TWO NEW KONKANI ALBUMS RELEASED.

TWO NEW ALBUMUMS RELEASED:
1. MOGACHEA PINZREANT.
2. TARVOTTIA SALAM TUKA.


MOGACHEA PINZREANT’ will capture music lovers.
By: Daniel F de souza.

‘Mogachea Pinzreant’ is the latest Konkani audio album by young and upcoming singer Webly Gomes. The album has 9 tracks to offer with the title song ‘Mogachea Pinzreant’ the first track on the audio album being rendered by Lulu Fortes with her delectable voice. As the name itself suggests, it is a romantic solo with good music orchestration. A slow track with pleasant musical score ‘Nirmoll Mog’ duet sung by Trisca & Webly Gomes is supported by good music, follows next. The voices blend well and complement each other, doing justice to the lyrics. Musician and Keyboardist Norman Cardozo lends his voice to the next track ‘Dis Toh Pausacho’ set to some foot tapping music and lyrics that will entice you to hum the chorus. Lulu Fortes returns back to lend her voice to ‘Goyam Mhojea’ a song paying rich tributes to Goa and highlighting the present state of affairs in the land. Webly Gomes once again renders a solo ‘Nachon Uddon Gavum-ia’ with music that will nudge you to get on to the dance floor. ‘Susegad Goenkar’ a solo by Blasio Pinto is yet another good track which begins on a fast and rasping note raising up the tempo. Music orchestration for this track is once again foot tapping. Webly Gomes renders ‘You are my Love’ a romantic track on a pop beat next. The musical score is very pleasant and Webly’s voice does full justice to the lyrics. The audio album finishes off in style with a Goan Medley of traditional songs by Aurville/Blasio and Webly Gomes. This last track will get you in the mood to swing from the very first musical note.

‘Mogachea Pinzreant’ is surely a Konkani audio album with a difference which is miles ahead and keeps off the beaten track. The style of lyrics composition and the genre of music is surely going to appeal to the modern day youth. If this album does not make the youth turn towards Konkani music who are so much obsessed with western pop music, perhaps nothing will. Kudos to the musicians Ally Rodrigues,(Lead and Rhythm Guitar) Felipe Baretto (Keyboards), Freddy Baretto (Bass Guitar) and the recording Engineer Aurville Rodrigues. All the tunes and lyrics on this album are the creative works of Webly Gomes.

Konkani music needs young and dynamic youth like Webly Gomes to take Konkani music to a new breed of modern day music lovers and to a different level of acceptance amongst lovers of Konkani music, specially among the modern day Goan youth. I have no hesitation in recommending ‘Mogachea Pinzreant’ to your collection of Konkani music. The audio is marketed by Manfa Music and check for the logo on the album cover to assure yourself you are buying an original.


TARVOTTIA SALAM TUKA:
Hillary’s production has released ‘Tarvottia Salam Tuka’ an Konkani audio by Normandez. The audio album has 12 taracks with all the tunes and lyrics composed by Normandez. Music for the album has been provided by Norman Cardozo and Josinho. ‘Bhangaracho Danth’ is the first track on the album rendered by Normandez set to a fast beat. The lyrics are thought provoking and speak about the love between a mother and her son. Wilson and Sharon render a pleasing humorous duet ‘Synori’ in their distinct style, which will surely appeal to the listeners. ‘Kallzam Mellim’ by Normandez, ‘Shukhnem’ by Valanka and ‘Happy Birthday’ a solo based on a real happening once again by Normandez are the next tracks. Clara and Sonia combine well to render a duet ‘Mhozo Nouro ietolo’ on a fast beat . The title song ‘Tarvottia Salam Tuka’ is rendered by Normandez. The track is a tribute to the seaman who toil onboard the ships and has some thought provoking lyrics. Once again Clara impresses with her voice in a duet ’Interview’ with Rons. The lyrics are meaningful and music is good set to a fast rasping beat. ‘Senorita’ by Normandez should also go well with the listeners for its offbeat lyrics and good foot tapping music. ‘Dusri Mummy’ by Sonia-Fatima-Anil Kumar a trio is average track but with educative lyrics on a slow beat, and finally Normandez with ‘Gulab’ a solo and ‘Mogacho Tiag’ a duet by Sonia and Normandez complete the album. The audio is available a all leading music stores and is priced at Rs. 130/-

THE LATE DR. OLIVINHO GOMES.

Though a month has just completed since Dr. Olivinho Gomes, a Konkani pundit, died yet it looked that he died just yesterday. He was very close to me since we both got ourselves involved in Konkani movement. He made lot of sacrifices for the cause of Konkani by remaining in India and Goa even giving up his lucrative job for the cause of Konkani and I on the other hand suffered lot of setbacks in Kuwait while fighting for the cause of Konkani. The sacrifices that I made for the cause of Konkani from Kuwait will never be compensated. Only those who are close to my movement will bear the testimony of my statement while others will laugh as if it is nothing.

Dr. Olivinho Gomes presence in the Konkani movement especially in the literary movement was a big booster for the cause of Konkani. Though he was well versed in both the Konkani scripts yet he was a pride of Romi Konkani. The many Nagrivadi “Konknnes” were jealous of his efficiency in outsmarting them; they tried their level best to detach him from the top post he was holding in Goa University. Many times I noticed him at TB Cunha Hall, Panjim speaking with authority on matters related to Konkani and how everyone giving him due respect to his discourse. I don’t think currently after his death there is anybody in Konkani circle in Goa in general and Romi Konkani circle in particular who will fill the void created by him.

In Romi circle we have many “fottaxi” who are fit only to boast of their fake love for Konkani. There is so much of clamouring for the cause of Romi Konkani in Romi circle but nothing is moving forward because with our leaders there is no dedication to fight strongly for this cause. They have their own agenda to carry forward in the name of Romi Konkani. The very person on whom we were relying for doing something worthwhile for the cause of Romi Konkani also betrayed our cause with a Judas kiss. We sent him to Legislative Assembly where he was raised to the pedestal chair due to which he could have used his influence to influence others especially the ruling party to get benefits for Romi Konkani but he failed. He failed because he was a “Baizon”, interested only in grabbing power and using Government facilities for living a luxurious life. “Atam soddtta Candoe, kuddo mus passun poina davea dollean”. He wants Konkani only for his benefits and he is using Konkani now to remain afloat in public life otherwise he is a gone case. I don’t know why our Romivadis are still relying on him to deliver the goods. Is Romi circle so bankrupt intellectually to judge such traitors? With such people at the helm of affairs, Romi Konkani will never attain the desired status. These third class teachers turned politicians should be kept out of Romi circle otherwise Romi Konkani will never attain its goal.

That Romi Konkani should get its due recognition our Tiatrists are also shouting. I support their voice but are they in position to acquire the required result? Among them there is not a single gigantic figure who commands allegiance from Tiatrist fraternity. Tiatrists are scattered in factions and they too have their own agendas. For many of them this Romi movement is just like another Tiatro or Non Stop Show, to perform today and forget about it tomorrow. In their history Tiatrists are not known to perform superlative feat, they are good for squabbling among themselves. I doubt they can do anything in this matter and besides there is no leader among them to command allegiance from all.

Romi Konkani came into prominence because of the great Romi Konkani writers of yesteryears, namely M. V. Mendes, A. V. D’Cruz, Dr. Simon C. Fernades, Evagrio Jorge and many eminent priests. So also by the renowned Romansi writers such as Damacian Caridade and Reginaldo Fernandes etc. There are many more still who were responsible for the development and promotion of Romi Konkani. Those readers who read their works know the high quality of their writings. Those who did not read their works they say there is no rich literature in Romi Konkani. How a blind person will see what is white and what is black? Such blinds are innumerable in Nagri script Konknni who think they are “chodd zannar” while others are “chodd nennar” . These Nagrivadis are idiots who imposed Marathik Konknni on us against our wishes and our Romi Konknnivadis involving in KPA movement like fools accepted everything Pundalik Naik and other Naiks told them as if it is Gospel truth. Now all the Pundaliks, the traitors in Konkani movement are sleeping “uskea meklle”. There is a saying in Konkani “Kam zalem – voiz melo”.

Regarding Dr. Olivinho Gomes, his writings in Konkani brought life for Konkani especially for Romi Konkani. He was the pride of Romi Konkani followers and promoters. Currently Romi Konkani is suffering from dearth of high profile writers and intellectuals. The very few that are existing now are unable to create an impact. They are good in their own circle and they have their own parochial readership whose intellectual capacity is below normal just as the writers whom they read. These writers are not impact creators because there is not much richness in their writings, even though they are doing a good job of keeping the Romi Konkani flowing.

