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Vol: 1 No: 6

February 10, 2022

Demolition of St. Anthony Holy Cross Prayer Center!

On February 5th Shri Satya Kordabbu Seva

also issued a stay. But these goondas

Samithi of Panjinamogaru demolished St.

illegally

Anthony Holy Cross Prayer Center which

demolished everything belongs to the

was part of St. Anthony Church of Kulur.

prayer center.

entered

the

property

and

This center was functioning since 40 long years and authorities had given them a

This is completely untolerable act of

door number. Also, they were allowed to

violence by these goondas. Authorities

run Anganwadi for free. These Christians

should take immediate action and make

were very peaceful, and the opposite

them liable for destroying the property.

party wanted to disturb peace and they demolished this prayer house.

They

We have police force, court to act and

thraced prayer building, compound wall

nobody can take the law into their own

and trees surrounding this property and

hands.

allegdly razed to the ground.

become restless, careless in India. As a

Anti Christian goondas are

result, they take actions by their own This act of violence by these aggressive

against the law of the land. These acts

shows that they are taking advantage of

are not tolerable at all. Christians should

Christians who are peaceful and doesn’t

unite and fight against these goondas.

go to hit them back.

Time has come to show our strenght to St.

Anthony

Holy

Cross

Building

protect our prayer centers, churches, and

Committee members filed a complaint

institutions.

against these goondas of Shri Satya

sleeping!

Let us awake, enough

Kordabbu Seva Samithi at Kavoor Police Station.

Court has given a stay, preventing illegal

entry to this property and harming this building. The deputy commissioner has

Dr. Austin Prabhu, Editor

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Mangaluru: Sr Maria Shamita re-elected Provincial Superior of Apostolic Carmel, Karnataka province Media release Mangalore, Jan31: The sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, Karnataka Province gathered on Saturday, January 30, at St. Ann’s Convent Chapel, to pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit during the Eucharistic celebration at 9 AM celebrated by Fr Paul Melwyn D’Souza OFM Cap, the Episcopal Vicar for Religious of Mangalore Diocese.

The delegates of the Provincial Chapter then assembled in the Chapter hall for the elections. Sister Maria Shamita A C was re-elected as the Provincial Superior of the province for the 2nd term for 3 more years.

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The four councillors elected are Sisters Rose Agnes, Maria Melissa, Maria Sudeepa and Julie Ann. Sister Marina D’Cunha is elected as Provincial Bursar.

The Superior General Sister Maria Nirmalini A C presided over the elections. The new team will assume office on April 24, 2022.

Veez Illustrated Weekly wishes all the best to Sr. Maria Shamita AC in her future endeavors. *************** 4 Veez Illustrated Weekly

Physicians in Colonial Goa in the Crosshairs of the Inquisition Gilbert Lawrence Coauthor: Insights into Colonial Goa For details about the book and authors click: Insights into Colonial Goa. Charles Gabriel Dellon and Garcia d’Orta Physicians, like priests, are generally held to a higher standard of moral behavior, and society expects them to live up to those expectations. No figurative halo or shield safe guards any profession or ethnic group from committing unethical actions. In certain situations, a person’s baser impulses come to the fore, causing individual members of both professions to reject the established social norms and code of conduct.

Two physicians, Dellon and d’Orta, who practiced medicine in colonial Goa, were caught in the crosshairs of its Inquisition, and their writings have generated much discussion

over several centuries. I decided to take a closer look at the underlying circumstances which contributed to each doctor’s actions.

Without sounding judgmental, I bring to this

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analysis my years of experience as a board member of the hospital’s physician practice and discipline committees, which diligently try to cut through the fog, examine the facts, and connect the dots. With regard to the two Iberian physicians, I will present the not commonly known facts about their transgressions and leave it to the readers to form their own opinions.

It is important to point out that an analysis of colonialism and the Inquisition should not be confused with or mistaken for advocacy.

Drs. Dellon and d’Orta are credited with making great strides in documenting and developing the practice of herbal medicine in India.

However, the therapeutic use of plants and spices in the subcontinent had been described in the Agnivesh and Charaka texts, which date back to 1500 BCE, and the renowned physician Sushruta had documented his surgical procedures three centuries later!

Therefore, Drs. Dellon and d’Orta as well as other colonizers must be given due credit for diligently

persevering in translating medical books originally written in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Arabic into European languages and integrating the information in keeping with western script and format. Thanks to these two individuals, the knowledge of Indian plant-based medicines was available to an even larger group of physicians in the western world.

Through their interactions with Indian (Arabic and Hindu), Persian, Jewish, and European peers, Drs. d’Orta and Dellon learned to blend various Western, Yunnani, Ayurveda, Persian and Arabic medical practices. For example, the European tendency to use a tourniquet and vein section in the process of blood-letting and collecting a pint of blood was tempered with the Indian method of minimal blood-letting through acupuncture and the use of leaches.

In addition, instead of blood-letting to treat a fever, Indians preferred to “starve a fever” by feeding the patient canji – a rice-soup -- and cuzzumento, a spice-infused elixir made from a recipe that had been

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concocted generations earlier.

Today, the procedure of bloodletting is considered a contributing factor to President George Washington’s death. Like medical texts through the ages, the wider field of science is continually being built on a greater understanding and advancement of the work previously undertaken. As a physician, I may be a little more analytical of the work of Dr. Dellon and Dr. D'Orta.

According to some historical documents, Frenchman Charles Gabriel Dellon (1649-1710) was a Huguenot, who graduated from a medical school in Montpellier, France. (Bindu Malieckal). Another report claimed that in 1668, at the age of 19, Dellon joined the French East India Trading Company and later sailed eastwards. By today’s criteria, the medical training provided during that period, even at well-reputed European and Mideast institutions, amounted to nothing more than hocus-pocus. The practice of medicine at that time was based on empiricism,

hypothesis, and philosophical models of how the body works, as well as the ways diseases present themselves and react to treatment.

The most frequent medical intervention in Europe and the Mideast was blood-letting, intended to “drain an illness of bad humors and achieve humoral balance.” As recently as 1942, Sir William Osler’s medical textbook endorsed this therapy for pneumonia. According to some historians, Dellon studied Indian botanical medicine while working for the French company, and consequently may have been a physician-in-training at best rather than a full-fledged doctor in an era prior to the availability of antibiotics.

