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The Excavation work started about 3 years back with
much fanfare in the
Fort Area of Barkur. The job taken up by the Indian
Archeological Department was going on from the last 3 years.
Fourth stage of the project, which was supposed to start in the
month of January, is now believed to be postponed due to the
negligence of Department, which failed to obtain the required
permission from the government.
M.H. Krishna Indology Institute of the Mythic Society
of Bangalore started the this mega task of Excavation which was
expected to throw light on the rich History of Barkur which was
believed to be the capital city of Tulunadu with the cooperation
from the Indian Archeological Department and the Govinda Pai
Research Center , Udupi. Though a lot of artifacts and other
things were excavated in the last 3 years, nothing seems to do any
good for the development of Barkur.
In the first stage they unearthed the proofs of the
King's Palace and in the second year they found the Horse stable.
In the third stage last year Kings Auditorium which was used for
dance presentations was unearthed.
The excavation was expected to proceed for another 2
stages and it was believed that the government was planning to
convert the place into beautiful tourist center if more evidence
was found in the last 2 stages. But this year excavation job is
not started yet due to some technical reasons. According to some
sources the department was busy with some seminar in the month of
January, failed to obtain the permission from the government. It
is expected to start the job once again in the month of November
once the monsoon season is over.
What is important at this stage is the out come of
these excavations. It will not do any good to Barkur if the
evidence and the artifacts, which were unearthed, are buried once
again in the records and archives of the department. The
Archeological Department should join hands with the Tourism
Department to develop the Fort and other historical places of
Barkur and make this place into a center of tourism. Then only
this mega task of excavation will be justified.
St.
Peter’s Association New Office Premises Inaugurated.
The new office premises of St Peter’s Association (Barkur),
Mumbai, was Inaugurated at the Hatheem Cottage building on
Sahar Road at Andheri (E) on
20th May 2006.
Fr Donath blessed the premises and celebrated the Eucharist, while
Fr Herald Pereira of Holy Family Church, Chakala, inaugurated the
new office.
Richard Carvalho, president of the association, presided over the
function. Marcel Dias, social worker, was the chief guest.
Federation of
Maharashtra’s
Canara Catholic Association advisor Harry Sequeira Ferar, was the
guest of honour. Other guests present were Sr Alice Serrao Alangar
(UFS), businessman Ben Louis and Augustine Almeida Bramhavar.
Gladys Sequeira, wife of the founder president and social worker
Marcel Dias, were felicitated by former president of the
association Felix Barnes and vice president S Peter Furtado,
respectively.
Henry Roche, immediate past president, welcomed the gathering.
Ivan Suvares compered the programme. Honorary chief secretary Ivan
Rebello rendered the welcome speech and spoke about the
association. Vice president Norman Menezes proposed the vote of
thanks.
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Parish Day Celebrated at Barkur
The Parish Day was celebrated at St. Peter's Church on Sunday, 14th
May. The guest of honor for the celebration, Rt. Rev. Dr.
Aloysius Paul D’Souza, Bishop of Mangalore was welcomed by Fr.
Fred Mascarenhas, Chief guest, Fr. Henry Cyprian D'Souza and
Parish Priest Fr.Remegius Aranha, along with parishioners at 3.30
pm.
The Bishop, Fr.Henry and Fr. Remigius concelebrated the High Mass.
Rt. Rev. Dr. Aloysius Paul D’Souza who celebrated 10th
Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination as the Bishop of Mangalore
on the following day on 15th May, was congratulated and
felicitated in advance by the Parish Council Vice President,
Luvads of each ward and the heads of different groups. A
Manpothr was read by Jerald Gonsalves ,Vice President. The Bishop
addressed the gathering and appreciated concept of the Parish day
celebrations and thanked all the people. Light refreshments
followed this function to all the parishioners.
The cultural programme started at 6 in the evening in which groups
from each wards of the parish presented their talents. There was
a small stage programme, which was presided over by Fr Fred
Mascarenhas, Principal of Milagers college, Kallianpur. Fr Henry
Cyprian and Fr Remegius and Mr.Herald D' Souza were on the stage.
Prizes were distributed by Fr Henry Cyprian to all the winners of
different age groups for the competitions held on the occasion of
parish Day.
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Gonsalves Pics: Stephen, Mayura, Saligrama
Foundation Stone laid for the Stone Temple at Kachhoor, Barkur
The Kachoor Maldi Devi and Bhagvan Babbu Swami Moolakshetra of
Barkur means a lot to the devotees, and over the last few years,
as their wishes came true is turned out to be a famous Karanika
Kshetra in the undivided Dakshina Kannada district. Bhagwaan
Babbuswami of Barkur , Kachoor, is also known as the Daivaraja
is the Aradya Daiva of the Tulunadu. It is believed that he was
conceived in the womb of Kachoor Maldi Devi, wife of Kadoor Bomma
, as the Holy Rays from Lord Shiva and Parvathi entered her womb,
when she was bathing in the Baila Kere .
