RELEASING OF NEW KONKANI ALBUM "UGDDAS M. BOYERACHO"..

The Producer Jerry Cal.

                                                Front Cover of the Album

“UGDDAS  M. BOYERACHO” the new Konkani Album in CD as well as DVD formats produced by Jerry Cal from Calangute, Bardez, Goa, will be released  on 8^th of this month in Calangute, Church Hall,  at 6.30 PM after the Mass.  This being the Feast Day of Our Lady, the  releasing ceremony will commence in time.  The Album will be released thru the hands of Fr. Domnick Savio, the Asst. Parish Priest of St. Alex Calangute Church.

This is the second Album of Jerry Cal and it contains 12 songs of which 7 are solos, 2 Duets, 1  Duo and 2 Trios.  Of the 7 solos, one each of Olga, Marcus Vas, Bushka, Lawry Travasso and Peter de Ugasaim while 2 solos are rendered by the producer Jerry Cal;   2 Duets – one by Benny de Aldona with Bushka and the other by Junior Reagan with Valency while one Duo by Jerry Call with Benny de Aldona.  The remaining 2 are Trios by Jet Speed Composer Salvador  Silveira-Mini Mario-Pascoal de Calangute.

All the songs are very powerful but the most powerful are both the solos of Jerry Cal, one the title song where the singer details the best Tiatros of Boyer, his best songs and the best ability of Boyer to compose best of “Cantos” in his Tiatros.  The singer also displays the best of visuals of M. Boyer as never shown before namely the ones where Boyer is shown receiving top awards Sangeet Nattak and Padmashree from the Presidents of India namely Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma and Dr. Abdul Kalam respectively.  These are the rare photos. 

In the other solo “Calangute”, Jerry Cal shows beautiful and historical scenes of Calangute like Silver Sand Calangute Beach, Baga Beach and Chapel, Bom Viagem Convent,  Monuments of Abade de Faria and Dr. Jack de Sequeira, the first English High School of Goa at Arpora and the newly built bridge there.  Also shown are the new soccer Stadium at Poriat and the beautiful Hotel Goan Heritage built by the Kuwait Goans, in addition to many more beautiful scenes.

In the solo of Olga you will see one historical scene where the last Portuguese Governor Vassalo e Silva was shown signing the treaty of surrendering Goa to India and the euphoria of the crowd  in some places for Jai Hind.  Also shown photo of Salazar and other world stalwarts.  In this solo she describes the contribution of Goan Christians in the freedom movement of Goa including that of Pintos revolt initiated by the Pinto priests from Candolim.

Both the Trios,  one on “Madd” and the other on the killing of Fr. Bismarque, while watching  one surely goes mad  by listening to the contents and especially by seeing the visuals of dead Fr. Bismarque, such scenes were not shown before nor such matter was ever rendered before. The composer and singers deserve highest praises for rendering such songs so boldly.

Bushka’s duet with Benny de Aldona and her solo carry the majesticity they deserve while new comer Peter de Ucasaim’s comedy solo is nice to listen.  Both Lawry Travasso and Marcos Vas do justice to their solos. The Kunbi duet of Reagan and Valency is beautifull while the Duo of Jerry Cal with Benny de Aldona is excellent, the beautiful voice of Benny beautifies this song more.

I can rightly say that this Album in CD and DVD form is one of the best so far I came across. Historical point of view this is a big Treasure.  I congratulate the producer Jerry Cal and his his entire troupe for producing such an excellent Album “UGDDAS M. BOYERACHO”.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

SEX SCANDALS OF MINISTERS.

With reference to the hot news now going on in India on one Delhi Cabinet Minister Sandeep Kumar of AAM Admi Party forced to resign on Sex scandal issue, I must admit what Kejriwal did for him to force to resign was right but why delayed?  Was he interested to hide this scandal in the beginning?

Some years back in UK when one of the Cabinet members of Margaret Thatcher was caught in sex scandal, Thatcher immediately demanded his resignation and sent him home saying “because of your sin I am not  going to suffer.  You better go”.  But that was Margaret Thatcher called Iron Lady and this is Arwind Kejriwal whose real character is getting exposed due to many ugly doings of his colleagues.  It is going to be a good lesson for the supporters of AAM Admi in Goa who depict AAM Admi Party as the most clean Party of most upright members.

Some years back Goa was afflicted with rampant sex scandals by our  Romeo type of Ministers who extorted sex in exchange of official work.  Everybody must be still remembering Sunita – Narvencar incident  and how Narvencar was forced to resign.  Likewise we have plenty of Narvencars in Goa committing the sin of “Narvenkarism” but not getting exposed because of their dealings in such activities clandestinely but creating hardship for the innocent females especially for the young job seekers.  They must be exposed to eradicate the thorns from our way. They bring bad name for their parties and their system.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

BAD ROAD PROTEST MEET IN CALANGUTE.

Today starting at 9.30 AM, at the Tinto in Calangute, the village lover Calangutcars joined in good number and organized a peaceful public meeting under the banner of Calangute Panchayat to raise the issue of very bad road currently existing in many areas of Calangute.  Because of such a pathetic condition of the roads, many accidents are occurring in Calangute where tourists and locals are become victims even of the deaths.  It looks everyone responsible is sleeping leaving the roads into the hands of the nature to act the way it deem fit.  The tourism minister is the first culprit for ignoring this road when tourism is major income of Goa.  He is unfit to take the responsibility of this sector and as such he should quit this position instead of holding PWD responsible. 

Since PWD is directly responsible to maintain these roads properly, it has totally failed in its duty.  It is useless to have PWD when it is sleeping.

 The local MLA should have used his clout with the concerned government personnel at least out of moral obligation since he is ought to show his intention of doing something for his constituency.  As it is, in Parra which is his village and also Arpora and Nagoa he decorated the roads sp beautifully.   

Finally what about the local Panchayat role?  According to my information it has no power to do anything for these roads because this segment is beyond their jurisdiction. Because of the apathy of the concerned authorities, Calangute roads are in very bad condition leading to the very bad image of tourism in Goa.

The meet was addressed by some of the prominent locals including by the strong man of Calangute Constituency and the dynamic leader of the locality Joseph Sequeira.In his speech, Sequeira warned the government machinery not to take the Congottkar for granted and went further saying that if these roads are not repaired by the end of this month, he will give a call for “Calangute Bond on 2^nd October.

A.Veronica Fernandes.