[Goanet-News] Goanet-CyberMatrimonials - June 2009]
Goanet-CyberMatrimonials - June 2009 # LOOKING OUT for a life partner? Circulate your message among thousands of largely-Goan readers. For a listing in this column send details to christina at goanet.org with the subject line CYBER-MATRIMONIALS. This is a free, volunteer-driven service undertaken in community interest. Feel free to share this ezine among others who might find it useful. # FEMALE (Looking for a Groom) 34 year old Goan female, looking for a goan male for matrimony aged 34-42 yrs. Email: roses1...@yahoo.com 32 year old Goan RC female from Bastora. Bcom, LLB invites marriage alliance from decent Goan RC bachelor upto age 40, well educated, preferably working in Goa. Email: jsouza1...@yahoo.com 34 year old RC Goan female in Canada looking for a goan male in Canada/UK/India/Gulf countries. Email: goldenoneeleve...@yahoo.com with your details and photograph. RC Goan female, slim, attractive, warm, fun-loving, westernised person with musical and creative talents. Our family is highly educated, westernised and liberal, but strong on family values. We are looking for a partner for her who is a highly educated professional, financially secure with similar family background and values. Email: ua0...@gmail.com 24 year old RC Goan female, extremely loving, down to earth, helpful and simple, financially independent, staying with parents in Bahrain. Seeks alliance from educated Goan bachelors upto 28 years. Email: alpereira...@hotmail.com Goan RC spinster, born May 1980, post-graduate, working for a reputed software company in Hyderabad, India. 5'1, average build, wheatish complexion, pleasing personality, outgoing, with good family background. Looking for a Goan bachelor, God-fearing, upto 33 yrs of age, well-educated and strictly non-smoking. Email: merlyn.rodrig...@gmail.com 34 year old Goan RC female, nice and affectionate girl . Live and work in Canada. Email: seabluesk...@yahoo.com A pleasant person nearing 40 would like to meet sincere Goan single men residing in the London area. Email: clared...@yahoo.com 43 year old RC Goan female, B.Com, petite, soft-spoken, pleasant natured working for a national bank in Mumbai looking for a suitable groom between 44-48, RC graduate, working in India or abroad. Email: d_al...@yahoo.com Mother of a 27year old, fair, 5 feet 2 inches tall, good looking, simple pleasant girl. She is taking care of family business in Mumbai. She is looking for a simple and a good looking male who is pleasant and easy going and who is well settled in Mumbai or abroad. Email: xmendo...@yahoo.com with photographs. http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=715 MALE (Looking for a Bride) Alliance invited for Goan R C bachelor, born and brought up in Delhi, 35 yrs, B Com, 5' 6, good natured, hard working, working as an Executive in Trade Forwarding Company in Muscat, Oman. Seeking a Goan Girl of age up to 30 yrs old. Must be educated, God fearing with good family values. Email with details and scanned photo to jessica...@yahoo.com 38 year old, fair 5feet, 7 inches tall, good looking and pleasant male divorcee no kids, obtained annulment from the church. He is a Sales and Marketing Manager in Abu Dhabi. Looking for a professional preferably a nurse who is pleasant and easygoing. He has been brought up as a firm Goan RC in a God-fearing well respected family. Has been living in Abu Dhabi for the last 15 years, enjoys travel and socialising. Email: ton77...@hotmail.com RC Bachelor, 39, tall good-looking, athletic, Administrative Executive working in the hospitality industry in Ahmedabad looking for an RC spinster aged 30-35 willing to settle in Ahmedabad. Email: russeldso...@eth.net 36year old Goan RC bachelor, post graduate, residing in London, works as Analyst, seeks suitable proposals from USA, UK, or Australia, 28-34 years of age. Email: kenyansk...@hotmail.co.uk Mother of a 28year old, wheatish complexioned, 5 feet 3 inches tall, good looking pleasant. He is running a family business in Mumbai. He is looking for a simple and good looking girl who is pleasant and easy going and who can assist him in his business. He enjoys traveling, socialising and a very humorous person. Email: xmendo...@yahoo.com with photographs. http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=715 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Get cybermatrimonials regularly in your mailbox for free; no obligation. To receive this, contact christina at goanet.org with the subject line CYBER-MATRIMONIALS Next issue of cybermatrimonials coming shortly. Please send your ads to christina at goanet.org . Please note: Goanet does not
Re: [Goanet] Us jheel ka pani_From Urdu into Konknni, Marathi, English, and Japanese
Us jheel ka pani_From Urdu into Konkani, Marathi, English, and Japanese Urdu: Mirza Ghalib par ek ladki peshaab kar deti hai. Mirza sahab farmate hai. Aa chanchal shoq hasina yeh kaisi nadani hai? Ladki jawaab deti hai. Mirza sahab aap jis jheel se nikle hai yeh us jheel ka pani hai __ in konknni: Mirza Ghalib-acher ek cheddun mutta. Mirza saib mhunta O sobest cheddva yem kit tujem nennar-ponn Cheddun zavab dita Mirza saib tu jya vallant-san bair sorla yem tya vallant-lem udok in marathi: Mirza Ghaliba-var ek mulgi lagvi karte. Mirza saheb mhunto he kasluh nadan-punn Mulgi uttar dete Mirza saheb aapand jya vavuatun bhaher shirle / nigale, he tya vavuache / vavuantele pani in English: A girl urinates on Mirza Ghalib. Mirza sahab / sir says, O beauteous girl *this indeed is such innocence*? (such innocence this (is)?) The girl responds. Mirza sahab, the brook that you came from, this water is from that brook an attempt in Japanese (romaji, ie., in roman script): Sho'ojo wa Ghalib-sama (Mirza) ni shouben shimasta. Ghalib-sama wa imashita. Kawaiso no o-jo'o-san nani ga mu'jakina koto sore o? Sho'ojo ga ha'nnoo shimashita Mirza-san wa shousaashi kara ikimashita no de, ano shousaashi no o-mizu desu venantius j pinto
Re: [Goanet] NEWS: Portugal’s seven wonders spark controversy
Ah Freedom Fighters! Who designed and engineered the building? Materials and labour may have been local, but weren't the locals considered Portuguese citizens? Forced labour? Is Karmali so sure about this? - Original Message From: Goanet News news.goa...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Thursday, 18 June, 2009 8:07:13 PM Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Portugal’s seven wonders spark controversy The laterite stone used to build the basilica was sourced from Goa. The limestone used to reinforce it was from Goa. The wood used for roof arches was from Goa. The Portuguese have no business saying these structures are Portguese in origin, he said. He also noted that forced labour - prisoners of the Inquisition - was used to build these monuments. The labourers were indigenous, who worked till they dropped dead, Karmali said, adding that the GFFA had asked the state government to raise the matter with the central government. Access Yahoo!7 Mail on your mobile. Anytime. Anywhere. Show me how: http://au.mobile.yahoo.com/mail
[Goanet] More about Aussie Racism (or not)