Dellon settled in Daman to practice medicine in 1674 at the age of 25.

His writings indicate that he was young, handsome, and a flashy young man, who demonstrated a French Casanova demeanor -- a “ladies’ man.” As a French physician, he considered himself the undisputed crème de la crème in

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the colony. Soon, he got involved in a romantic affair with a white female patient, who was also the mistress of Daman’s governor. Today, such behavior results in the loss of the doctor’s medical license and disbarment from the medical profession. But Dr. Dellon, despite his demonstrable and admitted lack of professional, ethical, and political judgement, was given the opportunity to preserve his medical license on condition he moved his medical practice to another colony.

But Dellon high-handedly refused that option. He probably felt that as a French citizen, Huguenot, and a physician, he should be held to a different standard by the underprivileged Iberian Catholics of Europe. It is probable that Huguenot v/s Catholic dynamics were at play during that period.

As a result of Dellon’s pride and obstinate stand, he was jailed and languished there while awaiting justice. In his book (published 1687) about his experience during the Inquisition, Dellon sympathetically reported about a fellow inmate who

got married in Goa, later went on a business trip to Bassein (north of Bombay) and married another woman there. The truth about the hapless inmate’s bigamy was exposed when his new brother-inlaw accompanied him to Goa. Neither Dellon nor the bigamist demonstrated any remorse for their amorous, illegal actions! Dellon bolted from the clutches of the Inquisition system by relocating to France.

Following Dellon's published account, Voltaire, the French philosopher, -an “enlightenment writer and historian,” who had never visited Goa, described that colony’s Inquisition as “the worst” -compared to unspecified and unnamed countries. So much for objective reporting!

Unfortunately, Voltaire's unsubstantiated opinion has been quoted by many historians, novelists, and web-page writers.

Most of these writers were either English or Dutch and harbored antiIberian and anti-Catholic sentiments. Each of these European

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authors tailored their articles to suit the bias of their own niche readers.

As a result, the printed works should be considered historiography (commentary) aimed to suit the audience rather than document of

factual data what transpired in Goa. Recent historiographies on the Inquisition in Goa are long on opinions and short on statistics and facts.

(To be continued next week) --------------------------Philomena and Gilbert Lawrence Authors: Insights into Colonial Goa For information about the authors and the book click: → Insights into Colonial Goa. ----------------------------------------

Who will weep for Udupi?

Preface:

The hegemony of Hindu majoritarian forces has caused reaction from the minorities, namely Muslims and Christians. Christians and Muslims form nearly 30% of Udupi population. The Muslims at 18% outnumber the Christians.

Udupi, my native district, is communally polarized and divided.

Udupi district has five Assembly seats. In 2013, BJP won one seat and Congress the rest. However, BJP bagged all seats in 2018, riding on the massive wave of communal polarization in coastal Karnataka.

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This political windfall is a result of strong pro-Hindutva campaign by the saffron party and its sociocultural wings such as RSS, VHP, ABVP, Bajrang Dal, Hindu Jagran Vedika, Ram Sene, etc.

In response, the Muslims organizations too became more and more aggressive in spreading their reactionary ideologies.

Their political front, SDPI, used the same polarization to eat into Congress minority votes and posed a challenge to BJP in Udupi. Thus, the accentuated communal divide benefits both BJP and SDPI. The only losers are secular political forces such as the Congress Party and the Left Parties.

Hijab ban in Udupi government colleges: A fortnight ago, I reported in Veez Konkani, that half a dozen girl students from the Muslim community agitated for the right to wear a hijab to classes at Government Pre-University College in Udupi. As I opined, their protest is

interpreted by many in the region as part of the struggle for political ascendancy by Campus Front of India (CFI), the students’ wing of Popular Front of India (PFI), the Muslim version of RSS. Their political front, SDPI, (mirror image of BJP for Muslims) recently won three seats in Udupi urban local body elections. It won Kapu town municipality in Udupi district as well as Vittla and Kotekar town panchayats in Dakshina Kannada district.

Moderate voices among the Muslim community feel that SDPI and its hardcore communal groups are flexing their muscles in the wake of their rising influence within the community. The Udupi MLA echoes his party’s view. He feels that he would have solved the Hijab issue if the students had raised it with the principal in private. Now that the issue is in the public domain, it is beyond his brief to find a solution.

The standoff continues: the college administration continues to ban the Hijab in the classrooms; the protesting students are firm on not

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taking off their Hijab. The college administration is seeking instructions from the ministry of higher education. The protesting students have filed a case in Karnataka HC seeking orders to allow Hijab in the classrooms.

Hijab row erupts in more colleges: The hijab row simmering for nearly a month in the pre-university

The Muslim girls point out that Hindu girls are allowed to wear Bindi and some other symbols of their faith. They also point out that the Hindu can wear saffron shawls if these are prescribed as mandatory by their faith and the Muslim girls have no objection to that. The girls have a point.

The communal virus Vs corona:

college for girls in Udupi has spilled over to other government colleges in the state. On Wednesday, 2nd February 2022, boys studying in pre-university colleges in Kundapur (Udupi district) and Bhadravathi (Shivamogga district) protested wearing saffron shawls and towels.

They demanded that Muslim students should not be allowed to wear hijab. It is said that 27 girl students want to wear Hijab to their classes.

The scientific and medical experts have developed anti-Covid vaccines. Nations have begun vaccinating the adult population not only in India but globally.

Though the virus is not fully neutralized yet, there are signs that the worst is over and soon the virus will be conquered.

Not so, this communal virus. This virus has two very dangerous

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strains: firstly, the Hindutva and secondly, the Islamic. The former has many variants, some more dangerous than the other depending on the regions they propagate. The Islamic virus is as dangerous as the Hindutva, if not more, because it can draw ideological and financial support from global jihadism.

name of Hindutva. For the Muslim fundamentalists too spread hatred in the name of Allah. They should wait and hope the communal virus too is defeated with the vaccine of universal brotherhood, love and peace.

