TISREA VORSACHO UGDDAS.

BEWARE PRINCE JACOB.

I am writing this with reference to A. Veronica’s review on 10 Tiatrists, in this column.

Prince Jacob was aware that only Veronica is the most knowledgeable person to speak on Rosary Ferns and yet he asked somebody else to speak and whose knowledge on Roary Ferns is very limited.  If Veronica was fixed in advance he would give lot of important information on Rosary Ferns for the benefit of the audience. Prince Jacob is at fault here, he looked jealous of Veronica inspite of Veronica supporting him so much in Kuwait. Prince Jacob knows very well the great power of Veronica's oratory and yet he acted stupid. 

When once Veronica’s article “ROSTAD TIATRIST” appeared in Herald, it was under Prince Jacob’s initiative that one delegation of Tiatrists went to Herald office to lodge a protest against Veronica.  Prince Jacob when in Kuwait kissed Veronica but after returning back to Goa was betraying Veronica. For Veronica Prince Jacob is a big joke and will remain so. Prince Jacob should be grateful to veronica because he learnt a lot from Veronica in Kuwait.

Rosary Ferns was a great Tiatrist whose many songs even without proper permission Prince Jacob sang in Goa but Rosary Ferns never copied anything from Prince Jacob.  Prince Jacob is a perfect copycat.

Can Prince Jacob tell how much each speaker is paid and also how much annual grant government gives to the Academy?

Tiatr Academy under Prince Jacob is manned by impotent leader who had no guts to raise his voice when Francis de Tuem was arrested and Tausif de Navelim’s Tiatr was in problem. I am sure as a cunning man Prince Jacob was enjoying over all the problems Tuem and Tausif were facing.  Tiatr Academy under Prince Jacob is in the hands of wrong person. 

 

Francis A. Fernandes,

Kuwait.   

 

    

 

IN RESPONSE TO VERONICA'S REVIEW.

This is to refer  to A. Veronica’s review on Remembering 10 Tiatrists, in goa-kranti blog on 28.08.14.

Tiatr Academy Goa is run by the concerned Tiatrists as if this Academy is like their fathers’ property. Prince Jacob like Tomazinho Cardos is a selfish man.  Prince Jacob is intellectually bankrupt and hence he prefers intellectually bankrupts only. Precisely because of this he brought in stupid speakers to speak on the dead great tiatrists. Why not Cyriaco Dias, Jessy Dias and Master Vaz who being seniors got better knowledge of the 10 dead tiatrists even having acted with them when they were alive?  Who knows Rosary Ferns better than Veronica?  Who knows C. Alvares and  Alfred Rose better than Cyriaco Dias?  Who knows Saib Rocha and Minguel Rod better than Master Vaz?  Who knows Shalini better than Jessy Dias?

Like Tomazinho Cardos earlier, now Prince Jacob will never invite knowledgeable speakers and because of this poverty people to not come in good number to attend these functions. Prince Jacob is just an ordinary tiatrist but if he thinks he is great then he is mistaken.

Tiartro Academy is financed by the government from the tax payers money and in view of this Prince Jacob and his troupe must act sensible otherwise he should surrender his power to someone who is better qualified.   

 

IDENTITY WITHELD ON REQUEST.

REMEMERING THE LATE 10 TIATRISTS.

 

 

 

 

Yesterday, 27^th inst., Tiatr Academy Goa, organized a function in Panjim to mark the birthdays of all the late Stage artistes born in this month. They were altogether Ten artistes, the prominent being Saib Rocha, C. Alvares, Minguel Rod, Alfred Rose, Shalini and Rosary Ferns.   

Fatima spoke on 5 artistes including on Minguel Rod and Rosary Ferns while William spoke on others detailing their contribution in the promotion of Konkani Stage Art.

 

 

 

As a President of the Academy, Prince Jacob welcomed the gathering comprising about 50 attendees and singled out my presence there in the hall by specially welcoming me too.  Furthermore, he said that “there is nobody among us besides Veronica who can talk better on Rosary Ferns” and suggested that Veronica  can say a few words on Rosary Ferns after Fatima the scheduled speaker on Rosary Ferns ends her speech. Then Prince Jacob called out my name to come to the Mike but seated on my chair among the audience  I signaled him saying "NO".