Dr. Olivinho Gomes was not only a writer of repute but he was also a very reputed personality. Such persons are very essential for the promotion of Konkani. He was not a “Ladru-Pedru” type of a writer but highly educated and smart with lot of high reputation attracting automatic allegiance from the readers and others. When I first came to Kuwait and when I embarked on Konkani movement first time in Kuwait and in the Gulf, I could not get a single person whom I could rate as a rich writer. Later on I came across two - three Konknni writers who proved to be “F-A-L = NAL” and who were responsible for lowering the image of Konkani in Kuwait though they were thinking they were great. Because of such low grade Konkani writers and promoters, Konkani suffered a lot. Konkani movement got a booster in Kuwait only when we formed Novem Goem Pratishtan Kuwait Somiti with the induction in it of great and reputed Goans including A. B. Fernandes - Gen. Manager Bahar Shipping Co., Estanislaus Alemao – the Principal of New Indian School, Jabriya and Advocate Lobo. The so called Konknni writers from Kuwait had no place in this movement because they were too small and still are to fit into NGPKS. They are intellectually and literally babies. These babies have brought the prestige and image of Romi Konkani down, for this reason intellectual giants dissociated from them.

Somewhere in the mid eighties we were having our open meeting in the Church Hall on behalf of NGPKS. Suddenly one dead drunk person got up from his chair to ask some silly questions with the Chairman. When I enquired who this idiot was, I was told that he was a “Konknni Potrakar”. Unfortunately for Konkani movement in Kuwait he never did anything and I never got him involved either with me for Konkani movement to prevent him from lowering the prestige of Konkani movement I initiated in Kuwait on very strong base with the help of my colleagues minus these third class Romi Konkani writers. In our midst there is not a single Romi Konkani writer who show high caliber. Those who are there they are fit only to talk ill of me out of jealousy because they are unable to do even an inch of what I did. Good that no high grade people are reading them, not even me. Such Potrakars will never give booster to Romi Konkani. Hence it is an imperative need to have among us more and more Dr. Olivinho Gomes. Will we get them in our circle? God alone knows.

May God give eternal rest to the Konkani soul of Dr. Olivinho Gomes.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

‘The Thief at the Night Vigil’ - a short story

Sometimes it is not so much the message that a story gives, but the message that the reader takes.

What would such a story say to you? Or, from another viewpoint, what message would you take from that story?

'The Thief at the Night Vigil' could remind some people of an existential humor, others of a biblical theme. Yet, some may see no message at all, and yet others may find it to be a tale told in their own language....

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G'BYE GOA:Goan Emigration-7. By Valmiki Faleiro.

G’bye Goa: Goan Emigration-7
By Valmiki Faleiro

By 1920, Goa’s population dipped to 4.69 lakh (from 7.00 lakh in 1914.) The figure was
inclusive of the seven New Conquest talukas, from where emigration was minimal. Over
two lakh Goans had left for India/Burma/Pakistan, Africa/Gulf, Europe, the Americas,
and aboard ships. Bombay alone had close to one lakh Goans in 1920.

From then, among Goa’s eternal ironies, began the largest, and yet surviving, wave of
emigration/out-migration...

Such it was that the colonial administration saw it as opportunity, and promptly slapped
an “Emigration Tax!” Even on impoverished maidens fleeing for better life in Bombay,
where at least 510 (largely from temple dancing traditions) worked as whores in 1923.

Emigration was a mixed blessing. Aptly reflected in its two categories. Transient émigrés
left families behind to take up jobs elsewhere, but returned home on retirement. The
permanent ones took all they had, including families, to their new domicile.

Permanent émigrés returned only on pilgrimage to family deities or on special visits.
Those settled in Europe, the Americas, and Australia/NZ, never will return. (It is this
genre of emigrants, paradoxically, whose hearts ache the most for the metamorphosis
currently overrunning Goa…) They were a loss to Goa.

Transient emigrants, though, were a gain. By 1928, they enriched Goa annually by a
whopping Rs.134.25 lakh (multiply that by 1,000 for today’s value), in remittances. That’s
the only bright side to the story of Goan Emigration. Away from home-‘n’-hearth, they
shed sweat and tears, to remit savings, raise local living standards, and engineer a new
economic model, the “remittance economy.” The singular credit for boosting Goa’s
economy, on both sides of the 1961 divide, goes to these sons and daughters of Goa,
who worked elsewhere in India, the Gulf and on ships, and built her Remittance
Economy.

In contrast, mining, the state’s blue-eyed baby, did little (save screw the environment.)
Its profit was concentrated with a few. What trickled, via ancillaries, was a slender slice.
Today’s tourism, save its luxury lobby, is infinitely more egalitarian.

Expat remittances, now at 33% of Goa’s revenue receipt, provided purchasing power. It
enriched shopkeepers, hawkers, and service providers. And don’t forget banks, which,
like mineowners, benefited much but ploughed back little. Forget deposits to advances
ratio, India’s nationalized and scheduled banks financed just nine percent Goan émigrés
to lay the golden eggs for them!

Remittances are estimated by the CDS survey (see this column of 09 and 16 August) at
Rs.800 crores per annum, 72% of it received by Goan Catholics and 36% by Salcetans.
A large section (82% local households) uses it for daily sustenance. A substantial share,
heartening to note, goes into education and healthcare. A quarter of households deposit
it in banks. Twenty percent build houses or purchase land.

Émigrés and remittances, paradoxically again, created most of the problems we wail
about today, often at the wrong wall.

Remittances fuelled a never-before demand for goods and services. The demand was
not met by locals. Skilled and unskilled Goans of prime working age were already in the
Gulf and elsewhere. The few back home developed skewed ideas about manual work
and dignity of labour. As larger numbers of Goans left in the *Petrodollar-Rush*, to fuel
more wealth, and more demand for services they themselves once provided, they left a
ballooning local vacuum in their wake.

Nature abhors vacuum. Mass emigration by Goans presaged equal and opposite waves
of immigration by others. In the 19th century, as Catholics went overseas, Goan Hindus
from the hinterland talukas took their place, changing the demographic profile of Bardez,
Tiswadi and Salcete. In the 20th century, while Goans went to the Gulf, Goa became the
Gulf to India’s poor. They took the place vacated by expats.

As kids, we would tease in a chair-taking prank, “Quem foi à Madeira, perdeu a cadeira”
(s/he who left for Madeira – the Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic – lost the
chair back home), or the original, "Quem foi ao ar, perdeu o lugar" (s/he who went
daydreaming, lost his/her seat.)

Before going to the story of in-migration, let’s check some interesting reader responses
on Goan emigration next Sunday. (ENDS)

The above article appeared in the Herald, Goa, edition of August 30, 2009

IN REPLY TO "DEATH OF MESSIAS BARRETO"

Hello Anthony,
It is such a sad day for all of us from Candolim. We really lost a wonderful human being. I must say he was jewel in the crown. Your words touched my heart and I must say you are so greatful to whatever he did for you and the Goan community. Barretto family is a very close to our family and we have known them for years. We almost grew up there when his parents were living. May his sooul rest in peace.

Your words have given a befitting farewell to our Messias Barreto. Keep up the good work Anthony and bravo for being such a wonderful man and so compassionate. May God Bless you too and I pray that you succeed in whatever you do. God Bless You.

Jasmine,
UAE.

From: averonicaf806@hotmail.com
Subject: Death of ex Kuwaitkar Messias Barreto.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:03:44 +0000

G O A
--No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--
August 28, 2009

DEATH OF EX KUWAITKAR "Messias Barreto" in Goa.

It was with deep sorrow I received the news of the sad death of my friend and colleague in Kuwait for so many years, the late Mr. Messias Barreto from Candolim, Bardez, Goa. He died in Goa on 26th of this month after a brief illness for which he was hospitalized a few days. Messias Barreto was a long timer in Kuwait who first came to Kuwait with a Portuguese Passport since Goa then was in the hands of Portuguese. After finishing his higher Schooling at Monte de Guirim he worked in Goa for a brief period and then came to Kuwait. Coming from a very sophisticated family in Candolim having his reputed father as a village Regidor during those days and who was also an influential member of the Church group overseeing Church affairs, Messias enjoyed good respect in the village and in society from his early age. Being the eldest in the family consisting of 3 brothers and two sisters, he also enjoyed highest love and respect in the entire Barreto family.

DEATH OF EX KUWAITKAR "Messias Barreto" in Goa.

It was with deep sorrow I received the news of the sad death of my friend and colleague in Kuwait for so many years, the late Mr. Messias Barreto from Candolim, Bardez, Goa. He died in Goa on 26th of this month after a brief illness for which he was hospitalized a few days.

Messias Barreto was a long timer in Kuwait who first came to Kuwait with a Portuguese Passport since Goa then was in the hands of Portuguese. After finishing his higher Schooling at Monte de Guirim he worked in Goa for a brief period and then came to Kuwait. Coming from a very sophisticated family in Candolim having his reputed father as a village Regidor during those days and who was also an influential member of the Church group overseeing Church affairs, Messias enjoyed good respect in the village and in society from his early age. Being the eldest in the family consisting of 3 brothers and two sisters, he also enjoyed highest love and respect in the entire Barreto family.

A very soft spoken man with high integrity, Messias maintained the highest reputation that the Barreto family in Candolim had. He loved Goa, Candolim village and village affairs. When I was a young boy in Candolim excelling is athletics and soccer, he always during his vacation periods in Goa used to applaud and support my achievements. He was a great supporter of sports and soccer in particular even patronizing whenever he was in Goa.

