Hi guys, we went flying Sunday morning on Divar island and had a blast.. There were four of us (although its a small number its still probably about 50% of Goa's flying population so the turnout was massive!  ) and there were 3 planes and 1 heli.. The planes were the Multiplex Easyglider, a depron twin-boom pusher and my Glidiator.. The heli was a Align TRex..

I put in 3 flights on my Glidiator and finally learned how to land it properly.. Mr. John (jonboy20) also did 1 flight on the Glidiator using the buddy box.. After 7 years of lying in the cupboard my buddy cable was put to good use Its a really nice way to learn to fly without putting the plane in danger..

We also maidened the twin-boom pusher and it flew nicely.. But on its second flight it had a crash due to reversed aileron channel (settings had been changed for use in buddy box mode).. 

The Easyglider is simply awesome.. It glides beautifully and just floats around in the air.. With the motor switched off it takes ages to glide down to the ground.. With the motor switched off on the Glidiator I could do only one circle of the ground before I had to give it power and bring it back up but this thing just kept circling.. So many times that I got bored of counting!

The TRex is so cool! This is the first time I've seen a proper heli in real life and I was thoroughly impressed.. Would love to own a heli someday..

Here are some pics of the day.. Clicked on my cellphone and resized for easy viewing.. Enjoy!

More pics..

In the first pic there are 2 batteries being charged, one from the car battery and the other from a sealed lead acid battery in the white plastic bag on the floor I know this is a stupid thing to get excited over but its my first time field charging

hey looks like a nice field keep going
regards
Rajaram
09845069090

Your field looks very "inviting"   Like the ones we see abroad !!!

Great................                                    

I am joining u guys in December.

Awesome !! Wish I knew of this when I visited Goa, would have loved to join you guys !! By the way I fly helis too, and will make sure when I visit next, I carry my Raptor & little electric 450 too !!

Amit

Hey guys, the RC scene in Goa was dead for the last few years.. Mainly because flyers were bored of flying alone.. But now were trying to revive it.. Hopefully we will have more flyers next time.. 

Anwar, RC akumar and anybody else are all welcome to fly with us anytime.. Just send me a PM before you come

dude!! nice man! your glidator looks good too..hey who is John ?
Is he the same person you spoke to me about from Curtorim??
I am all set to join you fellas in December, but will not be getting the CH 53 this time as I already have the predator and the Mustang and my baggage seems to be huge..I may also get a F-16 along..
How is Prateek and what about his build? have you guys finished working on it??
Maan!! gotta ask so many questions, I was so busy all these weeks..

  btw!! where are you in the pics??

Unfortunately i'm behind the camera in all the pics.. Mr. John is from Mumbai (straw hat).. The twin boom pusher is his.. Mr. Peter is the guy from Curtorim who I told you about (red cap) and the guy with the brown cap is Mr. Noel.. He's the one with the Easyglider and TRex..

Hey, just saw the pic of ur CH53.. Man it looks awesome! Wish u were bringing it here.. but then we have the Mustang and the Predator (and hopefully the F16) so its gonna be fun anyway

Awesome guys cant wait to meet you guys next time when i am in goa again

cheers
Happy flying

I should have been there
but father didn't allow as they went very early in the morning
but koi baat nahin 
 

Here is the Doctor who loves to fly.....and he sure is good at it.
Meet Doctor Aneesh Lawande and his wonderful trainer RC model "The Glidiator"
http://www.jadeelectronica.com/Work-Aside---My-Flying-Hobby.php

Hi John.. The page is not loading fully.. Is that your website? You should start repairing radios also..

Hi Doc here is the rest of the video unedited except clipped of blank sky ,hope it loads this time and can be watched....guess it may take some time buffering the video.
  Well Here is a little video to show what we 4 guys did on Sunday At Dewar Islands in Goa .
Doctor Aneesh with his wonderful Foam wing -Coroplast Fuse,His Glidiator.......Sorry ,this video did not show the aerobatics he did with his Glidiator------Ohhhh If I had the camcorder in my hand!!!
 Then Noel did a great superb Job hovering his chopper....Noel flew the Multiplex Easy star Glider,not in Video!!
And then my foam plane twin boom pusher......Will she fly....No spar in the wing!!! The wing could fold over under pressure in mid air....But any how the Pusher pushed itself in the sky above at Dewar Islands with Peter doing a nice job with the sticks and if I am not mistaken less than Half or half throttle.....
http://jadeelectronica.com/Work-Aside---My-Flying-Hobby.php
I would love to come and fly again at Dewar Islands in Goa!!!

