEFA president and former French aristocrat player Michael Platini while presenting the trophy rightly described Di Stefano as “a great among greats”. In Spain and in other parts of Europe and in South America they respect and adore their yesteryear stars even by erecting the monuments of their once beloved players. The same thing they did in honour of Di Stefano by erecting his statue at Real Madrid’s training centre. Alfredo Di Stefano was named twice European Footballer of the year in 1957 and 1959. As a human being he was a very humble, even in victories and scoring goals he was not showy in his attitudes. Also, he was shy of receiving honours and as a proof of this while receiving the honouring trophy from Platini, he said “I don’t deserve all this”.
Europe and South America produce great soccer wizards. In both these continents people adore their stars not only during their peak form but also in their retirements and in old age. Do we in Goa emulate their examples? Or do we leave our yesteryear stars uncared and unattended to their old age woes? What is the fate of many of our yesteryear stars? Are they happy in their old age life or do they regret and cry because they are neglected not only by the society that once adored them but even by their own families for embracing soccer and in the bargain turning out to be paupers? Where are our yesteryear footballers like great Vassu Raiturkar, Menino Figueredo, Benzinho, Candu Abreu, Papa, Bernardo, Andrew, Domnick, Catao, Keshav and many others? Are they comfortable in their retired and old age life? Do they need any assistance? If yes, did the authorities concerned and also people concerned take interest in them? Do GFA shows its concern to the plight of many of them? Did society perform its duty towards their old age needs? Did any of the persons who earlier applauded and kissed their feet bother to take note of their woes if they have? Why not a single of them was given an opportunity to inaugurate and kick off the major tournaments and matches in Goa instead of showering this honour on Montirs and MLA’s whose contribution in the development of our soccer is minus zero?
When Bandodkar was ruling Goa he showed lot of personal interest in footballers. When first time Bandodkar Gold Cup was held in Goa, its inaugural match was kicked off by once great player Aboo who along with Bandodkar decorated the inaugural match of this once prestigious tournament. That honour was given to great Aboo because Bandodkar had seen greatness of Aboo during Aboo’s hey days. And as per elders, Goa is yet to produce another Aboo who played soccer not for money but for its sheer pleasure.
Goan society and Goan soccer lovers must ponder over what I wrote.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
February 23, 2008
"GOAN FOOD PRODUCT ON SALE IN KUWAIT"
--Costaz "BEBINCA" The Goan especiality--
Goans are creating dent in many fields except business in Kuwait. Earlier, D'Souza Brothers, Avertano Furtado, Monteiro were big businessmen in Kuwait. But currently I dont see Goans doing business in Kuwait though they involve deeply in many other activities. Many Mangaloreans especially Konkani Mangaloreans are are doing extremely well in business in Kuwait but not our Konkani Goans.Recently I came accross one young Goan entrepeneur who has shown lot of encourgagement in this filed. Though small in magnitude yet he has already taken a bold step in marketing in Kuwait the most popular sweet from Goa known as "BEBINCA". He made it avallble this Goan tasty product at City Centre outlets in Salmiya and Shuwaikh.
One can also get it directly from the young entrepreneur by contacting him on his email francisco.mendes@lawrencemorgan.com .
On behalf of goa.kranti and on behalf of myself, I welcome Bebinca to Kuwait and request all Goans to support this young entrepreneur in his endeavours in promoting Goan food products in Kuwait.
Speaking to me, the young entrepreneur disclosed to me his future plans of introducing more and more food products from Goa, if Bebinca sells well thru the support of Goans.
Let us all support this proposal to promote Goa thru Goan food.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
Month's Mind
A Holy Mass will be held at the Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait City on Tuesday 26th February 2008 06.30pm for the soul of Luis Crasto – beloved husband of Matilda Crasto, Father/father-in-law of John/Theresa, Anthony/Basilia (ABC Tailors – Navelim), Camilo/Gracy, Tessy/Norman (Kuwait), Jessy/Elias, and loving grandfather of Lincoln, Merlin, Vanessa, Viffney, Matalie, Mitchelle, Nicole, Marissa, Kristie who expired on 24th January 2008 at Aquem-Baixo, Navelim.The mass is offered by his sorrowful son John Crasto, and daughter Tessy Noronha & family (Kuwait).
Relatives and friends kindly accept this as the only intimation.
February 21, 2008
RE: AMKAM ZAI FOKOT NACHONK.
"AMKAM ZAI FOKOT NACHONK.":
Dear Veronica,
Yes you are right as far as the motives of dancing attitudes and happening right under the nose of parents when they accompanying them to shows and other public shows. And to correct this phrase education does start at home rather than in schools !!!! Or " pirmeira obrigaccao depois devoccao".
This should be taken as an eye opener to all the underage boys and girls too, when they should not think like a free as a bird - that too has a home to live in with morals and ethics more so.
So let us take whatever we can absorb from this erroneous attitude we might be presenting which others see and distracts, and hope to come on right track of behaviour to respect parents as our guardians all the times. Good luck boys and girls let us at least behave whenever out in public and forget about keymorals scene!!!! in private.
CTGomes
Dear Veronica,
Yes you are right as far as the motives of dancing attitudes and happening right under the nose of parents when they accompanying them to shows and other public shows. And to correct this phrase education does start at home rather than in schools !!!! Or " pirmeira obrigaccao depois devoccao".
This should be taken as an eye opener to all the underage boys and girls too, when they should not think like a free as a bird - that too has a home to live in with morals and ethics more so.
So let us take whatever we can absorb from this erroneous attitude we might be presenting which others see and distracts, and hope to come on right track of behaviour to respect parents as our guardians all the times. Good luck boys and girls let us at least behave whenever out in public and forget about keymorals scene!!!! in private.
CTGomes
February 20, 2008
Re: AMKAM ZAI FOKOT NACHONK (CLARIFICATION)
Dear Friends,
This is response to some email being circulated in my name in the past few days. I just want to let everyone know and ascertain that this foul REPLY has NOT arisen from my email ID. My user ID is valsoncarneiro@yahoo.com.
Impersonating someone else with these kind of filthy messages and exploiting the respect of individuals and reputed organizations is an act of cowardice, and absolutely inhuman. FORWARDING such emails not knowing from where they have originated and without knowing the authenticity of the SENDER is nothing less than fanaticism. I am ashamed to say that some of Kuwait’s well-informed and renowned persons are involved in forwarding/circulating this crap.
I am sure, our Goans/friends can overcome and recognize these problems preferably through heightened awareness and improved educational treatment.
Let us use our time and talent for a better cause..!
Kind regards,
Mario Carneiro – Katty de Navelim
valsoncarneiro@yahoo.com
This is response to some email being circulated in my name in the past few days. I just want to let everyone know and ascertain that this foul REPLY has NOT arisen from my email ID. My user ID is valsoncarneiro@yahoo.com.
Impersonating someone else with these kind of filthy messages and exploiting the respect of individuals and reputed organizations is an act of cowardice, and absolutely inhuman. FORWARDING such emails not knowing from where they have originated and without knowing the authenticity of the SENDER is nothing less than fanaticism. I am ashamed to say that some of Kuwait’s well-informed and renowned persons are involved in forwarding/circulating this crap.
I am sure, our Goans/friends can overcome and recognize these problems preferably through heightened awareness and improved educational treatment.
Let us use our time and talent for a better cause..!
Kind regards,
Mario Carneiro – Katty de Navelim
valsoncarneiro@yahoo.com
February 18, 2008
In reply to "Amkam Zai Fokot Nachonk"
Dear Veronica,
THanks for your article. Your article is good except for few harsh words. I too always tell many of the youngsters that we Goans are only fit for dancing but intellectually we are nuts. Or else we would have flourished like anyting. See the Keralities and Mangolreans too. I used to see the Keralite children getting 99 or 100 marks when they were studying with my children in Kuwait. But we also have to remember that dancing is another form of relaxation from our busy schedule and tensions. Its how one person takes it and uses dancing as vulgarity. For me dancing is a form of relaxation.
Anyway, keep up your good work and I dont miss any of your article.Take care of yourself too.
Annie.
THanks for your article. Your article is good except for few harsh words. I too always tell many of the youngsters that we Goans are only fit for dancing but intellectually we are nuts. Or else we would have flourished like anyting. See the Keralities and Mangolreans too. I used to see the Keralite children getting 99 or 100 marks when they were studying with my children in Kuwait. But we also have to remember that dancing is another form of relaxation from our busy schedule and tensions. Its how one person takes it and uses dancing as vulgarity. For me dancing is a form of relaxation.
Anyway, keep up your good work and I dont miss any of your article.Take care of yourself too.
Annie.
Re: AMKAM ZAI FOKOT NACHONK
Hi Mr.Veronica,
The Editor was MR. ALEX FERNANDES of KUWAIT TIMES and I was the only person who took his dead body to AL AMIRI HOSPITAL leaving my wife and 2 daughers in the hall, not even informing my wife about the death of Mr.Alex. You can check with his wife if she is in Kuwait and she will tell you the truth.
About Navelichem Robonn !!!!!! A joke.