There is a saying in Konkani, "Dheklem Moddem ani Ailem Roddnem". This is what it looked  has happened to Prince Jacob. When he knows that I am now Goa based, he could  rightly tell me in  advance so that I could prepare myself for the delivery especially when he admitted that I am the best to speak on Rosary Ferns instead of giving this opportunity to a half baked speaker. This clarification is to all those who asked me why I said "NO".

 

When unqualified speakers are brought in to talk on any personality then the value of that personality goes down.  Fatima  is not a competent speaker to talk on Rosary Ferns because she knows very little of Rosary Ferns as an artiste and his contribution in the development of Konkani Stage Art, namely as a songster, playwright, actor, director, Mando – Dulpod, Operattas, Audio Cassette and CD. Rosary Ferns carry the unique distinction of producing the first ever Konkani CD and that too from Kuwait. He was the first Goan from the expatriate Goan World to release the first Audio Cassette.  Besides, there is so much to speak and to mention of this great artiste.  As an artiste Rosary Ferns was so big while Fatima Is so small to highlight the greatness of Rosary Ferns. She even goofed in her statement while quoting Shakespeare saying it was in Macbeth that Shakespeare writes “All the World is the Stage”. It was in his last drama “As You Like It” that Shakespeare makes mention of All the World is the Stage and not in Macbeth.

 

 

 

What I notice among us is that any Ladru-Pedru type of a person when requested to talk on any subject he immediately grabs this opportunity without having proper knowledge of the subject.  This has to be stopped if there should be credibility for the function. Talk of cosmetic nature is not tolerated now.  There are competent persons among us who got better knowledge of Saib Rocha, Minguel Rod, C. Alvares and others and some of them were colleagues of these gigantic artistes on the Stage. Just because of greed for money any incompetent person should not opt to speak on the subject of which his or her knowledge is limited.

 

The organizers should also solicite the services of right persons to speak on the subject in question. But who can do the right selection? Only the Goldsmith can know the authenticity of the gold and not any Altu-Faltu person whoever he may be and whatever position he may hold in the organization.  It is not only the ministerial posts are in the wrong hands but even our own organizations are in the wrong hands, for this reason there is a mess everywhere in Goan community.

The vote of thanks was proposed by Joe Rose requesting for more attendance in the next month for similar event.

As a matter of interest, one of the attendees for this function was young Japanese lady named Mashukawaka Kioko holding a PHD degree and teaching at the University in Kobe Japan as an Asst. Professor. Currently, she is doing research on Tiatro and Konkani.  She speaks Konkani as well.

 

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

 

INJUSTICE ON ROMI KONKANI.

It is 27 years now since in the name of recognizing Konkani by the Goa government in both the scripts – Romi & Nagri -, Konknni has been recognized in Nagri script only. According to the information, the Goa government has granted this recognition also with the silent nod of KPA that favoured only the Nagri script and  NOT the Romi script.

Konkani Porjecho Avaz (KPA) was a body comprising members from both the segments of Konkani – Romi as well as Nagri. This body was formed under the skippership of hardcore Nagrivadi Pundalik Naik. In fact besides him there were others also hardcore Nagrivadis in KPA. In fact they were more hardcore than Pundalik Naik but since Pundalik Naik was coming from Non-Brahmin segment, the more hardcore Nagrivadis installed Pundalik Naik as head of KPA to get better and more acceptance to KPA especially from the masses though he was thru remote control guided by the more hardcore Nagrivadis inside and outside the KPA.  

During this period I was in Kuwait where beside my job I was also promoting the cause of Konkani along with other friends and colleagues of mine. We from Kuwait were financing Konkani movement in Goa by pouring lakhs of rupees and since KPA was on the forefront to fight for Konkani, we financed KPA also.  In fact when Damodar Mauzo a member of KPA pleaded with us to help finance the big Rally and Meeting at Azad Maidan Panjim we sent almost a lakh of rupees from Kuwait for this event.  Besides, money also started flowing thru other sources from Kuwait including to Goan politicians for this event in Goa.