Hey Great to see Peter back in action !!
Attaching some more pics of the Divar field - It is a great place to fly !

Hello sir, it's really nice to see those pics. I bet you all must have enjoyed tons. May i know little bit more about the glider there in last pic 0915 the one painted blue-red-yellow wing?

Don't know much about it except the wingspan is 2 m and belongs to Harry Pickles standin in the pic

Its the Ripmax Nebula (made in China) which isnt made anymore.  I have two of them, one in Goa and one in UK.  Its a really good thermaller in India.  If you see one anywhere advertised, even if it has a different name, then buy it and you wont be dissapointed.   Thats my ugly mug in the photo.....Cheers. Harry.

Just a bit more - A lad called Jan came to one flying session.  He lives on the island and has a really nice guest house ( with swimming pool and bar !!!!) in an idyllic location and expressed an interest in becoming a model flyer.   We had to go back to his place to explain what was involved of course and he was very free with his Kingfishers and snacks.  Must encourage this sort of person into the Hobby !!!

hi new to this site
but a rc nitro fan
i am from panjim just got a nitro tuggy
i want to meet up with people in goa who have nitro rc
will be in divar 18 or 25  march sunday
ernest dsouza
9822450154

A Good flying day on Sunday 11th March.  Light winds from 5pm and perfect conditions.   Ernest came to see us from Panjim and impressed us all with his big Nitro Buggy - expressed a great interest in aircraft and another convert is on the cards.     Sanjeev flew his EDF Sabre and had a slight contre-temps with the ground but it will live to fly another day, young Bushu flew his Piper Cub with great skill and aplomb - us oldies are really envious of this young lads skill on the sticks.    Noel and I flew our usual reliable models without any incident of note and bored everybody witless and Sheila managed to take a photo of all of us without chopping our heads off!
Around 5.45pm an enormous thermal developed over the roadway and my soarer got so high I could hardly see it - got to get some new specs.
Thats about all - Good Day, Good Company - what more do you need.
Fliers, visitors and even gongoozlers welcome each Sunday - aim to catch the 4.30pm ferry from Ribandar.

Wow Harry,
Sounds like a great day !
Even Sanjeev actually crossed the river to go flying .....
Nandan

Hello Goans,

It was nice to read & see pictures of aero / heli models flying in Goa..... we are few guys from pune who love traveling places & carry our models too along with us, do let us know a week in advance would surely like to meet you all & do some flying too... Cheers!!!

wow!
mckinley was there?
i'll try to come sometime after exams...

HI Nandan - When you next coming to Goa - everyone missing you..... Heres my latest creation back home in the UK.   Its Sal Taibi's Powerhouse from 1936 but with modern gear.  Design is six years older than myself.   It doesn't look so big until you pick it up.
Total flying weight of all this with ancient OS60 is only 3.5kgs - thats what good wood selection does for you.   The five inch inflatable wheels cost 30quid from the USA  (ouch) so that was the wife's beer money gone for a week.         Cheers.   H.

Harry
The Powerhouse looks lovely.
Also looks like an ideal candidate for electric conversion for nice clean no mess fun.
Planning a 2.5 day sail from Bombay to Goa on the 7th or 11th April , hope to catch up with you guys then, should be in Goa for a week.
Cheers
Nandan

Hi Guys,
I dd not know Harry was already a member.....I just sent an email to him informing about this forum...Sorry Harry.
Well guys did you know Harry has obtained a qualification of the National Institute of Linguists in GUJARATI... not only that, I understand he is fluent in Hindi and Konkan.....

SEE FOR YOURSELVES IN THIS ARTICLE;

Deepak

Hi b4ggu  -     Kem Cho etc..... thanks for all the publicity but its been 20 years since I retired and my Gujarati is very rusty now.  Where I live in the UK we only have a couple of Gujarati families and they speak English better than I do so I get no chance to practice my language skills - I really miss my job in the Police,   also my Hindi and Konkani is about the level of a four year old who knows all the vocabulary for ordering drinks !!!

I am building a Leprechaun Glider at the moment which is worth a Google - the fuselage is 7feet long and my workshop is only nine feet.

I once came to Leicester in connection with my work and it was like Little Gujarat - super days and happy memories.

Sorry to ramble on - keep in touch. AVJO.    H.

Thanks for the reply Harry, yes please do keep in touch.

