Cover Story
- Auction
ON SATURDAY, when I was in Margao for the release of Aravind Bhatikar’s autobiography called Vovllam, I asked the veteran politician and former Minister of State for external affairs, Eduardo Faleiro whether he was planning to contest the forthcoming assembly elections. His response was symbolic of the perception among both aspiring candidates and voters on the forthcoming Assembly elections. Eduardo Faleiro’s snappy fivel-word response to my question was “I am not a businessman.” Which is the bitter ground reality about the Assembly elections, which are scheduled for March 3, 2012. It is not ideology or issues or political labels which are going to determine the outcome of the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Goa being held in March, but money power.
Stray Thoughts
- Sacred art given irreverent treatment
AND A few stray thoughts and a few stray observations for yet another Sunday. For a Sunday following the week when the irresponsibility of Fr Avinash Rebello, who heads the committee which manages the Museum of Sacred Christian Art attached to the Santa Monica Convent was exposed. For a Sunday following the week, when despite the directives of the Archbishop against parish priests endorsing candidates, many politicised priests continued to flout the directive. For a Sunday following the week when the Congress gave in to most of Babush Monserrate’s demands, but refused a ticket for his wife Jennifer to contest the St Cruz seat.
Short Story
- The Silken Chain
The narrator finally returned to Tejo. How would he find her?
Life and Living
- How much tilgul have you eaten and how much has it sweetened you up?
- A breakfast of crumpets!
SIGH. EVERY time I come back from Mumbai-that-was-Bombay I feel like my life is boring and as dull as ditch water in Goa. When I’m in cold, dirty, dusty, polluted Mumbai, I pine with divine discontentment to return to Goa and when I’m in Goa I pine with divine discontentment to go back to Mumbai. Life is like that only. Back in golden Goa, I try not to see the garbage heaps along the highway and take a deep breath of Goa’s still clean air with gratitude…
By Tara Narayan
ONE MORE for life and times in Mumbai, but no more medical and waste management system of the human body talk! As far as I am concerned, the best way to keep your waste management system in pristine condition is to eat as close to Mother Earth as possible and clear your stomach […]
Tech Talk
- What is new & hot
Nokia Asha 201 (Coming soon)
The Nokia Asha 201 is a QWERTY phone that is built to suit your professional and personal needs efficiently. It runs on a Series 40 operating system and gives you smooth functions while using the phone.
A 2MP camera with a 4x zoom is loaded on this mobile. You can also record […]
Vox Populi
- Time to indulge or count calories?
So how does one control one’s diet and avoid putting on extra kilos this Christmas? GARY AZAVEDO finds out.
Opinion Poll
- The Anatomy of Victory
Contrary to expectations, Marathi school teachers imported into Goa in large numbers voted against merger because Union Territory salaries are higher than the scales in the states and Christian Gaudis and Kunbis voted for merger due to the land reforms promised by the first chief minister of Goa, Dayanand Bandodkar. The fact that a significant proportion of not only Hindu Brahmins but even members of the Bahujan Samaj voted against merger, is dramatised by the fact that the anti-mergerists won by a margin of over 30,000 votes. Considering that the Catholic population in 1967, the year of the Opinion Poll, comprised only 36% of the population; even if the entire minority community had voted against merger, the anti-merger forces could not have won without support from the majority community.
youth connect
- All I want for Christmas is…
All I want for Christmas is…
Guns & Carnations
- When the Portuguese revolted against dictatorship…
GO Correspondent
The liberation of Goa, by the Indian Army, on December 19,1961, was primarily because of pressure from the Afro-Asian anti-colonial movement. The liberation of Goa led to disenchantment not only among the citizens of Portugal, but even in the Portuguese Armed Forces, against the dictatorship. Culminating in the Carnation revolution, when ordinary Portuguese citizens, holding Carnations joined the Army in the revolt against the dictatorship on April 25, 1974.
Uncensored
- Blunder down Under!
MANY YEARS ago, it used to be said that “cricket is a game where eleven fools play and eleven thousand fools watch”. That is now a cliché from a bygone era. Today, it’s the same eleven fools, but it’s probably a million odd fools who watch on the grounds and on television. And the eleven fools who play do so for a million bucks compared to the hundred odd bucks that players from the bygone era earned.
