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2The Navhind Times I Tuesday February 7, 2017
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ACTIVITIES
>National Seminar: The Department of Mass Communication and Department of Journalism, St Xavier’s College, Mapusa is organising a National Seminar on ‘New Media: Issues and Impact on Society’ on February 7 and February 8 in the college premises. At the seminar 16 paper presentations from Chennai, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Kolhapur and Goa will be held. The seminar will also host a series of technical session on various topics related to New Media. To register call: 9923153713 or email: [email protected].
>Friday Forum: Clube Harmonia De Margao will conduct a talk Decoding Budget 2017 by Netra Veladandi (L&T Investment Management Ltd) on February 10 at 6 p.m. onwards at Clube Harmonia, Margao. Free and open to all. Details: 2714818.
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>Sitar Concerts: Museum of Goa will organise its weekly Sitar Concerts with maestro Manab Das from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. starting from February 7 at MOG, Pilerne. Entry fees: `500. Details: [email protected]/7722089666.
>Film screening: Imagine, the fortnightly film club hosted by Apurva Kulkarni at Gallery Gitanjali in Fontainhas, Panaji will screen the film ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’ on February 10 at 6 p.m. Using never-before-heard recordings, rare archival footage and her best-known songs, this is the story of legendary singer and activist Nina Simone. Details: 8806035195/2423331.
>Film for Thought: Sunaparanta will host the screening of ‘Ida’ (2013) directed by Pawel Pawlikowski at Sunaparanta amphi theatre, Altinho on February 8 at 6.30 p.m. Polish film with English subtitles. Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
>Ketevan Music Festival: The Ketevan Music Festival will be held from February 10 to February 19 at various heritage sites in Old Goa. On February 10, Interreligious Musical Dialogues between Ignacio
Monteverde (UK) and Ahmed Mukhtar (Iraq) will be held at 6.45 p.m. at St Monica Convent – Old Goa. This will be followed by Bach’s World performance by Vandalia (Spain) and St Ephraim Choir (Hungary), Goa University Choir (India) Ketevan Artists (UK – Portugal–Germany–Austria–Argentina–Australia) conducted by Santiago Girelli at 7.45 p.m. at the convent. Passes are available with Furtado’s, Champs, (Panaji), MOG (Pilerne), Art Chamber, Private Collection (Candolim) and Museum of Christian Art (Old Goa). The passes are priced at `350, `1000 and `5000. Details: www.ketevanmusicfestival.com.
>We Care Film Festival: Disability Rights Association of Goa (DRAG) in association with Brotherhood New Delhi is organising the We Care Film Festival on disability issues till February 11 to sensitise school and college students on disability issues. The festival will be held at the following venues, on February 7 at GVM’s GGPR College of Commerce and Economics, Ponda; on February 8 at Don Bosco Complex, Quepem; on February 9 at St Xavier’s College, Mapusa; on February 10 at Ravindra Bhavan AC Auditorium, Sankhali and on February 11 at Sant Sohirobanath Government College of Arts and Commerce, Pernem. Details: 9326120903/9899472065.
>‘Sur Jahan’ Music Festival: The Directorate of Art and Culture, is organising ‘Sur Jahan’ (World Peace Music Festival 2017) at Kala Academy, Panaji from February 8 to February 10 in collaboration with banglanatak dot com-Kolkata and Kala Academy, Panaji. The international teams from Denmark, Czech Republic, Sweden, Russia and three national teams will participate in this festival. Evening concerts will be held from February 8 to February 12 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Dinanath
Mangeshkar Kala Mandir, Kala Academy, Panaji. On February 8, inauguration will be held at 6 p.m., Tarak Khyapa (Baul of Bengal) will be held at 7 p.m., Virelai will be held at 8 p.m.; On February 9, BraAgas (Czech Republic) will be held at 6 p.m., East West Local (India) at 7 p.m. and Ale Moller Quartet (Sweden) at 8 p.m.; On February 10, Ellika Solo Rafael (Sweden) will be held at 6 p.m., Otava Yo (Russia) at 7 p.m. and Punjab Qawwali (India) at 8 p.m. Workshops will be held from February 9 to February 10 from 10.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Black Box, Kala Academy, Panaji. On February 9, workshops by Ellika Solo Rafael will be held at 10.30 a.m., Otava Yo at 11.45 a.m. and Virelai at 1 p.m. and on February 10, workshops by BraAgas will be held at 10.30 a.m., Ale Moller Quartet at 11.45 a.m. and Tarak Khyapa at 1 p.m. The event is open to all.
>Konkani Symposium: The Patriarchal Seminary of Rachol annually organises a symposium ‘Amchem Daiz’ in Konkani to gain knowledge and preserve the Goan culture heritage under the banner of ‘Literary and Cultural Activities of Rachol Seminary’ (LACARS). The event will be held on February 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Rachol Seminary Auditorium. This event ‘Amchem Daiz’ will consists of symposium and Konkani comedy competition. The theme for the symposium is ‘Tiatr – Goychea Somazachi Machi’ which will held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. followed by a Konkani comedy competition for school children from 2.15 p.m. to 5 p.m. Details: 2776052/2776325.
>Exhibition: Exhibition on Heritage Safeguarding in Old Goa during the Portuguese Administration will be held from February 9 to March 11 at Fundacao Oriente, Altinho. The inauguration will be held on February 9 at 6.30 p.m.
