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WANTED: A fire station in Cuncolim CUNCOLIM:  For the past several years, Cuncolkars have been demanding a Fire Station in Cuncolim Municipal area, but the government has yet to show any positive response to their long-pending demands.  Locals, industrialist, politicians and even Cuncolim Municipal Council had put forth a strong recommendation before the government in this regard, but there are no visible results so far. It appears as if the government is in no hurry nor is keen to give any assurances to Cuncolkars on their demand for a fire station. Ten years ago, the then MLA Joaquim Alemao had initiated the primary works to set up fire brigade and emergency centre at Cuncolim.  Even the land was suggested at Cuncolim Industrial Estate for the proposed fire Station. Alemao had even drafted the proposal, but subsequently it remained entwined in red tape.  After Alemao, former BJP MLA Rajan Naik also followed up this proposal and made a dem...

Not so long ago Cuncolim and surrounding villages like Assolna, Velim, Sarzora and Chinchinim were well known for agricultural activities.However, strange as it may sound, but the truth is that this erstwhile fertile region of Cuncolim is slowly turning barren. Cuncolim and surrounding villages were known for farming and paddy cultivation. And beside extensive paddy cultivation, farmers also grew chilly and other seasonal vegetables. In fact, the red leafy vegetable and red chilly of Cuncolim had a great demand in the yester years. However, today all this may seem history. And surprisingly, not even the ten per cent of land is used for agricultural purpose as most farmers have left farming to take up other profitable and less cumbersome jobs. With about ninety per cent of farmers quitting the ancestral profession, only a handful of about ten per cent or even less are ensuring that their land is being regularly cultivated.It is difficult to imagine that not so long ago, farmers would ac...

WHY CUNCOLIM MARTYRS? An historical re-assessment By: Teotónio R. de Souza Painting in the Church of Colva. One of the Jesuits killed was parish priest of Colva. Courtesy:Teotónio R. de Souza There is much being said and written nowadays and efforts are underway for re-writing the history of the Church from the perspective of the Third World. It is argued that much that we have by way of Church history is written by the missionaries and from the missionary perspective. Such a perspective was never fully delinked from the colonial perspec­tive, and western cultural superiority remains an essential ingredient of it. (1)  Their background and implied cultural-political values from the West determined what was good for a "good Christian" in the colonized regions where they came to work. Their accounts reflect their values. Cultural conflicts that the native society had to experience as a result of the political-religious combination of the colonial times did...