Cheers / Carmo
carmosan50@hotmail.com
The Editor was MR. ALEX FERNANDES of KUWAIT TIMES and I was the only person who took his dead body to AL AMIRI HOSPITAL leaving my wife and 2 daughers in the hall, not even informing my wife about the death of Mr.Alex. You can check with his wife if she is in Kuwait and she will tell you the truth.
About Navelichem Robonn !!!!!! A joke.
Cheers / Carmo
carmosan50@hotmail.com
February 13, 2008
AMKAM ZAI FOKOT NACHONK.
AMKAM ZAI FOKOT NACHONK.
In Kuwait we have number of our Associations. To further their activities, they regularly organize their functions in the form of Tiatro and Ballroom dancing. Tiatro and what is connected with Konkani is a part of our culture but Ballroom dancing is not, even though some depict it as a part of Goan culture. When we organize Dance we don’t care for anything. Many of our Goans promote it as if it is our life and death and thru this many of our people erroneously show ballroom dancing as a Goan way of life. Currently this item is taking precedence over everything else because it has its own physical amorous charm and monetarily good income. A few years back, during one such function in one of the city hotel’s ballroom, one prominent Goan journalist representing one of the local English dailies, while attending this function suddenly got a massive heart attack and collapsed. When he collapsed still people were busy in dancing only oblivious of what has happened below their own noses. Even the Goan organizers were least bothered to take care of the collapsed Goan journalist. None really bothered to take note of this calamity. For every one of them this was nothing because they believed in one Konkani proverb “Kunkodd Melem Funkot Gelem” because “Amkam Zai Fokot Nachonk”.
That particular journalist was a great lover of Goa and Goan causes and thru his press coverage many of our functions got publicity. And for such a man to ignore by the organizers and others is like a crime!! But we prefer such crimes because we love dancing and that too ballroom dancing because “Amkam Zai Fokot Nachonk”. Finally, with the initiative of one or two Bom Samaritans, our Goan journalist was rushed to the hospital but unfortunately for him, he was declared as dead on the way to the hospital itself. If the Goan oganisers of that function were quick enough to rush him to the hospital may be his life would have been saved. But no, because we are more interested in dancing than in saving the precious life of a Goan. And yet we call ourselves as advanced Goans. Advanced in what? In ballroom dancing? Those who are involved in organizing ballroom dancing are mostly idiotic minded Goans because in their minds there is nothing but ballroom dancing. For the good cause of Goa and Goans they don’t have power to think high. Most of them back at home are coming from hoi-polloi circle, rejected by the intellectually advanced society. In order to overcome this deficiency they involve in ballroom dancing thereby pshychologically elevating them to the westernized culture as if western culture is superior to our own great culture. They are very cheap people seeking cheap prominence.
December is the month for our people to organize more socials and more functions to mark the Christmas festivities. In last December in one of the Star Hotels, one Goan Association organized its Social comprising ballroom dancing. In order to make hay while shine shines, to make maximum profit for their show, the organisers sold entry tickets to any “altu-faltu” person including some Pakistanis and other non-Goans. Our ways are totally different from many of the other Indians and also from Pakistanis. Our ways are more open while theirs are more closed. When they see our girls dancing with men holding each other they feel our girls and females are cheap. Taking advantage of the liberal sale of tickets, these males with their closed door ways entered the ballroom and started taking advantage of our girls, some of them even started misbehaving with our females. There was fist fights also in the ballroom. Some of our females are also guilty for associating with such rowdy non-Goan young boys. Partly our females are responsible for bringing such animals in our midst for our functions because many of them are “Cheddio” and being such they like all vulgarity only.
Regarding the attitude of our “Cheddio”, some years back when Fr. Gabriel was conducting Night Vigil in the City Church, he noticed that many females not only spinsters but also married ladies used to come to the Church with the excuse of attending Night Vigil. Their husbands and fathers used to drop them for the Night Vigil near the Church at 8.00 p.m. and go home and return back to pick them up again on the next day early in the morning at 6.00 after finishing the Night Vigil. The modus operandi of these Catholic “Chedio” was like this: Once they are dropped by their husbands and male parents from their cars in front of the Church, then immediately their boyfriends mainly “katres” awaiting them near the Church only, pick them and take them to their flats and enjoy with them for the whole night. While these Catholic females enjoyed illicit sex with their “Katre” boyfriends, their husbands and parents at home thought their wives and daughters are attending the Night Vigil. No, they were not attending Night Vigil in the Church but they were attending illicit Sex Vigil somewhere else in the name of Night Vigil. When Fr. Gabriel came to know of this, he personally took interest in what was happening outside the Church. He alerted the concerned persons in the Church circle and saw to it that both the main gates of the Church are closed at 8.00 p.m. till 6.00 am on the following day. In between once you are inside the Church, you were not allowed to leave the Church. Not only this, he even covered the compound wall with curtains so that nobody could see who is inside and who is outside.
Coming back to the ballroom dancing in one of the star hotels in last December as indicated above, due to rowdism created by non-Goans there was chaos and total break down in the discipline in the ballroom leading to the hotel management to switch off the lights and stop the function temporarily. The hotel management became so angry that they have now decided never to allow Goan function to be held in their premises. They have dubbed Goans as cheap, vulgar and rowdies. They did not know who is behind this indiscipline but they know only one thing, that is, the Goan community has organized that function which created nothing but vulgarity, rowdism and indiscipline. Who is responsible for this? Are not our own Goan organizers? And yet they boast of the superiority of their “Chaddo” caste. Superiority in what way? In digging the graves of already buried Catholics in an unchristian manner and boasting over it in Kuwait? They are shameless Goans. They are not Chadde but worst than “Madde”. No, sorry, Madde are far superior but not these Chadde. They are a shame on Goans and Goan Catholicsm. Superiority in what way? In establishing independent Church in Goa under the late Fr. Alvito Vaz to promote their own brand of Catholicsm and boasting over it in Kuwait saying we belonged to that particular area in Goa? Superiority in what way? In facilitating doling of our females to non-Goans for the sake of making money? These are “Vollkott” Goans who bring the fair image of genuine Goans into disrepute. And all those who are keeping their silence on this type of happenings are equally guilty.
I admire all those decent Goans for boycotting such dirty and vulgar functions. Regretably, many times such functions are attended even by our religious leaders and religious “gurus” thereby sanctifying illicit happenings which give a booster for the organizers to go ahead in organizing un-Christian functions. Fr. Gabriel once gave a strong call for the Catholics to boycott such functions because as he rightly said then that such ballroom functions are the source of temptation for sin which we must avoid by all means. Unfortunately, we don’t have another Fr. Gabriel in our midst to protect our interest and that of our community for this reason vulgarity in the community is on the rampage. Fr. Gabriel’s call came when Goan Welfare Society organized Goa Day function created total chaos in the premises of Indian Arts Circle at Funaitees where vulgarity, drunkardness. rowdism and indiscipline disgraced not only the good image of Goan community but also of their religion. For this reason, many people with discipline, character and decency do not patronize Goa Day Function organized by GWS. Mostly third class Goans patronize such functions and who they are one can easily notice. The main person who was responsible for organizing that function at Funaitees is the one who demanded sexual favour from the girls for providing jobs to them. Along with 2 others, he is also involved in duping Goans of KD 30 thousand dinars of their association and yet he is moving in society without any shame because those who support and associate with him are equally shamelessl Goans. His photo has already appeared in the press and cyberspace recently along with “Navelimchem Robonn” during the soccer match. Young ladies should be very careful of this man. So also the parents of young girls.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
In Kuwait we have number of our Associations. To further their activities, they regularly organize their functions in the form of Tiatro and Ballroom dancing. Tiatro and what is connected with Konkani is a part of our culture but Ballroom dancing is not, even though some depict it as a part of Goan culture. When we organize Dance we don’t care for anything. Many of our Goans promote it as if it is our life and death and thru this many of our people erroneously show ballroom dancing as a Goan way of life. Currently this item is taking precedence over everything else because it has its own physical amorous charm and monetarily good income. A few years back, during one such function in one of the city hotel’s ballroom, one prominent Goan journalist representing one of the local English dailies, while attending this function suddenly got a massive heart attack and collapsed. When he collapsed still people were busy in dancing only oblivious of what has happened below their own noses. Even the Goan organizers were least bothered to take care of the collapsed Goan journalist. None really bothered to take note of this calamity. For every one of them this was nothing because they believed in one Konkani proverb “Kunkodd Melem Funkot Gelem” because “Amkam Zai Fokot Nachonk”.
That particular journalist was a great lover of Goa and Goan causes and thru his press coverage many of our functions got publicity. And for such a man to ignore by the organizers and others is like a crime!! But we prefer such crimes because we love dancing and that too ballroom dancing because “Amkam Zai Fokot Nachonk”. Finally, with the initiative of one or two Bom Samaritans, our Goan journalist was rushed to the hospital but unfortunately for him, he was declared as dead on the way to the hospital itself. If the Goan oganisers of that function were quick enough to rush him to the hospital may be his life would have been saved. But no, because we are more interested in dancing than in saving the precious life of a Goan. And yet we call ourselves as advanced Goans. Advanced in what? In ballroom dancing? Those who are involved in organizing ballroom dancing are mostly idiotic minded Goans because in their minds there is nothing but ballroom dancing. For the good cause of Goa and Goans they don’t have power to think high. Most of them back at home are coming from hoi-polloi circle, rejected by the intellectually advanced society. In order to overcome this deficiency they involve in ballroom dancing thereby pshychologically elevating them to the westernized culture as if western culture is superior to our own great culture. They are very cheap people seeking cheap prominence.
