Re: [Goanet] Goans in Goa rejoicing with Portugal win?

2006-07-06 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 20:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Frederick \FN\ Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Cornel, Gabe and Fredrick and Dominic for your responses. Yes, there is plenty of Anglophilia in India, witness characters like Nirad C. Chaudhuri who made a religion out of it.

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 1, Issue 33

2006-07-07 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 17:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] World Cup Kudos, George, you have hit the nail on the head. Ouch! To hell with all this, and let's enjoy the football! Dear FIFA I must protest your sudden change of theme at

[Goanet] IMPORTANT: Announcement of workshop on combatting communalism

2006-07-24 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
to the end of this note. Yours sincerely, Albertina Almeida Ramesh Gauns (Convenors) For further details, please contact: Vidyadhar Gadgil Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 2293766 Albertina Almeida Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 2438840 Ramesh

Re: [Goanet] Secular initiative

2006-07-27 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
://bmxgoa.com On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 04:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Vivek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Secular initiative-- vidyadhar gadgil Was rather surprised by this message and also unclear as to exactly

Re: [Goanet] Secular Initiative

2006-07-31 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May

[Goanet] Rehabilitation of sex workers

2006-08-02 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May

[Goanet] Final Solution Screening on August 10

2006-08-06 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May

Re: [Goanet] Screening Final Solution

2006-08-11 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen the documentary myself. In my opinion the documentary is a crude and obnoxious attempt by leftists to exemplify and exagerate the unfortunate happenings in Gujarat in order to extract some cheap political mileage. I had

Re: [Goanet] Final Solution- attn Vidyadhar gadgil

2006-08-16 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 20:40 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Vivek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Final Solution- attn Vidyadhar gadgil Dear Vidyadhar: You are as anonymous to me as I am to you. Just because you attach a Gadgil after your first name dont claim any moral high

[Goanet] Short report on Workshop on Combatting Communalism

2006-08-17 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Below is a short report on the workshop. Longer detailed report available on request. The four-day State-Level Workshop on Combating Communalism organised by the Citizens' Initiatives for Communal Harmony came to a successful conclusion on 15th August 2006, with the 80 participants stressing

Re: [Goanet] Scientific Temper in the Indian Constitution

2006-08-17 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Scientific Temper in the Indian Constitution Very few people know that cultivating and promoting scientific temper, humanism, spirit of inquiry and reform are the fundamental

[Goanet] Message from Goenkar Changemakers

2006-08-18 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Exhibition of Comic Posters at Kala Academy, Art Gallery --- A Group of college students who call themselves Goenkar Changemakers are putting up an exhibition of comic posters that are a result of a training programme

Re: [Goanet] Putting Catholic prejudices in context

2006-08-20 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 06:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Putting Catholic prejudices in context That was a lovely note, would be nice to have a response from 'the other side of the fence', so to speak. By the way, is the Rajdeep Sardesai

Re: [Goanet] Was Hitler Pro-Catholic?

2006-08-23 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 20:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Was Hitler Pro-Catholic? Sorry to jump into this thread at so late a stage, but Michael Burleigh's acclaimed A New History of the Third Reich is illuminating in this matter,

Re: [Goanet] Origin of words

2008-08-19 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: JoeGoaUk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Origin of words Dear Goanet, Please register my protest on this one. Where are the GN's Rules? Anyway, i will boycott Goanet for 7 days to show my resentment. Quite right, Joe, such posts need to be condemned, and I join with you in

Re: [Goanet] Origin of words

2008-08-26 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Origin of words To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vidyadhar Gadgil says.. JoeGoaUK replies: If you or anyone come across such incidences like name calling etc (past and future) just register it with GN also cc to JoeGoaUk. Thanks for the response, Joe. Did this in the past

[Goanet] Sangh Parivar runs amok in Orissa

2008-08-26 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
The Telegraph August 27 , 2008 Editorial LOVE FOR HATE When the caretaker of an orphanage run by Christian missionaries is burnt alive by a Vishwa Hindu Parishad mob in the Bargarh district of Orissa, the obvious reference point is the Graham Staines murder. Yet even that was the result of the

[Goanet] WHO’S THE REAL HINDU?

