[Goanet] Creating Through Powerful Thoughts
Are thoughts powerful?? Judge for yourself in this article. http://www.justvisualizeit.net/creatingthoughts.html * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Say no to amendment of Section 17A of G oa’s TCP Act!
Say no to amendment of Section 17A of Goa’s TCP Act! There is now a clear agenda on the part of the Goa Government to clear a controversial new Bill to amend the Goa Town and Country Planning Act in the current session of the Goa Legislative Assembly. This new Bill seeks to throw open hill slopes, fields, khazan lands, low lying areas and water bodies for construction which are presently prohibited under Section 17A of Goa TCP Act 1974, expressly to protect the hill slopes and fields against 'conversion' for construction in eco-sensitive zones. The proposed Goa TCP (Amendment) Bill, 2010 is being hurriedly pushed by the Goa Government to undo the safeguards added to the Goa, Daman Diu TCP Act, 1974 through the insertion of subsections 2 and 3 in Section 17A. This Bill puts the slopes and fields at risk of development once again. We need to send a clear and definite message to our MLAs that they need to oppose the Amendment that is being proposed and that as representatives of the Goan people they are responsible and answerable to us Goans. Our Goan villagers whether in Agacaim, Loutolim, Navelim, Cansaulim, Carmona are seeing the same shocking and blatantly open relationship working against the interests of Goa and Goans with the builder-Goan politicians-Govt machinery nexus that is all out to promote the interests of these builders and their mega-housing projects while seeing our Goan landscape and environment being destroyed before their very eyes. These builders are all out to promote their mega-housing projects and have the politicians, Government Machinery, TCP, Panchayat members in their pockets. Even CM Digamabar Kamat could tell the Goan villagers on their face that he didn’t depend on their votes when they approached him to protect the Goan environment. The latest phraseology among our Goan politicians who are openly backing their builder friends to Goans is “don’t oppose Development” like Mauvin Godinho when he speaks out to back his cousin Aggie Alcacoas of Queeny Realty Fame who using the bullying and intimidating power of dogs like Aboobakr Shaikh block the over 300 years old access of the villagers in Cansaulim and construct in the fields of Arrossim. They too make interesting promises of providing jobs as security guards for these mega-housing projects like Churchill Alemao does while supporting builders like Rahejas in Carmona. The proposed Goa TCP (Amendment) Bill, 2010 is highly suspect as it throws the door wide open for allowing illegal constructions and constructions, which are prohibited while the finalisation of RP 2021 is constantly delayed. By similarly amending section 16/ 16A the Goa Government in the past was able to bring in projects through the back door to bypass the Regional Plan 2021 process for the Government's projects, many of them outsourced to private organisations. The DLFs, Queeny Realtys, Rahejas and the rest are waiting like a pack of hungry hyenas baying to feast once their politicians do the trick for them in the Legislative Assembly. All Goans need to stand up together with one voice and say no to them and expose their chicanery, cunning and guile and not be intimidated by the pressure tactics including the Section 144 that the Goa Government has imposed to keep away the Goan people from voicing their protests within their Hearing at the Goa Assembly. The following articles are from The Times of India. * *GBA takes aim at proposed TCP Amendment Bill (Times of India)* TNN, Jul 26, 2010, 06.30am IST PANAJI: The objective of the proposed TCP Amendment Bill aims at loosening control of Section 17A of the Goa TCP Act and, in one swoop, throw open hill slopes, fields, khazan lands, low-lying areas and waterbodies for construction, members of the Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) alleged. Section 17A, which was added in 1997 to the Act, was expressly to protect hill slopes and fields from conversion for construction. The GBA has repeatedly been demanding a freeze on construction in ecosensitive zones. The proposed amendment has three stated objectives of the need to specify authorities to implement a provision regarding punitive measures, enable the government to frame rules and regulations for implementation of provisions under Section 17A, and to do away with 'undue control' and ambiguity implied in the present provisions. The proposed Bill is silent over the issue of the first and second objectives while sub-sections 2 and 3 is incorporated in the third one which seeks to remove the condition of seeking permissions from the chief town planner under Section 17A. These two sub-sections are clearly aimed at giving leave and licence to projects like the disputed DLF-Saravathi Builders River Valley GOA on hill slopes. In one swoop, the government plans to lay open all forested hill slopes of Goa to development by builders who manage to obtain permissions, including 'deemed permissions' to make their cases legal
[Goanet] Superiority of Goans
Call it crap, stupid talk, unadulterated rubbish, articulated facade or what have you, but I shall fail in my duty towards Goan community if I resist from putting in the electronic print my perception of Goa of 1961. As Mr. Teutonio R de Souza has brilliantly put it recently on Goanet in connection with the launch of Selma Carvalho's book Into The Diaspora Wilderness,: ''' If more Goans would follow Selma's example and keep a record of the lived experiences.of every single Goan at any time in the past or present or future will go into the completion of Goa's history''' Goa or rather coastal Goa of 3 talukas of Ilhas, Bardez and Salcete was conquered by the Portuguese during the period 1510 - 1543. The Portuguese administrators being few in numbers, had to rely on Mestisos who were occupying the middle rungs of the administration But accoring to Dr. Gilbert Lawrence they started leaving Goa for Mocambique, Angola and Brazil. Mestisos in Goan administration were followed by their brothers - in - law in the official duties most probably by the end of the 18th century. Thus it came to pass a new ruling elite who were mostly the so called upper caste villagers along the interior Mandovi and Zuari rivers. They learnt to speak Portuguese language, aped their manners and thus detached themselved from the larger section of indigenous konkani speaking population. Some of them became the blue eyed boys of the Patriarch of East Indies and formed the famous ''batinado bramanico'' who effectively ruled many outlying villages. The humble villagers came into contact with the Latin language, took part with it in religious rituals, and also sang religious hymns in the same language without any formal education: unlike their hindu neighbours most of whom did not even dare to hear Sanskrit language spoken and were now even allowed to enter their temples. Thus the Latin connection of the humble Goan villagers by 1961 was the basis of their superiority over adherents of other religious practices or so I was told in 60's by a half literate Goan kuddwallah in Bombay. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Angle's Table Tennis/ Goa Selection aside, Goan Sport's Golden years were in the 70s!
Say, all the nostalgia on the table tennis battles and the circus that went along made me think of sports in the old daysin particular the 70s.That was the Golden age of Goan sportsfootball,volleyball, badminton and table tennis. We had stars those years, be it Vero, Deepa Mambre and Subash in table tennis, Bernard (Vasco), Catao (Salgoncar), Bramanand (Panvel), Crown Club-Santa Cruz in volleyball, Madgaonkar family in badminton.field hockey had the Girim gang and the the battling goalkeepers from VascoPeter and Praveen Bodade. It was all the entertainment one would wish for. When Bernard strolled in the Vasco market, everyone stopped as if his thundering runs on field shook the ground they were standing on! Or Bramanand.people still gather to chat with him. I see the chap from Crown Club (he had long hair then) around in Panjim and still stop and wonder...he looks like anyone else rushing aboutbut in my memory, he was a star of the volleyball court. One travelled distances to watch them play. Or the fights that erupted after hockey games. Who needed wrestling and boxing? Or tv? There were no national awards for Goa in those days...the closest we came to Goan glory was in the quarter finals of the Santosh trophy in Vasco (1972). The first major trophy came when the women's team won the national football at Campalwhat a proud moment that was! And after that it has been downhill. Yes, there came Francis D'souza (the original mausi) and the great Mauricio Alfonsoa Requiem of the old days, fine tuned by Bob Bootland (?) to be a classic mid-fielder. Now, there are no stars...no one in sight, no one. The players are ordinary...the youngsters don't have a star to look up to- nor do they care. Who knows what the state of TT is. Volleyball is almost dead, hockey..never heard of it these days. Badmintonwith coach Roshanlal gone... I know everyone talks of Goan football. In the years gone by, yes; today- NADA? If anyone does not agree, I say they don't understand the game- move on to cricket yo. Goan football is too school boy like, complete lack of skill, not the excitement of free flowing game of the old. Can you imagine our beloved Vasco Club taking the field and the crows sits silent.This is the once great Vasco Club? In the days gone by, people would travel miles to watch them play, the very sight of the white with black stripe made one edgy with a great football game to come. Football sadly in the most horrible state one can imagine. One sees the coaches with resumes and exotic nationalities whose football sense is..what football sense? If you have time to spare, its way more entertaining to watch paunchy men play in any village ground than what is now called the Pro Le*gue. Some buffoon of a football team owner proudly claimed a Goan club team could win the Asi*n cup, My foot!!! If you watch his team play, I guarantee you'd be bored to tears and you wish the game never got started! Alas life goes on..its way more entertaining to sit in the balcony section at the Fatorda football ground and listen to the routines of Merguliao (he plays the clown during matches) and, has more football knowledge that rivals any of them coaches!!! Ah, hold itI missed the game where the Minister, son of a former Referee over-turned the match officials tables because his team lost! Now that is entertaining! These days, the only thing that is entertaining! * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] COLUMN: Bleddy Goans and an East Indian bugger