December is the month for our people to organize more socials and more functions to mark the Christmas festivities. In last December in one of the Star Hotels, one Goan Association organized its Social comprising ballroom dancing. In order to make hay while shine shines, to make maximum profit for their show, the organisers sold entry tickets to any “altu-faltu” person including some Pakistanis and other non-Goans. Our ways are totally different from many of the other Indians and also from Pakistanis. Our ways are more open while theirs are more closed. When they see our girls dancing with men holding each other they feel our girls and females are cheap. Taking advantage of the liberal sale of tickets, these males with their closed door ways entered the ballroom and started taking advantage of our girls, some of them even started misbehaving with our females. There was fist fights also in the ballroom. Some of our females are also guilty for associating with such rowdy non-Goan young boys. Partly our females are responsible for bringing such animals in our midst for our functions because many of them are “Cheddio” and being such they like all vulgarity only.
Regarding the attitude of our “Cheddio”, some years back when Fr. Gabriel was conducting Night Vigil in the City Church, he noticed that many females not only spinsters but also married ladies used to come to the Church with the excuse of attending Night Vigil. Their husbands and fathers used to drop them for the Night Vigil near the Church at 8.00 p.m. and go home and return back to pick them up again on the next day early in the morning at 6.00 after finishing the Night Vigil. The modus operandi of these Catholic “Chedio” was like this: Once they are dropped by their husbands and male parents from their cars in front of the Church, then immediately their boyfriends mainly “katres” awaiting them near the Church only, pick them and take them to their flats and enjoy with them for the whole night. While these Catholic females enjoyed illicit sex with their “Katre” boyfriends, their husbands and parents at home thought their wives and daughters are attending the Night Vigil. No, they were not attending Night Vigil in the Church but they were attending illicit Sex Vigil somewhere else in the name of Night Vigil. When Fr. Gabriel came to know of this, he personally took interest in what was happening outside the Church. He alerted the concerned persons in the Church circle and saw to it that both the main gates of the Church are closed at 8.00 p.m. till 6.00 am on the following day. In between once you are inside the Church, you were not allowed to leave the Church. Not only this, he even covered the compound wall with curtains so that nobody could see who is inside and who is outside.
Coming back to the ballroom dancing in one of the star hotels in last December as indicated above, due to rowdism created by non-Goans there was chaos and total break down in the discipline in the ballroom leading to the hotel management to switch off the lights and stop the function temporarily. The hotel management became so angry that they have now decided never to allow Goan function to be held in their premises. They have dubbed Goans as cheap, vulgar and rowdies. They did not know who is behind this indiscipline but they know only one thing, that is, the Goan community has organized that function which created nothing but vulgarity, rowdism and indiscipline. Who is responsible for this? Are not our own Goan organizers? And yet they boast of the superiority of their “Chaddo” caste. Superiority in what way? In digging the graves of already buried Catholics in an unchristian manner and boasting over it in Kuwait? They are shameless Goans. They are not Chadde but worst than “Madde”. No, sorry, Madde are far superior but not these Chadde. They are a shame on Goans and Goan Catholicsm. Superiority in what way? In establishing independent Church in Goa under the late Fr. Alvito Vaz to promote their own brand of Catholicsm and boasting over it in Kuwait saying we belonged to that particular area in Goa? Superiority in what way? In facilitating doling of our females to non-Goans for the sake of making money? These are “Vollkott” Goans who bring the fair image of genuine Goans into disrepute. And all those who are keeping their silence on this type of happenings are equally guilty.
I admire all those decent Goans for boycotting such dirty and vulgar functions. Regretably, many times such functions are attended even by our religious leaders and religious “gurus” thereby sanctifying illicit happenings which give a booster for the organizers to go ahead in organizing un-Christian functions. Fr. Gabriel once gave a strong call for the Catholics to boycott such functions because as he rightly said then that such ballroom functions are the source of temptation for sin which we must avoid by all means. Unfortunately, we don’t have another Fr. Gabriel in our midst to protect our interest and that of our community for this reason vulgarity in the community is on the rampage. Fr. Gabriel’s call came when Goan Welfare Society organized Goa Day function created total chaos in the premises of Indian Arts Circle at Funaitees where vulgarity, drunkardness. rowdism and indiscipline disgraced not only the good image of Goan community but also of their religion. For this reason, many people with discipline, character and decency do not patronize Goa Day Function organized by GWS. Mostly third class Goans patronize such functions and who they are one can easily notice. The main person who was responsible for organizing that function at Funaitees is the one who demanded sexual favour from the girls for providing jobs to them. Along with 2 others, he is also involved in duping Goans of KD 30 thousand dinars of their association and yet he is moving in society without any shame because those who support and associate with him are equally shamelessl Goans. His photo has already appeared in the press and cyberspace recently along with “Navelimchem Robonn” during the soccer match. Young ladies should be very careful of this man. So also the parents of young girls.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
February 11, 2008
CONDOLENCES
RALPH GONSALVESCalata-Majorda, Goa
(Ex-Student of United Indian School Abbasiya-Kuwait)
Born:11th JULY 1987
Expired on 10th February 2008 in Pune under tragic circumstances
Beloved son of ROQUE (National Bank of Kuwait) and JOYCE GONSALVES, Brother/Brother-in-Law of JENESSA (WP Engineering Co.-Kuwait)/NAZARIUS AZAVEDO (Hussam Sultan Co.-Kuwait), RUSSELL and uncle of baby NARISSA.
Funeral cortege will leave his residence (Calata-Majorda) on Tuesday, 12th February 2008 at 4:00 p.m to Mae De Deus Church, Majorda, Salcette-Goa
for Eucharistic Celebrations and Burial.
Relatives and friends kindly accept this as the only intimation.
February 7, 2008
PRAY FOR CHURCHILL ALEMAO.
PRAY FOR CHURCHILL ALEMAO.
After my last article “Are Goan Voters Ghantta Boil?”, I received lot of emails in support of it; most of the emails are from Navelim village in particular and Navelim constituency in general. Major portion of those who sent me their support are females. All of them have shown their total disgust for Churchill Alemao for leaving SGF and cunningly joining unpredictable Congress of Italian Sonia Gandhi.
Like any other unprincipled Goan politician, Churchill Alemao is also of same category and because of this he is flying like a butterfly from one plant to another only to chew honey for his personal greed. As a man he is nice and affable person. He knows the hardships in life as he himself undergone the pangs in life. My contact with him became strong when we brought him first time to Kuwait as a chief guest in late eighties for our Tiatro staged by the late Rex de Bardez under the banner of Goa Cultural Association. I was given the task of escorting him everywhere for the functions he attended as the Chief Guest and also I was entrusted with the task of giving him press coverage of his tour. Somehow or the other because of his the then sincerity, straight forwardness, principled stand and moreover because of his strong support for the cause of Konkani and thru Konkani for the cause of Goa, I supported him very much and that too blindly. I was very much instrumental among others to make his visit to Kuwait a very comfortable and memorable. And moreover, thru this visit I was very instrumental from Kuwait to make him known better in the Goan community. In some segments among Goans in Kuwait including the Church under Bishop Francis Mechallef, Churchill was considered as terrorist but to clear this misconception wrongly ingrained into the minds of idiots including the idiotic minded Bishop Mechallef, I had to fight with everyone with my verbal arguments and written statements in the press.
Churchill Alemao according to information was just an ordinary “Tarvotti”. He no doubt has gigantic physique but lacked gigantic intellectual capacity. Yet he did what others could not do in such circumstances and succeeded in getting into the public life of Goa with tremendous speed and with great success. Konkani language and fight for its cause was the main reason to get him into the foothold of public life in Goa. He should be grateful to Konkani and all the supporters of Konkani, including me, for giving him a chance to be what he is now. I am a staunch supporter of Konkani and a strong lover of Goa. Since Churchill also had the same likings, we matched very well in our approach for the twin causes of Goa, that is, recognition of Konkani and Statehood for Goa. Churchill fought very well for the cause of Konkani even to the extent of putting his life into peril. So much so, Prataphsingh Raoji Rane and his Government during the language agitation tried to liquidate him from this planet. For this reason Churchill Alemao had to go underground for so many days. All these hardships he had to undergo only because of Konkani and Goa. If Konkani was recognized yesterday as an official language paving the way of conferring Statehood on Goa, it was partly because of the strong campaign and movement made by Churchill Alemao and all his family members especially his brothers who were also persecuted by the Rane Government at that time.
