New Feature: *anOTHERviewpoint*

One of the regular features at anOTHERgoa will be *anOTHERviewpoint*.

This time we carry an interestingly new political analysis of the latest 'tamasha' in Goa.

It is titled: Tyranny Of the Representatives.

"In Goa, the political economy of land is distorting the institutions and practices of democracy..." says the author, Delhi based Prof. Peter Ronald deSouza.

While in Goa, many knew him simply as Peter Ronnie when he taught at Goa University till a few years ago. He always was a good political analyst, in touch with grassroots democracy in Goa.

Check out his viewpoint: click on the link anOTHERviewpoint in the list on your right.

But before that, read a little more about this gentle Goan who has made a name for himself in political academia:

Peter Ronald deSouza is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is Co-director of the Lokniti programme and is currently coordinating the State of Democracy in South Asia (SDSA) project. He is working on two components of the SDSA project: the Case studies and the Dialogues.

Professor deSouza taught in the Political Science Department at Goa University for 16 years. He was head of the Department from 1996 to 2002.

He was a member of the International Political Science Association's Research Committees on Political Philosophy and Political Sociology and was a member to the University Grants Commission's expert panel in political science from 1997 to 2000.

Professor deSouza was awarded the British Council Visitorship to the U.K. where he made presentations at LSE, SOAS, Warwick and Sussex University in 1992. In March 2000 he was a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, London University, and in May 2001 he was a Visiting scholar at the Taubman Centre, KennedyProfessor Peter Ronald deSouza is a Senior Fellow the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi School of Government, Harvard University.

He is a member of the Editorial Committee for Indian Council for Social Science Research Survey on trends in Political Science and on the of Indian Journal of Social Science Review. He was part of the team that did a review of Social Science Research Capacity in South Asia for the Social Science Research Council, New York.

Professor deSouza has worked as a consultant to the World Bank on Rural Decentralisation, to the Ford Foundation on Local government in India, and to the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International-IDEA) in preparing their handbook on Democracy Assessment.

Impressed?

Now read him @ anOTHERviewpoint, near the top of the list of links on your right...

anOTHERchuckle With Alexyz

After over 10 years of www activity in Goa, someone at last realised that Alexyz needed to make the scene in cyberspace. It took Goa Sudharop - Goa's out-of-town, expat NGO - with one lone representative in the state, to recognise that Alexyz should have a website to showcase his work on the global stage.

Goa Sudharop, thanks for your sensitivity to the communication needs of those of us who are not yet IT savvy.

Alexyz is Goa's cartoonist. He really is anOTHERcartoonist in Goa. No glitz, glamour or slick high brow humour for him.

Alexyz is an earthy cartoonist. His humour is down-to-the-red-earth of Goa. It is straight out of the village and its vaddos. No subtlety. No truth hiding around the corner waiting to suddenly spring on you. No mental strain to read between the lines.

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Alexyz pokes fun up front. His message hits you between the eyes. He makes his point strongly and leaves nothing to the immagination. That is why the common person in the vaddo can identify with his creations.

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From today we carry Alexyz's "Cartoon Of The Day" as a separate link to his well designed site. 6 days a week, Monday through Saturday, you can get anOTHERchuckle for today...and much more.

Get it NOW...click on the first link right on top of the list to your right.