[Goanet] Betrayal by GBA and the Task Force farce

2008-07-29 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
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[Goanet] Disinformation and smear campaign coming soon

2008-07-30 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
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[Goanet] On conflicts over Conflict of Interest

2008-07-31 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I have received a couple of private emails saying what a great guy Dean D'Cruz is. Dean may well be a prince among men, he may well prefer Cheerios for breakfast, and he may well know Bach's Fugues inside out. But all that is completely irrelevant. In situations involving

[Goanet] Goa Bachao Abhiyan - a colossal failure

2008-07-31 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The sacred cows of GBA do not like any kind of criticism. There is no mechanism, internal or external, within GBA for robust feedback that could lead to error detection and subsequent correction. Those in the clique framing the agenda and calling the shots fancy themselves as

Re: [Goanet] On conflicts over Conflict of Interest

2008-07-31 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Samir Kelekar wrote: Rajan, I agree with you about what you said as a general principle, but there can be exceptions to the rule. This is neither here nor there. Every politician also makes exceptions when he doles out favours to his chosen few. If we are to expect a high standard

Re: [Goanet] On conflicts over Conflict of Interest

2008-08-01 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The usual suspects have once demonstrated their usual reading and comprehension problems. So here, let me slow it down. In this thread, nobody has called into question Dean's integrity, or his desire to do good by Goa, or his service for the good of Goa. I have myself met him

Re: [Goanet] Save Goa crusader Oscar quits GBA (Gomantak Times)

2008-08-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - George Pinto writes: Wasn't Rajan Parrikar the first to call for Oscar Rebello's resignation from the GBA a few months ago? Guilty as charged. I aim to please and offend, not necessarily in that order :-) Is Rajan a man ahead of his times? No. Right now I am precisely 12.5

[Goanet] Contributions to Goa

2008-08-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The Navhind Times has been giving us weekly rations of contributions made by Kannadigas, Oriyas, Keralites, Dilliwallahs, Punjabis, Maithils, Nagas, Kashmiris, Marathas, Bongs, and so on and so forth. Be very grateful, Goenkara. Where would you be without these contributions

Re: [Goanet] Save Goa crusader Oscar quits GBA

2008-08-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Marshall Mendonza wrote: Comment: Was Rajan a man ahead of his times or one of the campaigners who initiated the insidious campaign against Dr Oscar Rebello which has taken a toll on one of the best public faces who galvanised the people of Goa against corruption? The loss is not

Re: [Goanet] Save Goa crusader Oscar quits GBA

2008-08-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Miguel Braganza wrote: Rajan Parrikar is NOT the type of person I would like to associate. Gee, I'm shattered, dude. Imagine not being able to bask in the shadow of your distinguished, CbC (Certified-by-Cecil) being. I guess with this devastating blow, I should cast off my mortal

[Goanet] See this and weep

2008-08-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - It is now the official policy of the govt to let ghatis take over Goa - http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=7895cid=2 r

Re: [Goanet] Save Goa crusader Oscar quits GBA

2008-08-04 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Miguel Braganza wrote: There is no time to waste in these futile diversionary tactics unleashed by the Establishment, we must remain focussed . . . If Goans take the diversion, they will miss the bridge and fall in the river. Oooh, look who's talkin' !! What's this, you just

Re: [Goanet] Save Goa crusader Oscar quits GBA

2008-08-04 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Miguel Braganza wrote: I was as solidly with Soter D'Souza and the Goa People's Assembly . . Then you shifted the goal posts ...or you had hidden the goal posts earlier ... to reveal Dr. Anil DESA-i and other men-behind-the-curtains Who were these other men behind the curtains?

[Goanet] GBA cartoon by Soter D'Souza

2008-08-06 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Betrayal by GBA, a cartoon by Soter D'Souza - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/GBA-cartoon.jpg Warm regards, r

[Goanet] Makka nakka Mopa

2008-08-08 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - If Mopa goes ahead, Goa will cease to be. The last sanctuary of the civilized, pleasant living in India will be indistinguishable from the stinking, cacophonous bog that is the rest of inhabited India. I fear that insidious attempts to debilitate opposition to Mopa have been

Re: [Goanet] Airport Bomb Scare (By Remo Fernandes, The Navhind Times)

2008-08-10 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Remo writes: Now I normally produce photo IDs when asked. But what is it that made me react badly to this simple routine request on that particular morning? Was it my ego that was hurt because the cop didn't know who I was? Was it the fact that I hadn't slept enough the previous

[Goanet] Media slut fires blank shots at the Church

2008-08-10 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The Margao builder lobby, their moles within GBA, and their hired media sluts are at a desperate pass. The recent stunt of the GBA convener's resignation has not had the desired effect of evoking any sympathy wave for the convener and his claque. The idea - now proving itself

[Goanet] GBA or OBA?

2008-08-12 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - It is reliably learnt that hectic moves are afoot by the Margao builder lobby and its chelas to rehabilitate their blue-eyed dolly in an upcoming meeting of the GBA: Goa Bachao Abhiyan is about to transmute into Oscar Bachao Abhiyan. The media hacks have already gone to work

Re: [Goanet] Talking Photos- New Panjim Pics: Azad Maidan AZAD for all etc

2008-08-12 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Joe, Thank you for doing this. This is simply the ongoing, what I refer to as, 'ghatification' of Goa. The CCP and the Goa govt are in violation of the High Court order following the PIL on Panjim. I have filed a contempt petition. Let's see when it comes up on the board.

Re: [Goanet] Goan Tolerance

2008-08-13 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Santosh Helekar writes to a sensible Arwin Mesquita: I have copiously expressed my views on Goanet about our many Goan identities... No kidding. What insights into the realm of the blindingly obvious are you going to copiously reveal next? BTW, I am still waiting for you to

Re: [Goanet] Goan Tolerance

2008-08-13 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Santosh Helekar wrote: I guess this is an admission that there is no unique singular Goan identity. You are still guessing about this? Reminds me of what Einstein once said of a scientist: The man can calculate but he can't think. So when he zooms the camera on Arwin's

[Goanet] What about Majorda?

2008-08-14 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - While there is tumult and resistance against housing projects in key Salcette villages, Majorda seems to be quiet on that front. I know for certain that new projects are in the pipeline in that village, including one luxury villas project by a Margao builder and a hotel project by

Re: [Goanet] Origin of word Tarvotti - help

2008-08-15 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Selma wrote: I'd like to know the actually meaning of the word tarvotti. I am assuming it is two words, the genesis being tarv, and the addition being otti. The word is an 'apabransha' of the Sanskrit word taranti, meaning boat. Related Sanskrit words are taraN and tAraN (where N

Re: [Goanet] Take a look...

2008-08-15 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote: r, et al, see this... Quite an obscene display of ostentiousness... What to do? The man desperately wants to be seen as India's Trump or Branson. Like 99% of urban Indians, he aspires to be like some white guy. Let me also dispose of another matter

Re: [Goanet] Take a look...

2008-08-15 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Santosh Helekar wrote: This biased emotional utterance is countered by the informed analysis of Goldman Sachs. Please see: http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/99-dreaming.pdf What did you do, frantically search Google and shovel the first link that came up? Your trust

[Goanet] The hordes are coming

2008-08-16 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - It is now the official policy of both the state and central govt to screw Goa and Goans. Indian Railways has proposed to lay a double rail line from Hospet to Vasco at a whopping cost of Rs 3000 crore, which is expected to not only give a big boost to freight traffic from the

Re: [Goanet] Anjuna - ‘Rebello Mansion’!

2008-08-16 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Domnic Fernandes wrote: When you come to Anjuna from Mapusa, if you take the road on the right from St. Michael’s Church, and, if you proceed straight from four-road junction at Bhatti, the Rebello Mansion is located on the left of the main road leading to Xapora, about two

Re: [Goanet] Bleeding airlines cut Goa flights

2008-08-16 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Philip Thomas wrote: The Goa government would do well to man action stations instead of complacently passing off the drop as a temporary phase. Rejoice, Goans! Let us pray that the number of flights in and out of Goa drop to less than 5 per day. Anything and everything to keep

Re: [Goanet] Take a look...

2008-08-18 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - George Pinto wrote: What I see in the video are a number of blatant land use violations, including building close to the water's edge. Ironically, Mallya's land use violations are close to Salgaonkar's River Princess ecocological disaster. For Mallya's blatant disregard for the

Re: [Goanet] COMMENT: Look in the Mirror, Mr Gupta (by Venita Coelho)

2008-08-18 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Venita Coelho wrote: FACT: The GBA includes social activist Roland Martins, who has ensured door delivery of cooking gas and exposed many a fraud by marketing agencies; Architect Dean D'Cruz who is a member of the TF; Soter D'Souza who is the Director of the Centre for Panchayati Raj;

[Goanet] Goans must stand firm against Bihari thugs their threats

2008-08-20 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I understand that a storm has been kicked up in Bihar over Ravi Naik's - for once, honest - remarks that the train from Patna to Goa would bring in riffraff from Bihar into Goa in numbers that would spell disaster for the state. The Bihari CM has asked for an apology from Ravi Naik.

[Goanet] Professor Raheja coming to Goa to educate Goans !

2008-08-21 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Will wonders never cease? Raheja is coming to town to educate Goans. The real question is: what is Raheja still doing in Goa after Digu declared 8 months ago that SEZs were out? See - * http://tinyurl.com/6z9w4h Daijiworld Media Network - Goa (MR) By Our Special

[Goanet] RP2021 draft on Aug 31

2008-08-22 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The govt is planning a furtive release of the droppings of the sham Task Force, when everyone in Goa will be enjoying Ganesh holidays. http://www.navhindtimes.com/story.php?story=2008082123 Warm regards, r

[Goanet] Where is this Oberoi hotel coming up?

2008-08-22 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The serial rape of Goa continues. This sounds like a stealth operation. Hotel and villas on a 50 acre plot. Where? http://sify.com/finance/equity/fullstory.php?id=14740764cid=20753 EIH Ltd, the flagship company of the Oberoi group, plans to invest Rs 650 crore on two new

[Goanet] Siddhanath shrine near Borim

2008-08-22 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The shrine of Siddhanath (a form of Shiva) atop the eponymous hill near the village of Borim lies 370 m above sea level. It is not a frequently visited site for access is not easy. A 45 minutes trudge uphill is the only way to get there. However, there is recompense for the

[Goanet] Press release by Goa People's Assembly

2008-08-22 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - * The Goa People's Assembly, a forum for protection of Goan Rights, at it's meeting held on 22nd August, 2008 at T.B. Cunha Hall, Panjim, condemns the unwarranted interference of Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, and Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, in the

[Goanet] Revving up the disinformation campaign

2008-08-23 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - In yesterday's Herald there was a report masquerading as news when in fact it read like a paid advertisement. It was about a concrete pastry king's business. How is it that Goan journalists have time for spurious reportage bordering on propaganda but have no time for the

[Goanet] The writing on the wall

2008-08-23 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The selling of Goa has shifted into top gear. Until Goans come out into the streets and stop this, Goa is toast. The prospect of owning a place of his own in their own homeland is now a fast receding dream for 99% of Goans. See below. The usual suspects are prostituting Goa for

[Goanet] Sarpanches and their builder buddies

2008-08-24 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - We have a remarkable scenario playing out in Goa today. Sunday after Sunday in gram sabhas all over the state, people in large numbers are telling their panchayat leaders that they do not want all these housing projects that have been approved without consulting them the

Re: [Goanet] GOA: Lawyer's bid to clean Augean stable

2008-08-25 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - First of all, kudos to Sudha. This begs a few questions - 1) Was this major scandal published in any of the local dailies? If not, why not? 2) What are all the activists going to do now? These are grounds for an all-Goa agitation to demand resignation of the 2 ministers and

[Goanet] Flotsam and jetsam from India head to Goa

2008-08-26 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Goa has become a magnet for dregs from India and beyond. We have ceded control of our homeland to guttersnipes and criminal elements from all over. * CANACONA- Although the start of the tourist season is still around a month away, Lamanis have already made their descent on

[Goanet] Goa's villains close ranks

2008-08-27 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Scan the names carefully in the news item below from today's Herald. It features the rogue's gallery of Goa's builder mafia which Herald cutely calls professional bodies. They want their bum pal Digu to clip the powers of the gram sabhas. This is simply another backdoor

[Goanet] Kazur

2008-08-27 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The remarkable pre-historic art gallery at Usgaimol - now under threat from the criminal mining activity nearby - in Sanguem taluka is fairly well-known. Not as well known are the petroglyphs inscribed on a rock in a field a few miles away in the tiny village of Kazur in Quepem

[Goanet] Are Goans going to let Biharis bully them?

2008-08-27 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Are Goa's leaders going to be silent witnesses to the ongoing intimidation and threats or are we going to tell them to get lost and not interfere in the internal affairs of Goa? This is priceless - Biharis lecturing others on the spirit of the constitution. See -

[Goanet] Matanhy Saldanha calls for Special Status for Goa

2008-08-29 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Please forward this report of Matanhy Saldanha's press conference to every Goan you know in Goa, India, and around the world. I am also including the text below in case there are difficulties in opening the pdf file. Regards, r http://www.parrikar.org/misc/Matanhy-SS-for-Goa.pdf

[Goanet] Goa Medical Hospital, Utt Goenkara etc

2008-08-30 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I distinctly remember the old hospital in Panjim soon after Goa's Liberation and in the few years thereafter. I don't mean to say it was the acme of perfection, but it was a respectable place. To think of what has become of it today! The sty we have in Bambolim, that some of you

Re: [Goanet] Kazur

2008-08-30 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Santosh Helekar wrote: This is an outrage! My my! The man has stirred. Goa is saved! Phew. Would a signature campaign to declare this area a national heritage site through the Archeological Survey of India work? This faith in the ability of the ASI is as touching as the

[Goanet] Monsoon in Moira

2008-08-31 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - These photographs were taken on an exquisite monsoon morning of the 17th of August, 2007. I think they evoke the spirit character of the season. Church of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception (1636) - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/moira-1.jpg

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

2008-09-02 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Santosh Helekar wrote: Communal riots have plagued India since its inception. The root cause of this madness is the tendency for even educated people to incite hatred against those who are different from them... Root cause of the communal riots in India is the tendency...? Gee,

Re: [Goanet] Violence against Christians in Orissa

2008-09-02 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Selma Cardoso wrote: Just a few months ago some posters on Goanet were extolling the virtues of the BJP in Goa, and wanted us to watch the Parrikar v/s Parrikar interview, so that we could have a better understanding of Parrikar's thought processes. This same Parrikar who says the

Re: [Goanet] Why is it that we have to LIE about others?

2008-09-02 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
Jose Colaco wrote: It is my position that you are either Negligently or Intentionally MisRepresenting the words of Selma (Cardoso) Carvalho. Sorry about that. I was paraphrasing from memory (like the other material I claim Selma has uttered in the past). The word should have been hate not

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

2008-09-02 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Santosh Helekar wrote: Gee, which alternative universe did you grow up in? The above outburst and the rest of the material spewed Outburst? Gee, what have you been smoking? You can't seem to hold even half a thought together here, scientiss-bab. Warm regards, r

[Goanet] Why is it that some have to LIE about LYING?

2008-09-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
-goanet.org/2007-December/067176.html In light of this, I am sorry about nothing. Tra-la, r - Original Message From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 10:20:19 AM Subject: Re: Why is it that we have to LIE about others? Jose

Re: [Goanet] Let's concentrate on Orissa

2008-09-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Selma Cardoso wrote: Hopefully I am aborting this subject by changing the subject line. What I said or didn't say is irrelevant. But you were the one who wanted a stroll down memory lane. You inaugurated this (s)hit-and-run fest, and now you suddenly declare it irrelevant?

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

2008-09-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Santosh Helekar wrote: Please tell me what according to you is the root cause of communal violence like the one we see in Orissa today. Your formulation of the question is spurious. There is not a root cause and there can be no pat answer to this difficult issue. Certainly no

Re: [Goanet] Let's concentrate on Orissa

2008-09-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Ralph Rau wrote: I'm puzzled by Rajan Parrikar dredging up past incidents which can in no way mitigate or preclude this outrage. True. But I was responding to Selma Cardoso's selective outrage and her pointing the fingers at Hindus while claiming that only Christians an Muslims

[Goanet] Dr. Kashinath Sardesai passes away

2008-09-03 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Dr. Kashinath Sardesai passed away in Dubai on Sept 3, 2008, in Dubai after suffering a heart attack. A distinguished doctor, a burnished intellect, and a man of deep culture, he divided the past many years between Panjim and Dubai where his eldest daughter is based. He was the

[Goanet] Ganapati in Goa

2007-09-24 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
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] Plea to the Mayor of Panjim

2007-09-24 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
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] Illegal paanwallahs raided in Panjim [O Heraldo]

2007-09-25 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
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] Goa - An Intimate Portrait, Photo Exhibition by Rajan P. Parrikar (Nov 1-6, 2007)

2007-10-11 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
Bookworm Library and Magazine Bluebelle, Tamba Colony, St Inez, Goa Contacts: Tel: +91 9823222665 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Announcement GOA - AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT A Photo Exhibition by Rajan P

[Goanet] Goa - An Intimate Portrait, a photo exhibition (Nov 1-6, 2007)

2007-10-16 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet GOA - AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT A Photo Exhibition by Rajan P. Parrikar Where: Institute Menezes Braganza (Art Gallery) Near Azad Maidan, Panjim, Goa When: November 1 - 6, 2007, 9 am to 7 pm Admission: Free, and open to all To the popular imagination the world over, Goa is the fun

[Goanet] Goa to become Googaon, too

2007-10-22 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - You already knew of it from my accounts. Take a look at my gallery, if you haven't yet - http://www.parrikar.org/images/Gurgaon/index.html Now Jug Suraiya does a new number - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Jug_Suraiya_Town_and_shitty/articleshow/2477494.cms

Re: [Goanet] Goa to become Gurgaon, too

2007-10-24 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I read that Dr. Oscar Rebello, Convener of the GBA, has declared publicly that ghatis are not a threat to Goa. I wonder how the good doctor arrived at this verdict. It couldn't have been through arithmetic, for simple counting and elementary induction would settle the matter

[Goanet] Paan, Piss, Panji

2007-10-24 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - 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. The buses bore number plates of Karnataka and Maharashtra, and the irrigation

[Goanet] Digu on his way out?

2007-10-24 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet Rumours doing the rounds have it that Digu will soon be eased out of the CM's chair and the fair lovely geriatric boy Pratapsing will be reinstalled. Apparently, fellow Kangress politicos are unhappy that under Digu their looting of the state and its land has been curtailed.

[Goanet] Press Release - Photo Exhibition Goa - An Intimate Portrait (Nov 1-6)

2007-10-25 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - A photo exhibition by Rajan P. Parrikar entitled Goa - An Intimate Portrait will be held at Institute Menezes Braganza in Panjim from November 1-6 between 9 am to 7 pm. On display will be photographs shot over a period of 45 days from June through Sept this year

Re: [Goanet] Paan, Piss, Panji

2007-10-25 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - A reader from Mumbai emails, Isn't it the responsibility of the Goa govt to provide tourists with sanitation facilities? The short answer is: no. It is first and foremost the responsibility of the tourist to ensure that his needs are accounted for during the entire portion of

[Goanet] Hindu Jagruti Samiti and Marxist Rubbish

2007-10-26 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I hear that the recent exhibition by the Hindu Jagruti Samiti has sent the Marxists and their lapdog sympathizers into a tizzy. Comrade Vidyadhar Gadgil, I am reliably told, is blue in the face whining about those fascist Hindus . I mean, how dare the Hindu twits speak up the

[Goanet] Six Lanes to Hell

2007-10-27 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The usual political suspects in Goa have thrown their weight behind the creation of a new 6-lane highway. Like the proposed Special Ghati Zones this, too, is a terrible mistake. You ought to ask yourself who exactly is supporting these projects. At the head of the list is the

[Goanet] On Panjim's Traffic Woes - A Proposal

2007-10-27 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I have empirically observed that the the quality of breathable air in Panjim has diminished discernibly in the past 5 years. Is any environmental NGO systematically documenting data about this? (Let me guess: no). The degradation is a direct consequence of the dramatic increase in

[Goanet] Matanhy Saldhanha's brilliant article in today's NT (Frame it!)

2007-10-28 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Today's Panorama section of the Navhind Times carries a brilliant article A Regional Plan for Future Generations by Matanhy Saldanha. This is such a sublime piece of work that I couldn't believe it got printed in that *** of a newspaper, The Navhind Times. Every single Goan

[Goanet] Why is Datta Naik on the Regional Plan 2021 Task Force?

2007-10-28 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Datta Damodar Naik - he calls himself a thinker, I call him a stinker - has been made a member of the Task Force for the Regional Plan 2021 by his buddy Digu. Prima facie this does not pass the smell test (the stinker's stink notwithstanding). Datta Naik is a builder himself and in

Re: [Goanet] Six Lanes to Hell

2007-10-29 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
Someone asked me today why Goa shouldn't follow the China model for development and infrastructure. China's development has come at a terrible price with staggering damage to the environment. There is so much information available in the public domain and on the Internet on this subject that I

Re: [Goanet] Paan, Piss, Panji

2007-10-29 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - There has been a fresh drive against the city paanwallahs and encroachers. Councillor Surendra Furtado has been admirable in his efforts to enforce the law. However, the paanwallahs and other city law-breakers are said to have a patron in one of the CCP councillors. That is,

[Goanet] Photo Exhibition: GOA - An Intimate Portrait

2007-10-30 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To: Goanet October 31, 2007 PRESS NOTE - for immediate release GOA - An Intimate Portrait, a photo exhibition by Dr. Rajan P. Parrikar will be held at Institute Menezes Braganza in Panjim from Nov 1-6 between 9 am to 7 pm. On display will be photographs shot by Rajan over a period of 45 days

[Goanet] On learning from the Swiss

2007-10-31 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
There is a thing or two we Goans ought to learn from the Swiss. Both the places are major tourist destinations but the Swiss just do it much, much better. Of course, they don't have to deal with ghatis (well, many desi tourists go there and behave like ghatis but that is a topic for another

[Goanet] CCP - laying Panjim to rest

2007-11-06 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Apropos of the ongoing fisherwomen's strike in Panjim, corporator Yatin Parekh had the following to say (my paraphrase, but mostly there): Anyone, Goan or non-Goan, can come and do business here. We can't stop them. Now read that again, and think about it. This is an

[Goanet] Task Force for Regional Plan 2021 - a sham?

2007-11-06 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
I have studied the composition of the Task Force appointed to draft Regional Plan 2021. None of the members inspires much confidence. There is the much ballyhooed Charles Correia but anyone who has seen the dud he designed - Kala Academy in Panjim - with scant regard to climatic conditions,

[Goanet] Who are these people?

2007-11-06 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - On the river promenade in Panjim you now find a rash of ghati boys (I suspect from UP Bihar) cycling up and down the sidewalk selling kulfi. The odd thing is the unusually high number of these fellows - I must have counted not less than 15 within a space of 500 metres. Where are

[Goanet] The invasion of the security guards

2007-11-06 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - You find them everywhere these days. By everywhere I mean not just in Goa but in all the Indian metros. Young men from Bihar, Jharkhand, and UP dressed in uniforms and posted as guards. They mill around apartment complexes, malls, banks, offices - they are everywhere. In

[Goanet] GCCI limpet extols SEZs

2007-11-07 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Now that the opposition to SEZs (Special Ghati Zones) is mounting, the honchos of Goan industry are closing ranks. They have sent out their limpet Nitin Kuncolienkar, President of GCCI, to sing hosannas to SEZs (vide Navhind Times, Nov 8, 2007). Soon we may have Datta Damodar Naik,

Re: [Goanet] The invasion of the security guards

2007-11-07 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - To further sharpen my point, take a look at this picture - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/guard.jpg He was the guard (Shri Tripathi, from UP) at my bank in Panjim. I had had it with the mayhem at the queues at the cashier's counter. This fellow would simply stand there

[Goanet] Waiting for Deepavali in Goa

2007-11-08 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The usual perfunctory Happy Diwali greetings have been said, exchanged, SMS'ed emailed. Meaningless bon mots all. These are dark days for Goa, there is no Deepavali here. This morning several rain-drenched Narkasurs were consigned to the flames in Taleigao, but the living

[Goanet] Narkasur Nite 2007 photographs

2007-11-08 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - See - http://www.parrikar.org/images/Narkasur-2007/index.html Warm regards, r

[Goanet] Goa - Only for Non-Goans

2007-11-08 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
Meandering in the countryside today I came upon the following sign by a street in the village of Siolim - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/onlyforeigners-01.jpg The house in question is this one - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/onlyforeigners-02.jpg Shameful does not even come

[Goanet] Horror in Paithona

2007-11-10 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I have been taking morning drives through Goan villages these past few days. Today I came upon this heinous sight in Paithona - a large wooded area cleared for pouring concrete - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/paithona-horror-01.jpg

Re: [Goanet] Goa - Only for Non-Goans

2007-11-10 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
From the feedback I have received on this issue, most seem to have missed my point. By Foreigners Only what he really means is Whites Only. The landlord has every right to set criteria for admittance of tenants. My only problem is that the sign did not say Goans Only. As I have said before, I

Re: [Goanet] Waiting for Deepavali in Goa

2007-11-10 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Based on the email feedback received on this entry, I would like to expand on a couple of points - 1) No, I do not avoid places and events inorder to avoid people. The bigger incentive (to avoid) is provided by what has become to the place itself. Case in point - Miramar. Walks

[Goanet] Hill cutting in Bambolim blessed by Digu's govt

2007-11-11 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Digambar Kamat's government has quietly blessed the hill cutting carried out by the Aldeia de Goa people in Bambolim. I was there on Dec 26, 2006, at the Bambolim Rally. Looks like we are back to square one. I call upon the GBA members to immediately resign from the sham Task

[Goanet] Demand dismissal of Goa government

2007-11-11 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
The current Goa govt, by approving the hill cutting at Bambolim, has betrayed the people of Goa. The Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) should come out explicitly and vociferously with the demand that this govt be dismissed, or else threaten a mass campaign that will force it to step down. Now is not the

Re: [Goanet] Horror in Paithona

2007-11-11 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Today I went again to Paithona and took a friend along. We had a talk with the family who lives cheek by jowl to the Chowgule Real Estate Constructions project and gathered the following: - Construction began even before the NOC was issued by the panchayat. - Over 100 trees were

[Goanet] Joe's photo of ghati defecating in Panjim

2007-11-11 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I received a photograph of a ghati taking a dump in Panjim, taken by Joe-UK. I hear that it has launched a bout of nausea on Goanet. I have been saying this for a while now - Goa has been turned into an outdoor toilet by both ghatis and Indian visitors. It is impossible to miss

[Goanet] Boycott/Oppose IFFI

2007-11-11 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - There's an opportunity coming up - As a first salvo against this anti-Goans government of Goa lead by Digambar Kamat, GBA and the Goan Movement Against SEZs should call on people to boycott the upcoming IFFI and initiate a campaign to oppose this govt-sponsored event. Issue a call

[Goanet] Summary of meetings with Digambar Kamat

2007-11-12 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I was present today, in the morning and in the afternoon, at the meetings Digambar Kamat, the Chief Minister of Goa, had with two separate groups, one representing the Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA), the other representing the Goan Movement Against SEZs (GMAS). My impressions are

[Goanet] Monserrate holding Panjim hostage

2007-11-12 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The CCP has conducted several raids on the encroachers and unauthorized vendors in Panjim in the past few weeks but the illegal hawkers/squatters magically re-appear with their wares unscathed and resume operations. I decided to investigate this seeming immortality of the violators

[Goanet] Invasion of the Barbarians

2007-11-13 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Can anyone tell us what exactly the RO2021 Task Force will have left for saving? When Goa is buried, the GBA will have another meeting with Digu, and Digu will promise to study the chronology. But the decent man that Digu is, he won't order disinterment of Goa's corpse for an

[Goanet] Stake through the heart of Goa Velha Agacai

2007-11-13 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The crimes against Goa perpetrated by the Goa govt continue. In the latest sequel to the ubiquitous horrors, the new highway running through Goa Velha and Agacaim, all the way to the Zuari bridge, cuts through pristine fields and waddos. This will spell death for the local waddos.

Re: [Goanet] Horror in Paithona

2007-11-13 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The hoarding for the Paithona horror, placed appositely at Goa Velha for the benefit of bhaile arriving into Panjim from the airport - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/paithona-ad.jpg En passant, we note that Digu takes this route everyday. But of course, he knows nothing of

[Goanet] Photos Outrage fatigu

2007-11-14 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The following shot was taken yesterday standing on the ferry from Ribandar to Divar looking towards the Kadamba plateau. A shaved hillside ongoing construction, suggesting a mini Aldeia de Goa in the making - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/kadamba-plateau.jpg I now

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