What the heck does the Goa gazette contain?

Here is an official explanation:

About the Official Gazette:

The main activity of the Department is the printing and publication of the offical Gazette — the official organ of the Government — brought out weekly on every Thursday. wherein the Central an Local Acts enacted by the Parliament and the State Assembly from time to time are published, for general information and guidance of the public and for their enforcement by the Departments concerned.

The Official Gazette is published in there Series, namely Series I, Series II, Series III. In addition, Extraordinary and Supplementary Gazettes are brought out as and when requested for by the Department concerned depending upon the urgency and the public interest.
The contents of each of the Series are as given below:

a) Series I which is the principal part of the Gazette, being of Legislative nature, contains Stationary Acts and Rules, Regulations, Bye-Laws, Notifications and Orders issued in pursuance thereto. In addition, the recruitment rules which are framed under Article 309 of the Constitution of India to determine the mode of recruitment to posts in Group ‘A’. ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ categories in various Departments of the Government from time to time, are also notified.

Online list of bookshops in Goa

Check this online list of bookshops in Goa: http://goanairport.com/php/showContent.php?linkid=848

Here’s the list, needs updating

• Wisdom Book House, 9 Rayu Chmbrs Heliodoro Salgado Rd Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2220788
• Triveni Collections/Manerkar Enterprises, Nr Secretariat Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2223617
• The Reading Habit, Ag 1 And 2 Pl B-3 B-4 New Horizons St Mary’s Coly D B Marg Panjim Miramar Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2436551
• The Pearl, Confidant House Cmpd Margao Goa-403601 Phone: 0832-2700358
• St.Paul Book Centre, Prema Bldg Fontainhas Rua De Ourem Near Foot Bridge Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2432608
• Sree Nagesh Book Agency, 7 Opp Saraswati Mandir Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2223517
• Singhbal Book Stall, Church Square Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2425747
• Sambari Stores, Railway Station Road Margao Goa-403601 Phone: 0832-2732685
• Samarth Agencies, Dada Vaidya Chowk Ponda Goa-403401 Phone: 0832-2312024
• Pinho and Son, C/O Velho And Filhos Dr Roque Dsouza Road Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2229602
• New Goa Book Shop, Hotel Fidalgo Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2226291
• National Book Depot, Mun Market Vasco Goa-403802 Phone: 0832-2512659
• Nalanda Book and Craft Combine, 2 Mahalaxmi Shopping Cmplx Ponda Goa-403401 Phone: 0832-2312443
• Nagesh Daivajna, Comba Behind Loyola High Sec School Margao, Goa-403601 Phone: 0832-2735537
• Mayur Printers, Kasi Building Opp Hotel Pearl Ponda Goa-403401 Phone: 0832-2312451
• Legacy, Milroc Heights Near Cidade De Goa Dona Paula Goa-403004 Phone: 0832-2226642
• Coutinho Walvurge, Trasanzor Aquem Margao Goa-403601 Phone: 0832-2732450
• Bookworld, 104 Kamat Chambers Menezes Braganza Rd Opp Hotel Neptune Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2421857
• Bookland, 6 Raghumedh Apts F L Gomes Rd Vasco Goa-403802 Phone: 0832-2512031
• Amrit Book Depot, Kadamba Bus Terminus Panjim Goa-403001 Phone: 0832-2223490
• Adarsh Vastu Bhandar, Chaudi Canacona Goa-403702 Phone: 0832-2643142

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Options … in magazines, journalism and books

In mid-July, one ran into Ingrid Valles Po of Parra. She’s part of one of the alumni networks (St Mary’s) at Mapusa. Currently, Ingrid is the Assignments Editor at Motivate Publishing in Dubai. Check it out via the web at http://www.motivatepublishing.com

Ingrid has an interesting story to narrate about her workplace. This firm, set up in the late 1970s, by a Brit in the Gulf, and has since grown into an ambitious venture employing 250+ persons.

She explained about the large number of magazines the firm brought out — with names like What’s On, Hello!, Gulf Business, Middle East MICE & Events, Society Dubai, Emirates Woman, Emibrates Bride, Open and a number of inflight mags for various airlines.

Not surprisingly, besides Mangaloreans and South Indians, there are quite a few Goans working in that publishing firm too. Obviously, this is a field where we, in this State, do have a lot of skills. This gives us an opportunity to enter the filed, and to consolidate our potential in it.

Book publishing is booming across India. Literacy is growing, so are markets, and English-language skills. But are we in Goa encouraging our youth to get access to the professions of writing, publishing and all the related fields? To be good writers, they need to be eager readers too. Else, as the saying goes, it’s just the case of garbage-in, garbage-out.

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Goa… on WorldEBookFair and Project Gutenberg

Lots of links to Goa in the WorldEBookFair. Check this loooooong URL.

Apparently, this site is offering “free access to the public from July 4th to August 4th (2006), in celebration of Project Gutenberg’s 25th Birthday”. And, we’re told that the World eBook Fair is pponsored by the World eBook Library Consortia and Project Gutenberg.

Even found an ebook in which one of my contributions appeared (and wasn’t aware of it). It’s called Silenced-v34.indd, and deals with censorship issues in cyberspace.

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