Here in Leicester, I am a member at BURBAGE MODEL AIRCRAFT CLUB. We have been getting a lot of stick on "NOISE POLLUTION" so most club members including me are flying more and more ELECTRIC.

I built a few WOT4's many years ago but recently due to lack of time, I am mainly into RTF's.

A big fan of "ARC" Kits, learnt flying on a READY, owned 2 of them including a READY2 , moved to CAROSEL, hated it..got rid now my ever faithful JUPITER has been with me for the last 10 odd years. Thunder Tiger recently bought all the tooling of ARC kits hence the prices have come down to a sensible level.

If possible please do copy and paste your article that I scanned for all to see.... Take care and safe landings....
Deepak aka B4ggu
GUYS HARRY HAS THIS TO OFFER IN GOA......PLEASE LIASE WITH HIM;

Hi Deepak.    Nice to hear from you and thanks for the list of Goa Model Fliers. But where are they all???   Almost every Sunday from November to April the same three or four of us meet at Divar and we could do with some new fliers. At the moment I am back in the UK until around July when the only flying will be indoors.   I have a Plantraco  Micro Butterfly which is 63mm (yes - mm) wingspan which flies beautifully with full proportional control, plus this year I am bringing some indoor materials to build some EZBs and Hangar Rats which also go really well.   Sanjeev from Saligao tells me he has a good place for indoor flying so it will give me something else to do in the monsoon.


Back at my house in Goa, I have a spare set of 35mhz Futaba four channel if it is of use to anyone, the TX is the early  model without rates but the RX is new and unused and there is a slimline rechargeable battery pack.  Its OK for a glider but a bit old-tech for anything more sophisticated.   I had it serviced by Futaba last year in the UK, the TX was in good working order but I had to junk the receiver, hence the new one.   I am open to offers/swops for it.I have no objection to you putting it on the forum if you know what buttons to push - you are obviously better at this computer thingy than myself.   The radio stuff may help someone. There's also a couple of HiTec Servos to go with it and it may help someone along the way to being a radio flier at Divar.
Three boxes of Kingfisher would be a very acceptable swop but they will have to collect it from me at Assagao in July. 
Please keep in touch - best wishes. Harry.

Some more pics from this Sunday at Divar

WOW... Is that you Sanjeev in the dark shades or is it some goonda from a Hindi Movie !!!  Nice to see that you are all still flying and enjoying the sunshine at Divar before the onset of the Monsoon.
Over here we went to our daughters place in Scotland and there was snow on the hills - back home in England three days later its 26 degrees and  Barbie weather.    Will be back out in Goa in August so if someone can arrange a decent indoor venue and let me know how many people are interested I will bring all the bits for the requisite number of models and we will see how it goes.   In the meantime, I am getting along well with building the Leprechaun Glider from 1950 and even got a nice email from Richard Twomey the designer who must be even older that myself !!!  Have a look at my build thread at RCGroups.com.
Heres a pic of the basic fuselage minus the wing pylon - its around 7 feet long.   Photo taken in one of my more mellow moments.       

Hi Harry,
Yes !! We did drag Sanjeev across the river for flying. Sanjeev is cruising thru  his mid life crisis and arrived on a spanking new Bullet 500 (read 6 month old and ONLY 350 km on the ODO) suitably attired like an aging Mel Gibson .
Anyway we had some good flying - Actually we went flying twice in the 10 days that I was in Goa.
On a slightly different note Im planning a slope soaring trip  - I've invited Noel and Sanjeev to my place near Lonavala and Id like to extend the invitation to you as well.
There will be around 8 gliders on hand from 1.2m to 3.3m and from 100" flying wings to the standard stuff so you don't have to bring anything - Just fly!
About the conditions on the slope - Excellent lift all day , winds from 15 to 25 knots and the best part is that you fly at eye level or below you & its feels strange when you don't have to crane your neck .
Heres a link to some pics from the slope soaring site      https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.486987989293.269816.641654293
Nandan

Thanks for the invite Nandan - Yes - I would like to come, what date are you thinking of ?   Sanjeev doesn't look at bit like Mel Gibson however you look at him but he does have a really classic bike which puts his bullet in the shade.  He's got a BSA B31 in the back of his factory and its the same model and colour as one I owned in the early 60s.  Mine was a 1957 model and I ran it for four years and the only time it let me down was when I had a puncture.  Keep sending the photos - I know sometimes we quite often wander off this thread but at least its what the forum is for.   Nice weather here in UK for flying at the moment but this can change at any time - and it does !!
Got the barbie out today so its UK style Tandoori Moorgi tonight  - when we come in August we will do the famous 'Barbie on the Balcoa' in the rain in Goa  -  see you then.  Cheers. H.

