IN PRAISE OF ROSARY FERNS' TIATRO.

Dear Anthony Veronica,

I read your write-up in goa-kranti on Tiatro ''KUWAIT SODDUN VETANA'' which was staged on 16th january 2009 in Kuwait. I have heard quiet a lot about this play through my friends who were present for this tiatro and they personally informed me the greatness of this tiatro in all respects. It seems it was true that such a wonderful and memorable tiatro was never ever staged in Kuwait before. Kuwait Goans are very lucky to have in their midst Rosary Ferns and his co-artistes to entertain and to educate Goan community through the medium of tiatro. According to one person who witnessed this tiatro, the story was really based on Goans who are working in the Gulf and they should be aware and be alert to avoid the incidents shown in this tiatro through the messages.

My bravo to Rosary Ferns and for all the artistes who acted in this tiatr and also for those who espicially came from Goa. If Rosary Ferns is willing to stage this tiatro in UAE with the same cast I am ready to take this responsibilty.

I wish to see more taitros written and directed by Roasry ferns in future, as I know Roasry Ferns personally, he is very humble person, he has a good future on Goan konkani stage. I heard his solos and duets and all his compositions are meaningful. He is really a good composer and very good singer. He got very sweet voice. As an script writer, he is one one of the best now and his direction skill is superb.

I am happy to know that all sections of tiatrists in Kuwait have joined together under the umbrella of Rosary Ferns to bring the level of tiator in Kuwait high. This is a good sign. Keep up the good sign of unity and through this unity protect the name of Goans. Let us be 'EKVOTTI GOENKAR AND NOT DUSPOTTI GOENKAR.

TUJEM BOREM DEKHPI
JERRY CAL


From: A. Veronica Fernandes To: averonicaf806@hotmail.comSent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:17:19 PMSubject:
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--No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--
January 20, 2009

Tiatro "KUWAIT SODDUN VETANA" in Kuwait.

Much awaited and much publicized 21st Konkani Tiatro (Drama) “KUWAIT SODDUN VETANA” written and directed by the well-known Goan playwright Rosary Ferns was successfully staged on Friday 16th of this month at Hawally A/C Hall, Kuwait. Witnessed by the huge crowd, the Tiatro started at 4.30 pm instead of at 3.30 as officially announced. Excellent script with excellent messages given in the play by Rosary Ferns for the Kuwaitkars. Such a Tiatro and such messages have never in the history of Kuwait Tiatro been scripted before. These messages should have been given by our Church leaders from the Pulpit but they did not. Where our Church leaders failed, Tiatro Stage succeeded. Church is duty bound to guide the faithfuls in a right direction but neither our local priests nor the visiting priests guided us properly. The visiting priests when they come to Kuwait their main motto is to fulfill their selfish obligation and not to guide the community in a right way to face any eventuality. For this reason we the overwhelming majority of Goan Catholics suffered economically during the invasion of Kuwait leading many of us into misery.

GOAN NEWSPAPERS by Valmiki Faleiro.

GOAN NEWSPAPERS.

By Valmiki Faleiro.

“If you need to ruin your English,” I’d tell younger friends half seriously, “read ‘The …’”(then Goa’s only English language newspaper.) “If you want to improve your lingo, readgood authors, magazines like ‘Time’ and ‘Readers Digest’ – and revise ‘Wren & Martin’”(then the standard English grammar school text.) That’s how Goa’s English press once was. Poor language, bad sub-editing, a nightmare of proof reading! One newspaper hired a reporter who had been sacked under political pressure for pulling off one of free Goa’s greatest journalistic scoops. He had reported the Goa Budget a day before its presentation in the Legislature! A good journalist, but his thought process was in Marathi. What he wrote, perhaps excellent in Marathi, was atrocious in English.

With that newspaper, some years before, I took my first steps as a freelancer. Its then Editor, an ex-armyman of unfailingly waxed moustaches and all-white attire head to toe, complained of a dearth of acceptable writers in English in Goa. This was the mid-1970s. I began doing regular ‘middles’ and Sunday features, often full page. At Rs.20/- to 30/-apiece, it was great pocket money those heady college days! Goa has since come a long way. After a promising start, a planned pan-Konkan daily, the ‘West Coast Times,’ published from Margao July-1978, came to a premature end. Just as hope of ending the monopoly in Goa’s English press waned, the almost century-old Portuguese daily, ‘O Heraldo,’ converted into this full-fledged English daily in 1983.

Next arrived ‘Gomantak Times’ about a decade later, amid skepticism over Goasustaining three English dailies. GT survives to this day. Then the unimaginable happened: in May last year, a national media giant, ‘Times ofIndia,’ perched on tiny Goa with a local edition. In a market with a combined circulationof under one lakh. I felt as bad as when Nestle – the world food giant I was associatedwith in setting up their factories at Usgao and Maulinguem – was getting into makingpapads and pickles. Where would the multi-national’s money power leave our rural folkwho traditionally did this to supplement family income? Goa’s four English newspapers, though, co-exist. What does four newspapers paddling cheek-by-jowl in a tiny pond mean for the reader? I’ll steer clear from editorial content …each has its strengths, and weakness. May I only say how I read the four … in about the same time it took to read three before,on an average newsfall day.

The first I pick up is the one I regard best for local news.Edit page opinion is by some of the finest in the trade. Second is also for local news, attimes missed by the first. Good editorials, interesting opinion. Third in line is only for ads– even if its columnists make it my No.2 on Sundays. Last is for national/world news. Despite virtues, not a single of the four produces an edition with neatly folded pages.Every morning, I hold papers with horizontally or vertically jagged page folds. Badly calibrated machine assemblies that automatically print, cut and fold newspaper pagesprovide you with badly folded pages in the hand. Newsprint spools of varied width translate to pages that cannot be tapped on the table to align the centre fold neatly. I treat the printed word in any form with respect – be it books, mags, or newspapers.Because I can’t hold a badly folded newspaper comfortably as I read, I spend a few daily minutes re-creasing the horizontally badly-folded pages!!

I usually have all the four dailies by 5.30 am. There are exceptions: the four have anuncanny pattern of taking turns arriving late! One daily still uses poor quality printing ink. By the time you’ve read it, fingers are leftsmudged as if with soot. Reading newspapers with breakfast is a positive health risk inGoa! All said, I’d dare not say today, “If you need to ruin your English…” The younger breed of local English language journos have made a world of difference. May their tribe increaseand enrich the Goan reader! (ENDS.)

The Valmiki Faleiro weekly column.

IN PRAISE OF VALMIKI FALEIRO'S ARTICLES.

From: Richard de Sousa noreply-comment@blogger.com

Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:19 PM

To: goa.kranti@gmail.com

Richard de Sousa has left a new comment on your post "GOAN NAMES by Valmiki Faleiro.":

Very interesting article Valmiki! This "litany of names" given to many Goans is such a fascinating matter. I have been looking at the naming patterns through families of Moira, discussed on the Moira-net Googlegroup, and we found even the incorporation of the Muslim name Ismail/Ismael/Ishmael quite common.

Richard