NEW KONKANI ALBUM TO BE RELEASED BY JERRY CAL.

Jerry Cal

Very shortly,  a new Konkani Album ‘UGDDAS M. BOYERACHO” by Jerry Cal from Calangute Bardez, will be released in Calangute, precisely on 8^th of next month.  This Album is going to be in two formats – CD as well as DVD.  It consists of 12 songs comprising solos, duos, duets and trios on different topics and rendered by the well-known singers of Konakni Stage, namely, Lawry Travasso, Benny de Aldona, Marcus Vaz, Olga, Bhuska, Reagan, Menino Mario, Pascoal de Calangute, Svalvador Silveira, Valency, Peter de Ugasaim and the producer of this Album Jerry Cal. 

This is going to be the second Album of Jerry Cal, the first was released 5 years back which was a CD titled “CALANGUTE”.  

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Jerry Cal hailing from the touristic place Calangute was till recently based in Abu Dhabi where he used to take Goan Tiatro troupes and stage Tiatros there since he himself was a good Tiatrist – composer and singer.  Among the Tiatrists and troupes he took there was M. Boyer and his troupe thru which he acquired a very good friendship of Boyer.  Hence, as a mark respect for his friendship with Boyer, he named this Album as “UGDDAS M. BOYERACHO”.

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Among the 12 songs of this Album, 7 are composed by Gerry Cal comprising 4 solos from which Jerry Cal renders two; one is a title song “Ugddas M. Boyeracho” and the other “Sobit Calangute”. The third item of Jerry Cal is a duo “Devachem Nirmonn” with Benny de Aldona.  Two of his solos are rendered, one each by Marcus Vaz and Lawry Travasso while two of his duets are rendered by Benny de Aldona & Bhuska  and Reagan & Valency.

Four of the 12 songs are composed by Salvador Silveira – two of which are Trios rendered by Salvador-M. Mario-Pascoal - one on Coconut and the other on Fr. Bismarq - and the other two are Solos rendered by Olga and Bushka.

The remaining last song was composed and rendered by Peter the Ugacaim.

This Album Jerry Cal dedicated to his wife the late Theresa Fernandes. 

According to me this Album is going to be one of the best since the compositions are very good from where one can get lot of information on Goa, Goan affairs and history besides moral lesson.  Additionally the singers are all very good who have done justice to their jobs.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

ALLIANCE OF GFP WITH CONGRESS IS A MUST.

Further to the latest news in the media in Goa that  “Goa Forward Party draws up electoral battle plans”, I give my full support for GFP for its willingness to form  a grand alliance with Congress Party in the coming election. This alliance is the need of the hour to defeat the BJP otherwise no individual party independently on its own strength is capable to dethrone BJP. If possible the wings of alliance should also spread further to engulf in its fold other regional like minded parties too.

Taking advantage of this offer of GFP, Congress Party should come forward for this alliance.  The purpose of non-BJP parties like GFP and Congress is to grab power and this being the priority some sacrifices and adjustment must be done by the alliance partners to forge this alliance. The old thinking of Congress that it is in position to dictate its terms is no more relevant now in Goa. Congress Party must now change its thinking and agree for the alliance knowing well that fighting election on its own, independently is facing its doom. Hence, joining an alliance for Congress is the best method to save its skin.

Though it is difficult for the voters like me to forgive Congress for the sins  it committed during its earlier tenure yet the same voters I  am sure will support Congress only in alliance with other like minded parties, like GFP and that too only for the purpose of defeating BJP to save Goa from further disaster.  The time demands some readjustment on our thinking and review of our move especially on Congress because Congress in alliance will be better than Congress  independently.   If we want to unseat BJP then this is going to be the only choice for us though for many among us it will be difficult to reconcile with Congress.  This is going to be something better than nothing. Hence, my support for an ALLIANCE.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

LETTER TO LUIZINHO FALEIRO BY PROF. SERGIO CARVALHO.

Sergio Carvalho,
Liberty Apts-202,
Feira Alta,
Mapusa Goa-403507
8th Aug. 2016

To,
Bab Luizinho Faleiro,
President
Goa Pradesh Congress Committee,
Panjim Goa-403001.

Viva bab Luizinho Salazar,

Namaskar!

Enclosed please find one page of the “GOAN OBSERVER”   (July 16-22, 2016), wherein Mr. Rajan Narayan writes about some disturbing incidents, that occurred, when he joined the “Herald”, as its Editor.

As voting, tax-paying citizens, we have the right to know the unadulterated and truthful information, about where and how our tax-money is spent, by the government. Unfortunately, a large section of the media, both print and electronic, is either buyable or subservient. Mercifully, there are a few who courageously refuse to be muzzled or pliant, for which, many of them, pay with their lives, particularly in the “Banana Republics”, Muslim Nations, some of the Asian Nations, including India.