Hi Folks - Sorry to see no one has contributed to the thread for some time so here's mine.
The Sal Taibi Powerhouse which I mentioned and downloaded the pics a few posts back has now had its maiden flight and I am trying to attach the videos.  If they don't download properly please accept my apologies.   Cheers. Harry.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwQ6VNFP4s&feature=youtu.be

Are you guys still active? I am rc flyer based in Panaji. Fly electric Yak-12 (EPO) 970mm wingspan.

Nice one Harry..... You have a superb patch too...
Deepak

 

Yes, Folks. Still flying at Divar Island most Sundays.   Take Ribandar Ferry about 4pm and go to football field.   This vid. taken 14th January.   I am now back in UK for a couple of weeks but Noel and Edward are regular fliers.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dBRU3mjfo4g

This video taken on 14th Jan.  Please keep intouch.   H.

Also this one taken the previous Sunday.... H.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KUxWB9Od3_w

..... and also this one - sorry about all the blank sky but my wife was filming and she is a non technical person - however I think you get the message.   I've got lots of photos where she has chopped my head off !!!     Hope we have got the thread here going again - please lets have some contributors as I am running out of things to say.  Cheers. H.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qD9ZN74r4TU

Goa model fliers at their pre-Christmas meeting in December 2012.   H.

Flying at Divar tomorrow, Sunday 10th March.   Ferry from Ribandar around 4.30pm.   All welcome.

Well....... To revive an old topic about the wonderful flying times at Diwar field in Goa !!!
 Way back in 2010 when Noel, Peter, Aneesh(Dr.Lawande/Medicineman) ....what a good flier and RC model builder.....Where is he these days??and myself flew at Diwar, Little did I know there was going to be a lot more flying in the subsequent years.
  I was in Goa these Diwali holidays and flew at a football ground in Marcel  the WLToys F939 polecat with the help of Vedant, his flying skills are excellent!!Prateek & Anikeet were busy with exams.
  It would be nice to meet Harry the next time I am in Goa for Holidays.

Hi Jonboy - Nice to hear from you.    I will be in Goa and available for flying from 20th November until Mid January or so.   After that I will again be in Goa from late March onwards.   I live in Assagao and my phone number is 9890501718 if you are down my way.
I came to Goa during the monsoon so there was no flying then !       Noel seems to have dropped off the scene owing to business pressures and Prateek is busy elsewhere.   That leaves me alone to fly - retirement is hell.     However, I am bringing  new model ( Staufenbiel e-soarer) and some new radio equipment form the UK so looking forwards to some flying in good weather - Its pretty grim here in UK - 4 degrees at the moment.
If you corrrespond with any other fliers in Goa please give them my details and we will see if we can re-start the whole scene.   Cheers. Harry.

Hi Jonboy - Forgot to mention.     If you have the technical knowledge of how to amend the title of this thread to read just   -  Flying in Goa  and leave off the Re: and the (14-11-10)  then it may be easier for other people to find.    Being a bit of a dinosaur and brought up in the days before all this computer stuff, it is beyond my comprehension of how to do it !!!!    H.

Hello Harry,
Good to hear from you, I will be in Goa again for Christmas Holidays from 22nd of December to 31st December, May be we could meet up and fly, then.
 Everybody has work pressure and some studying to do, the young college going fliers do fly quite well, like Prateek, Anikeet and Vedant but all busy with board exams at the moment
  I too was very enthusiastic about flying, But never really got down to serious flying due to work related matters...But who can give up Aeromodeling, once hooked to it???  Now am Back with a Bang!!
  for want of place I have become interested in small indoor flying models and envy the models Roman from Bandra builds and fly's, I too am interested in scratch build foam models and love to build more than I know to fly!!
   Don't worry Harry, This post has become alive and can be seen easily in view new posts, Maybe we can start a new post about flying in GOA
   I see you love gliders.....Let's meet up this December. Thank you, John.

Welcome all flyers of GOA.
I guess there are plenty of RC model fliers in Goa ,North and South.
So let's make it a point to meet in December and have a good flying session
Cheers!!!

Happy flying and safe landing guys...

Hello...i too am planning my vacation during the Christmas holidays..hopefully I too could join you guys..I got another pal of mine in the UK who too plans to come down during that time..he's mostly a surface guy..but has a quad..i have just ordered a  walkera  x350pro and would need some backup to fly..hopefully we shall meet..