In Kuwait he worked for a reputed organization “Lebanese Insurance Company” till his final days in Kuwait during the time of invasion of Kuwait. While working for Lebanese Insurance, his beloved wife Janet worked as a teacher for a well known Indian school “Carmel School” where all his 4 sons did their schooling and now well settled in life.

In Kuwait he had strong pulls in different segments and making use of his pulls he helped many of the needy Goans and non-Goans too. He had vast pulls in the Government Hospitals which he used to help Goans get preferential treatment. From his pulls in the Interior Ministry he even got so many Goans released from the Police Stations for misdemeanors. He was hungry for helping others. He did lot of social work in Kuwait silently even by helping many people getting employment.

He was the Vice - President of Goan Overseas Association till his leaving Kuwait in 1990 and during his association with G.O.A., their G.O.A. Maroons soccer team attained highest peak. He was very instrumental in promoting and supporting G.O.A. Maroons and helped many of the players financially and otherwise. His presence with the team during the official matches and practice sessions was always visible on the ground transporting in his Opel Car players from their homes to the ground and back home. He was a strong link between players and their needs.

Being my villager and a family friend, from the day I landed in Kuwait he was with me helping and supporting me in my needs and activities, directly and indirectly. While some in the G.O.A. Maroons used my talent and efficiency for their own personal promotion, Messias Barreto on the contrary as an unselfish man always helped me and assisted me in my needs since I was new then needing lot of assistance. I always respected him as a fatherly figure because he performed his fatherly obligations towards me when he was not obligated actually. I am very much indebted to him, so too my wife and children whom too he along with his wife showered with lot of love and affection. Such persons are rarity in our midst these days. He was a thorough great hearted pristine Goan. He lived a very decent and upright life in Kuwait along with his family. Inspite of being a public figure, he lived a very good life without any sort of scandal. He was a very good family man, a very faithful husband to his very faithful wife, a very good father to his very good sons and a very good member of Goan community.

For Konkani cause in Kuwait he always supported me even financially. During the time of Novem Goem Pratishthan movement for the Novem Goem Daily Newspaper, when I approached him for his contribution, he gave me a blank cheque signed by him but I only asked his contribution on par with others.

After the invasion of Kuwait on 7th October 1990 we traveled to Goa from Kuwait via Jordan together along with his wife and all 4 sons who were 20 years younger then. When in Goa I initiated Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Centre movement, he whole heartedly supported me even taking care of legal aspects thru his brother-in-law Manuel Martin who was then Public Prosecutor at Panaji Court.

In his death I lost a great friend, a fatherly figure and a strong support which I used not only for my benefit but also for the benefits of the social causes I initiated. He had very good knowledge of Goan and his village history, culture and tradition. He also had a very good knowledge of Tiatro and yesteryears Tiatrists which many times he shared with me. As a son of village Regidor, he attended all the Tiatros organized in Candolim during those days when Portuguese was ruling Goa with Censorship. He shared many of those stories with me on this important subject. I value the same. He quoted legendary Minguel Rod and his actions with ease. Among all Tiatrists he admired Minguel Rod the most and as a singer he adored Alexinho de Candolim for his sheer genius in scripting and singing beautiful songs.

Adeus Messias, Adeus. May God give you eternal rest in Heaven and may the same God give courage to your wife and children to bear this colossal loss.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

WHERE IS KUWAIT'S GWS FUND GONE, SEXOLOGIST CHORA?

From: redrosy redrosy
Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:55 PM
To: bmviegas26@yahoo.com
Cc: goa.kranti@gmail.com

B M Viegas thanks for being so forward and straight on the tip point.I have often found questions raised on GWS activities for many years whose members seems dead and silent on the funds, activities, scholarships and even a small greetings. Why can't the members invest the one crore rupees in India or even in Kuwait.

I am looking for the day when as a child of a GWS member I will get a job opportunity through GWS. I missed a few points for their scholarship, but then I found out it was just a few thousand rupees divided for 6-8 high mark achivers, not enough for the books and snacks for a semester.

Can you forward this question to the Embassy and the NRI Minister in Goa and the NRI Head in DELHI also for redressal? Why can't A VERONICA FERNANDES through KRANTI raise this issue and get it concluded like so many other items he raised in Goa? Let me know your findings and your response to this email.

My mother is a member of GWS for long and the form is signed by a committee member who is still in Kuwait but I do not have the person's telephone number. And also my godfather is also a GWS member who was always supporting dances has nominated me for the GWS funds' generation income and also death benefits entitlements which they are proud of too of mentioning.

To all GWS Dev borem korum for thinking of my future, now that my parents are on the verge of going back by October. If anyone wishes to get a signature campaign towards their efforts, I am for it.

B M Viegas, how to get enrolled into your NRGOA. Can a teenager like me join in too, I have my own akama and am on training for computers. My parents say send this to all, but I am sending only to those whom I think might be helpful.

ROSY.

WHERE IS KUWAIT'S GWS FUND GONE?To: goa.kranti@gmail.com
From: bmviegas26@yahoo.com
Sub: Where is Kuwait's GWS Fund gone?

Hello Mr. Alex Wilson Coelho,
Hope you are doing fine at GWS with God's Blessings. Coming to your well wishes to GWS-Nairobi. What is the status of Goan Welfare Society, Kuwait headed by you ? Unity should begin at home. How many Goans in Kuwait are the members of GWS-Kuwait ? Only a handful. And if my information is correct, GWS-Kuwait has closed doors for new membership or at least in the past this was in practice ?And you say "....AND ASSIST THOSE IN NEED IN THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES". How much assistance is provided in Kuwait to the needy (excluding GWS-Kuwait members) ? We have Goan Football clubs in Kuwait and these clubs and some individuals give helping hand to such cases directly or indirectly. Football fraternit-"lian and herr Goenkar bava boin-nantlian kiteim adhar meuta amche needy Goenkarank" in Kuwait. GWS-Kuwait got lot of money (approx. Rs. 1 crore per hear say, not sure) accumulated, that too at the cost of ALL Goans in Kuwait as these same Goans participated/contributed in one way or the other to the successful and PROFITED events organsied by GWS. So the money which is with GWS belongs to ALL GOANS in Kuwait and who were in Kuwait. Please utilise this everbody's BLOOD money to some definit use/cause. Any moves at your end ? Or you are hoarding the money to grow and one fine day WHO KNOWS who will be the final beneficiary ? YOU REMEMBER, IN THE PAST I HAD CALLED FOR A NON-RESIDENT GOANS MEETING TO FORM 'NRGA'. YOU DID NOT TURN UP. Mr. Wilson you are good at SWEET words and at the same time you vomit "vikh", like what you mentioned in your recent post wishing Rene barretto.
Good day.B.M. Viegas--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Wilson Coelho <http://mail.google.com/mail/h/1cq94vielhjf5/?v=b&cs=wh&to=wilson_coelho@hotmail.com> wrote:From: Wilson Coelho <http://mail.google.com/mail/h/1cq94vielhjf5/?v=b&cs=wh&to=wilson_coelho@hotmail.com>Subject: RE: [GOAN-NRI] WORLD GOA DAY -2009 NAIROBI -KENYA 23.8.2009To: http://mail.google.com/mail/h/1cq94vielhjf5/?v=b&cs=wh&to=goan-nri@yahoogroups.co.inDate: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 12:42 PMGOAN WELFARE SOCIETY - KUWAIT WISHES EVERY SUCCESS FOR THE GOA DAY OF GWS NAIROBI. HOW NICE IT WOULD BE IF WE HAVE ONE AND ONLY ONE ASSOCIATION UNDER GOAN WELFARE OR GOAN OVERSEAS ASSOCIATION (MAJORITY TO RULE THE NAME) IN EACH AND EVERY COUNTRY OF THE WORLD TO UNITE GOANS UNDER ONE BANNER FOR PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY AND GENUINELY ASSIST THOSE IN NEED IN THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES AND BACK HOME BUILD AN EMPIRE. CAN WE MAKE THIS A REALITY0WITH ALL THE BEST WISHES AND EVERY SUCCESS VIVA GOA VIVA LA GOENKAR ALEX WILSON COELHOHON PRESIDENT - GOAN WELFARE SOCIETY - KUWAITTo: goanet@goanet. orgFrom: goanint@yahoo. co.ukDate: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:50:49 +0000Subject: [GOAN-NRI] WORLD GOA DAY -2009 NAIROBI -KENYA 23.8.2009WORLD GOA DAY - NAIROBI, KENYAhttp://3.bp. blogspot.com/_QKPfld9QLHU /SoAuP5xRkBI/ AAAAAAAAEdk/ yDS4n3mpPd4/ s1600-h/GWS+ NAIROBI+- +KENYA.png0000000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000000From: Goan Welfare Society Nairobi <http://us.mc531.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gwsnews09@gmail.com>Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:14:24 PMSubject: GOA DAY 2009.Dear Members and Friends,GWS would like to remind you that Goa Day will be held on Sunday the 23rd of August 2009 at the Goan Gymkhana grounds from 11am.There will be lots of entertainment for children, a variety of stalls ranging from culinary delights to investment advice. If you are looking for information on flights to Goa be sure to visit our holiday stall.....Goa Day will have something for everyone!LUCKY SEVEN ; WHEEL OF FORTUNE ; HOOLA HOOP and WET SPONGE stalls will be auctioned tomorrow, Tuesday the 11th of August 2009 at the Goan Gymkhana at 7pm. Should you like to run a stall with your produce / goods pleasecontact us via email or through any one of the committee members.We look forward to seeing you at GOA DAY!GOAN WELFARE SOCIETY 0000000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0rene barretoInternational Launch of KONKANI SONG BOOK - WORLD GOA DAY .20.8.2009TORONTO - CANADA : http://globalgoanmusicans.blogspot.com/WORLD GOA DAY - a day set aside by Goans who are Proud to be Goans - toCELEBRATE their Goan Cultural Heritage, a day to promise to help the less fortunate in our Goan community:Posted by KRANTI at Thursday, August 13, 2009 0 comments Links to this post

UNITED GOANS CENTER, KUWAIT, THANKS.

