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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goanet highlights by Selma Carvalho Venita Coelho brings to our attention the water shortages raging in Goa. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/184072.html Are the politicians in Goa really on an austerity drive? Read Cecil Pinto's hilarious take on the matter. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/184059.html Recently addressing a huge gathering in Borda, the Chief Minister of Goa, called for Goans to make Goa a 'Ram Rajya.' This term harkens back to the days of a mythical, glorious period for the Indian subcontinent and has religious significance to Hindus in India but is the term appropriate in a secular India consisting of Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Parses and Jews? The term does not correspond to a Camelot or a Utopian state. If a parallel can be drawn at all then it is to an Eden but would Kamat ever recommend that we make Goa into another Eden, if he was addressing a group of priests for instance? Surely not, so why Ram Rajya? Here are some views shared both for and against CM Kamat's statements. Floriano Lobo: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/183954.html Frederick Noronha: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/184070.html Sandeep Heble: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/183974.html Selma Carvalho talks about the more simple days of love and relationships in Goan families, in her column, Who the bleep cares about loving couples? http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/184009.html Lionel Messias takes another in-depth look at what the government has been doing with tax-payer's money. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/184040.html Did Goa in 1961 merely change colonial masters? Did we bid goodbye to the Portuguese and say hello to Indian colonization of Goa? This hot topic on Goanet has elicited considerable response. Here is a link where Mario Goveia and Arwin Mesquita air both sides of this debate: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/184033.html Dominic Fernandes continues his series on the 'Forgotten Tribe -- Mhar http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/184003.html A few weeks ago the Goan newspaper Herald published an article decrying Darwinian evolution. This week they published a fitting rebuttal to that article. Here is Patrick Ferdinand's article titled, Why blame Charles Darwin? http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/184001.html Lino Dourado gives us his Aitaracheo Katkutleo: MAHANAND serial killer AZAD ZATOLO http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/183990.html Valmiki Faleiro continues his series, Goodbye Goa, this week taking a look at how in-migration is changing the demographics of Goa. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/183989.html Remo's new single, India, I cry, is certainly something to think about. Here is link to the single. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/183963.html The sad passing away of tiatrist H.Britton has left a vacuum as the industry waits for its younger stars to step into the shoes of these giants of yesteryear. A tribute to H. Britton. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/183952.html Whoever said 'picture is worth a thousand words' surely had JoeGoaUK in mind as he continues describing Goa to us with his photo essays. This week pictures of Panjim. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/183920.html And finally a wonderfully written article by Percy Ferrao talks about the challenges faced in Saving Goa, and tells us how any available tract of land is now appropriated by the Government to build on. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-October/183898.html
