FOLLOWING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED PG 12 THETHE NEUTRALNEUTRAL VIVIStraightEE fromWW heart FORTNIGHTLY Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | Vol. No. 1 | Issue 1 | Price Rs. 10 | RNI: GOAENG00427 »3 Zeebop By The Sea »10 Instant artist in the Internet era »13 Kaalo: When ritual blends with art… A NEW LIBERATION l COVER STORY- PG 6-7 AWAITS »15 Cover Photo & Photo Cover Choking in style With Best Wishes 2 THE NEUTRAL VIEW Wednesday, December 14, 2016 facebook BaMo If I contest this election, it will be only from Panjim. DaNa likes this VaNa: I challenge MaPa to contest from Panjim against me. MaPa: Hati chalein apni Chaal, Kutte Bhonke hajar. SiKu likes this SiKu: @MaPa Bhai. Is my candidature from Panjim confirm? MaPa: I have to ensure victory of BaMo at any cost. Don’t you know that? BaMo and ViSa likes this SiKu: MaPa: Don’t worry. You will contest from St. Andre constituency this time. METHI BUNS SiKu: PaMa: And me from Cumbharjua constituency on BJP ticket right? SiKu and MaPa like this. SiNa: We will not support PaMa in Cumbarjua. SiKu: Bhai, who will contest from Panaji then? YOGINI ACHARYA MaPa: If SiNa doesn’t want to work in INGREDIENTS (For two servings) Cumbarjua, let him contest from Panaji. • One cup finely chopped Methi leaves. • 1 teaspoon Cumin (Jeera) powder PaMa likes this • 1 teaspoon Coriander seeds powder • 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder (haldi) SiNa: • 1 teaspoon chilli powder • 3 tablespoons of curd • 1/2 teaspoon of Sesame (til) • Wheat flour. • 2 tablespoons of oil. • Salt to taste METHOD: • Add turmeric, Chilli powder, Cumin powder, Coriander seeds powder, Sesame and salt. Mix all ingredients well. After 10 minutes add wheat flour and mix well. Add the curd and mix well to prepare the dough. Add water as required. The dough should be soft like chapati dough. • Make small puris and deep fry. The methi buns are Risksays ready. Can be served with pudina chutney. 3 THE NEUTRAL VIEW Wednesday, December 14, 2016 food ZEEBOP BY THE SEA PRASAD RAICAR uring my college days at PCCE in Verna, Utorda was (and still is) a sleepy little hamlet on the sea, a place unheard of by most Goans. DTucked between some better know cousins along the Salcete coastline, we used to walk down the road behind the college to the beach for a day long picnic once a year, which of course, would be possible after bunking classes for the day. A village lost in time, a beach with nary a footprint. That was some 15 years back, and time SERVES: Seafood, Goan has now made its ubiquitous changes; and and North Indian were not disappointed. Squids cooked in for some private parties, but the remaining these changes have been, thankfully, good recheado masala were quite chewy, but that part is quite big for others to revel in. The ones. Utorda is now a much used name HOW TO GET THERE: is the way I like it. For the main course, the approach road is very narrow and rugged, on the tourist food circuit, and this has Follow the road from prawns’ fried rice was just right and the crab and driving at night can be an issue. happened mostly because of one restaurant Kenilworth Resort xec-xec perfectly paired with it. The food, This is as Goan as it can get for a beach – ZEEBOP BY THE SEA. The beach is as it towards Utorda beach. overall, was wholesome and the fish was as side outlet. The Zeebop team has carved a Turn right on a mud was, serene and beautiful, but now we all name for them, and is doing a pretty good road just before the fresh as you can expect. The outlet has its have another reason to visit it, so much so, beach, and then own bar, and one can spend hours sipping job of maintaining what they have achieved. that Zeebop and the village have become immediate left. Using their drinks while reading, gossiping or just Santana, whose album this restaurant has synonymous with each other. Google Maps is the staring out at the sea. The wine selection is been named after, can surely look forward Zeebop is situated right on the beach, best thing to do. pretty large and so is the cocktails menu. to ‘Zeebop By The Sea’ as a legacy as well separated from the main sandy stretch The one thing you need to be careful of is as a tribute from a very satisfied Goan by some stagnant riverine pools which CONTACT: 9822154541, the strong gusty winds toppling your drinks owner!!! must have been parts of a proper lagoon 0832-2755333 glasses into the sands below. sometime in the past. The placing of the The service is prompt and they know +91 98458 88995 The writer