With profound sorrow, we on behalf of the President and the committee members of the UNITED GOANS CENTER (U.G.C.), condole the death of our founder member the late Mr. Joe Fernandes and thank each and every one for his support specially those who conveyed their condolences through this forum, through telephone calls and also through SMS.

As a matter of information, we also had an opportunity of sending one of our representatives for his funeral at Colva, Salcette, Goa.

Our special thanks go to the following:

1. Mr. Fidelis Fernandes 2. Mr. Carmo Santos 3. Santos Club 4. Navelim Youth Center 5. U.F.C. 6. A.V.C. and 7. KIFF.

From: UNITED GOANS CENTER,

KUWAIT.

ONE MORE ON "DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS".

From: Mario Andrew Rodrigues (andrew_mario@hotmail.com)
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:43:12 PM
To: veronica kuwait (averonicaf806@hotmail.com)

so very true,....and the same goes with the goan politicians who are giving ration cards/houses/lands/everything to kashmiris/biharis/andraities/ and treating goans as slaves..........agreee?

Subject: Disgraceful Indian Managers - II.Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:05:59 +0000

G O A
--No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--
August 25, 2009

DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS - II.

DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS/SUPERIORS.PART - II.

ON "DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS".

Hi Anthony,
I must say you are doing wonderful job in your writings. You have so much of courage, dignity, education and you value human beings which are created by God, the caste is made by men and not God. You are the only one who has this courage to write risking your life. I am with you for whatever good you do to our Goans.

Jasmine
From: averonicaf806@hotmail.comTo: averonicaf806@hotmail.com
Subject: Disgraceful Indian Managers - II.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:14:03 +0000

G O A
--No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--
August 25, 2009
DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS - II.

DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS - III.

DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS/SUPERIORS.
PART - III.

When we organised our movement in Goa in support of Kuwait, under Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center, during the invasion of Kuwait, all the top employees, top executives, Managers and businessmen earlier enjoying luxurious life in Kuwait stayed away from our movement because they had no guts to mingle with others since they did nothing good for others, they only harassed people working under them. Instead of joining us in support of our movement for the cause of invaded Kuwait they were hiding under the petticoats of their wives even though they had more obligation to join our movement because they enjoyed better benefits of Kuwait's employment. Secondly being money crazy, they found this movement useless fetching them nothing since as per their calculation invaded Kuwait was the gone case. Fighting and working for the cause of Kuwait during the invasion of Kuwait was the work of "Muskins" like me.

As a matter of interest, during the invasion of Kuwait many places in India besides Goa, organised actitivites in support of Kuwait but to my knowledge, none of the top executives and managers took active interest in these activities. To initiate such mighty movements of mighty magnitudes is not the speciality of these rascal Indians but to harass others and disgrace the image of Indians in Kuwait is their forte. Many Kuwaitis after seeing photo albums and Video Cassettes of our movement in Goa during the invasion of Kuwait asked me why so many well known Goans holding top positions in Kuwait before the invasion of Kuwait are missing in our movement? For this I replied saying "they are crooks, ungrateful and unfaithful to Kuwait and what Kuwait has given to them. Without Kuwait these people would be nothing in life back at home because such so called high profile persons are rotting in India and nobody cares them there. They are all one eyed persons among the blinds in Kuwait though they may boast of their high earnings and top positions in Kuwait. For them Kuwait is necessary only to make money. And this refers to most of other such Indians from other parts of India".

Currently you see many Indians holding top positions in top Kuwait's companies but if I ask them what was their contribution for the promotion of Kuwait's cause during the invasion of Kuwait, what will be their answer? Negative, because they are not interested in Kuwait's cause. During the invasion of Kuwait they were not sucking the breast of their mothers but were matured and grown up to think what is good and what is bad. These people are interested only in amassing wealth even by adoring Saddam Hussein if it helps them to accumulate more wealth.

After the liberation of Kuwait, I was one of the former employees recalled by my company. To commemorate the first anniversary of the invasion of Kuwait and to raise the issue of Kuwait's Prisoners of War (POW), I on behalf of Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center with the association and participation of top Kuwaitis announced a meeting at Hotel Plaza Ballroom. Immediately I was called by a group of Indians gathered at Indian Embassy where I was asked to surrender the right of G-KSC to hold this meet and instead to organise this meet in the name of all Indians in Kuwait. For this I replied saying "since all Kuwait Indians have not done what we Goans have done in Goa for the cause of Kuwait, I refuse to oblige you". Then I asked them thus, "what was your contribution towards this cause during the invasion of Kuwait when you too were in India as Kuwait evacuees?". They had no answer. These are shameless Indians. They were from Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Andra, Maharastra and many other places in India.

Even most of those top Indians who are now earning thousands of Kuwaiti Dinars were doing nothing in India to raise the banner of Kuwait during the invasion of Kuwait. All the top Kuwaitis engaging top Indians in their organisations must ponder over the faithfulness of these Indians working for them towards Kuwait. Most of these top Indians are not faithful to Kuwait, they are only interested in Kuwaiti Dinars and in looting Kuwait by harassing others. When we were organising our annual meetings in Kuwait at Hotel Plaza Balroom in support of the release of Kuwait's POW's, invitations were open for every Indian but to my regret all the top names of Indians working in Kuwait never associated with us in our campaign. I personally went from Kuwait to Delhi by spending money from my own pocket to campaign in support of this issue yet none of the top Indians working in Kuwait and earning thousands of Dinars bothered to enquire about this with me. These top Indians are least interested in Kuwait. They are so ungrateful to Kuwait if necessary to save their pockets they will even salute the dead Saddam Hussein. In some places in South India some Kuwait Indians have displayed big posters of Saddam Hussein to praise him after getting enermous amount of UN compensation. These people are grateful to Saddam Hussein for creating a way for them to amass huge wealth. In fact I am as a supporter of Kuwait ashamed of all these top Indians in Kuwait.

While concluding I can rightly say that my enemy is within me only. Yet, I will go on propagating my views and will expose those who harass others thereby creating bad image of Kuwait. Later on I will openly name them so that in India, amongst Indians and in their localities back at home they are castigated by the society for harassing Indians and others in Kuwait on the strenght of their official positions and power. Kuwaitis owning their companies are not bad but it is their managers, their top executives and those who are running their administrations are bad and Indians are the worst. These Indians are mainly from Kerala, Andra, Bangalore, Delhi, Bombay, Tamilnadu and Goa. They are enemies of India and Indians. And most of the companies run by Indian management are doubly worst. Many of my friends working in companies under Indian administrations and under Indian managers are suffering too much. I pity them. Many of the Indian managers are harassing them, denying them their due renumenarations and making them to suffer. Normally any company in Kuwait administered by Indian Management you will see there nothing but discrimination and harassment, partiality and step motherly treatment against those staff who do not belong to their clan in region, culture, religion, language, caste and social standing. Indian Managers generally speaking are discriminatory and bias in their attitude towards other Indians. For this reason many times it is a curse to work under Indian Managers and Indian Management.

My suggestion, wherever possible, one must avoid working under Indian managers and Indian management even though there are some good perons in these categories. But to be on the safer side, one must take care of oneself. Normally Indian manager will never fight for your cause and for your betterment with his top bosses, he is a gutless person because he is a coward. He is gutsy only to bark like a dog at staff working under him. He is selfish interested in his ownself. He is not fit to be a true leader and precisely because of this attitude he will not fight with the top management to get proper justice to his staff when injustice is prevailed in his department. He is interested in saving his skin first. In reality he is the greatest slave in Kuwait though he pretends to be a feudal lord, an aristocrat, a high profile and highly dignified Indian. But, highly dignified Indians are not coming to Kuwait. This is not a place for highly dignified Indians however much one may claim to be one. A highly dignified Indian becomes lowest dignified Indian in Kuwait within a few minutes of his coming to Kuwait.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS - II.

DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS/SUPERIORS.

PART - II.