2008-08-31 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
WHO'S THE REAL HINDU? by Karan Thapar (Hindustan Times August 30, 2008) Does the VHP have the right to speak for you or I? Do they reflect our views? Do we endorse their behaviour? They call themselves the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, but who says they represent all of us? This Sunday morning, I want

Re: [Goanet] WHO?S THE REAL HINDU?

2008-08-31 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Subject: [Goanet] WHO?S THE REAL HINDU? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHO?S THE REAL HINDU? Ans: The Hindu Doctors (including the health officer) and the staff at Chicalim Hospital who put God before a dying man (child) are the real heroes, I mean the real Hindus. This was a deplorable incident,

[Goanet] Orissa: Crocodile Tears?

2008-09-04 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, Panjim, 3 September 2008 Editorial Crocodile tears? Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik says recurring communal violence has tarnished the image of his state. In an interview with Indian Express, Patnaik yesterday said: The attack on the ashram, as well as what happened thereafter, I

Re: [Goanet] violence in Orissa --- what were the cops doing?

2008-09-04 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Subject: Re: [Goanet] violence in Orissa --- what were the cops doing? Root cause of the communal riots in India is the tendency...? Gee, which alternative universe did you grow up in? The above outburst and the rest of the material spewed in the above post indicates that my remarks

[Goanet] A TRIBUTE TO D D KOSAMBI: Historian And Partisan Of The Oppressed

2008-09-05 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
A powerful tribute from a great Indian historian to the one who blazed the trail. --- A TRIBUTE TO D D KOSAMBI: Historian And Partisan Of The Oppressed - Irfan Habib 31 JULY this year would have been Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi's 100th birthday; his birth centenary is, therefore, a fitting

[Goanet] Religion and the Public Sphere

2008-09-05 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, 5 Sep 2008 Religion and the Public Sphere Vidyadhar Gadgil The controversy in Sainagar, Porvorim, over the worship of Lord Krishna at an open plot belonging to the residents of Sainagar has once again brought to the forefront the issue of the role of religion in the public sphere

[Goanet] Togadia to conduct Orissa 'yatra' despite SC objection

2008-09-06 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Times of India, 4 Sep 2008 Togadia to conduct Orissa 'yatra' despite SC objection NEW DELHI: Facing flak from the Supreme Court over his proposed 'yatra' across Orissa with the ashes of slain VHP functionary Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Pravin Togadia on

Re: [Goanet] Manmohan lets Indians dow

2008-09-07 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Sandeep Heble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Manmohan lets Indians down I chose to counter the part where you averred that members of the Nehru clan would have dealt with the riots more sternly, a statement which, based on historical facts, appeared to be demonstrably false.

Re: [Goanet] O Dear Dears

2008-09-08 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: augusto pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] O Dear Dears In Goanet Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1140: Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the thread A Need To Soothe the Mind whilst responding to some comments made by Miguel Braganza, made the following brutish comments: One more

[Goanet] St Estevam turns Ganeshotsav into harmony initiative

2008-09-08 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, 7 Sep 2008 St Estevam turns Ganeshotsav into harmony initiative HERALD CORRESPONDENT ST ESTEVAM, SEPT 7 - The picturesque island of St Estevam, just two km from Marcel, took a giant step for communal harmony, when Parish Priest of the St Estevam church was the chief guest for the

[Goanet] And now, Karnataka

2008-09-17 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, Editorial, 16 Sep 2008 And now, Karnataka… The ongoing communal violence against Christians in the Kandhamal district of Orissa and the Bajrang Dal-led attacks on Christians in Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere and Chikmagalur districts of Karnataka can no longer be seen as 'spontaneous'