Bleddy Goans and an East Indian bugger By George Menezes writer.geo...@gmail.com Whoever Godfrey Pereira is, we Goans need to either give him an award, or pin a medal on his Bleddy East Indian chest. Godfrey Pereira, a journalist who once worked with Sunday magazine Kolkotta and India Today wrote a “no holds barred” piece on the Goanet chastising the laid-back Goans and literally tearing them to pieces in the same fashion as the mine owners are tearing up the rich Goan soil mindless of the destruction that is caused all around. I have a suspicion that Godfrey Pereira is not an ex-journalist. He is an “agent provocateur”. He uses language that would not only make a sailor blush but the entire Indian Navy turn red like the setting sun on the beaches of Goa. I like what Godfrey wrote. It is a wake-up call to all of us Goans even though he gets carried away and is not in touch with the present day reality of Goa. He also exaggerates the achievements of the East Indians in the Gorai- Uttan agitation in Mumbai. About Goa he says “the Russians have been openly running drugs in Goa. Army deserters from Israel have put up signs in Goan clubs stating “No Indians allowed”. “What have you, paowallahs been doing?” he asks “Eating last night’s curry for breakfast? Susegad.” Later he goes on to say that beach after beach is being decimated and not a “beep” from the bloody Goan men. In a colorful metaphor, as colorful as the cashew fruit, he asks “what happened to the cashew nuts between our legs? The Goan women don’t seem to care as long as the sons send money back home.” In a voice full of anger he says “let somebody else revolt Bleddy pass the pao, men. Make sign of the cross, do the mando. It is God’s will.” “At least the East Indians are trying. What have you Goans been doing while your hills are being raped and your fresh water resources plundered. What? Have another feni? Talk about how Aunty Mary’s daughter is now going out with that Bleddy German bugger? Or are you all fighting your sisters for property you don’t think they deserve.” In contrast, Godfrey praises the East Indians: “In Mumbai thousands of people from the ten villages of the Gorai-Uttan belt have been fighting Essel World India’s “largest amusement park” that’s coming up near Borivali. They are protesting against the proposed Special Entertainment Zone (SEZ) spread over 14,183 acres in the area. They know they stand to lose the core of their culture if this happens and so they are fighting this encroachment disguised as tourism. At least The East Indians there are trying.” Whether castigating Goans or praising East Indians, Godfrey has not done his home work as well as he should have. The reality today is that Goans have, however slowly, turned into human rights activists. There are individuals like Sebastian Rodrigues, Venita Coelho, Padma Shri Norma Alvares. Hartman de Souza, Durgadas Gaonkar and many more. There are Organizations like the renowned Doctor Oscar Rebello’s Goa Bachao Abiyan, Floriano Lobo’s Goa Su-Raj Party, Bailancho Sad, or the very recent Community activism through “Video Volunteers” at village level. So many heroic individuals and groups, too many to name, not to mention journalists, artists, musicians, fashion designers you name it, who have actively supported most movements to save Goa from its multi-pronged perdition. As well-known journalist Frederick Noronha writes “these stories hardly ever emerge. The meek of the earth shall not inherit the headlines, as Indira Gandhi once famously said. Their campaigns lack immediacy, is bereft of the drama, and above all, these are simple people!” In any case, Godfrey needs to update himself although, as many Goa watchers would agree, the movements are not sustainable and are not able to dislodge the political people in power for the same reasons Indians everywhere are not able to do so on account of massive fissures among the common people. Namely caste, sub-caste and creed. On the other hand Godfrey has no excuse in having got the Gorai Uttan agitation wrong. I like the East Indians. I became their adopted son when I built a cottage at the far end of the Gorai beach near the lighthouse, almost having a private cove for myself and my family on weekends. When thugs started to excavate the sand all along the beach and especially in front of my house, when cottages for love-birds were built on Customs owned property, when the bullock-cart owner, my friendly neighbor, was killed by Mumbai thugs forcibly grabbing property, when Essel World was built ,there was not a whimper from the people of Gorai. Not a “beep” as Godfrey would say. I was advised to stop writing complaints and bringing my very senior police friends to have a look at what was happening. “Uncle” they said to me “you are here only on weekends. Your house is the furthest from the village. All they have to do one night is to burn it
[Goanet] CBC: Promised Land - Escape from Uganda
Ex-Uganda Goans may find this interesting and hopefully share some of their stories. http://www.cbc.ca/promisedland/ In 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians, regardless of their citizenship, had to pack up and leave the country - and he gave them only ninety days to get out. Thousands of those Asian Ugandans found refuge in Canada, including Anwer Omar. This year, nearly four decades later, Anwer and hundreds of other exiled Ugandans gather for a reunion picnic. Hear their stories on Escape from Uganda. The latest podcast, July 26/10 (download) can be found at: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/index.html?newsandcurrent#promisedland - B * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] How important is sex for a happy marriage? - iVillage
Con Menezes cmenezes at tpg.com.au wrote: http://www.ivillage.com:80/how-important-sex-happy- marriage/4-n-211685?nlcid=em|07-12-2010| Con Menezes' post above was interesting. It is something that, given our background, might be tough to come to terms with. The Catholic perspective on this -- at least in the way it has passed around for the most part -- is certainly unhelpful. The obsession is with abortion, not with building a healthy sexuality (and I don't mean just condom use as is promoted by the neo-Liberal cultural industry today!) Sex is advocated as something solely for procreation. This is akin to suggesting that eating food is soley to avoid starvation. You commit adultery if you look at an attractive woman with lust in your eyes -- well then, how many normal males with usual human impulses are not guilty of this, given the way evolution has hard-wired us to ensure the propagation of the species? Sex and guilt go together, even within a marriage. There is little to guide people into finding their way to a healthier sexuality, in our fantasy-driven, oversexualised world (where you can't watch an MTV video, read the Times of India, or walk down the street watching advertisements without being prompted to think of sex). Hindu India was probably more advanced on this score, but the Kama Sutra et al happened centuries ago. Subsequently, the long Victorian cast its spell on all, turning millions into uptight, repressed, land-of-aggressive-males and prudes. The only Catholic network I've heard giving honest hints about the hints of the place of sexuality in a marriage is Vally and Anna Coelho, relatives of our own Venantius Pinto, and who do network on issues related to couples and religion. FN * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:24:36 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ? On 26 July 2010 17:36, Joe lOBO tw...@pathcom.com wrote: Noting a previous letter today about foreign nationals overstaying their visitors` visas in India..one sees another article in todays TOI about Goa immigration authorities being complicit in the issuance of visas to Russian tourists arriving without any background checks or verification. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Free-for-all-Russians-dont-need-visa-in-Goa/articleshow/5182267.cms * * * RESPONSE: So what's new? Open your wallet anything from USD 20 to 100 and the trick is done! We seriously need the CBI to check this racket outhope our MLA's are reading this; on the other hand they might not - their take might be in jeapordy? -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. A practice known in Nigeria as 'dash' ... Cheers, p+3D! * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Que sera sera...
When all the little girls were growing up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrcfeature=fvw After that, Fly me to the moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7bfudsfZjwfeature=related -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development
From: U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com Fr. Ivo in reply to above post, wrote on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 saying: .. In short, Christian conversion is a birthright in the secular democracy. ...If all Hindus and men of goodwill had thought in this way, India would be really shining!... Further to my earlier post of today on above subject I was taken aback when I opened 9th page of Times of India - Goa addition. This page takes detailed stock of how Italian catholic church rocked by gay sex scandal...Priests filmed having sex at clubs in Rome. The original news appeared in Panorama - a weekly magazine owned by Italian Prime Minister - supposed to be responsible citizen of Italy. ***Dear Dr.U.G.Barad, You are distorting my clarion-call and the teaching of Christianity by linking with gay sex scandal in Italy or in India. I have quoted Hindu wisemen and people of integrity and the Christian principles. If there are sexual abuses anywhere in the world, it is up for everyone to set a standard and think of criteria to judge and transform the society. All are called, whatever may be the religion or secular societies, to work for the integral human development. You can bring up the news of achievements or scandals of any community in the world. You make up your mind how you can heal the wounds of the modern society and help your brethren. Regards. Fr.Ivo * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Goa's contribution to the world of jazz!