I have just returned from my vacation and during this period I noticed that many of my compatriots earlier working in Kuwait inspite of having palatial houses, lot of money and limousines are suffering from mental distress, cardiac problems and other sicknesses acquired in Kuwait while working under stress due to the mental and physical pressures put in by their managers. Most of them are the victims of the maltreatment of their Indian Managers. I feel Indian mission in Kuwait must keep a careful watch on the behaviour of top Indian Executives and Managers because many of them are on the spree to disgrace the fair image of India to protect their remunerations and positions. It is they who spoil the good image of my country in Kuwait. It is they who can create good or bad image of India and Indians in Kuwait and unfortunately they prefer doing the latter to protect their remunerations which really high and about which they can never dream of in India.

Many of the Indian Managers while landing in Kuwait first time came as ordinary employees but later on either thru their hard work or chance or fluke or by acting as pimps by supplying their wives and Whiskey bottles to their bosses rose to the position of Managers which carry lot of benefits. In order to maintain and retain these benefits, many of them do all the cruelties towards their subordinates. Otherwise, to become a Manager in Kuwait you need not necessarily become highly educated or highly smart in your profession. Many times donkeys make better Managers. A man who was pealing potatoes and cutting Onions at Shuwaikh Modern Restaurant in Kuwait finally in 1975 became my superior who did not know the difference between "is" and "are" when I first time started working in Kuwait.

The other thing our elders also told during those days was never to work under Goan superiors because he is a coward of first grade. For the sake of money and power he will do anything his boss tells him. If one carefully observes this point one can easily notice so many of our Goans earlier in Kuwait holding top positions were treating their subordinates as slaves. Some of them are retired and living in Goa now not as full fledged human beings but as cowards, hiding from public view because they are afraid of their lives since they did more harm for staff working under them than good when they could do good. They have no guts even to move freely in the open. I am sure people are aware of how one Mr. A. Furtado a big businessman in pre-invasion period of Kuwait, during the invasion of Kuwait was confined in Goa to his home only by those whom he harassed in Kuwait.

Another Goan Mr. F. Almeida from the Goan village Saligao while working as top executive in one big private company was treating staff under him as sub-human beings and at the time of recruitment even questioning the caste status of the Goan candidates. Mr. Almeida was a Goan Christian Brahmin and was very boastful of his high caste status. But he was such a shameless Brahmin that like a rejected Harijan he was polishing the shoes of his bosses to save him from his chair. Many of the so called Brahmins working in Kuwait are not genuine Brahmins, they are fake Brahmins and precisely they are so, they are leaving their Indian shores and working in Kuwait against all rules of their genuine Brahmin caste. Instead of performing their priestly duties as per the terms of their caste they are doing commercial jobs of harassing others to accumulate money and that too in a foreign country and yet they shamelessly call themselves Brahmins. The genuine Brahmins are not leaving their shores and coming to Kuwait to work as pimps. The caste Brahmin carry specific duties which the Brahmins in Kuwait are not performing and as such they cannot call themselves as Brahmins unless they are bastardised Brahmins. Every caste is classified as per its professions.

Regarding Christian Brahmins, I must tell here that for Christians to believe in caste system either as Brahmins or any other caste is like going against the principle of Christianity which preaches the principle of equality as propounded by Jesus Christ. Those Christians who carry the title of caste either high or low are committing a sacrilege against Christianity and as such they cannot be called as Christians. Caste system creates inequality in society while Christianity propagates equality. Good that for centuries India was colonised by Christian European powers that introduced Christian principle of equality in India otherwise the discriminatory Hindu system of castes would ruin India. The great Indian patriot Dr. Ambedkar was not a fool to renounce caste oriented Hinduism and embrace Bhuddism.The emancipation of low caste Hindus took better shape for their development only when they followed in millions the call of Dr. Ambedkar to renounce Hinduism and also when they embraced Christianity. The low caste Hindus by embracing Christianity in India attained greater social status which under the original caste based Hindu religion would never allow them.

Yet another Manager Mr. Fernandes from Colva was treating his staff working under him as slaves even denying them proper remuneration commensurate with their job output and many times telling his staff that whatever little salary he is prescribing them was big compared to what they would get in India. This bloody Fernandes was working as General Manager for pittance of salary compared to what he deserved like a beggar and what benefits such beggars will reccommend to their staff when they themselves are accepting beggars remunerations for them? A beggar will convert others into beggars only. This is the tragedy one will face while working under Indian Managers who base their remunerations and that of others working under them on the basis of living standard in India and not in Kuwait.

Still one more Goan, a top executive at KOC, a Christian Brahmin too from the same village as that of Almeida, Mr. Cordeiro by name, during those early days at KOC to satisfy his sadistic ego was advising his British superiors "not to give more facilities to Goan staff because in Goa they are accustomed to live miserably".

TO BE CONCLUDED.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS - I.

DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS/SUPERIORS.
PART - I.

The Indian Ambassador to the State of Kuwait is an official representative of India and Indians in Kuwait. But the lay Indians like me working in this country are also the Ambassadors of India. More than Him, we the unofficial Ambassadors of India are responsible for creating a good image of our country in many respects. However, it is very sad that some of the very Indians who can depict good image of our country, our great culture, history and above all our humane nature are mutilating these great attributes of India. By doing so they are disgracing not only the image of India but also of Indians. And who are these people in Kuwait disgracing our image? Most of them are those belonging to the class of top executives and managers.

Rarely will one find an Indian manager good and humane towards his subordinates coming from different Indian regions and different nationalities. For the sake of his remunerations which are of himalayan magnitudes compared to what he can dream of in India, he will exploit his subordinates to the maximum detrimental to the image of India and well-being of his subordinates who meekly succumb to the arrogance of their Indian Managers and superiors in the absence of proper Labour Laws in this country to protect the rights of the labourers. The system of hire and fire without the support of Labour Law makes the position of the arrogant Manager as that of brute dictator Saddam Hussein.

I still remember how a friend of mine and a compatriate a few years back died out of shock when his own Indian Manager treated him badly inspite of putting in 3 decades of service in that company at Shuwaikh. This incident and many such brutalities of Managers towards their subordinates I have recorded in my diary to bring out to the notice of the society at an appropriate time and to put this type of Managers into shame, not only to them into shame but even to their children, grand children and their family members as well. When you carefully observe the quality of top Indian Executives and Managers in Kuwait, you will notice in many of them genuine qualities and leadership required to hold their positions are missing and out of fear for their jobs or otherwise they go on exploiting and harassing the staff working under them even pruning their salaries and at moments even sacking the employees in the name of cost saving device blaming falsely the world recession. But when the time of their perks, privileges and facilities come, they protect the same first, at that time there is no fear of recession. The weak Manager is the one who sack the staff working under him to increase the profit of his department. Sacking is not the solution but devising ways to improve the sale of their products and thereby increasing the profit of the company. But idiotic minded Managers will not be able to do this for lack of appropriate management skill. World Recession effect in Kuwait is to my knowledge is an illusion and not a concrete happening though it is waning very much elsewhere where its effect was felt.

Overwhelming Indians holding top positions in Kuwait are acting like Maharajas inspite of being treated in this society as 'Hindi Muskin' with disdain. Most of them are not Hindi Muskins in Kuwait only but even in India as well suffering from lot of defficiencies and for such Maharajas Kuwait is a nice place to act like Hitlers in front of their subbordinates and as slaves shamelessly in front of their bosses. From my personal experience during my last three decades in Kuwait I noticed that Indians holding top positions and treating their subordinates as dirt are themselves from dirt background in India intellectually, culturally, traditionally, historically, educationally and professionally. It is this class of people who blackens the fair image of Indians and India in Kuwait. Good that many of them are treated by their bosses as dirt otherwise these bloody Indian managers and top executives would create havoc for employees working under them. It is this dirty class of Indians that is creating dirty image of Indians in Kuwait. They think they have devine right to dictate their terms to others. When I say others, I mean only to those who are below their noses. Beyond that area they are all bloody fools. In their working areas they are like Monarchs of what they survey - beyond their official areas they are unknown entities and cowards hiding from the metropolitan society. On their official chairs they are like Lions but beyond that they are like Cockroaches.

I still remember our elders telling never to work under Indian Manager because normally he is bias against other Indians coming from different Indian States, culture, language, religion, caste and tradition. It was also said that Indians are most envious of other Indians and if you find your manager in this category then you will surely face the doom. Many of the people working under many Indian Managers and Superiors are suffering from physical and mental pains and these Indian Managers like sadistic minded prefer to inflict such pains and unnecessary tensions on their subordinates especially on Indians only because they are the soft spots for their game of torturing others. If anybody thinks all Indians are one then they are sadly mistaken. All Indians may have same one type of Passport but they are not the same one type of Indians. All Indians having same type of Passport will not be the same, they are different Indians. One type of Passport for all Indians will never make all Indians as one. We are innumerable Indians under one India and at moments I think if at all we are one Indians under one Indian Passport, it is only because Indianness is imposed on all of us. Given a chance, overwhelming majority of Indians will cecede from the Indian Union and will prefer to have their own sovereign independence. During the Chinese war against India in 1962, a section of Indians under the official political party "Communist Party of India" openly supported China and its invasion of India. This is the quality of some Indians to show their unfaithfulness towards their own country.

TO BE CONCLUDED.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

ONE MORE REPLY ON INVASION OF KUWAIT.

