[Goanet] Dr Jack sequeira memorial award

2024-03-02 Thread Nelson Lopes
A small message of appeal to Dr Jack De Sequeira memorial fund for the topper at SSC ,GBSHSE by well wishers Of PCTrust Contact 9850926276 Nelson Lopes Chinchinim https://lopesnelsonnat.wordpress.com

[Goanet] Schedule for Sunday 3rd March 2024

2024-03-02 Thread CCR TV
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Sunday 3rd March

[Goanet] Freeze All Amounts That Accrued To Political Parties Through Unconstitutional Electoral Bonds|

2024-03-02 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Source: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/freeze-all-amounts-that-accrued-to-political-parties-through-unconstitutional-electoral-bonds/ countercurrents.org Freeze

[Goanet] Literary Questions to Contemplate

2024-03-02 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
I have been following the post-mortem on the literary festivals going on in India.  There was the podcast interview on: Why do writers write? and How to get a book published? In that dialog we got insights into Why and How books are published in India and likely elsewhere? As is clear, most

Re: [Goanet] RIP: Ali Hassan Mwinyi

2024-03-02 Thread Francis Rodrigues
[A close-up portrait of an African man with a serious expression. He had a round face and wore a mustache and was looking off to the left. He had on a pinstriped open-collared shirt.] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/world/africa/ali-hassan-mwinyi-dead.html

[Goanet] Why High Blood Pressure Matters to Your Health

2024-03-02 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"High blood pressure 'is a smoldering public health crisis,' said Dr. Rishi K. Wadhera, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School." >"High blood pressure can raise the risk of heart attack, stroke

Re: [Goanet] RIP: Ali Hassan Mwinyi

2024-03-02 Thread Brendan A
During Mwinyi's terms, Tanzania took the first steps to reverse the socialist policies of Julius Nyerere. He relaxed import restrictions and encouraged private enterprise. It was during his second term that multi-party politics were introduced under pressure for reform from foreign and domestic

Re: [Goanet] The naval battles on Lake Tanganyika 1914 to 1918

2024-03-02 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Doc,The British kept meticulous records of those who died for their cause in Tanganyika.  Wilfred Owen described WWI in: Red lips are not so redAs the stained stones kissed by the English dead.  The rest of the dead in Tanganyika, including a few thousand Indians troops and uncounted thousand

Re: [Goanet] The naval battles on Lake Tanganyika 1914 to 1918

2024-03-02 Thread Mel de Quadros
Thank you Mervyn I’m slowly working my way thru Gurnah’s books. A great writer, his language is so nuanced and lovely to read. I happened to have gone with summer fieldwork from Makerere in 1962, working for the Tanzania Geological Survey, mostly in the Handeni-Korogwe-Lushoto area. Camping in

Re: [Goanet] RIP: Ali Hassan Mwinyi

2024-03-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
Was he a good guy? Like Nyerere? On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 23:09, Romelino Correia wrote: > May Ali Hassan Mwinyi''s Soul rest in Peace > > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 8:48 PM 'Mervyn Lobo' via Tanzanite 2020 < > tgo...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are

Re: [Goanet] The naval battles on Lake Tanganyika 1914 to 1918

2024-03-02 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Doc,Abdulrazak Gurnah takes a look at the brutality of the German officers in Tanganyika prior to and during WWI - in his novel, "After Lives." It is good reading and especially so when you remember Swahili as the novel is peppered with Swahili names and descriptions. Abdulrazak won the Nobel