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Eco-friendly Ganesha winners declared

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Eco Goa’, ‘Sawaiker’s Goan Cashew Nuts’ and ‘Green Society’ organised a ‘ All Goa Eco-friendly Ganapati’ decoration competition. Eco Goa is a manufacturer of Areca nut leaf plates and Green Society manufactures paper bags.

This competition was announced for the decorations made at home by using all eco friendly material. Total of 75 participants vied for the online contest that was based on Facebook likes. The winners of the competition are Pranav Parab, Amey Ashok Porob and Shailesh Khedekar. 

Prize distribution ceremony of this competition was held on September 22 at Green Society’ premises in Tarwale, Shiroda. Prizes were distributed to the winners at the hands of Sandesh Prabhudesai, ex-sarpanch, Shiroda, Jayant Prabhudessai, chief security officer, MRF, Padmanabh Prabhu Dessai, retired headmaster of Kamakshi High School, Shiroda. The organizers of the competition Pravin Prabhu of Eco Goa, Vaibhav Sawaiker of Sawaiker’s Goan Cashew Nuts and Vrushali Prabhudesai of Green Society were overwhelmed with the response they received for the competition and are determined to conduct such events in future. 

All the participants had unique display of decorations. Special prizes were awarded for innovative creativity for 3 participants. Winners of these are Prathamesh Naik, Sarvesh Gaude and Ashwesh Ghadi. The photographs of the contest entries have been put up on ‘Eco Goa’ Facebook page.

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Holding on to cultural heritage

Actress Sonakshi Sinha’s gaffe over a simple question on Ramayana has sparked a debate on why a section of our society does not know the epics which are an integral part of Indian culture

The Goan Network
Published Sep 24, 2019, 2:22 AM IST
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JAY JOSHITwitter recently had a field day trolling actress Sonakshi Sinha over her failure to know the answer to a simple question based on the Indian epic Ramayan. While some said that not knowing something is fine, and one could always read up and plug the knowledge-gap, others noted the fact that members of Sonakshi’s family bear names of characters from Ramayan, and  that their house is named Ramayan. If one goes by the general belief, the epics Ramayan and…

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