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  Writer's Corner Snooping By State Agencies In Times When There Were No Mobile Phones Share this News: Facebook Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn Telegram SMS Camil Parkhe Pune, 29 July 2021: At The Navhind Times daily in Panjim in Goa, I covered crime and court beats. In many newspapers at that time in the 1980s, senior reporters used to get rid of these two beats as soon as a junior reporter was appointed in their dailies. Without a landline telephone at my home in Taleigaon, and a deadline of 8 pm to receive news for the newspaper’s inside pages, it was difficult and equally challenging to handle the crime beat without risking missing out any hard news of crimes and accidents in Panjim and nearby areas. Goa was the only district in the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu since the territory was liberated from the foreign Portuguese rule in December 1961. Twelve talukas made up the Goa district, including Daman and Diu, located near Gujarat some hundreds of miles from Goa. Daman and D...

  Opinion Camil Parkhe Sakal Times Published on :  15 Jul, 2018 , 2:51 pm In the last one week, there were several posts on social media providing names of Christian individuals who had been part of the freedom struggle for India. The list began with Dr Annie Besant, a born Christian, who later turned Theosophist and a founder of the Indian National Congress. The other names included Deenbandhu Rev CF Andrews, a close associate of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, Barrister Joseph Baptista Kaka from Vasai, who was part of the delegation, which accompanied Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak during his famous England tour, Pandita Ramabai, a scholar, who was among a handful of women delegates at the Indian National Congress session held in Mumbai in 1889 and who had deposed before Hunter Commission on Education. The long litany of the Christians from various parts of the country, who participated in the Indian freedom struggle, was being flaunted in response to a controvers...