Sub: "EYE WITNESS TO INVASION OF KUWAIT ON 2ND AUGUST 19..."

Little did I know as a 10 year old that I would never return to that beautiful country (till date). How one monster changed the lifes of many poeple.

Veronica, well written and eagerly waiting to see and read with rapt attention your book on this subject.

Name witheld on request.

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Good account of the events. I lived at Salmiyah with my family then... was 10 years old.. :-) Remember quite a few events...

G'BYE GOA: GOAN EMIGRATION-6. By Valmiki Faleiro.

G’bye Goa: Goan Emigration-6
By Valmiki Faleiro

How far and wide did Goan émigrés reach? It’d be pointless to list the locations
within India. Goans are settled all over urban India, save, perhaps, Kashmir and the
North East. The CDS study reports that Goans are in 27 States in India, even if 80%
of them are concentrated in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi.

Proportionate to population, more Goan Catholics held ranks in India’s defence
services than any other Indian community (Sikhs would take that credit more in file
than rank), right from British times. Most such Goans, on retirement, settled around
cantonment cities. (My dad, a doc in the then Indian Army Medical Corps, served
from Kashmir to Kerala, but returned home at the end of his commission.)

Let’s pan to where Goans reached across the “seven seas” and seven continents.
Where they worked, and often permanently settled. With a list of nations of the world
and my own knowledge/hearsay, which, be fore-cautioned, is limited.

The picture is astounding. There would be no place on earth where a Goan didn’t
piss, if one counts Goan seamen and a former NIO-Goa scientist couple (and others
still serving) who lived multiple times in the non-country continent of Antarctica!

On a more serious note, I arrived at 91 countries where Goans were, and another 17
where they probably also were. Alphabetically:

Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria.

Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Burma, Burundi.

Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cyprus.

Denmark, Djibouti.

Ecuador, Ethiopia.

Fiji, Finland, France.

Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea-Bissau.

Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast.

Jamaica, Japan, Jordan.

Kenya, Kuwait.

Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg.

Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique.

Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway.

Oman.

Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal.

Qatar.

São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, South
Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden.

Tanzania (not counting the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar, where once Goans lived
in large numbers), Thailand, The Bahamas, The Netherlands.

Uganda, UAE, UK, USA, Uruguay.

Venezuela.

Yemen.

Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. And that’s not counting several places in the West Indies,
like Cayman Islands, where Goans in appreciable numbers today work and live.

Considering their presence in the neighbourhood, it’s highly probable that Goans
reached: Bolivia, Brunei, Chad, Central African Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt,
Gambia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Liberia, Micronesia, Nicaragua, Niger,
Senegal, Swaziland, Syria.

I’m not aware of Goans in: Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua & Barbuda,
Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, China,
Comoros, Cuba, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras,
Hungary, Liechtenstein, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Monaco, Mongolia,
Morocco, Nepal, North Korea, Rwanda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia
(save recent Goans taken captive for ransom by pirates off its coast!), Sudan,
Suriname, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey and Vietnam.

Also not of any in the 1992 cluster of former Soviet Bloc/Balkan states: Albania,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Yugoslavia.

Robert Newman, the American anthropologist, says (in his “Goddess of Dreams,”
page 89) that Goa’s emigration may pro-rata be the highest in the world. If true, the
great Goan scatter would rank only next to the Babylonian Exile of Jews in 586 BC.
Unwittingly, this dispersal is dubbed “the Goan Diaspora” – *exiled* from their
homeland, as it were, by economic, not racial (read Persian) forces as Jews were.
Without doubt, proportionately more Goans live outside India than from any other
Indian community.

PS: Forget the editor of a local weekly who tells tales of “coconut trees with
branches” and “moveable land,” the local edition of a national daily told us on Aug 13
that “Our Lady of Boa Morte” at Candolim is “Happy Death of Our Lady.” (ENDS)========================================================

Elvino Rodrigues-Kuwait, replies to Veronica's critics.

August 21, 2009

Elvino Rodrigues-Kuwait replies to Veronica's critics.
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Re: Response to "I am ashamed to be an Indian Ctizen


I have read the 2 responses sent in response to Article mentioned in the subject.
I may not agree many mentions of Veronica in the article, but I fully agree with him what he wrote about the so called Leaders of India specially the present ones. They are the cause for honourable Indians to get disgusted and to reach to such an intolerable expression. However I know Mr. Veronica is very respected Citizen of India who will never trade his citizenship to any other Nationality given an opportunity. I have known many hypocrites who claim to be Indian Citizens while they have really not done anything worthy to be called responsible Indian Citizens. I know Veronica who has brought respect and dignity to Indians in this part of World by being more responsible Indian than these hypocrites who claims to be real Citizens while in fact they are unpatriotic and traitors.


The activities of Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center under the Convenorship of Veronica has attracted a world appreciation and much respect not only to Goans but to entire Indian Citizens. The relationship which Indian Leaders have severely soured with Kuwait and Gulf countries after the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi Dictator, Saddam Husain due to a warm hug given by India’s then Foreign Minister, Mr.Gujral, giving an impression to Gulf Countries that India supported the Invasion of Kuwait, have been regained through the supportive movements & demonstrations of Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center soon after the invasion which prolonged even long after the liberation of Kuwait and the whole credit of this goes to Mr. Veronica.
Veronica’s article was mostly referred to the present Politician-Clowns and so called Leaders of India, who brought shame and disgrace to real democracy and bad name to India. There are no salt worth Statesmen left in India. They are all selfish and most of them are of shady character, with criminal background and some of them are even illiterate and semi-literate and these characters are today ruling our India. Under these circumstances who will not get feelings of disgust and get frustrated and speak the words that are really not meant!


Soglem dista toxem nasta.


Regards,
Elvino Rodrigues


G O A--No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--August 17, 2009In Response to "I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen"FW: [GOAN-NRI] Fw: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.‏From: Oscar Lobo (oscarlobo1@optusnet.com.au)Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:14:40 AMTo: averonicaf806@hotmail.comCc: bospam@gmail.com


Hello Veronica,
Here are two responses to your open letter regarding the subject.The responses make sense.
Cheers Oscar From: melissa. Sent: Monday, 17 August 2009 11:57 AM. To: Vanita Vaz.Subject: RE: [GOAN-NRI] Fw: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.I strongly second Vanita's opinion. I believe I am blessed to be born an INDIAN. It would be a different me if it was not for my birth country. True that I like most others have embraced other citizenships but that does not absolve me from my responsibilities towards my nation and primarily does not confer on me any right to DEGRADE India. Agreed that India does have aeons to go but criticizing and complaining only retards it. I would most certainly be tempted to ask what these 'ashamed critics' have done to improvise the situation. From experience most have left India, settled overseas and shoot emails from the world over opining and advising what India 'COULD DO - SHOULD DO'. Its time each of us take responsibility for our actions and INACTIONS!!"Vanita17/08/2009 08:23 AM

To"Oscar Lobo" oscarlobo1@optusnet.com.au

Subject RE: [GOAN-NRI] Fw: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.I
I m a proud Indian Citizen – whilst I agree with all this- India has defined me with lovely sense of culture, hospitality and warmth. True there are several evils that plague our country! But there’s precious little we the so-called citizens do about it. The onus is on us – recall JFK’s quote ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country! I for one, am certainly proud of my Indian heritage! Jai Ho!


From: Oscar Lobo [mailto:oscarlobo1@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, 15 August 2009 5:54 PMTo: Oscar LoboSubject: FW: [GOAN-NRI] Fw: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.Importance: High --- On Fri, 14/8/09, A. Veronica Fernandes wrote: From: A. Veronica Fernandes Subject: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.To: averonicaf806@hotmail.comDate: Friday, 14 August, 2009, 2:36 PM G O A--No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--August 15, 2009I AM ASHAMED TO BE AN INDIAN CITIZEN.Posted by KRANTI at Monday, August 17, 2009 0 comments Links to this post
Posted by KRANTI at Friday, August 21, 2009 0 comments Links to this post

IN RESPONSE TO "MAID BRUTALISED IN KUWAIT BY HER EMPLOYER.

RE: Maid brutalised inKuwait by her employers.‏
From:gaspersWorld ® (gaspercrasto@hotmail.com)
Sent:Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:47:38 AM
To: av f (averonicaf806@hotmail.com)

Dear Veronica bab,
This is reply to your posting on the subject.
Kindly publish in KRANTI.
Regards,
Gasper Crasto.

Re: MAID BRUTALLY ASSAULTED IN KUWAIT BY HER EMPLOYERS.

Whenever I read an article about a maid harming a child or children, harming herself, or being beaten by her employer, I ask myself who is at fault? The employer or the worker? Does the blame fall on the employer, the maids, or the governments of each country? I have spoken to many people working in Kuwaiti houses over the years, and found that a great number of them have so many regrets. They feel ashamed of their government, and they feel abandoned. Some feel that they have to make many mistakes, so that the employer will send them back to the labor office or back home, and others are so stressed out that they usually take more drastic measures.Does this sound wrong to you? Should people have to live like this?