The recognition for Konkani was not the sole accomplishment only of Konkani Porjecho Avaz headed by Nagrivadi Pundalik Naik and among others also supported by his equally anti-Romi colleagues. The recognition of Konkani was also due to the tremendous efforts put in by Konkani supporters not only from Goa but also from outside Goa, especially from Kuwait. In this category, I can rightly say that my efforts were not less. No expatriate Goan has done what I have done for the cause of Konkani by being in Kuwait. Nagrivadis are reaping the fruits of our hard labour and denying us our rights to have recognition for Romi script Konkani. Churchill Alemao then was very vocal in support of Romi Konkani but gradually he slowed down in his approach to this issue. Occasionally like a lion he roars in support of Romi Konkani but it is only a political gimmick because he knows his voters are Romi supporters. Churchill is now become a pure corrupt Indian politician. Earlier he was uncorrupt and virgin for this reason upright Goans like me were behind him. But now, upright Goans like me are rightly rejecting him and day by day his support will diminish because he is betraying the trust in his supporters. Navelim constituency people are getting negative feelings against him for betraying them. According to reliable information his own village Varca people are having negative opinion on him. For this reason, it looks that he avoided Benaulim constituency in which Varca falls and jumped into Navelim constituency. Navelim constituency voters must accept the responsibility of the ill doings of Churchill Alemao in political arena.
With all my negative feelings on Churchill Alemao I still feel there is a need of him in Goan public life. He, by nature, is a great lover of Goa and Konkani but greed for power and money made him bend his natural principles. We in Goa need such a personality and mighty man to support many of our causes. Besides, we need his natural humility which is disappearing from him leading him to distance himself from genuine Goans. He is gaining a habit of behaving like a Maharaja thereby alienating himself from the masses Goan politicians are like hardcore criminals because they have criminalized Goan politics. Churchill Alemao is one of them. We have to get him out of this rot by all means because he served Goa and Konkani very well once. We cannot forget the sacrifices he made for the cause of Goa and Konkani. . In appreciation of what good he did for Goa we have to woo him towards goodness. This we can do as a last resort only thru PRAYERS. All other means to bring him on right path have failed. He does not care for anything. If a person becomes hard and stubborn then nature takes care of him in different ways. We don’t want nature to reprimand him and to punish him for breaking the laws of nature thru his selfishness.
In view of this, we, the Goa lover Goans spread all around the globe must start praying for him to change his unprincipled and selfish stand. The parties that he changes every now and then is creating a bad fellow in him and thereby making fools of his supporters. He is a Christian and that too a Catholic. He goes to Vailankani and believes in the power of Mother Mary of Vailankani though he disgraces his Christianity and faith in Mother Mary by swearing on the Coconut and in the Temple purely in a Hindu ritual which goes against Christianity. This he did at the time of formation of PDF Government initiated by him by aligning with anti-Goan and anti-Konkani MGP. It is not only an ordinary sin but a big sacrilege for a Catholic to adore and embrace Hindu rituals. The Church in Goa and especially Varca Church must hold special prayers to enlighten him in the right direction because we need him to protect our interest. We need a leader to protect our interests otherwise Parrikar and his BJP will swallow us. If thru our prayers Churchill Alemao can become a good leader of Goa to protect our interest and not his selfish interest then we must not waste more time. In Kuwait many people agreed to pray for his change and I think it will come otherwise by hurting people and his supporters he will face his doom. History tells us that those who defy people’s goodwill are bound to fail. History tells us that those who hurt people’s sentiments are bound to disappear like an ether. We don’t want this to happen to our Churchill Alemao. For this reason, I plead with Goa lover Goans to pray for him to change his political lifestyle. Dayananda Bandodkar with his political, financial and muscle power of his MGP supporters was defying everyone, he was hurting every genuine Goan and every true lover of Goa and Konkani. Finally, what has happened to him on one fine evening while playing Ping-Pong at Kampal? Was he assassinated by anyone? No! He was assassinated by the power of the nature. The law of nature rules supreme. We must know this very well and pay obeisance to it.
Prayer is a power. Fervent prayer can even bring heaven to the earth. The power of prayer is more powerful than the power of mighty Atom and Hydrogen Bombs. Prayer can create miracles as we never saw before. In the Biblical book of Joshua, young Prophet Joshua wanted to win his battle over his enemies. To win this battle he needed Sun Light which was falling. If Sun sets then darkness would envelope the earth in which case there was the possibility for Joshua to lose his battle. Hence, in order to delay the Sun from setting and thereby keeping the Sun light intact, Joshua knelt down and fervently pleaded with God in a most powerful prayer to stop the Sun from moving further. He prayed to keep the Sun erect without moving. And miraculously thru the mighty power of Joshua’s prayer, Sun in fact remained erect for a whole day without moving an inch further till Joshua won his battle against his enemies. This truth was finally acknowledged as a genuine happening when the Apollo Mission went deep into this research from the Moon and thru its research the Apollo Astronaut and Nasa confirmed in its report that in reality and in fact Sun Did Not Fall once in the history.
This is the power of the prayer. So, let us now pray for the change in our Churchill Bab which will surely help not only for Goa and Goans but also for him and all his family members.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
After my last article “Are Goan Voters Ghantta Boil?”, I received lot of emails in support of it; most of the emails are from Navelim village in particular and Navelim constituency in general. Major portion of those who sent me their support are females. All of them have shown their total disgust for Churchill Alemao for leaving SGF and cunningly joining unpredictable Congress of Italian Sonia Gandhi.
Like any other unprincipled Goan politician, Churchill Alemao is also of same category and because of this he is flying like a butterfly from one plant to another only to chew honey for his personal greed. As a man he is nice and affable person. He knows the hardships in life as he himself undergone the pangs in life. My contact with him became strong when we brought him first time to Kuwait as a chief guest in late eighties for our Tiatro staged by the late Rex de Bardez under the banner of Goa Cultural Association. I was given the task of escorting him everywhere for the functions he attended as the Chief Guest and also I was entrusted with the task of giving him press coverage of his tour. Somehow or the other because of his the then sincerity, straight forwardness, principled stand and moreover because of his strong support for the cause of Konkani and thru Konkani for the cause of Goa, I supported him very much and that too blindly. I was very much instrumental among others to make his visit to Kuwait a very comfortable and memorable. And moreover, thru this visit I was very instrumental from Kuwait to make him known better in the Goan community. In some segments among Goans in Kuwait including the Church under Bishop Francis Mechallef, Churchill was considered as terrorist but to clear this misconception wrongly ingrained into the minds of idiots including the idiotic minded Bishop Mechallef, I had to fight with everyone with my verbal arguments and written statements in the press.
Churchill Alemao according to information was just an ordinary “Tarvotti”. He no doubt has gigantic physique but lacked gigantic intellectual capacity. Yet he did what others could not do in such circumstances and succeeded in getting into the public life of Goa with tremendous speed and with great success. Konkani language and fight for its cause was the main reason to get him into the foothold of public life in Goa. He should be grateful to Konkani and all the supporters of Konkani, including me, for giving him a chance to be what he is now. I am a staunch supporter of Konkani and a strong lover of Goa. Since Churchill also had the same likings, we matched very well in our approach for the twin causes of Goa, that is, recognition of Konkani and Statehood for Goa. Churchill fought very well for the cause of Konkani even to the extent of putting his life into peril. So much so, Prataphsingh Raoji Rane and his Government during the language agitation tried to liquidate him from this planet. For this reason Churchill Alemao had to go underground for so many days. All these hardships he had to undergo only because of Konkani and Goa. If Konkani was recognized yesterday as an official language paving the way of conferring Statehood on Goa, it was partly because of the strong campaign and movement made by Churchill Alemao and all his family members especially his brothers who were also persecuted by the Rane Government at that time.
The recognition for Konkani was not the sole accomplishment only of Konkani Porjecho Avaz headed by Nagrivadi Pundalik Naik and among others also supported by his equally anti-Romi colleagues. The recognition of Konkani was also due to the tremendous efforts put in by Konkani supporters not only from Goa but also from outside Goa, especially from Kuwait. In this category, I can rightly say that my efforts were not less. No expatriate Goan has done what I have done for the cause of Konkani by being in Kuwait. Nagrivadis are reaping the fruits of our hard labour and denying us our rights to have recognition for Romi script Konkani. Churchill Alemao then was very vocal in support of Romi Konkani but gradually he slowed down in his approach to this issue. Occasionally like a lion he roars in support of Romi Konkani but it is only a political gimmick because he knows his voters are Romi supporters. Churchill is now become a pure corrupt Indian politician. Earlier he was uncorrupt and virgin for this reason upright Goans like me were behind him. But now, upright Goans like me are rightly rejecting him and day by day his support will diminish because he is betraying the trust in his supporters. Navelim constituency people are getting negative feelings against him for betraying them. According to reliable information his own village Varca people are having negative opinion on him. For this reason, it looks that he avoided Benaulim constituency in which Varca falls and jumped into Navelim constituency. Navelim constituency voters must accept the responsibility of the ill doings of Churchill Alemao in political arena.
With all my negative feelings on Churchill Alemao I still feel there is a need of him in Goan public life. He, by nature, is a great lover of Goa and Konkani but greed for power and money made him bend his natural principles. We in Goa need such a personality and mighty man to support many of our causes. Besides, we need his natural humility which is disappearing from him leading him to distance himself from genuine Goans. He is gaining a habit of behaving like a Maharaja thereby alienating himself from the masses Goan politicians are like hardcore criminals because they have criminalized Goan politics. Churchill Alemao is one of them. We have to get him out of this rot by all means because he served Goa and Konkani very well once. We cannot forget the sacrifices he made for the cause of Goa and Konkani. . In appreciation of what good he did for Goa we have to woo him towards goodness. This we can do as a last resort only thru PRAYERS. All other means to bring him on right path have failed. He does not care for anything. If a person becomes hard and stubborn then nature takes care of him in different ways. We don’t want nature to reprimand him and to punish him for breaking the laws of nature thru his selfishness.