Here's where you can download 'Simple Samba' mp3: http://jazzgoa.tripod.com/free.html And here's where you can view the video produced in Goa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qw9aT-rhfE It's free, enjoy music from Goa! * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] COLUMN: Caught in a web of sex, lies and cover-ups
Caught in a web of sex, lies and cover-ups By Nisser Dias nisserdias at gmail.com SMS to 9422437029 It is exactly two months today, since the Torrado family from Lotoulim were drawn into a saga of misery and grief with young girl Nadia Torrado consuming poison to end her life for reasons, which the police attached to Crime Branch are still trying to piece together. The victim finally succumbed to the deadly ratol, 29th May. Her death is being linked to her intimate relationship with former Tourism minister Mickky Pacheco. Upon her death he persistently tried to circumvent law at every stage, using political clout and money power, using loopholes in the law and also by using professionals of two noble professions or rather vocations – Teachers and Doctors. Mickky, in his own disclosure to Supreme Court has admitted that he was in intimate relationship with the deceased at the time of her resorting to end her life. The moment the disgraced legislator realized the consequences he would have to face, he moved all his money power and political connection to save her life, beginning from discharging her from a super specialty hospital in Goa to admit her in a hospital in Thane to keep her away from the local media glare and then airlifting her to Chennai in a chartered air ambulance for liver transplant. But at the back of his mind, he knew his world, of living in arrogance, using and discarding women at will, abusing law was crumbling around him and thus he set about to thwart the process of law and justice. He arranged for special magistrate to record the statement of the victim in Thane in his presence. It is alleged that he directed the grieving mother of the deceased – a teacher by profession to destroy evidence and even tutored her to tell the investigation agencies and the media that her daughter had consumed ratol thinking it was toothpaste. An explanation which even layman has not accepted. There is evidence that has come on record that huge amounts of money being offered, accepted for this alleged act of destruction of evidence and tutored statements. The ultimate result of this unholy cohesion between a teacher and a politician led to the resignation of a good teacher, who has been my class teacher. Yes, I agree that there will be questions like if she was a good teacher, how come she failed to be a good mother. Of course I can’t answer this question, but all I can say the daughter was an adult. Then another query pops into my mind, why is she shielding Mickky and not shedding light on the incident, I can’t answer that too, but I trust the Crime Branch to reveal that and bring the culprits whosoever it might be to justice. Nadia breathed her last on 29th May 2010 and the family was in a mighty hurry to perform the final rites without completing legal formalities in Goa. The Crime Branch wanted possession of two mobile SIMs and a laptop used by the deceased, but all crucial items had mysteriously disappeared. As the heat was building up, former Tourism minister tried to divert attention by demanding judicial enquiry into the death of his family friend at the same time CBI enquiries into the Excise scam and drug nexus involving politicians-police and drug dealers, here too he failed. Mickky was finally summoned by the investigating agency on 4th June and questioned at length. It is here he realized that the noose was tightening around his neck and went underground, thereby bringing the investigation to a grinding halt. However his attempts to secure anticipatory bail even at the highest court in the country were frustrated by the judiciary. But here in Goa public prosecutor Sarojini Sardinha has to be complimented, who foiled all attempts by the accused to seek bail. She was resolute and argued without fear of political backlash against various bail applications and made the courts realize the gravity of the crime and more importantly attempts made by the minister using his powers to cover up the dastardly act. Mickky Pacheco had admitted to the media about his philandering ways, but in the death of 27 year old Nadia, he was caught in the web of sex, lies and assaults. Realizing his days were numbered and there was no way he could escape the noose, he was like a drowning man catching at straws. He tried his last trick in his bag and that is feigning sickness. Politicians caught in corruption, sex scandals and other illegal activities have developed a knack for instantly falling sick and developing chest pains, high pressure. It even happened with Aldona MLA Dayanand Narvekar when he was implicated in the ticket gate. When Supreme Court rejected Mickky’s anticipatory bail application, he surrendered before the Sessions court in Margao and then got himself admitted in Hospicio. Allegedly, he used his former cabinet and now defunct G7 colleague to get admission and even overwrite noting on his medical certificates. Public
[Goanet] Imago:Exploring the Language of Film begins on Friday 30th July 2010 - REGISTRATIONS OPEN
The Film Appreciation Club- Imago : Exploring the Language of Film begins on Friday 30th July 2010, 5:30 pm at Gallery Gitanjali ( www.gallerygitanjali.com) REGISTRATION NOW OPEN *To Register contact:* Gayathri Konkar at 9423316395 / email : monsoong...@gmail.com or Lourdes Cardoz at 9823253361 email : gallerygitanj...@gmail.com A film appreciation course designed by Monsoon Grey(www.monsoongrey.com) that focuses on the technical and artistic elements of film and their orchestration to ultimately deliver a cinematic experience. At the end of the workshop the participants should be able to analyse and critically review a film. ** Key features of Imago - Participative audiovisual sessions. - Focus on contemporary cinema and media. - Exposes the participants to a very wide range of films all over the world, of every category (feature, documentary, short...), of every genre (thriller, drama, comedy...) and of every type (art house, popular, independent...). - Extensive use of clips to illustrate and as examples for every aspect discussed. - Not theoretical and does not dwell on history or rely heavily on 'classics' as illustrations. - It looks at the artistic and the technical aspects of the medium as an integral whole. ** Who can participate? The course will be open to anyone above the age of 18 years and from any background. ** Venue: Gallery Gitanjali (opp Panjim Inn, near People's High School, 31st Jan Rd., Fontainhas, Panjim) ** Duration: 10 sessions of 2 hours (20 hours) + viewing and study of 10 films (approx 20 hours) The Imago sessions will take place on Fridays at 5:30 pm the Film study will be on Saturday (5:30pm). ** Facilitators: Apurva Kulkarni, Salil Konkar, Gayathri Konkar. -- Thanks Regards Miriam Koshy Gallery Gitanjali E-212,31st January Road, Fontainhas,Panjim, Goa-403001 India www.gallerygitanjali.com 00919823572035 * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Goanet Reader: One of Goa's foremost intellectuals, Dr Jose Pereira... (Gerard D'Souza, Gomantak Times)
'THE FORCES DESTROYING GOA ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN I AM' One of Goa's foremost intellectuals, Dr Jose Pereira, also known as Goa's Da Vinci, inaugurated his painting exhibition at Porvorim last week. In an exclusive interview, this polymath (who has published 24 books on theology, history of art, architecture, Goan culture, language, literature and music) speaks to GERARD D'SOUZA about his varied interests. Q: Your interests span a wide range of issues from Islamic architecture in India to teaching Theology of World Religions at the Fordham University, to the Goan mando. How did you come to span such a wide range of interests and specialisations? I see myself as a product of two traditions: one is the Latin-Christian tradition and the other is the Indian Hindu tradition. So, in order to bring to expression these traditions, I had to do extensive research. Q: You spent a majority of your life outside Goa. How did it feel to be separated from your motherland? Like a rat, I have run away from the sinking ship, which is Goa. Q: How did you manage to keep in touch with Goa despite being based in far off places, even before the internet came into the picture? When I was in London, I used to travel by land to Goa. That meant travelling across Europe and then to the border of Iran. From there, I would hitchhike by truck on the border of Pakistan and then make my way into India. Nobody does that anymore. Q: You have done extensive work on the mando. How do you look at the mando today? As I said, I am a product of two cultures. In the mando, I find a concrete symbol of the synthesis of two cultures. I needed a concrete argument to bring out the synthesis of the Latin Christian and the Indian Hindu and I find this in the mando. The mando is beloved but betrayed. It was the work of the aristocratic minority to create a fragment of Europe surrounded by the waters of the Arabian sea and the hills of the Sahyadris... an attempt to create a little Vienna with a fantastic spirit and dance. It is amazing to see a file of men dressed in purely Western outfits and a file of women in Indian costumes holding ostrich fans gently swaying back and forth to a melancholic tune. It was a fantasy world. It couldn't have lasted very long. It lasted about a hundred and fifty years. I like the fantasy world of the mando. Q: What about the tiatrs? In my time, there were folk plays, beautiful plays. But they published nothing. It was only when Joao Agostinho arrived on the scene that he began publishing. They were lucky I arrived on the scene and took notes of what was happening. These folk playwrights were ahead of their time. They were already attacking social evils like landlords sexually exploiting their tenants and drunken behaviour and all this pushed them much ahead of their contemporaries. Q: Even today, the tiatr is a very vibrant industry, don't you think? Yes, that is because the Catholics are afraid that their entity is being dissolved and this is their way of asserting their identity. Q: What do you feel about the future of Konkani? I'm no longer optimistic about the future of Konkani. It has to fight too many forces that are too great for it to take on. What will we do? Look at Marathi. It is spoken over such a wide territory, almost 80 times the size of Goa, and they all have one standard that they can look up to. How can Konkani survive? They claim there is a standard: the Devanagari Konkani, but does it inspire loyalty among a Bardezkar or Saxttikar? Take for example the mando 'Adeu Korcho Vellu Paulo'. Tem Ponddekar-ak poddlam? Amchem nu mhonntelem te. If we have the zeal of the Jews, then maybe. They have revived the buried Hebrew language. It's plastered everywhere, on their walls, they speak it to their children and they speak it on the radio. Do you think we are capable of this? Q: You are primarily known as a scholar and intellectual. Where does painting come into the picture? I look at myself as a painter. It's just that my primary source of income was not from paintings. Besides, nobody noticed my work so I went into scholarly studies. People were perhaps... equally confused as I was about myself. My painting was otherwise sporadic. Q: You were based in Benares for awhile. Tell us what you did there? I was centered in Benares as I had a project to research the history of Indian art with the American Academy of Benares. I was working on producing photographs of Indian monuments across India. We were supposed to take pictures and store them there and then study them. That was our plan. I was doing Indian Baroque art. I travelled a lot in India then, especially visiting Daman and Diu, Bombay and Kerala, not to mention Goa where Baroque art is popular. Q: Tell us about your encounters with D.D. Kosambi? My encounters with him were very brief. He was being driven somewhere and he allowed us to enter his car. But I was friends with Manoharrai
[Goanet] Valpoi PI, Bicholim PSI transferred