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25656955-5000117,00.html Copping a fair gobful Andrew Bolt June 19, 2009 UNTIL last week, when a black man and a white man bashed Sunny Bajaj, I thought I could tell a racist thug from a good one. Not that I thought the difference mattered much, to be honest. Broken teeth are broken teeth, after all, and will hurt just as much if the bozo who broke them has not a racist bone in his tattooed knuckles. Or so I figured. But now I see that's just one of the many dumb things I've got wrong about this new racism game. It's so mortifying. Here I am, desperate to hate racists, but suddenly unsure I could spot one even by the light of a burning cross. My confidence was finally snuffed out just the other day, when Bajaj, a Deakin University student now nursing bruises and a fractured finger, became the latest unfortunate Indian to be mugged in Melbourne. Here's the Times of India report: Bajaj is the latest victim of the racial attacks that have been unleashed in Australia in the past two months and seem to be continuing unabated . . . I was returning to my car after shopping when two men accosted me and asked for money. When I said I didn't have any, they began abusing me and then attacked me without any provocation. One of them was white and the other seemed to be of African origin. To my shame, when I first read of this appalling assault I didn't see at first the Australian racism that the Times now informs me is plain to an honest eye. Forgive this witless sinner, but I'd actually been relieved to read that a white Australian and a black newcomer had worked together like brothers, overlooking any trivial difference of race to focus instead on what truly united them - which in this case happened to be a mutual desire to get ahead by bashing people and stealing their stuff. In my madness I even hummed a few triumphant bars of McCartney: Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord why don't we? Ha! I exulted. Even our sociopaths turn out to be committed multiculturalists. Bajaj may have his bruises, but at least no man could call this proof of our racism. Oh, how stupid. You see my mistake, of course. I'd entirely overlooked the fact that even when multiculturalists bash an Indian, it's racist. And now another recent case that's confused me becomes clearer. For some years in the poor Sydney suburb of Harris Park, gangs of mainly Middle Eastern men were robbing even the staff of Wesley Mission. Gordon Moyes, then the mission's head and now a NSW politician, said last week his staff weren't the only victims: I found that over a period of time many elderly Anglo-Saxon women were attacked and robbed . . . But there were no cries of racism. In fact, I doubt you even heard this was happening, so normal do we now consider such violence. But then Indians started to move en masse into the suburb, and the Middle Eastern youths attacked them, too. Boy, you've now heard of that. Indeed, for three nights in a row this month, as you saw on television, there were protests in the suburb's streets by Indians denouncing this racism. Deeply moved by the plight of these Indians and those in Melbourne, Hark-the-Sydney-Morning-Herald professional angel David Marr again blamed his eternal demons - John Howard and his racist Australians -- for yet more ugly breakouts of anxieties that are old and widespread. So attacks on white grannies are not racist, but attacks by the very same people on Indians are. There's the difference, made clear to me at last. That may explain why it was not racist when three Asian criminals last month stabbed to death Luke Mitchell in Brunswick after he tried to save a stranger from attack, but why it was racist when some other men last month stabbed Sravan Kumar Theerthala almost to death at a Melbourne party. I THINK I'm getting the hang of it, but yet another stabbing still has me stumped. Tell me, should I see racists at work in this alleged crime, as reported this month in the Gold Coast Bulletin? With dried blood in his hair and 11 stitches across his throat Gold Coaster Jack Donnelly considers himself lucky . . . Mr Donnelly, who has a prosthetic leg, said he noticed he was being followed by a group of men who he described as of Asian appearance. . . They were yelling 'piss off Aussie' and 'good on ya Skippy' . . . They slashed my throat with the bottle . . . But now I'm in quicksand - unsure if I've spotted a racist, or just made myself seem one. Boy, this is tricky. You see, even I now dimly realise that in today's definition of a racist crime it's not just the race of the victims that matters, but the race of the thugs. How else to understand a baffling difference in the reporting of two Sydney riots, one from only last week? In 2005, largely white crowds of knuckleheads in Cronulla - sick of police inaction against
[Goanet] My article in today's Herald : The price of corruption
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[Goanet] Goa news for June 19, 2009
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Pooja Bhatt wants more Goans to participate in film festivals - Hindu http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/5-0fd=Rurl=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200906181621.htmcid=1262780584ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNF7CsurUJThC0k4R5Mrw4-RvBE7Qg *** 13 interceptor boats for coastal security - Hindu http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/2-0fd=Rurl=http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/19/stories/2009061955801300.htmcid=1263240274ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNHn0z5659I_U15LXIe3jmkLwlnRnA *** Congress women\'s wing support casinos in Goa - Zee News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/4-0fd=Rurl=http://www.zeenews.com/news540408.htmlcid=1263364471ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNFqRuWgGBDZQ3PAe607zrhs5ArCzw *** IRB bags first BOT project in Goa - Moneycontrol.com aning of NH-4A from Goa/ Karnataka Border Km 84.00 to Panaji Goa Km 153.070 in the State of Goa under NHDP Phase III on ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/6-0fd=Rurl=http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/business/irb-bags-first-bot-projectgoa/402298cid=1263462423ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNEQGc9GpgdPj-jH59j9gcvPrilJEQ *** Goa minister claims casino duped him of Rs.1.25 crore winnings - Sify tar resort in South Goa, of not paying him Rs.1.25 crore that he had won at the casino last month. In a complaint filed at the Colva ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/0-0fd=Rurl=http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jgsu4Hefdeatitle=Goa_minister_claims_casino_duped_him_of_Rs_1_25_crore_winningscid=1263339923ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNFKbFJSG-RDTBqzigN6PCw0AQkLCA *** Goa\'s Lone Swine Flu Patient Discharged - Daijiworld.com http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/8-0fd=Rurl=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=61402n_tit=Goa's+Lone+Swine+Flu+Patient+Dischargedcid=1263249674ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNFZRhB3t7ipDxwpaZJXokNvHn2zPA *** Volvo Trucks India opens an exclusive dealership in Goa - Wheels Unplugged - Indis'a Automobile Magazine Indis'a Automobile Magazine, IndiaGoa