Then when hectic activities were going on for the final push for this movement, I came on vacation to Goa and as a General Secretary of Kuwait Konknni Kendr that was instrumental in promoting the cause of Konkani in Kuwait, I was welcomed by the  KPA members in their midst most warmly.  Then I participated in number of Rallies in Panjim in support of Konkani and even received Lathis from the Ghantti Hawaldars from Rane government. Then I participated in the Hunger Strike conducted at Azad Maidan Panjim starting with 5 days continuously by Datta Naik, Dilip Borkar and Dioniz Diniz whom I also joined on the 3^rd day and this was followed by the Chain Hunger Strike for a long time.

On the eve of my return back to Kuwait, at Keni Hotel Panji, KPA invited me as an observer only for their crucial meeting which was attended besides other members, by Tomazinho Cardoso, Erasmo Sequeira, Mauwin Godinho, Mathanay Saldanha and chaired by Pundalik Naik. During this particular meeting I have observed that the Nagri camp in KPA was wielding strong power to sway the decisions in their favour, whatever those decisions may be.  Romivadis were acting like slaves of Nagrivadis without being firm on Romi script though outside they may say anything. Even the late firebrand Mathanay Saldanha was not firm in his view on Romi script.  Erasmo Sequeira inspite of being the seasoned supporter of Romi cause was just silent while the major part of the talk was done by the Nagrivadis.

Whatever they may be but one thing I noticed in some Romivadi members of KPA an enormous amount of inferiority complex and in few the ancestral inferiority complex which gave them the sense of accepting them as lower than the others. And here, the cunning Nagrivadis from KPA capitalized. Nagrivadis recognized that there was not a single hardcore Romivadi in their midst to fight valiantly for Romi cause.  Besides, the cunning Nagrivadis in KPA created a hoax by putting fear into the minds of Romivadis that there may not be a possibility for the recognition of Konkani if both the scripts are indicated, hence priority must go for Nagri.  To oppose this hoax there was not a single hardcore Romivadi in KPA. For this reason Nagrivadi scored an off side goal against Romi Konkani while Romivadis watched this  goal  as spectators.

From here what I noticed, because I had no voice there in KPA being only an observer, I showed my dissatisfaction to a few Nagrivadis outside but they pacified me saying “Don’t worry, proper justice will be done”. They were very much careful of my aggressive posture while dealing with them on this topic and the money matters we sent from Kuwait. So much so, one of them even told his other Nagrivadis in KPA to avoid talking to me till he goes back to Kuwait. Moreover, one junior politician came with his gang of a few youth to threaten me in the reception of Keni Hotel and to silence my voice from exposing the names of the recipients of Kuwait money. Incidentally, that “one politician” was also one of the recipients of money from Kuwait.

That the KPA Nagrivadis will betray the Romivadis was a sure fact but that the KPA Romivadis like “Baizona” will surrender to the chicanery  of Nagrivadis was also a sure fact. Our so called Romi stalwarts are “Ponch” Romivadis, they want Konkani only to promote themselves in society, and they want Konkani only to keep themselves afloat in public life in Goa. Our efforts from Kuwait for the cause of Konkani were much higher because we worked for the cause and not to promote ourselves in public life. And as a matter of fact we worked for Konkani cause in Kuwait with lot of difficulties.  It was not an easy task in a foreign country where local laws and customs are totally different from our country.

The very person who claimed to be the promoter of Romi Konkani cause when he was elected to Goa Legislative Assembly of course unexpectedly he did nothing to promote the cause of Romi Konkani till the end of his term in GLA. When he was a member of GLA he was acting like a feudal lord not even wishing some of his Konknnivadis but now “churchure tache” because even a “Kuddo Mus” is not caring him in his locality. Now no Pilot Car and no other government facilities for this reason his “Suberbai” is gone down.  He belied our expectations by ignoring Romi cause when he had vast influence as a member of GLA where he was holding an important position. It is a pity that our people when they reach to the position of power they fail in their duty by forgetting their past.  This is the quality of “Ladru – Pedru” type of Goans.