Great!! We  should meet for sure this Christmas and have a happy,holly jolly flying Christmas in GOA

Too bad, my Christmas isn't going to be in Goa, as my exam dates are still not scheduled, but I will be there in Jan!!
hoping to see you then!!

Anyone available for flying tomorrow, 30th November 2014 at Divar?     Ferry from Ribandar at 4.30pm.  Please ring if attending. 9890501718.  Cheers. Harry.

You guys are seriously lucky, I wished I was there this month, anyways will be there in Jan.
Happy flying and click some pictures!

Hi Controlflyer.  Nice to read your post and welcome to see yourself and chum from UK over Christmas.   It was a super day at Divar yesterday with Zero wind and Sunny of course.   A large thermal centered itself over the football field and did not move for a long time so I had a flight of 50 minutes from a 20 second motor run which was OK.
Met Yorkshire Jan from the resort and he says we can call for snacksndrinks any time.
Keep in touch.  Cheers   H.

Divar is a pure bliss, especially the foggy Christmas nights!! I have many-a-pals and relatives residing there, Alemao Gonsalves is a chubby lil chap from there and works in the UK, there's a candid photographer+videographer named John Lino, who did my wedding photography..
AS for your 50 minute flight, I can imagine the thrill and excitement you must have experienced. Imagine a FPV gear on your plane, you'd probably be living in the skies then..I will try my best to make it there when I come down to Goa this season..tell Yorkshire Jan that we'd be needing a lot of fueling from him when the planes fly..hehe..

 WOW !! 50 minutes of flying without propeller power!! Real Exciting!!!  
Am just waiting for when I will be in Goa and at Diwar football grounds!!
Pictures if possible, Harry please.  Yes,I saw the video of you flying in strong winds back in UK moors, I am sure I will get a chance to see one of your gliders thermal in the goan skies soon!!
   Back here in Mumbai, my friend Merwhan Irani  used to be a real glider pilot with license  and now loves flying RC gliders, and thermals are his favorite, He soars the sky for God knows how long, frankly after 15 minutes or so I get a strain in my neck trying to track the model so high in the sky!!! It does not even look like a 78 inch wing span model then!!!
That's me with Merwhan Irani's glider. A tissue covered Carl Golberg Gentle Lady Glider with a Speed 550 up front as it's Power Plant. This is about 12 -13 years Back.

Nice to know you all had a good time Harry....  Safe landing!!

Hi Jonboy.     Goldberg Gentle Lady is still a very good model even today.  The motor is a bit antedeluvian but quite up to its job.  Gentle Lady is a PROPER model because you have to actually build and cover it.  My Compliments to your chum Mehwan.   A 400 size Brushless Inrunner would be perfect - a 600 size inrunner would be too powerful as you dont want the GL to go like a rocket.  He would also be able to put a whopping LiPo in the front to balance the CG but it would last all day !!! Have a look at www.Puffin Models.com.  Cheers. H.

ps.  wife pouring me a Whiskey and Soda as I type this  - Bless her !

One my friends (not RC freak) sent me a pic of his latest adventure in Goa. I was  shocked to see such a beautiful place. It appears to be one of the ideal locations for slope soaring. He doesn't remember exactly where it is located but said it fell somewhere in between Agonda and Cola. The road is not very kind and he took lot of pride in saying he wouldn't have attempted it if it was not for his jeep

Driving down to Goa this weekend (with family) and will try to locate this gem

Talking about Goa, here is something for all to enjoy...... (images have been lost, please send a personal message with email id if you want me to forward the full email.)............Deepak C

A correction pointed out by Sanjay Rai;

 "till today no Catholic Goan boy has passed the IIT entrance exam"

That is a fallacy. I am an IIT Bombay Graduate, and I had many, many co-students, many of them very brilliant, who were Catholics from Goa

SR

=======  The Goa Inquisition ========


Negationism, obfuscation and digression are tools in the hands of apologists for atrocities committed by their masters especially with regards to Goa Inquisition.

Earlier the subject was a video produced by Government in Goa about history of Goa. And it deals with the Goa inquisition. Yet the bigot with pseudonym sounding Hindu tries to divert our attention saying there was no partici-pation in liberation of Goa by Hindu nationalists or RSS, which of course is a lie. Jagganath Rao Joshi was life long RSS pracharak much like Narendra Modi. He was one of the leaders along with many others, that included patriotic Christians too who participated in struggle for liberation of Goa from Portugal.