Who will weep for us Christians in Udupi and secular people belonging to any faith who are caught in between? They cannot keep company of the Muslim minority if they too are communal (Philip Mudartha) like those spreading hate in the ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mangaluru: FMHMC bags 8 out of 10 ranks in undergraduate examination of

RGUHS, 166 overall Media Release Mangaluru, undergraduate 2016-17) of

Feb students Father

1: The (BHMS Muller

Homoeopathic Medical College (FMHMC), Deralakatte have displayed yet again the consistent and efficient hardwork and dedication by bagging 8 out of 10 ranks in the BHMS examinations held from September

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2017 to July 2021 by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka.

wise 127 ranks with the tally of 166 ranks.

Fr Richard Aloysius Coelho director, FMCI in his press release Father Muller Homoeopathic Medical congratulated the ranks holders and College, Deralakatte has secured appreciated the guidance and course-wise 31 ranks and subjectdedication of the Principal and faculty members.

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Mangaluru: Father Muller Medical College

commemorates World Leprosy Day Media Release Mangaluru, Feb 3: The department of Dermatology along with St Joseph Leprosy Hospital in association with Sasakawa health Foundation, Tokyo Japan organized a guest lecture on January 29, 2022 at Decennial Memorial hall, FMMC to commemorate World Leprosy Day 2022.

The programme started with invocation of God’s blessing followed by lighting of the lamp. Dr Jacintha Martis, professor and HOD welcomed the gathering. Dr Antony Sylvan D Souza, dean FMMC delivered the presidential address.

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Fr Nelson Dheeraj Pais, assistant administrator FMMCH, guest speaker Dr Derek Lobo, Dr.Jacintha Martis also graced the Dais during the inaugural function. A series of competitions such essay writing, e poster with

slogan and quiz were conducted for the students of Father Muller Medical College, Father Muller College of Allied Health Sciences, Father Muller College of Nursing and Father Muller School of Nursing by the department

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of Dermatology to commemorate the theme 'Don’t Forget Leprosy'. The winners of the competitions were awarded with cash prizes and certificates during the function.

with the vote of thanks by Dr Jyothi Jayarman. A short video message for World Leprosy Day by Yohei Sasakawa, from the Sasakawa Health Foundation, Tokyo Japan was played during the programme.

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reaching a stage where leprosy ceases to be a public health problem. He also lauded the efforts made by the Sasakawa Health Foundation towards this goal.

Dr Derek Lobo, retired in April 2007, from the United Nations-World Health Organisation (WHO) after a highly successful professional career with WHO of Thirteen (13) Years and prior to that with two International NGOs – Emmaus-Switzerland and German TB/Leprosy Association for twenty-four (24) years. His career spanning 37 years was dedicated to the control and elimination of poverty-related diseases such as Leprosy, TB, Malaria, Filaria and other neglected tropical diseases. He also worked as director of GREMALTES Referral Hospital and Leprosy Centre in Chennai:1984-1994.

The guest lecture was well attended

by Medical College staff, post graduates, Interns, Nursing college faculties, prize winners of the competition and Consultant Dermatologists from Karavali Dermatology Society. A total of 100 delegates attended the programme.

The programme concluded with the institutional anthem.

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He delivered an eloquent lecture on 'Don’t Forget Leprosy'. He spoke about the progress made in the elimination of leprosy over the years and that we still need to work towards 21 Veez Illustrated Weekly

Mangaluru: Intl cricketer David Johnson

launches St Aloysius Cricket Academy Pics: Abhijith N Kolpe Daijiworld Media Network Mangaluru (ANK)

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Mangaluru, Feb 1: The department of physical education in association with SAC Digital Media Cell conducted a ‘Crick – Chat’ with international cricketer David Johnson and soft launch of St Aloysius Cricket Academy here at St Aloysius College on Tuesday, February 1.

Rector of St Aloysius institutions Fr Melwyn Pinto blessed the St Aloysius Cricket Academy.

Speaking at the interactive session, cricketer David Johnson said, "I started with tennis ball cricket. Now there are a lot of facilities compared to the 90’s. I played against Australia 22 Veez Illustrated Weekly

where the test cap was given by Sachin Tendulkar. Playing for a country will always be a special feeling. Nowadays, it has become a batsmen’s game. In Indian pitches

you don’t get much opportunities for the bowlers who need to work hard to pick wickets."

He further said, "BCCI needs to work on shaping up the fast bowlers. Now

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sections. After Sourav Ganguly took charge of BCC and Rahul Dravid NCA, lot of camps were conducted in all the 24 Veez Illustrated Weekly

states which motivates the young budding cricketers to come forward."

"Due to too much cricket, players feel the mental stress and take long breaks from cricket. Starting T20 for U19 will affect their game, T20 is just fun, but the ultimate is the test cric

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where you need to be like Laxman or Dravid who play for five days while Sehwag too has done good in test states which motivates the young budding cricketers to come forward."

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"Due to too much cricket, players feel the mental stress and take long breaks from cricket. Starting T20 for

U19 will affect their game, T20 is just fun, but the ultimate is the test cricket where you need to be like

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days while Sehwag too has done good in test

Laxman or Dravid who play for five cricket. However such players will not last long in test cricket," said David Johnson.

There has been a major transition in women’s cricket with lot of facilities and good coaches, he opined adding that earlier no one used to bother about women’s cricket.

Principal of St Aloysius College Dr Praveen Martis said, "The young budding cricketers need to be passionate, disciplined and work hard to make it big.

Rector of St Aloysius Institutions Fr Melwyn Pinto said, "You need to have discipline like Rahul Dravid right from the beginning. That quality must be developed."

Manoj Fernandes compered the event.

President of Karavali Cricket Academy Shanthi Mohan, Vice president Sabitha Misquith, Dayanand Bangera, J P Shetty and

others were present-------------------------------------------

Mangaluru: FMCI president Bishop Peter

Paul inaugurates, blesses renovated departments Media Release Mangaluru, Feb 2: Being in the health care service since 1880, Father Muller Charitable Institutions (FMCI) has a rich heritage which is seen in its vast experience in the field of medicine and gives it the reputation of an institution that combines a caring heart with highly professional skills. This has been confirmed yet again with the reaccreditations by the NABH and NABL for the hospital and NAAC grade for the colleges. Thus with the ever changing times the Institutions has always stepped up to

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better the existing good, for ease and comfort of its students, faculty and patients.

On the feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, Wednesday February 2, the inaugural and blessing of the departments of Physiotherapy, Immunohematology & Blood

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Transfusion and Radio-Diagnosis was Conducted by the bishop of

Mangalore diocese and president of the Father Muller Charitable Institutions, Dr Peter Paul Saldanha.

Director FMCI, Fr Richard Aloysius Coelho welcomed the gathering and gave a brief on the newly renovated departments. Fr Ajith B Menezes, administrator of FMMC & FMCOAHS presented work done details of the departments in accordance with the National Medical Council policy. Fr Rudolph Ravi D’Sa, administrator of the Father Muller Medical College Hospital elaborated the patient friendly approaches the departments have considered.

In his presidential address Dr Peter Paul Saldanha essayed on the famous English writer, C S Lewis, who wrote in his book The Problem of Pain says that human beings are ready to ignore pleasure, or postpone its gratification but they insist on

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attending to pain immediately.

Because, pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Through pain and suffering, God draws us closer to himself.”

Department of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion Blood banking is the study of RBC antigens and antibodies associated with blood transfusion. Father Muller Medical College has established a new department named Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion (IHBT) headed by Prof Dr Kirana Pailoor. Father Muller Medical College is the first medical college in Dakshina Kannada district to establish this department.

MD in Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion is a post graduate course which is a unique multidimensional speciality that incorporates elements of blood banking and immunehematology and integrates science technology, medicine, public health administration and the community as a whole. The department is well equipped with good infrastructure and personnel and intends to reach

greater heights by planning to seek permission for postgraduate course in this specialty. The IHBT Department is responsible for the collection of donor’s blood and testing of blood to be given to patients (Traditional blood banking). It provides clinical services to support patients in need of blood component therapy and specialized laboratory diagnostics.

The department organizes Voluntary blood donation camps and provides 24X7 services.

Department of Physiotherapy The Department of Physiotherapy programme came to an independent existence in the year 1967. It was part of the Father Muller Medical College until 2020 where it was constituted in the umbrella of the Father Muller College of Allied Health Sciences with its BPT, MPT AND PhD programmes.

The infrastructure of the physiotherapy department consists of five classrooms, electrotherapy & exercise therapy lab with necessary basic equipment, an outpatient and inpatient departments.

The department comprises of the Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal & Sports, Neuro Physiotherapy, Community Based Physiotherapy, paediatric Physiotherapy and Geriatric

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Physiotherapy units. It also partakes in Extension Services to Cheshire Home, St Agnes Special School, St Mary’s Special School Kinnigoli, St Antony’s Old Age Home, Prashanth Nivas, Bethany Convent, Mother Theresa’s Poor Homes, and Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. The department of Physiotherapy has conducted various international collaborations and MOUs with Bucks New University, UK. The department has been involved with various research, national & international student and faculty exchange programme.

The department has had over 70 research publications and established various evidenced based protocols. The department has also conducted various workshops, conferences, seminars and symposiums at the Regional and National Levels with the fitness and COVID-19 Awareness camps being the latest health campaign. The department is headed

by Prof Cherishma D’Silva.

Department of Radio-Diagnosis Radio-diagnosis is a branch of Medicine that utilizes radiation, ultrasound and magnetic resonance for diagnosis of diseases. It deals not only with imaging and diagnosis of diseases but also with therapeutic

interventions for treatment of diseases. The Department of Radiodiagnosis at present consists of state of the art high end diagnostic machines in outpatient department with seven ultrasound machines, one digital radiography machine and one mammography machine and eleven mobile radiography machine, two CT scan, a MRI and two fluoroscopy Xray machines. With the advent of newer and newer technologies and software, Radio-diagnosis has become integral part in patient care for diagnosis. It has emerged from general radiology using basic x- rays to high end MRI machines. It not only plays vital role in diagnosis of particular disease but also offers therapeutic interventions pertaining to treatment aspect.

The need for renovation of the academic department was felt and thus a full mezzanine floor of the new department premise with the faculty cabins, staff cabins and ug/pg classrooms has been set up with central air conditioning system and also the Radiology Museum. The department is headed by Dr Rama Shenoy Basti.

The event witnessed the august presence of the members of the

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governing board, management was compeered by Asmitha Patrao committee of the Father Muller and the vote of thanks was delivered Centenary Charitable Society; faculty,

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Chicago: Dr Austin Prabhu Creates World Record in publishing e-Magazines Chicago, Feb 4: Dr Austin Prabhu a well-known humanitarian, writer, speaker, editor and publisher created a world record in publishing his eMagazines.

Ten years ago, he started editing and publishing Lions District and State eMagazines, which he continues. In 2018 he started to publish Veez Konkani Weekly. As this e-Magazine became popular, in 2020 he ventured Veez Konkani e-Magazine in 4 Konkani scripts. This was itself a world record then as he published these weeklies by himself. He was the editor and publisher and the designer for the magazines.

This past January he started another weekly e-Magazine in English – Veez Illustrated weekly.

This itself was a world record to edit

and publish five weekly e-magazines.

Last week as it was the last week of January, in a week Dr Austin published seven e-Magazines. This was a new world record in publication by one individual living in USA. 34 Veez Illustrated Weekly

Mangaluru: Despite stay order from

court, prayer center allegedly demolished at Panjimogaru Sat, Feb 05 2022 08:13:15 PM Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (DV) •

Mangaluru, Feb 5: A prayer centre building, compound wall and trees surrounding the property was allegedly razed to the ground at Panjimogaru here on Saturday February 5.

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Seva Samithi, violating the stay order from the court, entered the compound of the prayer center, and demolished the building, compound wall, and trees.

A complaint has been filed by St Anthony Holy Cross Building Committee president Antony Prakash Lobo, Cyprian D'Souza, Francis Pinto, and Valerian Lobo against Shri Satya Korddabbu Seva Samithi at Kavoor police station. “The court has given a stay, preventing illegal entry to our property and harming our building.

The deputy commissioner has also issued a stay. But, the opposite party has illegally entered our property and demolished our compound wall and trees inside our compound. They have also prepared invitation cards to organize first-year Nemotsava inside our compound.

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“We have been living in this compound for the past 40 years and the city corporation authorities have given us a door number. We had also allowed to run Anganwadi for free.

We have been always are in favour of peace. But, the opposite party wants to disrupt peace and has done this.

Hence, proper action should be taken for violating the order of the court,” stated the complainants.