I don’t accept the version that there was a last minute change in the terminology of the draft Konkani Bill where it was stated that “Konkani means Nagri script Konknni”.  This statement “Konkani means Nagri script Konknni” was included much earlier and NOT at the last minute and as such every KPA member had an access to this draft bill to check.  However, if Romivadi members of KPA have failed to check this then they failed in their duty and thus they betrayed the Romi segment of their trust.  They are all to be treated as traitors and as such they should be boycotted from campaigning and talking for Romi cause. Moreover, the genuine Romivadis who are on forefront currently to fight for the cause of Romi  Konkani must call a public meeting either in Margao or in Panjim to protest over the mishandling of this issue. Posterity should know who betrayed the Romi Konkani otherwise posterity will judge the history on this topic wrongly.

The Romivadi traitors who betrayed Romi Konkani should be discarded from Romi circle otherwise they will discard Romi from Konkani itself.

 

A.    Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.

FRAUD ON ROMAN SCRIPT KONKANI.

                                       

             

“Ghorcho Bhedi Bhailo Chor ?”…...  Fraud on the Roman Script

Each time the leaders  of Romi Konknni Movement meet for a discussion anywhere, there is one particular sentence one gets to hear over and over again and that is  “The Clause in the Official Language Act of Goa 1987: Konkani means Konkani in Devnagari Script , was the biggest fraud of the 20th Century”.

Each time I hear this, I go home and think to myself if indeed there was a ‘fraud’ of such a magnitude then who are the people responsible for this “fraud” and if we know who they are, why have we let them go scot-free?

Unfortunately for me , I was not in Goa during this period and as a result did not have the faintest idea as to who all could these fraudsters be. Neither was there anyone willing to provide me with the
answers.

I started wondering as to why people want to keep this part of the
game under wraps. Why this suspicious silence?

My inquisitiveness to investigate made me probe for answers at every
opportunity I got. Who could be the main architects of this “fraud”
and why  are they left to go scot-free?

I said to myself , let me begin from the beginning. First of all, who
were the interested parties? Meaning who were the “stake-holders”?

Then I noted:
a) The Government of Goa , Daman & Diu.
b) The Opposition Parties in the Assembly.
c) The Independent M.L.As.
d) The People of Goa, Daman & Diu.

It is but logical to believe that at that time all the stake-holders
were consulted, discussions held and compromise-formulae worked out.

Now, as the subject of discussion was Goa and Konkani I’d like to, for
the present, leave out Daman & Diu and their interests in the Official
language Act of 1987.  Let me concentrate on Goa and Konkani alone and
the so called “fraud”.

This “fraud”, as I understand means depriving “Romi Konknni not only
of it’s rightful place in the Official Language Act of Goa 1987 but
also  was a conspiracy to kill Romi Konknni and propell Devanagari
Konknni into prominence.

There is a famous saying in Konkani  “Ghorcho Bhedi, Bhailo Chor”
which means  to say, “An outsider cannot rob a closed house without
having an insider for an accomplice”.  To make this analogy more
relevant in the present context , I’d like to take the entire
Political System and the Devanagari Lobby as “Outsiders” and the
protagonists of Romi Konknni as “Insiders”.

I am told that some of the Romi Konknni Leaders who are still around
and were a part of the “Konknni Porjecho Avaz (KPA)” then, were called
for consultations on the issue and they tell us that  in the Original
Draft of the Bill there was no “clause” at all mentioning “Konkani
means Konkani in Devanagari Script”  and that this “clause” was
introduced only at the last minute without consulting any one of them.

They further add that , even they came to know about this “clause”
only on the morning of the day, namely 05 February 1987 through local
English news papers.The Official Language Bill was introduced in the
assembly on 17th July 1986 and it was passed in the Assembly on 04
February 1987. The people  had no reason to doubt their own leaders.
The entire rank and file of the Romi Konknni users accepted this as a
“fraud” , as told to them, and set about their work of bringing an
amendment to the Bill to rectify the “fraud”.

It was an uphill task and many Romi Konknni Leaders are , even as I
write, working towards this end. Still however, in the midst of all
this work the thought of how a people’s Government could  commit a
“fraud” on the same people who elected it , kept bothering me ie. how
our leaders of Romi Konknni were kept uninformed of such a major
change in the final draft of the Bill.

I also often wondered why “this  bothering thought “ keeps popping up
in my mind from time to time.  But now, I finally know the reason why.
There is a reason. There is always an explanation to everything that
happens. There has to be.