Lest that part of history of India gets forgotten due to concerted efforts of suppressio veri, suggestio falsi (Suppre-ssion of the truth is [equivalent to] the suggestion of what is false). mainly by converted progeny who are more royal than the king, every person of India should be familiar with events of inquisition. Otherwise like many gullible innocent Hindus who flock to mausoleum of 'St' Xavier for healing, while he inaugurated most bloody inhuman campaign in Goa .

Pope John Paul apologized to Indians in South America for atrocities committed on them by likes of St Xavier. 
Current Pope Francis decreed in general against atrocities done in name of God but no apology in specific is rendered yet to Hindus of India for atrocities against them in Goa by his church.

Meanwhile friends, do study the enclosed, chronicled with some effort by Capt. Ajit Vadakayil.  Be familiar and make others familiar as well with that part of our history, so that it will never be repeated again. This is the least we can do compared to heroic resistance offered by Hindus of Goa during inquisition. You can see some of atrocities in the enclosed, yet Portuguese succeeded only in converting 30% of Hindus. So let us keep the flame of truth blazing in all its brightness because time is not too far when the light from it has to illuminate the whole world.

                                                                                                               G V Chelvapilla
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GOA INQUISITION.

PORTUGUESE INQUISITION IN GOA ORDERED BY FRANCIS XAVIER -- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL


A BRUTAL INQUISITION ORDERED BY ST FRANCIS XAVIER

In 1498 Vasco Da Gama landed up at a beautiful beach ( Kappad ) in my hometown Calicut.



He was actually lost on the east coast of Africa at Malindi—and was piloted across the Arabian sea by the Calicut king Zamorin’s deep sea pilot Ibn Aziz.


A small stone monument here , commemorated the historic landing.



Vasco Da Gama tried to impress the King of Calicut with glass beads , scarlet hoods and coral.

On his second voyage in 1502 Vasco Da Gama came with 25 ships , thousands of soldiers and large canons. Enroute to Calicut they caught a pilgrim ship on passage to Mecca and burnt all 700 including women and children alive. He pounded Calicut city with his long range guns. When a messenger was sent by the king, Vasco Da Gama cut off his lips , and ears-- stitched the ears of a dog in place and sent him back.
King Zamorin was wary of the Portugese and soon they shifted base to Cochin and then to Goa.

Portugese admiral Alfonso De Albuquerque was driven away by the Muslim ruler of Bijapur and Goa Yusuf Adil Shah.  However after 3 months he again re-attacked with a larger force,  with help from a local Hindu Chieftain Thimayya.


On 25th Nov 1510—he captured Goa .  Yusuf was dead and his son Ismail was still an infant.



On May 6th 1542, St Francis Xavier of the Jesuit order of Ignatius Loyola , at the young age of 36,  landed at Goa, after a 13 month ardous voyage round the Cape of Good Hope--


 under orders of King of Portugal Joao III.



As soon as Xavier landed at Goa he wrote to his king “ Whoever has seen Goa need not see Lisbon “—and he goes into great lengths to describe the architectural splendor ( Ottoman style ).

Pretty soon, he found out the hard way-- that the local Indians are NOT east to convert from Hinduism to Christianity. He started by ordering the temples to be demolished. But then people had idols in their houses.

Hinduism was deeprooted.  The vedic Indian civilisation flourished on the banks of river Saraswati from 9000 BC to 4000 BC. When the river Saraswati dried up in 4000 BC , the people had migrated to the Zuari.



In 1545 Francis Xavier, frustrated -- wrote to Rome ( this letter is preserved ) and to the King —

QUOTE “ The Hindus are an unholy race. They are liars and cheats to the very backbone. Their idols are black—as black as black can be— ugly and horrible to look at , smeared with oil and smell in a evil manner. “--UNQUOTE





He then formally ordered the Portugese Inquisition fo Goa , which ran from 1516 to 1812. The rest of Europe had terminated the Inquisition in 1774. It stopped in 1812 due to British intervention.

More than 20000 people were brought under trial by this Inquisition.

The Portugese first started off with high ranking Saraswat Brahmin Hindus who held the land and riches. Who ever was caught in a palanquin had to undergo the brutal inquisition.



They were NOT allowed to wear the Shendi ( hair tuft ), have a Tulsi plant in front of their house, wear the sacred thread , have an idol in their homes , wear sandals , read the Vedas etc




This drove all of them away from Goa, leaving the land behind.  Some of them unwillingly converted into Christianity.