-- Samir Umarye BICHOLIM: The Utkarsha Parab kidnapping case generated much heat in the Goa assembly with opposition leader Manohar Parrikar demanding the immediate suspension of Valpoi PI Shivram Vaigankar and PSI Terence Vaz for negligence of duty. Raising the issue during zero hour, Parrikar said it was irresponsible on the part of the police officials to treat the serious case of kidnapping casually. Criticizing the police, he said the PI and PSI should have arrested the culprit who was responsible for kidnapping Utkarsha from the higher secondary school. He also said that they delayed investigations into the case and asked for some documents regarding age of the girl, etc. Demanding action from the government, Parrikar, to drive home his point, alleged that it was the PI's name figured in an illegal mining case last year. As regards the PSI, he said there was a complaint from some councillors that he had threatened someone with an encounter. The opposition leader said if the government doesn't suspend the duo, a wrong message will be circulated to other officers who may also be in the habit of taking serious matters casually, thereby allowing no justice for the common man. Parrikar also said that there can be no justification for statements of the police officers claiming any political interference as it was the duty of the former to act as per law and. If required, they should have also explained the gravity of the case to the concerned politician, he added. Chief minister Digamber Kamat, in his reply (on behalf of home minister Ravi Naik who is recuperating from a health condition in Mumbai) said that the complaint was registered and that three persons had been arrested by the police on July 23. He further said that he has asked the DIG to personally look into the matter and that if there the slightest negligence is observed, action will be taken. Strongly objecting to this, Parrikar said the reply was not acceptable as the least the government should have done was to transfer the errant police officers pending inquiry. This shows how insensitive the government is in tackling such crimes, Parrikar charged while pointing out that the PI himself will submit a report of what has happened. The arrests were made more than a week after the incident was reported, the opposition leader added. To this, the chief minsiter said, We'll ask for an independent inquiry, indicating that the government was not in favour of transferring the police officers. Speaker Pratapsingh Rane also said the girl had brought to the notice of the police that she had been kidnapped, but no prompt action had been taken by the officials. As the opposition raised the tempo on the issue, accusing the government of protecting the officers, the chief minister agreed to tranfer them. I'll see that they are shifted, Kamat told the assembly. Meanwhile, Vaigankar and Vaz were transferred to the police headquarters, here Monday evening, police sources said. Vaigankar was PI in-charge of the Valpoi police station and was also holding charge of the Bicholim police station. (ToI) * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] FWD: Paroda locals oppose Mega Housing Project
*Paroda locals oppose Mega Housing Project* ** *HERALD REPORTER * ** *MARGAO, JULY 25 * The Paroda gram sabha on Sunday strongly opposed a mega housing project proposed at Karalem area of the village. At the Sunday gram sabha meeting, gram sabha members opposed the mega housing project on grounds that the village has no garbage disposal facility and other infrastructure facilities. Members of the gram sabha also objected to the open air hall proposed at Karalem on grounds that the project would disturb the peaceful environment in the area. On the mega housing project, the gram sabha passed a resolution that the Panchayat should not entertain any files for multi-dwelling units in view of the poor infrastructure, especially relating to garbage disposal. Sarpanch Sharmila Vaz informed that the Panchayat body would fully support the views expressed at the gram sabha meeting. She said the Panchayat would not approve any file pertaining to mega housing projects. She pointed out that the Panchayat had returned the file from the builder, who has put in a plan to build 20 flats and 16 shop. * http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Paroda-locals-oppose-mega-housing-project/39237.html *http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Paroda-locals-oppose-mega-housing-project/39237.html ** ** *VIVA GOA* __._,_.___ Reply to sender konkani_catho...@yahoo.com?subject=*paroda* | Reply to group goan_online_allia...@yahoogroups.com?subject=*paroda* | Reply via web posthttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goan_Online_Alliance/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJxcWswanAyBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5MTA5MTE3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MDQxMQRtc2dJZAMxODA5BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3JwbHkEc3RpbWUDMTI4MDIxODYzOA--?act=replymessageNum=1809| Start a New Topichttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goan_Online_Alliance/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmdGI4ZnM2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5MTA5MTE3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MDQxMQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzEyODAyMTg2Mzg- Messages in this topichttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goan_Online_Alliance/message/1809;_ylc=X3oDMTM1YzJsM2s3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5MTA5MTE3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MDQxMQRtc2dJZAMxODA5BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3Z0cGMEc3RpbWUDMTI4MDIxODYzOAR0cGNJZAMxODA5( 1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Grouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goan_Online_Alliance;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcDIwMm5qBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5MTA5MTE3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MDQxMQRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzEyODAyMTg2Mzg- [image: Yahoo! Groups]http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJlc3F1MjNnBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5MTA5MTE3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MDQxMQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTI4MDIxODYzOA-- Switch to: Text-Onlygoan_online_alliance-traditio...@yahoogroups.com?subject=change+delivery+format:+Traditional, Daily Digestgoan_online_alliance-dig...@yahoogroups.com?subject=email+delivery:+Digest• Unsubscribegoan_online_alliance-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com?subject=unsubscribe• Terms of Use http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ . __,_._,___ -- 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. MAND - an adivasi-rights resource centre : http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/ 4. EVERY GOAN SHOULD SEE THIS VIDEO: http://infochangeindia.org/Infochange-documentary.html 5. For the Love of Konkani: http://www.radiogoa.net/ 6. Goa's Identity Movement website: http://www.goamag.net/gim 7. Goa's Identity Movement group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com//#/group.php?gid=193497031686 8. Official Government Site NRI Office (GOA): http://www.globalgoans.org.in/ * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Indian summer: the twilight of British influence in India
Indian summer: the twilight of British influence in India David Cameron arrives in India today hoping to do business with a country that is richer and more powerful than at any time since the British Raj. It's as if history has turned full circle, argues Mihir Bose David Cameron is eager to show that he can break with the past and chart new avenues - what with the coalition with the Liberal Democrats and talk of the big society reversing decades of centralised government power. But as he heads to India accompanied by a cricket squad of ministers and businessmen, he would do well to read up on a bit of history - and in particular, on the letter that Queen Elizabeth I gave to John Newbery, one of the first Englishmen to visit India. Dated February 1583, it was addressed: To the most invincible and most mighty Prince, Lord Zelabdim Echebar, King of Cambaia; Invincible Emperor, etc. The letter explained that Elizabeth's countrymen liked to trade, that they thought this would be of mutual benefit, and that they were willing to travel great distances for this purpose. The letter went on to speak of the Indian Emperor's humanity, and of how the English Queen would be greatly beholden if he would treat her subjects honestly and grant them such privileges as to you shall seem good. Elizabeth was not well informed about India. She had the wrong name for the Indian monarch and was mistaken about his title. He was Jalaluddin Akbar, one of the great Mughal Emperors, whose domain extended far beyond Cambaia. For good measure, she also misspelled the name of this port in modern-day Gujarat, on the west coast of India - it was, in fact, Cambay - though she could have claimed some kind of credit, if only because it was along the town's waterfront that, 130 years later, British sailors first introduced cricket to the Indians. What gives the letter real contemporary relevance, however, is that - like Newbery - Cameron and co are going to India to trade. And while Britain is no longer quite the small island threatened by Spain, then Europe's most powerful kingdom, its present economic woes do make it much more of a supplicant - all the more so, as India is convinced it is on its way to regaining its old 16th-century economic domination. Then, the Mughals could realistically have expected to be described as one of the world's great powers - and for the next century and a half, it was India, along with China, that dominated global trade. Even in 1750, 167 years after Elizabeth's begging letter, India had 24.5 per cent of the world's manufacturing output - with China leading the field with 32.8 per cent while the United Kingdom was barely visible with 1.9 per cent. It was another seven years before Robert Clive's decisive victory over the Nawab of Bengal on the banks of the Bhagirathi River at Plassey converted the British from traders to rulers and changed everything. Modern India has still some way to go to regain its once-lofty position but it is growing at over 8 per cent a year, and the recession that haunts the West is for most of its people just a series of media images from another part of the world. India has had no need to bail out its banks or adjust to an age of austerity. True, as in the 16th century, vast inequalities of wealth remain - with just under half the population of 1.2 billion living on less than $2 a day. But a thriving middle class of 400 million people is constantly seeking to lift an economy already ranked 11th in the world. And in marked contrast to the ageing societies of China, Japan and Europe, the prospects for growth are further fuelled by an increasingly young population - with 70 per cent of Indians under the age of 35. And all this is complemented by a certain political and historical maturity. I was made aware of this on a recent trip to the heartland of northern India. The trip took in sites such as Nalanda, the university that dates to the fifth century BC and claims to be the oldest in the world. It included Bodhgaya where, under an ancient Bodhi Tree, a little-known prince called Siddharta found inspiration after years of meditation and became Buddha, and Sarnath, where Buddha preached his first sermon. At every place, the guides took pains to point out the destruction that the various invaders, many of them Muslims, had inflicted. But almost in the next breath they went on to praise the British, who in many cases had rescued the ruins, indeed made the Indians aware of their history. This praise extended even to Lord Curzon - who, in 1917, told the British War Cabinet that it would take Indians 500 years to learn how to rule themselves. His reign as viceroy ignited the first great nationalist agitation against British rule. But he also did much to protect ancient Indian monuments. This Indian ability to move from touchiness about the Raj to a more confident, measured view of its impact has been helped by the economic success of Indian businesses and the mark they are making on
[Goanet] PRESS NOTE