became our strategic priority for a new dealership considering the growing Volvo Truck population and future potential. High-value products demand high involvement for meeting customer expectations and we expect the new dealership to work on ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/9-0fd=Rurl=http://www.wheelsunplugged.com/ViewNews.aspx?newsid=3610cid=0ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNE35G-p4FdjvMZWfMrJDwnUEdM5rQ *** Don\'t put spokes in development plans, says Alemao - Times of India mes of India, IndiaAddressing the gathering at Lohia maidan, Margao, at a programme held to pay homage to Goa's freedom fighters, Alemao reiterated his stance that it would be disastrous for Goa to have an airport at Mopa. An airport at Mopa will mean more inflow of ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/7-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Dont-put-spokes-in-development-plans-says-Alemao/articleshow/4673400.cmscid=0ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNFNH_YXTZ0jRoIj7k7x_MnsCXvnVA *** SEZ promoters to contest Goa govt\'s decision - Economic Times ed government on Monday resolved to scrap its own policy that had cleared as many as ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/3-0fd=Rurl=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Economy/Infrastructure/SEZ-promoters-to-contest-Goa-govts-decision/articleshow/4669297.cmscid=0ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNGZv6KOfrqzp64InO3oPsG4BJDdZg *** Sesa Goa plans to export 5-lakh tonne of ore fines - Economic Times onomic Times, IndiaSESA Goa, the country's largest private iron ore exporter, plans to export five lakh tonne of iron ore fines from Goa this monsoon, reports Smitha Venkateswaran in Panaji. This is the first time any mining company will be attempting to export iron ore ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-0fd=Rurl=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News-by-Industry/Sesa-Goa-plans-to-export-ore-fines/articleshow/4673614.cmscid=0ei=-806SuTBGtCdlQeRmqCuCAusg=AFQjCNEsrLNGQtqGLcpkGVFGPbP_NXtLuQ Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php
[Goanet] songs with mog
hi guys here are some more songs i hope u like them i hope u have a nice day with mog from jjandson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJv5xq6yEIg OH Goa konkani http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAwb58du8G0 M Boyer - Adlea Tempar Konkani Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj9PecwY5Y M Boyer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5G1TnYgIj8 Anthony San - Aptun Doptun Konkani Songs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9_EyJW95wI Aamché Lorna - Aamizad Franklinachi Konkani Songs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1g35Uo6IA Konkani Song : Ugdass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4EL56vyHn8 Konkani Song: Dar Mogachem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9DIJlzRRPE Konkani Song: Rupkar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9BHR4rVO8 Konkani Song : Io Mog
[Goanet] Daily Grook #441
DAILY GROOK #441 GRIEF CHIEF by Francis Rodrigues ol' barack's a dear stable and capable, but to north korea ...he's obamanable! _ puns word-play of all kinds, hey...read between the lines! _ _ We are your photos. Share us now with Windows Live Photos. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9666047
[Goanet] Goanet Reader: On why Goans mourn their recent past... (Paulo Varela Gomes)
ON WHY GOANS MOURN THEIR RECENT PAST (AND PRESENT)... AND OTHER RELATED ISSUES Rochelle Pinto, BETWEEN EMPIRES, Print and Politics in Goa. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007. 299 pp REVIEWED BY Paulo Varela Gomes paulovarelago...@gmail.com 'Between Empires. Print and Politics in Goa' is one of the more important books I have ever read about Goa. First of all it is important because of the relevance of the material it discusses: texts of all sorts printed in Goa and in Bombay (by Goans): historiography essays, newspapers, novels, theatre plays, memoirs and reports. Rochelle Pinto read this material at libraries and archives in Goa, Lisboa, Bombay, Delhi, London and wove around it a complex and rich analysis of Goan politics and culture from the time of the bourgeois liberal revolution in Portugal (1821-1834) to the end of the century (in fact the book should have seen sub-titled 'Print and Politics in Goa in the 19th century'). Also, the book discusses its material in a manner that confirms the triumph of a new approach to history and cultural studies in colonial matters that not only avoids old and obvious political agendas, but is at ease with past struggles and stands simultaneously far from old colonial and new post-colonial ideological fixations. In this context, 'Between Empires' is, to a large extent, the result of a conclusion Rochelle Pinto arrived at after getting rid of the preconceptions and the methods of the Anglo-Saxon oriented academia that she was trained with during her graduation and doctorate in Delhi and London: this conclusion is that the history of Goa in the 19th century (and beyond) cannot be understood under the theories of colonialism and nationalism born out of the experience and the historiography of the British Empire. This idea is not, of course, Rochelle Pinto's only, nor is it restricted to the case of Goa. Historians and social scientists of Latin American countries have been thinking along the same lines: the methods and ideas of research used for, say, Bengal, are not applicable to Goa, Brazil or Argentina without careful consideration. A third reason why 'Between Empires' is a very important book resides in its footnotes, so to speak: they are well done, professional. This is no minor issue in a panorama of shoddy academic publication with sources and references misquoted or even not quoted at all, stale ideas and references given as original, constant repetition of things one zillion times published. Finally, but importantly, the relevance of the book comes from the fact that it helps us to understand why we perceive Goa the way we do today, as the book traces the origins of most of the stories and beliefs that constitute the nebulous narrative mesh that we call Goan identity. The book goes to the root of this because its object of interest is the 19th century and practically everything that we, the late moderns, call 'the past' is, in fact, a 19th century construct. Modern history was invented in the 19th century. Modern historiographic narratives about the past were written by 19th century men. Most of these men shared a revolutionary, anti-clerical, liberal perspective inherited from the French revolution and its aftermath and they saw most past cultures as retrograde. Therefore they scrutinised what preceded them -- and their own times -- in search of signs of progress, over-valuing these signs and tending to ignore or scorn signs of permanence. The historical narratives they passed on to us are the result of these progressive, modern choices: some areas of the past were left in greater obscurity than others. To a great extent, therefore, we still see our past through a 19th century lens. In the case of Goa, Rochelle Pinto's book shows us that we still see 19th century's Goan culture and society through a 19th century lens. The first line of the book is: If there is a single dominant perspective through which Goa's Catholic elite viewed their nineteenth century, it was as a condition to be mourned. In fact, some of the Portuguese and Goan elites of the 19th century perceived their own times as times of decadence -- a vision that we inherited. 'Between Empires' shows that Goan elite's cultural links with Portuguese cultivated and political milieus were so straight that we can actually say that they constituted one single dominant elite. They shared the same conceptions and the same myths: Goans, like some of the more important and famous Portuguese writers and journalists of the 19th century, looked upon their collective destiny with sadness and discomfort as they compared it to