[Goanet] It’s rain thunder against communa l violence

2008-09-18 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, 17 Sep 2008 It’s rain thunder against communal violence HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 16 — Such was the resolve of the people to say no to communal violence that they didn’t budge even an inch when a short spell of heavy rain threatened to disrupt a meeting called by the Council for Social

[Goanet] Knocking on Goa's Doors

2008-09-20 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, 19 Sep 2008 Knocking on Goa's Doors by Vidyadhar Gadgil Hard on the heels of the communal violence in Orissa, we have an outbreak of communal violence in Karnataka. In both cases, it is the Christian community that has been attacked and the purported reason has been protests against

Re: [Goanet] LINKS: Amazing story from colonial times... with a Goa link

2007-09-23 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * GARCA BRANCA VACATION

Re: [Goanet] No freedom of religion for Muslims in Goa?

2007-09-24 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007 http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10)

[Goanet] Hindu Janjagruthi Samiti Exhibition: An Invitation to Hate

2007-10-02 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007 http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10)

[Goanet] Between sanity and madness

2007-10-05 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * GARCA BRANCA VACATION

[Goanet] Beware the exhibition of hate...

2007-10-06 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * GARCA BRANCA VACATION

[Goanet] 'Race2Win' quiz at Carona, Aldona on Gandhi Jayanti: A brief report

2007-10-10 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
on a grid-like 'game board' prepared the previous evening by Quizvaddo and St Rita's volunteers led by Regina Alvares, Organising Secretary of St. Rita’s Association, and Entertainment Secretary Vidyadhar Gadgil. The game then had Quizmaster Savio Figueiredo of Aldona tossing up general knowledge

[Goanet] IN THE MIDST OF GOANS

2007-10-11 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Bookworm Library and Magazine Bluebelle, Tamba Colony, St Inez, Goa Contacts: Tel: +91 9823222665 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gomantak Times, October 11, 2007 IN THE MIDST OF GOANS Vidyadhar

Re: [Goanet] Voices of sanity

2007-10-11 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Support growing the reading habit among Goa's next generation of achievers

[Goanet] ReL Beware the exhibition of hatred...

2007-10-13 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Support growing the reading habit among Goa's next generation of achievers

Re: [Goanet] Defamation of HJS FACT Exibition

2007-10-17 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: vinay natekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Defamation of HJS FACT Exibition It is very strange that no Muslim have objected to the FACT Photo Exhibition. Do you seriously think they are enjoying the way they are being painted as the enemy? That is the success of the

Re: [Goanet] Is filter coffee drunk/sold in Goa?

2007-10-17 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:30:59 +0530 From: Frederick [FN] Noronha * ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Is filter coffee drunk/sold in Goa? Was just wondering after having a cuppa at Caje's place yesterday, and he showed me the process of making it:

Re: [Goanet] Defamation of HJS FACT Exibition

2007-10-18 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
to give a brief response. And then please allow me to beg off -- I cannot spend so much time crossing every t and dotting every i. In his message, Vidyadhar Gadgil says that Communalism Combat has taken up the issue of the Kashmiri Pandits. A friend of mine subscribes to the publication, and I am

Re: [Goanet] Dividing the Pie

2007-10-18 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Mervyn Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Dividing the Pie Explained simply: To ensure that limited resources are divided equally, one person cuts the pie and the second person gets the first choice of the pieces. I was still pondering the simplicity of this theory when I

[Goanet] Pointing Fingers at Fascists

2007-10-19 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Gomantak Times, 19 October 2007 POINTING FINGERS AT FASCISTS Right to Free Speech is not Absolute Jason Fernandes A fortnight ago I had occasion to visit and write about an exhibition at the Kala Academy that, in my opinion, amounted to trying to create a genocidal Gujarat-like situation in

[Goanet] The Politics of Hate

2007-10-20 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Navhind Times, 21 October 2007 The Politics of Hate Vidyadhar Gadgil Freedom of Expression, Hate Speech, and the Government Response Freedom of expression has been an issue that has been much in the public eye of late. At the national level, we have had two major cases of artists – M.F

[Goanet] Fundamentalist revival in Goa?