These people have rights. They have families waiting for them in their country. They have fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, husbands, and children who depend on them. They come here to earn a little money to send to their families so that their children can get an education. They send money home to take care of their fathers and mothers. What are the job requirements of a maid? They are individuals hired to perform certain duties, such as, house cleaning, washing and ironing, cooking, vacuuming, and child care. Each one is hired for a certain job. Well, that is the way it should be! But. do you know that many of these maids are brought to Kuwait on false pretenses? They are told that they will be working in hospitals, restaurants, beauty salons, schools and other places, but when they arrive to Kuwait, they are employed as nannies or house maids.They are not qualified for these jobs. They, usually, lack experience and many have never operated a washer, dryer, microwave, gas stove, iron, or any electrical appliance, or cared for children. Yet, they are forced to learn these tasks in a very short time.


This is very stressful for a person who has little or no experience in this field of work, and one who has no interest in doing this type of job. Religion says, we should be kind, generous, and treat people the way we would like to be treated. If an individual is hired for a certain job, shouldn’t they work in the field in which they are brought for. Shouldn’t everyone, including our high shot expatriates keep in mind that these individuals are human, too, and show some sympathy towards them?


When we see such cases as highlighted by Mr. Boie Conrad Dublin in Arab Times, what is our reaction? “Forget it, these are Phillipinos, or, they are Tamils, etc, etc,..?” “Why should we bother about some maids, we are here to make money and live comfortably. Kick the cats aside!”Regardless of the work the house workers are hired to do, we must know, like all of us, they need rest, food and plenty of sleep so that they can perform their jobs well. They need training before coming to this country to be employed. If they are hired to work in a hospital, school, or restaurant, then, that is what they should be doing, as long as they have the qualifications. Their rights should be secured, before they leave their country.Take a moment and think about this.

Gasper Crasto/Kuwait
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From: averonicaf806@hotmail.comTo: averonicaf806@hotmail.comSubject: Maid brutalised inKuwait by her employers.Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:50:57 +0000
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G O A
--No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--
August 20, 2009


MAID BRUTALLY ASSAULTED IN KUWAIT BY HER EMPLOYERS.

The following news item appeared in Kuwait’s daily “Arab Times” dated 18.08.09. I am reproducing it for our Goans to read and to know what type of cruelty is going on in this society against the poor maids. Our Goan females wishing to come to Kuwait to work as maids must think twice before deciding to come to Kuwait to work as maids.A. Veronica Fernandes,Kuwait. Seen in the picture Philippine Ambassador enquring the condition of the brutally assaulted Philippine maid seated on the chair with her leg in Plaster. The last picture shows her badly bruised back.

HUMAN CRUELTIES IN KUWAIT.

HUMAN CRUELTIES IN KUWAIT.

After reading in this forum yesterday’s news item on brutalized maid in Kuwait, our readers will know what tragic events are taking place in Kuwait especially for the weaker section namely the maids. According to many, what it is highlighted in the local press in Kuwait is like a tip of an iceberg, thank God at least it is coming out now openly. Earlier it was not, the way it is exposed now. Earlier most of the maids in Kuwaiti houses were Goans and they have suffered worst of tortures from their barbaric Kuwaiti employers who loved torturing their maids. They have failed to show compassion to their domestics who like goats meekly surrendered to the torturing by their employers. Maid assaulting and raping are very common in Kuwait and many of our Goan sisters, wives, mothers and other females have suffered this humiliation silently. Yet most of them supported Kuwait, Kuwaitis and their cause of liberation during the invasion of Kuwait by coming on to the streets in Goa in a show of solidarity with Kuwait against Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The uniqueness of Goans among Indians is forgiveness and forgetfulness, for this reason Goan maids came on to the streets in Goa in support of Kuwait. I don’t think Kuwaitis would do the same for Indians. I pity those Goan maids who had to bear all the humiliations from Kuwaiti employers who treated and still treat them as slaves against the teachings of their great and compassionate religion, Islam. Inspite of praying five times a day, many Muslim Kuwaitis treat their maids ruthlessly. Inspite of performing their religious rites regularly they harass their maids. This is against their religion and God will punish severely all the wrong doers, either today or tomorrow.

The incident of Philipina maid brutally beaten and thrown out of window like a cat by her employers is a crime and as such the perpetrators of this heinous crime should be punished. Good that this maid survived to tell her true story otherwise her employers would tell that their maid intentionally jumped from the third floor to escape from the work and died. In this case it would be an end of the story which would be treated as Suicide. I hope poor young maid will recover soon to return to her home place.

It is great to see Philippine Ambassador personally coming to see the tortured maid and took the matter in his hands for further investigation. Would our Indian Ambassador act similarly in a similar case if it happened to Indian maid and especially for a Goan maid? In the past, one Malyali Indian Ambassador encouraged and supported a western couple to kidnap a Goan boy from the hands of his mother as if Indian boy is a toy. Instead of supporting Indian boy, the Malyali Indian Ambassador supported westerners unlike Philippine Ambassador who show keenness to support Philippine nationals. Philippine Embassy is the only Embassy in Kuwait taking maximum care of its citizens in Kuwait especially of its maids.

From the account of the brutalized Philippina maid one can easily conclude how dangerous it is to get recruited in Kuwait thru Maid Recruiting Agencies. Some of these recruiting agencies are acting like butcheries and brothels, they care for nothing other than Kuwaiti Dinars accumulated thru any means. Instead of protecting this Philipina maid from her nasty employers, the agency gave the maid on silver platter to her employers to assault, to maim and to kill her. This is against Islam the compassionate religion that the Kuwaitis are practicing.

Will this maid get justice? I doubt. The employers are refusing to give heed to the summons of the Philippine Embassy. As Kuwaitis the employers will have strong clout in the higher ups, for this reason they don’t care for Embassy’s call. Kuwaitis in this society are wielding lot of power and influence to do what they want, many times many of them even are wrong. This society is not an egalitarian society. Expatriates in Kuwait especially Asians are many times treated with disdain but some Kuwaits who treat Asians and especially Indians with hatred and dislike will not stop sexually seducing their Asian and Indian maids. When the matter of having illicit sex comes they have no shame. This is yet another tragedy we face in this society.

As a matter of interest immediately following the invasion of Kuwait, Philippinas have suffered lot of harassments, molestations and rapings from the disgraceful Iraqi soldiers. The effect of these inhuman atrocities on Philippinas were noticed openly in Kuwait City. Because of invasion of Kuwait, Philippina residents from Kuwait City suffered too much. It is a pity that these pour souls are destined to suffer in Kuwait for no fault of theirs. They are very dedicated workers and sincere to their employers like Goans and precisely because of this soft nature many of them on compassionate grounds volunteered to stay in invaded Kuwait to help and support their employers even without receiving salaries as many of the Kuwaiti employers had no money to pay salaries to their domestics. Staying in invaded Kuwait and face the war was like facing death voluntarily which means committing suicide but many of these maids volunteered to risk their lives for the sake of their Kuwaiti employers. These sacrifices of these domestics cannot be erased from our minds.

This is the holy month of Ramadan. All Kuwaitis will be busy in prayer. Let us all non Muslims also pray for Kuwaitis to treat their maids and weaker section with compassion. That many Kuwaitis are treating their maids with brutality is not a big thing when they burn their own females and children by burning alive over 40 persons within few minutes as it happened in Jahra, Kuwait last week. Their anger is unbearable. Let us all pray during this Ramadan that God may give them cool temperament and may change their attitudes toward better.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

MAID BRUTALLY ASSAULTED IN KUWAIT BY HER EMPLOYERS.

The following news item appeared in Kuwait’s daily “Arab Times” dated 18.08.09. I am reproducing it for our Goans to read and to know what type of cruelty is going on in this society against the poor maids. Our Goan females wishing to come to Kuwait to work as maids must think twice before deciding to come to Kuwait to work as maids.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.



Seen in the picture Philippine Ambassador enquring the condition of the brutally assaulted Philippine maid seated on the chair with her leg in Plaster. The last picture shows her badly bruised back.

QUOTE “HUMANITY DEGRADED … MAID LIVES TO TELL ‘CHILLING’ STAY IN HELL-HOLE.
Employers uncooperative, recruiting office contacted: Embassy.

By Boie Conrad Dublin.
Arab Times Staff.

KUWAIT CITY, Aug 17: A Filipina household helper who was allegedly severely beaten and then thrown out from a third floor window by her Arab employers survived to tell her harrowing tale.
25-year-old Christina (first name withheld on her request) said she underwent operation to correct her broken spine and leg at Al Razi hospital last July 20 where she was brought after the incident.

According to Christina, she ran away from her employer’s home due to physical maltreatment and being denied food, so she sought refuge at her agency’s office in Hawally which then reportedly called her employers who immediately came to fetch her.

Despite her protestations against going back, she said she was forcibly dragged by her employers with the help of an agency employee through a back entrance to avoid attracting attention, to their car and while inside, was continuously beaten and kicked.

“On my arrival at my employers’ home, I was kicked and punched all over my body and later taken to a room and told to stop crying or they will throw me out of the window. But because of the excruciating pain I felt from the beating, I couldn’t help crying, so they came into the room, opened the window and dragged me towards it. I cried and begged them not to and clung to my employer’s legs but they kicked me repeatedly on my face until I was groggy and half conscious and then found myself falling and hitting the ground hard,” Christina sobbingly recalled her ordeal.