We have been told, from rooftops, by so-called Freedom Fighters, that Goa experienced Press censorship and gagging, during Salazar regime.

Scene 2: 2000 – when you were the Industries Minister in the Govt. of Goa.

Bab Luizinho – your Salazar-like order to the Editor of Herald Mr. Rajan Narayan, via its Managing Director Raul Fernandes, and that too in your presence, that “nothing against the minister (Luizinho Faleiro) should appear in the paper” is /was highly objectionable and condemnable This order of yours, was because Mr. Rajan Narayan (Herald)” had been carrying a series of articles on how, on (your) instructions, the EDC had been extending further loans to steel rolling mills…”.

This is nothing short of “Press Gagging”, for which Salazar was notorious as you will surely know.

Only Salazar in his grave, must be very happy and proud of you, for carrying on his legacy, in a supposedly Democracy. Is the “Indian Democracy” just another name for “Demoncracy”?

Please glance at Scene 3: 1983 (pg.4)
Take a good read and see how…

C. M. Manohar Parrikar, out-did you in “Press-gagging”, because of the questionable doings in the same EDC and the same Raul Fernandes. There is again another reference to this sordid duel between you and Parrikar, in the latest issue of the “G.O” (July 30-Aug 05, 2016) – a clip of which is affixed herewith.

The stark reality is that both Congress and BJP are the two sides of the same coin. No matter which sides comes up, when it is tossed, the stench of corruption, scams and nepotism is overpowering.

That is why, as you also know, Goans kicked out the Congress Government in the last elections, by tens of-thousands of Goans like myself,  voting for B.J.P., whose face in Goa then, was Manohar Parrikar. All believed then that he was truly honest and sincere.    

If Goans and Goa are now in a grave situation, it is only because the Congress Government and Congress Party, forced our hand to press the B.J.P. lotus-button, on the voting machine.

Bab Luizinho as a son of Goa and father of your children, I ask you as a Goenkar, what have you and all of you, elected by Goans so many, many times, even as you and many of you occupied high, positions with power, done to protect and guard Goans and Goa and to promote the interests of all Goans?

Have you and all of you not betrayed, in total contempt, our forefathers, who handed over to us a “Golden Goa” of peace, plenty and amity among our People? And are you and all of you, not robbing all this from your children,  your grand-children and their children, yet to be born, in their Homeland?

What is the legacy that you and all of you, are leaving, behind, long after you are gone, as indeed all of us have to go?

It is a himalayan irony indeed, that you a Goan was sent to  take care of the special needs and interests of the citizens of the North Eastern States, while Goa and Goans have been thrown to the wolves, hyenas and “agents” of Congress and BJP, whose job was/ is to satisfy their High Command in New Delhi and Nagpur. And in all this, to hell with Goans and Goa!

I wrote a letter, sometime ago, to Rahul Gandhi highlighting-4 aspects:
1.  His genuine honesty.
2.  Corrupt Congress Party and Congress Government.
3.  Betrayal of Goans and Goa by late P.M. Jawaharlal Nehru, late P.M. Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi who proved to be an outright liar, to us Goans.
4.   “Special Status “vis-a-viz Nagaland, Assam and Mizoram, whose interests you took care of, for a number of years (page 8 & 9).

As a Goenkar, I hope you and all of you will be there, to be pallbearers of the “Golden Land” of our forefathers, that you and all of you, are above to extinguish, for your individual and collecting gains, power and pelf.

If you say that I am being dramatic, please check the pulse of Goenkars, both in and out of Goa, and hear their cry, if you are honest enough to hear, of how you and all of you, have made their Goa a Hell for them and a Paradise for all non-Goans.

Enclosed, please find a Xerox of Mr. Prabhakar Sinari’s article (who as a daring, idealistic teenager had joined the Azad Gomantak Dal and paid a price)- titled “Quo Vadis Goa?”, wherein he laments in distress, for his Goa and writes:

* “Goa Has Already Lost On Many Counts”.
* “Time Is Fast Ticking For Goa”.

Is Mr. Prabhakar Sinari being dramatic?
Amen for Goenkars and our Goem!
Sincerely,


(Sergio Carvalho)
P.S.
If what Mr. Rajan Narayan has written in the “Goan Observer” (July 16-22, 2016) about you is untrue, we as voting, tax-paying citizens of Goa, have the right to know. Besides, since his said article is in public domain, we the voting, tax-paying citizens, expect you to file a case for Defamation, against Mr. Rajan Narayan.

Encl:
1.  Page of “G.O”.
2.  Mr. Prabhakar Sinari’s article: “Quo Vadis Goa?”.
3.  Letter to Rahul Gandhi.