In view of this, we, the Goa lover Goans spread all around the globe must start praying for him to change his unprincipled and selfish stand. The parties that he changes every now and then is creating a bad fellow in him and thereby making fools of his supporters. He is a Christian and that too a Catholic. He goes to Vailankani and believes in the power of Mother Mary of Vailankani though he disgraces his Christianity and faith in Mother Mary by swearing on the Coconut and in the Temple purely in a Hindu ritual which goes against Christianity. This he did at the time of formation of PDF Government initiated by him by aligning with anti-Goan and anti-Konkani MGP. It is not only an ordinary sin but a big sacrilege for a Catholic to adore and embrace Hindu rituals. The Church in Goa and especially Varca Church must hold special prayers to enlighten him in the right direction because we need him to protect our interest. We need a leader to protect our interests otherwise Parrikar and his BJP will swallow us. If thru our prayers Churchill Alemao can become a good leader of Goa to protect our interest and not his selfish interest then we must not waste more time. In Kuwait many people agreed to pray for his change and I think it will come otherwise by hurting people and his supporters he will face his doom. History tells us that those who defy people’s goodwill are bound to fail. History tells us that those who hurt people’s sentiments are bound to disappear like an ether. We don’t want this to happen to our Churchill Alemao. For this reason, I plead with Goa lover Goans to pray for him to change his political lifestyle. Dayananda Bandodkar with his political, financial and muscle power of his MGP supporters was defying everyone, he was hurting every genuine Goan and every true lover of Goa and Konkani. Finally, what has happened to him on one fine evening while playing Ping-Pong at Kampal? Was he assassinated by anyone? No! He was assassinated by the power of the nature. The law of nature rules supreme. We must know this very well and pay obeisance to it.
Prayer is a power. Fervent prayer can even bring heaven to the earth. The power of prayer is more powerful than the power of mighty Atom and Hydrogen Bombs. Prayer can create miracles as we never saw before. In the Biblical book of Joshua, young Prophet Joshua wanted to win his battle over his enemies. To win this battle he needed Sun Light which was falling. If Sun sets then darkness would envelope the earth in which case there was the possibility for Joshua to lose his battle. Hence, in order to delay the Sun from setting and thereby keeping the Sun light intact, Joshua knelt down and fervently pleaded with God in a most powerful prayer to stop the Sun from moving further. He prayed to keep the Sun erect without moving. And miraculously thru the mighty power of Joshua’s prayer, Sun in fact remained erect for a whole day without moving an inch further till Joshua won his battle against his enemies. This truth was finally acknowledged as a genuine happening when the Apollo Mission went deep into this research from the Moon and thru its research the Apollo Astronaut and Nasa confirmed in its report that in reality and in fact Sun Did Not Fall once in the history.
This is the power of the prayer. So, let us now pray for the change in our Churchill Bab which will surely help not only for Goa and Goans but also for him and all his family members.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
February 4, 2008
Super Hit ? - Tiatro “Sir” review
Super Hit ? - Tiatro “Sir” review
Written and directed by comedian Agostinho Temudo, “Sir” was successfully staged on Friday 19th of January at Hawally A/C Hall in Kuwait. Instead of 3.30 PM as scheduled, the Tiatro started at 4.30 PM in a very chilly hall which lacked heating system. Though it was attended by a good number of attendees yet it was not a full house contrary to the expectation.
Even then, if this much of crowd came to watch this Tiatro, it was mainly because of the efforts of the organisers in disbursing the tickets and not because the writer/director was a high caliber one. Since this is the first Tiatro of the year and it was held after a long gap, it was expected that people would flood the hall but nothing of that sort happened. Let this be a warning to those who are organizing their Tiatros one after the other. They should not expect heavy turn out for their shows. I think people are getting negative feelings towards Tiatro now because of the bickering amongst the Tiatrists and because of the cheap stories and comedy copied from Hindi Films.
Comedian Agostinho was first time introduced to Kuwait Konkani Stage by late Dr. Rozario Rodrigues when he accompanied his troupe. But as an individual he was first time brought to Kuwait by Rosary Ferns for his Tiatro to do comedy role opposite to Prince Jacob and Querobina and he performed extremely well. During that trip of his he was staying in my house with me along with other artistes namely Prince Jacob, Jr. Rod, Josephine and Felcy. It was during that time we both inculcated acquaintance. Later on he was regularly brought to Kuwait by other organizers some of whom used the code of “No contact with Veronica” which means “when you are coming for our show, you should not meet Veronica”. Though some abided by this code introduced by the bastardized Goans, comedian Agostinho alone challenged this code by saying “you go to hell. You brought me to Kuwait only to act in your Show. The rest is my lookout”. By challenging this code, he started coming to my place and meeting me and spending time with me. Incidentally some of those who were promoting this code themselves shamelessly came to me begging for my help to promote their Tiatro.
The theme of the Tiatro Sir is not very impressive. The subject was light and devoid of any intellectually high moral though many people liked it. This does not mean it was a cheap story. The story has a moral revolved around political life in Goa, mischief of the Montris, punishment for the wrong doers and fall of a pride. Agostinho by nature is politically conscious. Among the Tiatrists who stayed at my place, he is the only Tiatrist who displayed his total concern for Goa. He was the only Tiatrist at my place in Kuwait who wanted to know more of day to day affairs of Goa by reading Goan daily newspaper. He was everyday waiting for me to come home soon after my work and hand over to him the Heraldo. In the light of this, he introduced his political views in this Tiatro. Though he is still in novitiate of directorship yet I am sure he will improve gradually. To become a good director is not a joke and to attain this grade Agostinho will have to work harder.
There are many faults in his Tiatro which requires correction. For example. He showed how in the last scene the Minister is arrested. In reality, is it possible for a Police Officer to arrest a Minister, especially in Goa? And that too for a rape? Narvenkarism is flourishing in Goa so openly yet nobody is arrested. What is possible in theory may not be possible in reality. Likewise you find many direction-related flaws. The rape scene could have been depicted in a better way. Roma after the rape while coming out of the place of Minister does not look disjointed - like a girl who was just raped. After the rape her appearance and dress did not justify the preceding action. It was not Roma’s fault but that of the director who should have guided her adroitly. But how this “kalcho – porcho” director will learn the art of direction without maturity of a seasoned director? Agostinho Temudo has to learn a lot to become a good director and I am sure he will acquire this goal gradually. He must also avoid copying from Hindi Films. So also he must stop hard on unpalatable language like “Dukrachea Kastacho” etc. Vulgarity in words and in action should be avoided by all means. Vulgarity spoken from the stage is not acceptable to the audience especially to the decent audience.
The roles played by seasoned and well matured Mathew Araujo as a lecturer and later on as an ageing man was well enacted. So too the role of Roma as his young daughter. Roma possessed good stage attraction, she looks very attractive on stage. Her voice is also very charming. The role of a Minister played by Salu de Loutolim was well performed. Kuwait based actor Adriano played a superb role of the CEO of the company though he did this role as a last minute substitute for Samuel Carvalho. Those who saw this Tiatro in Goa as well said that Adriano played this role much better than what Samuel did in Goa. Adriano’s voice is more attractive, clarity is better, dress code is fine and stage attraction was better than the visiting artistes. Samuel lacked all these attributes. Adriano looked like a real actor and not like a Gorilla.
Comedywise, the Tiatro created peals of laughter in the hall by both the comedians Selvy and Agostinho though Selvy remains much higher than Agostinho cause he can sing with a melodious voice as well. Though comedy in Sir is more like kiddish and childish yet it was humorous and enjoyable. Selvy with his Anthony Mendes type of flexible body can move like a spring. Agostinho’s screaming spoils the beauty because it generates unnecessarily negative feelings. Negative feelings are not required and screaming and expressing every word loudly is not a mode of traditional Tiatro. It is o.k. for Khell Tiatro and basically I think Agostinho graduated to traditional Tiatro from the Kindergarten of Khell Tiatros.
Without Selvy’s comedy role, the tiatro ‘Sir’ would certainly collapse and Agostinho would also collapse. The Tiatro is termed Super hit and the best drama currently running in Goa but frankly speaking there is nothing extraordinary about it. If this is the state of our super hit dramas, what can we expect on the Konkani stage in future? Only this kind of a run of a mill?
Among the side show songs, the solos of Meena and Roma deserve highest compliments. Both these actresses rendered their solos very beautifully. And for Meena, this is the first time that I saw her singing so beautifully with meticulous clarity. The other songs deserved mentions and highest compliments are of Xavier Almeida from Taleigao. Both his solos one on the late Dr. Jack Sequeira and the other on greatness of our Communidade brought greater beauty to this Tiatro. The other singer who captured the hearts of the audience by his excellently rendered opening solo was Joaquim Cabral from Dona Paula. Both Almeida and Cabral are first timers in Kuwait and yet they stole the limelight. Both of them in their maiden appearance in Kuwait rightly captured the hearts of the audience. People are eagerly awaiting them in the next Tiatros. Agostinho deserved compliments for introducing these hidden stalwarts to the Kuwait Konkani Stage.