*GANV RAKHON JAGRUT MANCH, **CURCHOREM* House No. 104/2, Bansai, Curchorem, Goa 403706 Phone No. 0832-2652808 PRESS NOTE 27/07/2010 SCRAP LAND ACQTION FOR MINING 4-LANE Four-wheeler traffic (non-mining) on Tilamol-Cotarli road is 30-50 vehicles/hour against the two-lane road capacity of 150 vehicles/hour. The existing road can suffice for next 20 years. The mining traffic will not ply on this road as the miners will pay Rs 500 cr to PWD to build bypass roads. Thus the widening is ploy by politicians to fool people and to continue and even increase mining traffic through the heart of Curchorem. Since the road is for mining, it is not public purpose. Acquiring land under the guise of public purpose is illegal. Spending public money for the benefit of rich miners is unjust. Curchorem is the 5th most populated municipality of Goa with a population of 30,000. Kakoda Health Centre and two major hospitals (Dr. Sonu Kamat and Dr. Satish Kudchadkar) are on this road. 1 students from 12 schools, an ITI and a polytechnic commute on this road. No where in the world dirty cargo like iron ore is hauled through the heart of such a town; not even in Bihar. The government is well aware of the air and noise pollution and traffic hazards mining traffic causes. If CM conducts proper study, Curchorem bypass will get the highest priority. The land losers will be subjected to immense losses in many ways. Many people would lose houses, shops, compounds, trees, Crosses, Tulsi-vrindavans, and parking spaces. Making poor people lose for the benefit of miners is injustice. Manch therefore demands that the widening may be scrapped and the land acquisition be de-notified forthwith. Manch also demands that steps be taken to give people solace from pollution during the next mining season. Pollution problems are caused due to exploitation of truck owners by the miners. Manch demands: Increase the freight paid to truck owners by 30% and stop paying politicians. This will help truck owners to take care of spillage. Miners will not lose much if they give Rs 50 per ton extra to truck owners from their profit of Rs 3000 per ton. Also create Provident Fund for truck owners to protect their investment if China demand slackens. This PF should be contributed by miners and government. Babazinho Fernandes Convenor * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] How forces destroying Goa are made statutorily stronger-retired scientists get rehabilitated on powerful statutory posts again and again
My indologist Guru ,Dr. Josebab Pereira says prophetically, 'THE FORCES DESTROYING GOA ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN I AM' But who's making these forces stronger-?. all those who are willingly or unwillingly involved in disempowering people of Goa and those who see no conflict of interests when such forces are made still strongerexamples follow.. No conflicts of interest now?. How retired scientists from NIO get rehabilitated on statutory posts again and again….? All the anti-mining, anti mass tourism, anti industrial pollution, anti privatization, anti mega housing project, anti SEZ et al activists please take note if forces destroying Goa need to be made weaker and not stronger. This is the biggest news for you in 2010. It all depends how you make this committee work and hold them accountable and responsible if they just sit idle, go against spirit of the act and people of Goa. The latest notification by MOEF on appointment of State EIA appraisal committee needs a studied response from all those , individuals, activists and NGOs, who know or need to know what it is and how it is going to make a vital difference in mining, non mining, industrial and tourism areas, including housing megaprojects. What I find striking now is -there are three very senior retired NIO scientists ( one on Goa CZMA, almost a ‘life member’; another as chairman GSPCB, and third one recently appointed on a EIA appraisal committee) who have been rehabilitated on powerful statutory committees and shockingly nobody sees any ‘conflict of interest’ in such appointments…esp. when the projects and issues which they handle can make a huge difference for the future of Goa. There are some questions:- 1. How retired scientists from NIO get suitably rehabilitated (sometimes for three terms) as chairman of the very powerful statutory Goa state pollution control board? 2. As working scientists they are not known to have taken any position (unless briefed to do so on case by case basis as I observed while conducting public hearing on Miramar beach privatization) in their entire research career on issues of public interest despite constitution, working conditions not forbidding them ( exceptions are Kalidas Sawkar, Antonio Mascarenhas, salute them), but no one sees any conflict of interest when they may deal with the same corporate clients for whom they had done paid consultancy work (check paid Environmental impact assessment (EIA) consultancy work by NIO on NIO’s website, under individual researchers’ page) 3. Interestingly we find a lot of favoritism again when the chairman, GSPCB recommends and appoints NIO scientists (working or retired) on the powerful technical committee of GSPCB? . so then it becomes an all NIO affair- a new form of “insiders’ trading’. Is there no conflict of interest in such decisions?. 4. If it pricks the conscience of any activists (with or without sponsorship from United Churches of Canada, IDRC, Helen Hamlyn Trust etc) in India or abroad- please justify the nomination of engineers, chemists and geologists on Goa’s State EIA appraisal committee. What is their experience in EIA?. Again the technical committee is headed by a retired NIO chemical oceanographer. 5. How these people would deal with the projects of their ex corporate clients?. It is the total spinelessness of Goa state pollution control board which has resulted in Goa’s present environmental and ecological tragedy. We haven’t heard clamor for demanding resignations from people on statutory positions who have clear conflict of interests when they are supposed to be fully ecofriendly and people friendly and not politician or minister or investor friendly. “He would create problems for the government” – a retired and much deified NIO ex scientist had opined when a senior government officer had proposed my name as a potential non official new member to the Chief secretary of Goa (CS) when the issue of reconstitution of Goa CZMA came up a few years ago (not recently). The CS had then readily dropped the idea. The officer was taken aback because the scientist could offer absolutely no reasons but he was successful in poisoning the mind of CS. My well wisher officer could understand the gut level hatred and discomfort. This had become noticeable and pronounced in the society after I had married Melinda -a Roman catholic at Old Goa’s se cathedral. My wife says-“ it is just jealousy. People don’t disclose the real reasons why they hate you and this would continue till you live in Goa!”. In his Visit and interaction/public hearing on CZMA at the auditorium of Agnel Polytechnic, Verna, on Aug. 30, 2009 the Hon. Minister for environment and forests, Mr. Jairam Ramesh declared- anyone in audience may write to me why Goa deseves a special case. It was not this ex NIO scientist or any other member of CZMA or govt. officer but I, who went home and by night, in public
[Goanet] Golden years of Goan sports *correction*
**Correction** there came Francis D'souza (the original mausi) and the great Mauricio Alfonsoa Requelme of the old days, fine tuned by Bob Bootland (?) to be a classic mid-fielder. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJuhOVj6h6w * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 5, Issue 788
Nice one Pandu, there was boxing too. Oscar Furtado was one of the greatest boxers of the 70 era. In basketball there was the tall Clovis Lopes. In Chess there was Hafiz Karmali and Francis Rodrigues. And in goondagiri there were the khojas:))) BC -- Say, all the nostalgia on the table tennis battles and the circus that went along made me think of sports in the old daysin particular the 70s.That was the Golden age of Goan sportsfootball,volleyball, badminton and table tennis. We had stars those years, be it Vero, Deepa Mambre and Subash in table tennis, Bernard (Vasco), Catao (Salgoncar), Bramanand (Panvel), Crown Club-Santa Cruz in volleyball, Madgaonkar family in badminton.field hockey had the Girim gang and the the battling goalkeepers from VascoPeter and Praveen Bodade. It was all the entertainment one would wish for. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] St. Jacinto Island Church
Happened to be passing St. Jacinto Island off Vasco da Gama on the 25th evening at dusk. The church on the island was irresistible, but the only camera at hand was my mobile, a Nokia 5233 with a 2MP camera. I am sharing the pix. Please click on the links. http://www.flickr.com/photos/t0t0/4834214059/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/t0t0/4834823164/ -- Tony de Sa. tonydesa at gmail dot com M : +91 9975 162 897 Ph. : +91 832 2470 148 ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Nothing personal but Is there an update wrt Micky Mouse?
Dear all, Is there a court-requested black-out wrt information on Micky Mouse? Our usual stalwart updaters appear to be pretty silent, of late. Even the normally excited TargetGoa has the bail item available only by way of search #91. What happened? What did the police find? Was this 'police custody' necessary for justice? AND there are the other questions: a: When did the police know that there were 'marks of blunt injury' on Nadia's body? b: When did the doctors know of these injuries? c: Did they see these injuries ante-mortem? Does anybody else believe that the above 3 questions should have been dealt with before an accused person's freedom was interfered with? Hello .stalwarts and officers of the court! Hello BTW: My views do not make any judgment wrt the eventual finding of guilt or innocence of Micky Mouse, ONLY that: 1: A person is NOT a criminal until he is found guilty (of the crime-charged) by a court of law and the judgment is not overturned upon appeal. 2: Until a person is found guilty (in such matters) beyond a reasonable doubt, He is innocent. 3: If the 'State' can hold a person for custody for the purpose of questioning .. and NOT question him for 3 days (at least), that same 'State' could do it to anybody else. 4: Hello, the infamous 'Emergency'! jc * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Micky,Zindabad
Micky,Zindabad! I am no one to judge Micky's innocence but it was a clear politically motivated case.John Fernandes who lost the last assembly election very closely to Micky Pacheco is in the Judicial custody facing charges of Rape.The former supremo of Save Goa Front remained quiet with regard to the charging of John although he was his man during the last assembly elections.With John and Micky in the Police net,the way was looking clear for Valanka Alemao in Benaulim constituency with regard to the next assmbly elections but now the things will be different as Micky has been released on bail. No M.L.A. in the present government openly came out in support on Micky because he was the biggest threat to them.Hope Micky will continue his war against the Police and politicians involved the the famous drugs racket in Goa.If he sincerely fight this battle,God might forgive some of his sins. Joel Morais P.O.Cuncolim, Bencleamvaddo, Salcette,Goa. mob-9970561727 * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Caught in a web of sex lies - Mickky Pacheco
Gabe Menezes. Nisser Dias wrote : All in all, Crime Branch should not restrict its investigation to only Mickky Pacheco, Lyndon Monteiro or the family members of the deceased but cast its net wide to probe also those who tried to assist them to circumvent law and justice. Comments : Camilo Fernandes Nisser Dias' mail exposes Mickky for his misdeeds as a politician and makes very interesting reading. The law should apply equally no matter how mighty and powerful a person is. In reality this is not often true. However powerful people use their influence and might to favour them. Due to their clout and money, they have die hard followers who are prepared to stand by them no matter what the person does. After all they owe their success to the politicians/powerful people. Hence Mickky who got bail was given a rousing welcome by his die hard followers. One lesson we should remember is you can fool some people all the time but you cant fool all people all the time. He basked in glory rewarding his die hard followers but sooner or later one gets drowned in one's own false success. Congratulations to Nisser for making aware of many things which public may not know. Dev borem korum. Camilo _ Bollywood This Decade http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywoodthisdecade/ * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] NEWS: Should Goa church be brought under RTI?