2007-10-21 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Is Goa experiencing some kind of a fundamentalist revival? Just sent away two Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower) who came over unsolicited (on a Sunday evening, when I was all bleary-eyed after a long siesta), and are going round house-to-house sharing the Good News. Despite repeated statements that

Re: [Goanet] Politics of Hate

2007-10-23 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Bhandare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Politics of Hate In 2004 The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has refused to pass Rakesh Sharma's award-winning film on the Gujarat violence. What is the use of giving selective information like this? The film 'Final Solution'

Re: [Goanet] Paan, Piss, Panji

2007-10-25 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Paan, Piss, Panji The first sight in Panjim during my drive home from the Dabolim airport last evening was that of two tourist buses offloading products of their metabolism on the Miramar beach, near Sharda Mandir. We get

[Goanet] The real face of the Sangh Parivar

2007-10-27 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Don't know how many of you saw Headlines Today and Aaj Tak last night for the chilling expose on the reality of the Sangh Parivar in Gujarat. Check out Tehelka.com for details. The videos are all on youtube. To start with you can see http://communalism.blogspot.com/2007/10/gujarat-2002-truth.html,

[Goanet] The Tehelka expose

2007-10-27 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Today's media has the usual hilarious statements by the Sangh Parivar chappies on the Gujarat expose (see http://www.tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107gujrat_sec.asp, if you haven't already) -- see, for example, Ravi Shankar Prasad's rubbish. The blog below does a good analysis of the

Re: [Goanet] Paan Piss and Panaji

2007-10-27 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Bhandare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Paan Piss and Panaji I had quoted a part of the Broken Peace report and asked Gadgil for a clarification. Discerning Goanetters must have noticed how he has refused to respond I hope vidyadhar will consider this as a polite reminder to

Re: [Goanet] Kudos to Floriano

2007-11-03 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Bhandare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Kudos to Floriano now that you have declared him patriot no 1 please raise your voice against the likes of gadgil and sabnis who seem to have taken up cudgels against Rajan simply because of his politcs This is a typical comment from

[Goanet] HOUSES BY THE SEA

2007-11-03 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Looks like the builders are going to be creating even more havoc. One interesting statement herein: Over 40 per cent of our bookings until now have been made by Goans. I wonder how much truth there is in this or is it just a claim by the builders to blunt opposition? - Indian Express,

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath

2007-11-03 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath The Fijians would ultimately stop using human flesh as canapes before dinner, even without the help of interventionist missionaries. Anthropological and ecological research has indicated that cannibalism may be a

Re: [Goanet] Manohar Parrikar - Response to Cedrico

2007-11-07 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Vinay Natekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Manohar Parrikar - Response to Cedrico Gujrat incident is a blot on Humanity. I condemn Narendra Modi and those who were responsible for the carnage be it either Godhra train incident or the riots that followed after that. You can

Re: [Goanet] Challenges Posed by Christian Fundamentalists

2007-11-09 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Subject: [Goanet] Challenges Posed by Christian Fundamentalists To: Sanny de Quepem [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to share with KC family my reflection on challenges posed by the Christian Fundamentalists. This is a worldwide phenomenon of people leaving the Catholic Church. This is a

[Goanet] One more horrible project

2007-11-12 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
http://www.property-report.com/aprarchives.php?id=880date=07 DSR unveils massive Goa project by Robert Carry Advertisement International property development company David Stanley Redfern has launched it´s latest Asian project, the sprawling Peace Valley in Goa. The township covers 55,125

Re: [Goanet] Radio Goa for Konkani music

2007-11-12 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Michael Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Radio Goa for Konkani music A new website www.radiogoa.net offer a very wide selection of Konkani Manglorean music 24/7. Also try http://radioverve.com/konkani. Radioverve is an Indie Indian Music Radio Site. -- Question everything --