The music provided by Norman was very pleasing to the ears, the sound was never above the voice of the singers.
Amongst the locals, Marcus Vaz rendered a solo on the late Sanny de Quepem. Marcus Vas could have still enriched this song with more information on the greatness of Sanny de Quepem as a singer. As fitting tribute to Sanny, Marcus Vas should have rendered at least a verse and a chorus of any of the best songs of Sanny de Quepem. In their trio Laurent-Marcus Vaz–Cajetan de Sanvordem eulogised GCC countries for providing job opportunities for us and further said that we must show our gratitude to these countries. It is very good advice. But when Kuwait was under the invasion of Iraq, Kuwait Goan evacuees in Goa organized their movement where they held their first Rally and public meeting in Panjim on 11th November 1990, incidentally, none of these trio singers showed their gratitude to Kuwait from where they earned their sustenance by joining in the mentioned Public Rally and Meeting. That time they forgot to show their gratitude to Kuwait which made them someones in their lives. In Konkani, there is a saying “Padrincho sermau nhoi unienk punn fokot lokank”. We have many Tiatrists well enough in sermonizing others how to behave in life but in reality they forget to lead a good life.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
Written and directed by comedian Agostinho Temudo, “Sir” was successfully staged on Friday 19th of January at Hawally A/C Hall in Kuwait. Instead of 3.30 PM as scheduled, the Tiatro started at 4.30 PM in a very chilly hall which lacked heating system. Though it was attended by a good number of attendees yet it was not a full house contrary to the expectation.Even then, if this much of crowd came to watch this Tiatro, it was mainly because of the efforts of the organisers in disbursing the tickets and not because the writer/director was a high caliber one. Since this is the first Tiatro of the year and it was held after a long gap, it was expected that people would flood the hall but nothing of that sort happened. Let this be a warning to those who are organizing their Tiatros one after the other. They should not expect heavy turn out for their shows. I think people are getting negative feelings towards Tiatro now because of the bickering amongst the Tiatrists and because of the cheap stories and comedy copied from Hindi Films.
Comedian Agostinho was first time introduced to Kuwait Konkani Stage by late Dr. Rozario Rodrigues when he accompanied his troupe. But as an individual he was first time brought to Kuwait by Rosary Ferns for his Tiatro to do comedy role opposite to Prince Jacob and Querobina and he performed extremely well. During that trip of his he was staying in my house with me along with other artistes namely Prince Jacob, Jr. Rod, Josephine and Felcy. It was during that time we both inculcated acquaintance. Later on he was regularly brought to Kuwait by other organizers some of whom used the code of “No contact with Veronica” which means “when you are coming for our show, you should not meet Veronica”. Though some abided by this code introduced by the bastardized Goans, comedian Agostinho alone challenged this code by saying “you go to hell. You brought me to Kuwait only to act in your Show. The rest is my lookout”. By challenging this code, he started coming to my place and meeting me and spending time with me. Incidentally some of those who were promoting this code themselves shamelessly came to me begging for my help to promote their Tiatro.
The theme of the Tiatro Sir is not very impressive. The subject was light and devoid of any intellectually high moral though many people liked it. This does not mean it was a cheap story. The story has a moral revolved around political life in Goa, mischief of the Montris, punishment for the wrong doers and fall of a pride. Agostinho by nature is politically conscious. Among the Tiatrists who stayed at my place, he is the only Tiatrist who displayed his total concern for Goa. He was the only Tiatrist at my place in Kuwait who wanted to know more of day to day affairs of Goa by reading Goan daily newspaper. He was everyday waiting for me to come home soon after my work and hand over to him the Heraldo. In the light of this, he introduced his political views in this Tiatro. Though he is still in novitiate of directorship yet I am sure he will improve gradually. To become a good director is not a joke and to attain this grade Agostinho will have to work harder.
There are many faults in his Tiatro which requires correction. For example. He showed how in the last scene the Minister is arrested. In reality, is it possible for a Police Officer to arrest a Minister, especially in Goa? And that too for a rape? Narvenkarism is flourishing in Goa so openly yet nobody is arrested. What is possible in theory may not be possible in reality. Likewise you find many direction-related flaws. The rape scene could have been depicted in a better way. Roma after the rape while coming out of the place of Minister does not look disjointed - like a girl who was just raped. After the rape her appearance and dress did not justify the preceding action. It was not Roma’s fault but that of the director who should have guided her adroitly. But how this “kalcho – porcho” director will learn the art of direction without maturity of a seasoned director? Agostinho Temudo has to learn a lot to become a good director and I am sure he will acquire this goal gradually. He must also avoid copying from Hindi Films. So also he must stop hard on unpalatable language like “Dukrachea Kastacho” etc. Vulgarity in words and in action should be avoided by all means. Vulgarity spoken from the stage is not acceptable to the audience especially to the decent audience.
The roles played by seasoned and well matured Mathew Araujo as a lecturer and later on as an ageing man was well enacted. So too the role of Roma as his young daughter. Roma possessed good stage attraction, she looks very attractive on stage. Her voice is also very charming. The role of a Minister played by Salu de Loutolim was well performed. Kuwait based actor Adriano played a superb role of the CEO of the company though he did this role as a last minute substitute for Samuel Carvalho. Those who saw this Tiatro in Goa as well said that Adriano played this role much better than what Samuel did in Goa. Adriano’s voice is more attractive, clarity is better, dress code is fine and stage attraction was better than the visiting artistes. Samuel lacked all these attributes. Adriano looked like a real actor and not like a Gorilla.
Comedywise, the Tiatro created peals of laughter in the hall by both the comedians Selvy and Agostinho though Selvy remains much higher than Agostinho cause he can sing with a melodious voice as well. Though comedy in Sir is more like kiddish and childish yet it was humorous and enjoyable. Selvy with his Anthony Mendes type of flexible body can move like a spring. Agostinho’s screaming spoils the beauty because it generates unnecessarily negative feelings. Negative feelings are not required and screaming and expressing every word loudly is not a mode of traditional Tiatro. It is o.k. for Khell Tiatro and basically I think Agostinho graduated to traditional Tiatro from the Kindergarten of Khell Tiatros.
Without Selvy’s comedy role, the tiatro ‘Sir’ would certainly collapse and Agostinho would also collapse. The Tiatro is termed Super hit and the best drama currently running in Goa but frankly speaking there is nothing extraordinary about it. If this is the state of our super hit dramas, what can we expect on the Konkani stage in future? Only this kind of a run of a mill?
Among the side show songs, the solos of Meena and Roma deserve highest compliments. Both these actresses rendered their solos very beautifully. And for Meena, this is the first time that I saw her singing so beautifully with meticulous clarity. The other songs deserved mentions and highest compliments are of Xavier Almeida from Taleigao. Both his solos one on the late Dr. Jack Sequeira and the other on greatness of our Communidade brought greater beauty to this Tiatro. The other singer who captured the hearts of the audience by his excellently rendered opening solo was Joaquim Cabral from Dona Paula. Both Almeida and Cabral are first timers in Kuwait and yet they stole the limelight. Both of them in their maiden appearance in Kuwait rightly captured the hearts of the audience. People are eagerly awaiting them in the next Tiatros. Agostinho deserved compliments for introducing these hidden stalwarts to the Kuwait Konkani Stage.
The music provided by Norman was very pleasing to the ears, the sound was never above the voice of the singers.
Amongst the locals, Marcus Vaz rendered a solo on the late Sanny de Quepem. Marcus Vas could have still enriched this song with more information on the greatness of Sanny de Quepem as a singer. As fitting tribute to Sanny, Marcus Vas should have rendered at least a verse and a chorus of any of the best songs of Sanny de Quepem. In their trio Laurent-Marcus Vaz–Cajetan de Sanvordem eulogised GCC countries for providing job opportunities for us and further said that we must show our gratitude to these countries. It is very good advice. But when Kuwait was under the invasion of Iraq, Kuwait Goan evacuees in Goa organized their movement where they held their first Rally and public meeting in Panjim on 11th November 1990, incidentally, none of these trio singers showed their gratitude to Kuwait from where they earned their sustenance by joining in the mentioned Public Rally and Meeting. That time they forgot to show their gratitude to Kuwait which made them someones in their lives. In Konkani, there is a saying “Padrincho sermau nhoi unienk punn fokot lokank”. We have many Tiatrists well enough in sermonizing others how to behave in life but in reality they forget to lead a good life.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
Mogan Tujea Lasotam’ - A Review
BY DANIEL F.D'SOUZA dannyboy04@rediffmail.com
Music House production firm based in Mapusa in the North is churning out audio and video albums with regularity. Their recent additions are VCD music album ‘Mogan Tujea lasotam’ of Kuwait based Rosary Ferns and ‘Mevonk Na’ a VCD film of Menino de Benaulim. Both these new videos have received good response from the Konkani music lovers.
‘Mogan Tuje Lasotam’: This video music album of veteran stage artist Rosary Ferns based in Kuwait is shot in picturesque locations in and around Goa, with the outdoor and indoor filming by Cameraman Joywin Fernandes. The video album has ten nice tracks sung by popular singers of the Konkani stage with meaningful lyrics composed by Rosary Ferns himself.