Speaking to Daijiworld Antony Prakash Lobo said, “St Anthony Holy Cross Prayer Center which is a part of the St Antony Church of Kulur is functioning from the past 40 years.

The city corporation has provided electricity and water. We had allowed the Anganwadi for children here without any charges. The civil dispute matter is in the court. The order copy has been submitted to the deputy commissioner and police

commissioner. The local public is claiming that they want to build a 'Daivastana' here. Though there is a stay from the court, they have demolished the prayer center. We used to celebrate all festivals along with Anganwadi children. What has been done to us is wrong. Several chairs, two cupboards, eight benches, lights, fans and washing machine has been damaged in the incident.” ========================

VEEZ STRONGLY CONDEMNS THIS

ACTIVITY AND DEMANDS JUSTICE

IMMEDIATELY. ========================

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1. You Are A Masterpiece

Yesterday has accumulated stuff You willfully ignored In chasing dreams that cannot exist Without hard work today Rainbows are for fairytales Hard labour is where you're at Your efforts will pave your way To cross the oceans deep

2. Careful What You Wish

Don't waste your God given talents It's not yours to keep You're gonna have to account for it Or live in regrets some day You have so much give WithIn the storehouse of your lives Each and every one logged Signed sealed and delivered So take account of all you have And use it best you can Don't doubt the abilities that you have They're more than you can count Wake up each day with determination And claim them all you can Don't waste your time dreaming Of the way things used to be

Please don't curse me with old age It's the hardest time of life You're not much use to anyone Nor much good to yourself Wish me happy journey instead One while still on my feet With a sound mind and faculties That might bring a few tears Please don't visit when I am gone It won't be all that fun for sure

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Let's take a toast to life today And leave the dead to rest in peace Life isn't easy as we well know Now picture life of the old Filled with hopelessness and despair With only an occasional tear to shed Please don't pray for long life my friend Push the limits and wish it ends While you're laughing with those you love Leaving happy memories when you are gone

========================== About the author Ms. Molly M Pinto, a knowledgeable, concerned person of Mangaluru.

Declares she is an overworked and underpaid housewife and mother.

Involved in several humane activities otherwise. She roots for love of nature, animals, the have nots. She says be kind and just with good manners. Feeding animals is one of her missions and tasks, does not believe in waiting for miracles but works to obtain them. Spiritual matters attract her.

Her poems reflect the rest, enjoy them, know more.

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A Big Salute to the unbeatable Konkani Warrior – Eric Ozario

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We are not midnight's children or A Pakistani Mangalorean's Lament We are not midnight's children, We are not Sarasvati's children We are Mangalore's children Born in the land of the pure Pak Sar Zameen Where is the Mangalore That you speak of Pray tell Your Paki Mangalorean boy.

A broken branch transplanted in a far away land The stories we heard kept us alive made us fly Like a bird in our mind We heard not the bell of the Bijey church But the Allah Oh Akbar The Muezzin calls, But we go not to the prayer.

We are the Church's children Washed and dried out In the Pakistani sun.

Our brains thirsting For Jesuit instruction.

Our feet washed,

Our brains scrubbed.

Dare we call it Brainwashing No Nikah No Hijab Holy communion Holy matrimony Short skirts Bare legs The Muslim man Wonders No Hijab No Burqa!

No Bangalore club No Catholic club Karachi gymkhana We get our grub Richard Crasta Write us a Karachi Sutra Urdu vortex sutra We have no Falnir But Malir We have no Kankanadi but port of Karachi No Jana Gana Being Pak Our only Guna No Border crossing No Mexican jumpin No Wagah border

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Homecoming Mangalore, Bangalore are just words rhyming Muslim Karachi Our only reality

Prophet Mohammed Peace be upon HIM and the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ Be with you Amen!

Anthony Goveas @2021

Towards Human Fraternity mankind today but also provides a blueprint for all in order to address and ultimately overcome the hate, divisiveness and violence of today!

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*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ

On all counts 4 February 2019 was a memorable day for the world! On that day, Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad alTayyib, met in Abu Dhabi, and together signed the historic and pathbreaking document entitled ‘Human fraternity for world peace and living together’. The document is one of the most comprehensive ones written in recent times. It not only analyses the realities which grip

The two world leaders set the tone and the raison d'être of the document right in the introduction.

They state, from our fraternal and open discussions, and from the meeting that expressed profound hope in a bright future for all human beings, the idea of this Document on Human Fraternity was conceived.

It is a text that has been given honest and serious thought so as to be a joint declaration of good and heartfelt aspirations. It is a document that invites all persons who have faith in God and faith in human fraternity to unite and work together so that it may serve as a guide for future generations to

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advance a culture of mutual respect in the awareness of the great divine grace that makes all human beings brothers and sisters.” The document above all is a ‘Magna Carta’, a way of proceeding for all of humanity, provided there is the necessary political will to ensure that.

Taking note of that historic meeting and the signing of the document, the United Nations decided to observe (beginning 2021) every 4 February as the ‘International Day of Human Fraternity’. The primary aim of the day is to tell the world that everyone is free to choose a religious or irreligious belief in his/her life and no one else has the right to discriminate, hate, or molest a person due to his certain religious or irreligious association. The complementing aim is to spread awareness across the world that all religious communities are obliged to respect each other if they want the world to prosper peacefully and if they don’t want another great war.

The theme for the day this year is, ‘Human Fraternity in Action’ which means that humanity must disperse and renounce all kinds of religious

bigotry and xenophobia. Thus, the global community has agreed, in theory, upon developing a new global culture where no one is hated or discriminated against based on his/her caste, creed, skin colour, religion, or something like that.

After the Holocaust, it is the greatest action against xenophobia, religious bigotry, and hate for “others”. Firstever in history, the global community united on the platform of the UN has decided that every religious community would be treated equally. Sadly, the ground reality is so very different. The responsibility to do much more therefore lies with the decision makers and all people everywhere!

‘Fraternity’ is not a new concept.

Though malesounding, it embraces every single human in totality. It means brotherhood and sisterhood or a belief in coexistence. Thus, all the member states of the UN are directed by the United Nations to observe the ‘International Day of Human Fraternity’ in the best and appropriate manner to promote interreligious harmony, friendship, cooperation, and acceptance.

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‘Fraternity’ is also a non-negotiable dimension of the Indian Constitution appearing in the Preamble. A pillar of our democracy.