[Goanet] VHP goons allegedly beat up 25 priests in Maharashtra

2007-11-12 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/vhp-goons-allegedly-beat-up-25-priests-in-maharashtra/52089-3.html?xml VHP goons allegedly beat up 25 priests in Maharashtra Kanhaiya Singh / CNN-IBN Sunday , November 11, 2007 at 15:25 Mumbai: With broken ribs and a fractured leg, Father Victor Pareira is just one

[Goanet] 'The whole of the BJP is debased’ : Interview with Swami Agnivesh

2007-11-12 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
'The whole of the BJP is debased’: Interview with Swami Agnivesh Tehelka Magazine, Vol 4, Issue 44, Dated Nov 17, 2007 Shailendra Pandey Swami Agnivesh tells S. ANAND about Gujarat during the riots, and about Hindutva’s assault on Hinduism. Swami Agnivesh, who has been called ‘a Marxist in

[Goanet] Petition on Nandigram violence

2007-11-12 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
http://www.petitiononline.com/rspcpifb/petition.html Below is the start of the text of the petition To: The General Secretaries of Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Communist Party of India (CPI), All India Forward Block (AIFB) Respected friends, We are horrified by the barbaric attack on

[Goanet] Summary of meetings with Digambar Kamat

2007-11-13 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Summary of meetings with Digambar Kamat Digu feigned ignorance of the details of the Aldeia de Goa project and said he needed to study the chronology. This is, of course, pure bullshit. It is inconceivable that Digu, a builder

Re: [Goanet] VHP goons allegedly beat up 25 priests (Vidyaghar)

2007-11-15 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Bhandare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] VHP goons allegedly beat up 25 priests (Vidyaghar) Even though the article mentions only one priest, did our resident comrade type in 25 priests in the title for the extra effect? does that mean he is a liar? Instead of making frivolous

[Goanet] Property in Goa: Heaven on hold as Goa awaits its fate

2007-11-18 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Telegraph, UK, 18 Nov 2007 Property in Goa: Heaven on hold as Goa awaits its fate Britons love it for the beaches, winter sun and its house prices - but is it a safe investment? Ginetta Vedrickas investigates The British love affair with Goa is easy to understand. In contrast to the frenetic

[Goanet] Intervention sought on Margao expo

2007-11-29 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet mourns the passing of Jorge de Abreu Noronha in Portugal - Nov 27/07

[Goanet] Narendra Modi, BJP show true colours

2007-11-29 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet mourns the passing of Jorge de Abreu Noronha in Portugal - Nov 27/07

Re: [Goanet] Narendra Modi, BJP show true colours

2007-11-30 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet mourns the passing of Jorge de Abreu Noronha in Portugal - Nov 27/07

[Goanet] Sewage and sanitation issues in Goa and India

2007-12-04 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Amidst all the talk of shit on this forum, I don't know how many people noticed this item. http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=4685cid=26 Two labourers meet tragic end in septic tank BY HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, NOV 24 – Two labourers, who were employed to clean a septic tank of a

[Goanet] Insiders and Outsiders

2007-12-10 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Gomantak Times, 8 December 2007 Insiders and Outsiders by Vidyadhar Gadgil One of the most popular subjects of public discourse in Goa is the ‘Goan identity’ -- reams of newsprint, scholarly articles and even entire books are devoted to this subject, and it is a staple of innumerable seminars

[Goanet] 2 yrs on, communal riots bring govt apathy to fore

2008-03-04 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, March 4 2008 2 yrs on, communal riots bring govt apathy to fore BY HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, MARCH 3 — It’s exactly two years that Goa got a blot on its secular image when the State witnessed communal riots at Guddemol in Sanvordem-Curchorem but the State government hardly seems to have