Recently, while on an another work of Romi Konknni, I was browsing
through some old newspapers and I accidentally came across a page of
“Herald” Wednesday dated 9th July 1986, and there it was. An answer to
my “bothering thoughts”. An “expose” of a lie deliberately hidden
under the carpet for so many years.

On the newspaper was printed the final draft of the Official Language
Bill of Goa 1987 prepared not at the last minute by the Government but
much in advance somewhere around 1986.  The same final draft leaked
out and reached the office of Herald and Herald brought it out in
print on the 9th July 1986. The final draft of the Bill was there for
everyone to see complete with the clause  “Konkani language means the
language in Devnagiri Script”.

Then who are these Romi Konknni leaders who tells us that they came to
know of this “Clause” only on the morning of the day the Bill was
tabled in the House?

The final draft of the Bill was there in the Herald for everyone to
see , 7 months before it was tabled. Were our Romi Konknni leaders the
only ones who did not read this issue of Herald? Or, is it that our
Romi Konknni leaders had taken all of us for  a ride ? The reason was
now crystal clear to me and for everyone else to see.

There was definitely an “injustice” but  there was no “fraud” of the
type our Romi Konknni  leaders claim to have taken place. We were sold
off by our Romi Konknni leaders who were in KPA.  It was,  as the old
Goan Romi Konknni saying  goes  “Ghorcho Bhedi Bhailo Chor”.

By Wilson Mazarello
(Convenor, Romi Lipi Action Front)

50TH BIRTHDAY OF MRS. EUGENIO CARDOSO.

Today, 24th August, Sandra Cardoso, the beloved wife of Eugenio Cardoso celebrated her 50th birthday at Penha de Fransca Party Hall, at 01.00 PM in the presence of about one hundred guests.

 

Sandra Cardoso is a great wife of her great husband Eugenio Cardoso who attained great feat on the soccer field by being one of the best keepers in Goa, he played for Dempo Sports Club and also on Athletics field by being a good runner.

 

Sandra Cardoso an educationist by profession is a great mother of both her great children, son Ricardo and daughter Steffi both of whom represented India in soccer and athletics respectively. Both the children Ricardo and Steffi first time created a unique record in India by representing the nation in their capacity as brother and sister.

 

Speaking about Steffi Cardoso, the then Chief Minisiter of Goa Prataphsingh Rane said: "The Pride of Goa .....that's Steffi Cardoso.  Steffi is the first female and only second Goan after Sequeira to achieve an international feat". 

 

Below are some photos of the Birthday Party.

 

 

Seen above right Sandra with her husband Eugenio Cardoso

 

Seen above Sandra cutting the birthday Cake.

 

 

Seen above Eugenio - wife Sandra & daughter Steffi.

 

 

                                                          Guests seen on Dance Floor

 Wishing you all the best Sandra.

 

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

Wishing you all the best Sandra.

A. Ver

ANTI-PROSTITUTION RALLY IN CALANGUTE.

The first Hippies who descended on Goa were somewhere in 1963, a male and a female, they landed in Candolim and during the daytime they were spending the whole day on the Candolim Beach and at night time they were sleeping in the Marathi Xalla near Candolim Tinto  They were an English speaking couple in their thirties.  Following year their number increased and in mid Sixties they started moving to Calangute and from there in seventies in big number they moved to Baga and from there to Anjuna-Vagator-Chapora. Thus they captured the whole coastal belt in our area. When they took the possession of Calangute, they grabbed  the liberty of the nature and kindness of the locals to move on the beach and around, topless and even nude on the beach.  Some of them were seen even having sex openly on the beach around the bushes which created a very bad image of the whole scenario.

 

Rally in progress

 

Being unable to bear this nuisance in their village, about a hundred villagers from Calangute mainly the females came together under one prominent and highly dignified lady from Tivai Vaddo, Calangute and took a “Morcha” on the streets of Panjim somewhere in mid sixties, shouting slogans against Hippism, Nudism and Sexism in Calangute. They also carried the big Banners and the Posters with the statements like STOP HIPPISM IN CALANGUTE, STOP NUDISM IN CALANGUTE, STOP OPEN SEX IN CALANGUTE, STOP VULGARITY IN CALANGUTE. The response to this Morcha was tremendous as it attracted the attention of various people in Panjim.  Though, I am not from Calangute, it still captured my mind and heart and I as a young school boy also participated in this Morcha shouting slogans because as a Goan I too felt the shame of vulgarity of Hippism in my neighbouring village Calangute.  Not only this, Goans from all over Goa were also got alerted to the menace of Hippism and accordingly they started to act. When Bandodcar as a Chief Minister of Goa then was alerted of this Morcha, he as a man of strong moral character directed the Security apparatus to stop the vulgarity of Hippism in Calangute. Thru this Morcha, Calangute villagers created a record of being the first people in Goa to raise their voice against vulgarity in Goa.

