[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The Portuguese and Violence in the Indian Ocean: some second thoughts

The Portuguese and Violence in the Indian Ocean: some second thoughts By Michael Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Technology, Sydney The use of violence is the critical issue when studying European trade in the Arabian seas.1 This short article is something of a mea culpa from me. Over

[Goanet] Direct Dubai/Goa Flights Stopped

Dear All, Can we all Goans come together and request for direct flights from the Gulf which have been stopped...due to less passengers..We can suggest that the flight can go via Abu Dhabi/ Sharjah/ Kuwait/ Bahrain/ Qatar from Dubai...(any one via sectors) and I thik that could help the

[Goanet] For kind favour of publication: Summer Course on Income Tax Basics for the Salaried Class.

Dear Sir, I will be grateful if you publish the enclosed in your issue and oblige. With many thanks and kind regards, Yours sincerely, Prof. Newman Fernandes PRINCIPAL St. Xavier's College of Arts, Science Commerce, Xaviernagar, Mapusa - Goa - 403507 - INDIA. Summer Course on Income Tax

Re: [Goanet] Respect Our Right to Identity

No word limit. Jason --- Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Goanet - Bosco D'Mello wrote: RESPONSE: Rajan, your opinion notwithstanding, some queries: #1) Do the Goan people decide who is the Convenor of the GBA? Since the Convenor himself never tires of telling us

[Goanet] MP and Panjim (was Why Manohar Parrikar is not CM today)

1.none of thepresent-day or past (since 1961) politicians and political parties have orhave had the long term administrative sense by virtue of spelling out'good, transparent and satisfying administrative system that will befollowed once elected to power to give the people the choice between

[Goanet] Tony D'Souza

I knew that Tony D'Souza is a Mangolearn. I had heard about Whiteman his first novel. After seeing the goanconvention site, where Tony's face is one among many of celebrated Goans, I was keen to confirm my belief. A search confirmed what I believed. Here is what he says about himself. I haven't

[Goanet] For kind favour of publication: Portuguese Courses at St. Xavier's College, Mapusa

Dear Sir, I will be grateful if you publish the enclosed in your issue and oblige. With many thanks and kind regards, Yours sincerely, Prof. Newman Fernandes PRINCIPAL St. Xavier's College of Arts, Science Commerce, Xaviernagar, Mapusa - Goa - 403507 - INDIA. Portuguese Courses at St.

Re: [Goanet] Fair and Lovely culture

Selma, have you come across Frantz Fanon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon Specially 'Black Skin, There just could be deeper issues here: QUOTE: Frantz Fanon (1925 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925 –1961 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961) was an author from Martinique

Re: [Goanet] Digambar Kamat sheds tears for lost investments - For Your Kind Information

In fact if we all agree that the law is an ass, then we could also take a vote on scrapping laws altogether and learning to survive in an openly lawless society. In answer to t he abv from Flower2 I shall take the liberty of reposting the 'synopsis' of my PIL in the High Court of Bombay at Goa.

Re: [Goanet] Talking Photos: Please please tell me which one/s you like

JoeGoaUK said : I love you I say : So do we all , Joe , so do we all. You are the one we all like the most. May the good Lord bless you for taking all the trouble to make us feel closer to homeand along with Rajan, reminding us how Goa is being vandalised. warm

Re: [Goanet] New tourist attraction: Ghatis in open-air sexual acts in Panjim

To Goanet - Frederick Noronha wrote: Let's stop fighting poverty. Yes indeed, let's stop fighting poverty. Instead let's import poverty wholesale from all over India into Goa. You and your pals can then tell us how much you love the poor and how much we hate them. You'll finally have

Re: [Goanet] Talking Photos: Please please tell me which one/s you like

I too look forward and always with a smile for the latest Talking Photos. All the nooks and crannies of Goa as well as the divine food. Thank you very much Joe Warm wishes Sonia do Rosario Gomes --- anand virgincar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JoeGoaUK said : I love you I say : So

Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim

I have always maintained that the Agenda by the vested interests in Goa to communalise the Goan society started with Goa's so called 'liberation' in 1961. Upto that point the Goan communities were not free to show their communal biasies openly. Of course, I am not talking of the isolated communal

[Goanet] Leadership Awards for Goans in Gulf ?

