Referee Franky Fernandes for Kuwait
Goa's FIFA assistant referee Franky Fernandes has been appointed to officiate in an International tournament in Kuwait.
Upon the request of the Kuwait Football Federation, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has recommended Franky for the prestigious assignment.
Teams from the Gulf countries as well as from Africa are participating in the tournament, which has reached the quarter-final stage.
Franky will have to stay for more than 15 days till the conclusion of the tournament and the Colva-born official was naturally elated. At the moment I cannot express my feelings. It's fantastic. It really surprised me. It'll be a great learning experience as well as a good exposure for me to tougher competitions, a joyful Franky told The Navhind Times, just before making the last arrangements for the Gulf trip.
It may be noted that Franky earlier has officiated in the Maldives National League with distinction and was also requested by the Maldives Football Federation to officiate in the Maldives Super Cup at Male National Stadium in 2008.
In the meantime, in an exclusive comminique sent by KIFF, the football teams affiliated to KIFF are all set to welcome Franky Fernandes:
FIFA Referee to officiate KIFF football matches in Kuwait.
Kuwait Indian Football Federation (KIFF) is proud to announce that the remaining matches of the ongoing KIFF League for the J.P D’Mello Memorial Rolling Trophy will be officiated by FIFA affiliated referee Franky Fernandes.
Franky Fernandes who hails from Colva, Goa, the famous Indian touristic destination of India, is officially deputed by All India Football Federation on request by KIFF through Albert Colaco, Hon. Gen. Secretary of AIFF. Franky who is presently working with the Sports Authority of Goa became GFA referee in 1990. He was awarded the national batch by AIFF in 1999. After going through extensive training and attending various certification programs he achieved his long cherished dream by attaining the FIFA referee batch in 2007
Franky will be arriving in Kuwait on 3rd June 2009 (today) by Jet Airways and will be seen in action on 5th June 2009 at the Salmiya Baladiya Football Stadium where the KIFF league matches are being conducted in the morning.
As per KIFF directive Franky is scheduled to conduct refereeing classes in Kuwait during his brief stay in Kuwait, hence this is a lifetime opportunity for all those who are aspiring to become official referees. All those who wish to avail this opportunity should contact the KIFF President or KIFF Sports Secretary, Derick Gomendes.
June 4, 2009
KHK MOURNS DEATH OF M. BOYER.
KONKANI HERITAGE KUWAIT DEEPLY MOURN THE SAD DEATH OF THE LATE TIATRIST M. BOYER IN GOA ON 30TH OF LAST MONTH AT HIS HOME PLACE, RAIA.
IN HIS DEATH NOT ONLY KONKANI STAGE BUT GOAN WORLD ALSO HAS LOST AN ICONIC FIGURE.
MAY THE SOUL OF LATE M. BOYER REST IN PEACE AND MAY THE HEAVENLY GOD GIVE COURAGE TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN TO BEAR THIS COLOSSAL LOSS.
FIDELIS FERNANDES,
PRESIDENT: KONKANI HERITAGE KUWAIT,
KUWAIT.
IN HIS DEATH NOT ONLY KONKANI STAGE BUT GOAN WORLD ALSO HAS LOST AN ICONIC FIGURE.
MAY THE SOUL OF LATE M. BOYER REST IN PEACE AND MAY THE HEAVENLY GOD GIVE COURAGE TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN TO BEAR THIS COLOSSAL LOSS.
FIDELIS FERNANDES,
PRESIDENT: KONKANI HERITAGE KUWAIT,
KUWAIT.
June 3, 2009
Why can't we celebrate diversity? By Valmiki Faleiro.
WHY CAN’T WE CELEBRATE DIVERSITY?
By Valmiki Faleiro.
I generally respect men with beards. At the risk of digressing, and of being accusedof male chauvinism in these days of the swine flu, may I recall the old ditty: Beards and wisdom,Beards and wisdom go together,Men have it sometimes,But women, never! SM Borges is no exception. A grey full beard dominates his countenance. As a senior friend, I respect his experience and wisdom. Even if at times, I cannot concur with his opinion, like on the naked injustice to Konknni written in the Roman alphabet. Without naming, but obviously alluding, to what I wrote here (“Konknni’s twins,”HERALD, 13 May), Borges (HERALD, 20 May) asks, rather rhetorically, a few questions to drive home his point. I shall pointedly answer them.