Sarpanch Clara seen speaking and seen right is Dpty. Sarpanch Subash.

 

Again on 20^th of this month, the huge number of Calangute villagers backed by the Calangute Panchayat and Youth of Calangute, organized a Morcha in Calangute against the illicit Sex business going on in Calangute. The Calangute Panchayat was headed by the Sarpanch Mrs. Clara Fernandes, Dpty. Sarpanch Mr. Subash Salgaocar,  Panch and the well-known local public figure Mr. Joseph Sequeira and other Panchas including the prominent local activists namely the Freedom Fighter and renowned Tiatrist Mr. Cyriaco Dias,  Mr. Kundan Kerkar,  Mr. Umesh Shirodkar, Mr. Uday Shirodkar, Mr. Nitesh Chodonkar, Shanker Kerkar and others.

Seen speaking is Cyriaco Dias

 

The Morcha was started from Calangute Panchayat and ended at the Police Station where a delegation comprising the Sarpanch, Mr. Joseph Sequeira, Kundan Kerkar,  handed over a Memorandum citing their demands to the chief of Calangute Police Station, PI Rajesh Kumar who gave a keen hearing to the delegation assuring of his keenness in fighting for their demands.

Joseph Sequeira is seen speaking

 

What are the demands of the Calangute people?  Their demands as  described by all the speakers, namely Cyriaco Dias, Joseph Sequeira, Alba, Clara, Albert, Clotilde, Dona and Subash, during the public meeting held next to the Police Station immediately after handing the Memorandum to the Police Chief, are as follows:

1: Stop the illegal Prostitution going on illegally in Calangute, conducted openly and boldly by the outsiders and migrants.

2. Stop the Spa and Sex Massage facilities provided by the Hoteliers in the name of tourism promotion.

3.  Stop the Package facilities provided for the tourists while renting the Hotel rooms.  Package facility means the renting of a room with a girl for Sex. 

4.   Stop the migrant Touts roaming in Calangute on the roads soliciting the customers for the Package facilities.

One more speaker seen addressing the Meet.

 

This Morcha, Memorandum and Public Meeting were the need of the hour not only for Calangute but also for other neighbouring coastal areas and elsewhere in Goa.  It was a wakeup call for the entire Goa to rise up against the illicit Sex business illegally promoted by the migrants and other outsiders who do not care for the Goan discipline of high morality, Goan tradition, Goan culture, Goan way of life and Goan decency.

Yet another speaker seen addressing the gatherin

 

 

 

Once again maintaining its tradition, Calangute raised its voice against the degradation of Goan morality by the outsiders. What is affecting for Calangute also affecting for Goa and as a genuine Goan it is affecting me too.  Hence, I openly support people of Calangute fighting against the illicit Sex trade promoted by the outsiders. This menace of outsiders if Calangute cannot liquidate then none in Goa can do. Now it is become imperative for every genuine Goan to liberate Goa from the migrant Pimps wrongly and illegally selling Goan image to the Sex maniacs descending on Goa in the name of tourists. Come on genuine Goans and wage a war against those migrants who are all out to destroy Goa.

 

A.    Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.     

 

 

 

 

TISREA VORSACHO UGDDAS - MRS. JERRY CAL.CALANGUTE.

 

 

 

 

RALLY AGAINST PROSTITUTION IN CALANGUTE.

Today in Calangute at 4.00 PM the villagers about 200 in number organized a Rally in collaboration with Calangute Panchayat to raise their voice against the illicit activities such as prostitution rampantly going on in Calangute.  The rally started from Calangute Panchayat House and  ended at Calangute Police Station where the organisers handed over a Memorandum to the Police Chief there.  Immediately then, the organisers held a public meeting in front of the Police Station where prominent locals spoke highlighting their demands against the filthy immoral activities going on in Calangute.  The rally was very peaceful.  