It is STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you file a RTI application, according to the Right to Information (RTI) act. The responses from whom you seek 'answers' may take ages and may even go beyond their tenure of office. RTI application has to be filed by a PERSON [not a club or NGO or

[Goanet] JET AIRWAYS FROM ABU DHABI

JET AIRWAYS TO START OPERATION FROM ABU DHABI AIRPORT FROM 24TH APRIL, 2008 FLIGHT DEPARTING AUH 00.30AM ARIVING BOMBAY AT 5.00AM ONWARD CONNECTION TO GOA BY 6.30AM FLIGHT RETURN FLIGHT FROM BOMBAY 9.30PM GOANS CAN TAKE THE LAST FLIGHT FROM GOA WHICH IS AT 4.30PM, WHEREIN WE CAN SAVE

[Goanet] MP and Panjim

Vinay said: Response: The quantum of hatred and vilification spread on this forum against Parrikar over all these years, I think no other Goan politician must have received so much brick bats so far. You are right Goa politics will survive !!! but the day is not very far, our Goa will go to

[Goanet] Goan football aficionados...

http://www.goal.com/en/ -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England

[Goanet] Hanv Saiba Poltoddi Vetam

  Hanv Saiba Poltoddi Vetam -brian mendonca Come next weekend I shall be going to the other side of the river in Goa. I shall be doing what the maiden in this beautiful dekhni from Goa does. Composed by Anna

[Goanet] MP and Panjim

Parts of Goa are becoming no go areas for Goan Hindu's, Goan Catholics and Goan MuslimsThis is terrible. Which are these areas? I would like to go andinvestigate for myself. Of course, as I have been recently beeninformed yet again on this very forum, I am just another ghatibhailo, so doubtless

[Goanet] Talking Photos: Any one into 'Saving Trees' ?

Talking Photos: Any one into 'Saving Trees' ? Then save these trees... http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2382838644/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2382004731/sizes/l/ Homework: What do you think? These two trees on the Campal main Road should stay ? Why?

[Goanet] GLOBAL GOANS COMMUNITY SERVICE LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2008

There has been an obvious ground swell of resentment over the criteria, or the lack of it, in compiling the list of awardees selected and granted the first of its kind - Global Goans Community Service Leadership Awards ---, at a function held on 29th March, 2008 at Hotel Mandovi

[Goanet] OF PET DOGS AND MUTTS

A Man had a lot of wealth. His father too. And so did his grandfather. The trick was, they knew how to keep it. Right from the days of the grandfather, they had been known to own dogs. The Man only followed this tradition. He tied the dog by a chain to the gate in the wall, that surrounded his

[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] Third Sunday of Easter

30-Mar-2008 Dear Friend, One of our common experiences is that life is full of journeys. There are short routine journeys -like going to the market place, going shopping, going to work, and the longer journeys, like coming home after being abroad or in a distant land for a long

Re: [Goanet] For kind favour of publication: XAVI ER’S NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MIGRATION

Dear Prof Newman Fernandes, As a university academic in the UK over many years, I have always been pleased to note what goes on at your College through information on Goanet. Indeed, when visiting Panjim in April 2006, and on the spur of the moment, I had called at your College, on the suggestion

[Goanet] Make Land a referendum issue (the Pariker interview)

Having watching the Parriker v/s Parriker interview, one point stood out for me: I agree with Rajan that part of saving our environment would mean Western styled conservation, where modifications can be carried out to existing structures but nothing additional can be built on the land, and

[Goanet] Draft/Sample standard Right to Information (RTI) Application

URGENT: RIGHT TO INFORMATION APPLICATION Date: / /2008 From: Name : Address Phone: Mobile: Email: To, The Public Information Officer Sir/Madam, Sub: Application under the Right to Information Act,

[Goanet] Top police to probe Scarlett case

Scarlett's mother intends to bury her near Bideford in North Devon Police investigating the murder of Scarlett Keeling in Goa have asked for the case to be transferred to India's top federal detective agency. A senior police officer told BBC News the Central Bureau of Investigation had been

[Goanet] Digambar Kamat sheds tears for lost investments - For Your Kind Information

In fact if we all agree that the law is an ass, then we could also take a vote on scrapping laws altogether and learning to survive in an openly lawless society. In answer to t he abv from Flower2 [Floriano Goasuraj] I googled The law is an ass and found this interesting exposition: Q: I'm

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: The Portuguese and Violence in the Indian Ocean: some second thoughts

The Portuguese and Violence in the Indian Ocean: some second thoughts By Michael Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Technology, Sydney The use of violence is the critical issue when studying European trade in the Arabian seas.1 This short article is something of a mea culpa from

Re: [Goanet] Talking Photos: Please please, tell me which one/s you like

We love you too, JoeGoaUk! You have that third eye that every art photographer needs to have and that fourth eye that is a must have for every research photographer and a camera that gives you the right-res photographs: a box that you handle with the touch of a professional. But,

[Goanet] Pati, Patni aur Woh (Husband, Wife and She)

Pati, Patni aur Woh (Husband, Wife and She) With this post, you will come yet another step closer in understanding JoeGoaUk and his personal or private life. == Ah! I have finally won. What a relief!!! What I have won, lottery? No. But it a long running triangular battle. I have been

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (3Apr08)

Traffic snarled as children head to SSC exams All the best To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] Goa news for April 3, 2008

Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Scarlett case: Goa will write to Centre for probe by CBI - Times of India [2 hours ago] PANAJI: The Goa government will send a formal letter seeking a CBI probe into the rape and murder

Re: [Goanet] here they are... NRI awardees

UAE: ABU DHABI 10. Mr. Ramnath Arjuna Mavlingcar President, Abu Dhabi Goan Association DUBAI 11. Mr Rockson Rufus Rodrigues Coordinator, The Marriage Encounter of UAE, Dubai --- Wow... one gets award for fixing marriages. Aso for Mavlingcar, it has come as a revealation to me that there is an

Re: [Goanet] Update on PIL concerning the city of Panjim

To Goanet - See - http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=1964cid=26 Minutes of the meeting with the Chief Secretary on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 http://www.parrikar.org/misc/CS-meeting-minutes.pdf Regards, r

Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim

--- Vidyadhar Gadgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to what he does through his inflammatory talk against migrants and poor people and his repeated statements branding entire communities as 'savages' 'filthy', etc. and characterising the whole of India beyond Goa as a 'stinking toilet' -- let us

[Goanet] Fair and Lovely culture

From, Carvalho elisabeth_car at yahoo.com Mon Mar 31 02:12:07 PDT 2008 Where is the question of our own culture being under threat by the West, when Bollywood Item girls prance about in shorty-shorts at cricket stadiums gyrating to the delight of sweaty men, our cosmetic counters are giving way

[Goanet] Goa is safe: Digambar tells Russian envoy

Don't worry, Goa is safe: Digambar tells Russian envoy PANJIM: Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, on March 31, assured Consul General of the Russian Federation in Mumbai, Alexander V Mantystsky, that Goa is a safe destination for tourists and that the government would come down heavily on those

[Goanet] Six feet of land

Gomantak Times, 29 March 2008 Six feet of land by Vidyadhar Gadgil In one of Leo Tolstoy’s most well-known stories, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” (James Joyce once described it as the finest story ever written), he presents to us a greedy protagonist named Pahom, who is offered as much land

[Goanet] LIMERICK FOR THE DAY 57 - ARTICLES ON GOA

ARTICLES ON GOA The articles by Frank D'Souza on Goanet were a great delight, A welcome change from some of the hot air we see day and night. I hope that this kind of thoughtful piece Will gradually increase and never cease, Instead of members trying needless controversies to constantly

[Goanet] Art Exhibition: Luc Jolly

Kerkar Art Complex invites you for an exhibition of paintings by Luc Jolly Celebrated Swiss artist on 4th April 2008 at 7:00pm Cocktails from 7:00 - 9:00pm The exhibition will be on until 13th April 2008

Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim

From: Philip Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] MP and Panjim Here in Goa too we hear about shacks which disdain Indian clientele, of certain localities having become foreign (esp Russian) colonies, of communities not mixing like before etc etc. It is not a good sign at all. Yes, you

Re: [Goanet] Employment Solutions – Goa

I tend to disagree on the organised safeguards like reservations and 'Goa for Goans' etc. We are enterprising to some degree in places we move to but back in Goa, we tend to take things for granted, don't you agree? But before I talk about erosion of identity, one has to wonder why we move? (note,

[Goanet] MP and Panjim

Floriano Lobo wroteMGP has always been,is and will be communal. Many MGP guys were /are in the congress party. Are they all become secular now? what about the Catholics who never voted for the MGP as they thought it is made?of Hindus only? Does not it make them communal? I feel this

Re: [Goanet] Digambar Kamat sheds tears for lost investment

Yes, many times laws may not be ethical - then, perhaps people should initiate a public debate and work to get the offending laws changed. For example the GBA has strongly protested an amendment proposed to the TCP Act in today's Herald. Incidentally, the first post in response to mine is an

[Goanet] My take on Goa and Goan identity [ Starting points ]

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:04:32 +0100 (BST) From: JOHN MONTEIRO [EMAIL PROTECTED] But for one nation's hero, the same person is a terrorist for another nation. Mario observes: John, I would be careful of making this questionable moral equivalency if I were you. The term terrorist has a well

[Goanet] Manohar Parrikar's Interview

Dear Goanetters, After watching Manohar Parrikar’s interview I felt Goanetters and other Goans have done fantastic job in raising all the possible questions to SAVE GOA. I must sincerely thank Dr. Anand Dr. Anil for spending their time, their energy to walk towards a golden path of SAVING GOA

[Goanet] For kind favour of publication: SUMMER COURSE ON FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING PACKAGES (TALLY)

Dear Sir, I will be grateful if you publish the enclosed in your issue and oblige. With many thanks and kind regards, Yours sincerely, Prof. Newman Fernandes PRINCIPAL St. Xavier's College of Arts, Science Commerce, Xaviernagar, Mapusa - Goa - 403507 - INDIA. SUMMER COURSE ON FINANCIAL