[Goanet] 'Goa Church Never Showed Preference To Any Political Party During LS Poll'
'Goa Church Never Showed Preference To Any Political Party During LS Poll' By SAR NEWS PANAJI, Goa (SAR NEWS) -- In the wake of media reports that the Catholic Church in Goa was open to the rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party Church in the recent parliametary elections, the Church authorities clarified that they did indicate preferences for any political party. The Diocesan Centre for Social Communications, Media, a wing of the Catholic Church, said that the Church had instead appealed to the citizens, particularly the Catholics, to vote according to their conscience and discretion. It referred to an official statement issued by the Church before the elections held in five phases between April and May, maintaining that all citizens, including Catholics, were expected to vote according to their conscience. “All that the Church does is to recommend that voters use their discretion with regard to parties whose policies are in conflict with the ideals of national unity and communal harmony,” the Centre said in a press release here, July 14. The clarification was necessitated by some reports and comments appearing in a section of the local media suggesting that the spokesperson to Goa archbishop, Father Francisco Caldeira, had made misleading statements on behalf of the Church leadership in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. The press release said the alleged statement (by Caldeira) that the Catholics were open to the BJP was made in the course of an “unsolicited telephonic interview” which was given to a reporter of a national daily’s Goa edition. The statement also refuted charges that the Goa Church had not done enough to show its solidarity with the persecuted Christian tribals in Kandamahal, Orissa. It said the Goa Church had in fact topped the list of the Indian dioceses which sent monetary help to the victims of communal riots in Orissa last year and was the only one to collect more than 99,000 signatures, thus raising awareness among various entities, nationally and internationally, on the sufferings of the victims.
[Goanet] Fw: The Story of Stuff.....
Thanks to Yogita Mehra, in Goa. http://ecoentertain ment.blogspot. com/2009/ 06/story- of-stuff- how-things- work.html It's about the extraction-producti on-consumption- disposal cycle and how it is pretty unsustainable as it currently is - increasingly applicable to countries like India too. __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Send news and updates to bsg-...@yahoogroups.com Our website: http://bsg.goa-india.org/ If you like this list, please introduce it to more people. Free to join. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity Visit Your Group Give Back Yahoo! for Good Get inspired by a good cause. Y! Toolbar Get it Free! easy 1-click access to your groups. Yahoo! Groups Start a group in 3 easy steps. Connect with others. . __,_._,___
[Goanet] Procedure for Buying a Flat in Goa
Hello Can somebody shed some light on the procedure involved in buying a flat in Goa An agreement for sale has already been done with the builder. Information like Society formation, registration etc, etc. till the last stage of ownership. Obrigado Rosario Fernandes
[Goanet] REMINDER: Sasikumar talk, Saturday, 4 pm, Goa Science Centre Miramar
Open Source and education has a lot of mindshare match,: says Dr. M Sasikumar, Principal Research Scientist and Incharge of the RD Unit at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in Navi Mumbai. An interview with a passionate supporter of FLOSS in education. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq8X6Z1K-nI -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org
[Goanet] Goan Chaplaincy Day in London
Goan Chaplaincy Day in London 2009. The annual Goan Chaplaincy Day in London will be celebrated on Sunday, the 21st of June at Bishop La Franc School, Croydon. The day will begin with a thanksgiving Mass at 1.15pm with the local superior of the Pilar Fathers Fr.Lucas Rodrigues, Fr. Peter Soares and the Goan Chaplain Fr. Francis do Rosario concelebrating.The theme this year is 'Sacramentsour way to abide in His life'. It will be followed by the dance with a leading UK Goan band 'Breakthru' in attendance. Those Londoners desirous of attending and supporting the Chaplaincy may buy the tickets at the reception counter on the day. Thank you. For the organisers J. Mario Fernandes _ Missed any of the IPL matches ? Catch a recap of all the action on MSN Videos http://msnvideos.in/iplt20/msnvideoplayer.aspx
Re: [Goanet] NEWS: Portugal's seven: Goan freed^m fightrs
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:51:41 -0400 From: Pandu Lampiao pan...@gmail.com Goan freed_m fight*rs is a lame bunch who are living off handouts. Are they still around? Mario responds: Hey, Pandurang, please put away whatever you are smoking or drinking, yaar - it could probably get you arrested:-)) Make up your mind. If you don't know whether they are around, then how can you say that they are living off handouts? Sheesh! Pandurang wrote: I mean what have they given us: a culture of endless corruption, sticky greed and directionless future. Don't you agree their benefits should be cut off? Mario responds: In my never-humble opinion, you post-liberation Goans achieved your exalted culture of corruption, greed and lack of direction all on your own. Have the guts to admit it, and not blame someone else for it. Perhaps you would be happier someplace where you could get kicked around by some white people:-))
[Goanet] More about Aussie Racism (or not)
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:37:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au Copping a fair gobful Andrew Bolt June 19, 2009 UNTIL last week, when a black man and a white man bashed Sunny Bajaj, I thought I could tell a racist thug from a good one. Not that I thought the difference mattered much, to be honest. Broken teeth are broken teeth, after all, and will hurt just as much if the bozo who broke them has not a racist bone in his tattooed knuckles. Or so I figured. Mario observes: Seems more like old fashioned Aussie multi-cultural, equal opportunity thuggery rather than any racism, the facile charge that is designed, nay, guaranteed, to make civilized white people cower in shame and embarrassment.