is a traveller, foodie who is now resting restaurant is pretty good, with the sea TIMINGS: 12 Noon to what they are talking about. A section of in Goa after spending 15 years in IT Wilderness breeze blowing directly onto your face and 3:30 PM, 6:30 PM to the restaurant may usually be cordoned off soft cushiony sand to rest your feet on. One 10:30 PM, Daily can enter inside either from the open car parking (which is ample) or directly from PRICES: 1000 rupees the beach after crossing a small rickety for two, without bridge. The open air shack like feel surely drinks, approx provides a very romantic candlelight setting in the evenings, with just the sounds of the PARKING: Ample sea to accompany you, provided music is parking beside the not put on. So, on the ambience front, the restaurant, and also place scores very high. some more near the Food defines a restaurant more than beach. anything, and Zeebop justifies its tag as a Goan seafood specialist. There is the token PEOPLE INVOLVED: Manchurian and paneer stuff, but they The owner, Sergio should not be a reason to visit. There is Dias, has been plenty to choose from, and deciding from winning accolades the menu could take some time. We had and awards for years now for running this lobster in lemon garlic, squid beer batter restaurant. fry and mussels crumb fry, and we surely 4 THE NEUTRAL VIEW Wednesday, November 23, 2016 edit ttER THOSE WHO MA Lets walk hand in hand hank you everyone for the overwhelming wishes showered on us after the first issue of The Neutral View was published on 23rd November 2016. We received several responses, suggestions, additions and TH NAIK Tsubtractions from all walks of life. As promised, we will continue to be your GORAKNA voice and hence we have immediately started working on the suggestions you gave, which reflect in the present issue. We believe we have already begun a fruitful association with you, dear readers. People are the strength of any good nation but the reality today is that they are often unheard. The strong and powerful decide the fate of the majority owing to which generations are often wiped out unnoticed. A similar fate awaited the Vanarmare tribal community based in the Nirankal area of Ponda, who have been residing in the state of Goa for the past 40 years or more. Their houses were razed down by a few miscreants who had their own motives. But even before the authorities did anything, the people of Goa rose to their support. What followed was an example of collective responsibility and leadership that our state has not seen for a long time. TNV dug further into the entire episode, the responses that followed, the government authorities’ action and inaction and very importantly the human sides of the tribal community that was hidden behind several myths aking up at 3.45 am in the morning is routine for this and apprehensions. gentleman, unlike many others who are still in deep sleep Help poured from all over Goa for the tribals but every time they were Wduring those hours. Goraknath Naik has been doing this asked what else they needed, they said ‘Nothing’. All that they wanted to do for the last 50 years so that people in Mhapusa rise to fresh news was return to normalcy and get back to work. They wanted to earn a decent every day. and respectful livelihood. They wanted their children to get educated and He ventured into the business of newspaper distribution 50 secure a good future. They wanted to be treated as normal human beings. years back. Ask him if he is happy and the prompt reply is a big yes. That’s all! These certainly are minimum demands of any person. And as we He alone looks after the business and like many others has a single celebrate 55 years of Goa’s liberation, the time has come to liberate ourselves complaint “We do not have holidays”. Yet, he is a satisfied person. from the several misconceptions that we have about the downtrodden and He is today a regular face for all those who buy newspapers less privileged communities around us. We all have a right to live freely and and magazines from him. “I have lost count of the people who with dignity. But this cannot happen in isolation. This can only happen when come to my stall”. But certainly people have never lost their way we walk hand in hand to create a more humanitarian society. Let us begin! to Goraknath Vishnu Naik & Brothers stall in Mhapusa and will continue to go to him for a long time to come. RAMESH GHADI On 8th August 2005 my sister called me up at around 6pm and told me dad was henever I feel low, I just go for 1956..