BrieFNcounters... ideas, inspiration, innovation from Goa

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,...

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 discus...

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...