Re: [Goanet] My article in today's Herald : The price of corruption
Dear Samir, I googled indian police salaries and got the following interesting item on Yahoo Answers. This activity shows as 3 years ago. Question: What is the average salary of an Indian police constable. Especially in Tamil Nadu. Best answer chosen by voters: Rs.5600/- per month (official) Rs.15000/- per month perks (unofficial) Rs.3000/- per month as free food (unofficial) Rs.3,00,000 per annum ( for not filing half the FIR cases received) If this is not a case for doubling police salaries, with free decent accomodation, free higher education for their children and free health for life with expectation of zero corruption surrounding the whole process including recruiting in return, then I don't know what is. Obviously the country can afford it. Just find a way to convert the bribe money in public hands to govt revenue to pay these people. Ditto for bribes to all other govt employees. Roland. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.comwrote: http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=23318cid=14 -- Roland Francis http://roland-torontogoan.blogspot.com +1 (416) 453.3371
[Goanet] Goa news for June 20, 2009
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa minister claims casino duped him of Rs.1.25 crore winnings - Sify tar resort in South Goa, of not paying him Rs.1.25 crore that he had won at the casino last month. In a complaint filed at the Colva ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/0-0fd=Rurl=http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jgsu4Hefdeatitle=Goa_minister_claims_casino_duped_him_of_Rs_1_25_crore_winningscid=1263339923ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNHqozY3M4VMKKcvrvn1EmtS8rxXdw *** Pooja Bhatt wants more Goans to participate in film festivals - Hindu http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/9-0fd=Rurl=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200906181621.htmcid=1262780584ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNH_IrpJZ8ZLSrMQTpq_TjGhzcnONA *** IRB bags first BOT project in Goa - Moneycontrol.com aning of NH-4A from Goa/ Karnataka Border Km 84.00 to Panaji Goa Km 153.070 in the State of Goa under NHDP Phase III on ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/8-0fd=Rurl=http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/business/irb-bags-first-bot-projectgoa/402298cid=1263462423ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNGv3ZBuKVjPQmkREhG1_p-isz7igA *** Congress women\'s wing support casinos in Goa - Zee News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/7-0fd=Rurl=http://www.zeenews.com/news540408.htmlcid=1263364471ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNEZ2EKslM-wDz6OM54y9BcXZ4pu5A *** Govt will not impose anything on Goans, says CM - Times of India http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/4-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/Govt-will-not-impose-anything-on-Goans-says-CM/articleshow/4673405.cmscid=1264080609ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNF6qfzTAjAEqceHYwk-h2yZUPFrtA *** Goa restoring Portuguese architecture - Mangalorean.com despite a few roadblocks. ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/5-0fd=Rurl=http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcastbroadcastid=130629cid=0ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNGhzX_TPyk9aBdVuclxsgR8gyp_kg *** SEZ promoters to contest Goa govt\'s decision - Economic Times ed government on Monday resolved to scrap its own policy that had cleared as many as ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/6-0fd=Rurl=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Economy/Infrastructure/SEZ-promoters-to-contest-Goa-govts-decision/articleshow/4669297.cmscid=0ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNEAfllCTd7mQ2TXO45hOrcJ0wcYpA *** Border with Karnataka needs re-demarcation: Goa law panel - Thaindian.com emarcate its eastern boundary with Karnataka, based on the findings of the Justice Mahajan Commission constituted in 1960 - before Goa's liberation from the Portuguese rule - to protect its interests, Goa Law ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/3-0fd=Rurl=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/border-with-karnataka-needs-re-demarcation-goa-law-panel_100206901.htmlcid=1263831530ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNH3W6FJWaluWY8E3X6uzCt789YTLQ *** Goa to host 4th SAFF from 26 June - Indiantelevision.com diantelevision.com, IndiaBy Indiantelevision.com Team MUMBAI: The fourth edition of the South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) will begin in Goa on 26 June. Over 50 films will be screened at the festival, under the theme 'dissolving boundaries'. Said South Asian Foundation ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/2-0fd=Rurl=http://www.indiantelevision.com/aac/y2k9/aac366.phpcid=0ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNEISnLVAfRtK0XbJCfo9U0uNSzFSw *** Sesa Goa plans to export 5-lakh tonne of ore fines - Economic Times onomic Times, IndiaSESA Goa, the country's largest private iron ore exporter, plans to export five lakh tonne of iron ore fines from Goa this monsoon, reports Smitha Venkateswaran in Panaji. This is the first time any mining company will be attempting to export iron ore ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-0fd=Rurl=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News-by-Industry/Sesa-Goa-plans-to-export-ore-fines/articleshow/4673614.cmscid=1263661482ei=eh88SvmALYauMsb76LgFusg=AFQjCNH32khbYomhTDs5UiMO0dfF7XWcZA Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php
Re: [Goanet] 'Goa Church Never Showed Preference To Any Political Party During LS Poll'
goa church does show preference for catholic sudras --- Read all Goanet messages at: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ ---
[Goanet] Chief Ministers on Land to Outsiders