It was NOT religious hatred alone, the main reason was to steal as many ancient Sanskrit and Malayalam Vedic texts on Science, Medicine and Mathematics. It is from Xavier that Europe came to know about medicinal leech vaccination ( among other things ) , and later Freemason Edward Jenner made a name for himself. The ancient Maharishis from Kerala, like Imhotep,  has been vaccinating the Pharaohs of Egypt, 6500 years before Edward Jenner.

The masses were converted into Christianity, saddled with Portuguese surnames , given menial jobs, made to eat Beef and Pork and drink cheap Feni ( a local brew made of Cashew and Coconut ). This easy inebriated life destroyed their mindset and till today no Catholic Goan boy has passed the IIT entrance exam. ( ala the Red Indians of North America and the Aborigines of Australia )





The Portugese viceroy Constantine De Braganza had ensconced himself in the Sultan’s palace. He was unceremoniously told to buzz off from there and 200 prison cells were built—ordered by the Pope.
The Taj Hotel at Fort Aguada was also used as a torture cell.






On Jan 31 st 1620, the Portugese government ordered that NO Hindu marriages can be performed in Goa. They went one step ahead in 1625—and ordered that NO Hindu infidel can be employed in Goa.


The Portuguese Inquisition Laws filled 230 pages and the Inquisition was to be held behind closed doors. Fr. Diago de Boarda and his advisor Vicar General, Miguel Vaz had made a gruesome 41 point plan for torturing Hindus.

Under this plan Viceroy António de Noronha issued in 1566, an order applicable to the entire area under Portuguese rule. I hereby order that in any area owned by my master, the king, nobody should construct a Hindu temple and such temples already constructed should not be repaired without my permission. If this order is transgressed, such temples shall be, destroyed and the goods in them shall be used to meet expenses of holy deeds, as punishment of such transgression.

In 1567, the campaign of destroying temples in Bardez met with success. At the end of it more than 300 Hindu temples were destroyed. Enacting laws, prohibition was laid from 4 December 1567 on rituals of Hindu marriages, sacred thread wearing and cremation.

All the persons above 15 years of age were compelled to listen to Christian preaching, failing which they were punished. In 1583 all Hindu temples at Assolna and Cuncolim were destroyed through army action.

Convered Hindus , who were detected to secretly  hold their old religion in esteem were burnt at the  stake or brutally tortured.



Brutal methods used were – To tear off the tongues--  To blind the victim with sharp sticks or red-hot iron spikes-- The pulling of the flesh with pliers-- The skinning of the accused alive-- Quartering (in which the victims intestines would be pulled from the body) and impaling, in which a stake would be hammered through the victim’s body avoiding the vital organs, resulting in a slow death that could last for hours or days.



A sharp iron fork was used to mangle breasts. Red hot pincers were used to tear off flesh. Red hot irons were inserted up vaginas and rectums. A device named the turcas was used to tear out fingernails. After the nails were ripped out needles were shoved in. Boots called bootikens were used to lacerate flesh and crush bone.


Thumbscrews were used to crush the fingers and toes. Acid was poured on victims and hands were immersed into pots of boiling oil and water. Eyes were gouged out by irons. Alcohol was poured on the head of the poor victim and set alight. Water was poured down the victims throat with a knotted cloth. The cloth was then jerked out tearing up the victims bowels.



There was no limit to the types and cruelty of the tortures. The inquisition meant anything was allowed. The inquisitors were sadistic and mentally disturbed. An "Inquisition" was supposed to be a legal inquiry by the church.

After the poor victims confessed to things they never did more torture was to follow. On the way to the stake or gallows victims were flogged, burned, branded and had their hands and tongues hacked off.

Fillippo Sassetti , an Italian merchant from Florence,  has chronicled everything. He was the first European to learn Sanskrit. His views were NOT the jaundiced views of a white man. Between 1578 and 1588 he had sent a huge number of letters to the grand ducal court in Florence –all about the Portugese inquisition and the Indian view point.



"The fathers of the Church forbade the Hindus under terrible penalties the use of their own sacred books, and prevented them from all exercise of their religion. They destroyed their temples, and so harassed and interfered with the people that they abandoned the city in large numbers, refusing to remain any longer in a place where they had no liberty, and were liable to imprisonment, torture and death if they worshipped after their own fashion the gods of their fathers." wrote Filippo Sassetti.( below )




A French traveller by the name of Dr.Charles Delone had got himself imprisoned in the Sultan’s palace (1674-77) and saw things for himself . His observations are in his book published in 1687 and is named "L’inquisition de Goa".  Charles Delone was an eye witness to the atrocities, cruelty and reign of terror unleashed by priests. He published a book in 1687 describing the lot of helpless victims. While he was in jail, he had heard the cries of tortured people beaten with instruments having sharp teeth.