Re: [Goanet] Parrikar v/s Parrikar

2008-03-05 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Bosco - Goanet Volunteer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Parrikar v/s Parrikar These are some very good ideas from Bosco. Some suggestions. Having said that, I think we should all understand, rather, try to understand that Goanet was not setup 14 years ago as a platform for

Re: [Goanet] Hinduism and Henotheism

2008-03-18 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canada Early Bird Discount Registration closes March 31, 2008

[Goanet] Goa: Tourism fuels trafficking of humans

2008-03-18 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canada Early Bird Discount Registration closes March 31, 2008

[Goanet] Deconstructing tourism image of Goa

2008-03-24 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canada Early Bird Discount Registration closes March 31, 2008

[Goanet] Why Manohar Parrikar is not CM today...and so on and so forth

2008-03-24 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
--- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canada Early Bird Discount Registration closes March 31, 2008

Re: [Goanet] Fwd: Why Manohar Parrikar is not CM today...

2008-03-27 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: anil desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Fwd: Why Manohar Parrikar is not CM today...and will You say that the pro-Parrikar campaign is getting desperate. You must be living in a fantasy world. Look at the current political situation in Goa. You are missing the point. You

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

2008-03-29 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
To Goanet - What's this, Comrade Einstein, a devastating comeback or what? Of course, the MLA of Panjim is the very first fellow I took my case to. What's more, I found out that he was already seized with the issues. As usual, when you don't have anything really meaningful to say, the

Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim

2008-03-31 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim (was Why Manohar is not CM today) Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: As usual, when you don't have anything really meaningful to say, the strategy is clear -- engage in invective, ridicule, labelling and ad hominem

Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim

2008-04-01 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Apologies in advance for a long mail, but Dr. Virgnicar has raised some very vital issues, and I have tried my best to address them. From: anand virgincar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim You lived in UK during the rivers of blood days . I live here in a

[Goanet] Using search engines and reading archives

2008-04-01 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: anand virgincar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim (was Why Manohar Parrikar is not CM today) My comments : As I said , the days of flinging accusations at MP on Goanet without providing factual proof are long gone. I will answer some of the

[Goanet] Six feet of land

2008-04-02 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
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

Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim

2008-04-02 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
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

[Goanet] Clean up Goa

2008-04-03 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2item_no=210538version=1template_id=40parent_id=22 Gulf Times, Wednesday, 2 April, 2008, Hope of justice for Gujarat riot victims AKB Krishnan snip Clean up Goa FOUR decades after catapulting to the world’s tourism map for its

[Goanet] Norms of Civilized Discourse [Was Re: MP and Panjim]

2008-04-03 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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

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

2008-04-04 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Update on PIL concerning the city of Panjim See - http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=1964cid=26 Minutes of the meeting with the Chief Secretary on Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Re: [Goanet] PARRIKAR v/s PARRIKAR : The interview

2008-04-04 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Amidst some other rather pressing preoccupations, finally managed to find the time to see the interview. Much food for thought here (127 minutes of it!), and a few more viewings will be needed to process and analyse it. But that's another story for another day. Meanwhile, it is clear that the

[Goanet] DARE TO WALK A DIFFERENT ROAD

2008-04-06 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
unspoilt environment and and natural beauty. We have a literate, well-informed, socially engaged population which is deeply attached to its land and culture. By Vidyadhar Gadgil --- There is a sense of desperation creeping into Goan society

[Goanet] The Goan Observer's Take on the Desecration of the Aldona hill

2008-04-14 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Extracts from Stray Thoughts by Rajan Narayan in Goan Observer, Saturday, April 12-18, 2008 COUTO OPPOSITION AND a few stray thoughts on how even the Coutos have joined the battle against the land sharks. In the past, Alban Couto has always been reluctant to come out openly against the

[Goanet] Aldona Bachao Abhiyan seeks GBAs support for preventing illegal land sale