It refers to a feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood and a sense of belonging with the country among its people. The Preamble declares that fraternity has to assure two things—the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the nation.

Already at the inaugural day in 2021 the United Nations noted that there is deep concern regarding acts that advocate religious hatred and, thereby, undermine the spirit of tolerance and respect for diversity, particularly during this crisis caused by the Coronavirus disease (COVID19) pandemic, which requires a global response based on unity, solidarity and renewed multilateral cooperation.

The backgrounder called upon all to recognize the valuable contribution of people of all religions, or beliefs, to humanity and the contribution that dialogue among all religious groups can make towards an improved awareness and

understanding of the common values shared by all humankind. It also underlined the importance of raising awareness about different cultures and religions, or beliefs, and the promotion of tolerance, which involves societal acceptance and respect for religious and cultural diversity, including with regard to religious expression.

Education, in particular at school, should contribute in a meaningful way to promoting tolerance and the elimination of discrimination based on religion or belief. It highlights that tolerance, pluralistic tradition, mutual respect and the diversity of religions and beliefs, promote human fraternity. Activities aimed at interreligious and intercultural dialogue in order to enhance peace and social stability, respect for diversity and mutual respect and to create, at the global level, and also at the regional, national and local levels, an environment conducive to peace and mutual understandingwhich must be encouraged and even mainstreamed!

This is a tall order when hate and violence, divisiveness and denigration, xenophobia and

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jingoism, intolerance and exclusiveness are on the rise and even institutionalised!

Ruling political dispensations and their cronies, as we see in India, legitimise, foment and foster such heinous acts. In an open letter (3 Feb.22) to the Chief Minister of Gujarat, in the context of the escalation of hate and violence in Gujarat, a group of concerned citizens wrote, “We, a group of citizens from different parts of Gujarat, would draw your attention to the inflammatory hate messaging on the social media and public calls for violence against the Muslim community, following the unfortunate, condemnable murder of Kishan Bharwad in Dhandhuka by certain criminal elements…..Such hate messages and public calls for violence against a community are criminal and dangerous and have the potential of instigating further violence, and it is the duty of the state to track and apprehend such criminal elements to ensure that law and order prevails.” Until and unless this hate and violence is nipped in the bud by the political class and committedly eschewed by all, nothing may change. But there is

hope!

In a recent interview to Vatican News, Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in the Vatican, said I very much hope that the occasion of this Day of Human Fraternity, on 4 February, will be a day for opening our eyes and for giving thanks to God for making us brothers and sisters, and for asking Him to help us to live as the brothers and sisters we are since He is our common Father…. One of the things we will learn is that human fraternity is not the exclusive prerogative of some group, some minority, some élite, some race, some culture: it’s a common vocation, and God knows, we need to recognise that and we need to live that. It’s what Jesus came to teach us, gave his life for us.

So, the Day for Human Fraternity is a day to give thanks and to ask God to bless all our brothers and sisters with hope and with courage for living our human vocation together”.

A couple of days ago, Pope Francis said that “Fraternity, means

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reaching out to others, respecting them, and listening to them with an open heart.” The Holy Father then expressed hope that we will take concrete steps, together with the believers of other religions and people of goodwill “to affirm that today is a time of fraternity, avoiding fuelling clashes, divisions, and closures…. Let us pray and commit ourselves every day, so that we may all live in peace as brothers and sisters.”

to all – to be resolute in defending and promoting justice and the rights of all so that in sustainable peace, we can truly live as sisters and brothers in dignity, equity and love in this our common home! A major challenge: do we have the courage to face it through our actions?

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*(Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ is a human rights, reconciliation and peace The ‘International Day of Human activist/writer.

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Good to Remember Time, Our Unknown Time !

Death is an integral part of life and

Antony Cony, Doha-Qatar

no life can overrun it. Life is received from the womb of mother earth and it ends also in the tomb of mother earth. Life and death each run parallel to each other, an unique personal journey none is aware of its beginning nor its end time. Prior to life began, we were never existed in this world nor will be after the death. Each life is a spiritual being

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that comes from above and goes back to its home after death. World is just its temporary home. What a mystery of God !

Like a fish jumping out of the sea and back into the water, our lives arise out of that great ocean of existence and returns into it. In our capacity we can never understand why we are sent to this world and after sometime why we are taken back to Him. However, Supreme Being, to whom we call as God, Eshwar, Allah has spoken through his various prophets and holy books over the years about the purpose of our life and death. Almost every one of us believe in our Prophets and Holy Books perhaps with some exceptions to whom we call as atheist but they too are children of God. God knows them and has been dealing with them from very beginning and does takes care of them. Word of the Lord can’t go void. For it is written, "EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD."35 Every day on earth, almost 180,000 people die. In another 95 years or

so, everyone who's alive today will be gone. Journey of death we carry along with us every day but none of us know its hour and time. Every moment one has to keep his luggage packed. Nobody knows when death will call. The warrant of death is like the arrest warrant. One cannot think of appealing against it.

No matter what is happening, we have to quickly leave off and go. So, if we are ready before hand, there will not be much difficulty in leaving.

It can happen at any time, to anybody. Are we are ready ? This question may surprise many for a moment. But sooner or later, we have to face death as a reality.

Most of the people face death with gloom fearing what happens before and after death. Is there an afterlife?

How can I prepare for death and what's the point of it all?. Although in every human being there is a deepest point of worry about death, people usually are not bothered these questions until the end no longer death can be ignored. By this time they might be caught by surprises and unprepared for the situation at hand; a perfectly natural and beautiful stage of colored life

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can be overshadowed with fear and confusion.

As I said, every men have the deepest thoughts that lingers deep inside his inner consciousness that upon death, they will cease to exist entirely; no more to feel love and hate, no more yummy food or its chummy pleasure, no pain or sufferings, nil factor covers his property, his happiness, his bank balance nor he can experience his unique family bond and warmth anymore. As a family they were one entity and by death they becomes two separate entities; no more relationship or no reunification. How scariest and sarcastic is the death ?

All of a sudden he is gone for ever without a trace and their loved ones will forget him gradually (perhaps with some exceptions) and they continue to live without him.