Before that, may Iremind that I’m not against Konknni in the Devanagri script, just as no votary of theRomi script I know is. I’ve publicly said that Devanagri is the natural script of Konknni. Everyone, save ostriches who prefer to bury their heads in sand, knows the genesis of how bulk of Konknni users in Goa came to use the Romi script. And how crass injustice to them crept in since 1987.
I’d go a step further. Middle East-based Wilson Coelho, upon my 13 May piece, actually brought this toattention. I would urge all Goan parents to encourage their children to master theDevanagri script – to stay competitive in the job market of the country. Jobs in Goa are at saturation point. India is the USA of tomorrow. Goans, Catholics in particular,are disadvantaged here. The advantages of knowing Devanagri in India can hardly be overstated. The soonerGoan Catholics realise this, the better. Take the personal case of the other unnamed target in SM Borges’ piece, Prof. (Dr.) Olivinho Gomes.
My senior respected friend Olivinhobab quit a cushy job in the Central Civil Servicesto serve the ‘Konknni Mission,’ as Professor and Head of Konknni Dept at Goa Univ.He is as much at home with Marathi and Hindi, as he is with Konknni in both scripts.He mastered Marathi during his nine-year IRS tenure in Maharashtra, and wrote in it.He had studied Hindi from his school days in Don Bosco’s, Panjim, and perfected it inthe North Indian milieu while serving in the Tax Research Unit of the Union FinanceMinistry. Few will know that Olivinhobab was honoured at the ‘Hindi Literary Conference’ ofAllahabad (the ‘Prayag,’ meeting point, of India’s three sacred rivers) in March-2001.He delivered its key note address, in Hindi, on the complex theme “Sahitya Kyon?”(why literature.) The citation read, for “his remarkable services to the cause of thespread of Hindi.” He contributed to the Hindi magazine press at the national level.
Comparisons are odious, but I can’t help noting that no Goan votary of Konknni in Devanagri comes anywhere near Olivinhobab’s credentials with the script. Others may yap. He writes, extensively, in Konknni, Marathi and Hindi. Devanagri and knowledge of Indian languages stood Olivinhobab in good stead.(Even if it – to his pain, flowing from his love for his mother-tongue, and to thechagrin of his critics – helped him pinpoint the ‘Marathisation’ of vocabulary andsyntax of Konknni written in Devanagri script!) Olivinhobab is clear about the Official Language Act being crippled, in definingKonknni ‘as Konkani in Devanagari script.’ He wryly says, “It is like saying a womanmeans a woman clad in a sari.” All others dressed differently are not women!
Over to Borges’ questions of 20 May: *Is writing/reading in Konkani in Roman script banned? *Does the Governmentcensor private correspondence in Konkani (in the Roman script)?Obviously no! *Are they forced to read and write Konkani exclusively in Devanagari script?Yes, at primary school. *Isn’t there sufficient Konkani literature being published in Roman Script?With the ease, finance, awards, etc., that writers in Devanagri have cornered for themselves? Did you hear of a Konknni author in the Roman script ever bestowedwith a Sahitya Academy award? Why? Because he is a second-class writer in hisown country? I’m not suggesting Borges hang by his own beard in shame. Fact is only Konknni books in Devanagri script can get an award, under rules framed by a latter-dayAdvisory Board of Konkani, contrary to the position when Konknni was recognized asan independent literary language of India in 1975.
A lecturer in geology that Borges was, he then takes us to an ‘experiment.’ Perhaps,five Romi Konknni writers will write the same passage differently. What about spoken Konknni? Borges needn’t cross Goa’s rivers to find out. As he steps out of his ward inVelim, he knows how, for something lost, villagers say ‘por poddlem’ or ‘sanddlem’ or‘xendhlem’! That, precisely, is my point. Why can’t we celebrate diversity – why try to herd thelarger segment of Konknni users into imperious ‘uniformity’? Why not treat all at par?Give me one good reason and I’ll join the anti-Romi brigade! (ENDS.)======================================================================
By Valmiki Faleiro.
