This was a golden chance for AAP to fill the vacuum. But, it seems AAP is not doing enough.

A real treat to the eyes, Indeed. it has been a while to see gourds of such size actually growing on the creepers. A very positive journalistic effort.

May I suggest that the attackers are put through a rigorous study of Gita under the supervision of ISKCON, Art of Living Foundation or any Guru. After that, many career options in bringing peace to the world, in troubled countries, await. Opportunities in US, Canada, Kenya to convert super rich are highly attractive too. India needs dollars, and the rich require to shed their dollars.

I was under the impression that Moodubelle has no Bhajrangi problems! May be outsiders bringing a bad name to Moodubelle. Roshan should reduce the volume of his loud speaker to avoid such problems. God will still listen to prayers with low volumes because of less noise pollution! Now a days some people enjoy hyper active prayers....Avaravara Bhavakke..avaravara bhakuthige!!

It is nothing but election gimmick of bjp!!

Congratulations mom and here wishing you a Happy Women s Day. You have been our strength and inspiration all our life. Inspite being so busy, you had struck a perfect balance between your personal and professional life. Thanks to Lord for blessing us with parents like you and dad.

Dear Akil, you have a talent of writing.I liked the narration from top to bottom. Keep writing...All the best.

Very nice story

Virender Sehwag s will is called into question as much as his skill. I think if we want Indian cricket to move forward, we need to look at the new comers and give them chances instead of relying on players whose time is almost up. Sehwag was a great player no doubt but it’s time for him to make way for new openers. I do not know if Murali Vijay, Dhawan or Rahane have in them to be even 50% of what Sehwag was in his peak but unless we give chances we will never know. Hope Dhawan/Rahane/Vijay is given a long rope before even considering bringing Gautam and Shewag back. These players deserve equal chance. But the big question is- Does Sehwag has the hunger to make a comeback to the Indian team at the age of 34? If he does then I will more than happy to watch him play few more breathtaking fours and sixes from his cricket bat!

Thank you Fr. Bappu for your great article on "Kolva Saib". Praying for your good health. Wishing you all the very best.

Congratulations Mom and wish you a Happy Women s Day. We are all very proud of you and your achievements. You are a perfect role model to the present generation girls and we know that the Belle school is going to benefit with all your expertise. Love you Mom. God bless you.

Congratulation Mrs Theresa D almeida for your hard work by dedicating your life to the suffering patients. Thankyou for choosing our Moodubelle as your home for your retirement .May God Bless you and keep you in good health. .

Wishing you a day filled with goodness, warmth,good health and happiness today and forever. Happy Womens day. We are missing you here in Doha.

Briefing about China has nicely done in this article.While we hear about China, usually chinese products food are comes into our mind and thinking negatively as ` Made in China .
But after reading this article,we came to know that, how China became devoloped in many ways.That`s why,our many politicians,leaders are saying that;`I will make my city, area, state as Shangai .
Thanks Anil Pernal, for this knowledgeable article.

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This article is a perfect gift all Belleans on the International World Women s day! I remember meeting her on one of the initial BV gatherings in Doha held at her residence. She being included in the managing committee of St. Lawrence College, along with Dr. Eugene and Commodore Castalino, our college is now on the way of making a big name in the region. All the best to Theresa and thank you Dr. Eugene for higlighting such a great personality of our native.

A thorough professional who had (and may I say still has) a craze for more knowledge so that she can use it towards the service of humanity. Only persons who have a big heart can donate blood on the spot when seeing the tears in the eyes of a patient or his/her parents. Thejju was a loving and caring person when she was just a student nurse and I am glad that she not only preserved that treasure but also improved on it. People of Belle will be the beneficiaries of her knowledge and expertise. God bless you Thejju. Wish you good health and a very long fruitful life.

Congratulations TEJJU BAI.we pray that GOD may keep you and your family in good health.THANK YOU Dr.eugine for your nice article.

Dear Thejju,you have made all of us at Devaragudde happy.Alli Bai and your Buggam should have been there to celebrate"A good tree bears only good fruits" GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY Fr Denis Castelino

Congratullations Tejju bai.Fitting atricle on international Women s day by Ijju baab. May God bless you and family.Wish you all the best , good health ,peaceful retired life in Belle.

