Frederick Noronha

Canacona is at one extreme end of Goa and is where everyone headed to after Anjuna got too noisy and Baga, Calangute and Candolim got overcrowded. The Hotel Mangalore is on the National Highway 17 about
lkm away from Canacona's main tiny town, Chaudi. It's close to Char Rasta
(literally Four Roads) but should not to be confused with another restaurant
of the same name, that lies closer to the petrol pump.

India's smallest state, Goa, remains one misunderstood, unsolved enigma.  To unravel such seeming paradoxes, one needs to look deeper into the Goan reality.  This title under review is one attempt to do so; it offers an interesting insight, though one could debate some of the lines of argument put forward.  Professor Arthur G.  Rubinoff of the University of Toronto is an old hand at Goa.  He first visited here in the late 'sixties, just a few years after Portuguese rule ended.

Frederick Noronha synthesizes an account of the rich social and political history of football in Goa, with the crosscurrents of the influence of the church, and the former Portuguese rulers, referencing the economic and political forces that shaped the game in later years. Goa’s links with football cannot be separated from the region’s long, 450-year legacy of Portuguese colonial rule. In recent years however, political parties, knowing the importance of football in Goa have used the game to curry favour among certain sections of the population. Wealthy and influential names dominate the football associations. On the other hand, with rapid real estate growth, playing fields are disappearing shrinking the pool of talent. The author in this short chapter provides a glimpse of how various factors and agencies outside the sport impact on its development.

of WSIS's stated goals is to examine ways to "protect the free flow of information and communication." Electronic communication systems made the free flows of information a technical possibility on a global scale for an unprecedented, though still insufficient, number of people. Numerous initiatives work to bridge the 'digital divide', to enlarge the number of people who have access to the means of communication. Despite these positive developments, open societies with free flows of information and the participation of people, face major dangers in the Information Age. These dangers not only stem from governments and pressure groups that limit the freedom of the media for political and economic reasons. These issues are urgent and they are well known and documented. Lesser known but at least as important is a more insidious barrier to the free flows of information: the emerging regimes of globally en-forceable Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) aiming at locki...

Preface - Frederick Noronha and Keya Acharya Foreword - Darryl D'Monte PART ONE: ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING Environment Stories, Among the Most Challenging - Lyla Bavadam No icing, just bread and butter This Separate Category - Kunda Dixit Environmental Journalism at the Time of Economic Liberalisation - Richard Mahapatra Environmental Journalism since Economic Liberalization - Gopikrishna Warrier The Most Serious News - Sunita Narain Writing About the Birds and the Bees - Keya Acharya My Words, It's Still Fun! - Sudhirendar Sharma Problems Of Aesthetics And Misplaced Altruism: Media And Environment - Kazu Ahmed Good Journalism, That's All - Kalpana Sharma Media is No Longer the Fourth Estate - Devinder Sharma Lost in the Smog - Dionne Bunsha Tourism and Beyond, does Environmental Journalism Matter? - Frederick Noronha Environment Journalism, Maldivian Style - Ahmed Zaki Nafiz Uphill and Downstream in Pakistan - Beena Sarwar PART TWO: SCIENCE, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT Good Science, Environment Journalism and the Barriers to It! - Pallava Bagla Environment, Exotic Diseases and the Media: Emerging Issues - Patralekha Chatterjee PART THREE: WILDLIFE JOURNALISM At the end of a Dark Tunnel, a Faint Light - Nirmal Ghosh Tiger Defends the Biodiversity - Malini Shankar PART FOUR: ENVIRONMENT AND WATER The Media's Role in Water and Sanitation - Sahana Singh Water Journalism Warrants Better Attention - Shree Padre PART FIVE: REPORTING ON DISASTERS Dispatches from the Frontline: The Making of The Greenbelt Reports - Nalaka Gunawardene and Manori Wijesekera Floods: Blacked Out but Real - Sunita Narain Turbulence: How Volunteers Cyber-Responded to a Tsunami - Peter Griffin PART SIX: PHOTOJOURNALISM Stop all the Clocks! Beyond Text, Looking at the Pics - Max Martin What does One Photograph do to Depict a Flood? - Shahidul Alam It was a long Journey - Nandan Saxena PART SEVEN: COMMUNICATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT Paradigm Shift in Agricultural Communication - Shivaram Pailoor A 'Global City' vs the Environment - Ardeshir Cowasjee Wild Panther in Miramar? Goa on the Verge of Environmental Hara-kiri - Nandkumar Kamat PART EIGHT: GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT Reporting Gender and Environment: Beyond Tokenism - Laxmi Murthy PART NINE: ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS The Grass is Greener This Side - Meena Menon The Chipko and Appiko Movement - Pandurang Hegde PART TEN: AN ANIL AGARWAL READER - Anil Agarwal Media Games - Anil Agarwal Saying it with Pictures - Anil Agarwal No Screen PRESENCE - Anil Agarwal

Using a mix of minority fears and money power, Congress (1) returned to power in Goa in the recent elections. But the quality and character of the new legislators is not likely to be much better. Many politicians with dubious reputations, charges of corruption and a record ...

