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German Language Class for Beginners
Another batch of eager learners attended our German language course at Verna in January-February 2017
________________________________________________ Workshop in Upholstery conducted by a German lady, Gandaulim, Goa
A demonstration workshop on how to make and to cover with fabric a new flat cushion. A workshop conducted by a German craftsman.
________________________________________________ 2nd Goan Home Culinary Course for German speaking participants
For the second time, on February 4, 2017, IGSG organized a cooking class in Goan kitchen for German-speaking participants.
________________________________________________ Holy Mass in German, at Benaulim, Goa
On Sunday, January 29, 2017, a Roman Catholic mass in German (with some prayers in English and Konkani) was held in St. Anthony's Chapel at Benaulim, Goa. Read more...
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On Sunday, January 8, 2017 there was much chatting at 3rd IGSG Stammtisch North Goa. Read more here...
________________________________________________ Get Together for Helpers at German Cultural Week Goa 2016
On January 4 Germans and Goans, who helped to organize the German Cultural Week Goa 2106, had a pleasant get together in Verna. "Team IGSG" enjoyed the meeting at a delicious Goan lunch.
________________________________________________ 9th German Cultural Week Goa 2016
with Oktoberfest
Programme and photo gallery here
________________________________________________ 5th IGSG Stammtisch for South Goa November 20, 2016
Have a look at some pictures of this Stammtisch and former ones in South Goa here...
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German Language Classes for Beginners and Advanced Learners From October 11 onwards Read more... ________________________________________________
4th IGSG Stammtisch South Goa at Benaulim February 6, 2016
Have a look at some pictures of this and former Stammtische in South Goa here...
________________________________________________ From January 19 onwards at Verna. Read more...
________________________________________________ 8th German Cultural Week Goa 2015
with Oktoberfest
Programme and photo gallery here...
________________________________________________________ November 1st, 2015 Our 2nd Stammtisch in North Goa was held successfully on November 1st, 2015 in the garden of Café Coffee Heaven, Arpora. About 30 Goans and Germans, members and friends of IGSG – Indo German Friendship Society Goa, chatted over an excellent brunch served by Diana and Dirk. Many of the Germans had just arrived to enjoy the new season. Please have a look at the pictures of this and former IGSG Stammtische here... ________________________________________________ IGSG Goa - Doon University, Uttarakhand : Interactive Session in Benaulim, Goa
IGSG (Indo German Friendship Society Goa) and a Group of Students of the Department of German Studies, School of Languages, Doon University, (Dehradun, Uttarakhand) have conducted a day long interactive session on March 24, 2015, in Benaulim, Goa. ________________________________________________ Visit to Volkswagen India plant in Pune
Photogallery here... ________________________________________________
Goan Cuisine: A cooking class for German
In this one-day cooking class a professional cook showed the participants how to prepare selected traditional Goan dishes. These were the menu items: Feni-cocktail, stuffed fish, kokum meat and more. Please read more and have a look at the pictures here...
________________________________________________ 1st IGSG Stammtisch in North Goa
On January 18, 2015 we had our first Stammtisch in North Goa. Over the famous Sunday Brunch at Diana's and Dirk's Coffee Heaven at Arpora members and friends chatted and exchanged information. And there was a surprise: famous German entertainer, singer and author Sissi Perlinger! ________________________________________________ 7th German Cultural Week Goa 2014
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_________________________________________________ German Study compares Behavior of German and Indian Managers A deepened knowledge of cultural distinctions between German and Indian managers with regards to how they perceive as well as plan their time may help to reduce cultural prejudices and misunderstandings and further promote cross-cultural collaborations. The study presented here, conducted by Ms Lena Zimmermann at the University of Würzburg in Germany, aimed to contrast German and Indian managers regarding their time perspective (TP), which refers to individuals' psychological orientation towards the past, the present, and the future and further analyzed the impact of TP on planning behaviors. Please read the Results Report here... ________________________________________________ Konkani classes for Germans A Konkani course for beginners with a duration of 12 hours is being organized by IGSG in February 2014. Participants will be given basic knowledge of Konkani as spoken in everyday life with special emphasis on Salcetan Konkani. The aim of the short course is to enable participants to communicate in very simple sentences thus showing their esteem for the country. The script used in the course is the Roman script. Tuesdays and Thursdays afternoons at Chowgule College Margao. For further information please contact: 9763365050 or language@igsg.org ________________________________________________ 2nd Stammtisch at Benaulim February 23 (Sunday), 2014 at 3.30 p.m.