She was subjected to the trial by fire to prove her innocence. In
remembrance of this, every year devotees offer Genda Seve. Every
year over 50000 devotees from all over Dakshina Kannada and Udupi
districts belonging to Uppara, Aadi Dravida and the Mundala
community, gather to celebrate this event.
As this place is the Moola kshetra for over 1000 Babbusawmi
temples in various districts, devotees from both these districts
got together in the leadership of J.Eeshwara Babu and formed the
Administration Committee for the development of the place.
The original small temple was built in a 5-cent land and later 2
acres of land was purchased by the committee. Smt. Buddu Poojarthi
and children have donated additional 15-cent of land. It has been
decided to develop the place into a Social , Cultural and
Educational
Center and a Renovation Committee was formed in the leadership of
Thallur Rama at the helm as its president.
The renovation work is supported by the devotees of both the
districts, mainly by the government employees , and the committee
is expecting to complete the job by next 8 months at a cost
whopping 2 crore rupees.
The foundation for the project was laid in the presence of Shri
Siddhalinga Swami of Koodli Mutth in Hosanagar, on April 30th
at
10 a.m . Udupi MLA Shri Raghupathi Bhat inaugurated the Renovation
jobs, and the stage programme was inaugurated by Jayaprakash Hegde.
MLA. Minister Dr.V.S. Acharya presided over the function.
Nagaraj Shetty, MLA, Manorama Madhwaraj, MP, B.N. Shankar Poojari,
President, Jilla Panchayath, MLAs Haladi Shrinivasa Shetty, Lalaji
Mendon, Krishna Palemar, Abhayachandra Jain, Ex-MP Vinaya Kumara
Sorake, Ex-MLA Amaranath Shetty, Shymala Sudhakar, President,
Taluk Panchayat, B.Shantharam Shetty, President, Grama Panchayath,
Shrinivasa Poojari, Bhujanga Shetty, B.K. Hegde, Members, Jilla
Panchayath, Sathish Poojari, Annaya Sherigar, Shekhar Shetty,
Raghava Shetty, Sundar, Members, Taluk Panchayath were present as
the chief guests.
On April 29th, Darshana Seve was offered in the presence of the
Gurikaars of all the Babbuswami temples and thousands of devotees
gathered for both the functions.
New
Office Bearers of SPA, Mumbai.
 
Richard Carvalho
Ivan Rebello
The St Peter’s Association (Barkur) Mumbai known for its social
work, recently elected its new office bearers. Richard Carvalho,
owner of the famous Richard Garage, has been elected as the
president and Ivan Rebello as the honorary chief secretary.
Other office bearers are Peter Furtado and Norbert Menezes (vice
president), Antony Dais (treasurer), Ivan Suares (joint
secretary).
Executive Committee members are Felix Barns, Henry Roch, Eric
Carvalho, Boniface Sequeira, Arthur Furtado, Antony Gonsalves,
Arthur Mendonca, John Gonsalves, Richard Martis, Ralph Monteiro,
Vincent Fernandes, Norman D’Souza, Wilfred Sequeira, Reginald
Crasto, Frederick Monteiro, Joylan Fernandes, Jolvin Furtado and
Peter Mendonca.
News Courtesy
:Daijiworld.com
Bus transport between Barkur and Brahmavar
There is a sigh of relief for the daily commuters from Barkur to
Brahmavar and further as the Passenger Busses have started plying
between Barkur and Brahmavar from April 24th, on the
alternate mud road built across the river at the bridge
construction site.
From a long time daily commuters from Barkur , Mandarthi,
Saibarakatte were fed up with extra 20 k.m. daily travel in a
round trip to Brahmavar are now happy with this temporary
arrangements.
Bus drivers are asked to drive cautiously and heavy vehicles will
not be allowed to travel along the temporary road, said the PWD
Engineer who is in charge of the bridge reconstruction project.
"Utsav" At Dubai by Kemmannu Flowers.
A gala Anniversary Programme "Kemmann Utsav" has been organized by
Kemmannu Flowers an association of the parishioners of Kemmannu
St. Theresa's Church residing in the UAE on
Friday 28th April 2006
at Ratsky Club in Karama Hotel Dubai.
Utsav celebration will start at
10:30 am
and will continue till
5 pm.
The event will include cultural, musical, live band and great
stage shows along with grand buffet lunch further details could be
availed from: www.kemmannu.com
-News published
by request.
Brahmavar, Vittal, Ullal, Moodbidri Assembly Constituencies Likely
to Vanish
The draft prepared by Justice Kuldeep Singh-led commission for
delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies is ready
waiting for the final approval.