Dr.Claudius Buchanan's  (above )  a Scotsman of the Church of England , witnessed some gruesome burning scenes in Great Hall of Goan Inquisition in 1608,  and wrote about the Portuguese Inquisition in 1812.


Voltaire wrote on the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa— Quote ” Goa est malheureusement célèbre par son inquisition , également contraire à l'humanité et au commerce. Les moines portugais firent accroire que le peuple adorait le diable , et ce sont eux qui l'ont servi. (Goa is sadly famous for its inquisition, equally contrary to humanity and commerce. The Portuguese monks made us believe that the people worshiped the devil, and it is they who have served him.)”.

Historian Alfredo de Mello described the Portuguese in Goa : Quote—“ nefarious, fiendish, lustful, corrupt religious orders which pounced on Goa for the purpose of destroying paganism (ie Hinduism) and introducing the true religion of Christ”  Unquote.



In 2007, the Portuguese Government initiated a project to make available online by 2010 a significant part of the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition currently deposited in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, the Portuguese National Archives


Traditional musical instruments were banned and only western music was allowed— a tradition seen even today. A Goan Christian marriage MUST have a live band playing pop music .




Now let me get back to our honouable saint Francis Xavier.

All over the world churches and schools are named after him . This temple destroyer was canonized by the Vatican in 1622. ( but when the Taliban shot off the Bamiyan Buddha,  they found it necessary to cry foul )

On 11th Dec 1553 , Xavier’s dead body was shipped from China to Goa.

The Pope’s  propaganda has caught on that viewing his dead embalmed body can bring miraculous good fortune and can heal you of all your ailments. Why not? He has converted more people to Christianity than any of Jesus’s disciples.



The "Vatican Poster boy's"  embalmed body lies in Goa and is exposed to the public every 10 years—the last was in Dec 2002.  Two million of the faithful has descended on Goa for a month.



The Vatican has been ignoring demands from the descendants of a Buddhist monk for a DNA test --who claim that the body is of  a Sri Lankan monk .  The body was switched after the arrogant Captain of  the Portugese ship threw it overboard. The monk had died due to consumption of a rare herb. The preserved body of the monk was snatched by Portugese soldiers , dressed up in catholic priest garb and brought to Goa. There is a witness to this-- Francis Xavier's own converted servant he took from my hometown Calicut, by the name of Christopher.

Xavier was a tall white man-- the body is of a small dark man . The bullshit given is that his body was put in lime , in China-- so the great appearance change. DNA test never lies!!

And lime does NOT convert white skin to a uniform brown texture!!!





In Hindu and Buddhist traditions , all are cremated.  Only liberated saints are buried in salt and lime.





When India became independent in 1947, Goa remained under Portuguese control. The Indian government of Nehru insisted that Goa, along with a few other minor Portuguese holdings, be turned over to India. Portugal, however, refused. France, which also had small enclaves in India ( Pondicherry ), gave them up. On December 16, 1961, Indian troops crossed the border into Goa. Code named " Operation Vijay ', the move involved sustained land, sea, and air strikes for more than 36 hours; it resulted in the unconditional surrender of Portuguese forces on 19 December.


A United Nations resolution condemning the invasion was proposed by the United States and the United Kingdom in the United Nations Security Council, but it was vetoed by the USSR.


Despite this Portugal tried sending their Navy ( with blessings of USA and UK ) —and President Nasser of Egypt promptly shut the Suez Canal.


Indians have still NOT forgotten such favours.
Even today the mother language of Konkani binds all the people of Goa.

How many of you know that Roman Italian Inquisition started only in 1545, with the Indians in Goa, when Francis Xavier impressed on Pope Paul III, the urgent need to punish the filthy pestilent Indians, worshiping evil back stones and following false doctrines . The same Inquisition blinded Galileo in 1633.. All under investigation had to wear a huge red X symbol on their dress .




It was Pope Paul III who restarted slavery in Rome , by repealing a timeless law that slaves could claim their freedom at the Emperor's statue at Capitol hill . After this all Muslims, man and woman , became slaves, automatically. This sick man made his grandsons cardinals even before the age o