The video begins with the title song ‘Mogan tujea lasotam’ a Mando rendered in a sensual voice by talented Veeam Bond Braganza with appropriate music score by Maestro Josinho. It really makes a pleasant listening as well as a fine beginning to the album. Rosary Ferns comes with a solo ‘Matharponn’ a well composed song highlighting the old age stage of life and the consequences thereof. Peter-Roshan both pair together to render ‘Soitann’ a lovely duet on a fast pop beat. The duet has a good morale. ‘Put’ is yet another nice solo with good and touching lyrics sung by versatile senior stage singer Luciano Dias.
Rosary Ferns returns back to once again render a meaningful solo ‘Gorv’. In this solo the singer talks about pride and the negative consequences of the same. To drive home his point and emphasize on the message of his song he has shown clips of tyrants such as Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussien. ‘Ostori’ a solo by Bab Agnel is passable, followed by a nice duet ‘Sangatan Bhonv-ia’ well rendered by the versatile pair of Antonette de Calangute and Bonny Pereira. Joywin has captured the indoor shots well and the pair does justice to the lyrics with some natural acting.
‘Tumi Fotouta’ a solo by Mini Mario is well rendered with good music bnack up and picturised at appealing outdoor locations. The last tracks on the album is ‘Dinar’ and this video is another excellent solo sung by Rosary Ferns sounding a sensible warning for those aspiring to take up jobs in the gulf.
Overall the album is a nice and slick presentation with nice solos and good duets. The songs are meaningful and bear a morale. A good pick for Rs. 150/-, go for it.
Mevonk Na: This VCD film has a good star cast of dashing Ulhas Tari, stylish Antush pretty Jessica, charming Ana, versatile Fatima supported in the hilarious section by comedians Joana, Agostinho, Ambe, Fernando and others. The story is revolving around two households and their children Walter & Jessica with Brian another college going youth also a part of the triangle, with the story overlapping on a love triangle. Then there is a friend Norma who tries to play games with ulterior motives and greed for money. An unwed mother mourning the death of her child at birth, a nurse playing good Samaritan. A young man aspiring to join the Police department and wearing the uniform of a Police Officer, and later fulfilling his dreams. All this and more twist to the tale with a good amount of suspense, and conspiracies is what ‘Mevonk Na’ is all about. The script of the film is fairly good with a lot of English dialogues thrown in with natural flair as and when the situation demands. However the ending seems to be a little too abrupt.
The comedy sequences with Agostinho, Fernando, Ambe and Joana are well scripted and enacted with some natural acting. The VCD film is priced at Rs. 150/- and is available at all leading music stores.
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Khille & Gelem Soddun – Manfa’s latest albums
The latest offerings from the House of Manfa Music is Prince of Centuries Pascoal Rodrigues’ audio album ‘Khille’ and Lawry Travasso’s Video album ‘Gelem Soddun’.
Khille: This audio album has 14 delectable tracks rendered by several singers of the Konkani stage besides four rib-tickling jokes intermittently presented by comedians Agostinho, Janet, and Selvy. The first track ‘Utrachi Mudi’ rendered by Osvi Viegas with a smooth voice makes a good beginning. ‘Ugddas Kortam’ by Lawry Travasso is a beautiful tribute paid through song to living Konkani stage legend M. Boyer. The title song ‘Khille’ on the album is rendered by Pascoal himself and the lyrics are really thought provoking and touching. Versatile singer Felcy renders ‘Bhogsonnem’ and speaks about the issue of forgiveness, while Jaju Fernandes lends his voice for ‘Bible’ an educative track emphasizing the importance of the Holy bible. Selvy and Janet both combine with a comedy duet ‘Pandu Lampiao’.
‘Sant Bokht’ a solo track rendered by Angreat Rodrigues highlighting the devotion of various saints in Goa, is an average track on the album. Pascoal Rodrigues and Felcy both together combine for a romantic duet ‘Mogan Zalam Pisso’. ‘Udok’ by Jaju Fernandes and ‘Dudacho Glass’ by Pascoal Rodrigues are the last two tracks on the audio album. The last track by Pascoal Rodrigues is once again has some nice lyrics and is backed by good music.
The audio album has music by Chris Correia with Filip de Sanvordem (Saxaphone), Anthony de Velim (Trumpet) Peterson Gomes (Bass), Norman Cardozo (Keyboard), Aurville Rodrigues (Drums) and Chris on rhytm guitar. The lyrics for all the tracks has been composed by Pascoal Rodrigues. The album is priced at Rs. 125/- and is available all over the State with the regular outlets.
Gelem Soddun: This is video album of Lawry Travasso comprising of 8 beautiful songs picturised at several outdoor locations in and around Goa. The album begins with the title song ‘Gelem Soddun’ by Lawry followed by another solo track ‘Bhurgeank rostear soddinaka’ by the same singer. The song has some touching lyrics highlighting the fate of orphan children. Stylish singer Victor makes his presence strongly felt on the video album with an electrifying romantic track ‘Sopon’. Lawry’s next ‘Maria Magnnem Kortana’ is a solo followed by melodious singer Osvi Viegas’ ‘Duvens’ (lyrics Osvi Viegas) sounding a caution on the deadly scourge of HIV/AIDS. This is a nice track on the video album and Osvi does full justice to the touching lyrics together with some nice clips by Joywin.
‘Prema’ by Lawry is set to foot tapping music, followed by Goenkaram a solo on the folk beat by Lawry speaking about various aspects of Goan lifestyles and the last track on the album is a duet ‘Poi Poi’ by Lawry and Delaila. The duet is well picturised with pleasant music backup. The video album is worth the cover price of Rs. 150/- and makes a pleasant viewing . Go ahead pick a original copy today from the nearest seller. The music in this video album is scored by Philip Baretto with James Vaz providing the background music.
Music House production firm based in Mapusa in the North is churning out audio and video albums with regularity. Their recent additions are VCD music album ‘Mogan Tujea lasotam’ of Kuwait based Rosary Ferns and ‘Mevonk Na’ a VCD film of Menino de Benaulim. Both these new videos have received good response from the Konkani music lovers.‘Mogan Tuje Lasotam’: This video music album of veteran stage artist Rosary Ferns based in Kuwait is shot in picturesque locations in and around Goa, with the outdoor and indoor filming by Cameraman Joywin Fernandes. The video album has ten nice tracks sung by popular singers of the Konkani stage with meaningful lyrics composed by Rosary Ferns himself.
The video begins with the title song ‘Mogan tujea lasotam’ a Mando rendered in a sensual voice by talented Veeam Bond Braganza with appropriate music score by Maestro Josinho. It really makes a pleasant listening as well as a fine beginning to the album. Rosary Ferns comes with a solo ‘Matharponn’ a well composed song highlighting the old age stage of life and the consequences thereof. Peter-Roshan both pair together to render ‘Soitann’ a lovely duet on a fast pop beat. The duet has a good morale. ‘Put’ is yet another nice solo with good and touching lyrics sung by versatile senior stage singer Luciano Dias.
Rosary Ferns returns back to once again render a meaningful solo ‘Gorv’. In this solo the singer talks about pride and the negative consequences of the same. To drive home his point and emphasize on the message of his song he has shown clips of tyrants such as Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussien. ‘Ostori’ a solo by Bab Agnel is passable, followed by a nice duet ‘Sangatan Bhonv-ia’ well rendered by the versatile pair of Antonette de Calangute and Bonny Pereira. Joywin has captured the indoor shots well and the pair does justice to the lyrics with some natural acting.
‘Tumi Fotouta’ a solo by Mini Mario is well rendered with good music bnack up and picturised at appealing outdoor locations. The last tracks on the album is ‘Dinar’ and this video is another excellent solo sung by Rosary Ferns sounding a sensible warning for those aspiring to take up jobs in the gulf.
Overall the album is a nice and slick presentation with nice solos and good duets. The songs are meaningful and bear a morale. A good pick for Rs. 150/-, go for it.
Mevonk Na: This VCD film has a good star cast of dashing Ulhas Tari, stylish Antush pretty Jessica, charming Ana, versatile Fatima supported in the hilarious section by comedians Joana, Agostinho, Ambe, Fernando and others. The story is revolving around two households and their children Walter & Jessica with Brian another college going youth also a part of the triangle, with the story overlapping on a love triangle. Then there is a friend Norma who tries to play games with ulterior motives and greed for money. An unwed mother mourning the death of her child at birth, a nurse playing good Samaritan. A young man aspiring to join the Police department and wearing the uniform of a Police Officer, and later fulfilling his dreams. All this and more twist to the tale with a good amount of suspense, and conspiracies is what ‘Mevonk Na’ is all about. The script of the film is fairly good with a lot of English dialogues thrown in with natural flair as and when the situation demands. However the ending seems to be a little too abrupt.
The comedy sequences with Agostinho, Fernando, Ambe and Joana are well scripted and enacted with some natural acting. The VCD film is priced at Rs. 150/- and is available at all leading music stores.
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Khille & Gelem Soddun – Manfa’s latest albums
The latest offerings from the House of Manfa Music is Prince of Centuries Pascoal Rodrigues’ audio album ‘Khille’ and Lawry Travasso’s Video album ‘Gelem Soddun’.
