The Goa Governor Dr. S. S. Sidhu highlighting the role of media in strengthening of democracy said in today’s era of information revolution, the Media represents a healthy and powerful element in the functioning of democracy.

Fr Nelson Falcao’s new edition and Marathi translation of Thomas Stephens’ Khristapurana was released at a well-attended function at Parshuram Natyagruha, Nashik, 14 November 2009 in the presence of eminent persons from the field of Marathi literature and learning.

Commissioner for NRI Affairs has said that there is urgent need for restoration of the priceless murals on the walls of the Rachol seminary which he said will be completely destroyed unless immediate steps are taken to restore them.

 Saad Muzgamcho, ghonghon fozneacho,
Porzollo fantho Festa disacho
Ghorcho lok umetin utun kuznank ghatlo veddo
Festache umeticho zorro kuznantleanuch funtlo

He draws his inspiration on the art of storytelling from his late mother. The hunger and motivation to excel came from the Career and Competition Success books. If boys and girls of his generation craved to make it big with a degree in Medicine and Engineering, Glen Baretto swam against the tide to try his luck in the Bollywood industry.

Stating that Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar were among the great’s journalists of our, firebrand journalist and Magsaysay award winner Mr P Sainath said that this was because they interacted and wrote about the processes of the time.

The 4th Global Goan Convention opened with flair and finesse, the location was well set within the Indian Embassy in Oman, within close proximity of the British and the American Embassies, for once I felt proud to note that the Indian Embassy had a much bigger area than the rest.

Can you fathom the idea of a vagabond, collecting scrap for a living and sleeping on the streets make the transition from a hopeless, helpless construction worker to a multi-lingual bird guide. In the rarest of rare cases that happens - and that holds true for forty-year-old Shiva Mandre, who speaks an astonishing twenty-five languages, as he dabbles in various tourism related trade in the beach-side resort state of Goa in India.

Freddy Fernandes addresses the gathering at the Global Goans Convention in Muscat. (in Konkani with an English translation)