Should Goa church be brought under RTI? Indo-Asian News Service Panaji, July 27, 2010 Should the church in Goa be brought under the purview of the Right to Information Act? At present, the government says the decision is beyond its authority as the Vatican is a sovereign nation and it is not known if its institution could be compelled to make their records open to public. A legislative panel has asked the state law department to study the possibility of bringing the office of the Archbishop patriarch of Goa, Daman and Diu within the ambit of the RTI Act within 15 days. The department said in written reply to the panel: The Vatican is recognised as a sovereign nation and the pope is the head of that nation. In that sense it is not known how its institution could be compelled to make their records open to public. The report of the legislative ad hoc committee on law chaired by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Francis D'Souza was tabled on Monday during the ongoing monsoon session of the Goa legislative assembly. The D'Souza-led committee's decision to recommend the state law department to make a comprehensive study and forward a detailed report to the committee within 15 days follows a written suggestion by Antonia Michelle Abel. Abel said that while the state department of law and the judiciary were covered under the RTI Act, the office of the Archbishop should also be treated in a similar manner. Archbishop patriarch of Goa, Daman and Diu, Father Filipe Nery Ferrao, ought to open a public information office for the Church laws (Canons) that he follows and respond to applications made under the RTI act for information on the Code of Canon law (legislative document of the Church), Abel said in her suggestion to the ad hoc committee, which audits the functioning of various government departments and recommends measures to improve their functioning. Abel in her formal communication to the legislative committee also said the office of the archbishop over the years had failed to formally convey to the pope about Goa's liberation from the Portuguese regime in 1961, which has resulted in a rather piquant situation. The Archbishop patriarch of Goa, Daman and Diu was bound to repeal the Portuguese constitution, laws, customs, culture and traditions and report to His Holiness the Pope to come under the constitution of India, Indian laws, customs, culture and traditions for the survival of the Catholic church in Goa, Abel said. Goa has a population of 30 percent Christians, a majority of whom are Roman Catholics and owe allegiance to the Archbishop patriarch of Goa, Daman and Diu. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Should-Goa-church-be-brought-under-RTI/Article1-578307.aspx * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Golden years of Goan sports *correction*
Mausi or mhatari? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Pandu Lampiao pan...@gmail.com wrote: **Correction** there came Francis D'souza (the original mausi) * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Angley's Cup TT: BPS Club emerge Champions
BPS Club, Margao emerged champions of the Angley's Cup Table Tennis Team Championship event organised by Panjim Gymkhana at the Gymkhana Hall premises on Tuesday. In the Finals, BPS Club registered a convincing 3-0 win over Panjim Table Tennis Club, the previous year's winners, to emerge triumphant. Agnelo Naik gave BPS Club a dream start by defeating former state champion Ajit Ghantker 11-9, 6-11, 11-8, 11-7. Goa's top paddler Diljeet Velingker made it 2-0 for BPS by registering a comfortable 11-7, 12-10, 11-7 win over Goan TT stalwart Noel Noronha. The 3rd Tie was a pulsating edge of the seat thriller with fortunes fluctuating every minute.Amit Naik of BPS lost the first 2 sets 8-11, 9-11 but came back strongly to win the next three 11-7, 11-9, 11-7 thereby clinching the Championship for BPS. Dr Ajit Nagarshekar, GMC Consultant, was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes in the presence of Mr. Kishore Angley(former Gymkhana President and Tournament sponsor), Gymkhana Secretary Prashant Kakode and Gymkhana Jt. Treasurer Mr. Sanjay Pednekar. The Tournament was conducted by Ajit Ghantker. Photographs available at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=72051id=1187066172l=877ccc5add yours sincerely, Sandeep Heble Secretary, Panjim Table Tennis Club 9326129171 * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] phone numbers in Qatar tochnage from today-- July 28
Doha Jul 27: All phone numbers in Qatar, landline and mobiles will switch to ict Qatar's new numbering plan after midnight today onwards. With this, phone numbers will expand from seven to eight digits, addressing the increasing demand for both landlines and mobile phone numbers. The new numbering plan will create an additional 36 million mobile and nine million fixed telephone numbers, surpassing the highest demand forecast for the next 15-20 years. The change to eight-digit phone numbers will happen automatically and seamlessly at 00.01am tomorrow for all customers. For both fixed and mobile phone users, the first digit of the number will be repeated, so that numbers that currently begin with 3 will start with 33 while those starting with 7 will star with 77. The only affected numbers will be those starting with 3,4,5,6 and 7. For example, if an existing mobile number reads as 5253904 then callers from India and other countries should dial 00974 55253904. Emergency telephone numbers, including 999 and 112, will not be affected by the change. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Fw: NYTimes.com: In India, British Leader to Focus on Business Ties
BUSINESS | July 27, 2010 In India, British Leader to Focus on Business Ties By HEATHER TIMMONS Prime Minister David Cameron hopes to position British companies to receive some of the tens of billions India is expected to spend on projects like roads and power grids. Advertisement Cyrus - An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. Starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and Marisa Tomei. Now Playing Click here to view trailer Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company | Privacy Policy * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Nothing personal but Is there an update wrt Micky Mouse?
On 27 July 2010 14:13, J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Is there a court-requested black-out wrt information on Micky Mouse? Our usual stalwart updaters appear to be pretty silent, of late. Even the normally excited TargetGoa has the bail item available only by way of search #91. COMMENT: After your very respected legal opinions on the matter, I for one decided to defer to superior knowledge, okay? -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 5, Issue 788
On 27 July 2010 13:19, Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Nice one Pandu, there was boxing too. Oscar Furtado was one of the greatest boxers of the 70 era. In basketball there was the tall Clovis Lopes. In Chess there was Hafiz Karmali and Francis Rodrigues. And in goondagiri there were the khojas:))) BC COMMENT: Oscar Furtado is alive and well and is i/c the G.O.A. In Toronto! -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Caught in a web of sex lies - Mickky Pacheco
On 27 July 2010 14:45, Camillo Fernandes camillofernan...@hotmail.comwrote: Gabe Menezes. Nisser Dias wrote : All in all, Crime Branch should not restrict its investigation to only Mickky Pacheco, Lyndon Monteiro or the family members of the deceased but cast its net wide to probe also those who tried to assist them to circumvent law and justice. Comments : Camilo Fernandes COMMENT: I did not write anything w.r.t. this, unless I am going bonkersI don't know how my name has appeared.as if I Co-wrote the piece. Perhaps admin man can throw light on this one? -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Nothing personal but Is there an update wrt Micky Mouse?
re the relative (or is it near-total) silence by those who were very hyperactive wrt Micky Mouse, before ALL the facts of the case were known Gabe Menezes responded ( surely, unacerbically) : After your very respected legal opinions on the matter, I for one decided to defer to superior knowledge, okay? RESPONSE: My dear Gabe, Nothing spectacular (on my part) about stressing that one needs to take due care to ensure that the State (including the policia) never becomes too powerful. When that happens, the rights of the less-able are easy to trample upon. Please do spare a moment to read the reported happenings in Gujarat and the alleged use of unmitigated power by the police. [1] Amin informs Shah of the rape and subsequent killing of Sohrabuddin’s wife Kauser Bi by the police officers, after receiving instructions from Shah.. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main46.asp?filename=Ne310710Amitshah.asp [2] .. CBI's charge that Sohrabuddin's encounter was a fallout of Shah's alleged involvement in an extortion syndicate comprising Gujarat cops. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Amin-Amit-Shah-spoke-32-times-in-week-before-Sohrab-killing/articleshow/6221105.cms jc * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development (Final response to U. G. Barad)
U. G. Barad I suppoe you forget to read the topic sentence 'All Religions for Human Integral Development'. You tired to confuse the readers by mixing it with conversion and then you came with malicious contents to defame the Christian Catholic. Just as Saffron colour is working in Indian Press, so also some other colours work in New York Times and other Western Media. There nothing called total holy or pure in spiritual life but one can one strive to attain that holiness and purity through lot of mediation and scarify. Some doctors and scientists think they know everything and so they have answers to everything. I pity them, for life on earth is journey and you learn something new till you die. There are 10 books for the Rigveda. Ten mandalams. From first to nine mandalams, in several places it is clearly said who is the real God, who is man and why should man worship the God and how should he worship him. In the tenth mandalam, besides this Lord Almighty, there is the mention about a man. The first born and only son of the God. His name is Prajapathy (Praja means man and Pathy means saviour), the son of the God comes to this world at the appropriate time. U. G. Barad, you yourself had quoted Rig Veda (Vedic literature) in one of your response yet you say you do not have Vedic literature. Kindly read below text (they are written in Sanskrit not Greek) you will know what I tried to explain you in previous mail. Rigveda X:90:2 पुरुष एवेदं सर्वं यद भूतं यच्च भव्यम | उताम्र्तत्वस्येशानो यदन्नेनातिरोहति || Purusha evedam sarvam Yadbhutham yachabhavyam Uthaamruthathwasya esaana Ya daannenathirohathi This man, the first born of the God is all that was, all that is and all that has to be. And he comes to this world to give recompense to everybody as per his deeds. In the in the Holy Bible, book of Revelation, St.John 1:8 'The Lord God, who is, who was and who is to come'. In John's Gospel 8th chapter 51st verse Jesus says: I am telling you the truth. Whoever obeys my teaching will never die. Rigveda X:90:5 तस्माद विराळ अजायत विराजो अधि पूरुषः | स जातोत्यरिच्यत पश्चाद भूमिमथो पुरः || Thasmaad virraada jaayatha viraajo adhi purusha: Sjaatho athyarichyatha Paschaad bhoomimadhopura From that male the universe came into being. From that body of the universe came the omnipresent male. That male thus became manifest, adopted various forms and character and created the earth and other planets along with the creatures to live in them. In John 1:3 says, 'through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him. Rigveda X:90:7 तं यज्ञं बर्हिषि परौक्षन पुरुषं जातमग्रतः | तेन देवा अयजन्त साध्या रषयश्च ये || Thaam yajnam barhishi proukshan Purusham jaathamagratha Thena deva ayajantha Saadhya rushayaschaye Devas of heaven and the ruling fraternity along with the hermits offered the first born male in sacrifice by consecrating him as the animal of offering by tying him on a wooden sacrificial post. We read in all the four Gospels in the Holy Bible - Jesus was consigned to a wooden cross by Pilate, the representative of the Roman Emperor, Herodes, the Jew king (Ruler), and two priests named Annas and Caiaphas and their henchmen. We are all children of God, God so loved us so much that he sent his only Son to save us. In his death the whole mankind got salvation not just Christian Catholic or Christian but all humans on earth irrespective of religion cast or creed or one believes in God or not. The mission of Christian Catholics (with the Pope as their leader) is to take the Good News (Birth, Death, Resurrection of Jesus and Salvation of mankind) to the ends of the Earth. There might have been wrong means but as I said men are weak right from Adam. The only exception is Christ being God himself, who came in this world in the form of Man. Sadly, the RSS and Saffron brigade in India don't refer these four Vedas, the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda but only Mahabharata and Ramayana, for they fear if they, they will find Prajapathy (Christ) and will no longer be called Hindus but Christians. The Prajapathy from Rig Veda is none other than Jesus Christ who came to this world to save mankind some 2000 years back. Born in the central part of the Globe i.e., Bethlehem. Don't worry about others, worry about yourself and your salvation. Meditate, read, search the truth. You will find the truth. Hope this will enlighten you why all religions are for integral development. Peace be with you today and always! Agnelo Pinheiro * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Golden years of Goan sports *correction*