WorkShop/SEmInAr/ lECTurE>Difficult Dialogues: The second edition of Difficult Dialogues will be held from February 10 to February 12 at ICG, Dona Paula and will focus on the question: “Is India’s Health a Grand Challenge?” Eminent speakers will be part of the event, such as health policy experts and anthropologists from UCL Marie Lall, Monica Lakhanpaul and Sushrut Jadhav. Health secretary CK Mishra will discuss the options open to the country in terms of healthcare funding; actor
Manisha Koirala—women’s rights activist and cancer survivor will discuss treatment in India and abroad; commentator Pavan Kumar Varma will speak on contemporary socio-economic issues in the health of the nation panel debate; and leading journalist Siddharth Varadarajan along with actor Kabir Bedi will chair a number of panel discussions. The other speakers include, Aarathi Prasad, Anjali Nayyar, Abhay and Rani Bang, Naresh Trehan, Soumya Swaminathan, Subodh Kerkar and Vikram Patel. Details: www.difficultdialogues.com.
>Talk by Rohan Sabharwal: Design Centre will organise a talk by Rohan Sabharwal on Spreading Cycology on February 9 at 6.30 p.m. onwards at Design Centre, Alto-Porvorim. Produced by Bombay Berlin Film Productions, Spreading Cycology is an ongoing solo cycling expedition undertaken by filmmaker and social entrepreneur - Rohan Sabharwal to spread awareness of the state of mental health at India’s grassroots using film screenings, discussions and engaging rural communities in open conversations.
>Lecture by Vrinda Nabar: Lecture on “Revisiting Mahabharat: An individual perspective” by Vrinda Nabar, visiting research professor, Kavivarya Bakibaab Borkar Chair in Comparative Literature at Goa University will be held on February 9 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at ICG, Dona Paula. The lecture is co – organised by ICG and VRPP of Goa University. Open to all.
>Lecture Series: Institute Menezes Braganza will organise the Sanskrit Lecture Series on February 10 and February 11 at Conference Hall, Institute Menezes Braganza, Panaji at 4.30 p.m. Sanskrit Bharati, Porvorim is the Collaborating Institution for the Lecture Series. Manjusha Kulkarni, director, Language Department, Mumbai will be speaker for this series. The topic for the lecture series are Sanskritena Sevopalabdhi and Vedkalinstriratanani.
>Art Based Personal Exploration Workshop: Landscape of your Life - A Personal Journey through the Expressive Arts with Jackie Chandani will be held on February 11 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on February 12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Saraya Eco-Stay, Chogm Road, Sangolda. Workshop Cost: `1800. Details: 8888926811/ [email protected].
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Cross the bridge across the Zuari river and the mauve-pink Cherry blossom like flowers on bare branches are difficult to miss on the
Cortalim end of the bridge. It is a tree that is in full bloom these days. Even before one celebrates Carnival and Shigmo, the flow-ers are telling us that Spring-time is nigh. These plants are flowering majestically everywhere on roadside hedges in Salcete, Tiswadi, Bardez, Pernem, Bicholim, Sattari, Ponda, Dharban-dora, Sanguem, Canacona, Quepem and Mormugao. If we have not seen the plant yet, it is just that we have
not paused to look for it. Glyricidia sepium or Glyricidia maculata is ubiquitous plant that we just may have ignored till now.
The plant is known as “Giri Push-pa” in Marathi and simply as “Sar-eachem zadd” in Konkani as. It has flowers [pushpa] and the leaves are
used as green leaf manure (sare) for coconut palms and in rice fields alike. In fact, the Philippines-based Goan agricultural scientist, Julian Gonsalves, has proven that
rice can be rotated with a pulse crop like cowpea with Glyricidia leaf ma-nure to get high yields without use of any other fertilizers. The green leaf manure and the mulch with Glyri-cidia is also a good repellant for rats and farm mice. The Glyricidia leaf is
also an important component of the biodynamic agriculture solutions to boost crop growth. During the dry season, when there is little green fodder, the foliage is fed to the cattle and goats.
The botanical name in Latin, how-ever, gives an indication of its real use in coconut and cocoa plantations. The name Glyricidia is derived from two words, “glyrus” meaning “rat” and “cedos” meaning “to kill” as in insecticide, fungicide, homicide and suicide. It is not for nothing that the Filipinos call it “Kakawate” and the Hondurans call it the “Madre de Ca-cao” or “Mother of Cocoa”: it protects the cocoa pods from damage by rats! I have planted Gyricidia along the compound at Mahamaya Farm in Sal-Bicholim, in March-April, 2012 and
earned money selling cuttings while saving the coconuts from rats and also getting the green leaf manure for the areca palms. Glyricidia spells money all the way!
Glyricidia is a leguminous tree and belongs to the family Fabaceae. It originated in Central America and is used in many tropical and sub-tropical countries as live fenc-ing as it is planted along the side of fields. Its live trunks are used as fence posts. The smell of the leaves repels the rats, a major pest in both coconut and rice fields. In a con-trast of “the fence eating the crop”, even when alive this legume tree enriches the soil with nitrogen with the help of Rhizobium bacteria in the soil. It is almost a miracle plant adapted to global warming.
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Glyricidia and its myriad benefits
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