 

Below are some photos of the Rally and Public Meeting.

 

 

Rally in progress

 

 

Seen above the vehicle in the rally

 

 

Seen above is freedom fighter & Tiatro personality Cyriaco Dias addressing the gathering

 

 

 

Well known Calangute personality Joseph Sequeira seen addressing

the Meeting.

 

 

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

 

 

"AKANTVADI GOEANT NAKA" - II.

 

                             "AKANTVADI GOEANT NAKA" -I I.

EYEWITNESS TO TIATRO "AKANTVADI GOEANT NAKA"

 

 

Seen above is one scene of cruelty  

 

Since this Tiatro is going to be staged all over Goa, around 40 Shows as per the information, I refrain from disclosing the full story in details but just a gist.

 

The story is surrounded on three households, well knit neighbours belonging to the three religious communities, namely Hindu, Christian and Muslim. They reside in an area where there is no need to have partition of compound wall.  However, gradually, due to the infiltration in their domain of Satanic Hindu fanatics under the leadership of one Pundalik, the peace in that area is disturbed leading to communal disharmony. But, at last everyone involved in this disharmony realized their mistake.  To see how this happened, one has to watch this Tiatro. The role of Pundalik was nicely played by Andrew who depicts no resemblance of Muthalik.

 

Seen above 2nd, is Andrew as Pundalik

 

In late sixties, to challenge the "dadagiri" of Dayananda Bandodcar and to humiliate him, in his Tiatro “Bondolist”, Nelson Afonso introduced one character exactly similar to Bandodcar in shape, face and looks. At least Tousif de Navelim was much considerate in this respect but Nelson was not for  Bandodcar. Playing the role of a Hindu woman, seasoned character artiste Jane excelled very well.  During her stay in Kuwait for over a decade she acted in many Tiatros doing different roles and for that matter extremely well especially in the Tiatros staged by the late Rosary Ferns. She also performed in Mando Festivals we organized in Kuwait proving to be a very good singer. The others who played their roles well were veteran Anil Kumar, Ortencio, Teotonio as Police Inspector and the director himself.

 

Seen above are comedians Neto & Ortencio

 

In the comedy segment which had no link with the main story, acrobatic comedian Neto produced peals of laughter in the hall.  He is the natural comedian and currently he according to my observation is one of the top comedians.  Neto was ably supported in the comedy part by his comedy partner Ortencio. This pair currently makes a very good comedians partnership

 

In the Side Show songs there was a good mixture of Solos and other categories in which every singer performed well. Though some of the big names in the industry were missing yet their absence went totally unnoticed without any importance mainly because of the high quality of the play that totally captivated the minds of the attendees.

 

One more scene

 

During the interval, three special invitees namely Mr. Nilkan, Mr. Tomazinho Cardoso  and Mr. Kamat were brought to the Stage to say a few words.  In their short speeches, all three of them showered fabuluous praises on Tousif de Navelim assuring him of their comfort.  But as somebody remarked after the Show, where was this trio sleeping when the first Show at Margao was on the verge of collapse?

 

While concluding the Show, the writer and director of the Tiatro, in folded hands going on his knees and thanking the people for their total support to him, asked the Goans never to allow Akantvadis to destroy Goa.

 

A.    Veronica Fernandes,  

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

    

 

 

"AKANTVADI GOEANT NAKA" - I.

EYEWITNESS TO TIATRO "AKANTVADI GOEANT NAKA"

 

 

Seen above is Tausif de Navelim.

 

Bravo Tousif de Navelim for your excellent Tiatro you staged on 17^th of this month at Kala Academy, Panaji, starting exactly at scheduled time 10.30 AM. This Tiatro was attended almost by 900 attendees and it was a total success both as attendance wise as well as performance wise. Thru this Tiatro you spread the message of love, peace and brotherhood.

