Mainstream Weekly

Goa since Liberation | Eduardo Falerio

Eduardo Faleiro — 2020-12-05T12:12:19Z

The last few decades have witnessed vast changes in political ideology and economic policies across the world. People of different countries have been affected differently, but always in a significant manner everywhere.
Goa has achieved remarkable progress since Liberation [in December 1961]. The greatest gain of Liberation has been the feeling of self-respect regained, the opening of the portals of opportunity particularly to the vast mass of people who were denied upward mobility over (…)

- 2020

The Importance of SAARC | Eduardo Faleiro

Eduardo Faleiro — 2020-10-17T18:29:03Z

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was created in 1985 to promote economic development and social progress in South Asia through regional cooperation. Presently, it has eight member countries namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
India was the Chair of the SAARC Summit in 2007 and this was arguably the most productive Summit that SAARC ever witnessed. The launching of negotiations to bring services into the South (…)

- 2020

Yes to India's relations with Israel but not at the expense of our support to the Palestinian cause | Eduardo Faleiro

Eduardo Faleiro — 2020-08-07T13:42:03Z

The relationship between India and Israel should be sustained but not at the expense of our traditional loyalty to the Palestinian cause. India should not dither on its long standing and unequivocal support to the struggle of the Palestinian people for national liberation and for an independent State.

- 2020

Towards a Culture of Peace

Eduardo Faleiro — 2020-07-04T18:31:40Z

The last three decades have witnessed unprecedented conflict within and among nations, and religion has often been misused and invoked to justify sectarian strife. The United Nations which was created “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” sees interfaith dialogue and cooperation as an important step toward global harmony.
The United Nations Summit on Religions convened in the Millennium Year felt that all religions offer helpful means to advance the cause of justice, (…)

- 2020

Celebrating the Goa Statehood Day

Eduardo Faleiro — 2020-05-30T16:50:11Z

On May 30 we celebrate the Goa Statehood Day. Goa was liberated from the colonial rule in December 1961. After Liberation a major controversy arose as to whether it should remain a separate territory or should merge into a neighbouring State, Maharashtra or Mysore. In 1967, an Opinion Poll was held, the only such referendum in independent India. It decided that Goa, Daman and Diu should remain a separate entity with the status of an Union Territory. Thereafter all the three major political (…)

- 2020

India-Japan Relations

Eduardo Faleiro — 2020-04-11T14:45:02Z

Throughout history India-Japan relations have been devoid of any kind of dispute, ideological, cultural or territorial. Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, J.R.D Tata and Subhash Chandra Bose were among the Indians closely associated with Japan. Judge Radha Binod Pal was the Indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal that tried Japanese war crimes alleged to have been committed during the Second World War. Among all judges of the Tribunal he was the only one who (…)

- 2020

On Harmony of Religions

Eduardo Faleiro — 2020-02-28T08:33:55Z

Religion has emerged as a major source of conflict across the globe. Ideological strife has now given place to the “clash of civilisations” and it is felt that in the foreseeable future, religion will be a major source of conflict within and among nations. The possibilities of conflict are greater in countries such as India where different cultures and religions do meet. How-ever, such clashes can be prevented if appropriate strategies are formulated and implemented at an early stage so as (…)

- 2020

On Primary Education

Eduardo Faleiro — 2019-11-05T22:50:58Z

In July 2016, the State Government constituted a Committee on Education to study the system of grants and financial support to government and government-aided primary schools and to recommend measures to improve their overall efficiency. The Committee submitted its report last January. It has not been made public.
Goa has made significant progress in the field of education over the last 50 years. This is mainly due to government-aided and private institutions. Government schools themselves (…)

- 2019

On Migration from Goa

Eduardo Faleiro — 2019-09-15T01:58:18Z

Sometime ago, I visited several villages and towns in the neighbouring districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka to meet people of Goan origin settled there. During the 16th and 17th centuries thousands of Goans, both Hindus and Christians, left Goa to escape religious and cultural persecution. In Goa, during that period, all possible obstacles were imposed on the practice of the local religions. Moreover, converts to Christianity could not easily change their deep-rooted Indian way of life. (…)

- 2019

On Local Language

Eduardo Faleiro — 2019-08-18T22:28:17Z

At the time of the conquest of Goa by the Portuguese, in the early sixteenth century, Konkani and Marathi were the languages prevailing here. Authors differ in their opinion as to whether both languages were written or Marathi alone was the literary language and Konkani, the spoken language. Noted Goan historian Pandurang Pisurlenkar observes:
“If the language spoken in Goa is Konkani, the literary language of the Goan Hindus is traditionally Marathi. Cunha Rivara and Mons. Sebastiao (…)

- 2019