2008-04-14 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=041520 Aldona Bachao Abhiyan seeks GBAs support for preventing illegal land sale NT Staff Reporter Panaji, April 14 The Aldona Bachao Abhiyan (ABA) core group met at Carona on April 13 called on the authorities to prevent the breach of law

[Goanet] Aldona news: Residents up in arms aga inst conversion ‘overdo’ by developers

2008-04-16 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Note: This appeared a day ago in the Madras edition of the Hindu; today (16/4/08) it is in the Mangalore edition, which is what we get in Goa. In Panjim, you should be able to get the Hindu at Varsha bookstall and in Mapusa at the newspaper between the Taxi stand and Syndicate Bank. Anyway, I am

[Goanet] Signature campaign against hill cutting gains momentum

2008-04-17 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=2760cid=26 Herald, 18 April 2008 Signature campaign against hill cutting gains momentum HERALD CORRESPONDENT PORVORIM, APRIL 17 – The Aldona Bachao Abhiyan (ABA) has already collected over 1,000 signatures in an ongoing drive to request the Chief Town

[Goanet] THE DESECRATION OF GOA: A MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE

2008-04-18 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, 18 April 2008 THE DESECRATION OF GOA: A MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE By Vidyadhar Gadgil Aldona is the latest in the seemingly unending list of Goan villages to be rocked by the scandal of anti-people development. One of the most pristine of Goan villages, it is not as if it had remained

[Goanet] Invitation for Ethnography of Goa, Daman and Diu Book Release Function

2008-04-21 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
[Please circulate widely] Penguin Books India and Institute Menezes Braganza cordially invite you to the launch of Ethnography of Goa, Daman and Diu, Volume 2 (Etnografia da India Portuguesa Vol 2) by A.B. de Braganca Pereira Translated by Maria Aurora Couto The book will be released by Dr. Jose

[Goanet] WEBSITE OF ALDONA BACHAO ABHIYAN GOES ON-LINE

2008-04-22 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
The website of the Aldona Bachao Abhiyan is now on-line. The URL is http://savealdona.wordpress.com/. Do check it out. Pasted below is an extract from the website which gives some information about it. --- Note This is a very basic website, put up by a team of volunteers. It has been done

[Goanet] Unearthing the Goan Idiom

2008-04-23 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, 23 April 2008 MARIA AURORA COUTO - Bragança Pereira’s book is about a heterogeneous, interdependent society exposed to all kinds of cultural influences—Portuguese, Christian, from the Indian mainland and Europe—which adapted in varying degrees, yet retained many of its local

Re: [Goanet] TCP exposed for lenient attitude towards violators

2008-04-23 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
This is obviously a hot issue right now. All the papers have news on it today. Sunaparant has it as the lead item on page 1. Does this mean that there is hope for villages exposed to hill-cutting by corporate marauders, like Aldona, Siolim and so many others? Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: TCP exposed

[Goanet] Hill-cutting activities to figure at Aldona Gram Sabha

2008-04-23 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
, Marie D'Souza, Vidyadhar Gadgil and Benjamin D'Souza (members). -- Question everything -- Karl Marx

Re: [Goanet] Soter D'Souza: The silence of GBA is frightening,

2008-04-24 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is why some of us admire Soter, FN. That he is no liege boy to any party or politician, Unlike some people we know, who are acolytes and worshippers at the shrine of a particular politician and party? And who, in a classic case of the pot

[Goanet] Communalism in Goa: Just say no!

2008-04-24 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Herald, 24 April 2008, Editorial Just say no! In a time when religious intolerance is increasing, it comes as a breath of fresh air when ordinary people stand up to say no to those who propagate that the people who worship differently from you are the `enemy'. In that sense,' the faithful of the

Re: [Goanet] A thank you to you ....

2008-04-25 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
From: Frederick [FN] Noronha * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] A thank you to you We thought that one way of paying a tribute to her memory, and also looking out into the future, would be to set up a small online venture that encourages young people here

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