I appreciate Chief Minister Digambar Kamat asking Goans (on Goa's Revolution Day) to refrain from selling land to outsiders. I request him to drive down the latter message, also to his colleagues in his own party i.e. MLA's who are busy doing all possible to sell Goa to the highest bidder via illegal land conversions, liaising with land sharks rich outsiders; so as to make the maximum profits from land sales and the ultimate demise of Goa its identity. Also, if at all anything positive came out from the recently held Lok Sabha elections, was the promises by all major political parties on Special Status for Goa to stop land sales to non-goans; I hope it also covers migrant control and other legislation's; including the urgent need to stop all approvals for mega-projects, which are proven to favour outsiders!! Arwin Mesquita (UAE) Please post your comments on my Blog: http://goanidentity.blogspot.com/ Please also see below: 1. Benaulim Village Action Committee: http://www.bvacbenaulim.blogspot.com/ 2. Rape of Goa : http://www.parrikar.com/blog/the-rape-of-goa/ 3. Rape of Chicalim : http://rapeofchicalim.wordpress.com/ 4. Boycott Cidade de Goa : http://boycotthotelcidadedegoa.blogspot.com/ 5. MAND - an adivasi-rights resource centre : http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/
[Goanet] A CHRISTIAN COMIC BOOK IN ROMI KONKNNI - By: Walter Menezes
GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994) A CHRISTIAN COMIC BOOK IN ROMI KONKNNI By: Walter Menezes Book review of: Devachim Vortim Vismitam (Dhormdutancho Itihas) Konknni Translation of Rev. Fr. Salvatore Putzu, sdb, and his collaborators' comic book, Acts of the Apostles KonknniTranslation: Fr. Manuel P. Gomes Publisher: Diocesan Centre for Biblical Apostolate, Old Goa. Price: Rs. 110/- [Cover Page] It was the fourth of June, 2009. The function to felicitate Prabhakar Tendulkar, the doyen of the Konknni Movement, was over. The photographer was busy arranging the mez-karbhari of Dalgado Konknni Akademi and Omor Prokaxon for a shoot with the 'birthday-boy'. Those who had assembled to greet Prabakar-bab on his 75th birthday were heading towards the lift to take them down to 0-level. Among the many prominent personalities who attended the celebration was Fr. Manuel Gomes, Director, Diocesan Centre for Biblical Apostolate (DCBA), Goa. He presented me a copy of Devachim Vortim Vismitam (DVV) and Zannvayecho Ulo Ani Provadiancho Tallo (Part II), two of DCBA's most recent publications which were released by Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2009 at the Sé Cathedral, Old Goa. Comic Book in Romi Konknni DVV immediately caught my attention. It was a comic book in Romi Konknni, explaining through striking visuals and graphic details The Acts of the Apostles, the fifth book of the New Testament. Seeped in valuable history of the early Christian church, The Acts, in essence, is the story of St. Peter, largely responsible for the growth of the Christian community in the early days, and the missionary journeys of St. Paul, aka 'the Apostle to the Gentiles'. As one who grew up with Archie, Veronica, Betty and Jughead and the likes of Phantom (the ghost who walks!) and Denise the Menace, reading comic books and comic strips has always been my fascination. Someone once said that a single picture is worth a thousand words, and how true he was! I may have forgotten the many stories that I have read ever since I was a boy. But to forget Denise, with Ruff in tow, or the other comic characters, is simply impossible! That I would one day do Out Of My Mind, a regular comic strip for GT, is another story altogether. [Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão releasing Devachim Vortim Vismitam. Fr. Manuel Gomes, Director, Diocesan Centre for Biblical Apostolate, Goa is also seen] By the time I could even think of properly thanking Fr. Manuel for the two books, he had already left and was nowhere in sight. A comic book and that too in Konknni warmed the cockles of my heart, and upon reaching Kepem, I began in right earnest. Acts of the Apostles DVV is the Konknni version of Acts of the Apostles, the comic book prepared by Rev. Fr. Salvatore Putzu, sdb, and his collaborators in the Word and Life Publications, Philippines. While Fr. Manuel, who has done the Konknni translation, has been spared the daunting task of executing the visual frames, his assignment was not easy either. To empty the 'dialogue-boxes' and then replace the English words with Konknni within the available space, must have been quite a challenge. 'The original comic book was in black and white. But we have made the Konknni version still more beautiful by having it in colour,' Fr. Manuel said when I got in touch with him a week later. The colours have been selected with much care and Fr. Manuel has done an exceptional job. From the time the apostles meet to choose Judas' successor to the final pages where St. Peter is crucified 'upside down' and St. Paul puts his head 'on the block' to be executed, DVV is one religious comic book which transports you back in time, to a period when early followers, led by the Holy Spirit, spread the Good News 'to the ends of the earth'. St. Peter's first miracle, the stoning of Stephen, the dramatic escape of St. Paul as the Jews watched the city gates to kill him.all this and more is what you find inside DVV. Every frame, with an eye for detail, has been painstakingly planned and illustrated. Interspersed with maps charting out the various journeys of St. Paul, DVV is appealing and interesting. Comic Book and More. The comic book, in fact, is more than a comic book. It stops at regular intervals to make way for the full text from the scriptures of what one has just seen in the 'visual' form. While children and gen-next may absorb themselves in the comic book and skip the text, I thought of enjoying the book, one sip at a time: a part of the comic followed by some serious reading of the text and then a well-deserved break to assimilate what I have just 'seen' and read. This way, I managed to almost read the complete text of Dhormdutancho Itihas while at the same time enjoying the comic, a spiritual 'exercise' which not only lifted my spirits and improved my Konknni but found solace in the words of Jesus which St. Paul
