[Goanet] India has come to Melbourne ...

2008-10-25 Thread U P Kamath
The whole thing is a more a matter of acceptable social behavior - not that I do not make a face when I see a patch of red patch on the walls of stair wells. Here are two extremes: I read some where: Boris Yelstin, when he was the president or Russian federation was on an official tour to Europe

[Goanet] India has come to Melbourne....

2008-10-25 Thread U P Kamath
Dear Mario, Mario wrote: I'm not sure what point you were trying to make, because African-Americans are far better off than Africans, and none of them are interested in returning to Africa. upkamath responds: Now we are defending slavery in the Goanet? How about taking on board some Afghanis and

[Goanet] India has come to Melbourne ...

2008-10-24 Thread U P Kamath
Dear Mario, 1945 comes before 1960's of Martin Luther II, when American blacks - ops! sorry, African Americans fought for their civil liberties and got them after prolonged and protracted struggle. What was the condition of the American born persons of Japanese origin during the WW II in the

[Goanet] India has come to Melbourne ...

2008-10-23 Thread U P Kamath
Dear Gabriel USA is the only country in the world, to this date, to have used nukes on humans (?) I am not very sure they considered Japs as humans at that time. US did not use the nuke on the Germans as Germans, being white are humans. At the time when US used the nukes, Japan was on the brink

[Goanet] This is an outrage!

2008-10-17 Thread U P Kamath
It is a case of rape of a minor. There need not be any physical injury. Even if the minor girl sleeps willingly and lovingly with a man it is legally rape. upkamath

[Goanet] Bevinda Colaco's interesting take on secularism

2008-10-04 Thread U P Kamath
How naive of me! I thought Cicil Pinto's views were sarcastic! upkamath92

[Goanet] Can someone tell me what about this surname?

2008-09-23 Thread U P Kamath
Dear Colaco, Your postings make me nostalgic. Your simplistic world views remind me of my elementary school days. Now, whenever I converse with elementary school kids, I find their world view quite complex. See how independence, democracy and free flow of information have corrupted

[Goanet] Goanet] Can someone tell me what about this surname?

2008-09-20 Thread U P Kamath
Sorry Colaco, Could not reply your mail. Been busy with my hereditary vocation of planning and cheating a bunch of sub sub sub something tribal. Made a small packet. You have not yet explained what those more than 2000 feet long jet straight line bunds of paddy

[Goanet] Can someone tell me what about this surname?

2008-09-14 Thread U P Kamath
Colaco's whole world seems to revolve around saraswats. For colaco saraswats are omnipotent and omnipresent. His all thoughts and action are driven by one word - saraswats. I am sorry to see an adult (I presume) Indian, living in 21st century democratic India being enslaved just by a caste name -

[Goanet] Cheers Dears: Sir Gungul'lo

2008-09-13 Thread U P Kamath
General Thimmyya and Cariappa were not Keralites. They were from Coorg - Kodagu - a district of Karnataka. The district is nestled in western ghats. They are known as Coorgi's and speak a different language. They were always a martial race and form just about majority of Kodagu district

[Goanet] Can someone tell me what about this surname?

2008-09-12 Thread U P Kamath
To begin with if saraswats were croocked, it has been recorded by others. Has anyone recorded crookedness of tribal societies? If there is no mention of that in saraswat web site, neither have i read colaco bad mouthing his ancesters. If one were to take colaco's word on his ancestors they were

[Goanet] Can someone tell me what about this surname?

2008-09-11 Thread U P Kamath
There are some pretty big holes in Colacos analysis. They were government officials just like the present - corrupt and crooked as always they shall be - till the general poppulation remains crooked and have no respect for law! Even if Nadakarnis were crooked, why would they advertise it in their

[Goanet] Can someone tell me what about this surname?

2008-09-10 Thread U P Kamath
Nadkarni means Nad - land(kannada) karni -accountant. A person (government official) who measures land. Not a village accountant. That is why the sername is less common than Kulkarni. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet] GHANTII

2008-08-31 Thread U P Kamath
I had many remarks from many Goan I will try to answer some. First as the debate borders on racism and religion, I should first state what I am in the eyes of those who judge by birth: I am a Canara Hindu GSB, so I trace my ancestry to Goa. I am an agnostic. One is free to comment on my bias, for

[Goanet] GHANTII

2008-08-31 Thread U P Kamath
I am not religious, unlike you, so the slur about ape passes me by. As I do not see much genetic distance from me to the ape. As for the Jamaican, the genetic distance between two extreme branch of humans - with a head count of over 6 billion is much less than between two extreme individuals of

[Goanet] GHANTII

2008-08-29 Thread U P Kamath
Dear Gabriel, It is true that Goa was crime free during Portuguese rule. But racism under them was much more severe than the British! The state was much more oppressive. I find that centuries of Portuguese repression, or rather slavery, should i list:

[Goanet] History: Those un-earthly paddy fields of Goa

2008-08-12 Thread U P Kamath
I feel, when talking of history, one should first lay down ones own status on the table, so all can gauge ones bias. I am not a Goan, but trace my ancestry to Goa - to Goltim - part of present day Sao Matias village in the river island of Devar. I am a GSB, an agnostic. I beleve in free markets,