Our 2nd Stammtisch will be on Sunday, February 23, 2014, at 3.30 p.m. at Anne Afonso's Villa Malibu, Benaulim. Anybody interested in German-Indian friendship is welcome. There will be coffee, tea and cakes. The response to our first Stammtisch in November last year was great. Many old and new friends had come to chat over goodies brought by some of the participants. Have a look at some pictures here... Way to Villa Malibu: Arriving in Benaulim from Margao/railway station you turn left at the “Crossroad“. Follow the road for 500 m, pass the Royalpalms hotel until a sharp right curve. Here you find our restaurant Malibu. Follow the road, pass the restaurant Malibu and turn right before the Palmgroves hotel. On the left hand side you see the bright blue Villa Malibu. For any further information please call: 0832 2770976 or 88 88 71 87 91 _________________________________________________ New Visa Application Centre in Goa for Indians travelling to Germany Germany and VFS Global have recently opened ten Visa Application Centres in India and one in Bhutan to speed up the visa application process. In India, the Germany Visa Application Centres are operational in New Delhi, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Chennai, Hyderabad, Puducherry, Bengaluru and Mumbai, while in Bhutan, the Centre is functional in Thimphu. In the next two months, Centres will be operational in Goa, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Kolkata. Read more... _________________________________________________ Book Review: "In the Shadow of Freedom" by Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul From Goa to Germany, via the Nazis and Gandhi The book tells the story of Avi (A G) Tendulkar, a young journalist from just outside Goa, who in the early 1930s travels to Germany to study. He marries his professor’s daughter. As a journalist in Berlin, he meets and falls in love with the film-maker Thea von Harbou, the wife of Fritz Lang (1890-1976) - one of the best known emigres from Germany’s school of Expressionism. Please read Frederick Noronha's full review here... _________________________________________________
_________________________________________________ 1st IGSG Stammtisch in South Goa November 24, 2013
Please find pictures of this and later IGSG Stammtische in South Goa here...
________________________________________________ Book Review: "Lost in Goa" by Ingrid von Heiseler By Friedhelm Baumgärtner
_________________________________________________ The Ten most Beautiful Yoga Hotels in the World
_________________________________________________ Goa and Germany - a solution for the garbage problem The IGSG (Indo German Friendship Society Goa) is extremely pleased about the visit in the first week of July 2013, by Mr Manohar Parrikar, Chief Minister of Goa, to the German City of Kaiserslautern and the inspection of the city's efficient and comprehensive garbage handling systems.
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Foreign entrepreneurs in Goa Austrian TV-channel shows film about two Austrian entrepreneurs in Goa €CO, the TV magazine of Austrian TV channnel ORF on May 2, 2013 showed a film of Austrian film maker Alexander Lorenz about the business hurdles two Austrian entrepreneurs have to deal with, but also about the alluring opportunities of making money in Goa. Read more and find link to the film (in German) here... _________________________________________________
German Bureaucracy Not to Take it Personally: To my European Friends
Mrs. Meenakshi Passi, an Indian lady married to a German and
living most of her time in Goa, has sent us a poem with the
title NOT TO TAKE IT PERSONALLY: TO MY EUROPEAN FRIENDS and
has asked IGSG for publication. _________________________________________________
Travel Guide Review of two travel guides to Goa
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Film on Environment in Goa India's threatened paradise - Climate protection by environmental education Goa, the smallest Indian state, attracts millions of tourists annually with its beaches and the country's economy depends on them. Tourists want clean beaches and towns, but Goa is struggling with mountains of garbage. Please read more and watch the film (in German) of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle here... _________________________________________________
German tourists in Goa Goa government wants more German tourists
_________________________________________________ Documentary of the Austrian film maker Rudolf Gottsberger In an exclusive interview for IGSG Rudolf Gottsberger the Austrian film maker Rudolf Gottsberger explains "For me, „Goa is not India“ because Goa was occupied by the Portuguese, because it is the richest state in India, because there are some kind of enclaves among the foreigners, because some hippies found a knew home in Goa during the Sixties, and because life in Goa has a special character". Please read the complete interview as well as more details about the film here. _________________________________________________ Guided visit of Trindade's Exhibition
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Trikont, a German based company edits "Own voice to the jewels of the 1960s and 70s" writes Colin Savio Coelho for IGSG
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German journalist launches book about Modern
Day Catholicism in Goa
IGSG - Indo German Friendship Society Goa in collaboration
with publisher "Goa, 1556" launched the book of German journalist Christina Fernandes "Passion in Paradise: Modern Day Catholicism in Goa" at
Literati Bookshop and Cafe, Calangute on December 20, 2012.
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more... _________________________________________________ German daily "Die Welt": Goan journalist Sonia Faleiro reports about sexual harassment in India In an article, published in the German daily "Die Welt" on 4 January 2013, the Goan journalist Sonia Faleiro speaks about the years she spent as a young girl in New Delhi, "a city where sexual harassment is as regular as mealtime". In the aftermath of the gang rape of Dec. 16 in New Delhi she considers that the volume of protests in public and in the media has made clear that the attack was a turning point. In retrospect it wasn’t the brutality of the attack on the young woman that made her tragedy unusual; it was that an attack had, at last, elicited a response. Please read the full article (in German) here. _________________________________________________
Revised guidelines for
tourist visa: lifting of The Revised Guidelines on Tourist Visa are equally valid for visas which still contain the old restriction of the two months gap. See details here… _________________________________________________ Germany - India: Avoidance of Double Taxation In 1995 Germany and India undersigned an agreement for the avoidance of double taxation of income and capital. Please read the full text of the agreement here |
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Sixteen
members and friends of IGSG (Indo German Friendship Society Goa),
visited on February 11, 2015 the Volkswagen India plant, located in the
industrial hub of Chakan, Pune. The plant is one of the most modern
facilities of Volkswagen Group where the visitors got a chance to
experience German engineering, made in India.
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