Miguel Braganza (then Michael) was one of the batch of prominent youngster in the Scouting movement in the 1970s. In this, he talks about movement he knew, camps in Saligao, and more... December 2020.

An encounter with Chico, his walk down musical lane, and the influences (and experences) that shaped his music. A long, freewheeling exchange... with colourful music notes in between. As only Chico can do it. Recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN).

A chat with John Nazareth, who traces his roots to Moira, Uganda, Malaya and is now based in Canada (Mississauga). We talk about the clan-system in Goa (vangods) and also estimating the number of Goans scattered across the globe. John is a statistician by training. He work on quality assurance for Bombardier, the Canadian plane company. He has been keenly involved with Goan life for many decades, and in an accelerated way after the mid 1990s, when the Net connected Goa with its Daizpora. Read John Nazareth's paper on the Goan clans here: https://archive.org/details/clan-system-in-the-goan-village-20220502-rev-1Recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN).

This is an Open Source app for facilitating rainwater harvesting. The app is now available on Apple's App Store, and the source code is available on GitHub. Currently, SimTanka is available only for iOS, but Vikram Vyas will be working on porting it to Android very soon. A live interview. Recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN).

Publishers from the small State of Goa talk about issues facing them. These range from the challenges of a "small market" (not everyone agrees), to distribution and circulation issues, the lack of channels to market their books, the broken nature of Goa's library network, the need to push up quality-knowledge production and produce the kind of books that everyone wants. Participants in this discussion are Aditya Bhide or the prominent brand Rajhauns | Leonard Fernandes who runs the DogEarsBookshop and the Cinnamon Teal Publishing | Pantaleão Fernandes who writes and self-publishes his books on Goa and its history and heritage | science writer Rajashree Bandodkar Karapurkar | engineer-author José Lourenço who has created some fascinating publications | Konkani publisher Dinesh Manerkar | Moderator: FN. Recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN).

His career as a journalist started in 1972 as an editorial apprentice in Deccan Herald in Bangalore. He moved to Indian Express in Cochin the following year when the edition for Kerala was started there. John Thomas moved to Singapore via Hong Kong in 1980 and worked that decade between Reuters and Agence France-Presse and a year in Business Times in Singapore to re-convert to print and return to India. He then rejoined the Deccan Herald in Bangalore in 1990. From there, I went to Calcutta in 1998 with a job in The Statesman and returned to Bangalore in 2002 and became part of the founding team of Vijay Times. Superannuated in 2006 and took to journalism teaching. His teaching career began with my involvement in the founding of the Asian College of Journalism [ACJ] in Bangalore in 1994 under the patronage of the Indian Express. Since then, he taught at three more such specialised institutions -- Manorama School of Communication (Mascom) in Kottayam, Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media (IIJNM) in Bangalore and ISB&M School of Communication in Pune. John Thomas served on the board of studies of Christ College, St Joseph's College and Sikkim-Manipal University. And apart from media students of those establishments, he also counts "in my flock", those of Kristu Jayanti College, Garden City College, and St Aloysius College (Mangalore). Says John: "I've tried to be in real retirement, watching the progress of old students and trainees of my working years and post some things for them to read on https://www.facebook.com/Journucopia and https://twitter.com/JTbangalore I was persuaded to return to lead the India operations of International Business Times in Bangalore as Consulting Editor in August 2015. Did what I could in six months and am back to being a media watcher." Recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN).