goanet-digest Wednesday, April 24 2002 Volume 01 : Number 3879
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Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View
[Goanet] Maaza Monginis Kids Festival
[Goanet] Parrikar: Engineering another Goa...
Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
[Goanet] test
[Goanet] re: Fashions and Fools
Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:36:20 +0200
From: Viviana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View
Sunila et al - doesn't "malcurado" mean poorly cured?? "Cor" is colour,
"curado" comes from the verb "curar" which means "to cure" - maybe Theo or Paulo
can help us figure this out.
Viviana
Sunila Muzawar wrote:
> How can a mango, which when eaten, transports one straight to heaven, be
> called "malcurado" which means poor colour ?
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:51:02 -0600 (MDT)
From: "K. D. Naik - H.O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Maaza Monginis Kids Festival
Maaza Monginis Kids Festival in Margao
Margao
Maaza Monginis Kids festival was organised in Margao on Saturday 20th
April 2002 at Adarsh Vanita Vidyalaya school from 10.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
It included painting competition for children at 11.00 a.m. for age group
5 to 10 years and at 3.30 p.m. for age group 11 to 15 years.
There were also exhibitions of birthday theme decoration for themes
such as Cindrella, Batman, Disney characters, circus, animal world and
Tweety Bird, besides a magic show, baloon modelling, games, songs,dances,
face-painting & tatto painting demonstration from 5.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.
Datta Naik
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:29:28 +0530 (IST)
From: pamella demello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Parrikar: Engineering another Goa...
PARRIKAR: ENGINEERING ANOTHER GOA...
WILL HE make it? Metallurgical engineer Manohar Parrikar, who ascended the
chief ministership of Goa after defections were engineered from the other
parties, offers a detailed pre-election interview. Does he have something to
boast about for his 16-18 months in office? Can his claims of doing much for
the state translate into votes? Did he compromise on the values he wore on
his sleeve as an Opposition leader? Did he do-in his colleagues by
dissolving the Goa assembly abruptly? What factors does he see as being
responsible for his rise in Goan politics?
Or, is he "something of a Machiavelli"? Is he guilty of dumping his
political allies of the past? What about Parrikar's moves to build bridges
with (and wield control over) Opposition legislators? Why couldn't the state
nab the culprits involved in arson against a mosque at Succcour and
attepting to set alight a church-door? Will Gujarat cast its long shadow on
the ballot-box in Goa... one way or another? Is Parrikar in the running for
chief ministership, should the BJP win? What is Parrikar's vision for Goa?
What is Parrikar's "style off leadership"? And, for that matter, on
defections -- having benefitted from them himself.
Haven't plans to downsize the state's giant bureaucracy been overshadowed by
the Parrikar regime's employing of another large army of bureaucrats,
particularly in departments like the police, the functioning of which
doesn't inspire much confidence? What does the caretaker CM feel about the
turn of events in Delhi, where the BJP seems to be underoing trying times,
to put things mildly?
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Quote: "I deal with a good person in an absolute gentlemanly way. But it an
opponent is a crooked person, I don't hesitate going crooked.... I'm not
shrewd. I'm only better than average. I can basically anticipate moves by
many other people. I have a very logical mind. I think about how things can
proceed stepwise and check. I think about it, and based on that I make my
moves." -- Manohar Parrikar, Goa CM.
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For a pen-potrait, and explanations in Parrikar's words, visit the interview
at http://www.freegoanews.net
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:07:22 -0000
From: "santoshhelekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Aloysius D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> and we can make a fortune selling these remedies when the world's
>scientists reach the acme of the antibiotic and the germs continue to
>build resistance to these antibiotics -- we started with
>penicillin, then tetrcyclines, then chloramphenicol, them
>omnicycline, now nopflox, each more powerful than the last --
>eventually we have reached a stage where we are taking a huge mallet
>to kill an ant and end up bashing our own toes.
>
We can certainly provide a list of home remedies without disseminating
gratuitous misinformation about genuinely effective modern treatments.
It is important to know that most antibiotics are every bit as natural
as any of the household herbal remedies. They were and are still
obtained from various types of molds (fungi).
All of the above-mentioned antibiotics are still widely used, and save
countless lives everyday. Scientists develop new antibiotics for
several reasons, all of which have the common purpose of maximizing
benefit to the patient while reducing harm. A newer "more powerful"
(whatever that means) antibiotic is not more harmful. In most cases it
reduces the number of doses and the length of treatment, and thereby
increases patient compliance, which in turn decreases the chances of
developing resistant bacterial strains.
The discovery of antibiotics and their rational use in modern
treatment is a pivotal event in the history of our civilization. That
single event has contributed to the increase in our life expectancy
more than any other event. Home remedies and other kinds of quackery
have existed since the Stone Age. All they have done realistically is
provide us with some interesting (and in some cases somewhat
compelling) anecdotes. They have contributed diddly-squat to human
health on a global scale.
Cheers,
Santosh
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:41:52 +0200
From: Viviana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] test
test
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J. Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] re: Fashions and Fools
Margaret Mascarenhas writes in her delightful article:
"Valente's main claim to fame was that he once served
tea to the then Governor of Goa. He did this dressed
in a dinner jacket and a kashti".
No doubt Valente was waiting for designers to "get the
crotch thing down", as Margaret puts it, before
risking trousers.
Joel Almeida
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:33:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tariq Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, santoshhelekar wrote:
> The discovery of antibiotics and their rational use in modern
> treatment is a pivotal event in the history of our civilization. That
> single event has contributed to the increase in our life expectancy
> more than any other event. Home remedies and other kinds of quackery
> have existed since the Stone Age. All they have done realistically is
> provide us with some interesting (and in some cases somewhat
> compelling) anecdotes. They have contributed diddly-squat to human
> health on a global scale.
I would tend to agree with Santosh on this. Being a latecomer to this
discussion, let me digress the topic a bit by offering some insight into
how these home remedies differ from region to region.
Being of North Indian extraction and settled in Goa, I have discovered
quite a few differences in outlook when it comes to these home remedies.
North Indians typically have the chapati or roti as their staple diet,
while South Indians and Bengalis have rice as their staple diet.
Whenever anyone is sick with fever or an upset stomach, the first things
North Indians are told to avoid is rice. When it comes to South Indians
and Bengalis, they take the opposite position and avoid consuming any
chapatis.
Food poisoning as a result of eating fish never exists in Goa, Kerala or
Bengal, but for North Indians, food poisoning is *always* the result of
eating fish, never mind even if the fish was eaten weeks ago.
I have noticed that many North Indians avoid eating rice at night, and
claim that it causes indigestion. Never seen any South Indian ever
complain of that, and they eat it 24/7.
For skin diseases such as rash, there is a tradition among the people of
South India to use the water of boiled rice to cure it. North Indians tend
to use the water of boiled Masoor Dal with a little turmeric as a cure.
Once I had an extended stay in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. There I discovered that
the secret to a healthy life is to have a glass of fresh camel's milk
daily. For those who have not been near camel's milk - well, it stinks! In
conversations with Sindhis from Pakistan, they also tend to hold that same
belief. Ask any person from the UP/Delhi/Haryana area what the secret to a
healthy life is, and their answer is a glass of fresh goat's milk. Then there
is the French secret of healthy life - a glass of wine everyday. I don't
think many in the Muslim world share that belief.
Then there is the Muslim misbelief that strength comes only through eating
meat, and that also, the redder it is, the stronger you get. Of course I
am sure that Hindus would have appropriate generalizations as well when it
comes to meat. Another misbelief prevalent in North India is that by
eating rice you get lazy and fat. A common remark I have heard justifying
this belief - "dekha nahin tumne key bangali log kitney kaamchor hotey
hain?" For the North Indians, eating chapati/naan/parathas makes you
hardworking and strong.
To end, let me relate the best of 'em all. North Indians and Pakistanis
have discovered the secret why Bangladesh has such a high growth rate
in terms of population. Well, believe it or not, but it is in the fish.
Apparently, because you eat fish, you tend to have more children. Go
figure!
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Tariq Siddiqui
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