Upon death, atoms are decomposed and others body is burnt, scatter hither and thither on the pyre. He will cease to exist and with his pending hopes, dreams, goals and things left undone are irrevocably erased completely just as decay begins. By this rich or

poor, black or white, sinful or skilful, kings or scientists all will leave behind their wealth, race, knowledge and unite in a common ground, 6” deep pit; justifying that no one is greater than other !

Further, no more remorse, anger, no fighting, jealousy, hatred or feeling of alienation of that sort suffered during their life time in some form or other. It is an end of everything. Therefore, life can be found only in the present moment.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to die nor anybody trained us to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of our death too. A man who is not frightened of life is not

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frightened of death too because at some point he has mastered his fear by his closeness to God followed by God fearing exemplary life. Yes, we must die first to find out actually what it takes place when we die. This isn't a joke. We must die not physically but psychologically, inwardly, die to the things we have cherished and to the things we are bitter about. If we are died to our pleasure, the smallest or the greatest, naturally, without any enforcement or argument, then we will know what it means to die - ‘A good man has nothing to fear, either in life or in death’.

People tend to die as they lived, says Maggie Callanan, a hospice nurse who's the author of Final Gifts, who has witnessed more than 2,000 deaths. "Nice people get even nicer, manipulators manipulate, funny people die funny," she explains. "We all have ways of navigating through life, and when dying those tendencies are intensified by ten."

Naturally, every one of us has unexplained fear within us about our death. One of my Hospice friend saying that one of the best ways to heal our fear of death is to spend time with the dying. If you don't have a friend or family member who is dying, you can train as a volunteer

with Hospice and assist with a dying patient for several hours a week. It's enough simply to be with them, respond to their needs, listen to their experiences and observe your own reactions.

Prayer and communication with our God, Eshwar, Allah, Jesus, Mary, Buddha, Krishna, according to our belief or spiritual practice puts us in ease position to depart for afterlife through once faith. Also reading Holy Books and Meditation, hearing and listening divine words serve the purpose of dying peacefully.

Most importantly, our spiritual path takes to us our afterlife. Every child of God walks in the spiritual path, a great deal of purification naturally takes place during his earthly life, by accepting responsibility for his actions and exchanging forgiveness with others. At times they might fail but to err is human. However, prior to our departure to heavenly adobe, we all must take responsibility for our past actions, and forgive others without any prior conditions. If you've hurt someone, even in the distant past, apologize to that person and try to make amends in whatever way is appropriate. This may take time, but keep trying which takes us a closer spiritual path of afterlife. Forgiveness does

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not mean we have to accept bad or inappropriate behavior.

The person's behavior may be wrong, but we can still forgive that person.

Forgiveness is a form of compassion which arises from the understanding that basically, we're all essentially the same. Easiest way to walk into spiritual life is to lead a life of simplicity and honesty, trying not to harm others. It is good cultivate love, humility, kindness and generosity in our dealings with others. Love is the underlying current that runs through the entire cosmic creation and it is the most direct path on to our spiritual path.

is also a spiritual path which takes to us closer to our afterlife - any amount of good acts with little bit of sacrifices will assure our spiritual gift of life afterlife.

I always respect the works of Late Wilfy Rebimbus, who composed and sang more than hundreds of songs about Christian Love, Christian Giving, Christian Forgiveness in context to once Life and Death as an Offering of Instructions given to the people, anointed by God. His heart-rending type of prayer-songs were…..

1. Char Desanso Sounsor 2. Monshachem Jevan Lan Ek God gave each one of us life with its Poin vital organs. Why should we allow 3. Monsha ye Althodi them to decay soon after our death Only God knows and holds the appointed time for a person to die. ? It would be the right choice if we However, for those with a personal donate our vital organs so that God relationship with God, does given free gift of life may continue to perceives and prepares himself in live with others even if we die. This light of Psalms 139.

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3 February 2022 Ahmedabad To The Chief Minister Gujarat State Respected Sir, We, a group of citizens from different parts of Gujarat, would draw your attention to the inflammatory hate messaging on the social media and public calls for violence against the Muslim community, following the unfortunate, condemnable murder of Kishan Bharwad in Dhandhuka by certain criminal elements. The police have acted with alacrity and efficiency and the investigations are going on, and there is nothing wanting as of now in the action taken by the police, especially now as the culprits have been arrested and even the ATS have been engaged.

Such hate messages and public calls for violence against a community are criminal and dangerous and have the potential of instigating further violence, and it is the duty of the state to track and apprehend such criminal elements to ensure that law and order prevails.

It should be noted that following the unfortunate murder of the youth in Dhandhuka, the protesting mobs in Dhandhuka and Rajkot had turned unruly and had attacked the police and caused damage to public property too. This indicates how volatile the situation is, and therefore underlines the need for concerted action on the part of the police to ensure that the life, property and livelihoods of the Muslim community across Gujarat are not endangered in any way.

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1. Direct the police to track, file FIRs against and apprehend those criminal elements propagating hate messages against the Muslim community in the social media and prosecute them.

2. The police should take preventive action so that the situation does not go out of control and result in violence against any community.

3. Preventive arrests of criminal elements who are likely to foment violence against the Muslims 4. Police needs to identify sensitive areas, and protection provided without delay to Muslim settlements where residents are apprehensive of violence by local criminal elements.

We urge you to take cognizance of the hate messaging and call for violent action by dangerous communal outfits and instruct the police to ensure the aforementioned steps.

Sincerely, Akhilesh Dave Amar Rana Ambrish Mehta Anand Yagnik Apoorva bhai Atish Indrekar Chhara Bhanu Parmar Bharat Bhil Bharat Jambucha Bhargav Oza Bharti Parmar Bhavik Raja Bilal Kagzi Cedric Prakash Charul Bharwada Chinu Srinivasan

Dev Desai Dr. Ghanshyam Shah Dr.Hanif Lakdawala Dwarikanath Rath Geeta Oza Govind Parmar Harish Parmar Hemant Shah Hidayat Parmar Hiren Gandhi Ikram Mirza Jagdish Patel Jatin Sheth Jayesh A Kotecha Jharna Pathak Jimmy Dabhi 51 Veez Illustrated Weekly

Johanna Lokhande Krishnakant bhai Maherunnisa Desai Mahesh Pandya Manishi Jani Manjula Pradeep Mathai K.O. Meenakshi Joshi Meenakshi Joshi Mirkhan Mohammed Zuber Msh Sheikh Surat Mudita Vidrohi Mujahid Nafees Navdeep Mathur Nayan Patel