[Goanet] Manora Vikas Kendra: Reconstruction of Kendra's Community Hall
NEWS ITEM Government gives the grant to NGO's to help public. The new hall at Manora, Raia would help the community to celebrate their functions and cultural activities. Therefore I request the Committee to rent the hall villagers at a subsidized rate. Said Mr. Francisco Sardinha while speaking as Chief Guest at the function held at the Community Hall of Manora Vikas Kendra, Manora Raia. He urged upon the villagers to be united. The things happening in your village, should be managed by the villagers and not outsiders. Although there are 20 constituencies for me, I will see that this hall is taken up on priority basis and the people of Raia who have always supported me will never be forgotten. Manora Vikas Kendra, a registered NGO, working for the upliftment of S.T. Community of Arlem and Manora had organized a public meeting to decide on reconstruction of Kendra's Community Hall with Balwadi under MPLAD and oppose the new Hall proposed by Raia Panchayat constructed under GSIDC. The following details were presented to the public why Kendra's hall is needed and why there should be a opposition to the new Panchayat Hall at Manora. : The new Panchayat hall covers all the open space available for parking by Govt. Primary School, Balwadi and Ground users. It will leave no space for the villagers to hold open air ward level cultural functions, conventions, Ghumatt competitions, tiatr shows, zagor competitions etc. Gram Sabha of VP Raia has not yet approved their proposal but Kendra has got the issue resolved at Gram Sabha. Town and Country Planning has approved the Panchayat Hall construction plan which leaves no set back to Kendra's existing Community hall and no access to the road for Balwadi commuters. It is the only space for recreation for the school and Balwadi children. Enlargement of our existing Community Hall would help S.T. community to hold their cultural and personal activities. MP Mr. Francisco Sardinha has already forwarded Kendra's file to the Collector, South Goa with his assent for doing the needful. General Secretary Mr. Vincy Quadros declared that Hall will be rented to the villagers at Subsidised rates and non-profit events will be sponsored free of cost. Around 50 dozen note books of good quality were distributed to students and tree grafts were distributed to the villagers free of cost. President of the Kendra Mr. Agostinho Barbosa gave a warm welcome to the crowd of around 400 people and Arlem ward member Mr. Menino Fernandes proposed vote of thanks. Medical Officer Dr. Succoro Quadros alos spoke on the occasion. General Secretary Mr. Vincy Quadros compered the entire function. For MANORA VIKAS KENDRA (VINCY QUADROS) General Secretary
Re: [Goanet] International Food Fair
Dear Friends I invite you for the International Food Fair to be held on Sunday 21 June 09 between 2pm -6pm at Wealdstone High Street, Harrow. The idea is to have food from around the world to raise awareness of the rich diversity within the borough of Harrow. There will be opportunity to taste food you have not tasted before. Participants from different communities, community organisations, voluntary organisations, restuarants will be taking stalls to provide food and other services to publicise their countries or organisations. I too will have a stall to promote Goa and the signing of my cookery book. Looking forward to seeing you and any support you are able to give by inviting your family and friends will be much appreciated. Regards
Re: [Goanet] NEWS: Portugal's seven wonders spark controversy
Just as I imagained: Too many goans want to deny their portuguese colonialism. Why?. I have no problem being christian, catholic, having western mannerisms and style. The indian in me has got me NOWHERE. not in love, not in monetary success; just racial backstabbing and inuendo. The western manners and dialect and english accent has opened doors to physical attraction from the opposite sex, wonderment looks and comments from white folks... so you see, I have no problem letting the portugeuse look at GOA as one of theirs, long time ago. anthony.
[Goanet] Cricket T20 World Cup Live Streaming
Those who are not able to watch T20 World Cup on TV can watch live streaming on this site. http://mywonderfullsite.110mb.com/
Re: [Goanet] [goanet] Extortionate fees
This letter was published in the Herald on 19/06/2009 *Heartless schools Bosco Vaz, Mapusa* It has become a heartless routine by certain school managements to collect donations. A school in Mapusa run by nuns has denied admissions to the students unless they gave donations towards the school. The parents were forced to part with a minimum of Rs 5000 to the nuns, or they had to hunt else where for admissions. I have heard that even the SSC students were denied hall tickets till their parents gave a donation. If you have no money there is no need to have a kindergarten in the school. For whose glory are the nuns running the school which has no playground for the tiny tots to exercise, and no proper teachers, so much so that many are forced to go for private tuitions? --- Sort of vindicates my point? -- tony Tony de Sa Ph: +91 832 2470 148 M: +91 9975162897 E: tonyd...@gmail.com The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan Quayle
[Goanet] Allopaths/Homeopaths, You Decide.
Harvard Medical School funded the scientists to become biologists, and the Ingber/Yung duo are content with the title. The pair has devised a way to filter germs from the blood of septic patients using nano-size iron beads. The particles are coated with antibody that binds with bacteria in the blood. A magnetic field is used to draw out the the germ coated beads from the plasma, which is then returned to the body. Dr. Tonse Raju of the Eunice Kennedy Institute calls the process elegant and new, a product of new thinking. Both groups would agree. eric.