Another correctionFrancis D'Souza was 'matari' not mausi. My sincere aplogies to the Lotli Mausi! Lets hear some of the other favourites: there was Nicholas, Soccoro Coutinho, Domnic of Saligao, Prakash of Vasco Club etc. There were the two great football goalies, Vivian and Arvinder Singh from the glory days of Vasco Club. Arvinder is still around and one hears him lament the state of football today. I think he would scare the best of strikers even today with his frame and his glare!! Aye, how can one forget the women starsElma D'Chuna, Yolanda, Susan D'Souza, Deepa.they pretty much excelled in many different sports...hockey, football.. ote: Mausi or mhatari? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Pandu Lampiao pan...@gmail.com wrote: **Correction** there came Francis D'souza (the original mausi) * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * * * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Unusual proverb? Doxeo_Zonvop
Anyone heard of, Doxi lavno bukul zonvnno? Or others in this league. If yes, please share; if bashful email me in private. Confessional-level security assured. The older women (besides the Catholic goggle-wearers) know some good ones connected with sexuality. Hope to find the more feisty ones, before they turn in; and considering, we all popping off like kimsam (flies)!! venantius j pinto * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Goa news for July 28, 2010
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Former Goa minister Pacheco granted bail - IBNLive.com oa-tourism-mins-gets-conditional-bail.htmlEx Goa tourism minister gets conditional bail http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGvaJhsnpK6tseOZfTL0BA0B214qwurl=http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/former-goa-minister-pacheco-granted-bail/170716.html *** Goa to become international arbitration destination: Moily - Times of India Moily http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNFgGjT5t6JP6RSTclRcZ71Sdnpc9wurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-to-become-intl-arbitration-destination-Moily/articleshow/6217066.cms *** Bollywood's Khatta Meetha Faved In Goa Assembly, But Not On Screen - AHN N http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGiN2MtjI1nujjCGNN2SgLBOcqNIwurl=http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7019404740?Bollywood's%20%22Khatta%20Meetha%22%20Faved%20In%20Goa%20Assembly,%20But%20Not%20On%20Screen *** Goa Assembly: Opposition demands CBI probe in drug nexus case - IBNLive.com pposition-disrupts-assembly-again-over-drug-nexus-news-national-kh1pEcgijeb.htmlGoa opposition disrupts assembly again over drug nexus http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGz4f6StS9PZN3ZsW663agjGISzhwurl=http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/goa-assembly-opposition-demands-cbi-probe-in-drug-nexus-case/173816.html *** 26/11 terror strike, recession hurt Goa's charter tourism - Hindustan Times EMg http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNH8bp9A9kF75BXA6141yWsu90NYGQurl=http://www.hindustantimes.com/26-11-terror-strike-recession-hurt-Goa-s-charter-tourism/Article1-578034.aspx *** Goa exhibition withdrawn due to controversial paintings - Sify Kxa05mTwQ http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNG7axGqqJHezL-FrzOGmEeu-xJkwwurl=http://sify.com/news/goa-exhibition-withdrawn-due-to-controversial-paintings-news-national-kh1xEdidceb.html *** Not enough being done to curb drug trade in Goa: Panel - Times of India mes of IndiaPANAJI: The Goa excise department has not booked a single narcotics related case in the last four years, despite a designated cell to tackle drug trade, ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNH9DtPsKyzKS-AxBxB-SS1Lyrjc2Aurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Not-enough-being-done-to-curb-drug-trade-in-Goa-Panel-/articleshow/6219560.cms *** NSUI alleges Goa police acted late in attack on their leader - Hindustan Times ndustan TimesPTI National Students Union of India (NSUI) on Tuesday alleged that police delayed to attend to their call when their Goa chief Sunil Kawthankar was ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGw9QLCr4HGUvpxz0whot__n3NMcQurl=http://www.hindustantimes.com/NSUI-alleges-Goa-police-acted-late-in-attack-on-their-leader/Article1-578653.aspx *** Should Goa church be brought under RTI? - Hindustan Times ndustan TimesShould the church in Goa be brought under the purview of the Right to Information Act? At present, the government says the decision is beyond its authority ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGMFsBu96rb7cZ1tw1TV8Iscn22mQurl=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Should-Goa-church-be-brought-under-RTI/Article1-578307.aspx *** House lauds Goa's 'karate kid' - Times of India fMand more » http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNFulwZmaBnYA8G2ilLeonh-03yuywurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/House-lauds-Goas-karate-kid/articleshow/6225575.cms Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (28Jul10)
Children we can't have our picnic here...it has been Deforested by illegal mining! Teacher don't these miners have children? To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] NEWS: Should Goa church be brought under RTI?
Dear All, I read the sentence quoted below and was enchanted by it. I dont dispute the sentence. But my curiosity is whether the Portuguese Constitution was repealed in Goa expressly or impliedly by which Govt. and when, by whom. Was there a law, treaty or any other instrument? Just a curiosity. Carmo The Archbishop patriarch of Goa, Daman and Diu was bound to repeal the Portuguese constitution, laws, customs, culture and traditions and report to His Holiness the Pope to come under the constitution of India, Indian laws, customs, culture and traditions for the survival of the Catholic church in Goa, Abel said. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] C. Alvares's Contribution to Tiatr Stage
C. Alvares’s Contributioin to Tiatr Stage Kala Mogi Candolim in collaboration with Tiatr Academy of Goa will organize an academic discussion on the contribution of C. Alvares to Tiatr, its song and music. C. Alvares, who was born on 1st August, 1924, did wonders on the tiatr stage by staging tiatrs of high quality. He was one of the most popular heroes of the Konkani stage. He specialized himself in composing and singing duets on various social issues existing in our society. Naturally he was called “King of Duets”. He excelled in Konkani Cinemas too. Konkani cinemas namely “Amchem Noxib” and “Nirmonn” in which he acted the hero’s roles have been the record breaking cinemas in the history of Konkani cinema. The special programme “Contribution of C.Alvares to Konkani stage – A Discussion” on the occasion of the birth day of late C.Alvares, will be held on Sunday, 1st August, 2010 at 5.00 p.m. at the TAG’s Conference Hall, Campal, Panjim Goa. Mr. Ciriaco Dias, a versatile tiatr artiste and colleague of late C. Alvares will deliver a talk on C. Alvares’s contribution to Tiatr while Sharon Mazarello, a Konkani singer of repute will talk on C. Alvares’s songs particularly the Duets. Shri. Tomazinho Cardozo, President of TAG will preside over the function. Tiatr lovers are requested to attend in great number. Victor de Sa Member Secretary * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] .. Oso Amcho Des, Bharat Amcho Des, Mahan amcho Des (Pics and Video)
… OSO AMCHO DES, BHARAT AMCHO DES, MAHAN AMCHO DES Beautifully sung by father-daughter duo Socorro de St, Cruz and Sonia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRn7zVjR3A8 It was a program on National Integration and Communal Harmony with patriotic Konkani songs (Des Bhogti Gitam) titled ‘BHARAT AMCHO DES’ by Socorro de St. Cruz. Held at Kala Academy on 27th July, 2010 at 7.30pm. The program was of patriotic songs and skits. Singers/Actors were Socorro de St. Cruz and his two daughters Sonia Priyanka, Bab Andrew and his daughter Andrea, Anthony San and his daughter Clarissa, Albert Cabral, Cosma, Newton, Sheik Amir, Aniceto, Jasmina, Jose de Agassaim, Francis de Mungul, Cyril Almeida etc Beautiful music provided by Luis Cotta with his son Norbert Cotta, Agnelo Dias, Norman Cardozo, Xavier de Moira Benny Cardozo. The band had it’s own composition too which was composed exclusively for the program ‘Bharat Amcho Des’ Thanks to Tiatr Academy of Goa for promoting such programmes on National Integration and Communal harmony. There should be more such programmes staged throughout the state and with wider publicity. Newspapers should also accept these type of ads at reduced rates JoeGoaUk’s first prize for best song/Lyrics, best Singers goes to the Father-daughter duo – Socorro de St. Cruz / Sonia ‘OSO AMCHO DES’ BHARAT AMCHO DES MAHAN AMCHO DES Some lyrics provided on screen for you to sing along check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRn7zVjR3A8 Note: As usual, we arrived very late and hence watched second part only Some pics Father-Daugter (Socoro de St. Cruz/Sonia) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4836212946/ Father daughter (Anthony San/Clarissa) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4835596069/ Father-Son (Luis Cotta/Norbert and other musicians) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4836210850/sizes/l/ Aniceto-socorro http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4836212464/ Bab Andrew http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4836211930/ francis de mungul http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4835599847/ With Cosma, andrea, Xheik amir etc http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4835600795/ with Albert, Newton http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4835599121/ sisters Priyanka, Sonia etc http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4836209402/ a banner http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4836207534/sizes/l/ a popular Musican http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4836210328/ Group http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr5/4835597961/sizes/l/ Note: There will be Part II (of the Part II) video coverage of the show. Some ready display pics provided above (not available to Plain text readers like Goanet etc) thanks joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] One of Goa's foremost intellectuals, Dr Jose Pereira ... (Gerard D'Souza in Gomantak Times)