In sharp contrast to the United States where traditional media organizations are marked by declining revenues and shrinking audiences, the Indian media landscape is expanding rapidly. Critical analyses of media practices however, have so far been quite limited, and it is in this realm that this eclectic collection seeks to make a contribution, attempting, in the words of its editor, to ‘‘turn the spotlight on the journalistic profession itself.’’ Containing well-researched academic essays as well as first person accounts by practitioners, the book is divided into four thematic sections. The first section, ‘‘Representing the Unrepresented,’’ offers critiques of media coverage related to women, homosexuals and untouchables, with contributors arguing that by adhering to traditional notions of objectivity such as gender-neutral coverage of news events, or ‘‘factual’’ reporting that does not contextualize discrimination against homosexuals, Indian media simply reinforce the status quo. Other essays in the section turn their critical gaze to Western reportage of the 2004 Socialist victory in Spain and the Danish cartoon controversy, identifying negative coverage of the election as the result of nationalistic interpretations of ideas such as ‘‘terror’’ and ‘‘democracy,’’ and taking issue with the European media framing of protests against the cartoons as pitting a ‘‘humorless, intolerant Islam versus a playful Freedom.’’ While the first section essentially focuses on matters of representation, the second section, the ‘‘Plurality of Practice,’’ examines coverage of economics, legal issues, science, humor, arts and culture in the Indian context. These pieces variously make a case for: more informative economic coverage; the use of narrative techniques in science writing; and introduction of greater humor in print writing, while criticizing the market-driven decline in space for arts journalism as well as the Indian press’s disregard for the privacy rights of victims.

The ill-effects of tourism in Goa are getting widely debated in the press and among the politicians and the public. While people's organisations are mobilising to prevent further degradation of Goa's natural resources, the tourism industry in nexus with politicians is ...

Abstract: Sourced by local newspaper articles, discusses the impact on Goa of the increasing numbers of tourists. Increasing land prices, increasing levels of consumption, violation of building and land use regulations are all prevalent. Locals feel threatened and ...

... Languages like Urdu and Sindhi have right-to-left scripts that look similar to Arabic ... is of course Unicode.'' For short-term measures, he suggests working toward developing the ... ITRANS and WRITE32, written by Indians settled abroad, are transliteration packages that already do ...

... decades, radio has been one of the most appealing tools for participatory communication and ... Especially, commu-nity broadcasting, eg, community radio and community tele-centre, can be set ... people participate in decision-making process, at plan-ning and management level ...

Abstract: Sourced by local newspaper articles, discusses the impact on Goa of the increasing numbers of tourists. Increasing land prices, increasing levels of consumption, violation of building and land use regulations are all prevalent. Locals feel threatened and ...

Delivering online quality education and equal access requires a commitment to diverse learner populations. This chapter outlines some of the reasons why online learning has become a popular vehicle for pursuing educational goals for minority learners. The author also indicates challenges that must be overcome in order to serve a diverse online student body. She also urges educational leadership to begin a dialogue on on-learning and communication styles, cultural competence in curriculum, academic preparedness, language barriers, and access to technology as they relate to success in the online learning environment.

... Languages like Urdu and Sindhi have right-to-left scripts that look similar to Arabic ... is of course Unicode.'' For short-term measures, he suggests working toward developing the ... ITRANS and WRITE32, written by Indians settled abroad, are transliteration packages that already do ...

The ill-effects of tourism in Goa are getting widely debated in the press and among the politicians and the public. While people's organisations are mobilising to prevent further degradation of Goa's natural resources, the tourism industry in nexus with politicians is ...

... In an operation shrouded in near-secrecy, the schools were handed over to the RSS-linkedVidya Bharati network. ... "In an advert for teachers, the Vidya Bharati on May 19 asked for teach-ers who are 'nationalist persons with wide social contacts'. ...

... T 1-Chowdary, advisor to Aindhra Pradesh chief mPinister Nara I Chandrababu Naidu on technnology matters, said at the recent ... Appropriate Technology For instance, two youth Vikas Markanday and Dayal Singh of Rohtak in Haryana, both aged 21, have assembled a low ...

In early 1995, the Indian Supreme Court gave an interesting ruling. It criti-cised the long-held government monopoly over broadcasting and declared the airwaves to be public property. They were to be utilised for promoting public good and ventilating a plurality of views, opinions ...

... Worldwide there is difficulty in retaining specialists in non-urban areas. Tertiary care hospitals are also concentrated mainly in urban areas, where large segments of the population have no access (Murelli & Arvanitis, 2003). ...

... decades, radio has been one of the most appealing tools for participatory communication and ... Especially, commu-nity broadcasting, eg, community radio and community tele-centre, can be set ... people participate in decision-making process, at plan-ning and management level ...

... Languages like Urdu and Sindhi have right-to-left scripts that look similar to Arabic ... is of course Unicode.'' For short-term measures, he suggests working toward developing the ... ITRANS and WRITE32, written by Indians settled abroad, are transliteration packages that already do ...

Goa's four-and-half century old involvement with book publishing has been a historic, complex and confusing relationship, making it even more important to understand this field and recognise its potential and challenges. Since 1961, with the demise of the ancien régime, an uncertainty has descended over the fate of publishing Portuguese in Goa. It is assumed that the book in Portuguese has no future here. This paper seeks to take stock of what has been published in Portuguese in Goa since 1961 and also looks at some of the potential for the future. Altbach comments that "the creation and dissemination of knowledge is a complex process in any society, and is particularly difficult in the Third World, where the economic, intellectual, and institutional structures of the scientific community are not well established." This is a description of scholarly publishing and dates back to circa 1978; yet it could apply to the scenario in Goa too, in the 21st century and publishing in general. Others like M.N. Chatterjee described the problem as encountered in 1970 at the pan-India level, focussing on concerns like limited literacy, inadequate purchasing power, a "lack of book-mindedness" and the reading habit, and the absence of reliable date to analyse the situation.