 

Seen above is the language of Sword in the name of religion

 

Somewhere in 1957, Alexinho de Candolim went to Bombay to stage his well-known Tiatro “To Bavtto  Dhormancho”. All the arrangements have been done but suddenly on the eve of the staging of this Tiatro at Bhangwaddy Hall, the news of Alexinho de Candolim’s imminent arrest just before the start of the Tiatro was leaked out, on the grounds that this Tiatro was in support of Portuguese “Bavtto”.  The nationalists based in Bombay like Evargio Jorge and others were on forefront to get Alexinho de Candolim arrested without knowing the contents of this Tiatro but only on assumption that this Tiatro was based on Portuguese Bavtto.  Having no choice, Alexinho de Candolim evading arrest, on the eve of this Tiatro at night time, fled from Bombay on way to Goa. This Tiatro’s story was actually based on our Christian religion and not on politics. But the idiot nationalists unnecessarily wanted to put Alexinho de Candolim into problem.

 

Baba Cielo singing the most powerful solo against Ghantti opponents of Tiatro. 

 

 

Similarly, the Hindu fanatics from Karnataka in collaboration with some Goan Hindu fanatics on wrong assumption that the Tiatro “Akantvadi Goeant Nakam” is based on their leader Muthalik,  wanted to stop staging this Tiatro in Goa starting from the scheduled first show at Margao. It was wrong on their part to assume without seeing this Tiatro that it was directly directed against Muthalik and his pro-Hindu organization.  Muthalik and Hindus like him are afraid that their Hinduism may weaken in Goa and to protect it from getting it into weakened they are making desperate attempts to frighten others.  In fact, Hinduism is a very powerful religion and nobody can shake it especially in Goa.

 

 

Two beauties of Tiatro, Ophelia & Jane singing the duo.

 

Why Muthalik only, even the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi himself showed his concern for the survival of Hinduism in India when he said and as quoted by the late Zulficar Ali Bhutto in his masterpiece “If I Am Assassinated” that “If Islam and Christianity are uprooted from India it will still flourish elsewhere in the world but if Hinduism is uprooted from India, it will disappear from this planet. Hence, the need to protect Hinduism in India”.  But by what means? Thru Swords and violence? Violence is against Hinduism because the core of Hinduism is Non-Violence and those who suggest the means of violence to protect Hinduism are doing injustice to the great religion Hinduism.  And by the way, secondly, who the hell are these non-Goans to control us Goans?  What right these outsiders got to dictate us what to do and what not to do? They and for that matter none from outside Goa has authority to dictate us anything.  We know what is good and what is bad for us.

 

To be concluded.

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

KIFF KUWAIT FAIL TO ELECT PRESIDENT AT AGM.

After discussing and conducting the days agenda at the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 15TH AUGUST 2014, the outgoing Managing Committee left the podium so as to elect the office bearers for the season 2014-2015.

Accordingly, the House nominated Mr. V.K. Vohra of Indian Strikers as a commissioner and Mr. Xavier Furtado of AVC to assist in conducting the elections.

After long efforts the House failed to elect the nominated members for post of the President. This resulted in discontinuation of the election process.

Mr. V.K. Vohra suggested to the House that since the House has failed to elect a President, it shall be advisable to have an Ad-hoc Committee to continue the administrative work for three months and within the period of three months an EGM should be called to elect a new managing committee.

Mr. Raymond pointed out that there is no provision in the KIFF constitution for such Adhoc committee. At this juncture the House agreed to put in place the Ad-hoc committee as special case.

The House proposed the candidates for the AD-HOC committee and the following were appointed:

1. Mr. .L.M. Pinto – YRC (Chairman).

2. Mr. Carmo Santos- Santos united (Member).

3. Mr. Salvador Dias- KGA (Member).

4. Mr. Anthony  Corriea – DHL (Member).

5. Mr. Dominick Pereira – AVC (Member).

The House was unanimous in electing the above AD-HOC COMMITTEE for a period of three months (the tenure: 15/11/2014) and it should be mandatory to convene an EGM to elect a new managing committee.

The outgoing Managing Committee was asked to handover all the records, documents and cash in hand to the chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee.

THE POWERS OF THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE:

The Ad-hoc committee shall have all the powers invested in a managing committee, as provided for in the KIFF constitution and the rules. The Ad-hoc committee shall not contravene the KIFF constitution and other existing rules.

The above is circularized to all the affiliated members of the Federation as recorded by the appointed Commissioners to conduct the elections.