A NEW FRONT "GOENCHO EKVOTT" IS FORMED.

Finally the organization “GOENCHO EKVOTT “ is formed as declared  in Herald of 21.07.20.  This  is imperative at this hour since when facing the issues of high calamity Goans join together under one common Umbrella.

Being good fighters for justice for them,  Goans perform well  when joined together  and precisely because of this quality Goans won the the Opinion Poll, Konkani Language,  Statehood and many other battles.  This attitude  is deeply ingrained in their blood and even when they are abroad they do the same by even risking their jobs.  For example, when Goans from the Gulf especially from Kuwait realised that they must come to the rescue of their counterparts in Goa fighting for the cause of Konkani language, Kuwait Goans discarding all their differences and parochial enmities, joined together in mid 1979 and formed their own  group that received allegiance from all others involved  Konkni activities and collected and sent lakhs of rupees to Goa to fight the Konkani cause.

Now, “Goencho Ekvott” is assured of their full support by the innumerable Goan associations to fight anti-Goan projects by the Government,  because of their ill effects on Goa. It is imperative to fight the enemies of Goa who are destroying Goa in the name of development which is a pure Hitlerian lie. I too lend my strong support GE on behalf of all my like minded Kuwait returnees especially all my warrier friends who struggled so much for the cause of Goa and Goans. 

I have noticed that we Goans are first class in initiating something but last class in maintaining it. We easily go into disarray because of our leaders’  selfishness for gaining cheap prominence and the greed for illicit money.  It is our leaders who let us down because it is our tragedy that we don’t get good and reliable leaders. See our politicians how they disgrace Goa thru defection,  see the lakhs of rupees we sent for Konkani promotion and also  for the Costruction of One Cancer Hospital etc. There is no accountability of such a huge amount we sent from Kuwait.  My request all involvd in GE to be upright.

A.Veronica Fernandes,

BEST POLITICAL SONG OF OLGA VAZ.

 Olga Vaz singing her fiery political song 

There is a saying in Konkani: “Baint poddlem khuim Koblem and voir sorlem khuim Soblem”, this is exactly what has happened in Goa regarding the stopping of Tiatro and in the bargain development of UTube Channel where we get best of songs rendered by

the best of artistes on different subjects. Everybody in the anti-Tiatro circle especially those involved in the running of the government machinery said that in this situation the mouth of the Tiatrists will be closed to  criticize the government for its wrongs and anti-people decisions and anti-Goan policies.  Hence, the government and its machinery took a great pleasure in this stopping of Tiatros but on the other side the UTube facility opened where every top artiste has started his/her Channel where these artistes are rendering best of songs which give the singer much wider coverage for their songs than what they were getting in the Tiatros. Hence, my saying “Baint poddlem khuim Koblem and voir sorlem khuim Sonlem”.  The meaning of this saying is elaborated here thus: “Because of his “Koblem” thru which he was catching Crabs suddenly got released from his hand and fell into the Well and when he jumped into the Well to remove that Koblem he got hold of one lady by name Soblem which is in reality Sobin that was in the local parlance called Soblem.  Hence, what has happened is proved to be better.

By taking advantage of this situation, the beauty queen of Konkani Stage who is called the Queen of political songs, the lovely looking Olga Vaz with her piercing lyrics and attractive voice and absolutely killing words like that of the first known highly  great political singer Kid Boxer, released her highly political song “UZO”  which is a must see and must listen because it looks like actual fire in which she burns  Visvajeet Rane dubbing him as “Baizon” etc. and tearing him into pieces by saying even “samelessly he cried in front of Parricar like a Baizon”.  She showers fabulous praises on Manoj Parab of Goan Revelutionary and his group.  If possible Manoj  must open offices or centres in every village or constituency so that everyone will have easy access to this organisation. 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

ROBBERS OF KONKANI SONGS.

This is with reference to one song of the late renown Konkani Stage artiste  Alexinho de Candolim who was such  a beautiful singer and composer with his sweet melodious voice he would easily mesmerise  the audience, after his death in mid sixties no other artiste appeared on Konkani Stage like him with such a mighty power of composing mighty songs.  Commenting on this exceptionally talented songster, the late renowned son of Goa who was considered a genius during those good old dasys, Mosg. Filipe Neri Mendonca popularly known  as Fr. Mendonca,  the Principal of the first English High chool of Goa,  St. Joseph’s High School Arpora, passed a comment referring to the singing prowess  of Allexinho de Candolim: “Oh my goodness, what Alexinho de Candolim is !!  If this man had a little educational background he would be surely a genius!!”. In fact, Alexinho de Candolim’s  political views on Goa during the Portuguese rule were not liked by the  Goan Freedom Fighters based in Bombay and for this reason they tried to implicate him in doing something which he never did from the Stage while in Goa for his heavy  criticism against his songs on the mischief done by the Bhattkarshahi against the Mundkashahi, he was denied his rights of staging his Tiatros and singing his songs on the nuisance committed by the upper class of Goans against the lower.  This nuisance was done in the name of Censorship introduced for Tiatros by the Portuguese government of Goa on the advice of top Goans who were the direct hit of the campaign of the then Tiatrists.  Portuguese Government and Salazar rule were just scapegoat but the actual culprits were the Goan Portuguese  i.e. Goan Bhattkar and Goan Brahmins mainly the Christians, who were doing rampant injustice to their fellow Goans. Alexingo de Candolim was known to use the Konkani Stage  to fight the dadagiri of Goan Christian Bhattkar from the Stage in a such a manner that his one Tiatro “Amchea Xetachi Pavnni” immediately following the ouster of Portuguese from Goa was just an example depicting his tirade against the Goan disgraceful Christian Bamonshahi where in one scene one Hindu Munddkar farmer taking advantage of the freedom given by the Indian Government to speak freely, calls the Bamon Bhattkar who was the Prsident of Communidade as: Tumkam fattim ami pachartalet mhonon “Bab” tor tech ami atam tumkam pachartat mhonon “Dukor” jeam Dukrani fatim amkam ani amcheam zantteank khup tras dilet.

My main purpose here is to raise my objection on one great song “Kottecho Bikari” of Alexinho de Candolim which  was recorded by him at Emisora de Goa in Fifties.  This same song is now rendered by one lady singer and it is viral now, the name of this lady singer is not indicated  nor can be identified thru her voice. The worst thing is that the originality of this golden song is totally mutilated without  any respect to the origin           l lyrics and made a mockery of this great song of which type none among the current singers and Tiatrists will be able to compose.  While lodging my strong Protest over this robbery, over this crime, I demand from the concerned persons full explanation and from the concerned authorities including the Tiatro Academy of Goa a way to stop such repetitions  in the future in the name of Remix of Konkani songs, those who are involved to Remix Konkani songs please don’t act like barbarians and people from the “Zongoll”.

A.Veronica Fernandes.