Informed sources here said that the final touches to the draft
will be given on a meeting to be held on May 11. The draft has
been prepared on the basis of the census of 2001.
As per the draft a total of 4 assembly constituencies will
disappear from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district. But two more
new constituencies will be carved out. Accordingly, the undivided
district of Dakshina Kannada will have a total of 13 MLAs instead
of the existing number of 15.
At present there are 6 assembly constituencies in Udupi district.
But as per the delimitation draft, one assembly constituency, that
is, Brahmavar constituency will disappear and only five
constituencies, that is, Udupi, Karkala, Kaup, Kundapur and
Byndoor will remain. Segments of Brahmavar constituency will
merge with Udupi, Karkala and Kundapur constituencies.
All these steps have been taken to limit the constituencies with
minimum population of 2.25 lac to maximum of 2.70 lac.
In the same manner in the district of Dakshina Kannada Ullal,
Mulki-Moodbidri and Vittal constituencies will disappear. While
Ullal will merged the existing Mangalore town constituency,
Mulki-Moodbidri will become part of new Mangalore North
constituency. Parts of Vittal constituency will merge with Puttur,
Bantwal and Mangalore South constituencies.
If the draft is accepted as it is, then present Vittal MLA
Padmanabh Kottari, Ullal MLA U T Fareed, Mulki-Moodbidri MLA
Abhaychandra Jain and Brahmavar MLA K Jayaprakash Hegde will have
for new territories.
However, the draft is yet to be given final touch. Having known
the politicians well one should not be surprised if the draft will
once again be changed, said sources.
News
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ALLINA RELIGIOUS
GIFT CENTER IN SASTAN
A
few years ago to meet the needs of the local community in Sastan,
the decision was made to open a religious gift shop. It is
called the “Allina Gift Center,” because it is located in the
same building complex as the Allina Lab.
The purpose in establishing this center was to provide gift items
for people of all religious faiths. They sell a variety of gift
items at very reasonable prices. The main inventory consists of
religious gift items such as: statues, holy pictures and
portraits, rosaries, and greeting cards for all occasions.
Many customers come to the shop on special feasts such as:
Deepawali, Ganesh Chathurthi, Ramadaan, Christmas, Easter etc to
purchase gifts or greeting cards to send to their loved ones.
Laila D’Almieda is employed in the
Allina Gift Center
and she provides wonderful customer service to all. Laila is from
Petri and is willing to come to Sastan 6 days a week to attend to
the customers who come to the shop. She and her family belong to
St. Peter the Apostle Church in Petri. Laila is very active in the
parish choir and also in the youth group. When Laila is off on
Sunday or any other day, Ronald Andrade or Pushpa Latha, who are
in the Allina Lab., take care of the customers.
In the picture above you see Laila with her family who visited the
Allina Gift
Center to do some shopping on the occasion of their son’s upcoming
birthday celebration.
I hope this information about the
Allina Gift Center
will be helpful to the people of Barkur and Sastan, whether you
are overseas or elsewhere. When you return home and are planning a
celebration for your family or friends think of visiting the
Allina Gift Center. You may find just the perfect gift or greeting
card that will help make it a very special and memorable event.
Fr. Tony Andrade.
Distribution
of Village to College Scholarships
The distribution of the Scholarships to the
needy students from the Village to College Scholarship Program was
held recently in the “Dr. Gabriel Fernandes Auditorium” at Smt.
Rukmini Shedthi Memorial College, Barkur. As pointed out by
Principal Rajshekhar Hebbar, Rs. 64,000/- were distributed this
year, the money well spent indeed.
In recognizing the impact of the program, it was
through Hebbar, Fr. Remegius Aranha, the Parish Priest of Barkur
Parish, made himself available to handover the checks to the
students, in Dr. Gabriel’s absence. Principal Hebbar and Retired
Principal Seetharam Shetty coordinated the program, by spending
plenty of their personal time.
The Village to College Foundation is a dream
project of Dr. Gabriel Fernandes hailing from Moodahadu Village
Barkur, now a prominent scientist at USA. Every year deserving
students are screened and provided financial support to complete
the college education.
We request our visitors to feel free to spread the word, and to
recommend any deserving student, who is deprived of college
education for lack of financial support.
Know more about Village to College
Foundation Click Here
Barkur Rathothsava
The annual Grand Rathothsava of the Shri Panchalingeshwara Temple
was celebrated here today.(05/04/2006). Beautifully and
traditionally decorated Ratha painstakingly prepared from the last
seven days was brought to the Chanda’s shop junction in the
morning. Devotees were visiting the location from the morning.
Evening thousands of people gathered from and around Barkur and
offered the traditional Hannu Kayi Seva and the Grand Chariot was
pulled by the devotees to the Kallu Chappara in the car street.
Pictures published here speak for themselves.
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News and Pictures : Alwyn Andrade, Mayura Digitals,
Brahmavar.
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