Neeta Hardikar Neha Shah Nikunj Desai Nimisha Desai Nirjhari Sinha Nita Mahadev Parth Trivedi Persis Ginwalla Prakashbhai Shah Prasad Chacko Pratik Rupala Preeti Oza Rafi Malek

Raghavan Rangarajan Svati Joshi Raju Param Swati Desai Rakesh Maheriya Swati Goswami Rohit Prajapati Tapan Dasgupta Sanjay Bhave Trupti Parekh Satya Oza Uttam Parmar Shamshad Pathan Vaseef Hussain Shantilal Parmar Vijay Parmar Sharif Malek Vikram Vajir Shaukat Indori Vinay Mahajan Sheba George Waqar Qazi Sugeet Pathakji Xavier Manjooran Sushila Zuber Shaikh Sushila Prajapati ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Konkani Bhas Ani Sanskriti Prathistan, World Konkani Centre, Mangaluru is organising a grand celebration of 77th Birthday of our Chairman and well known entrepreneur and Educationist, Dr. P. Dayananda Pai at 10.00 a.m. on Tuesday, 8th February 2022 at World Konkani Centre, Mangaluru.

construction of the Central Tower of World Konkani Centre. On this occasion a web portal will be launched to facilitate the Vishwa Konkani Social Service Network.

Corporate Leader Shri T.V.Mohandas Pai will deliver a Felicitation address.

Hon'ble Member of Parliament Shri Nalin Kumar Kateel will be the chief Guest and Prof. P. S. Yadapadithaya, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor of Mangalore University will be the On this occasion we are glad to Guest of honour. The programme inform you that a Portrait of Dr. P. will be held in the gracious presence Dayananda Pai will be unveiled at of Mrs. Mohini and Dr. P. the World Konkani Hall of Fame. Dr. Dayananda Pai, Mrs. Sabitha and P. Dayananda Pai will also lay a Shri P. Sathish Pai, Dr. (Mrs.) Kiran foundation stone for the Pai and Shri Ravindra Pai. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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2022 Greater Cincinnati Anti-Human Trafficking Conference invites Harold D’Souza to address “Labour Trafficking”

Conference on February 4th.

End Slavery of Greater Cincinnati Anti-Human Trafficking invited prominent speaker Harold D’Souza to address ‘Labor Trafficking Panel – Frog in a Well’ at their 2022

This interdisciplinary conference will cover a variety of topics related to human trafficking that will be relevant to social service providers,

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how he was finally able to gain access to essential resources that lead to his lifelong freedom.

lawyers, law enforcement, healthcare professionals, and other key community actors.

Labour Trafficking – Frog in a Well will be moderated by Harold D’Souza, Co-Founder of Eyes Open International. In this session, Harold D’Souza will share various parts of his journey into and out of labour trafficking while a panel of local professionals from the law enforcement, legal and business sectors provide commentary and perspective as to the resources available each step of the way.

Harold will start with his initial interactions with his trafficker and the red flags he was later able to recognize, how law enforcement helped him leave his trafficking situation, his quest to find a shelter home for male trafficking victims, to

Delegates on the Panel on Labour Trafficking – Frog in a Well with Harold are; Emily Dunlap, Senior Staff Attorney with Advocating Opportunity, Beth Roach, Community Relations Officer of the Blue Ash Police Department and Yvan Demosthenes, CEO of HamiltonDemo.

End Slavery Cincinnati was founded in 2007 as a Rescue and Restore Coalition through the Department of Health and Human Services. End Slavery Cincinnati then entered into partnership with The Salvation Army, Southwest Ohio and Northeast Kentucky Division and is headquartered at The Salvation Army Office.

Life has come full circle for Harold D’Souza an Indian American. From being a near slave in Lady Liberty’s land, is now a voice for the voiceless victims.

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M JESSY DSOUZA Moge Losun Miri ani Bikna Field Marrow with Jackfruit Seeds

Yummy, authentic Mangaloren dish.

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fish available.

Few mustard seeds 2 - 3 crushed garlic cloves Few curry leaves

INGREDIENTS: 1 moge wash, cut, remove seeds and make required pieces.{make fine lines on white part, we call it 'Korvana' in konkani,} Keep aside.

Take 10 - 15 pieces of crushed bikna {jack fruit seeds} peel & make pieces. Keep aside.

For Masala: A: 5 - 6 kashmiri or byadagi chilli 1.5 tsp roasted jeera 1 tbsp roasted corriander 6 - 10 pepper corns Small ball tamarind 1/4 tsp turmeric powder 1 big onion 4 - 5 garlic cloves

METHOD: Grind all above under masala ingredients into fine paste. Transfer this to cooking kadai. Add water, make medium consistency.

Add cut moge, sliced onion, bikna pieces, salt as per taste, little jaggery {optional} and cook covered until moge pcs tender, not very soft and curry medium thick. Take it off.

Temper with coconut oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and garlic cloves with skin.

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Mutton green Masala

8) 1 tsp cumin seeds 9) 1/4 tsp turmeric powder

Ingredients: 1) 1 kg fresh mutton, cut into small pieces 2) 1 full bunch of coriander leaves 3) 1 bunch of mint leaves

10) 3-4 cloves 11) 1/2 inch cinnamon stick 12) 4 big onions, finely sliced 13) 2 tbsp lemon juice

4) 2 inch ginger

14) 4 tbsp oil

5) 7-8 big size cloves garlic

15) salt as per taste

6) 5-6 green chillies (adjust as per spice)

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- Make a fine paste of ingredients 2) to 11)

more water as per thickness of curry and cook on low flame for 10 mins

- In a kadai, heat oil

- add lemon juice, stir well and cook for another 5 mins on low flame

- Once oil is hot, fry onions till golden brown - Add mutton and fry on high flame for 5 mins

Switch off the flame and serve hot with chapatis, Naan or steamed rice as per your choice

- Reduce the flame to medium, add salt and some water and stir well - Cover the lid and cook on medium flame until mutton is cooked well and soft (approx. 15-20 mins depends on tenderness) - In between, open the lid cover and keep stirring and add more hot water if mutton is dried - Once mutton is cooked, add masala paste stir well and add some ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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