She said she learned her employers called for an ambulance which then took her to Al Razi Orthopedic hospital where she underwent emergency surgery for a broken spine and a broken leg.

A concerned compatriot, a nurse, at Al Razi hospital reportedly called the Philippine Embassy to alert them about her case and shortly thereafter, a representative from the embassy came to check on her.

She was discharged from the hospital three days ago and is now being looked after at the Filipino Workers Resource Center or FWRC of the Philippine Overseas Labour Office at the Philippine Embassy.

Screaming and crying in pain even at the slightest movement, she struggled to utter a few words asking H.E. Ambassador Ricardo M. Endaya to seek justice for her and make her employers and the agency answer in court for leaving her maimed, possibly for life.

According to knowledgeable sources, the employers are refusing to cooperate ignoring summons from the Philippine Embassy to appear and shed light on the matter. Ambassador Endaya also has reportedly called the agency’s representative and the owner to explain their side in allegedly forcing the victim to return to her employers despite knowledge that she was being maltreated.

The Philippine Embassy has retained the services of top caliber Kuwaiti lawyers to handle Christina’s case.

Ambassador Endaya held an emergency meeting Sunday with Embassy and POLO staff to discuss cases of abused workers and to remind them of their responsibility as diplomats whose main concern should be the protection of Filipino nationals”. UNQUOTE

TIATRO "TO AMKAM VISORLO "By Jacinto Vaz".

Hi Veronica,

Sending you a few pics for use in goa-kranti of tiatr 'To Amkam Visorlo'. Originally written and directed by the late Jacinto Vaz and presently being staged all over Goa by Ben Evangelisto.

Daniel

THE LATE JOE FERNANDES - MONTH'S MIND.

MONTH'S MIND - JOE FERNANDES.

There will be a Requiem Mass at Salmiya Church on Saturday, the 22nd August 2009 at 8.00 pm, for the soul of the late Joe Fernandes who died a month back in India and interred at his home village Cemetry, Colva, Salcette Goa.

The Mass is offered by his sorrowful wife and both the daughters.

FIRST DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF MARY D'SA.

In Response to "I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen"

FW: [GOAN-NRI] Fw: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.‏
From: Oscar Lobo (oscarlobo1@optusnet.com.au)
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:14:40 AM
To: averonicaf806@hotmail.com
Cc: bospam@gmail.com

Hello Veronica,

Here are two responses to your open letter regarding the subject.

The responses make sense.

Cheers

Oscar


From: melissa. Sent: Monday, 17 August 2009 11:57 AM. To: Vanita Vaz.
Subject: RE: [GOAN-NRI] Fw: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.

I strongly second Vanita's opinion. I believe I am blessed to be born an INDIAN. It would be a different me if it was not for my birth country. True that I like most others have embraced other citizenships but that does not absolve me from my responsibilities towards my nation and primarily does not confer on me any right to DEGRADE India. Agreed that India does have aeons to go but criticizing and complaining only retards it. I would most certainly be tempted to ask what these 'ashamed critics' have done to improvise the situation. From experience most have left India, settled overseas and shoot emails from the world over opining and advising what India 'COULD DO - SHOULD DO'. Its time each of us take responsibility for our actions and INACTIONS!!
"Vanita
17/08/2009 08:23 AM

To
"Oscar Lobo" oscarlobo1@optusnet.com.au

Subject RE: [GOAN-NRI] Fw: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.

I’m a proud Indian Citizen – whilst I agree with all this- India has defined me with lovely sense of culture, hospitality and warmth. True there are several evils that plague our country! But there’s precious little we the so-called citizens do about it. The onus is on us – recall JFK’s quote ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country! I for one, am certainly proud of my Indian heritage! Jai Ho!

From: Oscar Lobo [mailto:oscarlobo1@optusnet.com.au] Sent: Saturday, 15 August 2009 5:54 PMTo: Oscar LoboSubject: FW: [GOAN-NRI] Fw: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.Importance: High
--- On Fri, 14/8/09, A. Veronica Fernandes wrote: From: A. Veronica Fernandes Subject: I am ashamed to be an Indian citizen.To: averonicaf806@hotmail.comDate: Friday, 14 August, 2009, 2:36 PM
G O A
--No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--
August 15, 2009
I AM ASHAMED TO BE AN INDIAN CITIZEN.

TIATRO "ZAIAT ZAGE" BY PRINCE JACOB..

TIATRO " ZAIAT ZAGE " Written and directed by Prince Jacob.
Review with photos by Daniel F. D'Souza - Vasco, Goa.

ZAIAT ZAGE - a laugh-a-minute riot on stage.

Prince Jacob the Showman of the Konkani stage has done it once again. Known for his penchant for experimenting with progressive and innovative ideas on stage, his latest offering ‘Zaiat Zage’ (Wake Up) is drawing tiatr lovers by the throes to the theatres.

On 8th August two successive shows at the Kala Academy auditorium in the capital city were packed to capacity with people returning back home for want of tickets.‘Zaiat Zage’ as a matter of fact is the talk of town for its sheer style of presentation and the heavy dose of infectious comedy unleashed by the indefatigable comedian Humberto. Humberto makes his intentions very clear from the very fist scene that he is going to unleash unlimited comedy for the next three hours. In fact he boldly shoulders the comedy department single handedly.

Prince Jacob has weaved an interesting tale taking into account the day to day happenings and events that take place in our Goan villages and how it influences the very future of our land and its people. Using wooden props he has cleverly depicted five houses on stage. While four are projected with side elevation, one has a frontal view. The scenario depicts a typical Ward in any Goan village. The gist of the story revolves round these five middle-class families and the way they react to situations on a day to day basis in a typical middleclass fashion.

There is Jacinto and Simon two brothers who cannot see eye to eye and live separately in a house divided. Simon is young and energetic, always obsessed with his body fitness and weights. Then there is Joe (Joe Rose) a funny character wearing ‘cheddis’ with sleeveless banians and lots of gold chains living with his young daughter Sonia who enjoys life at the cost of his wife who is working in the Gulf. No non-sense Maria Dias (Annie Quadros) the dominating village panch and her hand packed husband Salu (Humbert) live next door to Joe. On the other end are a traditional Hindu couple Jairam (Ignatius de Xelvon) and his wife Sakhu ( Diana) and their only son Reagan dreaming of joining the cruise lines. Their tenant Balasubramanian (Cajetan de Curtorim)South Indian who lives in the adjacent house adds further to the commotion. All these neighbours form a motley crowd involved in each others affairs. Jacinto’s son Bernard is secretly in love with Sonia, his father is not so happy with the alliance.

At one point there enters Jaiprakash Yadav (Prince Jacob) a young Bihari who sets a small shop in a typical Bihari style in the neighborhood. At first everyone is opposed to him setting up business in their ward, but the Panch Maria Dias over-rules everyone and allows him to put his shop. Jaiprakash Yadav is a shrewd businessman and one has to watch how he turns around the situation to his benefit taking the Goan community for a virtual ride in due course of time. Something that is close to reality. One fine day when he strikes back, the Goan community is totally handicapped and helpless thereby highlighting to what extent a Goan is dependent on these migrants for our daily needs. When his wife (Anita) joins him from his native Bihar, she first attempts to learn the local language. Joe and Jairam have an eye on her, while Jairam is scared of his nagging wife. Humbert too, who is remote controlled by his wife, tries to make hay while the sun shines.

It is a hilarious situation full of fun. Joe Rose, Jacinto in a double role, Simon Gonsalves, Prince Jacob, Diana and Ignatius de Xelvon in the role of a hindu have done a class act in their respective characters. Annie Quadros who shoulders a major part of the script is at her best as the dominating village panch. The playwright has emphatically touched upon various Goan issues in the script such as, the infiltration of migrants, our over dependence on them for several needs, the garbage issue, their political ambitions and how they influence the political process in Goa, and their nexus with politicians.

For three hours one is virtually transferred to the centre of a Goan village and given a broad vision of how the locales tackle their day to day issues. But, a few scenes do tend to sound chaotic, but then again, it is a village set up and this is how it is. At times there are as many as 12 plus characters in a single scene with each one having something to say.

The onstage presentation is beautiful and the playwright has used just one set throughout to depict the entire story. Appropriate light effects by John bring out the desired finish to the various scenes.

Among the songs, a decent solo by Joe Rose, Jr. Reagan, Cajetan de Curtorim on Pulsar motorbike, two trios one by Prince Jacob-Humberto-Jr. Reagan a tribute for M. Boyer, and another by Annie-Anita-Sonia a scathing attack on the Goa Police on the Mahanand serial killer case are simply the best. A comedy duo by Joe Rose and Bernard however failed to impress. The music by Maestro Domnic de Arambol is pleasing and full of punch. ‘Zait Zage’ is a really entertaining show with plenty of healthy comedy and a strong message to every Goan. It’s a show for the entire family if you are looking out for quality entertainment with a sound message.