Just to take up issue with Dr Jose Pereira on a few points... Though I've been associated with working on his book, and greatly admire his intellect and breath of vision, I don't agree with some of the issues raised below. On 27 July 2010 15:25, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: 'THE FORCES DESTROYING GOA ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN I AM' Overall, the piece raises good issues. But am I alone in recognising the old journalist strategy of picking the most attention-catching statement and placing it in the headline? If so, a pity. It creates an unduly pessimistic tone over a subject full of colour, history and delightful sound. Q: You spent a majority of your life outside Goa. How did it feel to be separated from your motherland? Like a rat, I have run away from the sinking ship, which is Goa. If you know Dr Pereira, you would also know that he has a mischevious, puckish sense of humour. I would see his above self-depreciating statement in the above context. Some (many?) Goans need more space to grow, compared to what Goa provides them. At the same time, they are strongly tugged back home, and to the memories of home, via what I call 'the Goan male homing instinct'. (It seems less strong among female Goans, but this is going by episodic evidence.) When a journalist-friend and his TV crew (I think it was the then Dilip Padgaonkar-led APCA, Asia-Pacific Communication Associates, if I recall right) visited Damodar Kossambi's traditional home at Sancoale, they asked some male relative if he would have achieved as much had he stayed at home. The relative was unequivocal: Most definitely not. The mando is beloved but betrayed. It was the work of the aristocratic minority to create a fragment of Europe surrounded by the waters of the Arabian sea and the hills of the Sahyadris... an attempt to create a little Vienna with a fantastic spirit and dance. The mando has gone far beyond its original roots in today's Goa. Without claiming any expert, insider knowledge, I can say I've photographed this colourful song-dance form for the better part of a decade. It has grown in recent years, it is morphing and changing. From the time when I wrote pessimistic reports about the mando dying out, it seems to have come back with a bang, attracted far wider numbers of performers and musicians, and from far wider groups than the traditional Catholic elite which earlier patronised it. tune. It was a fantasy world. It couldn't have lasted very long. It lasted about a hundred and fifty years. I like the fantasy world of the mando. Strange though it may seem, the tiatr is only around 118 years old. But it too has survived, is thriving and growing in new ways... Q: Even today, the tiatr is a very vibrant industry, don't you think? Yes, that is because the Catholics are afraid that their entity is being dissolved and this is their way of asserting their identity. Seems like a bit of an unfair statement. Even assuming the above is right, why would the Catholics choose only the tiatr, and not something else? I would suspect that the spurt in tiatr activity has more to do with (i) the tiatr shifting its epicentre from Bombay to Goa, after the end of Portuguese rule and censorship here (ii) the fact that the tiatr echoes the heartbeats of the commonman (particularly among the Catholics) as Dr Pramod Kale pointed out in his seminal essay, and even 'editorialises' on local issues within a few weeks of an event happening, as seen in the Mickky-Ratol case -- there is a worry trend, as a friend pointed out though, with politicians using some tiatrs to push their own political goals by 'sponsoring' some directors to ensure they take a favourable line (iii) tiatr remains one of the few viable drama forms in and around the region (iv) most other media tend to take the side of the status quo, often supporting whichever party is in power, and thus leaving the commonman feeling marooned. There are probably other factors too, with experts like Tomazinho Cardozo and Dr Rafael Fernandes could elaborate on. Q: What do you feel about the future of Konkani? I'm no longer optimistic about the future of Konkani. It has to fight too many forces that are too great for it to take on. What will we do? While Dr Pereira does have a point, isn't this being too pessimistic? When things look bleak, one never knows where new support and initiatives will come from. For instance, if Konkani was made easier to learn globally, that would have been one huge step forward. Q: If you were to get a chance to live again, what would you like to come back as? I suppose I could be a computer graphics expert. But then, a meditative existence would not be possible. This is very funny! I can almost picture Dr Pereira's almost-hidden mischevious smile, as he makes an outrageous if playful comment! A computer graphics expert! We used to read books and classics. I read all of Shakespeare, Dickens... but today's youth know
[Goanet] Bleddy Goans and an East Indian bugger
George Menezes write : Whoever Godfrey Pereira is, we Goans need to either give him an award, or pin a medal on his Bleddy East Indian chest. Godfrey Pereira, a journalist who once worked with Sunday magazine Kolkotta and India Today wrote a ?no holds barred? piece on the Goanet chastising the laid-back Goans and literally tearing them to pieces in the same fashion as the mine owners are tearing up the rich Goan soil mindless of the destruction that is caused all around. Whether castigating Goans or praising East Indians, Godfrey has not done his home work as well as he should have Comments : Camilo Fernandes I enjoyed reading George's article which is very thought provoking and to the point. Godfrey Pereira had written his article on bloddy Goans many months ago and I remember it has created a lot of controversy both for and against his views. His language may have been a bit harsh but one must take it with a bit of humour. After all some truth does hurt. It made Goans get up from their slumber whether out of rage or reality. He may have castigated Goans while taking up for East Indians (not a surprise he being one). However we have to bear in mind that whether we are Goans, East Indians, HIndus, Mangaloreans etc. and whatever religion we follow we all have to come together to fight the forces which are destroying our common good. Whether fighting in Gorai/Uttan or in Goa we should all unitedly put up resistance and expose the wrong doings. He mentioned : The reality today is that Goans have, however slowly, turned into human rights activists. There are individuals like Sebastian Rodrigues, Venita Coelho, Padma Shri Norma Alvares. Hartman de Souza, Durgadas Gaonkar and many more. There are Organizations like the renowned Doctor Oscar Rebello?s Goa Bachao Abiyan, Floriano Lobo?s Goa Su-Raj Party, Bailancho Sad, or the very recent Community activism through ?Video Volunteers? at village level. Yes we should stand by leaders who with great risks are coming forward and unitedly give our support so that politicians and vested interests know that we all are united and they cant go against the wishes of the people. It does not matter how little we can contribute to the good cause, we should come forward to expose and do our bit. Best wishes. Dev borem korum. Camilo _ Bollywood, beauties and the latest flicks on MSN entertainment http://entertainment.in.msn.com/ * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] NEWS: Should Goa church be brought under RTI?
The Church, or any other religion, which is not supported by government grants cannot come under the purview of the government administration /RTI etc other than the norms every one as citizens of this country or the state has to follow., i.e registration of sale deeds, births/deaths/ payment of income tax/taxes etc. The internal administration of the Church/other religious institutions is their own prerogative and the members of the faith are responsible to oversee the clean functioning in this regard. Religious institutions which get grants for renovations , building of crematoriums/cemeteries etc, etc such as MPLAD or others etc should come under the RTI, unless renovations supported by the government grants are considered as restoration of monuments and open for all public of all faiths and which cannot hold any private religious services. This is the stand point of view as far as we are concerned. cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 www.goasu-raj.org - Original Message - From: Goanet News news.goa...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:04 AM Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Should Goa church be brought under RTI? Should Goa church be brought under RTI? * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development (Final response to U. G. Barad)
Most of the post quoted below and the earlier one in this thread (http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-July/196539.html) appear to have been lifted verbatim from some websites. They have been copied and pasted without naming the sources, and without placing them in quotes. I request the author to avoid this in the future. Cheers, Santosh P.S. Also, please note that most scientists claim not to know anything about the supernatural. Most doctors claim to know whatever their religion teaches them. But I have never met a doctor or a scientist who claims to know everything. --- On Tue, 7/27/10, pinheiro gift.pinhe...@gmail.com wrote: ...There nothing called total holy or pure in spiritual life but one can one strive to attain that holiness and purity through lot of mediation and scarify. Some doctors and scientists think they know everything and so they have answers to everything. I pity them, for life on earth is journey and you learn something new till you die. There are 10 books for the Rigveda. Ten mandalams. From first to nine mandalams, in several places it is clearly said who is the real God, who is man and why should man worship the God and how should he worship him. In the tenth mandalam, besides this Lord Almighty, there is the mention about a man. The first born and only son of the God. His name is Prajapathy (Praja means man and Pathy means saviour), the son of the God comes to this world at the appropriate time. U. G. Barad, you yourself had quoted Rig Veda (Vedic literature) in one of your response yet you say you do not have Vedic literature. Kindly read below text (they are written in Sanskrit not Greek) you will know what I tried to explain you in previous mail. Rigveda X:90:2 पुरुष एवेदं सर्वं यद भूतं यच्च भव्यम | उताम्र्तत्वस्येशानो यदन्नेनातिरोहति || Purusha evedam sarvam Yadbhutham yachabhavyam Uthaamruthathwasya esaana Ya daannenathirohathi This man, the first born of the God is all that was, all that is and all that has to be. And he comes to this world to give recompense to everybody as per his deeds. In the in the Holy Bible, book of Revelation, St.John 1:8 'The Lord God, who is, who was and who is to come'. In John's Gospel 8th chapter 51st verse Jesus says: I am telling you the truth. Whoever obeys my teaching will never die. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Unusual proverb? Doxeo_Zonvop
Venantius-bab, Toslich ek mhonn'nni hanvem ek pavtt konn ekachea tonddantlean aikololi ti oxi asa - bekar lavnnem, bokodd zonvnnem. Mog asum, Jose Salvador Fernandes On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Venantius J Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone heard of, Doxi lavno bukul zonvnno? Or others in this league. If yes, please share; if bashful email me in private. Confessional-level security assured. The older women (besides the Catholic goggle-wearers) know some good ones connected with sexuality. Hope to find the more feisty ones, before they turn in; and considering, we all popping off like kimsam (flies)!! venantius j pinto * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * * * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Into the Diaspora Wilderness
Selma's book about Diaspora Goans should be a great read. Congratulations Selma for your yeomen work. Reading some comments on the book, it appears it has a lot of stories on individual Diaspora Goans. If true, it shows individual Goans being pioneers and breaking the 'glass ceiling.' This made it much easier for those who followed them. I recollect my job in Hammersmith Hospital in London. At my interview, the chair asked me if I knew of a prior Goan, who worked there and impressed his bosses immensely.. But I digress. In medicine, we call individual patient-story as anecdotal cases. They are very interesting because these individual cases are rare and their behavior is different from the norm. Yes, they are different from the norm. Hence we cannot / do not rely-on and study the natural history of the disease (or the community) by relying on individual stories, as many sociologists do. I hope in addition to the important individual accounts, the book has abundant statistical information; a fact not often seen in Goa-related books and writings. When we rely on accounts of yester-years (about Goans abroad OR foreigners in Goa), we often refer to the science of ETHNOCENTRISM. Only recently we have realized the science of CULTURAL RELATIVITY. ETHNOCENTRISM is to see one's way of life as the only right way of living. Ethnocentrism continues to exists in theory and practice by conservative writers and authoritarian governments, both on the left and right of the political spectrum. In its extreme, ethnocentrism leads to bigotry. CULTURAL RELATIVITY (which is still a maturing science) studies customs in the context of culture as a whole and how it works relative to the existing environment and socio-economic patterns of the society. This is obviously a much more nuanced study. Cultural Relativity in a multi-cultural society is theoretically enlightening, but in practice it can lead to social disruption, even in today's world. http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20100724_3946.php I am amazed that many Goans who write about yester-year over-look and do not appreciate the distinction and the time-lag between these two sciences. Sociologists and historians of the ethnocentrism era blundered in their observation and in their conclusions. Hope the present generation of scientists in these fields do not commit similar blunders, as they analyze the past, without separations along the time-line. It is like analyzing medicine of 15th -19th century by today's standards. Then, the standard scientific therapy for most illnesses was blood letting, purges, enemas etc, to remove the bad poisons / humors. Regards, GL * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