[Goanet] Dalit Christians Calls on Churches to end discrimination
Santosh Helekar: Since Mr. R. L. Francis is now on Goanet, perhaps, he would like to respond to the defamatory allegations made against him some time back in this public forum. Here is the relevant quote and link:R L Francis is an old disgruntled hand. He has no credibility and no following. He sole claim to fame is being propped up by the sangh parivar to embarrass the Church from time to time..Marshall Mendonzahttp://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg45930.html Response: 1. R L Francis is not NEW to Goanet. He has been regularly posting on Goanet as he has been doing on other internet forums. Please refer following links for more recent postings: http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=Newslist=goanetinfo=2009-April/authorpost_id=176323 http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=Newslist=goanetinfo=2009-March/authorpost_id=175764 http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=Newslist=goanetinfo=2009-March/authorpost_id=175099 http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=Newslist=goanetinfo=2009-May/authorpost_id=177535 You can also refer to hindutva websites and forums like www.Hinduunity.orghttp://www.hinduunity.org/, www.Sanghparivar.org http://www.sanghparivar.org/, where many more of his press releases are littered http://www.sanghparivar.org/blog/rkm/poor-christian-liberation-movement-slams-church-organisations 2.Pl refer below posting which was made on Goanet and which has perhaps escaped your attention. Posted by: Fr Dominic Emmanuel MangaloreanCatholics at gmail.comhttp://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.orgFri May 8, 2009 1:26 am (PDT) This is absolutely right that R. L. Francis keeps honobbing with Murli Manohar Joshi, Balbir Punj and came once to my office with his brohter to bargain with me that if he got more than what he was getting from the RSS, he would stop attacking the Church. His economic condition has grown by leaps and bounds after he took over the Poor Christian Liberation Movement. He keeps changing his cars and flats. He has no job. His wife works for the government. He is certainly a nuisance value. Archbishop Vincent M. Concessao of New Delhi and I have told him several times to please birng the names and addresses of those Dalits, tribal or poor children who did not get admission in our schools and we will sort outthe matter. He has never done it, does not want to do it. For if he does it, his lie will be exposed and he would not be able to go on with his lies. I am sorry to say but he has no conscience and there are one or two disgruntled priests from one or two dioceses, who do not want to put in any work but want to get plump posts and benefits in the name of being dalits who he has managed to rope in. We do not react to him very much because his purpose is to get us excited and react so that he would be in the news. We are just ignoring him. In one of his recent press-releases, he called a few of us, who know about his deeds as Christian Taliban. We ignored him again. But maybe someone needs to expose him. I have told him that I am helping even non-Christian dalit children from the slums of Delhi so please bring any dalit child who is not in school and I would take care of him/her but to no avail. Unquote http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=Newslist=goanetinfo=2009-May/authorpost_id=177556 3. I suggest that the poster upgrade his understanding and knowledge of law relating to defamation lest he continue to embarass himself on public forums. 4.Regards, Marshall
[Goanet] My article in Today's Herald : The price of corruption
Best answer chosen by voters: Rs.5600/- per month (official) Rs.15000/- per month perks (unofficial) Rs.3000/- per month as free food (unofficial) Rs.3,00,000 per annum ( for not filing half the FIR cases received) If this is not a case for doubling police salaries, with free decent accomodation, free higher education for their children and free health for life with expectation of zero corruption surrounding the whole process including recruiting in return, then I don't know what is. Obviously the country can afford it. Just find a way to convert the bribe money in public hands to govt revenue to pay these people. Ditto for bribes to all other govt employees. One has to note that all govt. jobs are permanent. That is, they cannot be removed from the job generally. Also, policemen get free or highly subsidized accomodation which is worth a lot especially in a city. And finally, there is no guarantee that increasing salaries will reduce corruption. The corruption in the police force as per my knowledge is from top to bottom. When a policeman takes a bribe, a share goes up to the very top and probably even to the ministers. So, this corruption system is very well rooted. Unless there is a huge campaign to root out corruption beginning with the highest authority --- that is the CM, I dont see an easy solution to the problem. regards, Samir
[Goanet] Questions before the Church: the wealth of the religious
Barad: Can Augusto, or anyone, highlight exactly what Kerala and Madhya Pradesh is trying to do in terms of giving the Christian laity more control on the church properties? Response: The Kerala and MP governments have been trying to 'usurp' / 'control' the properties of the Church for different reasons. In Kerala, the Church is a very powerful institution and is dominant in the educational sector. It runs a number of schools and colleges in a state where the literacy levels are almost 100% and where there is a huge demand for good educational institutions.The Communist govt has been at loggerheads with the Church since a long time (back to the 1950's) and wants control of the educational institutions so that they can propagate their ideology and cut down the influence of the Church. In MP, the situation is quite different. Here the sangh parivar wants to exercise control and emasculate the Church in furtherance of its own ideology and is trying to use the back door method. Neither of the intentions are clean and transparent. The Church so far I know, consists of the clergy, the laity and the institution. There may be glitches in the administration of Church properties, but to claim that the laity is being empowered is nothing but a sham. Regards, Marshall
[Goanet] living accidentallyn
*NEWS: Portugal's seven wonders spark controversy* *Fri Jun 19 13:07:34 PDT 2009* Just as I imagained: Too many goans want to deny their portuguese colonialism. Why?. I have no problem being christian, catholic, having western mannerisms and style. Joao observes: We are born in some country or other, to some religion or other, belong to some country or other, follow some religion or other, and so on. It's not our fault, nothing to be proud or ashamed of! Most of us are living accidentally. Let's not take any of this silliness seriously! Let us glory in our own individuality, creativity, and life! Be authentic, not a duplicate of somebody of something else. Welcome to the 21st century! The indian in me has got me NOWHERE. not in love, not in monetary success; just racial backstabbing and inuendo. The western manners and dialect and english accent has opened doors to physical attraction from the opposite sex, wonderment looks and comments from white folks... so you see, I have no problem letting the portugeuse look at GOA as one of theirs, long time ago. anthony.
[Goanet] Goan freedom traitors
I agree with Prince Pandu, the leftovers should not only lose their benefits but also be sent to a labour camp for their actions of 61. Their nearest of kin should be barred from entering Goa. BC Pandurang wrote: I mean what have they given us: a culture of endless corruption, sticky greed and directionless future. Don't you agree their benefits should be cut off?
[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (19Jun09)
*** Goa Revolution Day *** Thanks to our Freedom Fighters we've had the Freedom to amass Wealth, Land for our Families...for Generations to come... To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org