Respected Sir,
I have gone through your article and felt very happy.
Can I request you to offer me a job, so that I can prove my ability and talent working for any one of your branch. Hoping for a reply from your end. So that I can send the rest of my details. Thanking you. I felt to correspond to you, only because when you can be so kind hearted in giving your 50% as charity, why not a single job.

Awesome aunt !!! may god bless u n ur family :-) :-) :-)

A great article on this Special Women s day by Dr. Eugene. thanks for introducing Therea, not only a nurse, but mother, social worker, great human, dedicated to patients good health. She is an example to all nurses of our region. Good she came back to Belle to serve the needy of her parish. Wishing her all the best and further success.

Mrt Eswarappa had done a good to the BJP by resigning the post of Party President. In my view he was root for all happenings in BJP for the last one year or so. He openly supported corruption and demoralized corruption. He was justifying destributing notes for voting and also justifying receiving corruption to make good such deficit by note destribution. This kindly of leaders should be discouraged at every level in all parties at all times if the generation next has to live a decent peacful and just living. I thank Mr Eswarappa for stepping down from his position as President. Had he done it before the Local body elections perhaps some hundred votes BJP would have secured.

What ever be the views of Sneha Dupia, family life and the bliss is unimaginative by the unmarried living together persons. I do not agree with the views. Family life is no noble and undescribable, one can only experience. Being a family member I can certainly challenge the living together couples, who are doing a very bad example to the generationext.
Therefore I appeal to all youngsters, not to follow Dupias views which are leading you to unknown and unimaginative dangers. dangerset

Congratullations Mrs Almeida. it is a great pride to us for you have erarned an excellent place in the profession. May God bless you and assist you in your New role. We want more such persons like you,in the present day tense world .

The article reflects a very inspiring personality who made it with lots of hard work, dedication and commitment and is so very apt on International Woman s Day. We pray that the Lord may continue to keep you Theresabai and family in good health and guide you in all your future endeavours!!

am glad to know you pursue value based retirement. Love

Thank you Fr. Denis for a beautiful and well informed article.We also used to cross the river to go to Pangala from deveragudde.One should appriciate your remote memory that you put in an organized manner.I wish you good health Fr. Kind Regards.

Don t we have a place for decent and educated (not necessarily qualified) people in Indian politics?

I still have fond memories of my daily trips across the Belle River as I made my way to and from St Mary's Jr. College, Shirva. These trips were made possible by the expertise of Kolva Saib, a remarkable and towering individual who was liked by all, especially the younger ones. I recall the winter time when the river was not at its full power and we could sometimes be ferried by Kolva Saib's grandson. And who can forget Kolva Saib's Daughter, an aphasic, eagerly trying to communicate with the ferry passengers to interact via sign language, was a very humble Lady. I congratulate you Fr. Denis for this memorable article based on one of the unsung heroes of our area. I am sure whoever had read this article will fully endorse your views and will remember this great soul. Thank you BV for one more superlative Konkani article.

Comprehensive compilation, essential read, especially for laity Catholics and general population. Edited right.

Popular belief is Catholicism is fading and is passe. Hardly. In fact, Catholics today are more tolerant of dissent among themselves than their other churches. This tolerance of free to do what an individual thinks is right for him is a prominent discussion.

Our Bishops attended meetings of their Synod during the Year of Faith-2012. If only they would write and publish the range of views and emotions in the meetings. Even though the conclusions are known, and are leaning towards traditional positions of church doctrine on theological, social, cultural and political facets of human life, we do not have the annual papal Encyclical yet. In this environment, the papabili may be disappointed, as in four previous conclaves in fifty years.

It is a welocme effort,
Good luck Mr. Hegde.
My asesment is he has about 4 year before the shale gas revolution that is making waves since 3 years (in USA) is commercialized fully, (like the mobile phones today) and LPG prices will tumble. There is another energy technology under development in USA (very secret as on today). When it is unveiled, the world is likely to look totally different.