Khille: This audio album has 14 delectable tracks rendered by several singers of the Konkani stage besides four rib-tickling jokes intermittently presented by comedians Agostinho, Janet, and Selvy. The first track ‘Utrachi Mudi’ rendered by Osvi Viegas with a smooth voice makes a good beginning. ‘Ugddas Kortam’ by Lawry Travasso is a beautiful tribute paid through song to living Konkani stage legend M. Boyer. The title song ‘Khille’ on the album is rendered by Pascoal himself and the lyrics are really thought provoking and touching. Versatile singer Felcy renders ‘Bhogsonnem’ and speaks about the issue of forgiveness, while Jaju Fernandes lends his voice for ‘Bible’ an educative track emphasizing the importance of the Holy bible. Selvy and Janet both combine with a comedy duet ‘Pandu Lampiao’.
‘Sant Bokht’ a solo track rendered by Angreat Rodrigues highlighting the devotion of various saints in Goa, is an average track on the album. Pascoal Rodrigues and Felcy both together combine for a romantic duet ‘Mogan Zalam Pisso’. ‘Udok’ by Jaju Fernandes and ‘Dudacho Glass’ by Pascoal Rodrigues are the last two tracks on the audio album. The last track by Pascoal Rodrigues is once again has some nice lyrics and is backed by good music.
The audio album has music by Chris Correia with Filip de Sanvordem (Saxaphone), Anthony de Velim (Trumpet) Peterson Gomes (Bass), Norman Cardozo (Keyboard), Aurville Rodrigues (Drums) and Chris on rhytm guitar. The lyrics for all the tracks has been composed by Pascoal Rodrigues. The album is priced at Rs. 125/- and is available all over the State with the regular outlets.
Gelem Soddun: This is video album of Lawry Travasso comprising of 8 beautiful songs picturised at several outdoor locations in and around Goa. The album begins with the title song ‘Gelem Soddun’ by Lawry followed by another solo track ‘Bhurgeank rostear soddinaka’ by the same singer. The song has some touching lyrics highlighting the fate of orphan children. Stylish singer Victor makes his presence strongly felt on the video album with an electrifying romantic track ‘Sopon’. Lawry’s next ‘Maria Magnnem Kortana’ is a solo followed by melodious singer Osvi Viegas’ ‘Duvens’ (lyrics Osvi Viegas) sounding a caution on the deadly scourge of HIV/AIDS. This is a nice track on the video album and Osvi does full justice to the touching lyrics together with some nice clips by Joywin.
‘Prema’ by Lawry is set to foot tapping music, followed by Goenkaram a solo on the folk beat by Lawry speaking about various aspects of Goan lifestyles and the last track on the album is a duet ‘Poi Poi’ by Lawry and Delaila. The duet is well picturised with pleasant music backup. The video album is worth the cover price of Rs. 150/- and makes a pleasant viewing . Go ahead pick a original copy today from the nearest seller. The music in this video album is scored by Philip Baretto with James Vaz providing the background music.
February 3, 2008
GOAN CULTURAL CENTRE-KUWAIT HANCHIM PORBIM.
GOAN CULTURAL CENTRE HACHIM PORBIM MANDD SOBHANN - HAKA.
KONKANI NIRANTARI-nt bhag ghetoleank xabaski ani porbim.
Goan Cultural Centre-Kuwait hanchea odheox, membre, protinidhi ani karbari khuxealkaien
Eric Ozario ani Mandd Sobhann hankam vakhannun amchi tankam un-unitporbim ditaum.
Keritponnim amchea KONKNNI MOGIANK porbim diun, tosseach somestgavpiam-gavpinnink, muzgank ani karbareank KONKANI NIRANTARI-nt bhag ghetoleank tallio pettun, keritponnim MUNGLLURKARANK ul'lasamnim odikuch xabaski ditaum.
Konkani bhaseak obhimanan unch peddar dovrunk tannim bhettoilolea teag, vell ani mogak, amchea tankam noman. Konkani bhas, amchi bhas, ekvottachi bhas!
40 horam gavun, 44 pongddanim, 1711 kantorists/gaupeanim, 645 Konknnidhormik gaieanamani sonskruttik kantaram gauvun, tumi soggleanim 'Guinness Book of World Records' staplo!
Vhoddea apurbiean, amcho tumcam kherit DINVAS. Bhesanv tumcher poddum re!
CARMO SANTOS, Chairman.
ENG. SURESH NAIK.
Goan Cultural Centre - Kuwait [Registered with the Embassy of India – Kuwait]
(Established in 1990) Organizers of: Konkani Tiatrs, Goan Food & Cultural Festival, Summer Queen and Christmas Tree Events.
P.O. Box 1175, Hawally 32012 – Kuwait.
Email: goanculturalcentrekuwait@gmail.com
KONKANI NIRANTARI-nt bhag ghetoleank xabaski ani porbim.
Goan Cultural Centre-Kuwait hanchea odheox, membre, protinidhi ani karbari khuxealkaien
Eric Ozario ani Mandd Sobhann hankam vakhannun amchi tankam un-unitporbim ditaum.
Keritponnim amchea KONKNNI MOGIANK porbim diun, tosseach somestgavpiam-gavpinnink, muzgank ani karbareank KONKANI NIRANTARI-nt bhag ghetoleank tallio pettun, keritponnim MUNGLLURKARANK ul'lasamnim odikuch xabaski ditaum.
Konkani bhaseak obhimanan unch peddar dovrunk tannim bhettoilolea teag, vell ani mogak, amchea tankam noman. Konkani bhas, amchi bhas, ekvottachi bhas!
40 horam gavun, 44 pongddanim, 1711 kantorists/gaupeanim, 645 Konknnidhormik gaieanamani sonskruttik kantaram gauvun, tumi soggleanim 'Guinness Book of World Records' staplo!
Vhoddea apurbiean, amcho tumcam kherit DINVAS. Bhesanv tumcher poddum re!
CARMO SANTOS, Chairman.
ENG. SURESH NAIK.
Goan Cultural Centre - Kuwait [Registered with the Embassy of India – Kuwait]
(Established in 1990) Organizers of: Konkani Tiatrs, Goan Food & Cultural Festival, Summer Queen and Christmas Tree Events.
P.O. Box 1175, Hawally 32012 – Kuwait.
Email: goanculturalcentrekuwait@gmail.com
February 2, 2008
KKK CONGRATULATES MANDD SOBHANN.
KUWAIT KONKNNI KENDR CONGRATULATES MANDD SOBHANN.
On Sunday 27th January 2008, at 10 pm, a new Guinness World Record for the Longest Singing Marathon by Multiple Singers was achieved by the Mandd Sobhann Cultural Organisation, in Managalore, India. This great world record was achieved in 40 hours without any rest breaks by a continuous stream of 44 different groups consisting of 1,711 singers including from Goa belting out 645 songs in the Konkani language.
KUWAIT KONKNNI KENDR fully appreciates what Mandd Sobhann has achieved for the cause of Konkani.
KKK, Eric Ozario and Mandd Sobhann always maintained a very good rapport. During his first ever visit to Kuwait about 10 years back, KKK hosted Eric Ozario and his troupe's "Bosnni" which was attended by many Goans in Kuwait. It was hosted at Abbasiya where Eric Ozario and his troupe consisting of his wife, son and two musicians entertained the Konkani audience. It consisted of discourse on Konkani language and Konkani culture by Eric Ozario and songs in Konkani and on Konkani. The whole programme of around 1.00 hour was beautifully rendered.
Later on when fund raising campaign was initiated for the establishment of Mandd Sobhann, Kuwait Konknni Kendr contributed its mite in the form of donation of Indian Rupees Ten Thousand Only.
Once again KKK congratulates Mandd Sobhann for raising Konkani to the pedestal thru this world record. KKK takes pride in this great achievement of Mand Sobhann.
KUWAIT KONKNNI KENDR,
KUWAIT.
On Sunday 27th January 2008, at 10 pm, a new Guinness World Record for the Longest Singing Marathon by Multiple Singers was achieved by the Mandd Sobhann Cultural Organisation, in Managalore, India. This great world record was achieved in 40 hours without any rest breaks by a continuous stream of 44 different groups consisting of 1,711 singers including from Goa belting out 645 songs in the Konkani language.
KUWAIT KONKNNI KENDR fully appreciates what Mandd Sobhann has achieved for the cause of Konkani.
KKK, Eric Ozario and Mandd Sobhann always maintained a very good rapport. During his first ever visit to Kuwait about 10 years back, KKK hosted Eric Ozario and his troupe's "Bosnni" which was attended by many Goans in Kuwait. It was hosted at Abbasiya where Eric Ozario and his troupe consisting of his wife, son and two musicians entertained the Konkani audience. It consisted of discourse on Konkani language and Konkani culture by Eric Ozario and songs in Konkani and on Konkani. The whole programme of around 1.00 hour was beautifully rendered.
Later on when fund raising campaign was initiated for the establishment of Mandd Sobhann, Kuwait Konknni Kendr contributed its mite in the form of donation of Indian Rupees Ten Thousand Only.
Once again KKK congratulates Mandd Sobhann for raising Konkani to the pedestal thru this world record. KKK takes pride in this great achievement of Mand Sobhann.
KUWAIT KONKNNI KENDR,
KUWAIT.
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