I generally respect men with beards. At the risk of digressing, and of being accusedof male chauvinism in these days of the swine flu, may I recall the old ditty: Beards and wisdom,Beards and wisdom go together,Men have it sometimes,But women, never! SM Borges is no exception. A grey full beard dominates his countenance. As a senior friend, I respect his experience and wisdom. Even if at times, I cannot concur with his opinion, like on the naked injustice to Konknni written in the Roman alphabet. Without naming, but obviously alluding, to what I wrote here (“Konknni’s twins,”HERALD, 13 May), Borges (HERALD, 20 May) asks, rather rhetorically, a few questions to drive home his point. I shall pointedly answer them.
Before that, may Iremind that I’m not against Konknni in the Devanagri script, just as no votary of theRomi script I know is. I’ve publicly said that Devanagri is the natural script of Konknni. Everyone, save ostriches who prefer to bury their heads in sand, knows the genesis of how bulk of Konknni users in Goa came to use the Romi script. And how crass injustice to them crept in since 1987.
I’d go a step further. Middle East-based Wilson Coelho, upon my 13 May piece, actually brought this toattention. I would urge all Goan parents to encourage their children to master theDevanagri script – to stay competitive in the job market of the country. Jobs in Goa are at saturation point. India is the USA of tomorrow. Goans, Catholics in particular,are disadvantaged here. The advantages of knowing Devanagri in India can hardly be overstated. The soonerGoan Catholics realise this, the better. Take the personal case of the other unnamed target in SM Borges’ piece, Prof. (Dr.) Olivinho Gomes.
My senior respected friend Olivinhobab quit a cushy job in the Central Civil Servicesto serve the ‘Konknni Mission,’ as Professor and Head of Konknni Dept at Goa Univ.He is as much at home with Marathi and Hindi, as he is with Konknni in both scripts.He mastered Marathi during his nine-year IRS tenure in Maharashtra, and wrote in it.He had studied Hindi from his school days in Don Bosco’s, Panjim, and perfected it inthe North Indian milieu while serving in the Tax Research Unit of the Union FinanceMinistry. Few will know that Olivinhobab was honoured at the ‘Hindi Literary Conference’ ofAllahabad (the ‘Prayag,’ meeting point, of India’s three sacred rivers) in March-2001.He delivered its key note address, in Hindi, on the complex theme “Sahitya Kyon?”(why literature.) The citation read, for “his remarkable services to the cause of thespread of Hindi.” He contributed to the Hindi magazine press at the national level.
Comparisons are odious, but I can’t help noting that no Goan votary of Konknni in Devanagri comes anywhere near Olivinhobab’s credentials with the script. Others may yap. He writes, extensively, in Konknni, Marathi and Hindi. Devanagri and knowledge of Indian languages stood Olivinhobab in good stead.(Even if it – to his pain, flowing from his love for his mother-tongue, and to thechagrin of his critics – helped him pinpoint the ‘Marathisation’ of vocabulary andsyntax of Konknni written in Devanagri script!) Olivinhobab is clear about the Official Language Act being crippled, in definingKonknni ‘as Konkani in Devanagari script.’ He wryly says, “It is like saying a womanmeans a woman clad in a sari.” All others dressed differently are not women!
Over to Borges’ questions of 20 May: *Is writing/reading in Konkani in Roman script banned? *Does the Governmentcensor private correspondence in Konkani (in the Roman script)?Obviously no! *Are they forced to read and write Konkani exclusively in Devanagari script?Yes, at primary school. *Isn’t there sufficient Konkani literature being published in Roman Script?With the ease, finance, awards, etc., that writers in Devanagri have cornered for themselves? Did you hear of a Konknni author in the Roman script ever bestowedwith a Sahitya Academy award? Why? Because he is a second-class writer in hisown country? I’m not suggesting Borges hang by his own beard in shame. Fact is only Konknni books in Devanagri script can get an award, under rules framed by a latter-dayAdvisory Board of Konkani, contrary to the position when Konknni was recognized asan independent literary language of India in 1975.
A lecturer in geology that Borges was, he then takes us to an ‘experiment.’ Perhaps,five Romi Konknni writers will write the same passage differently. What about spoken Konknni? Borges needn’t cross Goa’s rivers to find out. As he steps out of his ward inVelim, he knows how, for something lost, villagers say ‘por poddlem’ or ‘sanddlem’ or‘xendhlem’! That, precisely, is my point. Why can’t we celebrate diversity – why try to herd thelarger segment of Konknni users into imperious ‘uniformity’? Why not treat all at par?Give me one good reason and I’ll join the anti-Romi brigade! (ENDS.)======================================================================
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