ಆತಾಂ ಆಮ್ಚ್ಯಾ ಲಿಗೋರಿ-ಚ್ಯ ದೊಂಣಿ ವಿಶೆಂತ್ ವಾಚುಂಕ್ ಜಾಯೆ? ಲಿಗೋರಿ ಕೊಣ್ ಮ್ಹುಣುನ್ ವಿಚಾರಿನಾಕಾತ್..ಪೈಲೆಂ ಸಿಲಾಬಾ ಥೌನ್ ಶುರು ಕರಿಜೆ ಪಡ್ತಾ ..    Baab sangte aylo, sankho bandije..punn ami itliem vorsa saaibachem namv legun vichaarunk nam! ಹೆಂ ಬೊರೆಂ ಆಸಾ as Francis Cascia s chorbello mataro would say...:D

Looking forward to those days when a dakkan flew me from Mumbai to Bajpe for Rs 1,500. But a little more safely!

Majority among my Venezuealan friends/aquaintances will not like me expressing condolences on the untimely death of one of the most maverick leaders of Latin America. His ouster from power has been plotted by right wing forces for over a decade, but the supremo outwitted them.
Alas, cancer got you, finally! RIP, Chavez..

Thank you Fr. Denis for your great article on "Kolva Saib" and the beautiful pics. Childhood memories are very precious. Praying for your good health. Wishing you all the very best.

Dear Fr. Denis,

Thank you very much for this excellent article on belle. I too remember when I went from Pangla to Bollea Vodlem Fest I had to cross the river offcourse with the help of my uncle somewhere in 1965. I admire the vast memory you hold in your mind even at this age. Great article and good pics by dr. Eugine. Memories down the lane..... please share more with us.

A very beautiful and nostalgic article by Fr.Denis Castelino. When reading through this article one understands how difficult life was about 40 - 50 years back. How lucky we are today as we cross the same river in few seconds. Thanks Fr.Denis and we wish to read more such writings from you as your style of expressing the details is amazing.

I relived the excitement of boarding the boat of Kolva Saib and moving across the river as i went to the ferry crossing (kolov) to take few pictures to support the nostalgic write up of Fr. Denis about the person whom Victor Castelino rightly calls St. Christopher of Belle . The cool river breeze, the excitement of dipping the hand by the side of the boat in the water, the way the saib used to hold the boat from tilting either side as people boarded and alighted the boat, the huge pipal tree on the Moodubelle side and the sound it s leaves made in light breeze especially in the afternoons came back as memories of my childhood. Fr. Denis has a rare gift of remembering the past events and writing them down in the precise manner as they had happened.

A befitting tribute to a long forgotten "St Christopher" of Bolle. Whenever "Saib" (Saheb) came to collect his paddy he used to say something like "Ali pujak ailo" and used to tease the children saying "sogllo ghadai, ordo ghadai". May be his name was Ali. This boatman was so professional that he could even close his eyes and rove the boat amid rice fields during surging floods! Amazing! If I am not mistaken, the bridge over Udyavara river was built and inaugurated in 1957 or 1958 because, in 1959 March when I appeared for my ESLC (8th standard) public examimination held at SVS High School Katapady, I stayed at Pithrodi (Udyavara) and walked in the morning to the examination centre using this bridge.

Thank you Fr. Denis for refreshing our good old, childhood days memory.Nostalgic!!! Really used to enjoy the river cross crossing during rainy and winter season.

This is a novel venture of Mr Hegde. One has to experience the taste of the food so cooked. Belle vision has done well togive the knw how of the unsful cooking solar oven, but failed to give the contact Number, which is now a days very necessary, so that interested persons can contact Mr Hegde. May I request vision to give such particulars in these columns.?

All the best Jaison and wishing all the success in your new venture...

This was an even more comprehensive victory than the first test. A great batting partnership ably backed up by some very good bowling for the conditions. Australia becomes the first team to lose by an innings after declaring their first innings closed. They have failed to put together as many runs as Pujara and Vijay did. This is as comprehensive as they come. Congratulations to Team India and of course to MS Dhoni as well for being the most successful captain of Team India. Good luck for the rest of series!

Congrats.. HM. God bless you.. May GOD fulfill all your dreams and help you to take Konkani to new highs. You know in and out of Konkani and its roots and future also. Keep up the good work.. Best wishes from all....

Dear Bavoji, Wonderful travelogue with beautiful pics that covers complete China culture/lifestyle. Keep Writing...

good article with good photos..keep writing Mr.Anil...

With a spouse from the media, Jason has the support he most needs. Other than that, in the internet era, competition is tough for print weeklies. I wish this talented and gifted man well and hope his business model wins.